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Internal Change in Internationalizing SMEs The Challenges of Going Local to Global: A Human Resource Perspective
(2013-07-02)
The internal internationalization of SMEs is a growing research area, but there is a lack of research regarding how SMEs develop internal resources when internationalizing and how this change facilitates firms’ ...
Sustainability Strategy Formation - Pause and Make Sense to Get Forward
(2013-07-05)
One of the main questions within strategy research is how strategies form. Previous research has though been shaped by top management and internal biases, largely neglecting the role of lower level and external practitioners ...
Identifying the Capability Gaps in a Multinational Corporation - A Comparative Case Study of the Global Purchasing Departments of Volvo Cars Corporation in Sweden and China
(2013-07-05)
In today’s competitive global economy, one of the most encountered strategies in a multinational company is to take advantage of capabilities residing across different locations. It is widely recognized that a company’s ...
Not a Destiny: Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution Reexamined
(2013-07-01)
Existing cross-country studies have increasingly confirmed the negative relationship between ethnic diversity and redistribution. These studies, however, have mainly focused on the measurement of ethnic diversity and have ...
Measuring and Predicting Export Activity:An application on the Region of West Sweden
(2013-07-01)
In Sweden, export accounts for approximately 50 percent of the GDP and is a good indicator of the economic situation. This thesis develops an export index on quarterly basis to
measure and predict the business cycle. The ...
Swedish Consumers’ Trust in Beef - Implications for sustainable beef on the Swedish market
(2013-07-10)
Swedish organic beef is the most environmentally and animal friendly meat a consumer can purchase today. Despite this fact, consumption of beef can be divided into two groups. The first group is price oriented, and the ...
Dedication through fitness vacation - A tool in strengthening the running identity
(2013-07-10)
The idea of training three times a day might not be the first thing one thinks of when hearing the word vacation, fitness vacations are, however, not a new phenomenon. Recently, they have, nonetheless, been repackaged to ...
Corporate Disclosures Reaction to an Incident - the case of BP
(2013-07-02)
Communicating with stakeholders is an important task for corporations to receive the stakeholders’ support. This importance is evidenced through the emergence of different types of disclosures, for instance, the recent ...
Measuring and Predicting Export Activity: An application on the Region of West Sweden
(2013-07-05)
In Sweden, export accounts for approximately 50 percent of the GDP and is a good indicator of the economic situation. This thesis develops an export index on quarterly basis to
measure and predict the business cycle. The ...
The Maritime Labour Market - A Study of the Swedish Maritime Labour Market and the Competitive Situation for Swedish Maritime Officers
(2013-07-10)
The transition towards a global maritime labour market has led to a reduction in the number of ships flying the Swedish flag, and with it a decreasing number of employment opportunities on the national maritime labour ...