Essays about: "professional Service Firms"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 65 essays containing the words professional Service Firms.

1. 21. Aligning Management’s Efforts and Employees’ Motivation - A mixed method study of personnel control through training in Swedish dental care

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Tobias Johansson; Frida Ekström; [2019]
   Keywords : Management Control; Motivation; Professional Service Firms; Retention; Training; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The study shows how a professional service firm can manage intrinsic motivation by using training as a personnel control and how training can help when implementing cultural controls cultural. The results show that professionals’ perceive that all the needs for intrinsic motivation are positively related to training, with autonomy having the strongest relation, while extrinsic motivation to a large extent is not related to the training. READ MORE

3. 22. The Role of Standardization and Adaptation in the Marketing Mix : A case study on a professional service firm

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Michelle Larsson; Karin Jakobsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Standardization; Adaptation; Marketing Mix; 7Ps; Internationalisation; Service Firm; PSF;

   Abstract : Background: The service sector has grown immensely during the last decades and the demand for services is increasing. For professional service firms (PSFs) that want to internationalize and move to other markets, it is important to know how to attract customers and how to accommodate their needs. READ MORE

4. 23. Unpacking followership in a management consultancy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Elanor Jacobs; Saga Gardevärn; [2019]
   Keywords : Followership; social constructions; professional service firms; PSFs; knowledge intensive firms; KIFs; management consultancy; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose – The purpose behind our study was to understand how individuals socially construct followership in a management consultancy. We did this through exploring the relations between consultants and their selected leaders, as well as through exploring how they related to the notion of followership. READ MORE

5. 24. Unmasking Identities in a Professional Service Firm

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Elsa Miras Olsson; Corina Muscalu; [2019]
   Keywords : organizational culture; sensemaking; organizational identity; organizational identification; professional identity; professional identification; professional service firms PSFs ; professional workers professionals; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose We aim to investigate how professionals make sense of the culture in the context of PSFs and how they engage in organizational and professional identification. Methodology The researchers look into the sensemaking processes professionals attach to organizational culture from a symbolic interactionism tradition, while from a critical perspective challenging the mainstream assumptions about culture and identity by recognizing the influence of power and control in organizational contexts. READ MORE

6. 25. "A String of Pearls" - Exploring Organizational Motives and Challenges of Creative Agency Acquisitions by Leading Management Consulting Firms

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Charlotte Bos; Fabian Lundberg; [2019]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Creative agency acquisitions by leading management consulting firms is a phenomenon that was recently discovered. Therefore, very few studies have explored M&As within this specific context. READ MORE