Essays about: "Axel Norgren"

Found 4 essays containing the words Axel Norgren.

  1. 1. Institutional Dynamics in the Global FDI Network : Examining The Co-evolution of Institutions and FDI with Stochastic Actor-Oriented Modelling

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Axel Norgren; Martin Olsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Institutions; Foreign Direct Investment; FDI; Economic development; Social network analysis; Stochastic Actor-Oriented Modelling; Institutional Convergence;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the relationship between institutions and foreign direct investments (FDI). While the issue of how institutions attract FDI (selection) is quite well-researched, the empirical evidence for institutions spreading through FDI (influence) is more ambiguous. READ MORE

  3. 2. Thinking outside the Baltic : Swedish ambitions in Norway at the height of the Great Power Era

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Elias Norgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Swedish Empire; Denmark-Norway; Baltic Sea; Axel Oxenstierna; state formation; geopolitics; commerce; early modern nationalism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the seldom researched Swedish geopolitical interests inNorway in the first half of the 17th century, with the brief 1658 conquest of Trondheim as itscentral event of inquiry. Through the study of privy council protocols and chancellor AxelOxenstierna’s correspondence, the study builds a case for the confluence of security, commerce, andthe concepts of nations as the influencing factors that shaped Swedish imperial foreign policy in thedecades leading up to the dramatic war of 1658, yielding a theoretical construction of the Empire’sBaltic doctrine, or the Oxenstierna doctrine, as an explanatory model for Sweden’s early modernexpansion patterns. READ MORE

  4. 3. From Captivity to Emancipation. A case study of the effects on the acquired firm’s strategic core competence from different post-acquisition integration approaches

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Axel Norderyd; Linus Norgren; [2015-07-10]
    Keywords : Mergers and Acquisitions; Post-Acquisition Integration; Strategic Core Competence; New Product Development; Western Firms; Emerging Market Firms; Automotive Industry;

    Abstract : II Abstract The phenomenon of emerging market firms acquiring Western firms is an ever-increasing one in the World economy of today, often stemming from a desire to acquire knowledge, expertise, and technology, in order to spur the global competitiveness. Compared to Western firms however, which focus on synergy realization, emerging market firms seem to apply a somewhat different approach to the imperative post-acquisition phase. READ MORE

  5. 4. Kinetics of Swelling Applied on Gelatine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition (master)

    Author : Victor Norgren; [2015]
    Keywords : fluid dynamic gauging FDG ; gravimetric measurements; pseudo-sigmoidal model PSM ; pseudo-second order model; Ofner; Robinson; Hofmeister; gelatine; swelling; food engineering; livsmedelsteknik; bio-polymers; anisotropic material; Arrhenius equation; physical chemistry; photography; pharmaceutics; Agriculture and Food Sciences;

    Abstract : This report is about the measurements of swelling gelatine films of different thickness and at different temperature. The research has been mainly focused on finding a suitable model. Results have shown that the new Pseudo-Sigmoidal Model (PSM) is superior to previous quasi-second order models such as the Robinson and Ofner model. READ MORE