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Stockholm School of Economics

EducationStockholm, Sweden
About: Stockholm School of Economics is a education organization based out in Stockholm, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cost effectiveness. The organization has 1186 authors who have published 4891 publications receiving 285543 citations. The organization is also known as: Stockholm Business School & Handelshögskolan i Stockholm.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the theory of the market for energy-using equipment, showing that problems of imperfect information and transaction costs may bias rational consumers to purchase devices that use more energy than those that would be selected by a well-informed social planner guided by the criterion of economic efficiency.

221 citations

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TL;DR: The difficulty of achieving consistency and control can be partially overcome by combining ideas and actions in two other ways as discussed by the authors, one combination involves justification, and the other hypocrisy, which can be seen as a form of hypocrisy.
Abstract: Popular hierarchical models of organizations and societies contain two assumptions about the relation between the ideas of constituencies and leaders on the one hand and organizational, and societal actions on the other: that ideas and actions are consistent, and that ideas control actions. In this article some practical difficulties in achieving consistency and control are discussed. Consistency is difficult to achieve when what can be done cannot be said and vice versa, and control is difficult to combine with consistency when ideas change more rapidly than action. The difficulty of achieving consistency and control can be partially overcome by combining ideas and actions in two other ways. One combination involves justification, and the other hypocrisy.

220 citations

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TL;DR: A substantive theory of ambidexterity is constructed that identifies and explains the paradoxes that managers need to resolve in IT transformation programs and finds that the nature of paradoxical tensions differs across the six areas and requires slightly different management strategies for paradox resolution.
Abstract: Though information technology IT transformation programs are gaining in importance, we know little about the nature of the challenges involved in such programs and how to manage them. Using grounded theory methodology, we conducted a multiyear case study of a large IT transformation program in a major commercial bank, during which we encountered the interrelated themes of paradoxes and ambidexterity. Grounded in our case, we construct a substantive theory of ambidexterity in IT transformation programs that identifies and explains the paradoxes that managers need to resolve in IT transformation programs. The ambidexterity areas we identified are 1 IT portfolio decisions i.e., IT efficiency versus IT innovation, 2 IT platform design i.e., IT standardization versus IT differentiation, 3 IT architecture change i.e., IT integration versus IT replacement, 4 IT program planning i.e., IT program agility versus IT project stability, 5 IT program governance i.e., IT program control versus IT project autonomy, and 6 IT program delivery i.e., IT program coordination versus IT project isolation. What weaves these six areas together is the combined need for IT managers to employ ambidextrous resolution strategies to ensure short-term IT contributions and continuous progress of IT projects while simultaneously working toward IT transformation program success as a foundation for IT-enabled business transformation. However, in addition to this commonality, we find that the nature of paradoxical tensions differs across the six areas and requires slightly different management strategies for paradox resolution. Ambidexterity areas 1, 2, and 3 are associated with IT transformation strategizing and, in addition to balancing short-and long-term goals, require the mutual accommodation and blending of business and IT interests in the spirit of IT-business partnering to achieve IT-enabled business change and IT-based competitiveness. Ambidexterity areas 4, 5, and 6 are associated with IT program and project execution and, in addition to balancing short-and long-term requirements, require a recurrent and dynamic act of balancing "local" needs at the IT project level and "global" needs at the IT program level.

219 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 912 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices, and found that boys and girls are equally competitive in all tasks and all measures in Colombia.
Abstract: We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 912 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running, skipping rope, math and word search. We find that boys and girls are equally competitive in all tasks and all measures in Colombia. Unlike the consistent results in Colombia, the results in Sweden are mixed, with some indication of girls being more competitive than boys in some tasks in terms of performance change, whereas boys are more likely to choose to compete in general. Boys in both countries are more risk taking than girls, with a smaller gender gap in Sweden.

218 citations

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TL;DR: This article examined the effect of foreign ownership on individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign acquisitions and found that foreign takeovers of Swedish firms tend to have no or even a negative effect on wages.

218 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Magnus Johannesson10234240776
Thomas J. Sargent9637039224
Bengt Jönsson8136533623
J. Scott Armstrong7644533552
Johan Wiklund7428830038
Per Davidsson7130932262
Julian Birkinshaw6423329262
Timo Teräsvirta6222420403
Lars E.O. Svensson6118820666
Jonathan D. Ostry5923211776
Alexander Ljungqvist5913914466
Richard Green5846814244
Bo Jönsson5729411984
Magnus Henrekson5626113346
Assar Lindbeck5423413761
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20237
202251
2021247
2020219
2019186
2018168