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722A35 Examensarbete i företagsekonomi
Proposed topics for Master theses in management control and innovation
(spring term 2013)
Supervisor: Andrea Fried
1. Specialist career programs for R&D personnel in knowledge-intensive organizations
- R&D specialist career programs as incentive systems and
enablers of technical innovation
- Diffusion of specialist career programs in Sweden/ in the world
- Comparison of specialist careers programs: document analysis (aims/ motivation for setting up and implementation) and qualitative interviews (realization)
- Aim: Development of evaluation criteria for specialist careers: contribution to the innovative capacity/ for enabling technical innovation of organizations and other criteria
722A35 Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2013
2. Power in organizations and its consequences for the implementation of performance measurement systems (PMS)
- Analysis of how power/ resistance/ support will be generated by management and employees during the enrollment of a specific PMS
- Taking into account a constantly changing environment: alterations in participating actors, their interests, PMS alternatives etc.
- Theoretical basis: e.g. Actor Network Theory
- Potential empirical examples: Balanced Scorecard, Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), Six Sigma or similar
- Either secondary analysis of existing qualitative data or survey of own primary data as basis for a case study
Castells, M., 2011. A Network Theory of Power. International Journal of Communication 5(2011), 773-787. Karstens, L. 2006. Management concepts: their transfer and implementation. Critical perspectives on international business 2(3), 195 – 207.Latour, B., 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
722A35 Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2013
3. Performance measurement systems (PMS) and their role in national and international outsourcing settings
- How influential are process standards in outsourcing settings? - Does the standard trap exist (finding evidence for/ against thesis)
? - Which different strategies can be found on the outsourcee’s side
when dealing with the implementation of a certain standard?
‚Standard Trap‘ thesis
Process standards (=PMS) tend to destroy the innovative capacity of the outsourcee. Innovations in the future are eventually lower than innovations today when companies in developing countries are increasingly involved in outsourcings settings.
Innovations today
Innovati
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in t
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futu
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Standard trap zone
Outside standard trap zone
722A35 Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2013
