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Closing the ( )Space: A case study of University-Business Cooperation
(2015-07-09) Lundh, Julius; Sigurdsson, Jón; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
Purpose – The purpose of this study was threefold. First, assist with the development and definition of The(?)Space concept, an innovation platform intended to bridge the gap between actors in society. Second, increase the study’s participants’ understanding of university-‐business cooperation for future cooperative ventures. And third, contribute to research on university-‐business cooperation, especially by adding students’ perspective on cooperation. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study presenting a qualitative analysis of university-‐business cooperation between students from the MATIX graduate programme at Gothenburg University and companies in the society. Semi-‐structured interviews with the representatives from all the actors involved, i.e. MATIX students, MATIX coordinators and participating companies, were used as the main method of data collection. Findings – The findings were analyzed for all actors in the cooperation from four perspectives: motivations to engage, benefits, obstacles and suggested changes. The results revealed that the companies’ key motivation and benefit were to get students’ perspectives and ideas on firm-‐specific problems. The MATIX programme’s key motivation and benefit were the ability to offer its students a chance to gain practical experience by working with dynamic firms. The students’ main benefits were to gain practical experience of working with dynamic firms in the society. All actors involved perceived established relations to be one of the major benefits as well. The main obstacle of the cooperation was lacking communication between all the parties and the suggested key change was to initiate and have a continuous communication throughout the whole cooperation. Originality/value – This study plays a role in adding findings to a field of study that especially lacks the students’ point of view. Furthermore, since the study was triadic in its nature and investigated all the participants’ perspectives on the cooperation it was possible to compare the participants’ understanding of each other’s motivations and drivers.
Invoices in the digital era: A qualitative study on consumer preferences
(2013-12-12) Lundh, Julius; Skoog, Simon; University of Gothenburg/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen
The technical conditions have always determined the potentials of the payment systems’ development. Since the arrival of the digital era, there have been many new possibilities for the development of payment methods. In this study we investigated how the digitization affects our invoicing systems with the purpose to enlighten the effect of digitization on our payment systems. We set up a theoretical framework that was to be the foundation of how we view a consumer in this matter. Our results are based on interviews with 16 consumers who answered questions about their invoicing habits and preferences. This information was then analysed with help from the theoretical framework and compared to earlier studies. A discussion is presented in the analysis on the different effects that the digitization has had on the consumers’ invoicing habits and along with our findings we also generated hypotheses that can be used in future research. In its whole, the respondents were fairly uneducated on the subject and only a few knew the underlying reasons of their own invoicing habits. The most striking result was that there is a large gap between how the respondents perceive the electronic invoice and how it actually is, making them less eager to try it. Nonetheless, the respondents were interested in trying a digital alternative to the paper invoice. The respondents older than 40 years old perceive the electronic invoice to be more difficult to use than the younger respondents. Furthermore, security was very important for the respondents when they shop online. It is clear though that more consumers would use electronic invoicing if they got to talk more about it or if they would get regular and coherent information about electronic invoicing. Since the digitization is a growing phenomenon we believe that this is very important to study in order to understand how our payment systems are affected. Furthermore, we believe that the electronic invoice is an innovation that is perfect to investigate in order to further grasp how consumers and companies think when an existing product or service is digitized.