Essays about: "comparative case"

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1. 21. Exploring Responsible Innovation through a Gender Lens: A Comparative Case Study of Male and Female Leadership in Business

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Lina Breiter; [2023-07-19]
   Keywords : Responsible Innovation; male and female leadership; gender; risk management; reflexivity; inclusion; agility;

   Abstract : During increasinly turbulent times, both in markets, society and the environment, the need for responsibility is high. Striving towards the desired outcomes and avoiding the undesired ones for innovations becomes crucial, especially since the stakes are high due to globalization and complex ecosystems. READ MORE

3. 22. The Challenges of Social Enterprises in Balancing Economic, Social, and Environmental Tradeoffs: Comparative Case Study of Hybrid Organizing- Swedish Context.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Teame Gebremedhn Gebrai; [2023-07-18]
   Keywords : hybrid organizing; long-term collaboration; creating shared values; common initiatives; socioeconomic vulnerable; societal transformation; co-creation of values; cross-sector functional teams; inclusive and circular models;

   Abstract : Purpose -This master thesis is to investigate the challenges of sustainability and to understand how massive effort of collaborative hybrid organizing, involving multiple stakeholders from private, public, and civil societies balance or aligns the activities that generate economic, social, and environmental impacts. And to analyze the effects of competition between the investors interested in the joint collaborative initiatives. READ MORE

4. 23. CO-OPS and UNIONS: allies or rivals? A comparative analysis of union density and co-op employment density.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Jesper Eurén; [2023-06-29]
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   Abstract : While cooperatives and unions are two different approaches to the same problems, and while they are ideological siblings, the relationship between the two organisations is complicated. The benefit of each organisation is well established in the literature and much of the contemporary literature on co-ops is based in advocacy work either by co-op federations or a handful of niche scholars. READ MORE

5. 24. Mastering the shift: exploring external CEO successions in a comparative case study

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Nils Karlflo; [2023-06-29]
   Keywords : Actor-Network Theory; ANT; actors; negotiations; Sociology of translation; Management; Corporate Governance; CEO successions; CEO retirements; CEO departure; chief executive officer; boards; chairman of the board; externalizing; owner-led; owner-steered; owner-led companies; process theory; translation theory; family successions;

   Abstract : This paper critically examines the claim made by previous research that explains CEO successions as a result of a linear process, influenced by isolated factors of causality succeeding one another. Thus, it seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of the process of CEO successions, acknowledges the complexity, ambiguity, and unpredictability in its nature. READ MORE

6. 25. GOVERNANCE BEYOND BORDERS The Extraterritorial Reach of OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Mirja Sund; [2023-06-20]
   Keywords : Business and human rights; Non-judicial mechanisms; Extraterritoriality; OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; OECD National Contact Points;

   Abstract : As increasingly powerful actors in a globalised world, multinational corporations are often able to evade responsibility for human rights violations and other misconduct occurring in their own operations or supply chains. Since courts face limitations when attempting to exert jurisdiction outside of their state territories, state-based non-judicial mechanisms such as the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) have been established to fill this gap by mediating between corporations and victims of corporate human rights abuses with the aim of providing remedy to the latter. READ MORE