The main cause of the intra industry value migration is that the base of competition has shifted from product performance to flexibility, differentiation and speed which in this industry means ecosystem, brand and time-to-market. The asymmetric business models and the two-sided platforms have proven to be a cause of inter industry value migration. This is a natural cause of their nature, since res

Denna studie hade som syfte att undersöka ett antal viktiga faktorer inom ideella organisationer vilka antas vara relaterade till Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) samt i vilken grad dessa faktorer kunde förutsäga OCB. De undersökta variablerna var Välmående, Beslutstilar, Centralisering, Kontroll över arbetet, Autonomi och Engagemang. Ytterligare ett syfte var att undersöka sambandet mell

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur en ny organisation tar form. Uppsatsen kommer att behandla de centrala faktorerna; struktur och kultur, och hur de kan påverkas genom medarbetarskap. Fokus läggs på processen att forma en ny organisation och vilken funktion de två faktorerna har i de inledande faserna av en organisations livcykel. Frågeställningarna är vilken betydelse får faktorerna s

Bakgrund Stora Enso Wood Supply ansvarar för anskaffning av virkesråvara till ett antal av Sveriges skogsindustrier. Avverkningsrättigheter köpts in på öppen marknad, virket avverkas och transporteras sedan in till mottagarande industri. Transporterna utförs av underleverantörer och med lastbil till terminal eller industri och med lastbil eller järnväg från terminal till industri. Syfte Projektet

VI Delimitations The company has several product families but only one is investigated in this project. There are today two main warehouses at the production site, the warehouse for raw material and the one for finished goods, where only the latter was studied. There are other places within the company where capital could be tied up as well, e.g. when products are being processed in a machine, but

Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the mining industry's driving forces, attractiveness and value network and propose strategic options for entry. Method This study’s method consists of a combination of a descriptive, exploratory and explanatory approach. The descriptive and exploratory approach is used at first to give a comprehensive picture of how the mining indust

Background The fierce competition in the telecom industry makes operators heavily invest in acquiring new customers. This is most often done with marketing campaigns and subsidies of handsets. But to be truly profitable, it is crucial not only to attract new customers, but also to make sure they retain with the company for as long time as possible. This turns the mobile operators’ attention to cus

Abstract Background This study defines enterprise mobility as “The set of technology, applications, processes and policies that support the possibility to perform business activities anywhere at any time”. Enterprise Mobility is one of the main trends in the enterprise ICT environment and a leading vendor describes it as we are entering a new wave of Enterprise Computing called consumer-driven Mob

In order for the Company to take the next step in their production process of radio units, a standardization project has begun with the purpose of creating better collaboration between the manufacturing sites. The Company’s work with standards has paved the way for new concepts within final assembly. Their old and rigid manufacturing setup simply does not meet the requirements. The final assembly

Background: Careem FFZ Ltd is a technology startup within the ground transportation industry based in Dubai, U.A.E, initially focusing on the chauffeur driven personal transport segment. In an industry with a fairly low utilization rate and poor customer experience overall the company aims at setting a new benchmark for customer service. Being a first mover on the market with an on-demand smartpho

Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka huruvida Maria Gripes roman Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia (1981) kan sägas tillhöra den fantastiska litteraturen. Analysen utgår från Tzvetan Todorovs teori om den fantastiska genren som den presenteras i hans studie The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, publicerad 1970. Den fantastiska litteraturen är i hans bemärkelse en tvetydig litt

Background: FTV Capital is a private equity company specializing in growth equity. Even though the company has been very successful, the private equity industry is highly competitive and more and more companies are turning their strategy towards growth equity. To stand out and keep the competitive advantage, having a strong brand and communicating efficiently is particularly important for a privat

Syftet med denna rapport är att beskriva och analysera om marknadsförändringar och graden av professionalitet påverkar en organisation i dess skapande och utveckling av dynamiska kapabiliteter. Denna studie syftar även till att se om ovanstående faktorer bör inkluderas i teorin om RBV. Rapporten har en abduktiv ansats och är baserad på kvalitativ metod vilket gjorts i form av en fallstudie på Prim

This thesis examines Swedish forest biological soil research in its newly institutionalized form, performed in relation to industrialized silviculture, during the years 1916-1923. The main objective is to analyze how the early forestry scientists pursued, and legitimized, knowledge on forest soil for industry and society, and also to draw attention to less considered empirics within history of sci

Background: The Company is in process of increasing the level of centralisation to make use of the economy of scale and get a stronger buying position. A common supplier relationship process on operational level is part of this process. Purpose: Purpose of the thesis is to review and improve the operational supplier relationship management process at The Company. The aim is to define and analyse

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är tudelat. Med studien avser vi beskriva och analysera den effekt som uppstått i samband med förändringen av pensionsredovisningen gällande borttagandet av korridorsmetoden till redovisning i övrigt totalresultat. Studien syftar även till att analysera och diskutera hur förändringen av pensionsredovisningen har mottagits av bolag och intressenter. Metod: Vi har ti

Felicia Ullstad Såphinnor och vattenstrålar Såphinnor är ett väl studerat fenomen inom fysiken. De studeras som ett skolboksexempel på tunnskiktsinterferens och används mycket ofta för att demonstrera att minimering av ytor. Tunna vätskestrålar är också ett välutforskat område, då de kan användas till allt från bestrutning, i bläckskrivare till att skära i stål. Kombinationen av såphinnor och tuThe interaction between thin jets of water and soap films have been studied. The experiments conducted for this thesis are the first done on jet - soap film interaction with different liquids in the two components. The results are very different from earlier studies where the same liquid was used for both components. Two behaviors were found for the interaction, depending on the incident angle bet

In this Master Thesis different methods for measuring and evaluating surface textures have been investigated and evaluated. A method for digitizing textures called photometric stereo have also been studied. The purpose has been to find methods that can replace or supplement the current method of visual inspection used for surface texture studies by IKEA of Sweden. The suggested methods are going t