Sökning: "Alexandra Waluszewski"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Alexandra Waluszewski.
1. When Information Technology Faces Resource Interaction : Using IT Tools to Handle Products at IKEA and Edsbyn
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the interplay between IT and the other resources in business networks. IT tools are important facilities that firms utilize in several managerial tasks. LÄS MER
2. Framing Technological Development in a Concrete Context : The Use of Wood in the Swedish Construction Industry
Sammanfattning : An understanding of the factors that condition technological development is of vital importance for business theory as well as for practitioners. The contextual setting of the development constitutes one area of inquiry into this research field. LÄS MER
3. Cracks in the Ivory Tower : Antibiotics Research and the Changes in Academia 1980-2015
Sammanfattning : At the same time as resistance to antibiotics became an increasingly problematic health care concern around the world, major changes occurred in the condition scientists faced when conducting university-based research. This thesis aims to study these changes as they applied to antibacterial and bacteriological research, and how they influenced the researchers’ ability to make new scientific discoveries. LÄS MER
4. Success as Science but Burden for Business? : On the difficult relationship between scientific advancement and innovation
Sammanfattning : Today, a general policy and investment recipe for economic growth and innovation, on both a national and an international level, is to base commercial ventures on novel scientific solutions. From this perspective, scientific research is seen as an untapped source of innovation, and the ambition is to make new scientific knowledge more easily transferable to business settings, where it is supposed to generate direct economic benefits. LÄS MER
5. China's Creation of Biopharmaceutical Drugs : Combining Political Steering, Military Research, and Transnational Networking
Sammanfattning : Not only the Western world is focused on creating new innovations based on scientific discoveries; this is also the case in China where discoveries in biotechnology science are aimed at creating new biopharmaceutical drugs in order to create a future biotechnology industry and in the end generate economic growth. The focus to invest in high-tech industries such as biotechnology can be traced to the “open-door policy” issued in 1978 with the aim to modernize China and transform China into a “socialistic market economy. LÄS MER