Search for dissertations about: "robert g. picard"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words robert g. picard.

2. 1. Institutional arrangements and competitive posture : effects of company structures in the commercial printing industry

   Author : Thomas Mejtoft; Nils Enlund; Robert G. Picard; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; business strategy; cooperation; customer value; institutional arrangements; printing industry; vertical integration; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract :  The research objective of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of institutional arrangements, with respect to vertical integration and cooperation, on competitive advantages within the commercial printing industry, with specific focus on digital printing. This dissertation comprises six research papers, based on four qualitative case studies and a quantitative survey study, all carried out in Sweden in the years 2004-2008. READ MORE

4. 2. Postcolonial perspective on international knowledge transfer and spillover to Indian news media : From institutional duality to third space

   Author : Zehra Sayed; Robert G. Picard; Michal Frenkel; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the ways in which postcolonial ambivalence – a symptomatic condition of postcolonial societies in which they simultaneously embrace and reject the cultural, political and economic processes and expressions of the “ex-colonizer” – plays out in current globalization. This dialectic may be particularly apparent in the transfer of knowledge from developed-country MNCs to subsidiaries located in formerly colonized, now developing countries. READ MORE