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Learning to Manage the Unmanageable. A Case Study on Exchange Rate Risk Management within Globally Sourcing Multinational Corporations.
(2017-07-27)
Background and problem: Existing research has shown that the various risks related to multinational corporations’ (MNCs) supply chains are inherent cost drivers, creating managerial challenges and coherently affecting the ...
How to Implement an Omni-Channel Supply Chain. A Case Study of Intersport Sverige AB
(2018-07-31)
Title: How to implement an omni-channel supply chain. A case study of Intersport Sverige
AB.
Thesis degree: Master Degree Project in Innovation and Industrial Management.
Authors: Tilde Bjärfors and Aron Hwang.
Supervisor: ...
How Tigers and Lions Become Masters - A case study on how to emerge as a sourcing destination with evidence from Kenya, China and Bangladesh
(2014-12-12)
Global sourcing has become a well-known phenomenon and a much-researched topic. Most research has been conducted from a company perspective. However, there is a demand for a more thorough analysis on global sourcing from ...
Live Spectators View on Sponsorship in Sporting Events
(2015-07-08)
ABSTRACT
This study investigates how live spectators view sponsorship and sponsors’ marketing initiatives appearing in sporting events. Through constructing a relationship model central to sporting events, three relationships ...
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 ...
Demand of External Finance by Manufacturing SMEs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2015-07-13)
Poverty can be reduced if more good jobs are created. Small- and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) are good job creators, but there are few such firms in the
countries that would need them most. Limited access to finance ...
Informal Payments for Health Care and their Implications on Patient Welfare
(2012-07-24)
Corruption in the healthcare sector is a widespread problem in many
countries. Empirical research has shown that petty corruption is especially
endemic in healthcare, perhaps due to the importance of health
to human ...
Establishing a Swedish business in Poland Studying institutional and rational aspects of internationalization in the case of Build AB, a Swedish construction company
(2017-07-05)
Internationalization is a topic that has been studied widely but often by considering the rational aspects of it only even though the institutional ones also are of importance. Here, a combination of the rational and ...
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 ...
Overcoming liabilities in a psychic distant market. The case of Swedish SMEs in Singapore.
(2017-07-27)
More and more SMEs are taking the step to become global- However, their internationalisation processes are said to be more challenging than MNE. Not only do they suffer from liability of foreignness but also from liability ...