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1. On Manufacturing Strategies : Competing Through Inter-Organizational Collaboration
Sammanfattning : Globalization increases the competition among small and medium sized companies. It is possible for their customers, often large systems integrators, to choose suppliers from all around the world. Swedish suppliers are often not competitive only regarding cost consequently simple work tasks are more and more located in low wage countries. LÄS MER
2. A Strategic Perspective on Plants in Manufacturing Networks
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the topic of manufacturing network strategies, with a particular focus on the plant perspective. Research on manufacturing networks aims at contributing decision support on how to set up and how to coordinate factories that act in a global setting. LÄS MER
3. Tackling barriers to firm trade : liberalisation, migration and servification
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses how to tackle barriers to firm trade and the consequences thereof. In Essay 1, we carefully model trade liberalisation scenarios that include the key elements of the WTO Doha round, scenarios that are implemented in a computable general equilibrium model. LÄS MER
4. Coordination of international manufacturing networks
Sammanfattning : Due to globalisation, many companies have established or acquired production plants worldwide in order to capture the market opportunities that lay beyond their national borders. This has resulted in the emergence of international manufacturing networks (IMNs), which consist of multiple, interdependent production plants with different characteristics within a single organisation. LÄS MER
5. Relational Networks and Family Firm Capital Structure in Thailand : Theory and Practice
Sammanfattning : Firms must access capital to remain in business. Small firms have greater difficulty accessing financial resources than have large firms because of their limited access to capital markets. These difficulties are exacerbated by information asymmetries between a small firm’ s management and capital providers. LÄS MER