Dagens klädindustri är känd för att vara en mycket arbetsintensiv bransch och står därav inför betydande utmaningar när det gäller att integrera social hållbarhet vid olika stadier i leveranskedjan. I debatten kring hållbar utveckling är det framförallt miljömässig hållbarhet som har fått utrymme och därför krävs det mer forskning som lyfter även s...
Background: In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and put the world into a state of geopolitical crisis, leading to severe negative spillover effects on the global economy. Corporations were compelled to respond to the geopolitical crisis, while some were indirectly exposed to the war and others directly affected, all corporations had to decide on their ...
Background: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted various sectors, with higher education institutions (HEIs) being no exception, necessitating strategic changes to harness its benefits, such as enhanced educational practices and efficiency, while addressing challenges like ethical concerns and job displace...
Background: Management Control Systems (MCS) have been withheld as useful tools to support managers and increase performance, whereas Simons’ Levers of Control (LOC) increase the understanding of relations between different MCS. The characteristics of the public sector induce new dimensions of complexity in a municipal setting, where this study rev...
Background: Management Control Systems are shown to be valuable tools for managing different contexts and enhance organizational performance. To succeed with intended strategies, organizations must balance different levers of controls (LOC). The right balance is argued to be dependent on the external environment and contingent factors that surround...
Coronapandemin medförde stora förändringar för svenska mikrobryggeriers verksamheteroch resulterade i stora konsekvenser, främst i att krog- och restaurangbranschen i principslogs ut. Den här studien syftar till att undersöka om, och isåfall hur, mikrobryggeriersförsäljningsstrategier förändrades i samband med krisen. Det med utgång i teorier somfö...
This research aimed to investigate the association between contingent variables and the need for managemental information in the context of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). For such task, a survey was carried out with a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 52 MSEs working in the commerce and service provision in the city of Monteiro-PB...
In recent decades, the traditional budget has come under heavy criticism with researchers and practitioners calling it a "relic of the past" as it hinders the ability of organizations to respond to and keep up with changing market conditions. As a result, alternative approaches to budgeting have been developed:beyond budgeting, activity-based budge...
Datafication is moving into the center of value creation in the knowledge intensive organization. Datafication describes the transformation of qualitative behavior and
tacit knowledge into quantified actions and codified data. While traditional assumptions on knowledge work highlights individual autonomy in shaping job tasks and fitting abilities fo...
This study analyzes the characteristics of public acquisitions by exemption from bidding to face COVID-19 from the perspective of Contingency Theory. By assuming that the uncertainties related to the external environment alter the dynamics of acquisitions, expenditures committed to the federal government during the entire fiscal year 2020 were anal...
