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- Andersson, Roy, et al.
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Lean Six Sigma strategy in telecom manufacturing
- 2014
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In: Industrial management & data systems. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0263-5577 .- 1758-5783. ; 114:6, s. 904-921
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Lean Six Sigma strategy ensures flexible, robust, and efficient processes. However, to make them more agile in order to sustain in today’s highly competitive environment, something more is required. This could include staff training, strengthening company culture and collaborating with key partners in the supply chain.
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- Edh Mirzaei, Nina, et al.
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Challenges to competitive manufacturing in high-cost environments: checklist and insights from Swedish manufacturing firms
- 2021
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In: Operations Management Research. - : Springer Nature. - 1936-9735 .- 1936-9743.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Research on competitive manufacturing (CM) in high-cost environments has earlier indicated that firms struggle to remain competitive and that manufacturing operations often have been offshored to low-cost environments. The purpose of this research is to explore and create a compounded view of challenges related to both internal and external environments of firms when operating in high-cost environments. This issue has been investigated through a qualitative case study involving five manufacturing firms in Sweden. This research has empirically derived the challenges associated with sustaining CM in high-cost environments and developed a prescriptive checklist. Seven main categories of challenges have been identified, ranging from a micro level related to product characteristics and employee involvement, to a macro level related to supply chain collaborations and industry systems. This research contributes to the existing literature on CM in high-cost locations by explaining and detailing what constitutes challenges in this kind of environment.
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- Svanberg, Jan, et al.
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Prediction of Controversies and Estimation of ESG Performance : An Experimental Investigation Using Machine Learning
- 2023
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In: Handbook of Big Data and Analytics in Accounting and Auditing. - Singapore : Springer Publishing Company. - 9789811944598 - 9789811944604 ; , s. 65-87
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We develop a new methodology for computing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings using a mode of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning (ML) to make ESG more transparent. The ML algorithms anchor our rating methodology in controversies related to non-compliance with corporate social responsibility (CSR). This methodology is consistent with the information needs of institutional investors and is the first ESG methodology with predictive validity. Our best model predicts what companies are likely to experience controversies. It has a precision of 70–84 per cent and high predictive performance on several measures. It also provides evidence of what indicators contribute the most to the predicted likelihood of experiencing an ESG controversy. Furthermore, while the common approach of rating companies is to aggregate indicators using the arithmetic average, which is a simple explanatory model designed to describe an average company, the proposed rating methodology uses state-of-the-art AI technology to aggregate ESG indicators into holistic ratings for the predictive modelling of individual company performance.Predictive modelling using ML enables our models to aggregate the information contained in ESG indicators with far less information loss than with the predominant aggregation method.
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- Philipson, Sarah
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COST-STRUCTURE AND THE VOLATILITY OF CAPITALISM
- 2019
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In: Business Management Theories and Practices in a Dynamic Competitive Environment. - : EUROMED PRESS. - 9789963711819 ; , s. 989-996
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This conceptual paper explores the phenomena of changing cost-structures and the implications for the volatility of capitalism and the possibility to manage firms in such a hostile environment and proposes future research. It also provides an explanation of why the relevance of accounting is lost, the so-called "relevance lost" debate (see among others Francis & Schipper, 1999). The changing cost-structures raises fundamental questions concerning the resulting the volatility of capitalism and the management of firms in such an increasingly more volatile environment. In Philipson, Johansson & Scheley (2016), we raised the question if it was possible to "...to ride the dragon." Considering the importance of these phenomena, it is astonishing that we have not found any empirical research concerning them. They rest research questions, based on the author's almost 25 years of experience, as a senior executive in Scandinavian industry.
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- Philipson, Sarah
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Radical innovation of business model - is business modelling a key to understand the essence of doing business?
- 2014
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In: Future of Entrepreneurship. - : EuroMed Press. - 9789963711277 ; , s. 1478-1491
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 'Business model' is a fairly new academic concept; competing with Porter's 'sustainable strategic competitiveness' and 'strategic fit' (Porter, 1996), Prahalad & Bettis 'dominant logic' (Prahalad & Bettis, 1986) to give key explanatory understanding of firm performance. We discuss business modelling based on an action research case and show just how fundamental it is. It links fundamental academic discussion of recent decades around concepts such as 'sustainable competitive advantage', 'structural capital' and 'tacit knowledge'.
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- Philipson, Sarah
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Value of listed companies; abnormal earnings and innovativeness
- 2017
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In: Global and National Business Theories and Practice. - : EuroMed Press. - 9789963711567 ; , s. 1342-1348
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This a conceptual paper concerning the relation between innovativeness and monopoly rent/abnormal earnings. It discusses how these concepts can be measured and proposes that abnormal earnings are the result differentiation, by innovativeness (monopoly rent) or branding, by under-or overvalued assets, or by imperfect market information (value irrelevance). Specifically, innovativeness as a driver of monopoly rent/abnormal earnings is discussed.
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- Philipson, Sarah
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Value - The "Atom" of the Economy
- 2020
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In: 13th Annual Conference of the Euromed Academy of Business. - : Euromed Press. - 9789963711895 ; , s. 907-917
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This is a conceptual paper about the most fundamental concept in the science of business administration, value. It traces its history, discusses the demarcation approach of the service dominant logic, arguing against it. We hold that customer co-creation is already presumed in the concept of use-value; the customer can realize the value-potential of a product or a service by satisfying experiences from the offering. Under certain circumstances relationships influence the value, often motivating temporal suspension of market relations. In other cases, relationships do not give the potential for additional value and the exchange between seller and buyer continues to be a transaction. The micro-foundations of value are searched in the social psychology oof these experiences and how they build the value. The paper suggests the need for radical re-focusing of business practices.
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- Kerkhoff, Kristina, et al.
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Sourcing from China : A Literature Review of Motivations, Outcomes, Problems, and Solutions
- 2017
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In: Operations and Supply Chain Management. - : The Operations and Supply Chain Management Forum. - 1979-3561. ; 10:4, s. 226-239
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today’s fast changing environment and increasing customers’ demands require that companies focus on efficiency along the entire supply chain. In order to achieve competitiveness, global sourcing is a common strategy. Especially sourcing from China is an accustomed practice and the topic of discussion by various academics and practitioners. Even though this topic is discussed extensively in literature, little focus is put on motivations, outcomes, problems and solutions when sourcing from China.The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze sourcing from China sourcing with regard to motivations, achieved outcomes, experienced problems as well as solutions to the problems. The results showed that it is crucial to recognize the importance of problems that can occur during global sourcing processes. As to achieve the desired outcomes, it is vital that companies address the problems by developing appropriate solutions. Motivations, outcomes, problems and solutions contain essential aspects that have to be considered and worked upon during a global sourcing process.
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- Panova, Yulia, et al.
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Feasibility of nearshoring European manufacturing located in China to Russia
- 2017
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In: Operations and Supply Chain Management. - : The Operations and Supply Chain Management Forum. - 1979-3561. ; 10:3, s. 141-148
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze factors that support nearshoring of offshored European manufacturing located in China to Russia. The attention is paid to factors, such as labor cost, inflation, exchange rate, and labor productivity that are analyzed based on deterministic models to identify logical dependencies. This study shows that wage growth might deprive manufacturing in China from its main competitive advantage of cheap labor in the forthcoming years. The growing wage rates naturally contribute to the prime cost that is aggravated by the potential inflation, which, in turn, limit the margin in the selling price. The cumulative effect of other extra costs can aggregate such an amount that, in the foreseeable future, companies would need to relocate manufacturing to new locations. One option could be to nearshore manufacturing to Russia.
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