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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 ...
A study of structural organisational transformation through the lens of an institutional logic perspective
(2019-07-03)
The past 40 years a universal trend of privatisation has emerged in the Western world.
Privatisation of official authorities is seen as the way to create efficiency and flexibility in
organisations. In doing so, ...
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 ...
Acting in a Generative Building A qualitative study of how Activity Based Working is translated and acted upon in practice at a large Nordic bank
(2017-07-05)
Activity Based Working (ABW) has emerged as a popular management trend among
practitioners in the current business environment. In previous research however, aspects of
organizational space and its influence on social ...
Employer Branding – An ongoing Change and Translation - A qualitative article of how consultants translate their ideas of Employer Branding and act upon them in practice
(2020-06-22)
This article aims to analyse how an Employer Branding consultancy firm strategically works with identifying and implementing Employer Branding into other organisations. A case study was conducted using primarily 16 ...
Translating Sustainability Ideas A Case Study of a local Sustainable Sourcing Concept within the Food Industry
(2018-07-03)
This paper investigates how individuals of an organisation are influenced by concepts and ideas in their daily work. In particular, this study examine how purchasing managers are dealing with, and in which ways they are ...
Translating Boundaries A study of Activity-Based Working at AstraZeneca
(2016-09-20)
Boundaries are often taken as a given in the literature and little is known about the construction process of boundaries. To address this gap in previous research, a case study was undertaken to observe movement of boundaries. ...
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 Cashless Society in Practice
(2015-07-13)
This paper critically discusses the transformation of Sweden towards becoming a
cashless society. It is based on an in-depth study of how the idea about a cashless
society is translated and unfolded in practice, by a ...
Sorting Talents Out: Talent identification and its consequences
(2015-07-13)
Abstract
Talent Management (TM) has been argued more important than ever, especially in Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Previous research on the subject has however paid little attention to illustrate how TM processes ...