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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 89 avhandlingar innehållade orden service markets.

1. 16. A data-driven approach for Product-Service Systems design : Using data and simulation to understand the value of a new design concept

   Författare :Syed Azad Chowdhery; Marco Bertoni; Johan Wall; Tobias Larsson; Mehdi Tarkian; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Engineering design; data-driven design; conceptual phase; Value-Driven Design; Product-Service Systems; Ingenjörsdesign; datadriven design; konceptuell fas; värdedriven design; data mining;

   Sammanfattning : Global challenges such as increasingly competitive markets, low-cost competition, shorter lead time demands, and high quality/value output are transforming the business model of the company to focus beyond the performance requirements. In order to meet these challenges, companies are highly concerned with the customer perceived value, which is to connect the product with the customer in a better way and become more proactive to fulfil the customer needs, via function-oriented business models and Product-Service Systems. LÄS MER

3. 17. Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality

   Författare :Anja Tolonen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Development; Extractive Industries; Mining; Economic Growth; Women s Empowerment; Labor Markets; Africa; Criminality; Gender;

   Sammanfattning : The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing large sub-soil wealth, are sometimes linked to adverse political and macroeconomic outcomes in developing countries. LÄS MER

4. 18. Paradoxernas marknad : En studie om företagande i hemtjänsten

   Författare :Elin Vadelius; Clary Krekula; Anna-Lena Haraldsson; Gunilla Lönnbring; Roine Johansson; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; home care service; elderly care; private enterprise; quasi-markets; paradoxes; hemtjänst; äldreomsorg; företagande; kvasi-marknader; paradoxer; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to understand how individuals who run a private business in the publicly financed elderly care sector experience their conditions and opportunities as owners and managers of a business in a quasi-market.  The focus is on what happens when the home care service actor’s intentions and conceptions about how home care should be provided encounter the public realm of financing and regulation. LÄS MER

5. 19. The impacts of network effects and multi-service provision on consumer switching costs in the Swedish telecommunications market

   Författare :Pratompong Srinuan; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; broadband Internet; switching costs; tariff-mediated network effects; local network effects; calling clubs; Sweden; multiple-service; termination-based price discrimination;

   Sammanfattning : The Swedish telecommunications market has been liberalised since 1990s. Liberalisation gave an opportunity to several new entrants to enter to the market. Consumers also gained benefits from more telecom providers and services to choose from, and lower telecom prices. LÄS MER

7. 20. Essays in Industry Dynamics on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

   Författare :Florin G. Maican; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industry dynamics; imperfect competition; dynamic oligopoly model; productivity dynamics; service markets; structural estimation; R D; IT services; retail food;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four empirical essays on imperfectly competitive markets. Entry of large (“big-box”) stores along with a drastic fall in the total number of stores is a striking trend in retail markets. The first essay uses a dynamic structural model to estimate total factor productivity in retail. LÄS MER