Sven-Erik Sjöstrand – författare

Rethinking Corporate Governance's extensive and insightful empirical investigation offers a radically new approach to corporate governance. This ground-breaking volume describes and analyzes the key nature-based and actor-based forces that ultimately determine corporate governance processes and long-term corporate paths. Generally, such forces work in complex and intricate interplays that to a large extent vary among corporations. A theory of shareholder governance is developed and integrated into the established - and more comprehensive - theory of corporate governance to create a revised theory of the corporation (firm). The new possibilities that this creates for explaining how processes develop and ultimately influence corporate paths are presented in-depth. Featuring conclusions based on an empirical material that is both rich and exclusive, the book also contains extensive non-anonymized materials from authentic corporate governance processes. A general conclusion is that actions taken by individuals have a special status among those forces, as they not only generate impact in themselves, but also involve interpretations of the possible effects of all the other forces.Among those actions, the ones taken by the shareholders stand out as particularly decisive both for the governance processes as such and for how corporations develop over time. Offering a degree of openness, detail and realism that is hard to find in any other case-based study this innovative and enlightening volume is essential for both academics and practitioners involved in corporate governance, corporate strategy and the theory of the firm.

This insightful book focuses upon corporate governance processes, and explores the conditions required for effective corporate governance and control in 21st century globalized and financialized economies. In presenting a comprehensive study of a cross-border hostile corporate take-over process, describing the actors, institutions and events involved, this book examines and questions the current forms of corporate governance and control – both from a national and a global perspective. Using Old Mutual’s takeover of Skandia as a case study, the authors address corporate governance theory, and highlight its two fundamental dimensions: financial and operational flows. An important conclusion of the book is that the motives and theories of contemporary financial markets appear to have gained in importance at the expense of the corresponding operational considerations, something that has dramatically changed the rationales of different types of actors. The book critically questions these transformations, calling for the reconsideration and redesign of regulating institutions and corporate governance processes.This critical investigation of the competition for corporate control in the era of modern financial capitalism will prove a fascinating read for students, academics and researchers in the fields of corporate governance, finance and international business. It will also appeal to policymakers and practitioners within the realms of corporate finance, banking and the wider financial services industry.

Institutionalist analysis is increasingly used as a key research tool for economists confronted with the shortcomings of mainstream economic analysis and the problems presented by the transformation of socio-economic systems in Eastern Europe. On Economic Institutions brings together leading economists working in a wide range of research traditions who examine theories of institutions and institutional change. This important volume shows that the failure of most neoclassical economic analysis to consider economic institutions is a major shortcoming in scholarship which seeks to describe and understand crucial economic phenomena. After discussing the dynamics of institutional change, the contributors examine the explanatory variables necessary for researching institutions and pay particular attention to 'efficiency' as the key variable used by neoclassical institutional analysis. Later chapters examine the processes of institutional change focusing on issues such as path dependency, selection mechanisms and institutional dynamics, and methodological issues in analysing economic institutions. An introduction by the editors places these papers in context and traces the development of economic research across the various schools.Economists from both neoclassical and institutionalist schools, as well as economic historians, are making increasing use of institutionalist analysis as a key research tool. In bringing together cutting-edge theory and research on economic institutions, this important volume will be welcomed by scholars working in evolutionary and institutionalist research traditions, as well as by organizational theorists and sociologists.

En biografi om barnhusbarnet Reinhold som föddes 1818 på Söder i Stockholm med okänd fader. Han hamnade tidigt i ett fosterhem i Roslagen. Från 16 års ålder arbetade han som hästdräng på olika ställen bl.a. i Stockholm. Han tog värvning vid Livgardet till häst. Eller korpralsutbildning blev han anställd av hovet och tjänstgjorde som hingstridare hos kronprins Karl, senare kung Karl XV. Eller pensioneringen flyttade han till en tjänstebostad vid Ulriksdals slott där han dog 1875.Innehållet är baserat på information ur ett omfattande släktforskningsmaterial och samtida autentiska händelser i hans omgivningar.

Denna självbiografiska berättelse är baserad på minnen från min första kontakt med naturvetenskapen och spänner över 50 år som aktiv forskare inom Life science. Vägen har varit krokig med bland annat problematisk skoltid och ändrat yrkesval. Den ger en inblick i min roll som innovativ forskare inom läkemedelsindustrin och akademin. Det finns flera exempel på vetenskapliga tankar och hur experimenten gått till som till slut har resulterat i nya originalläkemedel. Bland annat beskrivs hur det gick till vid framtagandet av Losec®. En drivande faktor för mig har alltid varit utmaningar. Här finns också exempel på att envishet och tålamod är helt avgörande för att lyckas nå uppsatta mål.Men, inget gott utan att det har något ont med sig. Det finns beskrivet exempel på hur mina seriösa forskarintentioner genererat avundsjuka, mobbning och hot.

Skalleholms egendom är en idyll på den svealändska landsbygden. I denna berättelse kan man följa verksamheten som den tilldrog sig under forna tider på den stora lant- och skogsbruksegendomen. Ofta händer det att personer på egendomen råkar ut för situationer som är oväntade. Mer eller mindre snillrika lösningar på de problem som uppstår tyder på en stor kreativ förmåga. Uppfinningsrikedomen hos människor, som på ett eller annat sätt är engagerade i verksamheten på egendomen, är påtaglig och leder ibland till spektakulärt handlande och oväntade upplösningar.