Mälardalen University

Switching for the better? understanding how contextual conditions influence patients’ choice of primary care provider

Abstract Background Considering current expectations that patients will stimulate competition based on quality among healthcare providers through informed choices, this study aims to advance understanding of patients’ limited engagement in choosing a primary care provider. Method...

Sustainable Assistive-Technology Procurement in Swedish Public Healthcare: Tensions and Paradoxes in Managers’ Decision-Making

Assistive technology (AT) supports participation, independence, and well-being but also presents sustainability challenges for public healthcare organisations. This qualitative study explored sustainability tensions and paradoxes arising in AT decision-making. Semi-structured int...

The personalization–privacy paradox in social media advertising: a cross-national study of ad attitudes and eWOM

Purpose This study aims to explore how advertising personalization and perceived intrusiveness influence consumers' attitudes toward social media ads and their subsequent electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) behaviors. Using the privacy calculus theory and the theory of planned behavi...

Design for Extended Reality (DfXR): A Framework for Educational Services

Abstract The rapid adoption of extended reality (XR) is driving the development of immersive educational services and increasing the need for systematic design approaches. From a Design for Extended Reality (DfXR) perspective, this study investigates authentic XR use-cases to dev...

The locus of psychic distance

Purpose This paper argues that longstanding inconsistencies in psychic distance research arise from a fundamental locus problem: the construct has drifted away from its original definition as barriers to information flow between the firm and the market. The purpose is to re-estab...

Hilbert's Basis Theorem for Poisson Ore Extensions

ABSTRACT We prove an analogue of Hilbert's basis theorem for Poisson Ore extensions and Poisson Laurent Ore extensions. We also obtain corresponding results for iterated Poisson Ore extensions and iterated Poisson Laurent Ore extensions associated to commuting Poisson‐pairs. Fina...