Browsing Master theses by Title
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WALLHAMNBOLAGEN AB
(2003)Wallhamn is situated on Tjörn, an island on the Swedish west coast, and has served as a port since the middle of 1960. Today, Wallhamn is suffering a decrease in goods flow, and is now in a situation where something has ... -
Warranty Provisions …more like Earnings Management Provision?
(2022-06-30)This thesis explores the realm of accounting disclosure concerning warranties provisions and its relation to earnings management. Provisions for warranties require estimates and judgment for future claims, resulting in an ... -
Waste Not, Want Not - Suboptimal Food and the Grocery Shopping Practices of Sustainably-Minded Consumers
(2019-09-10)Food waste is becoming an increasingly visible environmental issue with estimations claiming that up to one third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted. Grocery stores selling suboptimal food provide consumers ... -
Ways to Manage Projects Efficiently
(2002)Today, projects are very popular in this time-focused society. However, they are complex by nature and include many challenges. Common problems in projects are difficulties with the learning and the knowledge that individuals ... -
We've Got Nothing to Hide - A qualitative study of how corporate identity influence Swedish fashion companies’ commitment to supply chain transparency as a way to compete
(2020-06-23)Motivated by the ambition to understand how supply chain transparency can be used as a tool for competition in an industry where environmental and social issues are alarming, this paper examines what influence corporate ... -
Wealth effects associated with spin-offs: Empirical evidence from the Nordics
(2021-06-30)This study focuses on the abnormal returns associated with spin-offs in the Nordics. The sample consists of 84 completed spin-offs between 2000 and 2020. Similar to the vast majority of previous studies, a significant ... -
Welcome to the Jungle - A multiple extensive case study on the ‘Green Grey Zone’ of sustainability labelling
(2019-07-03)This article focuses on the ‘Green Grey Zone’ phenomenon in the Swedish fashion industry; In particular the influence of brand positioning within the competitive environment of the fast and slow fashion market segments. ... -
Well said, well done. Language as a source of power in multinational teams
(2015-07-10)ABSTRACT As Multinational Corporations (MNCs) extend their span across the globe, a natural strategic consequence in managing a multilingual landscape has been the introduction of a lingua franca, in the form of a common ... -
What does private equity buy? – A comparison between financial and strategic buyers in European PTP transactions 2005-2019
(2020-07-08)This paper outlines a new approach to the takeover literature by comparing target characteristics between financial and strategic buyers in announced European Public-to-Private transactions from 2005 to 2019. We compare ... -
What drives resistance to innovation amongst device makers in the medical radiographic industry? A qualitative case study investigating the use of microfocus X-ray tubes and the barriers to a widespread usage in the medical radiography
(2018-08-02)In academia, literature on innovation have over the last few decades predominantly focused on what strategies can help drive acceptance of new innovative products and services. However, the arguably quite high failure ... -
What drives success in Swedish New Venture Teams? A comparative analysis of diversity in team composition, and the decision-making process across the Swedish new venture ecosystem
(2024-07-10)Introduction: This thesis investigates the impact of diversity within founding teams on the decision-making processes and success of new venture firms in Sweden. With the increasing number of start-ups in the Swedish ... -
What Drives the Crowd? A study of user motivations on web-based innovation platforms
(2014-12-15)Crowdsourcing has during the last decade gone from an obscure phenomenon to a widely accepted way to improve business processes. As companies struggle to implement crowdsourcing in their operations, purpose-specific ... -
What Enabled the Rapid Swedish M&A Recovery During the Covid-19 Crisis? A Qualitative Research Study Regarding the M&A Recovery in Sweden during 2020 Compared to Previous Crises
(2021-06-24)The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recovery after the Covid-19 crisis’ outbreak in 2020 is considered remarkably rapid compared to earlier crises as the recovery occurred in months instead of years. There are several ... -
What happens in expatriation, stays in expatriation - A study of how absorptive capacity enables organizational learning from repatriate knowledge
(2020-06-29)In today’s globalized and knowledge driven business landscape, many MNCs make heavy investments in sending international assignees to transfer intra-firm knowledge between organizational units. Though, high turnover rates ... -
What if…? – How AI Chatbots Could Reconfigure Grocery Shopping In-store
(2023-07-03)In the light of the rapid development of AI technology, this paper aims to explore how the integration of the novel application of an AI chatbot would reconfigure the practice of grocery shopping in brickand- mortar ... -
What Is the Role of Environmental Concern on Positional Behaviour?
(2020-07-10)The main focus of this thesis is how concerns for environmental degradation relate to positional behaviour, and whether the association between subjective well-being and household income depend on individual level of ... -
What KPIs are fundamental for the business model “Equipment-as-a-Service” at one of Sweden's largest automotive manufacturers?
(2023-07-04)Background: The business model “As-a-Service” is fairly new and has gained attention in connection with the importance of creating a circular economy. The business model has a new way of creating revenue which makes it ... -
What led Tel Aviv to become a leading entrepreneurial ecosystem?
(2017-09-13)“How has Tel Aviv become a leading entrepreneurial ecosystem? ” This thesis investigates the factors behind the growing success of Tel Aviv as an entrepreneurial scene. The economic capital of Israel has become one of ... -
What new practices emerged following VAR in football among spectators, and how do these practices relate to potential value co-creation and co-destruction?
(2023-07-03)Technological tools are widely used in all industries. In football, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has been implemented and is becoming more common in nearly all domestic leagues and international organizations. Previous ... -
WHAT RELATIONSHIP SHOULD WE HAVE IN INFORMATION AGE?
(2002)Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) is widely exploited in Multinational Enterprises (MNE) and it brings about significant changes in different spheres of business. In logistics management, modern information technology ...