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  1. 6. Legitimationskontrollen : en studie av etiska värderingars roll i gränsöverskridande förvärv och fusioner

    Författare :Magnus Frostenson; Hans De Geer; Udo Zander; Tomas Brytting; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legitimacy; Ethics; Values; Acquisitions; Mergers; Legitimitet; Etik; Värderingar; Förvärv; Fusioner; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : From an employee perspective, the study examines the intra-firm role of ethical values in four cases where Swedish firms are acquired by or merge with foreign comptetitors. This is done by using the conceptual tool of internal legitimacy, adding up to the research question on what grounds internal legitimacy is created for changes regarding work content, work routines, and organization in the Swedish firms under study. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Contradicting Management Control Ideologies – A study of integration processes following cross-border acquisitions of large multinationals

    Författare :Peter Beusch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; mergers and acquisitions; cross-border; ideology; rhetoric; coercive power;

    Sammanfattning : The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed some of the largest cross-border acquisitions in business history. This thesis studies how key management control actors experienced the integration processes following two cross-border acquisitions. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Foreign Direct Investment by Large Swedish Firms - the Role of Economic Integration and Exchange Rates

    Författare :Johan Ekström; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Eclectic Paradigm; Strategic Objective; Exchange Rates; FDI; Economic Integration;

    Sammanfattning : Two important features of the global economy in the last few decades have been the increasing degree of regional economic integration and the increasing volatility of real exchange rates. Due to the EU membership and the single European currency, issues related to regional economic integration and exchange rate changes hold prominence on the business and political agenda in Sweden. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Food security in a changing climate : The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa

    Författare :Altaaf Mechiche-Alami; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Agriculture; land grabbing; sustainability science; Network Analysis; Earth observation; Crop model;

    Sammanfattning : Food security is one of the world’s greatest challenges. The current food system shows an entanglement across the globe which means that local farmers reliant on subsistence agriculture no longer operate in isolation of larger-scale processes within the global economy or the changing biophysical system of the planet. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Essays on restructuring and production decisions in multi-plant firms

    Författare :Katarina Hakkala; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. The common theme of the essays is the behavior of multi-plant firms. LÄS MER