Academic insight series

Misum academic insights is a series of online briefs highlighting research carried out by our affiliates. Each insight provides a short overview of a research project with its results as well as implications for practice.

Female empowerment

How can foreign aid impact female empowerment?

In this new Misum Academic Insight, Misum affiliates Maria Perrotta Berlin, Anders Olofsgård, and co-author Evelina Bonnier analyze the impacts of foreign aid on female empowerment, drawing on...

CO2 Tax

The effect of carbon pricing on firm emissions: Evidence from Swedish CO2 tax

Swift policy action is essential to address human-caused climate change. Economists propose a global carbon tax as a key solution. Several countries have implemented local carbon pricing, however, the...

Supermarket

Drivers and hinderers of (un)sustainable service: A systems view

Misum affiliated researcher Kaisa Koskela-Huotari and her co-authors Kristin Svärd, Helén Williams, Jakob Trischler, and Fredrik Wikström explore how a systemic approach can be used to be achieve...

Shareholders

Establishing authority: shareholder engagement on climate change concerns

In this new Misum Academic Insight, Misum affiliated researcher Emma Sjöström and her co-authors Rieneke Slager and Jean-Pascal Gond delve into the process by which shareholders and their...

Judge

Public perception of addressing environmental justice through in-kind settlements

Misum affiliated researcher Pamela Campa and her co-author Lucija Muehlenbachs explore the use of in-kind settlements in settling environmental violations, and how they influence public perception of...

Pollution

Can environmental policy encourage investment in research and development?

Policies that support cleaner production technologies can lower climate change risks and environmental problems without hurting the economy in the long run. However, there is limited evidence on how...

UK Power

Carbon pricing and power sector decarbonization in the UK

In order to mitigate climate change, every country across the globe must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This Misum Academic Insight looks at the impact of a carbon tax on UK power sector...

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Gender salary gap in the auditing profession

The auditing profession has a longstanding history of gender inequality. The gender pay gap has been previously explained through factors such as education, and labor force participation and...

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Why do organizations underemploy highly skilled migrants?

This Misum Academic Insight is based on the research article “Underemploying highly skilled migrants: An organizational logic protecting corporate ‘normality” published in the Human Relations Journal...

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Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients

Sustainable Development as set out by Agenda 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require substantial investments in low and middle income countries. Foreign aid is needed to fill some...

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Making sense of employee satisfaction measurement

Employee satisfaction both demonstrates and drives organizational success. Yet there has been limited research into how employees and management perceive, interpret and use this non-financial...

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Financial literacy and green investment: Do green households hold green investments?

Counter intuitively perhaps, but recent research shows that green households aren’t more likely to hold environmentally friendly investment portfolios. This Misum Academic Insight reveals the...

Bangladeshi garment factory

How collective supplier behavior influences CSR in Bangladeshi apparel supply chains

Working conditions in many developing countries’ supply chains continue to be poor and little is known about corporate social responsibility (CSR) drivers that originate at the beginning of global...

Frolunda Torg

Partnerships for social inclusion: Building shared value and collective impact in segregated areas of Sweden

This Misum Academic Insight contributes to an increased understanding of the perils and practices of organizing partnerships to reach societal change, and identifies conditions that can support the...

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Customers play an important role in shaping firms’ VAT compliance

Value added tax (VAT) is one of the main modes of raising tax revenue worldwide but has signiﬁcantly underperformed as a revenue collection tool in Africa. Non-compliance by taxpayers is a major...

Queries regarding the Academic Insight series

Sakthi Suganya Balraj, Research and Communication Coordinator

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