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Information package for Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows Version: 2, date of release: June 2024 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture Directorate C: Innovation, Digital Education and International Cooperation Unit C.2: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Research Executive Agency (REA) Directorate A: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions & Support to Experts Co
This paper examines how professionals position themselves and negotiate their identity in the intersection of professional work and sales work in the context of two professional service firms. We propose the concept of camouflaging as identity work to illustrate how professionals (re)construct their identity and position themselves as professionals by integrating and blurring the lines between the
According to a recent conjecture in the literature, earnings have become a poorer proxy for cash flow from operations over time. We find that since 1988, when cash flow statements started to be consistently reported in Compustat, the cash effectiveness of earnings has actually increased for a large sample of US manufacturing firms. This occurs despite the introduction of fair value accounting and
Putnam’s seminal work on two-level game theory has been used widely in international negotiation research. The European Union is often argued to be a tough negotiating partner and its complex system of preferences poses a challenge to many of the fundamental assumptions of the two-level game model. The establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in 2011 introduced another core sta
Vi ville se om kunderna har olika förväntningar på service beroende på vilken butik de handlar i och hur detta påverkar säjarnas och föetagets agerande. Studien visade att företagen har profilerat sig på två helt skilda sätt. Detta har gjort att kunderna förväntar sig olika nivå av service vilket också företagen förstått och därmed leverarar de den service kunderna efterfrågar.
Over a 15-year period, mobile phones have evolved from providing one single feature - the mobile voice call - to multi-featured multi-media communication and entertainment devices. Customer value has been added through successive integration of features previously conveyed by dedicated devices, as clock, timer, camera, media player, radio, etc. This continued integration strategy now poses several
Nowadays, one of the most challenging problems in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is to make robots able to understand humans to successfully accomplish tasks in human environments. HRI has a very different role in all the robotics fields. While autonomous robots do not require a complex HRI system, it is of vital importance for service robots. The goal of this thesis is to study if behavioural pa
The fast food industry is one of the important and growing segments of the overall restaurant industry. At the same time, it is a very dynamic and competitive business where too many vendors are chasing too few clients.To maintain sustainable growth and long-term success it is crucial to meet consumer needs and offer value to them. In order to achieve this, fast food providers must first evaluate
This paper proposes a typology for provider roles in defining business services. The starting point of the study is the underlying rationale of much of the service purchasing literature that buyers have or can easily access the necessary know-how to procure business services. If this does not hold, the implication is that buying firms would shy away from buying complex services. An alternative per
Problem: Personalen är en betydelsefull komponent i detaljhandelsföretag, i många fall till och med viktigare än de produkter som erbjuds. Vi anser att detta är något som alla företag bör ta i beaktning och som i framtiden kommer att ha en än mer betydande roll och som kommer att kunna kopplas till ett företags framgång. För att personalen ska känna sig betydelsefulla har vi förstått att motivatio
Syftet med denna studie är att förklara tänkta positiva effekter och eventuella fallgropar, vid införande av ett Shared Service Center, med konsideration av de organisationsförändringar som sker till följd av implementeringen av centret, samt analysera hur prissättningen integrerar den nya enheten i organisationen. För att svara på den inledande frågeställningen har en abduktiv ansats använts. Läm
The purpose of my study is to question the model service marketing triangle and propose an alternative ways of looking at service marketing. The study is based on a deep, qualitative research. In the research of the material an abductive approach has been used. The primary information sources are interviews with project workers, which are being analyzed together with the theoretical background in
Summary Title: Spare Parts Distribution at Gambro Renal Products – Evaluation of Alternative Distribution Structures for the European Market Authors: Fredrik Eklundh Mikael Redin Supervisors: Maria Björklund, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Division of Engineering Logistics, Lund Institute of Technology Christer Kedström, Department of Business Administration, School of Economic
Vi har studerat kundmöten i flygbranschen eftersom det är en industri som efter 11 september drabbats hårt av både rädsla för terrorn och den ihållande lågkonjunkturen. Företag som tidigare har betalat dyra biljetter för att skicka sina chefer runt om i världen, har omvärderat deras tidigare självklara rätt att flyga businessclass. Då dessa mycket lönsamma kunder har minskat i antal står många fly
Performance based building (PBB) and design is closely connected to various needs and requirements: Performance levels need to be defined, test methods for verification of performance need to be developed, and reliable performance data are needed for materials, products, constructions, and different design solutions. In contrast to other building materials, PBB and thus service life prediction of
It is essential to label roads, landmarks, and other important features on maps for mobile applications to help users to understand their location and the environment. This paper aims to examine real-time map labelling methods suitable for the small screen on mobile devices. A slider method with a continuous search space was proposed to sequentially label both line and point features. The method s
