That is a dangerous attitude. A company periodically needs to shake itself up, regardless of the competitive landscape. Even if the external environment is not changing in ways that demand a response, the internal environment probably is. The human dynamics within an organisation are constantly shifting – and require the organisation to change along with them. Over time, informal networks mirro...

During the last decades, the software for supporting hospitals’ information systems became more flexible in terms of adaptability and configurability. Some hospitals use these capabilities to create local IT innovations. However, information on these local IT innovations is rarely available, as a preceding Grounded Theory based study revealed. To tackle this shortcoming, a two year action resea...

Our understanding of the e-society should incorporate the case of at-home teleworking because of its implications for the use of ubiquitous ICTs in the home environment, work relations and gender issues. Rhetoric surrounding the benefits of telework impinge on promises of increased freedom, reduced burden, and ‘flexibility’ from an employees perspective. In order to establish the validity of su...

Sustainability is gaining importance worldwide, reinforced by several initiatives with wide media coverage such as the Earth hour; this is a worldwide grassroots movement uniting people to protect the planet, organised by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). Other organisations such as the United Nations (UN) also highlight the importance of reducing energy consumption and our carbon footprint...

We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the managerial overload, but create...

I explore the role of financial intermediaries in supplying liquidity over the business cycle. I consider a model similar to Holmstrom and Tirole (1998), in which firms hold assets to shift current funds to future periods when they may be borrowing constrained. Financial intermediaries insure against loss of credit access by issuing credit lines, but intermediaries are also subject to agency co...

This paper presents experiences from the Centre for Sustainable Communications (CESC) located at KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2007, the centre has carried out research in collaboration with private firms in the information and communication technology (ICT) and media sectors as well as with public sector organizations in the city of Stockholm. The aim is to share ...

The core of intermediary metabolism in autotrophs is the citric acid cycle. In a certain group of chemoautotrophs, the reductive citric acid cycle is an engine of synthesis, taking in CO(2) and synthesizing the molecules of the cycle. We have examined the chemistry of a model system of C, H, and O that starts with carbon dioxide and reductants and uses redox couples as the energy source. To inq...

Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) have proven to be a powerful technique for combating the state explosion problem. Their application to verification is usually centered around the computation of the transitive closure of some binary relation. The closure is usually computed with a fixed point algorithm that expands some set until it stops growing. Unfortunately, the BDDs that arise during the co...

Animal tissues synthesize cholesterol from metabolities of small molecular size, principally cholesterol. This synthetic process is known to take place in the liver but may also occur in other organs. In all tissues, with the exception of brain and nerve, cholesterol is continually regenerated. Cholesterol is the parent substance which the animal organism uses to produce bile acids, progesteron...