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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden foundry industry.
1. The unexpected implications of opening up innovation : A multi-perspective study of the role of Open Innovation practices in mature industries
Sammanfattning : The way firms innovate has notably changed in recent years. A clear example is the manufacturing sector which has been experiencing a new revolution in production and innovation. Linked to this industrial shift, manufacturing firms have been adopting more open and collaborative practices to innovate. LÄS MER
2. Perspektiv på Patron : Bruksägaren och statsministern Christian Lundeberg (1842–1911)
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a biography of the industrialist and statesman Christian Lundeberg, a leading and stongly pronounced conservative actor in Swedish political life during the decades around1900, but nowadays almost forgotten. The purpose is to identify the main forces – convictions as well as external factors – behind his actions. LÄS MER
3. Towards Increased Energy Efficiency in Swedish Industry : Barriers, Driving Forces & Policies
Sammanfattning : Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming. A higheruse of electricity than their European competitors, together with increased energy costs due to increasing energy prices in Swedish industry have negative impacts on results and competitiveness. LÄS MER
4. Combining simulation and optimization for improved decision support on energy efficiency in industry
Sammanfattning : Industrial production systems in general are very complex and there is a need for decision support regarding management of the daily production as well as regarding investments to increase energy efficiency and to decrease environmental effects and overall costs. Simulation of industrial production as well as energy systems optimization may be used in such complex decision-making situations. LÄS MER
5. Bruksmakt och maktbruk : Robertsfors AB 1897-1968
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies seven strategic decisions made in the family-owned forestry company Robertsfors AB, in Northern Sweden. During the present century Robertsfors AB has developed from a patriarchally concern controlled into a capitalistic industrial company. This also meant a radical change in the decisionmaking process. LÄS MER