Search for dissertations about: "Boundary Spanning"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words Boundary Spanning.
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1. Managing a cross-institutional setting : a case study of a Western firm's subsidiary in the Ukraine
Abstract : This study explores the development of a Western firm's subsidiary in the Ukraine and sets out to contribute to the theoretical development about the managing of subsidiaries in the Post-Soviet market. The cross-institutional approach to analyse the subsidiary has been adopted to explore influence from the institutional setting of the parent firm and from local institutions. READ MORE
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2. The environment knows no borders : Investigating the collective challenge of governing policy issue interdependencies
Abstract : Many of today’s most pressing environmental problems cross-cut jurisdictional, geographical, and administrative boundaries, creating interdependencies between different locations and between policy issues that no single actor can address alone. In practice, however, environmental policy is still often contained within the traditional responsibilities of the public sector and frequently judged ineffective, particularly in the European context. READ MORE
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3. Digitalized industrial equipment : an investigation of remote diagnostics services
Abstract : With the ubiquity of digitalization, digital convergence of applications, devices, networks and artifacts presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals, organizations and society. Physical artifacts that were not digital in the recent past are now increasingly becoming intertwined with digital components, providing them with digital capabilities. READ MORE
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4. Geochemical and sedimentary signatures of Phanerozoic events
Abstract : Geological and biological catastrophic events have occurred repeatedly in the Earth's history, leaving traces in the global stratigraphical record in the form of sedimentary features, geochemical anomalies and biotic turnovers. This thesis focuses on the sedimentological and geochemical signatures of several key events in the Phanerozoic stratigraphical record, and aims to interpret the different signals and the causal mechanisms behind each of these events. READ MORE
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5. Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Optimal Convex Partitions and Other Results
Abstract : In this thesis I study two-dimensional geometric optimization problems for which it is difficult to find efficient, exact, deterministic algorithms. All known solutions to these problems require time that is exponential in the total size of the input. READ MORE