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Servitization in the Car Industry: A Case Study of the concept Care by Volvo
(2018-08-02)In recent years, product-based companies are adding more services to their products and in contrast to the traditional perspective, products can now be add-ons to services. Hence, servitization has entered the manufacturing ... -
Shall we go to the spa? The spa trends in Gothenburg and its region
(2006)The Spa industry is a new and growing phenomenon showing a clear increase during the last decades. The customers are starting to realize how important the health and wellness in today’s society. People of all ages are ... -
Shaping the Future of Mobility in Gothenburg: The Implementation of a Cycle Taxi Service A case study in collaboration with Addvelo and The Space – First to Know
(2018-07-02)As a result from the ongoing urbanization, the population in cities throughout the world is continuously increasing. Despite the benefits that urbanization brings, cities are facing challenges related to the increased ... -
Shared Language, shared Knowledge? Investigating barriers and facilitators to knowledge transfer in a common language context: the case of European Multinational Corporations
(2016-10-10)Multinational corporations (MNCs) have over the past decades increasingly expanded to foreign markets, changing the international operating environment and requiring the MNCs to more efficiently transfer knowledge within ... -
Shared understanding across organizational divisions - A qualitative study of store managers in a corporate cultural change process
(2019-07-03)This study investigates how an organization going through a corporate culture change is performing boundary work and through that reaches a shared understanding among organizational members. During any kind of organizational ... -
Shareholder reactions to the introduction of stock-option programs in swedish companies
(2001)The background of this research comes from the large debate that has been going on over stock-option programs during the past years and the insignificant amount of research on the issue in Sweden. In light of that corporations ... -
Sharing as an Antidote to Food Waste: Understanding Food Rescuing Apps and Their Users
(2021-07-02)The ever-increasing amount of wasted food has emerged as one of the most significant sustainability challenges of our time. The predominant explanation for the amount of food wasted is often attributed to consumers' ... -
Sharing is Caring, a New Institution on the Rise? Car sharing organisations on the Swedish market
(2016-09-20)Car sharing is a transportation option that is rapidly growing on the Swedish market coupled to both increasing urbanization and sharing trends. This study investigates how the creation and stabilization process of CS ... -
Sharing is Caring: A Qualitative Study of Idea-sharing in Large Organizations
(2021-07-07)Background and Purpose: It is widely known that knowledge is a critical component of firms' ability to innovate. Although large organizations usually have a large pool of human capital, and thus knowledge, they face ... -
“Sharing knowledge creates better knowledge” - The process of knowledge exchange in the case of Volvo Group
(2013-07-05)Owing to the increased globalisation, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are operating in a complex global market. This infers the importance to enable the organisation to not only transfer generated knowledge between global ... -
Shifting Towards Circular Economy; A case study of the Office Furniture Industry
(2016-09-27)Background The awareness of the expolition of resoucses in a way where the world will not be able to sustainable continute to provide for has grown over the last decades. In turn this has given rise to the concept of ... -
Shopping within today's retail environment - Understanding how the practice of shopping is performed in regard to omni-channels
(2020-06-23)Proceeding from the practice theory perspective, the aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of today’s shopping within the retail industry. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the practice ... -
Short-run Effects of Feebate Schemes on Car Markets and CO2 emissions A simulation analysis of the Swedish feebate scheme
(2018-10-11)In a CO2-differentiated feebate scheme on new car purchases, the purchaser either pays a fee or receives a rebate depending on the emission performance of the car. In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation, ... -
Should I Stay or Should I go?; A single case study examining employee motivational factors impact on employee retention
(2017-09-13)Background: Today, companies are facing a continual competition amongst each other to both appeal and retain critical employees with regards to right demanded skills and talents. Outperforming organizations have been ... -
Should the Swedish merchant fleet fly the Swedish flag?
(2013-07-04)Sweden has a long tradition of being a strong shipping nation. However, the industry is currently experiencing a rapid trend of shipping companies flagging out from Sweden to other flag states, most often to other European ... -
Signs of innovation opportunities within the audit industry - The potential for disruptive- and sustaining innovation
(2022-08-05)There are few fields in the research that have gained the same attention as disruptive innovation. The phenomenon of disruptive innovation can be applied in any industry and affects how incumbents and new entrants perform ... -
Simple or Not
(2002)Today, there are many different organizations. As these organizations develop, so do the difficulties they are faced with. The character of the difficulties can take form in many different ways. In order to come to a ... -
Single versus Multiple Sourcing: Investigating the most profitable scenario for OEMs
(2017-09-14)This thesis aims to explain how a specific Truck OEM chooses how many suppliers to source from. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the benefits and disadvantages of single and multiple sourcing in a specific ... -
Sino-Vietnamese Border Trade Relations- under the context of regional integration
(2020-11-24)Since the normalization of Sino-Vietnamese political relations in 1991, especially after the 21st century, China and Vietnam have involved multiple regional economic cooperation. In today's global trend of accelerating ... -
Sino-Vietnamese Trade Relations-with a focus on Cross-Border Trade
(2011-07-05)The bilateral relations between China and Vietnam have to a large extent changed and improved since the political relations between the two countries normalized in 1991. Economic cooperation has been enhanced through various ...