Graduate School: Recent submissions
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The Role of Narratives in Organisational Change
(2022-06-21)Organisational change has been studied for many years generating classical management literature of how to view and handle change, but contrasting the more classical theories, narratives, or stories, can be used to study ... -
Boundaries in times of policymaking: the enactment of boundary objects
(2022-06-21)Technological advancements have been a driving force for changing the boundaries of work in organizations. The digital environments are becoming more regulated, putting pressure on traditional roles and ways of organizing ... -
The Strategic Work of SMEs: A ‘Strategy as Practice’ Study
(2022-06-21)Previous research regarding the strategic work of SMEs is scarce and the research that does exist explains that SMEs do not spend much time on strategic planning. As such, our mission has been to investigate and examine ... -
How are ideas regarding Corporate Social Responsibility translated to practice within a corporation?
(2022-06-21)The negative sustainable development has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for corporations' future operations. This emerging situation has influenced organizations worldwide to introduce programs and documents about ... -
The coffee machine-talk that suddenly stopped
(2022-06-21)Covid-19 enforced a major unplanned change of working from home (WFH) that was accompanied by uncertainty, which led organizational members into a sensemaking process to digest and adapt to the new situation. This study ... -
Unraveling the Complexity of Data Privacy
(2022-06-21)As we have entered a new digital age where technology is a crucial part of everyday practice, data has risen in priority as a crucial part of business. With this the idea of data privacy – an idea rooted in human rights – ... -
How the institutional, relational and leadership factors affect the implementation of sustainable business practice within MNCs HQ in a developed country and Subsidiary in a developing country? A case study on Volvo Trucks Located in Sweden (HQ) and Malaysia (Subsidiary)
(2022-02-11)Companies are in the transformation process from the classical or linear way of conducting business to a more sustainable model. This is necessitated by the growing societal awareness to protect the environment and ... -
Challenges of Sustainability - Oriented Innovation practice: a multiple case study of the clothing industry
(2021-11-22)Sustainability puts a normative mandate on innovation to become more environmentally and socially benevolent. Besides, the increased environmental degradation generates the demand for sustainable-oriented innovation in the ... -
Towards Synthetic Vertical Integration - How Blockchain might reshape Supply Chain Integration in the fashion industry
(2021-11-22)Supply chain integration is a field that has been long studied to better understand how companies may improve their businesses. A broader supply chain integration has been traditionally linked to large or multi-national ... -
A Fight to Survive Lockdown - A multiple case study on how firms in the hospitality industry have responded to the effects of Covid-19
(2021-11-12)This paper attempts to explore the theoretical dimensions of crisis management with an abductive approach using the Covid-19 pandemic’s effect on the hospitality industry as the main source for secondary as well as primary ... -
Model for Central Counterparty Risk with Stochastic Default Intensities
(2021-09-30)In this thesis we use a dynamic model to compute several margins required by a central counterparty, the central clearing house (CCP), to the participants, called clearing members (CM). These margins form the so called ... -
The venture capital advantage in technology firms: An IPO analysis
(2021-09-23)The goal of this research is to investigate the level of influence venture capital (VC) firms have on their technology portfolio companies’ public shares after their initial public offering (IPO). While there has been ... -
Learning from Innovation Collaborations - An exploratory study of learning practices and challenges in innovation collaborations by large organizations in Sweden
(2021-09-23)Innovations are regarded as a principal source of competitiveness and renewal in organizations. Given the complex nature of products and services along with the pressure of faster time to market which increases the inherent ... -
Victim Blaming and the Swedish Consent Law - A Swedish vignette experiment investigating the effectiveness of the Law of Consent on normative attitudes towards victim blaming
(2021-09-13)and economical burdens on the victim, especially when the victim is a woman. This study contributes to an expanding literature on social norms, the law, and economics, focusing on the expressive effect of the law as one ... -
Market Power in the Food Industry: The Swedish Egg Supply Chain
(2021-08-24)There is an ongoing discussion about the potential increase of market power in the food industry. This study investigates the evolution of market power in the egg supply chain between egg producers and egg packers, using ... -
To innovate or not - that is the question A study investigating how the number of patents applications has been affected by the EU ETS
(2021-08-23)This thesis examines how patent applications (as a proxy measure for innovation) in regulated sectors were affected by the implementation of the European Emission Trading System (the EU ETS) in 2005. The studied EU ... -
The post-acquisition process: A broad perspective on the integration process of newly acquired subsidiaries - A case study of the Swedish car company Bilia AB
(2021-08-13)During the recent decades, it has become evident that the post-acquisition process is pivotal for ensuring high levels of acquisition performance. This process, along with its main component, the integration process, is a ... -
Probability Distortion in the relationship between Depression and Problem Gambling: A Mediation Analysis
(2021-08-04)We posit that people with depressive symptoms are prone to problem gambling, and explore whether one possible driver of this is that depression increases misperception of probabilities. To test this hypothesis, we conducted ... -
Bridging the Gap between Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: The case of Tanzania
(2021-08-04)Most of the developing countries have experienced impressive economic growth over two decades since 1990 with more than 50 percent poverty reduction whilst most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are facing the ... -
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas Revisited
(2021-08-04)The aim of this paper is to investigate if there is a deadweight loss, (DWL), or gain to society elicited from the gift-exchange during the Christmas holiday in Sweden in 2020. This is done by partly replicating the ...