This study is motivated by two research questions: (1) How is an organizational control system established and maintained in product and process innovation? (2) How are innovation processes facilitated or hindered as a result of the interplay between forms of control and autonomy? The thesis investigates these questions by means of an in-depth longitudinal case study involving 15 innovation projec

Sustainable lifestyles and consumption refer to multiple spheres of human activities such as mobility, housing, food and leisure. Increasingly consumers are called upon to assume greater responsibility for changing their lifestyles, primarily through making environmentally sound purchasing choices and changing behavior. To motivate consumers, governments have often focused on improving the provisi

The European preoccupation with a unified market, and indirectly with territorial restrictions, remains problematic. The first sentence of the Commission Green Paper of 22 January 1997 on Vertical Restraints in EC Competition Policy reads: “The creation of a Single Market is one of the main objectives of the European Union.” This axiom is then repeated again and again. Everything can be discussed

The Swedish society that we wish to discuss reaches its hig-hest degree of originality in the decades of 1930 to 1960. At the time Sweden stood out in its international context as an ultra-modern society, distinguishing itself from its Scandinavian surroundings as well. It is the Sweden that David Jenkins calls “The Progress Machine” and that Enrico Altavilla refers to as “Hell and Paradise” . Wi

Abstract in Spanish La sociedad sueca a la que nos queremos referir en estas líneas es aquella que alcanza su originalidad máxima en las décadas de los 30 a los 60. Es entonces cuando Suecia se destaca en el contexto internacional como una sociedad ultramoderna, despegada incluso de su entorno escandinavo. Es la Suecia que David Jenkins llama “The Progress Machine” y que Enrico Altavilla refiere c

The objective of the EMEEES project is to assist the European Commission in developing harmonised evaluation methods. It aims to design methods to evaluate the measures implemented to achieve the 9% energy savings target set out in the EU Directive (2006/32/EC) (ESD) on energy end-use efficiency and energy services. The assistance by the project and its partners is delivered through practical advi

Skogsvårdslagen är en författning som gäller parallellt med miljöbalken. Lagen är uppbyggd kring att produktions- och miljömål ska vara likvärdiga. I praktiken ser det annorlunda ut då produktionsintresset ofta överordnas miljöintresset, vilket resulterar i att den biologiska mångfalden i skogslandskapet blir lidande. SVL ställer få krav på skogsägarna. Myndigheternas strategi är att med rådgivnin