Search for dissertations about: "business interest organizations"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 59 swedish dissertations containing the words business interest organizations.
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16. Co-Creating Value : Reframing Interactions in Service Consumption
Abstract : How producers and consumers interact in the market and integrate resources is fundamental for our understanding of how value and value creation develop in contemporary economy. Value co-creation in markets has gained renewed interest in marketing theory. READ MORE
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17. Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained chapters that address issues of how organizations and institutions should be designed in order to provide adequate incentives and enable coordination. The first essay uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two reasons why coordination problems are common when public sector organizations share responsibilities: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties of measuring performance. READ MORE
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18. Consolidation in Humanitarian Logistics
Abstract : Major disasters, conflicts and poverty afflict many millions of people around the world. To address the needs of these people, humanitarian organizations deploy a vast array of resources supported by material, financial and information flows. READ MORE
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19. Purchasing Power and Purchasing Strategies - Insights From the Humanitarian Sector
Abstract : In this dissertation, we discuss how buyers practice purchasing strategies in an asymmetric power situation favoring suppliers, and how their purchasing strategies practiced impact their purchasing power and buyer-supplier relationships. Organizations enter exchange relationships to access required resources not produced internally, and are exposed to uncertainty from not being able to fully control or predict flow of resources. READ MORE
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20. Going Above and Beyond : An Assessment of Paying it Forward Behaviour in the B2B Marketing Context
Abstract : Helping behavior and other acts of kindness are important in the business context as they lead to numerous positive outcomes for organizations and individuals and they can help form the foundation needed for meeting organizational goals. Acts of kindness can have a multiplying effect which can be achieved by kindness being paid back to the individual who conducted the act of kindness or paid forward to others. READ MORE