Essays about: "openness of economy"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words openness of economy.

  1. 21. Managing service innovation in SMEs – identified barriers and a two-node innovation process

    University essay from KTH/Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.)

    Author : Dann C. Haimovitch; [2015]
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    Abstract : The service sector is steadily increasing in the worldwide economy, but still, innovation research mainly focuses on tangible products and systems. The purpose with this thesis is to contribute to the blurry boundary between research on product development and service development, by identifying barriers to manage a service innovation process and specifically how a service innovation process shall be adapted to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) providing Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS). READ MORE

  3. 22. Service Innovations within Extended Responsibilities - a study of post-retail initiatives in the textile and clothing industry

    University essay from Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Hannah Fell; Irene Montes; [2015]
    Keywords : Service; Service Innovation; Extended Producer Responsibility; Extended Responsibility; Open Innovation; Circular Economy; Business Concept;

    Abstract : Abstract Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate businesses with Service Innovations (SI) that take voluntary Extended Responsibility (ER) in the post-retail textile and clothing industry. Through an investigation of multiple cases the research describes various existing Service Innovations and explains how they affect Extended Responsibilities. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Development of Labour’s Share in the Swedish Transport and Communication Sector 1920-2000

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Julia Ekberg; [2014]
    Keywords : Factor shares; labour’s share; transport and communication sector; Sweden; time series analysis; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Most OECD-countries, including Sweden, have during the last decades experienced a declining trend in the labour’s share – the ratio of incomes from employment in relation to the economy’s total income (GDP). This thesis analyses the declining labour’s share of the Swedish transport and communication sector 1920-2000. READ MORE

  5. 24. China and the Great Doubling: A race to the top or bottom for world labour standards?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Ed Whitfield; [2014]
    Keywords : China; globalisation; labour; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Through economic openness, increased capital mobility and the resulting competition to innovate, the globalisation of capitalism ought to increase the wealth and living standards of all involved. However, in order for all to be involved, they must be of value to that economy. READ MORE

  6. 25. EFFECTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON WAGES IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 2002-2008

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Andres Mella Jimenez De Munana; [2013]
    Keywords : Wages; Foreign Direct Investment; Manufacturing; Political Economy; China; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze the effects of FDI on wages in the manufacturing sector from 2002-2008 in 33 different countries. The introductory chapter will review existing literature, distinguishing between neoclassical, political economy and sociology approaches. READ MORE