Search for dissertations about: "International Game Technology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words International Game Technology.

  2. 1. Wirtschaftsspionage in Verhandlungen aus Informationsökonomischer und Wirtschaftsethischer Perspektive : eine Interdisziplinäre Analyse

    Author : Klaus Solberg Søilen; Sweden Karlskrona School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Intelligence; Competitive Intelligence; International Negotiations; Game Theory; Information Sets; Industrial Espionage; Economic Theory; Evolutionary Economics; International Business; Business studies;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines a case of industrial espionage by one of the parties involved in a forthcoming international negotiation. We want to know what consequences a burglary has for the actual negotiation. The dissertation consist of five hypothesis, of which the three first were empirically tested. READ MORE

  4. 2. Creating Player Appeal. Management of Technological Innovation and Changing Pattern of Industrial Leadership in the U.S. Gaming Machine Manufacturing industry, 1965-2005

    Author : Mirko Ernkvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management of technological innovation; Technological change; Digitalization; Disruptive innovation; Technological frames; Competence-destroying innovation; Entrepreneurship; Player Appeal; Gaming machine industry; Gaming machines; Slot machines; Video-Poker; Spinning-reel machines; WAP; Virtual-reel; Class III; Casino gambling; Bally Manufacturing; Bally Distributing; Bally Technologies; IGT; International Game Technology; Universal; WMS Gaming.;

    Abstract : The gaming machine market has been growing rapidly in the U.S. for the last three decades, following a period of deregulation and an increasing share of gaming machines on casino floors. READ MORE

  5. 3. Cost allocation in some routing problems : a game theoretic approach

    Author : Stefan Engevall; Moshe Dror; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : In many situations a set of decision makers have the opportunity to cooperate. In this way they may reduce the total cost for satisfying their objectives. However, the reduction of cost is often not enough to motivate cooperation. The problem of how to divide the total cost (or gain) among the decision makers must also be solved. READ MORE

  6. 4. Games and Markets - Essays on Communication, Coordination and Multi-Market Competition

    Author : Mattias Ganslandt; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Arbitrage; Trade Liberalization; Market Access; International Oligopoly; Integrated Markets; Segmented Markets; Economic Integration; Monopolization; Entry Deterrence; Bounded Rationality; Team Behavior; Simplicity; Language; Communication; Strategic Uncertainty; Coordination Games; Equilibrium Selection; Price Discrimination; Externalities; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a collection of essays on coordination in games and competition in international oligopolies. The first essay presents a theoretical analysis of a simple coordination game in which players simultaneously choose efforts from a compact interval. The original game has a continuum of Pareto-ranked equilibria. READ MORE

  7. 5. Multinational Firms, Technology and Location

    Author : Pehr-Johan Norbäck; James Markusen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays. Its main theme is the location of production in multinational firms.Subsidizing away exports? -- A note on strategic trade policy}% , investigates how strategic trade policy arguments for R\&D subsidies are altered when firms are multinational rather than national. READ MORE