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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 126 avhandlingar innehållade orden service transition.
1. Managing the Industrial Service Function
Sammanfattning : During the past decade, growing attention has been given to industrial service offerings in the marketing literature as well as in many manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is often described as a goods-services transition, in which companies increasingly turn to the provision of industrial services in order to achieve competitive advantage, such a closer customer relationships and higher profit margins. LÄS MER
2. Swift transition and knowledge cycling : A study of knowledge transfer in technical consulting
Sammanfattning : The prominent shifts towards greater flexibility in work arrangements as well as in organizational forms have had profound effects on the labor market for engineers, and given rise to the technical consulting industry. The technical consulting firm is becoming increasingly important in many technology-based industries, as a growing number of technology-based firms rely on technical consulting firms to produce their outputs. LÄS MER
3. Crash-Landing in a Turbulent Transition Market : A Legitimating Activity?
Sammanfattning : With the transition of Central Eastern European countries, a number of foreign companies saw opportunities to enter this virgin ground for business that was evolving. For many firms the entry into these countries became problematic due to the turbulence. LÄS MER
4. Navigating Manufacturing Firms to Service-led Business Models
Sammanfattning : This thesis tackles an increasingly popular phenomenon – servitization of manufacturing – a growth opportunity for industrial firms through a service-led business model. However, implementing a servitization strategy in industrial firms triggers multifaceted challenges and requires further research. LÄS MER
5. Devising Capabilities : Service Design for Development Interventions
Sammanfattning : Despite the progress in recent decades, one in ten people globally still live in extreme poverty, and this number is set to increase in the coming years. Designing interventions to improve well-being and livelihoods is challenging because poverty is multidimensional and plays out in complex, adaptive social-ecological systems, where behaviours and practices at the local level can have unintended consequences elsewhere in the system. LÄS MER