MBA Project Reports, BBA Projects, Management Thesis, Dissertation
Introduction : Globalization has dramatically changed the ways of conducting business, which in turn has led to a multitude of new opportunities and challenges for companies. The ever shifting business climate of today is fierce and for this reason companies have to be able to operate proactively, flexibly, and respond quickly to the changes, in …
Country portfolio analysis, a commonly used tool among companies when evaluating potential target markets, only focus on potential sales instead of including cost and risk into the equation. However, some researchers today have become aware of the importance of taking these costs and risks into account. One of these researchers is Pankaj Ghemawat, who has …
Many manufacturing companies expand their production to low cost countries through different types of foreign direct investments in an attempt to reduce costs. Mexico is one of these low cost countries and is becoming a more and more feasible alternative to Swedish companies. The reasons for this lie in different country specific factors such as …
Background: During decades people have tried to define and explain the role of a manager. Mintzberg (1973) was one of them that made studies about the manager role. He defined ten managerial roles that still are in use today. In later years more people have been interested in the work of Mintzberg. 2003 Tengblad did …
Essay 1 compares the dynamic behaviour of an estimated New Keynesian sticky-price model with one-period delayed effects of monetary policy shocks to the dynamics of a structural vector autoregression model. The model is estimated with Bayesian techniques on German pre-EMU data. The dynamics of the sticky-price model following either a demand shock or monetary policy …
One of the major advancements in the IT industry during the 1990s was the development of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Beyond the high costs and significant amount of effort needed to implement such a system, the possible benefits for the organization in achieving more efficient operations and improving its competitive stance in the competitive …
With this thesis the aim is to investigate the effect political risk has on economic growth and how it influences the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose is also to investigate the relationship between inflow of FDI and economic growth. In order to em-pirically examine if there is a relevant correlation between the …
The aim of this paper is to investigate what supplier evaluation techniques that are used in different types of supplier relationships. In the study we have found eight supplier evaluation techniques that are used either before establishing a supplier relationship, during the relationship or after. We conclude that different supplier evaluation techniques are used differently …
Two DSGE models are calibrated and simulated to investigate how the role of monetarypolicy differs between a closed and an open economy. The central bank conducts monetary policy according to a Taylor (1993) rule, reacting to inflation- and output deviations. Prices are sticky and there are habit components which slow down adjustment of consumption and …
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what approaches large food retailers have to child labour. The study examines companies in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Germany.In order to analyze the findings, a framework for comparing codes of conduct and a matrix for measuring effectiveness developed by Kolk and van Tulder (2002a) are used, …