Management Misc Projects

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis has been to assess the workload, benefits, challenges, requirements and obligations that implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) has posed on Internal Auditors and their companies, from Internal Audits’ point of ...

We analyze the effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism, using panel data on work absence for 1990 and 1991 with a sample of 1,396 Swedish blue-collar workers. During this period Sweden implemented major reforms of both its national income ...

This dissertation is concerned with knowledge integration in product development projects. Knowledge integration is conceived of as processes of goal-oriented interrelating with the purpose of benefiting from knowledge complementarities existing between individuals with differentiated knowledge bases. Knowledge integration is a ...

This thesis aims to increase the knowledge and capacity of Canadian communities and their small businesses in order to enable their transition towards sustainability. This was accomplished through interviews with Canadian Community Economic Development (CED) experts, and surveys from Small ...

Background and problem discussion: Recent accounting scandals have created greater demands on the information given from the companies to its stakeholders, which has resulted in stronger legislation. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 involves, among other things, that the companies are ...

The majority of organizational change efforts end in failure. These failures can often be ascribed to lack of understanding of the translation processes that accompany the implementation of management concepts. Translation becomes evident when the initial ambitions of an implementation ...

The study aims to develop a method that provides Concept Engineering Unit at Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) with reflection on how cost, technical characteristic, and customer requirements effects the end-product. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a method ...

This thesis is primarily based on a case study on how the Internet affects the advertising industry in Oslo, Norway, and on how the digitization of advertising adds to our understanding of the geography of innovation and urban and regional ...

This thesis will investigate what kind of costs companies take into consideration when doing their estimation of costs before initiating trade with China. Further the thesis will study how these estimations match up with the actual costing that can be ...

The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe has had large impacts on the global political and economic arena. One of the aspects that is of particular importance for the European consumer is the effect of the euro ...