Search for dissertations about: "across borders"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the words across borders.

2. 11. Interaction across borders : a study about experiential knowledge development in internationalizing SMEs

   Author : Emilia Rovira Nordman; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : As globalization facilitates trade across geographical borders, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) take the opportunity to internationalize, sometimes even immediately after their start-up. To enhance our understanding of how SMEs internationalize, this dissertation investigates different means of interaction that SMEs employ in foreign business relationships to develop the experiential knowledge needed for further internationalization. READ MORE

4. 12. What’s in a Line? : Making Sovereignty through Border Policy

   Author : Johanna Pettersson; Peter Strandbrink; Karin Borevi; Torsten Svensson; Jussi Laine; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; borders; sovereignty; border politics; international relations; border studies; Norway; centre-periphery relations; local border traffic permit; Russia; grenseboerbevis; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Statskunskap;

   Abstract : The role of borders as dividers between states and markers of territorial sovereignty is central to modern statehood. Whereas the voluntary opening of a state border could therefore appear puzzling, this thesis argues that state sovereignty can be manifested either when states allow borders to become more open or more closed. READ MORE

5. 13. The environment knows no borders : Investigating the collective challenge of governing policy issue interdependencies

   Author : Johanna Hedlund; Örjan Bodin; Daniel Nohrstedt; Erik Andersson; Michele-Lee Moore; Jale Tosun; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; policy issue interdependencies; collaborative governance; networks; environmental problems; policy issues; policy actors; boundary-spanning; water governance; cross-border climate impacts; food trade systems; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   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

6. 14. Knowledge Sharing Across Borders - A Study in the IKEA World

   Author : Anna Jonsson; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global strategy; experiential knowledge; IKEA; internationalization; case study; knowledge flows; knowledge sharing; MNC; retail industry;

   Abstract : To enter new markets is not easy. The most obvious challenge, at least judging from the majority of literature on internationalization, is to understand the new market thus taking a market(ing) perspective. READ MORE

7. 15. Peter Ackroyd and the Borders of Englishness

   Author : Heli Dahlin; Ashleigh Harris; Sheila Ghose; Susana Onega; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Peter Ackroyd; Englishness; literary canon; performativity; normativity; cross-dressing; culture wars; postcolonial melancholia; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Since the dissolution of the British Empire, anxiety about the loss of Englishness has circulated at various sites of public discourse in Britain: politics, the media, education, culture and literature. This study investigates the configuration and representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s writing as exemplary of this anxiety. READ MORE