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Title: A study about conditions for leadership in knowledge-intensive firms. Authors: Cecilia Ekström and Niklas Sandberg Keywords: Leadership, knowledge-intensive firm, hierarchies, followers. Background: Leadership is becoming one of our greatest social myths and is considered …
Title: A study about conditions for leadership in knowledge-intensive firms. Authors: Cecilia Ekström and Niklas Sandberg Keywords: Leadership, knowledge-intensive firm, hierarchies, followers. Background: Leadership is becoming one of our greatest social myths and is considered …
… into how organizations work with motivation in order to create success in Knowledge Intensive Firms. The complexity of knowledge workers formed the base for our interest within the subject. The purpose of our thesis is to reflect upon what is written about the motivational …
Law firms are defined as knowledge-intensive companies. Due to the dependency regarding the resource of knowledge among the firms employees and to the fact that they often are categorised as a type of professional service firm. The purpose of this study is to investigate the …
En studie om kunskapsutbyte och inkubatorsystem
… economic growth in society. The main purpose of incubators is to accelerate knowledge intensive firms onto their market by both providing resources and an entrepreneurial environment. Problem Companies within incubators are encouraged to share knowledge and experience with each …
Multiple Faces of Family Discourse in a Big Four Auditing Firm
… modernity and reflexive modernization theories when we study the context of knowledge-intensive firms. In order to sharpen our focus on knowledge-intensive work, we use theories on emotional labor, esthetic labor and psychological contract. Constructionist identity theories with …
The purpose of this thesis is to look into the knowledge city concept and the preferences and requirements of companies on such a city. Furthermore, suggestions of ideal conditions in a knowledge city are proposed. The thesis has been conducted through a qualitative approach …
En balanserad historia om kunskapsintensiva företag
Background: The dependency on knowledge and competence today is more critical than earlier. Today, companies need to put more effort into identifying and filling knowledge gaps, which can be achieved through mergers and acquisitions. It is important that the companies succeed in …
Knowledge. A two-sided perspective on knowledge transfer & knowledge creation
Purpose: Our purpose is to describe and understand how a project-based, knowledge-intensive firm in the high-technology industry creates and transfers knowledge, seen from two perspectives. Methodology: Our qualitative case study has an explorative approach since earlier studies …
<em>-En fallstudie om motivation på kunskapsintensiva företag</em>
Background: Motivation is a subject that is on everyone's lips in today's knowledge-intensive firms. What is motivation and what are we motivated by? We will, through three case studies, be grappling with the notion to clarify how managers and employees' perception of the …
En fallstudie om behovet av en HR-funktion inom kunksapsintensiva företag i tillväxt
Inledning: Omorganiseringstrenden har varit stark i Sverige under 2000-talet. Ett av motiven har varit att HR-funktionens strategiska personalarbete kan bidra till kostnadseffektivitet och värdeskapande som behövs i en konkurrenskraftig miljö. Kunskapsintensiva organisationer i …
En empirisk studie om kunskapshantering
Studien har tagit sin utgångspunkt i det kunskapsintensiva arbetslivet där individen ses som kunskapsbärare. Det blir avgörande för organisationen att ta tillvara på denna kunskap och således ställs kunskapshantering centralt för studien. Syftet har varit att undersöka hur …
A Case Study
Using the models from van Maanen and Schein (1977) and Dutton et al. (1994), we have been able to investigate the socialization process and organizational identification both from the organizational as well as the individual’s perspective. The link between these two perspectives …
en fallstudie av expansiva lantbruksföretag
… farmers in their relations with the creditagency, such as personal contact, knowledge of the agricultural sector and confidencebetween the parties involved. Almost all famers experience a risk with their business, butperceive that it is acceptable in relation to what they …
