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MANUFACTURING STRATEGY a Case Study for AvestaPolarit
(2004)AvestaPolarit’s Hot Rolled Plate produces stainless steel plates. The business unit does not compete by having the lowest prices. Instead, it does so by offering high reliability concerning quality and delivery lead-times. ... -
Mapping and streamlining the Hardware-in-the-loop process
(2022-08-03)The car industry is in a transition to a new era, where software and electronics plays a significant role. During recent years, software and electronics has increased vastly in cars and new innovations are constantly joining ... -
Mapping of Logistics Infrastructure of Central and Eastern Europe for Automotive Industry
(2008-02-26)Central and Eastern Europe as an emerging market has become very attractive for automotive OEMs, which are expanding rapidly in the region. Consequently, they are followed by the logistics service providers. However, poor ... -
Market efficiency and index fund flow: An empirical study of the relationship between passive investment and broad-market efficiency
(2020-07-08)An observable rise in the popularity of index funds have caused the index funds to, in 2017, capture 20% of total fund assets globally. A cornerstone of such passive investment is a belief in an efficiently priced security ... -
Market Intelligence in technology-intensive enterprises: Its constitution and utilization in a B2B context - Case Study of a Business Intelligence Outsourcing Supplier in the Automotive Industry
(2018-07-03)An enterprise´s market intelligence involves its knowledge about its customers, competitors, and the future market developments. The constitution of market intelligence is crucial for the enterprise in a variety of ... -
MARKET POWER IN THE DUTCH COFFEE MARKET, 1990-1996
(2011-07-19)The significance of coffee to the world economy cannot be understated. In the past years, prices of coffee beans have experienced large fluctuations, whereas consumer prices for roasted coffee hardly responded, that is, ... -
Market Power in the Food Industry: The Swedish Egg Supply Chain
(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 ... -
Market Reactions to Green Bond Issuance Announcements: The Role of Regulative and Normative Institutions
(2021-06-28)This study uses an event- and panel analysis methodology to investigate whether the stringency of regulative and normative institutions is associated with a positive stock market reaction to green bond issuance announcements. ... -
Market Regulation & Profitability
(2003)The process of globalisation has been a widely discussed topic over the past two decades, and a great enabler and driving force behind this process has been the airline industry. In addition, deregulation is said to have ... -
The Marketing of Plant-Based Protein - The Beyond Meat Case: Making food alternatives appealing to multiple groups of consumers
(2022-12-14)This paper aims to describe and discuss how marketing promotes plant-based proteins. Based on the frameworks of the marketing studies within green marketing and marketing devices (Callon et al., 2007; Cochoy, 2008; ... -
Markups in the Chinese Economy - And the difference between State-Owned Enterprises and Private Publicly Listed Firms
(2021-06-30)The paper examines the markup levels in the Chinese economy to estimate the level of competition present in the economy and the differences between publicly listed firms and the state-owned enterprises. The markups are ... -
MASTERING A MOVING MARKET
(2003)Poland has been in the process of adjusting its legislation to comply with the regulatory framework for the Single European Market, ever since the application for membership to the European Union. This together with ... -
Mastering the shift: exploring external CEO successions in a comparative case study
(2023-06-29)This paper critically examines the claim made by previous research that explains CEO successions as a result of a linear process, influenced by isolated factors of causality succeeding one another. Thus, it seeks to ... -
Master’s Thesis in Finance Short-term SPAC Performance- Empirical Evidence on Pre-merger SPAC Performance
(2022-06-29)The paper aims to shed light on the topic surrounding short-term SPAC performance. The primary focus is on whether two of the most prominent events in a SPACs lifecycle, merger announcement and merger completion, show ... -
Match Me If You Can! Business Graduates’ Engagement with Employer Brands on Social Networking Sites
(2014-12-05)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the gratifications business graduates seek when engaging with employer brands on the Social Networking Sites (SNSs) LinkedIn and Facebook. Research Design – The study is ... -
Match Point: Watching versus Catching The Influence of Whaling for the Whale Watching Tourism Industry in Iceland
(2008-02-28)Watching whales in their natural environment can be an unforgettable experience. In the last twenty years, on an international scale, whale watching has become increasingly popular among tourists. Still some countries ... -
Matching Innovation- Introducing new innovations on the BoP market
(2012-07-17)In recent years increasing attention has been directed towards the reasonably untapped markets at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). These emerging markets infer great opportunities for business and the lack of technical ... -
Materiality in the context of Sustainability
(2020-07-01)Aim: This research aims to study the idea of materiality by examining how Swedish companies assess and report materiality in their sustainability reports. The research, therefore, sheds light on how materiality is being ... -
The Meaning of Authenticity in the Experience Industry: An exploratory study of Swedish concept restaurants
(2009-08-21)The experience industry is booming and for restaurants to be a part of this industry they must offer more than food and common services. To be competitive in the experience industry companies are told to render authenticity. ... -
The meaning of the office space in the wake off the COVID-19 pandemic
(2022-06-23)In December 2019 organisations all over the world had to abandon business-as-usual and change their ways of working due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Many were forced to virtualise their work by moving from working ...