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- Chronéer, Diana, et al.
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A value creation processes in the engineering education : increasing the transparency
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper adds to the discussion of developing the competences of engineers and its consequences on requirements for engineering education, i.e. the question on how can sustainable values be created in the education of businesslike engineers. Four context related aspects affecting the learning boundary for future engineers is identified. These are: students' view of learning, lecturers' views of learning, real-life examples, and manifestation of course content representation by practitioners. An important hinder for generative learning is that students are not realizing that efforts supporting generative learning are an investment in their future career both for the development of capabilities that gain generative learning in following courses, and outcomes that is demanded in industry. It is argued that real managers are more trustful when telling students, what efforts are necessary in order to gains the knowledge needed for making the most suitable answers on their questions of "what" and "how"
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- Chronéer, Diana, et al.
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Born global in a heartbeat
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the XX ISPIM Conference, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 June 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to enhance the knowledge of business model development in the mobile service sector by exploring the underlying components of a business model for organizations within that industry. By drawing from business model literature combined with findings from a longitudinal case study of an iPhone application, a conceptual business model for mobile services was developed. Proposed model extends earlier frameworks by adding contingency aspects and the view of core resources into a dynamic business model. Findings from the study highlight the importance for application developers to have an overall resource strategy in order to support the sustainability of their business models. This is particularly important due to the rapid pace of change in the industry and the technology.
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- Johansson, Jeaneth, et al.
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Capital structure in innovative high growth firms
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings. - Luleå : Luleå tekniska universitet. ; , s. 193-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose with the present paper is to improve the understanding of management's choice of capital structure in high-growth innovative new technology-based firms (NTBFs). A conceptual model regarding the relationship between 1. resource based strategy and capital structure and 2. stakeholder strategy and capital structure is developed. Resource based strategy is considered in terms of resource based view (RBV) and stakeholder strategy in terms of agency theory. Choice of capital is further connected to management preferences in terms of the pecking order theory. The paper contributes to the area of small firm finance from the perspectives of financial accounting and management strategies. Based on the paper, we suggest that a resource based strategy call for development of unique resources of opaque character. Internal financing in line with the pecking-order theory is thus preferred for competitive innovations based on opaque resources of unique character. However, opaque resources are connected to high uncertainty and information asymmetry in terms of the agency theory. This results in agency costs for the management. Based on the agency theory our suggestion is that NTBFs prefer internal generated financing in first case. A controversy in the two theoretical areas leads us to a paradox. A resource based strategy lead towards competitive innovations at the same time as it restricts the firms' access to external resources and thus the ability to develop competitive innovations. The paradox also helps to explain the financial gap for innovative NTBF.
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- Johansson, Jeaneth, et al.
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Finance and competence - two sides of the innovation coin : strategic growth in innovative technology ventures
- 2007
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Ingår i: The Future of Nordic Business Schools. ; , s. 1-22
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Two sides of the creation of innovations are focused: how the proper competences for exploitations of innovations are acquired and how exploitations of innovations are financed. The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model, which is suggested to capture how innovative technology ventures cope with their needs of finance and competence for innovation exploitation. The success in exploitation of innovation is proposed to be contingent based on the fit between the ventures needs and the sources supplies. One contribution may be an increased understanding of successful matchmaking between supply and demand of finance and competence.
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- Johansson, Jeaneth
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Sell-side analysts' creation of value : key roles and relational capital
- 2007
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting. - : Emerald. - 1401-338X .- 1758-745X. ; 11:1, s. 30-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to increase the transparency of the value-creation chain in the stock market. It aims to: conceptualize the value-added through the relational capital, inductively develop models on how values are created, and discuss the values created for the analyst firm, the clients and investors in the stock market in general.Design/methodology/approach - The paper is based on a case study of sell-side analysts at a big Swedish investment bank and their work with real life situations of changes in recommendations. Findings - The findings of the case study indicate that analysts, through their relational capital, access competitive advantages needed for remaining on a highly competitive market. They get access to value-added information and knowledge and also business for the firm. This helps them to fulfill the three roles played, i.e. as information intermediaries, knowledge builders and businessmen. However, the analysts' dependencies, due to their relational capital and the analysts' conflicting roles, result in ambiguous or even biased information. The values added to clients differ between prioritized clients who receive value-added information through the relational capital with the analysts and non-prioritized clients with limited, or no access, to the analysts' services.Originality/value - Value created through relational capital within organizations has been intensively studied within the area of intellectual capital. However, the sell-side analysts' value-creation chain linked to their relational capital with company representatives and clients, considered in the present study, has been neglected.
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- Kurkkio, Monika, et al.
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- 2007
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Ingår i: The Future of Nordic Business Schools.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To be in the frontier in highly competitive and capital intensive businesses collaborative R&D-projects between companies and their customers have become important. Such projects expect to bring forth competitive advantages. However, previous studies indicate that there are difficulties in managing and evaluating collaborative R&D-projects. Therefore, the purpose with the paper is to increase the understanding about management and evaluations of values in collaborative R&D-projects. The present paper addresses the following questions: 1. How are collaborative R&D-projects managed? 2. What values are generated through the exchange between the companies? 3. How are collaborative R&D-projects evaluated? In this paper, we have conducted an exploratory single case study in the process industry, on a big Swedish company and one of their customers. The empirical findings are based on interviews, internal documents and publicly available information. Inductive patterns identified in the empirical material led to further analyses from the theoretical perspectives of Customer relationship management (CRM), Social exchange theory (SET) and Intellectual capital (IC).Findings from the study indicate that the company's strategy for creating competitive advantages is to build up-on long-term customer relationships through the collaborative R&D-projects. Management of, exchange of and values created through relationship are central for such a strategy. The careful management of customers is in accordance with the theory of CRM. The company's focus on long-term relationships tended to influence the exchange in the R&D-project. T he outcome of the project was negative, a failure. When evaluating the project focus was on measuring soft values instead of the hard values based on the negative output. The social exchange, central for the company's management of the customer relationship that generated values in form of a relational capital, seemed more important than the economic exchange. The concluding remarks of this paper lead to a paradox. Companies' long-term strategy of building relational capital for ensuring economic values tends to result in the neglecting of measuring hard economic values. This may in the long-run damage the customer relationship since the main purpose with the collaborative R&D-project is to generate competitive advantages in terms of economic values.
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