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(2018)Knowing a constant evolution to answer every day’s needs, the cosmetic sector needs to know how to constantly renew itself and anticipate the client’s needs in order to dis- tinguish itself from the competition. This ...
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(2013)The introduction of the Euro currency in 1999 represented a major event for the European economies. The 2007 financial crisis and the subsequent 2010 sovereign debt crisis have led to question the sustainability of the ...
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(2014)The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an analysis of how the fleet replacement problem can be addressed from both sustainability and risk management perspectives, simultaneously. The contribution of this thesis has two ...
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(2017)We address decision problems under uncertain information with non-linear structures of parameter variation, and devise solution methods in the spirit of Bertsimas and Sim s -Robustness approach. Furthermore, although the ...
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(2012)The purpose of this dissertation is to deepen the study of social entrepreneurship by examining how social entrepreneurs use partnerships and organize themselves to transfer knowledge. My research takes a first step towards ...
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(2016)Creativity is one of the cornerstones of marketing. Due to technological advances, companies have more tools and resources at their disposal for enhancing creativity. Drawing on creative cognition research, this dissertation ...
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(2012)This dissertation is a multi-perspective inquiry into the phenomenon of grassroots end-user innovation. It focuses on the processes of end-user innovation and technology co-creation and investigates how these developments ...
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(2014)Although spatiotemporal models have been developed to capture the diffusion of new offerings in space and time, these efforts can hardly be used to assess the potential impact of policy decisions due to (i) their relatively ...
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(2012)This study establishes a multilevel model to investigate how managers can increase team performance and team satisfaction by influencing team members communications. I applied organizational communication theory, social ...
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(2017)This dissertation investigates talent management (TM) approaches and practices to analyze the impact of the label talent on employee perception, moods, attitudes, and behavior. It explores the mechanisms through which ...
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(2011)This dissertation explores the interaction between structure and agency in the context of multi-level institutionalization. Institutions interplay in complex ways across the field, national and transnational levels. Those ...
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(2017)This dissertation contributes to these debates by exploring the conditions in which people potentially impacted by nuclear activities can become active participants in the governance of such high-risk industries, and how ...
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(2016)This dissertation is based on three separate but interconnected essays which underscore the important roles of discourse, legitimacy and power in fueling or hindering institutional change towards sustainability. In two ...
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(2023)Childcare arrangements are critical in mothers’ employment decisions. It is a fundamental determinant of whether mothers are partially free from childcare responsibility to participate in the labour force and provide more ...
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(2023)This thesis consists of three essays that address questions related to challenges in the field of Sustainable Finance. Chapter 1 estimates the benchmark greenium. Chapter 2 experimentally tests whether Socially Responsible ...
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(2018)In the three essays of my dissertation, I take a process perspective of market entry and study the drivers and outcomes of strategic decisions that firms make in their efforts towards an eventual product entry. The process ...
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(2018)A recent and growing literature investigates the consequences of such heterogeneity in labor market institutions, studying how labor market rigidities a ect the causes and consequences of policy changes, such as trade ...