Sökning: "companies"
Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 1853 avhandlingar innehållade ordet companies.
26. Lärande i teamorganiserad produktion : en studie av tre industriföretag
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis was to use case studies of three manufacturing companies to describe and problematize the significance of team-based production for the operatives' learning conditions and learning activities, and to describe how these change over a period of time.The view of learning on which the thesis is based can be described as an integrative view, where the learning perspective is directed towards work and the working duties of the team, the organizational context and the ideas. LÄS MER
27. Life Cycle Costing : Supporting companies towards a circular economy
Sammanfattning : Increased consumption has resulted in the depletion of non-renewable resources and an explosion in waste. A circular economy proposes to sustain economic growth but decouple it from resource consumption by keeping products and materials in the economy. LÄS MER
28. Communicating performance measures : Supporting continuous improvement in manufacturing companies
Sammanfattning : Manufacturing enterprises are a key driver of economic growth (Eurostat, 2016). Implementing continuous improvement (CI) is commonly used to increase competitiveness (Hyland et al., 2007), but despite the well-known theory of CI, many manufacturing companies fail in implementing it (Bhasin, 2012; Nordin et al., 2012; Tiwari et al. LÄS MER
29. External collaborations in multinational pharmaceutical companies
Sammanfattning : Traditionally, the internal research and development (R&D) departments of multinational companies (MNCs) have served as a main driver of MNCs innovative capacity. Today’s high pace of change and competitive landscape have forced MNCs however to look beyond their organizational boundaries and to involve external organizations in their R&D for technological advancement and innovation. LÄS MER
30. Institutional Logics and Accounting Professionals : The case of K2 and K3
Sammanfattning : Accounting firms have long been considered a ‘black box’ in the literature, but over the last two decades or so, a growing body of literature has emerged which points to how the accounting profession may be seen as a profession in transformation, one in which the underlying logic of their work has gone from emphasizing professional values to one in which commercial values constitute the main rules of the game.This thesis draws upon and add to this literature as it directs attention to how co-existing and potentially conflicting institutional logics enable and constrain accounting professionals, in practice and over time. LÄS MER
