Essays about: "case studies in accounting management"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words case studies in accounting management.
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1. Lost in The Grocery Aisle: Navigating the challenges of food waste management through performance measurement systems and sensemaking
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This paper aims to uncover how Sustainability Performance Measurement Systems (SPMS), and more specifically KPIs, can be used as tools to make sense of the challenges inherent to sustainability management, within the specific empirical setting of food waste. Through a case study based on a global food retailer in Sweden, we aim to comprehend how employees use food waste KPIs to make sense of the challenges inherent to food waste management. READ MORE
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2. Climate Action in Energy Infrastructure to Support the SDGs : Mainstreaming Climate Activities across the Project Lifecycle
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : To mitigate and adapt to climate change, full-scale climate action requires vast investments in supporting infrastructure across all sectors. Among all infrastructure sectors, energy generation and distribution are the largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 37% of the world’s combined emissions. READ MORE
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3. Pre-decision control mechanisms of strategic investment decision - A multiple case study on the application and dynamism of pre-decision controls in Swedish real estate companies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Summary Title - Pre-decision control mechanisms of strategic investment decision - A multiple case study on the application and dynamism of pre-decision controls in Swedish real estate companies Hand-In Date - 28 May 2023 Seminar date - 31 May 2023 Course - BUSN79 Degree Project: Accounting and Finance Authors - Thomas Lo & Yumeng Guo Advisor - Anders Anell Five Keywords - Strategic investment decision (SID), Pre-decision control, Commercial real estate, Property investment, Uncertainty Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate how pre-decision control mechanisms are applied in strategic investment decisions, and what contextual factors could influence the pre-decision control mechanisms. To fufill the purpose, the study examined the use of pre-decision controls in different strategic investment decision processes and the relationship between contextual factors and the dimensions of applied pre-decision controls, with a main focus on current increasing uncertainty. READ MORE
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4. Digitalization for the better? A case study of the role of MA in a dynamic capabilities process for digital transformation.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Dynamic capabilities are the antecedent of organizational and strategic routine by which managers alter their resource base to generate new value which creates strategies. The role of management accounting has largely been overlooked in the sense that previous literature has delineated its capacity to aid with strategic decision-making by moving away from its bean counter stereotype. READ MORE
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5. Family-owned SMEs: Role models of crisis management A case study of how the practice of crisis management has been performed by nine Swedish family-owned SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Despite SMEs accounting for 99,9% of all registered firms in Sweden and that non-listed family-owned firms outperform their counterparts during crises, previous studies have neglected the field, resulting in an undiscovered void. Quantitative studies performed in the area serve a purpose for discovering how family-owned SMEs financially distinguish from other firms, but unfortunately such studies miss the important variable: what do they actually do? Through this qualitative study of crisis management as practice, we bridge the quantitative and qualitative, and present how Swedish family-owned SMEs have practiced crisis management during the Covid-19 pandemic. READ MORE
