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The Organizational Facilitators and Barriers to the adoption of Cloud
(2020-07-22)Given the technological innovations and technological changes inside and outside of companies, the research carried out in this Master thesis focuses on one of the most important of these technological innovations, the ... -
The origin of goods and the act that undermines global trade: How the proliferation of free trade agreements creates an Asian noodle bowl that inhibits the world trade environment - A case study of Krusell Thailand Co. Ltd.
(2014-12-11)Historically, the diversified nature and role that regional and multilateral trade agreements have in global trade have been widely discussed. One side argues that trade agreements are building blocks for strategic alliances ... -
The Outsiders’ Blessing:Radical innovation through corporate entrepreneurship in small-established firms
(2010-06-21)Scholars have for long time emphasized the role of corporate entrepreneurship and the impact of radical innovations as a mean for economic development. Despite a large set of knowledge and literature, focus has mainly ... -
The Pains of Servitization -Finding the customers’ pains of a servitization business model in the modular data center industry
(2018-08-02)Increasingly more traditional manufacturing companies are adapting to the trend of bundling services around their core products and even going further towards defining their products and their surrounding services as a ... -
The Paradoxes of Talent Management A qualitative study on how the idea of Talent Management has been translated within the Swedish IT industry
(2016-09-20)This paper aims to broaden the understanding of how the idea of Talent Management has been brought in and understood within a specific setting - the Swedish IT sector. The purpose is firstly to understand how and why the ... -
The Patchwork of Knowledge Management A qualitative study on how Knowledge Management is understood in the professional context of Swedish business law firms
(2017-07-04)This paper investigates how the Knowledge Management (KM) phenomenon is understood in the field of business law firms in Sweden, by focusing on KM professionals and practitioners across hierarchical levels. The study ... -
The Performativity of Performance Management Systems A qualitative study on how performance management systems are translated within the Swedish energy sector.
(2017-07-04)This aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of how the idea of performance management and performance management systems are utilized within the Swedish energy sector. The purpose of the study is to gain an ... -
The Plight of Icarus; The Impacts of the Regulatory Framework on Various Business Model Designs in the Swedish Solar Energy Industry
(2017-09-14)Research Question: What are the impacts of the regulatory framework on various business model designs in the Swedish solar energy industry? Background & Problem: The Swedish solar energy sector remains in its infancy as ... -
THE POLISH TV MEDIA INDUSTRY – EU IMPLICATIONS A CASE STUDY OF THE MTV MASTIFF GROUP, THE INDEPENDENT TELEVISION CONTENT PRODUCER
(2005)The first of May 2004 was an important day for the European Union. On this day the Union grew larger with ten new member states. It is the most complex enlargement the EU has ever seen, both concerning the amount of countries ... -
THE POLITICAL PROCESS OF STANDARD-SETTING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FINAL STANDARD - An examination of stakeholder influence in the due process of IFRS 16 Leases
(2020-07-01)We have performed a single case study of the public consultation process of an accounting standard with major financial implications, making it prone to induce intense lobbying. We studied the ability of the standard ... -
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
(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 ... -
The Potential for Alternative Fuels in Maritime shipping (A Literature Review) —Focus on LNG and Biofuels (Biodiesel & Ethanol)—
(2019-07-02)This report deals with the environmental impacts of using oil-based fuels in the sea shipping industry. Evaluating three alternative fuels to replace or complement current fuels used in sea shipping sector in order to ... -
The potential of using digital lockers as a delivery and return method for online purchasing of clothes
(2017-06-29)This thesis was written with the purpose of investigating the potential for using digital lockers as a last mile delivery method for e-commerce of clothes. Moreover, the thesis also aims at determine how online shopping ... -
The Potential of West European Sea-based Intermodal Systems
(2003)The purpose of this study is to analyse the present goods flows between Scandinavia and regions in Western Europe and to estimate the potential share of these flows that could be conquered by an intermodal transportation ... -
The Power of Committed Consumers: A Quantitative Study of Branded Online Communities’ Impact on Brand Perception
(2021-07-02)This study aims to explore how interaction drivers in a branded online community impacts the brand perception among members of a community. Understanding brand perception is important since brand management is crucial ... -
The Power of Human-Technology Interaction:When New Technology Shifts the Political Landscape
(2014-12-05)The reliance on Information Technology (IT) within contemporary organizations has in-creased conspicuously within the past few decades, and this has changed the way in which work is conducted. In this article, attention ... -
The Practical Use of BI Visualizations in Decision-making
(2017-08-09)Background and problem: Due to the constantly altering business environment, firms are trying to find ways of combining information technology (IT) and decision-making in order to grasp information of the complex and dynamic ... -
The predictive ability of loan loss provisions in banks within EU following IFRS - The effect of country specific factors
(2017-08-10)In recent years, an increased attention has been devoted to banks’ loan loss provisions and actual losses. The incurred loss model under IFRS (IAS 39) has been criticized for leading to less timely loan loss recognition. ... -
The Predictive Value of Abnormal Positive Tone in Earnings Conference Calls
(2017-08-09)Tone in qualitative firm disclosures has increasingly caught the academic in-terest. Earnings conference calls are however a form of firm communication that largely have been overlooked in accounting research. This paper ... -
The Predictive Value of Optimism in Letters to Shareholders
(2017-08-08)In this study, we investigate the predictive value of optimism expressed in letters to shareholders. We explore if optimism in these letters can be used to predict the future performance of 457 firms traded on the NYSE. To ...