Essays about: "power in business"

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1. 6. The new era of Electric Vehicles: Rolling out the Energy Storage Solution of Tomorrow - A single case study investigating fleet customers' opportunities and challenges with adopting Vehicle-to-Grid technology, to identify complexities and important considerations when accelerating the implementation.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Fanny Söderström; Maria Nordin; [2023-07-20]
   Keywords : Innovation; Sustainability; Technology Adoption; Electrical Distribution; Power Grid; Electric Vehicles; Energy Storage Solutions; Renewable Energy; V2X; Vehicle-to-Grid; V2G;

   Abstract : The following thesis investigates the complexities of implementing the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology. It explores the perceived benefits and challenges that fleet customers within an automotive company have towards the technology. READ MORE

3. 7. 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

4. 8. 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

5. 9. Energy justice and gender implications on prodcutive uses of energy. A case study based in rural Bolivia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Adriana Fernandez Villalobos; [2023]
   Keywords : energy; women; gender; justice; rural; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This research investigates the gender dimension of the impacts of access to clean and modern energy and technology in productive uses of energy. Rural organizations led by women supported by the EnDev project Bolivia were selected for a multi-site case study. READ MORE

6. 10. Unveiling the Predictive Power

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Alex Lundvall; Gabriel Ahonen; [2023]
   Keywords : Stock market returns; Macroeconomic indicators; Vector Autoregression model; Granger Causality test; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : To obtain excessive returns on the stock market, investors should be able to effectively forecast what drives the fluctuations of the stock market. The usage of macroeconomic factors as indicators for stock market performances has been utilized more profoundly in recent times. READ MORE