MBA Project Reports, BBA Projects, Management Thesis, Dissertation
Problem:The internationalisation process of Born Globals is different than the internationalisation process of traditional firms and therefore Born Globals cannot be explained by the existing internationalisation theories. No model exists which can explain why Born Globals emerge even if different researchers have found many explanatory factors. Purpose:The main purpose with our dissertation is to investigate …
Background and Problem Discussion: Skövde Kommun is a public organization and one of many tasks is to provide help and service to the aged and handicapped in the city. This is done through the administration for care. After many years with poor economic performance the politicians in Skövde decided 2002 to restructure the elderly care …
Transformation of management coincided with rise of IT and re-orientation towards the demand driven economy. IT facilitated the development of remote communication and data accessibility, while re-profiling the management methods, in meanwhile, customer focus has led to organization of customer-oriented establishments such as call centers. However, aside from benefits, including accessibility, convenience, and long term …
The result of Lamoureux and Lastrapes and Omran and McKenzie are extended to the Swedish stock market, and this paper examines their findings that GARCH modelling captures the serial dependence in information flow into the market. Moreover, this paper also examines if (as a proxy for information flow) the number of trades can challenge the …
We analyze the bidder announcement returns and operating performance on relatively large acquisitions undertaken by Nordic public firms during the years 1998-2003. We find bidder announcement returns to have increased by a median 1.46%. Operating performance, on the other hand, has decreased by a median 2.13% compared to peers. We do not find any positive …
Background: The increasing global business competitiveness thoroughly intensifies the demand for improvements of communication and negotiation skills in order to adjust competence to successfully conduct the work of getting treaties of cooperation and business development to work everywhere. It is simply a matter of survival for an increasing amount of multinational companies operating in all …
The aim of this thesis is to examine which factors and incentives affect the work motivation of students from technical degree programmes in Sweden and Finland, and how companies can attract graduating students to apply for a job. The study explores also similarities and differences in preferences of work-related incentives and impact of cultural differences …
Project Portfolio Management is a tool for effective resource allocation, for the selection of those projects with the highest potential to become tomorrow’s new product and service winners. The accurate implementation of project portfolio methodology is ultimately linked to sound innovation management practices. This paper aims to research a financial firm, ABN AMRO, to uncover …
In today’s competitive environment, organizations are exposed to a rapidly changing business environment with never ending challenges. Customers, suppliers and society constantly put pressure on organizations through new demands for increased productivity, more efficient processes, higher profits, and better use of resources. All these demands force organizations to constantly change and be agile in order …
Many business schools teach the importance of using strategy tools when engaging in strategizing activities. Despite this fact there is an ongoing debate concerning what is taught in business schools and what is actually used in practice. In spite of this debate there has been little research done regarding how these strategy tools are used …