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Student essays from Applied Information Technology, IT University of Gothenburg.
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NAVIGATING WORKPLACE CONFLICT A case study of local and foreign employees at an international company in Tanzania
(2023-02-01)In the era of global trade and professional ties across borders, understanding how individuals from diverse contexts frame and respond to workplace conflict is critically important. Researchers have found various variables ... -
GREEN CITY ZONE A Case-Study in a Multi-Stakeholder Initiative within a Smart City
(2023-02-01)As climate change concerns have taken a central spot in mainstream discourse, there has been an emergence of green smart city projects, resulting in an increased demand for research in these areas. As the EU has pledged a ... -
A FUTURE WITHOUT THIRD-PARTY COOKIES A study of how Swedish small and medium-sized marketing agencies are affected by the loss of third-party cookies and how potential change strategies are communicated.
(2023-02-01)For years, digital communicators have taken advantage of the phenomena of third-party cookies to help understand online user behavior in order to produce personalized advertising. The increased discussion of user integrity ... -
NEWCOMER ADJUSTMENT AND SENSEMAKING IN REMOTE WORK ENVIRONMENTS Perspectives on remote onboarding in Higher Educational Institutions
(2023-02-01)The transition to remote and hybrid work environments due to the advancements in computer mediated communication and the COVID-19 pandemic, introduced challenges in the process of onboarding new hires. This research ... -
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sustainability Reports of Volvo Cars
(2023-02-01)Companies communicate the impact of their corporate activities through sustainability reports, disclosing their environmental engagement. Critical studies on sustainability reporting have highlighted that environmental ... -
ASSESSING PUBLIC OPINION ON ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS Reviewing practical challenges and the role of contextual factors
(2023-02-01)AI ethicists often claim that where algorithmic decision-making is impacting human lives, it is crucial to strive for transparency and explainability. As one form of achieving these, some authors have argued for ... -
AI Integration Scaling AI for business model innovation
(2022-10-28)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still largely unexplored within information systems research, and most published work remains non-academic (Collins et al., 2021). While there exists some research related to the challenges ... -
‘SAY SOMETHING MEANINGFUL ABOUT YOURSELF’: DISTINCT SELFPRESENTATION ON COUCHSURFING
(2022-10-24)With the emergence of social media platforms, the phenomenon of self-presentation gained new setting in which it can be manifested, and that has attracted scholars from different fields. Scientists have largely applied ... -
UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE EDUCATION IN CROATIA AND SWEDEN
(2022-06-30)With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures that followed, the education system worldwide has been affected. Consequently, the imposed online education environment has been a new and challenging ... -
Accelerated digital transformation Through the lens of sensemaking : A case study of a pharmaceutical company
(2021-12-08)Digitalisation is a pervasive phenomenon that is challenging firms to radically transform themselves to stay ahead of competition. This study aims to fill the research gap that exists within the field of organisational ... -
From Boomers To Zoomers: Examining Generational Sensemaking Of New Media At Work Introduced During COVID-19
(2021-12-08)COVID-19 has triggered rapid digitalization in organizations worldwide. New media at work tools were introduced as companies quickly shifted to remote work. Baby Boomer, Generation-X, Millennial and Generation-Z employees ... -
Understanding and improving quality in firm recruitment processes : A case study
(2021-11-30)Nowadays, digitalization enables automation of manual work and repetitive tasks. This transformation facilitates higher exploitation of intellectual human resources within allocated working hours. In addition, intellectual ... -
Faculty Reflections on University Information Security Policy
(2021-11-30)Employee noncompliance of information security policy (ISP) is causing organizations more and more money in the battle against cybersecurity threats. Three popular theories within employee compliance and ISP research ... -
Identifying Applied CSR-Strategies and Respective Communication amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from International Swedish Companies
(2021-11-26)This study is interested in the external communication of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It specifically focuses on twelve Swedish internationally renowned companies operating ... -
Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition
(2021-11-26)Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing ... -
Digital platform growth under contextual limitations. A case study of growing a complementary digital marketplace
(2021-11-15)With the advent of digital technologies, platforms have become a digital business model with the power to disrupt organizations and industries. Firms are eager to exploit digital platforms’ immense potential for user growth ... -
Employee Engagement in a COVID-19 Context: Exploring communicative displays of employee engagement among enforced remote workers
(2021-11-12)COVID-19 enforced remote work in a rapid and unplanned manner for a big part of the population, and the remote way of working is expected to continue beyond the pandemic. The extensive transition to working remotely has ... -
PORTRAYAL OF ADOPTION IN SWEDISH NEWS MEDIA. A transitivity analysis of social actors in the 2018 Chile adoption news story.
(2021-08-25)The current study researches how adoption stakeholders are portrayed in Swedish news media by applying a transitivity framework to analyze online news articles. The news articles in focus concern adoptions made in the ... -
Relating Integrative Capabilities and Institutional Logics to Digital Transformation A case-study of a public sector organization
(2020-09-03)Digital transformation represents a process of disruptions caused by digital technologies, and not only is reconfiguration of technologies required, also of business operations, management concepts and structures. Two ... -
SEND NUDES! Media Preference Choices for Cybersex Engagement in Long-Distance Romantic Relationships
(2020-09-03)Based on Media Richness Theory and Media Synchronicity Theory, the present study tests the theories' applicability in predicting media preferences to engage in cybersex among individuals involved in long-distance romantic ...
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