Search for dissertations about: "business and administration 2014"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the words business and administration 2014.
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1. Business Streamlining : Toward a Substantive Theory of the Streamlining of Outsourced Business Processes
Abstract : Research comparing public-private services outsourcing applying a longitudinal approach including the production/delivery processes (life after purchase) in services sourcing contexts is scarce. In addition, prior studies on service sourcing tend be under conceptualized. READ MORE
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2. Planning production and supply chain in energy intensive process industries
Abstract : To make a difference among the energy intensive process industries, this dissertation addresses production planning and supply chain planning problems related to industrial energy management issues. The energy issue is turning more and more important from different angles, involving price as well as environmental problems due to climate change leading to political pressure on all energy users. READ MORE
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3. Lean in the Public Sector : Possibilities and Limitations
Abstract : The demands on efficiency and quality in the public sector have increased over the past few years, which have raised the need for strategies on how the public sector can be improved (Denhardt and Denhardt, 2000). Consequently, the concept of Lean production, or just Lean, have become increasingly spread, especially in health care, but also in government agencies, police, military and social services. READ MORE
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4. Manager and civil servant : exploring actors' taken-for-granted assumptions in public administration
Abstract : Manager and Civil Servant is an exploration of actors' taken-for-granted assumptions that govern perceptions concerning how public administration should be undertaken within contemporary welfare states. It is argued that more than 30 years of continuous reforms directed towards public administration have caused dilemmas to arise. READ MORE
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5. The Multinational Company and Society : A Study of Business Network Relationships in Latin America
Abstract : The role of society for the development of multinational companies’ (MNC) business has so far not attracted much scholarly attention in international marketing. Responding to recent calls for further research relating MNCs with society, the aim of this thesis is to enhance the understanding of the MNC relationship with society. READ MORE