Sökning: "local embeddedness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden local embeddedness.
1. Travels of Business Incubators Exploring Entrepreneurship Support from an Embeddedness Perspective in Uganda and Tanzania
Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to business incubation research, focused on business environments in Uganda and Tanzania. Business incubation is not a new phenomenon and research began in earnest in the 1980s. Thus, there is a broad range of studies on business incubators, how they are defined and what they do to support entrepreneurs. LÄS MER
2. Lokal förankring och global räckvidd : En studie av teknikutveckling i svensk maskinindustri : [a study of technological development in the Swedish machinery industry]
Sammanfattning : Taking its point of departure in the proliferating literature on the localised nature of learning and innovation processes, this thesis sets out to answer the question whether locally embedded firms are more innovative than other firms. The thesis is based on a questionnaire that in the autumn of 1995 was sent to firms producing machinery. LÄS MER
3. Managing Distance : Small Firm Networks at the Geographic Margins
Sammanfattning : Small businesses located in the most sparsely populated and peripheral parts of Europe are frequently believed to be marginalised with respect to the processes of economic globalisation. This thesis proposes to explore an alternative perspective for understanding how small businesses that are located at the geographical margins engage with the globalised economy. LÄS MER
4. I faderns ställe. Genus, ekonomisk förändring och den svenska förmyndarinstitutionen ca 1700-1860
Sammanfattning : In Sweden, a highly gender-specific construction of legal majo¬rity, coming of age and guardianship over children and minors was part of the pre-industrial order and it’s ar-rangements of pro¬perty rights. This thesis is a study of a gender specific legal sys¬tem and it’s interaction with economic change. LÄS MER
5. Opportunity creation as a mixed embedding process : A study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Entrepreneurial opportunities are frequently noted and addressed in the literature of immigrant entrepreneurship; however, little is known about how these entrepreneurial opportunities come into existence and how immigrant entrepreneurs create such opportunities. The purpose of this thesis is to examine why and how immigrant entrepreneurs create entrepreneurial opportunities through embedding processes in the home country and the host country. LÄS MER
