Sökning: "industrial competitiveness"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden industrial competitiveness.

  1. 16. Opening the black box of material criticality : heterogeneity and interrelations of companies within and across industrial sectors

    Författare :Yulia Lapko; Cali Nuur; Paolo Trucco; Aristides Matopoulos; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Critical materials; Identification; Mitigation; Company; Supply chain; Inter-sectoral competition; Buyer-supplier power relations; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

    Sammanfattning : The concept of ‘material criticality’ has been introduced to examine availability and accessibility of natural resources that underlie industrial competitiveness and deployment of strategic technologies, such as electric mobility or wind turbines. The academic and policy discourse conceptualised material criticality rather as a black box, assuming industrial sectors to be monolithic, homogeneous and independent entities, neglecting complexity of the company dimension. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Performance Improvement : a method to support performance improvement in industrial operations

    Författare :Thomas Grünberg; Peter Gröndahl; Mats Jackson; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this research was to: Develop and evaluate a method which supports performance improvement in industrial operations. This has been done through several case studies and literature research. The result is a scientifically evaluated Performance Improvement Method. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Innovation and Efficiency : a Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizing Industrial Firms

    Författare :Mats Magnusson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; innovation; efficiency; knowledge; organizing; knowledge creation; knowledge exploitation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the organizing of industrial firms that face the challenge of achieving high levels of both innovation and efficiency, taking a knowledge-based approach to this classical trade-off. With a constructionist perspective as a point of departure, knowledge, which contains tacit and explicit components, is seen to exist at both the individual and the organizational level. LÄS MER

  5. 19. The retailer's role in car distribution : a study of competitiveness, market communication, and knowledge in a changing context

    Författare :Anders Parment; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis, entitled The Retailer's Role in Car Distribution, deals with three areas important to the understanding of retail strategies and the retailer's role in the distribution of cars. First of all, different views on competitiveness are analyzed. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Stimulating Industrial Development in Uganda Through Open Innovation Incubators

    Författare :Joshua Mutambi; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Systems; Industrialization; Open Innovation; incubators; Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs ;

    Sammanfattning : Uganda’s economy is agro-based; although the country is land locked it has great potential for industrial development. It is well endowed with natural resources and salubrious climate, but with little success in transforming its agricultural and mineral wealth into processed commodities for local, regional and international markets. LÄS MER