Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate in-depth how the managerial processes involving middle managers are affected by performance measurement information. More specifically the study gives understanding on the impact of performance measures, policies and procedures (formal controls); and individual intuition and experiential knowledge (informal controls) on the work of middle managers...

Khan, M. 2016. Optimizing Performance in Highly Utilized Multicores with Intelligent Prefetching. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1335. 54 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9450-6. Modern processors apply sophisticated techniques, such as deep cache hierarchies and hardware prefetching, to increase pe...