Essays about: "global sourcing problems"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words global sourcing problems.

  1. 1. Global Impact Investors’ Assessment of Early-Stage Social Ventures Through Digital Signals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ayesha Khalid; Dian Anindya Pramudito; [2023]
    Keywords : Impact Investing; Impact Investor; Social Venture; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Decision Making; Digital Signalling; Early Stage Venture; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Over the past decades, social impact investment has become popular because of its potential to solve pertinent world problems by financing social enterprises. This study focuses on assessing the influence of digital signals towards impact investors’ decision-making process when evaluating early-stage social ventures using digital media, by conducting exploratory qualitative research (semi-structured interviews) with 14 global impact investors (equity) who are investing in social ventures from pre-seed to series A stage. READ MORE

  3. 2. Digitalisation of sourcing processes – A case study at Axis Communications AB

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistik

    Author : Elaine Nilsson; Josefine Westberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Sourcing; digitisation; digitalisation; digital sourcing; sourcing technologies; Axis Communications AB; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Title: Digitalisation of sourcing processes – A case study at Axis Communications Authors: Elaine Nilsson & Josefine Westberg Supervisor: Karin Forsberg, Commodity Manager, Axis Communications AB Daisy Wang, Project Purchaser, Axis Communications AB Louise Bildsten, Department of Industrial Management & Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University Examiner: Jan Olhager, Department of Industrial Management & Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University Background: Axis Communications AB is a global network surveillance company based in Lund, Sweden. Axis assemble and store some components and products in their own facilities, however manufacturing is handled by contract manufacturers. READ MORE

  4. 3. Feeding the 45 million : substituting soybean protein with insect protein within EU poultry and egg production

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Douglas Hunter; [2019]
    Keywords : insects; insect production; livestock feed; entomophagy; land use; futures research; food security; energy security; black soldier fly; mealworm; house cricket; sustainable development;

    Abstract : A global population increasing both in number and in resource consumption per capita has resulted in food, livestock feed and energy crop demands that are increasingly difficult to meet on rapidly degrading soils within a diminishing available area of arable land. With further expansion of agricultural land infeasible and yield increases through further intensification insufficient to meet the scale of predicted crop demand, the use of insects as an animal feed has gained traction as a method of not only reducing competition for arable land, but also some of the detrimental environmental consequences of livestock and conventional feed production. READ MORE

  5. 4. Collaboration to address a wicked problem : the case of certified palm oil

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Emma Lindahl; Joakim Widén; [2015]
    Keywords : Collaboration; corporate social responsibility; dialogue; industrial collaboration; multi-stakeholder collaboration; palm oil; wicked problem;

    Abstract : Corporations meet complex challenges as they operate on a global market. Global multidimensional problems are referred to wicked problems and which cannot be solved only managed. In this case, of certified palm oil, palm oil production can be seen as a wicked problem due to deforestation of rainforest, land grabbing and social conflicts. READ MORE

  6. 5. Managing Supplier Innovation: A Case Study of the Wind-Turbine Industry

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Daniel Karimi; Ole Christian Ihalainen; [2014-12-12]
    Keywords : buyer-supplier relationship; open innovation; supplier innovation; supplier segmentation; supplier interface; hidden knowledge; simple versus complex innovation problem; radical versus incremental innovation; exploration versus exploitation; supplier involvement; global sourcing; risk-return trade-off; ambidexterity;

    Abstract : Having reliable supplier relationship is one of the main sources for companies’ open innovation strategy, exploring and raising the level of innovativeness. Consequently, managing open innovation is a crucial challenge for managers, particularly in many high tech industries, where the interests of buyer and supplier change constantly. READ MORE