Search for dissertations about: "business and entrepreneurship"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 258 swedish dissertations containing the words business and entrepreneurship.
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1. Contextualizing Entrepreneurship and Gender : A Life-Story Approach to Rural Family Businesses in Sweden
Abstract : Entrepreneurship has gained increasing attention as a strategic area for rural development. Addressing environmental, demographic, and gender inequality challenges in rural areas requires contextualizing entrepreneurship. READ MORE
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2. Growth intentions and communicative practices : Strategic entrepreneurship in business development
Abstract : This thesis focuses on the “will and skill” of individuals who take part in activities of running a business. The aspect of “will” is studied in terms of growth intentions and the aspect of “skill” is studied in terms of communicative practices. READ MORE
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3. Activist Entrepreneurship : Attac'ing Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories
Abstract : This dissertation aims to extend entrepreneurship theory to also comprise entrepreneurship in non-profit organizations in civil society. Entrepreneurship is claimed to be highly relevant also to this non-profit setting. READ MORE
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4. The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering
Abstract : This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized. READ MORE
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5. New Venture, Survival, Growth : Continuance, Termination and Growth of Business Firms and Business Populations in Sweden During the 20th Century
Abstract : This dissertation focuses on the formation, growth and discontinuance of business populations and firms in Sweden during the 20th century. It addresses some key issues in the domain of economic and social sciences, and in particular entrepreneurship and small business research: if and when firms grow, stagnate and decline, as well as how long firms survive and when they are likely to disband. READ MORE