Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Competitor interactions A qualitative study on how Swedish football clubs engage in multiple boundary work
(2022-06-28)Historically, rivals have interacted to achieve common goals, whereas previous research shows examples of several types of competitor interactions. However, in the modern corporate world, the perception of fierce competition ... -
Buy now, default later. - To what extent does the interest rate of consumption loans impact the future purchasing power in Sweden?
(2022-06-23)How does an increase in the interest rate affect the share of household income devoted to monthly debt payments? Over recent decades, loans and credits to consumption in Sweden have risen at a pace higher than that of other ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(2022-06-23)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
House Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Taiwan
(2022-06-23)Given the concurrent incidence of falling birth rates and increasing house prices experienced in Taiwan over the past two decades, the current thesis examines the role of house prices on fertility-related behaviors and ... -
Restaurant turnover and anti-Asian behaviour- Did Asian restaurants in Gothenburg’s’ turnover suffer an outsized pandemic toll in 2020?
(2022-06-23)COVID-19 has so far been a global crisis for the restaurant industry and Swedish restaurants have struggled to avoid heavy losses. Parallel to reports throughout the pandemic on the loss of turnover for restaurants, there ... -
Competitor interactions A qualitative study on how Swedish football clubs engage in multiple boundary work
(2022-06-23)Historically, rivals have interacted to achieve common goals, whereas previous research shows examples of several types of competitor interactions. However, in the modern corporate world, the perception of fierce competition ... -
The perks of being a small business What happens when forced to work virtually?
(2022-06-23)During the covid-19 pandemic businesses have been forced to go completely virtual. This has ultimately changed the boundary landscape as we know it, and companies have had to swiftly respond to this unforeseen transformation. ... -
A discourse analysis of medical solution: Telemedicine idea translation
(2022-06-23)Telemedicine is not confined to patient care but provides solutions to the challenges and issues that our society is facing. However, the phenomenon of telemedicine and its translation vary because of differences in rules ... -
Power of Togetherness - Open Innovation through the Lens of Institutional Logics
(2022-06-23)Innovation has been the topic of conversation within the field of management for several years. Scientific research regarding innovation management includes numerous concepts and theories such as the closed and open ... -
The meaning of the office space in the wake off the COVID-19 pandemic
(2022-06-23)In December 2019 organisations all over the world had to abandon business-as-usual and change their ways of working due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Many were forced to virtualise their work by moving from working ... -
An Exploration of CSR Perceptions and Attitudes of Male and Female Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: A comparison
(2022-06-23)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as become an important consideration in modern business management and its relevance to the performance of business firms. Literature has argued that male and females have different ... -
An exploration of the roles played by external sustainability consultants in organizations
(2022-06-23)One of our most important, yet difficult, missions in modern society is to make the world more sustainable. Due to the complexity of sustainability issues, the lack of knowledge or expertise in the area, companies may ... -
Having the right pedigree? A caste study of an American Mobile game developer’s transition to an indie business model.
(2022-06-23)The overall purpose of this study was to better understand the transition of a mobile games developer from a Co-Development business model to an Independent one by harnessing the framework of institutional logics. The paper ... -
Managing Paradoxes in Coordinating Innovation A qualitative study on how coordination reinforces innovation in a Swedish Automotive Company
(2022-06-23)Innovation has become a widespread practice in the automotive industry for companies to stay relevant in the future. This paper aims to discuss how a large enterprise works with innovation in practice from the lenses of ... -
Family-owned SMEs: Role models of crisis management A case study of how the practice of crisis management has been performed by nine Swedish family-owned SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic
(2022-06-23)Despite SMEs accounting for 99,9% of all registered firms in Sweden and that non-listed family-owned firms outperform their counterparts during crises, previous studies have neglected the field, resulting in an undiscovered ... -
Communication strategies to rebuild a positive image after a crisis External communication
(2022-06-23)Organization's success is often heavily dependent on its image when interacting with existing and potential customers. It signals to others if they can trust the organization in question, and if they should pursue to get ... -
Sustainable entrepreneurship: action nets, affordances and alignment
(2022-06-23)Sustainable entrepreneurship as the realization of sustainability innovations has been regarded by researchers and practitioners as a means of combating environmental challenges. While there has been substantial research ... -
From Physical Coins to Digital Coins A Case of Cryptocurrency
(2022-06-23)Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that is argued to potentially revolutionize the existing financial system based on fiat money. Previous research within the field of cryptocurrency has largely focused on individual ... -
Team Leadership in remote settings An Actor-Network Theory Analysis
(2022-06-23)Team Leadership (TL) is a topic that has been widely studied throughout the years. Previous studies on TL were focused on the individual and collective perspective. In recent years, technologies were included in the ... -
Strengthening and encouraging women everywhere - A Nordic fashion company’s social sustainability vision
(2022-06-21)As time passes, sustainability concerns have increasingly moved up the corporate agenda, making it ‘the talk of the town’ within corporations all over the world. While there is extensive conceptual literature on how ...