Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Företagsekonomiska institutionen by Title
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The Business Model – Formation, description and definition
(2014-06-09)The business model is a new analytical concept in the field of strategy research that is frequently used when trying to explain the creation and capture of value by firms. This compilation thesis consists of three papers ... -
The internationalization Process of Online Service Providers – Geographical Perspectives on the Emerging Online Economy
(2016-12-08)This study is a compilation thesis consisting of an introduction and five separate articles. It explores the process of internationalization for Online Services Providers (OSPs) and its effect on the economic geography ... -
The Internet of Things: Projects-Places-Policies
(2017-10-03)The ongoing transition from the Internet age to the Internet of Things age is a paradigm shift of knowledge production and interactions: information and knowledge can be produced and disseminated either without or with ... -
The Logics of Healthcare – In Quality Improvement Work
(2017-03-17)Quality improvement (QI) has become a cornerstone in contemporary healthcare organizations with the aim of enabling management that facilitates efficiency and effectiveness, while providing a consistent correlation between ... -
The Practice of Strategy Formation – Opening the Green Box
(2011-05-16)This thesis reports the results from an in-depth longitudinal study of how a new strategy actually forms in practice. The focus is on a Swedish multinational firm called the “MECH Group” and its efforts to combine environmental ... -
The role of influencing organisations in promoting sustainability of urban freight transport
(2021-11-12)The research in this thesis focused on organisations that can contribute to increased sustainability development in urban freight transport activities. In this study, these organisations were identified, studied, grouped ... -
The Sustainability and Competitiveness of European Short-Sea Shipping
(2020-03-27)Several factors could improve the environmental performance of European short-sea shipping (SSS) and enhance its competitiveness, and in this thesis, some of those factors are explored. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
The Value of Cultural Institutions – Measurement and Description
(2012-11-30)Resources are invested to maintain cultural institutions and society has an interest in the efficient allocation of these resources. To understand efficiency, the costs incurred in monetary units need to be compared to the ... -
Tillämpning av redovisningsnormer – intäkter och avsättningar
(2014-10-13)Harmonization of financial reporting standards is a goal shared by many countries around the world, with the aim of making companies’ financial information comparable. The view is that comparability between companies’ ... -
To Be or Not to Be… - Brand Affiliaton in the Hotel Industry
(2017-11-28)A large proportion of any business’s value comprises intangible assets, and for many businesses a considerable part of these assets' value is attributable to brands with which businesses affiliate. In light of increasing ... -
Tourism Impacts and Sustainable Development
(2014-05-06)Following the emergence of sustainable development as a new development paradigm, the scope of tourism impacts has increased. There is a call for a more holistic approach, incorporating environmental, sociocultural, and ... -
Trust and risk-taking: A study of consumer behaviour within a Swedish pension investment setting
(2014-03-19)Trust and risk-taking A study of consumer behaviour within a Swedish pension investment setting The study focuses on the Swedish pension system introduced in 2000. The study describes the evolution of a new pension ... -
Unfolding Evolutionary Growth Within a Subsidiary: The Case of a Sales Subsidiary in the Middle East
(2015-02-24)Subsidiaries are important entities in multinational corporations and are typically established with predetermined business responsibilities. A subsidiary responds to actors in the internal network (e.g., HQs and other ... -
Unpacking inscriptions – A sociomateriality perspective on the design process of a milk package
(2019-05-24)Today’s trend of fast-paced innovation in the field of, for example, information technology results in an acclaim of quick changes. At the same time, product innovation is only one facet of market offerings as industry ... -
Vara och märkas – unga konsumenters relationer till klädindustrins varumärken
(2012-11-30)To brand and to be branded – Young consumers’ relations to clothing brands Brands – the logos of the global economy – have received attention both inside and outside marketing research as key symbols of our time and as ... -
Why are firms conducting entrepreneurial actions?
(2020-09-01)This dissertation is concerned with the concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and, more specifically, the question ‘Why are firms conducting entrepreneurial actions?’ This question rests upon two premises. First, ...