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Exploring Best Practices for Ideation. A comparative study
(2015-07-07)Abstract This paper examines how organizations engage their employees in generating ideas for innovation, henceforth referred to as ideation. The study was conducted through interviews among innovation leaders at 9 ... -
Exploring competency needs of an innovation leader - A qualitative study capturing the perspectives of innovation management practitioners on competencies and personal certificati
(2023-07-19)The innovation management profession is maturing, and standards and procedures for best practices are needed. Further, the current literature underscores the vitality of understanding the necessary knowledge and skills ... -
Exploring Consumers’ Experiences of Co-branding with Influencers: A Case Study about Influencer Marketing with Nelly.com
(2018-07-03)The emergence of brands using influencers to reach their consumers, i.e. co-branding with influencers, has created a need for knowledge about how consumers experience it. With the aim of increasing this knowledge, a case ... -
EXPLORING EVENT TOURISM STRATEGIES - A CASE STUDY OF FOUR NORDIC TOURISM ORGANISATIONS
(2005)As tourism is one of the fastest growing industries today, thus within the tourism industry events are getting more and more important. People have become more interested in events of all kinds, and will travel far away ... -
Exploring Knowledge Implementation in Project Teams - Insights from a Qualitative Case Study in a High-Tech Industry MNC
(2023-07-18)Existing literature underscores the significance of knowledge management (KM) in organisations for enhancing performance and gaining competitive advantages. Despite scholars acknowledging that knowledge implementation ... -
Exploring loyalty within car subscriptions, in the case of Care by Volvo - How can brand communities and social bonds be used to increase Millennials’ customer loyalty in the car subscription business model?
(2022-08-04)Introduction: Subscription is a fairly new phenomenon, with several arising innovations. One of these innovations is Care by Volvo. This business model counters ownership of cars to accessibility to cars, which several ... -
Exploring Responsible Innovation through a Gender Lens: A Comparative Case Study of Male and Female Leadership in Business
(2023-07-19)During increasinly turbulent times, both in markets, society and the environment, the need for responsibility is high. Striving towards the desired outcomes and avoiding the undesired ones for innovations becomes crucial, ... -
Exploring servitization practices in the European Automotive industry: Cross-country case study between France and Sweden - A multiple case study
(2023-07-19)This thesis contributes to the existing literature on servitization through a qualitative cross-country case study investigating the phenomenon in the automotive industry, focusing on the experiences of firms in France and ... -
Exploring the Benefits of Implementing CSR Practices: from a Supplier Perspective -A case study of IKEA and its Vietnamese Suppliers
(2009-08-24)As a growing number of corporations today show concern to sustainable development and non-financial performance indicators, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is no longer viewed as an upsetting burden or merely a tactic ... -
Exploring the Determinants of Agricultural Commodity Returns
(2023-06-29)This paper investigates the Granger causal relations between agricultural commodity returns and several potential determinants using a multivariate Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Impulse Response Functions ... -
Exploring the Green Premium: A Hedonic Pricing Study on House Prices in Municipalities Adjacent to Färnebofjärden and Tyresta National Parks
(2023-06-29)This thesis conducts a hedonic pricing model with multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between proximity to Färnebofjärden and Tyresta National Parks and house prices in adjacent municipalities between ... -
Exploring the Idiosyncratic Volatility Anomaly in the Swedish Stock Market: An Empirical Analysis of its Impact on Returns
(2023-06-29)We examine the cross-sectional relationship between idiosyncratic volatility relative to the Fama-French three factor model and expected stock returns. We find that portfolios containing the firms with the lowest idiosyncratic ... -
Exploring the Plausible Impacts of Increasing Commercial Transportation of Liquid Bio-Fuel on the Tanker Market
(2011-07-18)In the challenges of energy security, climate change and raising fossil fuel prices, the world is committed to finding solutions to address these problems. As a result, there have been considerable efforts aimed at sustainable ... -
Exploring the possibilities for MaaS in the everyday mobility - A qualitative study of pilot projects in different phases
(2021-07-07)The objective of this research is to identify how MaaS solutions can be designed to have a greater impact on everyday mobility. This research contributes by identifying existing barriers for present projects in all of ... -
Exploring the relationship between absorptive capacity and ambidexterity-Swedish context
(2023-07-18)This study explores the relationship between ambidexterity and absorptive capacity by conducting a quantitative research study on a sample of 31 companies that operate in different industries in Sweden. The data was ... -
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ESG DISAGREEMENT AND STOCK RETURNS - AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
(2023-06-29)During the recent years investors shifted their preferences towards sustainable stocks and funds, increasing the importance of Environmental, Social and Governance ratings. At a similar pace the related literature started ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Corporate Identity Trust and Accounting Information
(2001)Conventional economic theory has tended to disregard the notion of trust. Economic actors are assumed to be guided solely by their self-interest, unmindful of the social bases of their existence. However, current research ... -
Exploring the Roles of Sustainable Branding Strategies: Factors
(2017-06-30)This study highlights the dialectics between the emotional- and functional attributes of sustainable branding strategies and how these influence the consumption experience of sustainable clothing brands. The qualitative ... -
Export Diversification Effects of Aid for Trade Facilitation
(2020-07-10)Improving developing countries' export performance is a current policy priority, and the initiative Aid for Trade (AfT) has become an increasingly popular concept as a response to this. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
Extended Gate - Barriers and opportunities for intermodal improvements, a case study of Port of Gothenburg
(2020-06-17)Extended gate is an intermodal concept aiming to achieve improved transport efficiency in the hinterland through a more integrated model, compared to concepts that are currently in use, such as dry ports. Functionally it ...