Search for dissertations about: "research development network"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 593 swedish dissertations containing the words research development network.
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1. International network competitiveness : Technical and foreign market knowledge development in international SME networks
Abstract : How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) compete over time within international networks? This thesis takes a stance in that business network relationships are essential for international SMEs as such networks can provide knowledge and learning opportunities. International network competitiveness is, in this thesis, introduced as a concept that captures SMEs long term performance, resulting from the firms being competitive within international business networks. READ MORE
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2. Organizing Interactive Product Development
Abstract : This thesis deals with the organizing of interactive product development. Developing products in interaction between firms may provide benefits in terms of specialization, increased innovation, and possibilities to perform development activities in parallel. READ MORE
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3. States of Development : Essays on the Political Economy of Development in Asia
Abstract : Manufacturing Revolutions - Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea. This chapter uses a historic big push intervention and newly digitized data from South Korea to study the effects of industrial policy on industrial development. In 1973 South Korea transitioned to a military dictatorship and drastically changed their development strategy. READ MORE
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4. Economizing on supply network development
Abstract : This thesis deals with economizing on supply network development. The problematization in thisthesis builds on two starting points. First, the ever-increasing importance of purchasing as afunction and the role of suppliers as resource providers means that the supply side of firms hasbecome a spring of opportunities for various types of benefits. READ MORE
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5. Reliable and deterministic network services
Abstract : In a post Internet bubble economic environment the obvious lack of any disruptive new technologies that could give new impetus to network growth (as, for example, experienced after the appearance of the Web) lead to a trivialization of network services: Aside grass-roots, semi-subterranean applications like file sharing, entertainment content swapping and on-line gaming, it can be argued that network services are presently used in a manner not very different than a decade ago. In this respect, one of the factors that can be identified as limiting further development is the perceived lack of guarantees with regard to network services. READ MORE