• How the institutional, relational and leadership factors affect the implementation of sustainable business practice within MNCs HQ in a developed country and Subsidiary in a developing country? A case study on Volvo Trucks Located in Sweden (HQ) and Malaysia (Subsidiary) 

  Sujatha, Krishnapriya; Eljack, Mubarak (2022-02-11)

  Companies are in the transformation process from the classical or linear way of conducting business to a more sustainable model. This is necessitated by the growing societal awareness to protect the environment and ...

• Challenges of Sustainability - Oriented Innovation practice: a multiple case study of the clothing industry 

  Chowdhury, Amina Sharmin (2021-11-22)

  Sustainability puts a normative mandate on innovation to become more environmentally and socially benevolent. Besides, the increased environmental degradation generates the demand for sustainable-oriented innovation in the ...

• Towards Synthetic Vertical Integration - How Blockchain might reshape Supply Chain Integration in the fashion industry 

  Freytag, Daniel (2021-11-22)

  Supply chain integration is a field that has been long studied to better understand how companies may improve their businesses. A broader supply chain integration has been traditionally linked to large or multi-national ...

• A Fight to Survive Lockdown - A multiple case study on how firms in the hospitality industry have responded to the effects of Covid-19 

  Knutzen, Martin; Solberg, Synne (2021-11-12)

  This paper attempts to explore the theoretical dimensions of crisis management with an abductive approach using the Covid-19 pandemic’s effect on the hospitality industry as the main source for secondary as well as primary ...

• Model for Central Counterparty Risk with Stochastic Default Intensities 

  Marconi, Francesco (2021-09-30)

  In this thesis we use a dynamic model to compute several margins required by a central counterparty, the central clearing house (CCP), to the participants, called clearing members (CM). These margins form the so called ...

• The venture capital advantage in technology firms: An IPO analysis 

  Sriramagiri, Saiteja; Zhou, Xuan (2021-09-23)

  The goal of this research is to investigate the level of influence venture capital (VC) firms have on their technology portfolio companies’ public shares after their initial public offering (IPO). While there has been ...

• Learning from Innovation Collaborations - An exploratory study of learning practices and challenges in innovation collaborations by large organizations in Sweden 

  Hossain, Lubna (2021-09-23)

  Innovations are regarded as a principal source of competitiveness and renewal in organizations. Given the complex nature of products and services along with the pressure of faster time to market which increases the inherent ...

• Victim Blaming and the Swedish Consent Law - A Swedish vignette experiment investigating the effectiveness of the Law of Consent on normative attitudes towards victim blaming 

  Rosario, Kristen Jed; Öman, Stina (2021-09-13)

  and economical burdens on the victim, especially when the victim is a woman. This study contributes to an expanding literature on social norms, the law, and economics, focusing on the expressive effect of the law as one ...

• Market Power in the Food Industry: The Swedish Egg Supply Chain 

  Ostrowski, Virginia; Öhrn, Alexandra (2021-08-24)

  There is an ongoing discussion about the potential increase of market power in the food industry. This study investigates the evolution of market power in the egg supply chain between egg producers and egg packers, using ...

• To innovate or not - that is the question A study investigating how the number of patents applications has been affected by the EU ETS 

  Hemberg, Alma (2021-08-23)

  This thesis examines how patent applications (as a proxy measure for innovation) in regulated sectors were affected by the implementation of the European Emission Trading System (the EU ETS) in 2005. The studied EU ...

• The post-acquisition process: A broad perspective on the integration process of newly acquired subsidiaries - A case study of the Swedish car company Bilia AB 

  Karlsson, Jon; Nikolai, Johan (2021-08-13)

  During the recent decades, it has become evident that the post-acquisition process is pivotal for ensuring high levels of acquisition performance. This process, along with its main component, the integration process, is a ...

• Probability Distortion in the relationship between Depression and Problem Gambling: A Mediation Analysis 

  Nguyen, Chi; Johansson, David (2021-08-04)

  We posit that people with depressive symptoms are prone to problem gambling, and explore whether one possible driver of this is that depression increases misperception of probabilities. To test this hypothesis, we conducted ...

• Bridging the Gap between Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: The case of Tanzania 

  Mwakioja, Twaha Said (2021-08-04)

  Most of the developing countries have experienced impressive economic growth over two decades since 1990 with more than 50 percent poverty reduction whilst most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are facing the ...

• The Deadweight Loss of Christmas Revisited 

  Lahtinen, Tobias; Rhodin, Johan (2021-08-04)

  The aim of this paper is to investigate if there is a deadweight loss, (DWL), or gain to society elicited from the gift-exchange during the Christmas holiday in Sweden in 2020. This is done by partly replicating the ...

• The relationship between social capital and saving in Tanzania 

  Nyberg, Jennie; Kalliokoski, Jooseppi (2021-08-04)

  It is generally agreed that the poor in the developing world would bene t from increased saving (Dupas & Robinson, 2013b; Karlan et al., 2017; Steinert et al., 2018), and in this paper we investigate how social capital ...

• Swedish family ownership and its influence on stock performance 

  Ghate, Navid; Fjällström, Trf (2021-08-04)

  This study researches the association between Swedish family ownership and stock performance. Using the sample of non-financial firms listed in SSE (Stockholm stock exchange) in the time-period of 2010-2020, we find that ...

• Barriers to Employee Involvement in Incremental Innovation at the Swedish Public Healthcare Organizations 

  Knutsson, Erik; Lurie, Isak (2021-07-09)

  Background and purpose: As public organizations are politically governed, the organizations have traditionally been managed from a top-down perspective. Since knowledge intensive organizations have realized employees are ...

• CHALLENGES WHEN DIFFUSING INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS THROUGH DIGITAL MARKETING - A qualitative research study exploring the major challenges when diffusing innovative products through digital marketing based on a case study of a diving equipment company 

  Sophie Längvik; Emma Wallander (2021-07-09)

  The main objective with this study was to explore the major challenges when diffusing innovative products through digital marketing. The purpose of this research was to bring clarity in what challenges managers for ...

• Scenario Planning Analysis of the Industry of Commercial Vehicles - A Strategic Outlook 

  Svanberg, Simon; Österlind, Casper (2021-07-09)

  The industry of commercial vehicles is undergoing significant changes that affect activities of the complete value chain, as well as how the truck is operated. The industry is shaped by the trends of sustainable and safe ...

• SCALING UP SMART CITY LOGISTICS PROJECTS: The Case of the SMOOTh project 

  Sista, Eleonora (2021-07-09)

  A large number of smart city logistics projects fail to scale up, remaining a local experimental exercise. Lack of scalability is, in fact, commonly recognized as a major problem. This study aims to determine the key success ...

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