Search for dissertations about: "Katarina Blomkvist"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Katarina Blomkvist.

2. 1. Technological Growth in the MNC : A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries

   Author : Katarina Blomkvist; Ivo Zander; Rajneesh Narula; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Multinational corporation; foreign subsidiary; technology; capability emergence; capability diffusion; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis emphasizes the technological evolution of technologically advanced foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations, in order to examine specific and related research questions as to what is the nature of the advanced modern MNC regarding technological growth. In particular, evolutionary paths and potential limits to the development of technological capabilities at the level of individual foreign subsidiaries, and to what extent these subsidiaries serve as significant sources of technological capabilities for other actors in the multinational group are highlighted. READ MORE

4. 2. Fat Cats? : A Case for the Swedish Managers' Making Sense of the Developing Markets

   Author : Michal Budryk; Katarina Blomkvist; Ivo Zander; Philip Kappen; Rajneesh Narula; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sensemaking; immanent sensemaking; developing markets; emerging markets; globalisation; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I report a set of four studies designed to enhance the understanding of how managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) perceive and make sense of their business environment under the conditions of gradual, long term environmental change. The focus lies on immanent sensemaking, a process occurring under the conditions of such an environmental change, which fails to give rise to a cosmology episode and consequently energise sensemaking as it has been traditionally understood. READ MORE

5. 3. Intrapreneurship as an Engine of Corporate Renewal : Exploring the Intrapreneur and How Corporate Conditions Influence Intrapreneurial Behavior

   Author : Jeanette Engzell; Philip Kappen; Katarina Blomkvist; Christoph Grimpe; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Corporate entrepreneurship; Intrapreneurship; Intrapreneurial behavior; Intentions; Corporate conditions; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore the characteristics of the intrapreneur and subsequently probe the question of how various internal corporate conditions influence intrapreneurial behavior. Using an evolutionary framework as the overarching theoretical point of departure to understand the core phenomena, the questions are tested on a comprehensive dataset of employees in the private sector in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. Decision-making in SME internationalization : The role and use of Control in decisions made under the uncertainties of foreign market expansion

   Author : Luis Oliveira; Martin Johanson; Carin Nordström; Katarina Blomkvist; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SME internationalization; non-predictive strategy; control-based strategy; environmental uncertainty; international market performance; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis; Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys;

   Abstract : Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make the backbone of virtually all economies but most of them are only marginally engaged with global markets, particularly those from developing countries. Our ability to advise these firms is currently limited for two major reasons: on the one hand, conventional International Business literature treats the firm as a black box and does not advance in decision-making dynamics that are critical to SMEs' foreign expansion; on the other, recent SME internationalization studies have achieved important progress but seem dependent on the use of Effectuation theory to represent the decisions that guide SME internationalization. READ MORE