Essays about: "status quo"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 247 essays containing the words status quo.

  1. 1. Education, Age Cohort, and The Status Quo of Microentrepreneurs: Evidence from Chinese "Double Innovation" Reform

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Qingrong Wu; [2024]
    Keywords : Self-employment; Young Cohort with High Educational Degrees; Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design; Difference in Difference Model; Policy Focused Study;

    Abstract : This paper examines the effectiveness of the Chinese "Double Innovation" Reform and "Entrepreneurship Leading" Policy on labor outcomes using Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2020. The study employs fuzzy regression discontinuity design and difference-in-difference models to analyze their effects on high educational degrees, self-employment, and salaried employment. READ MORE

  2. 2. Two Extreme Positions – A Gender Studies Approach to Homosexuality in Islam

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2023-08-15]
    Keywords : homosexuality; fatwa; Islam; homophobia; story of Lot; redescription;

    Abstract : In this thesis I compare two anti-gay fatwas by the Muslim scholar Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid with the book Homosexuality in Islam by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, who is a professor at Emory University. The aim is to analyze how al-Munajjid and Kugle use the story of Lot in order to unpack and present two divergent readings of homosexuality. READ MORE

  3. 3. Managing Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive SMEs: A Multiple Case Study of Balancing Exploration and Exploitation

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Anders Persson; Filip Mannefred; [2023-07-20]
    Keywords : Ambidexterity; Innovation management; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Processes; Knowledge-Intensive firms; SMEs;

    Abstract : Managing the innovation processes and strategies is a common challenge for companies due to the complexity and difficulties of creating processes that favor exploitation and exploration, and not limiting the capabilities to one or the other. Being able to have a split focus and balancing these capabilities constitutes a paradox since stability and predictability are associated with exploitation, and since risk and unpredictability are associated with exploration. READ MORE

  4. 4. Leading the Change - Digital Leaders Facilitating MNEs’ Investment Behaviour

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Patricia Jahn; Veronika Barta; [2023-07-19]
    Keywords : Digital investment behaviour; Digital transformation; Digitalisation; Digital leadership; Organisational change; Digital capabilities; Digital strategy;

    Abstract : In our ever-changing world guided by technological advancements and data-driven disruptions, enterprises need adaptation and development strategies to stay competitive. Digital transformation (DT) has great potential to help organisations maintain their market position in these turbulent times. READ MORE

  5. 5. Breaking the Status Quo? - An Analysis of Sustainability Managers' Change Efforts

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Lucas Rennkamp; Alicia Schmidt; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Sustainability Managers; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Sustainability Logic; Sustainable Business Development; Institutional Theory; Institutional Logic; Qualitative Research;

    Abstract : Societal expectations towards corporations to include social, environmental and ethical considerations have grown in importance, and corporations largely depend on so-called sustainability managers to help them meet these expectations. This thesis provides one of the first studies into how sustainability managers work and asks: how do sustainability managers work to change their organisation for a more sustainable future? Through interviews with 18 senior sustainability managers and an analysis of the empirical findings through institutional entrepreneurship and institutional logics theory, this study identifies sustainability managers as individual actors who adopt strategic approaches and work practices similar to institutional entrepreneurs and shows their efforts to institutionalise sustainability by hybridising it with the perceived dominant market logic and by establishing legitimacy. READ MORE