This report covers an empirical research project focused on studying the knowledge acquisition, external linkages and developmental processes in software firms. A large database was been created through 133 interviews that were carried out in cooperation with managers in software firms in 19...

Internprissättningsproblemet i dess vedertagna betydelse är problemet att få två resultatenheter inom samma organisation som handlar med varandra att agera utifrån hela organisationens bästa, trots att de är fullständigt målstyrda och endast bedöms utifrån sitt eget resultat. Detta...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of development of the firm in interaction with its institutional environment, which I call the entrepreneurial process. This can be studied in three phases, i.e. initiating phase, establishment phase and growth phase. I am going to present a model,...

This paper aims at developing the theoretical understanding of revenue capping as a way of regulating monopolistic firms. It is shown that the fact that a standard monopolist regulated by a fixed revenue cap will raise its price above the unregulated monopoly level is robust to two-part pricing....

One anonymous mechanism for monopoly regulation is the Chord-approximation Adjustment Process, CAP, suggested by Vogelsang (1988) where the change in consumer surplus is approximated as an average between a Laspeyres and a Paasche index. The main drawback of this method is an incentive for...

Denna FE-rapport handlar om Kulturprojektet Röda Sten i Göteborg. I skrivande stund vet vi inte om projektet kommer att kunna fullborda visionen om ett ombyggt pannhus under Älvsborgsbron och ett "centrum för framtidskultur", ett Göteborgs Louisiana, eller om projektet kommer att avbrytas...

In recent years substantial investments have been made in eCommerce projects. Some of them seem to have been profitable. In other cases there has not yet been enough demand to generate a cash flow large enough to guarantee a financial viability of the projects. The purpose of this project is to...

Revenue capping is a common way to regulate monopolistic utilities. A common suggestion when the revenue cap is cost based is that the regulator needs to determine the revenue cap so that both fixed and variable cost components as closely as possible match the true cost of the monopoly. In this...

The performance assessment model for grid companies which is currently being developed by The Swedish Energy Agency has been subject to criticism in different aspects by the grid companies. This paper reports the findings from a survey where the grid companies’ attitudes towards the...

Utgångspunkten i denna rapport är utvecklingen mot att effektivisera försörjningskedjor (supply chain) genom ett mer omfattande samarbete mellan inblandade företag. Sådana samarbeten skapar förutsättningar för en bättre samordning av planering och styrning av försörjningskedjor. Det...