Dissertations / Theses: 'Esential Concepts in Business'

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Shen, Xijin. "Environment support for business modelling, concepts, architecture and implementation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ37304.pdf.

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Shen, Xijin 1966. "Environment support for business modelling : concepts, architecture and implementation." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26456.

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The goal of business modelling is the design, analysis, and simulation of an enterprise's architectural structures and their information technology components. To comprehensively support business modelling, an appropriate modelling environment with adequate visualization mechanisms is required. Such an environment may handle model information in a flexible, yet expressive way and support substitution, documentation, validation and dynamic analysis of models as well as model visualization and alternative representations.
We have developed a business modelling approach which is based on the formalism of extended, colored Petri nets. To support and validate our approach, we have engineered the Macrotec environment. Macrotec meets a list of requirements we have identified as crucial for the quality of a comprehensive modelling environment. It is conceived as a set of various tools which are seamlessly integrated. Our experience with Macrotec suggests that our concepts and environment substantially facilitate business modelling.

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Topintzi, Ermioni. "System concepts and formal modelling methods for business processes." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390937.

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Klarberg, Noel. "Management Concepts : a Qualitative Study of Management Consultancy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-417660.

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The occupation of management consultancy has expanded during the last decades. Although researchers disagree on the actual functions of the profession, the commodification of knowledge into what is known as management concepts reoccur frequently. However, scholars have failed to come to a consensus on whether consultants act as producers or merely intermediaries of these concepts. A study has been conducted, constituted by the review of secondary material made public by the two major management consulting firms; McKinsey and Bain. This study has shown several commonalities and discrepancies when compared to existing theory. Results have been discussed and analyzed, and subsequently allowed for several practically relevant conclusions to be drawn.
Managementkonsultation har expanderat under de senaste decennierna. Även om forskare inte enats om yrkets faktiska funktioner, beskrivs paketering av kunskap och följaktligen det som kallas ledningskoncept ofta som en central funktion för yrkesgruppen. Forskare har emellertid inte lyckats komma överens om huruvida konsulter agerar som producenter eller som förmedlare av dessa koncept. En studie har genomförts, vilken utgörs av granskning av sekundärt material som offentliggjorts av de två stora företagskonsultföretagen; McKinsey och Bain. Denna studie har visat flera likheter och skillnader när resultatet jämförts med det redovisade teoretiska ramverket. Somliga beskrivningar av konsultyrket har förkastats, medans andra har styrkts genom att påvisa analogier till empirin. Resultaten har sedermera diskuterats och analyserats och därefter tillåt flera praktiskt relevanta slutsatser att dras.

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Morris, B. "The development of concepts for operations management." Thesis, Henley Business School, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373956.

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Hellström, Magnus. "Business concepts based on modularity : a clinical inquiry into the business of delivering projects /." Åbo : Åbo Akademis Förlag, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2006370431.html.

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Sinyenyeko-Sayo, Nondumiso Constance. "Improving library services through the application of business performance concepts." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4120_1188477680.

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In virtually any field of endeavour today, access to information is a prerequisite for success. Libraries form the repositories with user-friendliness their mission. This has lead to the need for new ways to evaluate library performance. Astute library managers will plan for such developments, taking into account current and future trends that impact on library services. Library services are also affected, for example, by financial considerations and staffing problems. Further complicating matters are the demands of their clients who have developed increased expectations of improved service, and also a desire for more self-service opportunities. Such changes raise the question: &ldquo
to what extent can libraries apply business performance management techniques to assess their performance.&rdquo
This, then, is the research question for this study.

This work will evaluate library performance with the aim of improving service management. Its targets are the UWC library, and others, such as the Stellenbosch University, and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The application of selected service management techniques and measures used in business will be explored. These techniques include The Balanced Scorecard, critical success factors and service quality. The study also touches on transformation and change management. An obvious source of information about library management is the corps of managers. The secondary source of information is the community of library users.

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Groth, Ida Eikvåg, and Line Magnussen. "Social Entrepreneurship : Framework for feasibility analysis of social business concepts." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15042.

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ABSTRACTPURPOSEWith the increased interest in social entrepreneurship demonstrated within business schools and academic environments, the adaption of existing academic entrepreneurial constructs for social entrepreneurship applications becomes relevant. The purpose of this thesis is to develop additional tools to the traditional feasibility analysis. The tools will be specifically directed at technology-based concepts, due to the increased employment of technology-based products to solve social problems, in combination with the authors’ engineering background, and the lack of academic contributions in this area.APPROACHA grounded theory approach is employed, in which unstructured interviews are used to collect data on the topic of social entrepreneurship from practitioners and academics. New theory is then developed through a discussion divided into three distinct parts, on the basis of empirical findings and existing literature, before new data is collected through a review of the proposed tools.CONCLUSIONSA total of seven analysis tools are introduced, where some are new constructs, while others are based on existing ideas, or even existing models introduced into a new context. A main characteristic of the tools is that they are not concerned with previously established and distinct sections of feasibility analysis, but rather address the interception between the established analysis components. This is the result of the discovery that the success of social business ideas seem to depend on the ability of the entrepreneur to maintain an overarching market and customer focus, which is infused in every aspect of the proposed venture, thus erasing the division between the Market and Industry section and other established sections of analysis.IMPLICATIONSThe main implication for analysts is the opportunity to discover fundamental opportunities and challenges in the process of solving a social problem by bringing a new product to market through the establishment of a new organization.FURTHER RESEARCHFurther research should include testing of the new tools in actual analysis of new ideas, as well as implementation in a complete analysis framework

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Kanda, Wisdom. "Promotion of Environmental Technology Export : Governmental Initiatives and Business Concepts." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell miljöteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-108730.

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This qualitative and quantitative study examines governmental initiatives and business concepts as approaches to promote the export of environmental technology. Here, environmental technology refers to technologies (products, services, organizational models, and large-scaled technical systems) whose development and use actually provide or intends to provide a better environmental performance than their relevant alternatives from a life cycle perspective. Using literature reviews, surveys and interviews, this thesis collects primary and secondary data from national government level, private Swedish environmental technology firms and Swedish municipality-owned firms. Three main research questions guide this thesis. These questions address how different governments in selected countries promote the export of environmental technologies and how private Swedish environmental technology firms perceive the effectiveness of governmental export promotion initiatives in realising export. In a complementary view, the thesis focuses on fundamental components of business concepts for export of environmental technologies by municipality-owned companies. These three units of analysis (i.e. – governmental initiatives, private companies and municipality-owned companies) are influenced by the characteristics of the environmental technology sector in Sweden. The main results from the study suggest three conclusions. First, governmental initiatives intended to promote the export of environmental technology are largely similar to approaches that intend to promote the export of “conventional” technology. These initiatives can be categorised as: financial aid programs, information programs, education and training programs, and trade mobility related programs. When it comes to perceived effectiveness of governmental promotion initiatives by private firms, results indicate that firms that accessed more than one type of governmental promotion, particularly those including financial support, perceived governmental promotion as contributing to realising export. For municipality-owned companies exporting environmental technology, the thesis proposes seven fundamental components of a business concept as: market (including regulation), finance, resources, activities, partnership (private-public partnership), ownership and responsibility, and legitimacy. Among these factors, regulation, public-private partnership, and legitimacy are particular to environmental technologies. These results suggest a dynamic balance between generic and tailored export promotion initiatives for environmental technology exporters, with much attention to program implementation as is given to program content formulation. The components proposed for municipality export opens up a potentially new research trajectory on environmentally conscious design that considers technological as well as non-technological changes based on large-scaled environmental technology systems for system-wide environmental improvements.

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Kanumury, Rajesh. "Integrating business and engineering processes in manufacturing environment using AI concepts." Ohio : Ohio University, 1995. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1179423333.

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De, Barros Jerome, and Panut Chanboonyawat. "Human Resource Management Concepts Within Micro Businesses : The study of Thai micro businesses." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9334.

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Micro businesses are the most common form of business in the world and they play an important role in the economic growth of every country. They are usually characterized by a lack of financial resources, which influences the management of such firms. The role of the owner manager is crucial in micro businesses and has a strong influence on every aspects of the business and one of these aspects is human resource management.

Compared to the research about larger companies, the number of researches in the scope of human resource management (HRM) specifically within micro businesses is very small. Another fact which caught the attention of the authors is that the situation in Thailand regarding HRM within micro businesses remains a blank spot. This master thesis will try to provide more information about the situation on the Thai micro businesses and human resource management within them.

In order to do so, a theoretical framework was created based on the literature available about human resource management within micro businesses. The second step was to interview the owners of nine Thai micro businesses and discover what their HRM practices are. After these steps we compared the literature and the data provided by the owners of micro businesses in order to find similarities and differences between the two.

The conclusions of this study were that many similarities could be found between the theory chosen in our frame of reference and the reality of the nine Thai micro firms. Some differences were noticed but those could not overshadow the fact that the frame of reference was able to describe the situation of the Thai businesses. This thesis obviously evidences some limitations and recommends that more studies should be performed in order to generalize human resource management within micro businesses in Thailand.

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Litrico, Jean-Baptiste. "The diffusion and evolution of environmental management concepts in civil aviation." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96838.

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This thesis expands current understanding of the process through which new management concepts diffuse in organizational fields. The thesis examines how environmental management concepts have diffused in civil aviation, an industry which has evolved from a praised icon of globalization to a targeted symbol of climate change over the last decade.In the first phase of the study, qualitative data were gathered through participation at industry conferences and events, supplemented by 35 semi-structured interviews with informants representing diverse actors in the field of civil aviation. This fieldwork was used to generate theory on the process through which the concept of sustainability is being interpreted and adopted within this industry. The second phase of the study is a systematic analysis of archival data from a trade publication over the time period 2000-2008. Structured content analysis methods were employed to track evolution in the framing of environmental management issues at the level of the industry. The study expands current understandings of diffusion by (a) describing a process of naturalization, through which a new concept is being interpreted and an industry-level ethos is being reaffirmed; and (b) specifying some conditions leading to divergent diffusion, characterized as a situation in which multiple understandings of a management concept continue to coexist throughout diffusion. The study thus contributes to current institutional theories on management concept diffusion through a process perspective describing the interpretive mechanisms underlying diffusion and through conceptualization of the conditions and attributes of divergent diffusion.
Cette thèse contribue à une meilleure compréhension du processus par lequel les nouveaux concepts de gestion se propagent dans les champs organisationnels. La thèse examine la diffusion des concepts de management environnemental au sein de l'aviation civile, une industrie qui était l'icône de la mondialisation il y a une dizaine d'années, et qui est devenue la cible d'activistes et un symbole du changement climatique aujourd'hui. Dans la première phase de l'étude, des données qualitatives ont été recueillies par une observation participante dans des conférences et des évènements organisés par l'industrie, puis par 35 entrevues individuelles avec des informateurs représentant divers acteurs stratégiques dans le champ de l'aviation civile. Ce travail de terrain a été utilisé pour générer une théorie du processus d'interprétation et d'adoption du concept de développement durable au sein de cette industrie. La seconde phase de l'étude est une analyse systématique de données d'archives provenant d'un journal spécialisé, sur la période 2000-2008. Des méthodes d'analyse de contenu ont été utilisées pour retracer l'évolution des termes employés pour décrire et « cadrer » les problèmes environnementaux au niveau de l'industrie. L'étude contribue aux théories actuelles de diffusion, (a) en décrivant le processus de naturalisation, par lequel le nouveau concept est interprété, et un ethos de l'industrie est réaffirmé; et (b) en spécifiant quelles conditions mènent à une diffusion divergente, caractérisée par une situation dans laquelle de multiples compréhensions d'un même concept de gestion continuent à coexister tout au long de sa diffusion. L'étude contribue ainsi aux théories institutionnelles sur la diffusion des concepts de gestion en proposant une perspective centrée sur le processus, décrivant les mécanismes interprétatifs qui sous-tendent la diffusion, et en conceptualisant les conditions et les attributs d'une diffusion divergente.

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Nitschke, Christian. "Outsourcing vs. insourcing in the automotive industry : the role and concepts of suppliers." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50411.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University 2005.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research report takes an in-depth look at the automotive industry and their major participants in the upstream value chain. The different parties involved are the automotive manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers. The overall goal of the following report is to identify suitable business models for small to medium sized (SME) automotive suppliers. As the automotive value chain currently undergoes an evolutionary change towards a diminishing vertical integration of the OEMs, it becomes a challenging issue to reconfigure the responsibilities of the suppliers. Thereby OEMs and their suppliers have to cope with a shift from a functional to a process orientated value chain. During this reorganization of the OEM-supplier interface, enterprises realign their strategic intent towards their core competencies as well. Besides the shifting value chain, both suppliers and OEMs have to cope with a consolidation in their industries. This consolidation is impacted by stagnating traditional markets, an ongoing globalization of the value chain, and an increasing productivity pressure in the automotive industry. Looking at the automotive supplier, it becomes obvious that the suppliers are on the one hand challenged by productivity pressures and on the other hand have the opportunity to take over more business of the automotive value chain. The growth potential requires changes in the area of supply chain management and new types of collaboration in the supply network. This prospective development is mainly influenced by a trend towards the outsourcing of entire processes by the OEMs and the increasing need for future innovations in the automotive industry. After discussing the above mentioned issues, the report analyses the role of suppliers with respect to their main customers, the automotive OEMs. Based on the findings business models for suppliers are assessed and key success factors for small to medium sized suppliers are proposed and evaluated. The findings of the evaluation are translated into suggestions for most suitable business models of SMEs. The report concludes with recommendations for the strategy building process indicates problems concerning the shifting value chain, and points out the importance of further research in the field of the small to medium sized automotive supplier industry.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studieverslag ondersoek die motorvoertuig industrie met verwysing na die hoof deelnemers 'n die opwaartse waarde-ketting. Die partye betrokke is die motorvoertuigvervaardigers (OEMs) asook hul verskaffers. Die oorhoofse doel van die verslag is om gepaste sakeplanne vir klein en medium grootte (SME) ondernemings te identifiseer. Die motorvoertuig industrie se waardeketting ervaar tans 'n drastiese veranderingsproses - gekenmerk deur afnemende vertikale integrasie vanaf die OEMs - wat voortdurende nuwe uitdagings veroorsaak vir die innoverende verskaffer. Beide die OEMs en hul verskaffers moet dus aanpas met hierdie verandering - van funksioneel na proses-georienteerd - in die waarde-ketting. Tydens hierdie herstrukturering van OEM-verskaffer interaksie, moet deelnemers verseker dat die strategiese bedoeling in fyn ooreenstemming is met hul basiese bevoegdhede. Behalwe die verskuiwing in die waardeketting, moet OEMs asook verskaffers aanpas met samesmelting in hulle industrieë. Hierdie proses van samesmelting word beinvloed deur kwynende konvensionele markte, voortgesette globalisasie van die waardeketting, asook toenemende druk om produktief te wees in die motorvoertuig-industrie. 'n Ondersoek in motorvoertuig industrie verskaffers toon dat daar enersyds geweldige uitdagings ervaar word soverre dit produktiwiteitverbetering betref, maar andersyds daar ook geleendhede gebied word vir die verskaffer om verder te integreer deur oornames in die waarde-ketting. Om groei potensiaal te verwesenlik noodsaak dit veranderinge in die veld van verskaffingskettingbestuur, asook nuwe metodes van samewerking in die verskaffingsnetwerk. Hierdie moontlike tendens van integrasie word hoofsaaklik beinvloed deur 'n geneigdheid van OEMs om volledige prosesse te sub-kontrakteur asook deur die toenemende aanvraag vir voortdurende innovering in die motorvoertuig industrie. Laastens ondersoek die verslag die rol van die verskaffer vanuit die oogpunt van hul hoof kliënte, die OEMs. Na aanleiding van die verslag se bevindings word verskaffers se sakeplanne en modelle beoordeel en evalueer en word sleutel suksesfaktore vir die SME verskaffer voorgestel. Die uitslae van die evaluasie word verder verwerk tot in voorstelle wat gepas is vir die sakeplanne van meeste SMEs. Die verslag kom tot voltrekking met aanbevelings in die strategie bouproses rakende die veranderende waardeketting, en dui ook op die noodsaaklikheid van verdere navorsing onder die SME motorvoertuig industrie verskaffers.

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Fang, Jayming Sha. "Making the business case for process safety using value-at-risk concepts." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4272.

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An increasing emphasis on chemical process safety over the last two decades has led to the development and application of powerful risk assessment tools. Hazard analysis and risk evaluation techniques have developed to the point where quantitatively meaningful risks can be calculated for processes and plants. However, the results are typically presented in semi-quantitative Ã¢ÂÂranked listÃ¢ÂÂ or Ã¢ÂÂcategorical matrixÃ¢ÂÂ formats, which are certainly useful but not optimal for making business decisions. A relatively new technique for performing valuation under uncertainty, Value at Risk (VaR), has been developed in the financial world. VaR is a method of evaluating the probability of a gain or loss by a complex venture, by examining the stochastic behavior of its components. We believe that combining quantitative risk assessment techniques with VaR concepts will bridge the gap between engineers and scientists who determine process risk and business leaders and policy makers who evaluate, manage, or regulate risk. We present a few basic examples of the application of VaR to hazard analysis in the chemical process industry. We discover that by using the VaR tool we are able to present data that allows management to make better informed decisions.

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Van, Schaik Rozelle. "A critical analysis of the concepts permanent establishment and foreign business establishment." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21139.

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Thesis (MAcc)--Stellenbosch University, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Income Tax Act, Act 58 of 1962 (‘the Act’) currently defines a permanent establishment in section 1. The definition of a permanent establishment in the Act refers to article 5 of the Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital of the Organisation for Economic Co- Operation and Development. The existence of a permanent establishment in a tax jurisdiction determines the right of the jurisdiction to tax the profits of the permanent establishment. The concept foreign business establishment was inserted into section 9D of the Act by clause 10(1)(a) of the Revenue Laws Amendment Act, Act 59 of 2000. Section 9D is an antiavoidance provision, which determines that certain foreign-sourced income generated by South African controlled foreign companies are subject to tax in South Africa. The concept foreign business establishment is one of the exclusions from the anti-avoidance provisions in section 9D. The Revenue Laws Amendment Act, Act 59 of 2000, replaced all references to the concept permanent establishment with a reference to the newly introduced concept foreign business establishment in section 9D(9)(b) of the Act. The Explanatory Memorandum on the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill, 2000 (SARS 2000:1-12) does not provide a reason for the replacement of the concept permanent establishment. The objective of this study was to analyse and compare the concepts permanent establishment and foreign business establishment in order to make recommendations regarding the required additions and amendments to replace the concept foreign business establishment with the internationally recognised and accepted concept permanent establishment. The proposed replacement of the concept foreign business establishment with an internationally recognised and accepted tax concept will enhance the international compatibility of the Act. The use of an internationally recognised and accepted tax concept will provide clarity and certainty regarding the tax implications of section 9D(9)(b) for those affected by it. It was found that the concepts permanent establishment and foreign business establishment are used in different contexts within the Act. The concepts also apply to different types of taxpayers in different situations. The two concepts have, however, the same objective, being the identification of criteria for the existence of legitimate and substantive business activities in the foreign tax jurisdiction. A comparison between the definitions of the two concepts reveals that there are various components in the definitions with the same wording and meaning. After a detailed comparison between the two definitions it was found that, subject to some suggested additions and amendments, the internationally recognised and accepted concept permanent establishment can replace the concept foreign business establishment in section 9D(9)(b) of the Act without having a material impact on the objective of section 9D(9)(b). This replacement is possible due to the mutual objective of and similar components contained in the definitions of the concepts permanent establishment and foreign business establishments.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Inkomstebelastingwet, Wet 58 van 1962 (‘die Wet’) definieer ’n permanente saak in artikel 1. Die definisie van ’n permanente saak verwys na artikel 5 van die ‘Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’. Die bestaan van ’n permanente saak in ’n belastingjurisdiksie bepaal die reg van die belastingjurisdiksie om die winste van die permanente saak te belas. Die begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak is deur artikel 10(1)(a) van die Wysigingswet op Inkomstewette, Wet 59 van 2000 in die Wet ingesluit. Artikel 9D is ’n teenvermydingsbepaling wat bepaal dat sekere inkomste vanaf ’n buitelandse bron gegenereer deur ’n Suid-Afrikaans beheerde buitelandse maatskappy in Suid-Afrika belas word. Die begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak is een van die uitsluitings van die teenvermydingsbepaling in artikel 9D. Alle verwysings in artikel 9D(9)(b) na die begrip permanente saak is deur die Wysigingswet op Inkomstewette, Wet 59 van 2000, vervang met ’n verwysing na die nuwe begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak. Die ‘Explanatory Memorandum on the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill, 2000’ (SARS 2000:1-12) verskaf nie ’n rede vir die vervanging van die begrip permanente saak nie. Die doel van die studie was om die begrippe permanente saak en buitelandse besigheidsaak te vergelyk sodat voorstelle gemaak kan word rakende die nodige byvoegings en wysings om die begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak met die internasionaal aanvaarde en erkende begrip, permanente saak, te vervang. Die voorgestelde vervanging van die begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak met ’n internasionaal aanvaarde en erkende begrip sal die internasionale verenigbaarheid van die Suid Afrikaanse wetgewing bevorder. Die gebruik van ’n begrip wat internasionaal aanvaar en erken word, sal sekerheid en duidelikheid bewerkstellig vir diegene wat deur die artikel geaffekteer word. Daar is bevind dat die begrippe permanente saak en buitelandse besigheidsaak in die Wet in verskillende verbande gebruik word. Die begrippe is ook van toepassing op verskillende belastingbetalers in verskillende situasies. Die twee begrippe het egter dieselfde doelwit naamlik die identifisering van kriteria vir die bestaan van wesenlike en volwaardige besigheidsaktiwiteite in die buitelandse belastingjurisdiksie. ’n Vergelyking tussen die definisies van die twee begrippe toon dat verskeie komponente van die definisies dieselfde woorde en betekenis bevat. Na ’n detail vergelyking van die twee begrippe is daar bevind dat, onderhewig aan sommige voorgestelde byvoegings en wysigings, die internasionaal erkende en aanvaarde begrip permanente saak die begrip buitelandse besigheidsaak in artikel 9D(9)(b) van die Wet kan vervang. Die vervanging is moontlik weens die gemeenskaplike doelwit en soortgelyke komponente in die definisies van die begrippe permanente saak en buitelandse besigheidsaak.

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Robinson, Laurence. "The appropriation of ideas, concepts and models by management practitioners." Thesis, Coventry University, 2010. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/3a609904-662a-8b92-39ee-bee2c8452dd4/1.

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During the second half of the 20th century there has been both a burgeoning intellectual interest in business and management as a topic and an exponential growth in the formal study of business and management as an academic subject. Indeed by the end of the century it was estimated that worldwide there were 8,000 business schools and more than 13 million students of business and management. In addition, it was estimated that worldwide annual expenditure on university level business and management education had reached US $15 billion (The Global Foundation for Management Education, 2008). However, despite this there is a lack of clarity regarding both the scale and the nature of the influence that academic scholarship exerts over managers. Accordingly this research study has sought to investigate the appropriation of ideas, theories, concepts and models by management practitioners. The thesis has reviewed and evaluated the two most obvious, most established and most influential potential explanations. These were diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1962) and fashion theory (Abrahamson, 1991 & 1996; Abrahamson & Fairchild, 1999). It has been concluded that whilst both these potential explanations provided important insights, neither was able to provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation for this research study. Accordingly, a much broader range of pertinent scholarship was reviewed and evaluated. This included, but is not limited to, the scholarship that is associated with learning by adults (Dewey, 1933; Bartlett, 1967; Schank & Abelson, 1976; Mezirow, 1977). Although this additional scholarship provided a further range of potential explanations, the extent to which any of these would be found within the particular setting of management practitioners remained unclear. In addition, the literature review highlighted a number of unresolved debates regarding issues such as (i) whether management was a science or an applied science; (ii) whether it was a craft or a profession; (iii) whether in reality there were fashionable trends in management practice or whether in fact such practices were remarkably stable; and (iv) whether management theoreticians, gurus and consultants actually exerted significant influence over management practitioners. The literature review also highlighted methodological concerns relating to the use of citation analysis as a proxy for primary information regarding managerial practice. Hence, this research is situated in a gap which is delineated by the unresolved issues that are associated with both diffusion theory and fashion theory; the applicability of the broader range of scholarship to a management setting; the unresolved debates within this field of interest and the need to obtain primary information relating to management practice, rather than being dependant upon citation analysis. The research study has utilised qualitative data and inductive reasoning to examine these matters and the overarching research philosophy has been that of realism (Ritchie & Lewis, 2003). Ultimately, 39 semi-structured, recorded interviews were undertaken using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1954). Collectively these interviews lasted for 35 hours and obtained information relating to 160 critical incidents. The verbatim transcripts of the interviews totalled 350,000 words. A case study analysis of this data was undertaken to examine the decision making of the interviewees in relation to some of their most challenging managerial situations. This analysis concluded that for the ‘generality’ of these interviewees; theory played little, or no, overt part in their decision making. The data was also subjected to a content analysis using a bespoke compendium of 450 ‘terms’ that represented the development of theorising about management over the whole of the 20th century. This analysis concluded that the influence of the 20th century’s management theoreticians over these interviewees was weak. Finally, the possibility that any such influence might be a covert, rather than an overt; phenomenon was examined using both the insights of intertextuality (Allen, 2000; Bazerman, 2004) and the framework analysis technique (Ritchie, Spencer & O’Connor, 2003). This analysis demonstrated that the discourse, dialogue and language of these interviewees could be indexed to four domains; (i) the theoretical; (ii) the conceptual; (iii) the tactical; and (iv) the practical. The intertextual indexing outcomes were corroborated both by substantial extracts from the verbatim interview transcripts and by three unrelated strands of scholarship. These were (i) adaptive memory systems (Schacter, 2001); (ii) the realities of management (Carlson, 1954; Stewart, 1983; Mintzberg, 1989) and (iii) the role of concepts and conceptual thinking in nursing (McFarlane, 1977; Gordon, 1998; Orem, 2001). On this basis it has been concluded that management can be characterised as a conceptual discipline; that in its essential nature management is at least as conceptual as it is either theoretical or practical; and that managers appropriate concepts and ideas, rather than theories and models per se.

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Su, Ying-Yueh. "Exploring the concepts and practices of relationship marketing within Taiwanese banks." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2009. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/12875/.

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Relationship marketing (RM) is a concept developed in the Western literature which came to prominence in the 1980s. Few studies have, however, considered RM is an Eastern context and in particular the connection RM has with guanxi, the personal relationship or connections found in Chinese based cultures. This thesis adopts a broad perspective of RM from Western theories to explore the concepts and practices in Taiwanese banks. Using the existing definitions of RM, a number of RM components have been identified in this research which include the aims of RM (creation, enhancement, and maintenance), the RM mix (interaction, emotional contents, customer lifetime values, and customisation), and the outcomes of RM (long-term relationships, profitable relationship, customer share, and relationship termination). This research used in-depth interviews in order to investigate what Taiwanese banks understand about RM and how they implement RM to build customer relationships. 34 interviews were conducted with senior bank managers from 17 Taiwanese banks. All interviews were taped and transcribed. Template analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings suggest that Taiwanese banks have embraced these components when implementing RM. More importantly, guanxi, which is deeply embedded in Chinese culture, also has an influence on both concepts and practices of relationship marketing. As such, Western marketers, who have an understanding of the role of guanxi, could be more effective in implementing RM in Chinese-based economies. One of the key contributions of this thesis is on the development of the RM A.M.O. (RM's Aims, Mix, and Outcomes) framework which provides an overview of RM and the capability of the components. Also, acquiring market share, developing customer share and retaining relationships instead of relationship termination should be considered as part of relationship marketing practices.

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Niedermann, Florian [Verfasser], and Bernhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Mitschang. "Deep Business Optimization : concepts and architecture for an analytical business process optimization platform / Florian Niedermann ; Betreuer: Bernhard Mitschang." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1118370287/34.

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Van, den Berg Ruan. "An examination of Christian values and correlated concepts in small business practices in South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021094.

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The purpose of this research project was to establish in what way Christian entrepreneurs, in this case owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises, drew on their Christian faith – as an identity-creating construct – in the day-to-day running of their businesses. Religion was identified as one of the significant contributing elements that form part of individuals’ underlying values that are used to make numerous value-based decisions. Because SME owner-managers that adhere to the Christian faith constitute a fairly large segment of society in the Western World, a study of this nature can be regarded as a worthwhile undertaking that provides valuable insights related to how and to what extent this particular group of economic actors merge religious convictions with business operations. The research was set up in such a way that SME owner-managers in South Africa, who were self-proclaimed Christians and broadly defined as members of the Protestant tradition, constituted the sample participants. The methodology regarded as most suitable was a qualitative, grounded-theory approach whereby interviews were conducted along the lines of a semi-structured interview schedule. An openended exploratory strategy was adopted that allowed respondents to convey their thoughts and ideas pertaining to the research phenomenon from their personal perspectives. A number of conceptual and linguistic frames offered by the respondents – that gave language to the way they rationalised their faith in the context of managing their businesses – were recorded. A total of sixteen major themes and an additional eight sub-themes emerged from the data. The themes recorded and analysed were: faith, grace, calling, stewardship, kingdom, holiness, discipleship, discernment, love, relationship, anointing, inseparable dimensions of life, the Christian life journey, money, cultural perspectives and biblical principles, including the centrality of the Bible, integrity and honesty, sowing and reaping, humility, forgiveness, power of the tongue, importance of prayer and the centrality of Christ. The research findings revealed that a correct understanding of the Christian identity as well as a correct application thereof is crucial in successfully incorporating Christian ideals in the market. Full integration of the Christian identity plus an internalisation of God’s purposes and principles create an inner sense of direction that is less focused on external moral guidelines and codes of conduct – the phrase living from the inside out’ seems appropriately fitting to describe a group of economic actors who pursue their business careers with a sense of calling coupled with a belief that their commercial whereabouts are distinctively linked to a transcendent objective. In addition, general business administration guidelines, where the issue of religious affiliation per se is of no particular consequence, allow for the integration of the value concepts uncovered through the study by way of the corporate governance framework as contained in the King III report – particularly with reference to business practice interventions related to the formulation and implementation of core organisational values and moral codes.

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Wessman, Robert E. "Organizing to Innovate: Workshopping New Product Concepts at Panorama Education." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27013338.

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Leaders of education organizations must determine how to positively impact students, staff, and families while ensuring organizational strength. Innovative leaders and entrepreneurs seek to develop and roll out new ideas to dramatically advance students’ achievement. However, the need to innovate does not supersede the need to execute on a core business while maintaining high levels of quality; this paradox makes it challenging to know how to allocate resources and people toward innovation. In this capstone, I describe and analyze my experiences leading a strategic project for supporting innovation and experimentation at Panorama Education, an education technology company focused on school improvement through data analytics. I developed a framework for promoting innovation, workshopping, and experimentation in order to support the organization to make evidence-driven product decisions. I describe the theoretical foundations for the framework and literature documenting the leadership challenge of implementing it at a fast-paced, rapidly growing organization. I argue that by deliberately allocating resources and effort toward ideating and designing, aligning to company strategy and vision, and prototyping and testing, a growing organization can prepare for ongoing innovation and adaptability. I also find that change management on the part of the implementer is a necessary part of innovative change, so I reflect on my successes and challenges as a leader developing and implementing the new system at Panorama Education.

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Bogacz, Margaret M. Sennott Linn I. "An intuitive approach to understanding calculus concepts in business applications using probability theory." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8514766.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1985.
Title from title page screen, viewed June 6, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Linn Sennott (chair), Kenneth Berk, John Dossey, Lawrence Spence, Charles Streeter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-274) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Gunzenhauser, Martin. "Platform concepts for the systems business design and development of global product platforms." Düsseldorf VDI-Verl, 2007. http://d-nb.info/989488349/04.

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Gunzenhauser, Martin. "Platform concepts for the systems business : design and development of global product platforms /." Düsseldorf : VDI-Verl, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/57181302X.pdf.

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Muringaseril, Sigu. "Control concepts in multinational corporations (MNCs) the case of Swiss MNCs with foriegn subsidiaries in India /." Niedermann Druck, St. Gallen : Univ. of St. Gallen, 2007. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=35635054&site=ehost-live.

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Eid-Sabbagh, Rami-Habib [Verfasser], and Mathias [Akademischer Betreuer] Weske. "Business process architectures : concepts, formalism, and analysis / Rami-Habib Eid-Sabbagh ; Betreuer: Mathias Weske." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2015. http://d-nb.info/121771765X/34.

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Darasteanu, Cristian, and Maria Moskalenko. "New Product Development Process Goes Global : A qualitative study of rethinking traditional concepts." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-38427.

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We live in a time of globalization. People and events of one country often impact other countries. The term “globalization” became one of the main characteristics of today‟s world. Countries perceive themselves not only as separate nations but also as parts of the global world. On other hand, new product development field is a complex process that is vital for companies‟ growth and success. Today, in terms of globalization, success of the product can be judged by its performance on the global market. Reduction of trade barriers and duty, development of new technologies and communication channels and other factors cause a trend towards development of the global market. In such conditions, a challenging task of new product development becomes even more challenging. It transforms into a new process that aims to take advantages of global opportunities and increase efficiency and effectiveness of new products.The new product development theory is quite a researched field. Numerous studies were conducted in the field of global strategies as well. These two concepts, however, were always investigated separately and just little research has been conducted about the joint topic. There are no studies that analyze the new product development process in global companies. Brentani, Kleinschmidt and Salomo (2010) argue though that global company strategy, corporate global culture and global innovation strategy affects the new product development process that is conducted by global companies. Thus we can find a research gap in contemporary literature that studies the global development process in global companies. Thereby the purpose of the current research is to investigate and integrate diverse knowledge about this process and global company strategy. It contributes to the contemporary knowledge about the new product development process by adding global perspective to this concept. Moreover, the current study can provide a framework for companies that can be considered during the process of development of new products for the global market.Our research, therefore, aims to answer the research question: How is the new product development (NPD) process run in global companies: what are the differences with the traditional NPD model and by whom and how is this process managed?By conduction of qualitative interviews and content analysis of gathered data, the new product development process was investigated in three global companies. Further, relevant theories about new product development and global company strategy and gathered data were analyzed together. Based on this comprehensive analysis a new improved model was suggested for the new product development process in global companies. Besides this, managerial issues of this process were investigated as well and some propositions were developed.

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Ma, Guoxin. "A qualitative enquiry into Chinese workers' understanding of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16523.

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This study examined Chinese workers' interpretations of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'. It also explored how Chinese workers described their implicit employment terms. Although the findings of this thesis may be context-constrained, the related discussions and implications provide general and useful insights for the psychological contract and its literature. A qualitative methodology was adopted for the research. The sampling frame comprised 61 Chinese workers in Xiamen and Fushun, recruited by a variety maximisation strategy. Data were collected primarily through semi-structured interviews, whose duration (recording time) was between 22 and 98 minutes (with a mode of 30-45 minutes), and analysed with the general guidance provided by the template analysis (King, 2004). It was found that 'obligation' was an ambiguous term in the Chinese employment context, suggesting a possibility that 'obligation' may not be unambiguous in other contexts either. The findings on the notion of 'promise' in China revealed that it carried strong moral significance and had emotional importance, leading to a reflection that the theoretical specifications of promise (Rousseau, 1995) had not been appropriately reflected in prior empirical research. It was also found that the immediate supervisors were very powerful 'the other party' in the Chinese employment context, implying that empirical psychological contract studies may not appropriately reflect the theory or phenomena, especially in light of the revealed complexities of Chinese employment arrangements. The Chinese workers' employment experiences revealed that their perceived implicit employment terms were below the terms specified in their legal contract, if a contract was existent. This finding was found to relate to perceived significant power gaps between employment parties by participants, which were embedded in the complex relationships between the zone of negotiability, the societal context of employment and the powerful leader positions in China. The discussion, and reflection, of these findings at an integrated level suggests that the existing theory lacks adequate theoretical clarity to appropriately inform deductive studies. It also suggests that the majority of empirical results, consequently, may need to be re-examined. This thesis concludes that the psychological contract is a useful concept to make sense of events, beliefs and experiences at work, but there are urgent needs for further theoretical developments, especially with regard to power and morality, and thus more grounded research in order to make it an adequately testable theory.

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Brown, Herbert Franklin III. "Students' performance on a paper-mediated versus multimedia tutorial for learning networking concepts." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40324.

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This study was designed to determine the degree to which learner affective and personal characteristics affect student achievement through multimedia and paper-mediated instruction. Two research questions were examined: (a) Is there a difference in gain between pretest and post test for the paper-mediated instruction group and the multimedia instruction group; (b) What is the effect of paper-mediated and multimedia instruction on achievement, when controlling for affective and personal characteristics? The statistical procedures used to examine the research questions were dependent t-tests and analysis of covariance. Participants were 61 students from four classes enrolled in introductory computer classes in a high school in the Roanoke region of Virginia. The classes were randomly assigned to either a paper-mediated or multimedia treatment. Procedures involved having the participants from both groups complete five stages, either on paper or on the computer, based on group assignment. First, they completed a personal characteristics form. Second, they completed an attitude toward computers Likert-type scale, consisting of four subscales (anxiety, confidence, liking, usefulness). Third, they completed a 20-question pretest on networking terminology. Fourth, they reviewed instructional material in either a paper or multimedia presentation form. Upon completion of the paper or multimedia computer tutorial, the participants completed a 20-item posttest on networking terminology. Based on the results of two dependent t-tests on the pretest and posttest for each treatment group, students did realize a gain in achievement from the pretest to posttest in both groups. In testing research question two, the analysis of covariance revealed a significant treatment effect and gender as a significant covariate. Students in the paper-mediated group performed better than those in the multimedia group. Females performed higher regardless of the treatment group.
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Willis, Robert H. "Business strategic management and the U.S. Marine Corps : an analysis of the applicability of selected concepts." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA374341.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1999.
"December 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Nancy C. Roberts, Cary Simon. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-117). Also available online.

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Pikka, V. (Vesa). "A Business Enabling Network:a case study of a high-tech network; its concepts, elements and actors." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2007. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514283918.

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Abstract The phenomenon of networking has been the subject of considerable research and has made a significant contribution to business practice. In business life networks of different kinds are found as common modes of operation, and confirms the clear advantages of networks. This has increased the interest of academic research in networking. The theoretical research has extended from dyad relationships to more complicated forms, such as systems of innovation. Networking has not only been a popular research area in the field of economics, but also in the social sciences. The resulting interdisciplinary perspectives have provided new insights into the multi-faceted phenomenon of networking. This thesis is a qualitative case study. The case network is the ICTnetwork in the Oulu area in northern Finland. During the last few decades, the Oulu area has grown and established itself as one of the most important centres of wireless communication. This has been recognised worldwide and it has been labelled the “Oulu-phenomenon”. The main theoretical frameworks for this study are business and social networks theories, supplemented by innovation system and regional development theories. A network is defined in this study as A group of actors that works intentionally together to harness the long term business capabilities of the network of participants and exchange information form the business enabling network. Between the actors there can either be formal commercial relations or the relations can be informal i.e. social relations. Based on the case study, the principal contribution of this study is a novel model of networking – identified as a business enabling network – the assets of which are a goal, trust, competence, an infrastructure, and continuity. A business enabling network model is operationalized on the basis of a five-level network maturity model. These models are described in the study and provide a novel framework for the development and assessment of regional business networks. Furthermore, the study increases the understanding of the case network's operations
Tiivistelmä Verkostoilmiö on osoittautunut hedelmälliseksi sekä tutkimuksen että käytännön kannalta. Liike-elämässä erilaiset verkostot muodostavat yhä merkittävämmän yhteistyön muodon, mikä on seurausta verkostojen eduista. Tämä kehitys on myös lisännyt akateemisen tutkimuksen kiinnostusta verkostoja kohtaan. Teoreettiset tarkastelukulmat ovat laajenneet kahdenvälisistä suhteista monimutkaisempiin verkostoihin kuten innovaatiojärjestelmiin. Liiketaloustieteen lisäksi verkostoituminen on ollut kiinnostava tutkimusalue myös sosiologiassa. Erilaisten tieteellisten näkökulmien yhdistäminen on tuottanut uusia näkökulmia kiinnostavaan ja merkittävään verkostoilmiöön. Tämä väitöstutkimus on kvalitatiivinen tapaustutkimus. Tutkimuksen case-verkostona on ollut informaatio- ja kommunikaatioteknologian verkosto Pohjois-Suomessa Oulun alueella. Muutaman viimeisen vuosikymmenen aikana Oulun alue on noussut globaalisti yhdeksi tärkeäksi langattoman kommunikaatioteknologian keskukseksi. Tämä on huomioitu myös kansainvälisesti ja se on saanut nimen "Oulu-ilmiö". Keskeisimmät teoreettiset viitekehykset tässä tutkimuksessa ovat liiketoiminta ja sosiaaliset verkostot, joita on täydennetty innovaatio järjestelmien ja alueellisen kehittymisen teorioilla. Tässä tutkimuksessa verkosto on määritelty seuraavasti: Verkoston muodostavat toimijat, jotka toimivat tietoisesti yhteisen tavoitteen toteuttamiseksi ja joiden välillä tapahtuu informaation vaihdantaa. Verkoston toimijoiden välillä voi olla liikesuhteita tai suhteet voivat olla epävirallisia eli sosiaalisia suhteita. Tutkimuksen keskeisenä kontribuutiona on uudenlainen verkostomalli – liiketoimintaa tukeva verkosto, jonka keskeiset tekijät ovat verkoston päämäärä, luottamus, osaaminen, infrastruktuuri ja jatkuvuus. Kehitetty verkostomalli on operationalisoitu viisintasoisen verkoston kypsyysmallin avulla. Kehitetyt mallit tarjoavat viitekehyksen alueellisten verkostojen kehittämiseen ja arviointiin. Lisäksi tutkimus on syventänyt ja monipuolistanut ymmärtämystä case-verkoston toiminnasta

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Ingham, Kim Marie. "Citizenship, support, and fit: exploring the generalizability of these concepts to the occupational domain." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/11654.

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This study explored the generalizability of citizenship behavior, support, and fit to the occupational domain. In doing so, arguments to include occupation constructs in organizational analyses were offered, reliability and validity testing of the occupation constructs was performed, and relationships among the occupation constructs, their respective organizational counterparts, occupation-related outcomes, and organization-related outcomes were explored. Results of the assessments demonstrated that occupational citizenship behavior, perceived occupational support, and person-occupation fit are distinguishable from their organizational counterparts and that occupation constructs and organization constructs contributed independently to occupational activity and work place behavior. Overall findings from the study suggest inclusion of occupation constructs in organizational analyses can enrich, complement and/or supplement our understanding of organizational behavior.
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Godring, Björn, and Lisa Wåhlin. "Business Restructurings and Transfer Pricing in Germany and Sweden : The concepts of profit/loss potential and indemnification." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7779.

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Business restructurings within multinational enterprises (MNEs) are regular occurrences. Such restructurings are often carried out in order to increase the MNE‟s competitiveness on the market by making the supply chain and management more efficient in order to ac-quire benefits due to economies of scale. There is a risk that such cross-border business re-structurings will transfer the profit/loss potential that is associated with the assets, risks and/or functions that are transferred, to low-tax jurisdictions in order to minimize the MNEs tax burden. Germany amended its tax act in order to prevent such profit potential from being transferred out of the country. This amendment came into effect on the 1st of January 2008. The OECD, which is the normative body on the international tax arena, re-leased a Discussion Draft for the public in September 2008 with the purpose to highlight the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings and to serve as an interpretation of the application of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines on business restructurings. In this thesis, the concepts of profit/loss potential and indemnification, as they are pre-sented in the Discussion Draft, will be analyzed. The interpretation of the OECD will then be contrasted with the German and Swedish regulation of these concepts. The OECD defines a business restructuring as a transfer including a bundle of assets, risks and/or functions which are transferred across borders within a MNE. If this transfer in-volves the shift of profit/loss potential it shall be included in the valuation of the transfer price of the transactions. The profit/loss potential shall only be included if it can be identi-fied as belonging to a specific asset, risk or function of the bundle. In Swedish legislation there is only one rule which tax authorities can use in order to adjust the income of related parties. This regulation is not a specific rule for business restructurings as such but a gener-al rule for all transfer pricing matters. Sweden has traditionally followed the OECD guide-lines and the Swedish courts and tax authorities will most likely apply the guidance set out by the OECD on business restructurings as well.

Germany views a business restructuring as a transfer package which consist of assets, risks and/or functions which are transferred a cross borders within a MNE. The concept of business opportunities, i.e. the profit potential of the combined assets, risks and/or func-tions of the transfer package, shall be included in the valuation of the transfer package. In the valuation of the transfer package synergy effects for the MNE and location savings as a whole shall be included. This concept deviates from the view of the OECD. The OECD states that only local synergy effects and location savings shall be included in the valuation of the transfer package. The German approach leads to an inherent risk of overvaluation of the transfer package. The way of valuing the transfer package in Germany could lead to

taxation without realization, i.e. profits that would never have been or never could be rea-lized in Germany will be taxed. This contradicts the principle of realization. The OECD, in the Discussion Draft, gives an account for the possibilities for an indemni-fication for the transferor. A business restructuring can sometimes be compared with the breach of a contractual relationship. In such a situation, associated parties would be entitled to an indemnity if independent parties would be indemnified. Such an approach will be dif-ficult to apply in practice since indemnification is closely linked to nations national com-mercial legislation. The matter of indemnifying a party shall be decided on the merits of each case, and it can thereby be complicated to formulate a general regulation. The ques-tion regarding which authority shall be competent to govern such a matter must thereby al-so be resolved.

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Scales, Glenda R. "Designing a business reengineering information system with performance support concepts: a description of the system analysis process." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27964.

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This naturalistic case study investigated a business reengineering project at a large company located in the Northeast. Because the Human Resources (HR) department had downsized, decision makers within HR began investigating the feasibility of customizing a purchased HR Information System. To ensure that the new HR information system was usable by all employees, project leaders wanted to include performance support concepts into the customization of the system. The main focus of my research was investigating the major issues associated with incorporating performance support principles into a system development life-cycle model. The analysis of these data included a qualitative approach where I described the critical events relating to performance support system development that occurred on the project. In addition, I used the diffusion of innovation theory to analyze and interpret the data. Results indicated that there were major inconsistencies with the term "performance support" and the need for implementing performance support solutions on the project. Some Information Technology team members realized the importance of incorporating performance support into the system development life-cycle. However, because of the tight time frame for customizing the software with performance support concepts, several members of the Information Technology team believed that incorporating performance support for the initial release was unreasonable. For the initial release of the new HR information system the role of the Performance Support team shifted from seeking performance support solutions towards pursuing traditional training solutions for teaching employees how to use the HR information system.
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Scales, Glenda Rose. "Designing a business reengineering information system with performance support concepts : a description of the system analysis process /." This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-155234/.

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Paillet, Michel. "À partir des concepts pragmatistes, transformer l’ingénierie des processus clients." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100016.

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Cette thèse vise à proposer de nouvelles méthodes pour transformer les processus de la relation client. Elle entreprend de répondre aux défis que la révolution servicielle et digitale pose dans ce domaine aux démarches d’Excellence Opérationnelle inspirées du Lean management. La thèse postule que la conceptualisation dualiste de l’activité productive constitue la cause racine des difficultés que ces méthodes rencontrent actuellement ; elle cherche dans le pragmatisme et sa perspective non dualiste le développement de nouvelles approches. Pour ce faire, la thèse prend pour objet et propose la réécriture d’un manuel de formation à l’Excellence Opérationnelle. Elle confronte les instructions de ce manuel à l’expérience d’une intervention de transformation d’un processus client dans une société d’assurances. Elle mobilise les concepts pragmatistes pour instruire la critique du processus opérationnel existant et générer des solutions de remplacement. Le dispositif de recherche fait intervenir un praticien chercheur qui combine analyse documentaire, écoute non directive des clients, observation et analyse du travail des conseillers de la relation client et enquête coopérative avec les opérateurs pour faire émerger de nouvelles pratiques. Les trois articles de la thèse couvrent trois étapes existantes ou à introduire d’un projet d’Excellence Opérationnelle et concernent 1) la prise en compte de la complexité de la demande client 2) la définition du périmètre du processus client 3) l’équipement du conseiller client pour construire le sens des situations
The aim of this dissertation is to propose new methods to transform the customer relationship process. It sets out to address challenges which the digital and service revolution pose to the measures for operational excellence inspired by Lean management. The dissertation assumes that the dualistic conceptualization of production activities is the root-cause of the difficulties faced by Lean management in the recent period. It therefore looks towards pragmatism and its non-dualistic perspective for the creation of new approaches. For this purpose, the dissertation holds, as subject and proposal, the rewriting of a training manual on operational excellence. This study tests the effectiveness of this training manual in the work of transforming a customer process in an insurance company. It adopts pragmatic concepts to carry out a critical assessment of the existing status and offers alternative solution proposals. The applied research device involves a practitioner-researcher who combines record analysis, non-directive listening of customers, observation and analysis of the work done by customer relation counsellors and a cooperative investigation with operators for the setting-up of new practices. The dissertation is divided into three parts that cover three existing or proposed steps in an operational excellence project. They include: 1) taking into account the complexity of the customer demand 2) identifying the scope of the customer process 3) equipping the customer counsellor in the understanding of issues

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Pheng, Low Sui. "Marketing theories and concepts for the international construction industry : a study of their applicability at the global, national and corporate perspectives." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1990. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317878/.

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The role and applicability of marketing theories and concepts are explored at three levels of analysis for the international construction industry. Developments of the theoretical constructs are traced as marketing evolves to encompass an international perspective. The relevance and need for marketing in the construction industry was examined. Four schools of thought were identified before the strategic significance of marketing in the market place was reviewed and argued. The marketing implications of financing, countertrade, technology transfer and joint venture were considered. At the global level, the theoretical issues and applications of Marketing Information Systems are extended for the international construction industry. An analysis of global construction markets in value added terms was conducted, disaggregated according to types of economies, regions and political groupings. The markets in Asean and the EC were examined. A global summary of the world's construction industries was extracted diagrammatically for 19 regions and 180 countries and territories. The influence of marketing and construction on economic development was explored at the national level. A coalescing model was adopted to provide a proposed synthesis of the tripartite relationship between marketing, construction and economic development. The cumulative events leading to the evolution of the construction exports industry in Singapore was studied to highlight the governmental role in nurturing and promoting a national marketing drive overseas for construction services. At the corporate level, the theoretical foundations for organising marketing activities in international construction firms were examined. Empirical evidence from a field study in the United Kingdom shows that the Contingency Approach appears to be valid for structuring marketing organisations in international construction firms. Nonetheless, at a more detailed level of analysis, the geographical structure seems to be well-placed for organising foreign construction marketing activities. The three-pronged approach adopted in this thesis shows how marketing theories and concepts may be appropriately applied within the global, national and corporate contexts of the construction industry.

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Lublinski, Alf Erko. "Geographical business clusters concepts for cluster identification with an application to an alleged aeronautics cluster in Northern Germany /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=965586456.

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Ashwin, Andrew Kenneth. "Exploring the problematic nature of GCSE examining in Economics and Business : assessing troublesome knowledge, threshold concepts and learning." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/33153.

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This thesis focuses upon assessment of learning at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level. Approaches to learning, lecturers’ conceptions of teaching, students’ conceptions of learning, threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge have all been the focus of research at higher education but there has been limited work into the relevance of these fields to learning prior to higher education. This thesis surveys the research in higher education and applies some of the concepts to assessment, teaching and learning at lower levels of the education hierarchy. It looks at the extent to which students at GCSE level might be expected to begin the journey of thinking in the subject in the fields of economics and business. Teachers are a key influencer of assessment outcomes at GCSE level but their approach to teaching and their conception of learning may be influenced by the assessment framework in which they are operating. Analysis of student responses to examination questions, the extent to which teachers at this level can agree on evidence of learning and what an assessment is designed to achieve and teachers’ conceptions of learning will be studied at GCSE. The results of this research suggest that a reconceptualisation of the assessment objectives, which frame the specifications at this level and provide a focus for curriculum development, could influence the way students are taught and the way in which teaching and learning programmes are put together. Such a change could help to reduce the asymmetry between students and teachers and encourage teaching and learning which helps students to ‘think in the subject’ and champion deep approaches to learning.

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Daugnoraite, Laura, and Kestutis Slaitas. "Strategy for the Reverse Supply Chain : Applicability of the Lean and the Agile Concepts." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12373.

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The reverse part of the supply chain becomes more and more important due to the legislation, environmental concerns, higher volumes of returns, etc. As a result, companies cannot see the reverse supply chain as the additional costs only and have to think strategically. The right strategy for the reverse supply chain can help to achieve the competitive advantage. However, there are not so many researches made about strategies for the reverse supply chain yet, contrarily to the forward supply chain. Therefore, the need to adopt strategies for the reverse supply chain appears.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the applicability of the Lean and the Agile concepts in the Reverse Supply Chain strategy, and to investigate the driving forces and challenges for the implementation of the strategy in the Reverse Supply Chain.

The inductive research approach was applied in this thesis. The qualitative study was the most suitable for the better understanding of the point of view, the attitudes, the perceptions of the interviewed participants regarding a wide range of issues related to the choice, and the implementation of the strategy for the reverse supply chain. Multiple case studies as the research strategy was chosen, thus data was collected from 13 interviews conducted at four companies: Fläkt Woods, Systemair, Swegon and Rettig ICC.

The main conclusions from the analysis of the applicability of the lean and the agile concepts in the reverse supply chain are that the design of the reverse supply chain depends on the characteristics of the returns: the size, the volume, the life cycle, the B2B or the B2C returns; as well the reasons for the returns: the guarantee service/ after warranty service. When weighting the results about the lean and the agile concepts implementation in the reverse supply chain, it appears relatively more likely that none of the companies implement either only the lean or only the agile approach. Due to various reasons, there are different material flows and they require different strategic approaches. The agility is implemented close to the customer in order to ensure speed and high responsiveness. Lean flows are implemented from the manufacturer to the supplier or the third party (recycler, etc.). Even more, the companies seek to find the optimal combination of both strategies, or as it called – leagile. Two different approaches for leagile concept’s implementation are used: preponement and de-coupling point. Driving forces for the strategy implementation are green forces, increasing the demand for improving customer service level, cost reduction, and the new retail marketing strategies. Main challenges for the strategy implementation are the lack of formal operating procedures, the lack of information sharing with the suppliers, ‘false alarm’ returns, the lack of local competence, and the lack of forecasting possibilities.

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Yusof, Zawiyah Mohammad. "Records management in the business community in Malaysia : a study of the understanding of concepts and practice and the development of a model." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365279.

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Theodoraki, Eleni I. "An organisational analysis of the national governing bodies of sport in Britain : organisational structures and contexts, management processes and concepts and perceptions of effectiveness." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1996. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10521.

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Sports organisations in public, commercial and voluntary sectors in the mid 1990s are faced with an increasingly volatile environment. It has been claimed that there has been a move away from traditional, large-scale, bureaucratic, organisational structures in the commercial sector (which has predominantly led organisational and management fashions in the public, quasi-public and voluntary sectors), and this research project investigates whether such a shift away from traditionalist organisational forms is evidenced among Britain's national governing bodies of sport (NGBs). In addition, there has been a stimulus for NGBs to move away from reliance on public sector financial support for sporting bodies, and to seek a stronger commercial footing. This raises the question of how organisations are responding to the changing economic environment and whether for example more flexible, entrepreneurial approaches are evident among NGBs. It is with this context as background that the study seeks to embark on an organisational analysis of NGBs in Britain. The research project was founded on configurationalist approaches to organisational analysis which argue for a holistic investigation of organisations and the investigation is structured in three parts. The first involves identifying the nature and range of organisational structures which exist in NGBs of sport. This gives an account, on the basis of cluster analysis, of a taxonomy of governing bodies consisting of six clusters. The relationships between the organisational types are also examined in the first stage of the research as well as the potential transition processes from one organisational type to another. The aims of the second element of the study are to identifY the nature of management processes and organisational change, to explore ways in which structural features are affected by individual agency, and evaluate whether processes identified are consonant with the structural and contextual variables from the derived taxonomy. The third part of the research is a study of organisational actors' perceptions of effectiveness in NGBs drawn from the identified clusters. This 'multiple constituency' approach to understanding effectiveness evaluates both the different concepts of effectiveness, as well as the differential evaluations of effectiveness, which were held by internal constituencies and external assessors. The research findings provide evidence of a number of predominantly simple organisational structures in a variety of contexts. Management processes are identified for each type of the derived taxonomy and organisational phenomena of professionalisation, bureaucratisation and resource dependence are evaluated. The review of the changing British structural context within which NGBs operate identifies pressures exerted on NGBs to professionalise and bureaucratise their structures and commercialise their operations. However, the review of management processes and organisational change does not reveal a 'unidirectional drift' towards professionalised and bureaucratised structures. In addition, effectiveness levels as perceived by multiple constituents were not significantly higher for any of the 'post-Fordist', flexible organisational types in the NGB sample.

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Reinhold, Sofia, and Emma Sprigg. "Den sömlösa köpupplevelsen : En studie om integrerade köpkanaler ur ett företagsperspektiv." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-56669.

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Sammanfattning Författare: Emma Sprigg och Sofia Reinhold Handledare: Patrik Gottfridsson Titel: Den sömlösa köpupplevelsen – En studie om integrerade köpkanaler ur ett företagsperspektiv Bakgrund och problem: Handeln har under de senare åren haft en snabb och stark utvecklingskurva. Utvecklingen har skapat en ny digital era som resulterat i nya köpbeteenden hos kunden samt fler möjliga kanaler för kunden att genomföra sina köp i. Som ett led i detta har omnikanaler introducerats som ett koncept på marknaden där kunden erbjuds en enhetlig och sömlös köpupplevelse oavsett val av kanal. Tidigare forskning belyser kundens perspektiv vid användning av olika kanaler men brister i att beskriva hur företag praktiserar konceptet. Intressant är därför att undersöka hur företag arbetar med integrering av köpkanaler och hur det kan bidra till en förbättrad köpupplevelse för kunden. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att förklara hur företag arbetar med integrerade köpkanaler för att skapa en förbättrad köpupplevelse. Metod: Studien genomfördes med hjälp av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med en fallstudiedesign. De företag som medverkar i studien är Eton, Ellos, Gina Tricot, Hemtex samt Hööks där respondenter från respektive företag intervjuats. Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet av vår studie visar att det finns en medvetenhet hos de undersökta företagen kring begreppet och konceptet omnikanalhandel, däremot visar studien att det saknas tillräcklig forskning och tydlig förklaring av konceptet för att företagen fullt ut ska kunna implementera det i sin strategi. Samtliga undersökta företag arbetar dock med integrering av köpkanaler men fokus ligger också i att utveckla framtida koncept och lösningar. Nyckelord: Köpkanaler, Omnikanaler, Affärskoncept, Kundupplevelse
Abstract Authors: Emma Sprigg and Sofia Reinhold Supervisor: Patrik Gottfridsson Title: The seamless purchase experience – A study on integrated purchasing channels from a business perspective Background and problem: During the last years the trade has gone through a fast and strong development. The development has created a new digital era which has resulted in new customer behaviours and more possible channels where customers can do their purchases. As part of this, omnichannels has been introduced on the market as a concept where the customer is offered a uniform and seamless purchase experience regardless of channel choice. Existing research focuses on the customer perspective in use of different channels but lacks in information on how companies practise the concept. It is therefore interesting to examine how companies works with integrated purchasing channels and how it can contribute to create an improved purchase experience. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explain how companies work with integrated purchasing channels to create an improved purchase experience. Method: The study has been conducted using a qualitative method with a case study design. The companies participating in the study are Eton, Ellos, Gina Tricot, Hemtex and Hööks and interviews has been held with respondents from each companies. Result and contribution: The result of our study shows an awareness of the omnichannel concept among the investigated companies, however the study shows that there is insufficient research and distinct explanation of the concept to fully implement it in the companies strategy. Though, all of the examined companies work with integration of purchasing channels, but focus is also on developing future concepts and solutions Keywords: Purchasing Channels, Omnichannels, Business Concepts, Purchasing Experience

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Bicak, Kemal. "International knowledge (transfer) management : models, concepts and solutions for facilitating knowledge transfer processes in a multilingual and multicultural business environment /." Aachen : Shaker, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/494340673.pdf.

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Furberg, Matilda, and Anna Naumburg. "Milk as a Service : Exploring the Concepts of Servitization and Digitalization in the Business Model of an Incumbent Manufacturing Firm." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264184.

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Due to digitalization as a technology shift, many incumbent manufacturing firms face challenges to maintain their position on the market. One solution to tackle this technology shift is by servitization, which has shown great opportunities for value creation in various industries. Services are harder to imitate and have therefore potential to create competitive advantage. However, because of the limited number of studies examining the transition from one business model to another in combination with servitization and digitalization, a gap is identified in the literature. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore how an incumbent manufacturing firm can create and obtain value by implementing servitization and digital services in its current business model. The purpose of this thesis is achieved through a single case study of an incumbent manufacturing firm within the dairy farming industry. The findings suggest that implementing digital services in an incumbent manufacturing firm improves competitive advantage as they increase the barriers of adoption to competitors and third-parties; thus, improve the customer loyalty and the customer lock-in effect. When conceptualising servitization and digitalization, it is important to establish a clear framework for digital services, which should be aligned with the company’s overall strategies and processes. To meet the growing demand for more efficiency and flexibility, it is proposed to lay additional focus on the construction and development of the digital platform. Further, this study investigates how the development of digital services for predictive maintenance affects the business model of an incumbent manufacturing firm. From the conceptual framework developed in this study, it is emphasised that five business model elements are important to focus on in the era of digitalization, namely: value proposition, revenue streams, channels, customer relationships and key partner networks. The findings suggest to use adapting services such as performance-based contracting with a subscription model and add-ons. In addition, co-creation with customers in an early stage of the innovation process is deemed key to develop suitable services, while improving the customer relationship. Moreover, it is important to have in mind that digitalization enhances the transparency of information; thus, it is crucial to develop standardised frameworks to retain a trustworthy customer relationship. Consequently, it is argued as important to update the revenue model for digital services with a cohesive pricing strategy worldwide. Furthermore, this study suggests moving step by step towards direct selling, while remaining a good relationship with the external dealers. Due to the fact that not all customers have the prerequisites for implementing digital services, the degree of digitalization and direct selling must be adapted to the unique situation and service provided. By analysing how servitization as an effect of digitalization affects the business model of an incumbent manufacturing firm, this thesis contributes to extant knowledge within the fields of servitization, digitalization and business models. Furthermore, this thesis contributes to managerial knowledge with an in-depth contextualised knowledge of a possible servitization transition as a business model innovation.
På grund av digitalisering som teknologiskifte tvingas många etablerade företag att kämpa för att behålla sin position på marknaden. En lösning till detta är tjänstefiering, vilket har visat på stora möjligheter för värdeskapande i olika industrier. Dessutom är tjänster svårare att imitera, vilket leder till ökad konkurrenskraft. Idag finns det ett begränsat antal studier som undersöker övergången från en affärsmodell till en annan i kombination med tjänstefiering och digitalisering, vilket har lett till ett gap i litteraturen. Därav syftet med denna masteruppsats: att undersöka hur ett etablerat tillverkningsföretag kan skapa och förädla värde genom att integrera tjänstefiering och digitala tjänster i den nuvarande affärsmodellen. Syftet med denna studie uppnås genom en fallstudie hos ett etablerat tillverkningsföretag inom mjölkproduktionsindustrin. Rapportens resultat indikerar att en implementation av digitala tjänster i ett etablerat tillverkningsföretag förbättrar konkurrenskraften då den ökar barriärer för konkurrenter och tredjeparter, därmed ökas kundlojaliteten och förhindrar kunden från att byta leverantör. Vid konceptualisering av tjänstefiering och digitalisering är det viktigt att skapa ett tydligt ramverk, vilket även bör anpassas till företagets övergripande strategier och processer. För att möta den växande efterfrågan av ökad effektivitet och flexibilitet bör ytterligare fokus läggas på konstruktion och utveckling av den digitala plattformen. Vidare undersöker denna studie hur utvecklingen av digitala tjänster för förebyggande underhåll påverkar affärsmodellen hos ett etablerat tillverkningsföretag. Utifrån det konceptuella ramverket, skapat i denna studie, har fem affärsmodellelements valts ut som anses extra viktiga för studien: värdeerbjudandet, intäkter, kanaler, kundrelationer och partners. Studiens resultat föreslår anpassade tjänster såsom prestationsbaserade kontrakt med prenumerationsmodell och tilläggsval. Dessutom anses samverkan med kunden i ett tidigt skede av innovationsprocessen vara en nyckel till att utveckla rätt tjänster, samtidigt som kundrelationen förbättras. Det är även viktigt att tänka på att digitalisering ökar informationstransparensen och därför är det viktigt att utveckla standardiserade ramverk för att bibehålla tillförliten i kundrelationer. Således argumenterar studien för att uppdatera inkomstmodellen för digitala tjänster med en sammanhängande prissättningsstrategi över hela världen. Vidare anses det viktigt med ett stegvist skifte mot direktförsäljning, samtidigt som det är nödvändigt att bibehålla en bra relation med de externa återförsäljarna. På grund av det faktum att alla kunder inte har samma förutsättningar att erhålla digitala tjänster måste graden av digitalisering och direktförsäljning anpassas till den unika situationen och tjänsten. Genom att analysera hur tjänstefiering som en effekt av digitalisering påverkar affärsmodellen för ett etablerat tillverkningsföretag bidrar denna avhandling till existerande kunskap inom tjänstefiering, digitalisering och affärsmodeller. Vidare bidrar denna avhandling till ledningskunskap för chefer med fördjupad kontextualiserad kunskap i en fallstudie genom att föreslå en tjänstefieringsövergång som en affärsmodellsinnovation för att anpassa sig till dagens digitala värld.

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LARSSON, DANIEL, and MARTIN HOLMQVIST. "Temporary Innovation Space : A framework for co-creating innovative product concepts with B2B customers in an ambidextrous organisation." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279074.

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This thesis project was conducted at Sandvik and builds on a previous project, also conducted at Sandvik by the same authors, during the autumn of 2019. The work is part of a newly established ambidextrous development team that is split into an innovation branch and an execution branch, with the goal to become a digital factory. A part of this thesis project is to conduct Research-to-Development (RTD) work for a future product possibility. However, the product being developed is dependent on underlying technology and infrastructure that the execution branch is simultaneously developing and establishing. Furthermore, the aim of the team is to improve Sandvik’s digital offering within the mining and construction industry which remains quite non-digitalised. The recent push for digital transformation within this industry is challenging large international companies to discover new ways of communicating advanced product ideas while working with product innovation, but also to identify and overcome organisational implementation obstacles and build lasting co-creation relationships with Business-to-Business (B2B) customers. Therefore, the purposes of this thesis were to: (1) find an optimal way of conducting RTD projects to develop product concepts that are validated with both customers and the organisation; (2) find ways of initiating and establishing a lasting co-creation relationship with B2B customers and to efficiently communicate product ideas and concepts that are dependent on underlying technology and infrastructure that have not been developed, implemented, or established yet; and (3) find a suitable way of collaborating within ambidextrous organisations when conducting RTD projects, and to clearly define the contents of a product handover. The results are based on literature, qualitative interviews with innovation experts and stakeholders, four separate user tests, and questionnaires. The findings were evaluated and improved by performing qualitative analysis and incorporating received stakeholder feedback, which led to the development of a framework for co-creation with B2B customers called the Temporary Innovation Space that can be applied to develop and validate product concepts with both customers and the internal organisation. It also addresses how to build a lasting co-creation relationship with B2B customers. Additionally, a part of the results clearly defines the contents of a product handover in an ambidextrous setup. Finally, interesting reflections and observations regarding collaboration, communication, cross-functional integration, co-creative relationships, effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more are discussed, and a few suggestions for further research are presented.
Det här arbetet utfördes på Sandvik och baseras på ett tidigare projekt som också utfördes på Sandvik av examensarbetets författare under hösten 2019. Arbetet är en del av ett nyligen etablerat och ambidextriöst utvecklingsteam som är uppdelat i en innovationsdel och en exekveringsdel med målet att bli en digital fabrik. En del av detta arbete inkluderar att utföra forskningsarbete till utvecklingen av en framtida produktmöjlighet (Research-To-Development, RTD). Samtidigt så är produkten som utvecklas beroende av underliggande teknologi och infrastruktur som inte ännu har utvecklats eller etablerats av exekveringsbenet. Fortsättningsvis så är teamets mål att förbättra Sandviks digitala produkturval inom gruvindustrin vars digitalisering fortfarande är i ett relativt tidigt stadium. De kliv som gruvindustrin nyligen har tagit mot digital transformation utmanar dessa stora företag att upptäcka nya sätt att kommunicera avancerade produktidéer, men även att identifiera och överkomma organisatoriska implementeringshinder och bygga upp varaktiga samarbeten med Business-to-Business-kunder (B2B). Arbetets syften var att; (1) hitta ett optimalt sätt att utföra forskningsarbeten för utveckling av produktkoncept som är validerade hos både kunder och organisationen; (2) hitta sätt att initiera och etablera varaktiga samarbeten med B2B-kunder och metoder för att effektivt kommunicera produktidéer som är beroende av underliggande teknologi och infrastruktur som ännu inte har utvecklats, implementerats eller etablerats; och (3) hitta ett lämpligt sätt att kollaborera inom en ambidextriös organisation medans RTD-projekt utförs och att tydligt definiera innehållet i en produktöverlämning. Resultaten är baserade på litteraturstudier, kvalitativa intervjuer med innovationsexperter och andra intressenter, fyra tester med slutanvändare, och frågeformulär. Resultaten utvärderades och förbättrades genom att utföra kvalitativ analys och genom att inkludera återkoppling från intressenter. Utifrån detta utvecklades ett ramverk för samskapande, kallat Temporary Innovation Space, som kan appliceras för utveckling och validering av produktkoncept med både kunder och den interna organisationen. Ramverket kan även användas för att etablera varaktiga förhållanden med B2Bkunder. Dessutom föreslår resultaten från detta projekt vad en produktöverlämning bör innehålla i ett ambidextriöst team. Slutligen diskuteras även intressanta observationer angående kollaboration, kommunikation, tvärfunktionell integration, samskapande samarbeten, effekterna av COVID-19 pandemin, med mera. Avslutningsvis ges flera förslag för framtida forskning.

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Frean, David H. "The phenomenology of the concepts and cognitive structure of chief executives' strategies for managing their organizations : the place of rationality and rhetoric in gaining employee commitment." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387168.

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Welen, Christoffer. "Emotionally Intelligent Leadership : A qualitative exploration of the sub concepts that contextualize the leadership style that comes from emotional intelligence." Thesis, Linnaeus University, Linnaeus School of Business and Economics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6491.

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The aim of this study was to understand, clarify, and explain emotional intelligence, as well as possible sub concepts that are correlated to, and might also influence and shape, the leadership style that comes from emotional intelligence. Through Daniel Goleman’s (1995) bestseller: Emotional Intelligence, the topic has emerged rapidly during the last two decades and has been implemented in various settings, and among them as a leadership style. Now, even though emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) has been touched upon in research to a certain level, there is no established map that explains the leadership style or its context. That is the gap this thesis is trying to close. By analyzing five books (from representatives of both the ability model and the mixed model) concerning strictly emotionally intelligent leadership, I wanted to discover what contextual perception these authors had of the leadership style and its context. The empirical study showed that the authors discussed a total of nine sub concepts which could be placed in the surrounding of EIL. After the analysis, the nine concepts were narrowed down to seven, which shape and influence this leadership style. Those seven concepts are acting, communication, gender, humor, mood, symbolic management and training and development. The development of emotional intelligence, emotionally intelligent leadership and its contextual concepts have also been presented through a model called: Linnaeus Model of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and its Contextual Sub Concepts. This paper is a first effort at mapping the terrain of this emotional way of leading, and I hope that scholars and researchers within the study area, as well as practitioners and consultants (especially within leadership, management and HR) will find this paper useful.

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Rukanova, Boriana. "Business transactions and standards towards a system of concepts and a method for early problem identification in standa[r]d implementation projects /." Enschede : University of Twente [Host], 2005. http://doc.utwente.nl/50864.

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Bicak, Kemal [Verfasser]. "International Knowledge (Transfer) Management : Models, Concepts and Solutions for Facilitating Knowledge Transfer Processes in a Multilingual and Multicultural Business Environment / Kemal Bicak." Aachen : Shaker, 2005. http://d-nb.info/1186580771/34.

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Le, Coze Jean-Christophe. "De l'investigation d'accident à l'évaluation de la sécurité industrielle : proposition d'un cadre interdisciplinaire (concepts, méthode, modèle)." Phd thesis, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00636888.

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Cette thèse propose un cadre d'approche interdisciplinaire pour la sécurité industrielle. Celui-ci est explicité et illustré par l'intermédiaire de plusieurs étapes. La première, empirique, présente une investigation d'accident majeur. Il est montré d'une part que ce dernier peut s'appréhender à la lumière d'une articulation de différents points de vue disciplinaires (sciences de l'ingénieur, ergonomie, sociologie, gestion, juridique) qui éclairent des questions d'ordre technologique, de situation de travail, d'organisation (et de gestion) ainsi que de réglementation et de contrôle par les autorités. Le résultat obtenu n'entre dans aucune discipline spécifique et possède un caractère hybride, à la croisée de chemins. Ce cas d'accident interroge d'autre part la nature dynamique et événementielle, contingente et unique des accidents technologiques majeurs. Ces deux points, synthétisés dans une deuxième étape, entrainent vers une exploration de la complexité, sous l'angle philosophique. Cette notion de complexité, envisagée comme une 'méta-catégorie épistémique' dans une troisième étape, permet ainsi de déboucher sur la caractérisation d'un 'style' cognitif d'approche de la connaissance, indiquant la nécessité, dans la situation contemporaine des sciences, d'explorer des stratégies de recherche pluri, inter (voire trans)disciplinaire. A l'issue de cette exploration à la fois des disciplines et de la complexité, un modèle de sécurité industrielle est proposé. Cette quatrième étape conceptualise les liens entre plusieurs dimensions clés de la sécurité industrielle, prenant en compte de manière combinée l'intrication du technologique et du social. Enfin, dans la dernière étape, ce modèle est illustré par une étude de cas. Elle montre comment le modèle fournit concrètement une structuration pour la collecte et l'interprétation des données, qui reposent sur la mobilisation d'une approche par les incidents (exploitant la valeur heuristique de l'événement) et par le 'mode normal'.

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