Search for dissertations about: "Rajneesh Narula"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Rajneesh Narula.

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