Browsing Master theses by Title
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CEO Compensation Structure and Firm Risk Taking - A case study of the CEO compensation practices in the Swedish financial industry
(2010-06-23)Background: The CEO compensation structure is seen as one of the underlying causes of the recent financial crisis, and is a phenomenon that has been heavily debated lately both within the financial industry, by policymakers ... -
CEO Hubris and Its Impacts on Fair Value Accounting of Securitization
(2016-09-15)The purpose of this paper is to examine how fair value accounting of securitization is influenced by an underlying personality trait. In this case, the underlying personality trait in focus is hubris. In particular, it ... -
Certification work in the Swedish Ecotourism Sector- A study of Nature’s Best certified companies
(2011-07-07)Ecotourism is said to be one of the major innovations to ever have occurred within tourism and is expected to grow in the following years. In comparison to ordinary tourism, ecotourism has a focus both on what the traveller ... -
Challenges and organizational capabilities to implement circularity in the automotive industry. A multiple case study
(2023-07-19)The market for electric vehicles has been growing rapidly in recent years. As a result, the largest share of emissions along the life cycle of vehicles will no longer come from the combustion of waste gases but from ... -
Challenges and Prospects for the Visual Arts Businesses in Gothenburg, Sweden
(2016-09-21)Despite worldwide economic reсession and unstable political situation, the global fine art market in 2014 has reached a new record in sales of 15.2 billion dollars, which is 26% more than in 2013 and 300% higher than in ... -
Challenges of developing and introducing innovative products or services in Bangladesh, a country with a poverty problem
(2022-07-05)Although people's living standards are getting better and better with the innovation of science and technology, poverty is still a common problem. Therefore, this thesis will focus on whether the country's poverty will ... -
Challenges of implementing Big Data in large organisations: A case study
(2018-07-02)This study examines the challenges faced by large organisations when implementing Big Data to support the decision process. Existing literature on Big Data implementation are limited and have not been focused on how the ... -
Challenges of Knowledge Sharing when Facing a Generation Shift. The case of Axalta
(2016-10-12)Today firms’ competitive advantage is determined by how efficient they can share knowledge internally. The knowledge management is indeed a well-researched field, however not many studies has been conducted linked to a ... -
The Challenges of Social Enterprises in Balancing Economic, Social, and Environmental Tradeoffs: Comparative Case Study of Hybrid Organizing- Swedish Context.
(2023-07-18)Purpose -This master thesis is to investigate the challenges of sustainability and to understand how massive effort of collaborative hybrid organizing, involving multiple stakeholders from private, public, and civil societies ... -
Challenges of Sustainability - Oriented Innovation practice: a multiple case study of the clothing industry
(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 ... -
CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME IN THE SERVICE JOURNEY
(2020-07-23)Background: During the last few years, the manufacturing industry has experienced a multitude of disruptions. One major strategic shift that is occurring across industries today is the implementation of services or ... -
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
(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 ... -
Challenging food norms: Understanding the dumpster diving culture in Gothenburg, Sweden
(2017-06-30)explore the various motivations for diving in commercial containers and to provide deeper insights into the multifaceted culture of dumpster diving. Methodology: Data triangulation combining in-depth interviews, ethnographic ... -
Challenging Traditional Growth Strategies - An exploratory single case study on how Forza Football designs user involvement growth strategies to enable viral growth
(2020-07-23)Background and Purpose: In order to stay competitive in a rapidly changing business environment, the question of growth is perceived to be an essential issue of survival and entrepreneurial behavior. Traditionally, ... -
Change process during a CRM system implementation The journey of a CRM system at Volvo Truck Corporation
(2005)Readings concerning Customer Relationship Management (CRM) show that it is not always easy to implement such a system. Although most of these readings provided solutions for making these kinds of implementations a success, ... -
Change? - Yes we can. A study analysing the implementation of structural changes in a multidivisional MNC.
(2017-07-26)As Multinational Corporations (MNCs) grow and expand the importance of how to manage the headquarter-subsidiary relationship has grown, and evermore when adding into the equation the centralisation of different units and ... -
Changes in Asian banking industry
(2002)Changes in banking industry can be observed from different perspectives, one of which is the phenomenon of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). M&A is a highly abstract and compact concept, especially in the case of banking ... -
Changes in Disclosure Tone after an Incident - Quality and industry spill-over effects
(2019-08-08)Background/Purpose: The focus of this report is how the concerned company BP and Oil and Gas (O&G) industry responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in their Sustainability reports. This study examines changes in ... -
Changes in Market: A Case of Apoteket International AB and its Efforts to Respond to Market Liberalization
(2011-07-07)This thesis focuses upon the on-going de-regulation of the Swedish pharmacy market. The liberalization of a market imposes opportunities and challenges to the monopolist, in this case Apoteket AB. By going from a protected ... -
Changing by asking the patient A qualitative study on introduction of Value-based healthcare at a Swedish hospital
(2017-07-04)Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a concept which describes a new way to manage hospitals and puts focus on the patient value. The goal is to achieve as much of this patient value as possible for the cost of healthcare. ...