MBA Project Reports, BBA Projects, Management Thesis, Dissertation
The purpose of this dissertation is to find the key factors of web site which influence customer value. Through literature review, we find the role of web site from a marketing perspective is a medium of marketing, enhancing the marketing mix and endowing the marketing mix with new features; we also find that customer value …
This Bachelor thesis studies the internationalization strategy of a Finnish label stock company, UPM Raflatac, in China during the late 1990’s. The purpose of this descriptive study is to facilitate the understanding of companies’ internationalization processes. This was done by studying UPM Raflatac’s internationalization strategy’s connection to the internationalization theories of the Uppsala model and …
A company does not function isolated in the market but instead has to work while acting,affecting and being affected by a number of other factors, such as competition, suppliers, customers, and demand change. This holds true for everyone, from suppliers and distributors to customers and governmental agencies. There are two types of relationships that a …
With the increasing trend of globalization, the impact of globalization has lead to a fast changing environment the boundaries for business is diminishing day by day so is the movement of people between different countries and cultures. The requirements of multinational organizations like expansion plans in international market has continuingly increased the need to understand …
Economists have for a long while sought ways to model the mechanisms that generate business cycles but have found it difficult to find models that describe the erratic behavior of business cycles, which can often not be explained by shocks to the economy alone. In this thesis the concept of the business cycle dichotomy is …
This paper sets out to examine whether shareholder activism can be an effective governance mechanism, i.e. if it can increase firm performance to the benefit of shareholders. We have based our study on examining and interpreting the results from previous research of the subject. Initially, we describe the theoretical constraints facing shareholder activism. Agency problems …
There is a lack of universally applicable team leadership models for cross-cultural work teams. The research on cross-cultural team leadership has mostly been conducted with an ethnocentric or culturally comparative approach. Therefore, the purpose of this study has been to discover a universal leadership theory, leading to high cross-cultural team performance.This dissertation describes the prior …
Islamic banking is an investment and financing system which expands globally. The Islamic banks have only been established for some 30 years but the banking system is based on long-going traditions within Islamic finance. The system is founded on ethical values and emphasises the well-being of society as a whole.Islamic banking is different from conventional …
In a world characterized by increased global competition, and a rapidly changing business environment, companies and organization are forced to continuously reevaluate how they work. Since the first systematic studies of manual labor began during the last century, the focus have changed from a strict control of employees toward looser organizations, increased globalization, and the …
Background: Strategic changes are often carried out with good intentions, but managers and subordinates may assess the change differently. Consequently, subordinates start to resist the change. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the internal resistance, which often is a consequence of strategic changes. We aim to draw conclusions based on the employees’ …