Search for dissertations about: "Jim Andersén"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Jim Andersén.

  2. 1. On business relationships as Darwinian systems : an exploration into how Darwinian systems thinking can supportbusiness relationship research

    Author : Johan Kask; Claes Hultman; Jim Andersén; Frans Prenkert; Mats Magnusson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The demarcation between different traditions in contemporary research on business relationships reflects theoretical and methodological difficulties in the conceptualization of the nature of business relationships and how such relationships evolve. To tackle these problems, this thesis explores the fruitfulness of regarding business relationships as Darwinian systems, which accentuates kinship between Darwinism and systems thinking, and elaborates a treatment of business relationship transmutation as an iterative dynamic process that does not take the existence of business relationships – or the sequence of developmental stages – for granted. READ MORE

  4. 2. Old Swedish Business in New International Clothes : Case Studies on the Management of Strategic Resources in Foreign-Acquired Swedish R&D firms

    Author : Angelina Sundström; Jan Löwstedt; Esbjörn Segelod; Svante Schriber; Jim Andersén; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

    Abstract : Which conditions are needed for research and development firms to stay competitive? Such firms must continually develop new products and processes if they are to provide their customers with value, and equal, if not exceed, the offerings their competitors provide. Firms that lack sufficient innovation and creativity risk losing customers, their reputation, and their position in corporate structures and in their industries. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Resource-based View on Collaboration between Firms and Local Partners in a Non-urban Swedish Context

    Author : Lotten Svensson; Celeste Wilderom; Jim Andersén; The Netherlands University of Twente; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; resource-based view; resource based theory; relational RBT; public-private collaboration; action research; intervention; Humaniora-samhällsvetenskap; Humanities and Social sciences;

    Abstract : Is it feasible to stimulate informal collaboration among non-urban firms and local public- and other private-sector actors, whereby they jointly strengthen the competitiveness of these firms? To answer this question, firms’ collaboration with local partner’s actors were examined. Most of the studied firms in this thesis are embedded in a regional “ecosystem” of a country (Sweden), with the usual set of public- and third-sector (not-for-profit) actors. READ MORE