Syftet är att undersöka en underleverantör i fordonsindustrin som på ett framgångsrikt sätt hanterat finanskrisen och kontrastera och relatera detta till hur den påverkat branschen i stort. Vi vill vidare undersöka hur de har bemött dessa utmaningar, hur de betraktat sin situation och hur de agerat och varför. På så sätt vill vi identifiera avgörande faktorer bakom dess överlevnad .

Problem: Dagens fragmentariska samhälle har ökat vikten och samtidigt försvårat kommunikationen av organisationsidentitet. Uppsatsen tar ett brett grepp om den problematiken genom att sammanföra förståelsen av tre fält, kommunikation, berättelser och identitet då dessa är tydligt interrelaterade men inte tillräckligt belysta i förhållande till varandra, och särskilt i relation till kommunikationen

Title: Storytelling – How employees make sense of organizational stories. Subject: The master thesis explores employees processes of sensemaking when reading and discussing stories about their organisation. The subject for this study is thereby called storytelling, but it also focuses strongly on the process of sensemaking. Purpose: The purpose is to contribute to an understanding of storytelling

What is the impact of an enlarged regional trading area on excluded neighbouring countries propensity to export? Utilising the gravity model, this study assesses the impact of EU’s fifth enlargement on Ukraine’s propensity to export in order to explore whether Ukraine has been a bystander to EU’s fifth enlargement. The empirical gravity equation is specified to yield the Within estimate used to ob

Ten years ago a giant infrastructure named Oresund Bridge has been created connecting two regions, Scania and Zealand, as well as two nations, Sweden and Denmark; since the date of this spatial union, different trends related to economic, cultural and social issues have been under the investigation of the academic work. The present research has the purpose to analyze the main characteristics and t

Revisorns granskning skall bl.a. tjäna till att kvalitetssäkra den finansiella information som ett bolag lämnar ifrån sig. En av förutsättningarna för detta är att revisorn är oberoende. Det är inte ovanligt att en revisor uppträder i dubbla roller mot sin revisionsklient. Dels som granskare och dels som rådgivare. Revisorn får och är i visa fall skyldig att lämna råd till sin revisionsklient.

Problem och syfte: Ökade krav på företagens kommunikation resulterar i ökade krav på allmänheten att vara kritisk till den information vi möter. Hälsokampanjer blir allt vanligare och i ett samhälle med ett informationsöverflöd kan det bli lätt att förlita sig på experter. Frågan är om vi kan lita på de explicita budskapen som kommuniceras? Vad är det egentligen som kommuniceras? Syftet med upps

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga och skapa förståelse för hur kommuner, som ägare, bedriver ägarstyrningen i sin organisation. Metod: För att uppnå syfte har en kvalitativ metod med fallstudier nyttjats. Data har samlats in via intervjuer med personer i organisationerna och via litteraturstudier. Uppsatsen är baserad på en deduktiv ansats då arbetsgången inleddes med införskaffande av

Encouraging innovation is becoming more important for countries in order to sustain economic growth, performance and competitiveness in a world of fierce marketplace competition. However, previous studies and research reveal that there is a worldwide decline in innovation within organizations. This paper seeks to discover what’s behind this, and what’s hindering knowledge intensive firms from bein

In the early 1900s the district Eneborg grew up in southeastern Helsingborg. No. 8 in the block called Sländan was more expensive than average houses in the district, directed against the new cemetery and intended for officials and others in the lower middle class. As many of our older buildings, Sländan 8 has large deficiencies when it comes to energy and one could make significant savings, both

Problem: Among the few studies within the field of organizational communication that deals with technology, it is unusual to reflect upon the complex relation between ICT and organization and still connect it with social practice. Purpose: To elucidate and problematize the constitution of ICT and organization, through the concepts of power relations and sense making processes. Methodology: To crit

Communication strategies for successful marketing through social media More and more organizations recognize that it is now time to explore new ways of marketing for a more co-creating and value-added communication with its stakeholders. Social media as a meeting place is an area where many people come, making it an ideal venue to communicate with organizations. But how should organizations behave

The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether restrictions to parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry, distorting the internal market, are treated differently by the Court of Justice compared to other sectors, on grounds of the specific characteristics of the pharmaceutical sector. For this purpose the focus is on restrictions deriving from dominant pharmaceutical companies’ refusal to su

Title: Pricing of Consultant Services within the Construction Industry – Introducing Alternative Pricing Models Authors: Emma Nilsson and Jenny Persson Tutors: Elisabeth Attebrant – Regional Director, East, Sweco Management Göran Alsén – Department of Business Administration, Lund School of Economics and Management, Lund University Bertil Nilsson – Department of Production Management, Faculty

The purpose of this study is to explore the behavior of a dense jet and bottom plume, composed of brine water, discharged into a receiving body of lighter fresh water. This situation is common in connection with freshwater production from sea water (desalination), which produces a brine waste stream, usually discharged into sea water. The increasing interest in desalination processes requires inve

This research paper focuses on historical, arithmetic equity market risk premium in emerging and frontier markets. Equity market risk premium, as we know it today, has been easily estimated in developed markets; whereas, emerging and frontier markets often require different approaches to determine an appropriate equity market risk premium. I make use of a variety of methods, including volatility a