Master theses: Recent submissions
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SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SWEDEN - A context specific analysis of social entrepreneurship
(2020-11-05)Faced with the fact that no consensus exists in defining social entrepreneurship, coupled with multiple academics stressing the importance of context to understand the concept, the author aim to further research this topic ... -
The Great Disruptive Transformation: The Impact of COVID-19 crisis on Innovative Startups in India
(2020-10-21)Startups are one of the main agents of creative destruction especially in times of crisis, because of their favourable characteristics such as size, exibility and lack of bureaucracy. This study aimed to investigate ... -
Title: Foreign Direct Investments in Africa with a focus on Cocoa Production
(2020-10-20)This paper examines the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and cocoa production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries for the period 1997-2017. The fixed effect regression results confirm a positive and ... -
The relationship between innovation and creative climate: A quantitative study on the effects of creative climate dimensions on individual innovation behaviour
(2020-10-15)The aim of the research is to define which type of statistical relationship exist between the independent variables of creative climate and the dependent variable of innovation output on the individual level, and therefore ... -
Understanding The Startup Studio Incubation Model
(2020-10-15)Over the past few years, thanks to the rise of a substantial figure of startup unicorns including: Dollar Shave Club, Zalando, Jumia, DeliveryHero and HelloFresh , “ Startup Studios ” have emerged vigorously into the ... -
‘Expatpreneurship’ in emerging economies - A case study about the emergence and venture process of expat-preneurs in Rwanda
(2020-10-12)What does it take to venture into emerging economies and build a company in a cultural distinct setting? This paper shines more light into the phenomenon of expat-preneurs and thereby delineates between two phases in the ... -
Value Proposition in Oversea Study Agency industry - A case study of Huashi oversea study agency
(2020-10-12)Background and purpose: With globalization development, education cooperation and competition among countries are becoming more and more frequent, which makes many students want to go abroad for further study to learn more ... -
How does an individual who absorbs external knowledge affect the organizational learning in an inter-organizational cooperation? A qualitative study of Volvo Trucks knowledge acquisition in the CERC cooperation
(2020-09-10)Background & Purpose: As the technology landscape of today is very complex there are many technological fields that cannot be covered by one single company. Instead joint cooperation’s between different stakeholders is ... -
Collaboration within a startup ecosystem - Enhancing entrepreneurial activities through collaboration in the startup ecosystem of Sydney, Australia
(2020-09-04)Background and Problem Formulation: There has been a growth in the entrepreneurship ecosystem of Australia due to the increasing support that aims to enhance entrepreneurial activities. However, Australia still has to ... -
A Case Study of Save The Children’s Cross-sector Value Creation
(2020-09-04)The expanding view of how to deal with societal issues have grown more complex than ever before which have forced, what previously was viewed as unlikely collaborators, to innovate what it means to partner in value creation ... -
Norms, Nudging, and Sustainable Consumption- An interactive online experiment evaluating the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on the consumption of sustainability labelled products
(2020-08-31)Sustainable consumption is one important factor in mitigating negative environmental and societal impacts of extensive production and consumption. Behavioural interventions, such as nudging, have been suggested as potential ... -
Will Good Deeds Redeem Your Sins? A quantitative study of the effects of corporate charitable donations in a sin stock setting
(2020-08-05)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received increasing attention from the popular press in general, and academics and the investment community in particular, in the past decade. Corporations are increasingly integrating ... -
The Role of Service Design in Startups: Exploring Potential Benefits and Challenges from Service Designers’ Perspectives
(2020-07-23)The rapid and constant changes taking place in the modern business world together with an increased global competition is making it more urgent for companies to introduce innovative offerings at a faster pace. Purchasing ... -
Business-to-Business Market Making on the Internet: A Case for End-of-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries
(2020-07-23)Introduction: The ongoing transformation towards emission-free means of transportation goes along with the resource-intensive production and integration of electric vehicle batteries. Despite the environmental potential ... -
Entrepreneurship Education in HEIs: Comparing Innovative Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design Approaches - A Multiple Case Study of 5 European HEIs
(2020-07-23)The thesis addresses modern practices in teaching methods and curriculum design approaches that are currently being used by top-ranked European higher education institutions (HEIs) in delivering their entrepreneurship ... -
Challenging Traditional Growth Strategies - An exploratory single case study on how Forza Football designs user involvement growth strategies to enable viral growth
(2020-07-23)Background and Purpose: In order to stay competitive in a rapidly changing business environment, the question of growth is perceived to be an essential issue of survival and entrepreneurial behavior. Traditionally, ... -
Innovation diffusion of a regulated technology - a cross-sectional study of emerging drone application on the organizational level
(2020-07-23)This study has focused on the theory of innovation diffusion in organizational contexts, using the emerging drone technology as its core product innovation in order to analyze the phenomenon. The study has been of a ... -
Social Impact Bonds in Sweden: Structural and operational impediments from experts’ perspectives
(2020-07-23)Background and Purpose Social Impact Bonds has recently received attention in Sweden as a new financing model that might enable increased efficiency and innovation within public service provision. As a financing model, ... -
Creativity and Franchising - A study on how compatible a creative climate is within franchising systems
(2020-07-23)As business environment are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic across markets, the need for innovations across industries is consequently rising. Among many of businesses resources, the creative acts of individuals ... -
Managing innovation from a leadership perspective in an IT-consultancy firm - A case study of Cybercom Group
(2020-07-23)The IT-consultancy industry faces a paradigm shift. Successfully transform from resource-based consulting to asset-based consulting can be the difference between prosperity and being disrupted away. Instead of fulfilling ...