Search for dissertations about: "learning growth perspective"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words learning growth perspective.
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1. Growth through Internationalization : A Knowledge Perspective on SMEs
Abstract : Drawing on Penrose’s theory of the growth of the firm, the international business literature, the literature on the knowledge-based view, organizational learning, and absorptive capacity, this dissertation addresses four research questions: 1) What are the effects of downstream international activities (sales and marketing completed abroad) and upstream international activities (purchasing, production, and R&D completed abroad) on the acquisition of market knowledge and technological knowledge? 2) What is the role of prior knowledge in these relationships? 3) What are the effects of the newly acquired knowledge on different growth outcomes? 4) What is the role of processes of knowledge transformation and exploitation in these relationships?Addressing these issues has practical relevance for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). On the one hand, international expansion might provide small and medium-sized firms with additional knowledge, enriching their limited resource base. READ MORE
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2. Towards Robust and Adaptive Machine Learning : A Fresh Perspective on Evaluation and Adaptation Methodologies in Non-Stationary Environments
Abstract : Machine learning (ML) has become ubiquitous in various disciplines and applications, serving as a powerful tool for developing predictive models to analyze diverse variables of interest. With the advent of the digital era, the proliferation of data has presented numerous opportunities for growth and expansion across various domains. READ MORE
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3. Individual variation in behaviour: personality and performance of brown trout in the wild
Abstract : Individuals from the same population often show very different behaviour. These differences, when consistent across time, are referred to as animal personality or behavioural syndromes. Explaining the occurrence of animal personality from an evolutionary perspective has however proven a difficult issue to tackle. READ MORE
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4. Exploring Sustainable Work Systems : An Interactional Perspective on Learning and Organizing
Abstract : Working conditions are increasingly unpredictable, complex, and ungovernable creating severe health risks for employees and negative economic consequences for both corporations and society. Considering the growth in understanding human psychology and sociology, and the progression in measuring working conditions and health, this phenomenon is most perplexing. READ MORE
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5. Environmental policy integration in bioenergy : policy learning across sectors and levels?
Abstract : A central principle within UN and EU policy is environmental policyintegration (EPI), aiming at integrating environmental aspirations, targetsand requirements into sector policy in order to promote sustainabledevelopment. The focus of this study is EPI in bioenergy policy. READ MORE
