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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 4396 avhandlingar innehållade ordet industry.
21. Change in the Pharmaceutical Industry : Aspects on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Openness, and Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Over the past century, the pharmaceutical industry has been a major contributor of individual and population health and societal wealth. Its products and services have contributed to longevity of large groups of patients and symptom relief from major diseases. LÄS MER
22. Returning to Work : geographies of Employment in Turbulent Times
Sammanfattning : This thesis adds to theorizations of resilience, by placing workers and employment on the center stage. This has been addressed by contextualizing gross employment changes and workers’ way back to employment after redundancy. Swedish longitudinal microdata from 1990-2010 were used. LÄS MER
23. 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
24. Developing efficient industrial systems through increased integration : applications in the forest industry
Sammanfattning : The starting point of this work is that it is possible for an industry to increase its product value and simultaneously decrease its use of resources and production of waste material if its material and energy flows are effectively integrated into a larger system. The character and the extent of a company's environmental impact is to a large extent determined in this interaction between companies and other external actors. LÄS MER
25. Design i informationsåldern : Om strategisk design, historia och praktik
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the change in design where companies came to regard it as a strategic asset. A background to the change was the emerging Information age with a global competition, flexible production and saturated markets. Consumption became more symbolic and less material. LÄS MER