Essays about: "resource dependency theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 essays containing the words resource dependency theory.

  1. 1. Voices from Rwanda

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Daphne Lindberg Spångvall; [2024]
    Keywords : Developing countries; Institutional theory; Foreign Investment; CSR; Entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore how the institutional environment in which an organization operates affects the work with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in developing countries. The study has been conducted as a case study in Rwanda, collecting data using a qualitative study with in-depth interviews with three core groups: local entrepreneurs, foreign investors, and government organizations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Symbiosis in Open Innovation: Small Firms' Dance with Large Companies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Carl Fröblom; Evelina Holmstedt; Ragnvald Løkholm-Alvestad; [2024]
    Keywords : Open innovation; Licensing; Asymmetric Partnerships; Challenges; Management; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges that small firms face when engaging in open innovation by out-licensing to larger companies. Additionally, it aims to investigate the strategies that these small firms use to manage the challenges. READ MORE

  4. 3. Incorporation of Environmental Features into Peacebuilding Initiatives at Three Actor Leadership Levels : A Case Study of Liberia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Mathilda Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Environmental Peacebuilding; Conflict; Natural resources; Forest resources; Forest resource management; Human needs; Actors in peacebuilding; Community forestry; Liberia;

    Abstract : Environmental change and degradation, and increasing intrastate armed conflict are two pressing challenges of our time. Regions with highest rates of intrastate armed conflict have shown to overlap with regions of highest dependency on natural resources for livelihood provision and survival, where research of interrelatedness between conflict and environmental degradation, the environment-conflict nexus, increased during the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. TEMPERATURE RISING : Conditions Under Which Climate Change Leads to Conflict

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Per Risberg; [2023]
    Keywords : climate change; vulnerability; QCA; fsQCA; resource scarcity; state capacity; development; conflict;

    Abstract : Recently, it has been recognized that climate change will result in conflict only in combination with certain conditions. However, most studies have focused on short-term climate hazards and not long-term climate change. READ MORE

  6. 5. Power Dynamics in Business-Sociopolitical Network : Analysis of the South Korea-Japan Trade Dispute 2019–2023

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Frida Söderquist; Linnéa Söderquist; [2023]
    Keywords : Business-Sociopolitical Network; Context; Power Dynamics; Ties; Resource Dependency; Relationship Maintenance; Institutional Forces; Korea-Japan Trade Dispute; Business-sociopolitiskt nätverk; kontext; maktdynamik; förbindelser; resursberoende; upprätthållande av relation; institutionella tryck; Korea-Japan handelskonflikt;

    Abstract : This study examines power factors (resource dependence, attraction of relationship maintenance, and institutional forces) in relation to actors' behaviors and ties of varying strength between them within a network of business and sociopolitical spheres. The focus is on Samsung Electronics and Asahi Breweries in the context of the ROK-Japan trade dispute (2019-2023). READ MORE