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Pop-up Stores in Fashion Retailing - A description of temporary retailing in relation to Flagship Stores and Outlet Stores
(2014-12-05)
The use of temporary stores, so called pop-up stores, has over the years become a common occurrence in the fashion industry. While previous research in regards to the pop-up store phenomenon has investigated its functions, ...
What Drives the Crowd? A study of user motivations on web-based innovation platforms
(2014-12-15)
Crowdsourcing has during the last decade gone from an obscure phenomenon to a widely accepted
way to improve business processes. As companies struggle to implement crowdsourcing in their
operations, purpose-specific ...
Can Organic Producers Compete? A study of Organic Agriculture in Sweden
(2014-07-22)
This paper studies profits in the organic agricultural industry, in order to see if the increase in the demand for organic produce over the past 10 years has had any impact on the premiums achieved for organic production. ...
The Internationalisation of Japanese Professional Business Services - Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Asia
(2014-12-12)
Although Japan is one of the world's largest economies its service sector is
less developed than that of other industrialised countries and the sector also
lags behind in terms of internationalisation. Research has ...
Transnational Replication - A case study of Volvo Car Corporation
(2014-12-12)
Replications of organizational practices and routines are used by many MNCs as an efficient strategy for growing economies of scale and improving brand recognition. When replicating on international levels, i.e. from one ...
How to Manage the Coexistence of Corporate Entrepreneurship and the Core Business. The story of large companies pursuit of tomorrow´s business
(2014-12-15)
Large companies today faces many challenges due to the changing global environment, new conditions require new ways of managing the company. Further, due to the bureaucracy and hierarchy that follows with the size a company, ...
Investors’ Pursuit of Positive Skewness in Stock Returns. An empirical study of the Skewness effect on market-to-book ratio
(2014-07-23)
This paper finds that higher positive skewness in stocks’ return distribution may lead to higher valuation in terms of market-to-book ratio. In addition, we find that this relationship was not affected by the recent financial ...
Upgrading Innovativeness of Supply Chain Partners in Asia - A Case Study of SKF in China and Korea
(2014-12-12)
The globalized nature of today’s market has put pressure on MNCs to find new ways to survive and innovation has been identified as a key source for improving a MNCs competitive advantage. However, due to the increased ...
Taking the label out of private label: An investigation if the private label brand affects the consumers’ willingness to pay
(2014-12-05)
Private labels have skyrocketed during the last decades. The main goal is to increase the retailers’ margins. A recent trend is the introduction of several tiers of private labels, and especially the premium private label ...
Knowledge Management during New Product Development for the Value Segment in Emerging Markets - The case of Volvo GTT´s development of the Value Truck
(2014-12-12)
The development of products for the Value Segment in Emerging Markets with its impressive number of potential customers and above average growth rates constitutes a significant opportunity for Western MNCs to escape the ...