Search for dissertations about: "Merchant"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the word Merchant.

  2. 1. Honourable Merchant or Efficient Businessman : The Transformation of Economic Culture and the Leading Economic Actors in Gävle 1765–1869

    Author : Stefan Lundblad; Torkel Jansson; György Nováky; Leos Müller; Christine Bladh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : History; Economic Culture; Merchant; Businessman; Trade; Industrialization; Practice; Symbol; Institutions; History; Gävle; Sweden; Production; Historia;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with how economic actors acted and related to economic institutions that were in a state of change. The question can be formulated as follows: How did the economic culture that Gävle's leading economic actors were a part of change during the period 1765–1869? The aim of the study is to provide new insight into Swedish economic development during this period. READ MORE

  4. 2. On Board the Global Workplace : Coordination and Uncertainty on Merchant Ships

    Author : Carl Sandberg; Patrik Aspers; Arni Sverrison; Boris Holzer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Coordination; merchant ships; global workplace; mixed crews; formal organization; state of dissonance; evaluative principles; social networks; hierarchy of worth; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how work and social life are coordinated on board merchant ships. The merchant ship is a global workplace where people from different nationalities come together to work and live for an extended period of time.The study is based on ethnographic field work on board merchant ships. READ MORE

  5. 3. Challenges Related to the Introduction of Innovative Services in the Market : Mobile Payment Services in the Swedish Retail Industry

    Author : Tatjana Apanasevic; Jan Markendahl; Niklas Arvidsson; Jonas Hedman; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; mobile payment; adoption; business networks; merchant; stakeholders’ expectations; consumer expectations; organisational adoption; retail; innovation; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Informations- och kommunikationsteknik; Information and Communication Technology;

    Abstract : Mobile payment services are expected to be the next step of the electronic payment evolution. However, the level of penetration in European countries is lower than expected. The focus of most academic research has been in two main areas: (i) mobile payment adoption by consumers and (ii) technical aspects of the service. READ MORE

  6. 4. The merchant houses of Stockholm, c. 1640-1800 : A comparative study of early-modern entrepreneurial behaviour

    Author : Leos Müller; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the entrepreneurial behaviour of the Stockholm merchants in the early-modern period. Two merchant families, the Momma-Reenstiernas (1640-80) and the Grills (1730-1800), are studied and compared, with the aim of tracing the typical pattern of the entrepreneurial behaviour and how it changed between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries. READ MORE

  7. 5. The work situation for seamen on merchant ships in a Swedish environment

    Author : Martin Olofsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

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