Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16

This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

IRIS (Information systems research seminar in Scandinavia) commenced in 1978 and is the oldest consecutive information systems conference in the world. The conference is organized as an annual working ...

Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2019-12-31

High prices create incentives for industry to develop new antibiotics, but also incentivize firms to promote their products to maximize sales volume. This multidisciplinary study explores the feasibility ...

Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2012-11-30

Purpose and goal: The aim is to publish an edited volume regarding the efficiency in Swedish industry from a historical perspektive. Expected results and effects: Approach and implementation: ...

Research project from 2018-11-15 to 2021-02-28

Purpose and goal: This project is a quest to understand some of the inherent values of spatial experiences in the context of interactions between human actors and their organizations. The objective is ...

Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2017-05-31

Purpose and goal: The purpose of the project was to identify factors that affect results and ability to implement capacity development regarding innovation in public administration. The project has identified ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-06-01

Purpose and goal: The overall goal with this project is to provide students and researchers with data related to various corporate governance issues. For insatnce, compared to many other countries, ownershipdata ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2019-12-31

There is a massive production of genetic risk information by academic- and industry-associated scientists. However, health care systems as well as legislators and society at large seem largely unprepared ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

The purpose of this research project is to build a fully searchable, publicly accessible database for all Swedish patents covering the period 1746-1974 (ca. 400,000 patents). No such database exists today ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

The gender wage gap is recurrently discussed in Sweden. The main explanation for the gap is that women and men work in different occupations and with different tasks. To come to terms with the gender wage ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

This project investigates how new business ventures are imagined and shaped within corporate venture units (CVUs). Whereas there is general agreement that these CVUs are exploratory spaces designed to ...

Research project from 2013-11-01 to 2014-09-30

Purpose and goal: The overall goal with the project has been to undertake a detailed examination of various issues with the ambition to create a database which reflects stockholdings in Swedish public ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-06-30

This project is about team leaders of global virtual multicultural teams. My purpose is to carry out analysis of collected data and write an article to present the results. Earlier research has shown that ...

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31

The starting point of the project is the partial privatization of Swedish public services, also in the welfare sector. The entrance of private actors into the welfare sector represents a significant development ...

Research project from 2016-12-01 to 2018-11-30

Purpose and goal: The objective; having increased capacity for innovation in their own business, in relation to each other and to their international partners - has been fulfilled. Throughout the project ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

De ekonomiska kriserna under 2000-talet har ökat intresset för hur banker redovisar och styr sin verksamhet. Banker har stor betydelse för samhällsekonomin i allmänhet och det finansiella systemet i synnerhet ...

Research project from 2018-09-03 to 2020-09-01

Purpose and goal: ** Denna text är maskinöversatt ** The research project has had several initial purposes, the three main ones were to: (1) create an awareness of the concept of intrapreneurship and ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31

The purpose of this project is to develop new knowledge on how competition affects organizations. Competition is supposed to improve resource use, innovativeness and responsiveness of organizations, but ...

Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2012-03-31

Purpose and goal: The Moduflex project aims at analyzing and defining models for improved Swedish competitive advantage in manufacturing. This will be done by researching models for the application of ...

Research project from 2009-07-01 to 2012-06-30

Management accounting research has shown that management control systems in companies and other organizations have become more complex. They measure performance on more objects, with new and more measurements ...

Research project from 2016-11-28 to 2019-08-31

Purpose and goal: The purpose of the project has been to assess the effects of the utilization of digital, model based, tools and methods for systems engineering, product development and manufacturing ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-06-20

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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

This project aims to develop knowledge on current changes in administrative practices of public sector organizations, and the implications thereof for the relations between administration, professions ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

University autonomy is a keyword in current reforms of university governance systems in Sweden and beyond. Through explicit autonomy reforms, universities are expected to become more capable actors, less ...

Research project from 2013-12-09 to 2014-10-15

Purpose and goal: The project´s goal was to locate challenges in the field of environment and sustainable development at Uppsala Knivsta and Heby municipalities. A number of these challenges were described ...

Research project from 2016-02-01 to 2017-02-01

The project “Social value creation in MNCs: A special attention on social innovation initiatives” concerns the development of a research network and a platform for research on how ‘social value creation ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-10-31

Purpose and goal: The aim of the project has been to shed light on strategic considerations with regard to intellectual property rights. The interest in appealing PRV´s decision in the Court of Appeals ...

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31

Whereas there is general agreement about the increasingly important technological and strategic roles played by foreign subsidiaries of the multinational corporation (MNC), surprisingly little is known ...

Research project from 2020-07-01 to 2021-06-30

The aim with this project is to reinvigorate core ideas and themes of institutional theory, particularly those that have been central in Nordic scholarship within organisation studies, in order to develop ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

Rapidly increasing anti-microbial resistance (AMR) constitutes a global threat. In combination with a quick decline in antibacterial drug development by pharmaceutical firms, a number of “international ...