The capability of the organisation in capturing customer value of experience (VoE) has led to continuous social interaction and spawned innovative ways to collaborate and co-create with the customers. This notion of reciprocal engagement is referred to as social co-creation. The co-creation paradigm represents value and is referred to as a function of experience other than the product itself. However, there is a critically needs for the organisation to formulate a 'value capture strategy' through the lens of social co-creation. It is evident that the fundamental question of the causal relationship between social media and co-creation has not been fully explained. The research developed a value capture framework in order to have a clear need to understand the various perceptions of four important conditions, social co-creation, customer engagement, engagement platform and organisation capability on value capture. The theoretical aspect of 'Absorptive Capacity Theory (ACT)' is used to demonstrate the organisational capability in order to recognise, identify, assimilate and implement the VoE in the organisation as part of competitive advantage along with existing of social technologies. In this respect, an original conceptual framework was formulated based on evidence within the current literature where a series of constructs are reported to guide the empirical fieldwork in identifying a 'value capture strategy'. The research adopted a qualitative methodology for the data collection approach which consequently enabled an exploratory and interpretive investigation. This included three pilot studies, twentyeight semi-structured interviews and one validation phase with experienced senior managers involved in co-creation within the technology and services industry who were regarded as valid respondents. The findings addressed external and internal conditions of value capture framework for VoE as a result of the analysis. The external condition focuses on organisation capability in recognising a customer active participation with the engagement platform. The internal condition enables an organisational strategy to assimilate and implement the VoE through co-creation initiatives in capturing the VoE. The research considers the organisation role as an actioner purposes on using a social co-creation for direct communication as part of the organisations practice. 9 The study not only contributes to the knowledge of social co-creation generally, but also extending the needs for the organisation on considering the internal condition for the organisation to identifies the VoE from customer participation. With that regards, the social co-creation engagement works as the interface before extending on cocreation stages which more direct, in-depth conversations with customers internally. The evidence is presented which confirms that a value capture strategy in cocreation is important for organisations stability and enhanced service delivery. By formulating a value capture framework, it creates a much deeper understanding of how each element were related and correlated to reach potential end result for the organisation. The implications of the study are that organisations should carefully consider the role of social media on engaging with the customers and propose to develop an online engagement network with their customers in order to have more direct and effective communication tools. This would allow them to have the right strategy on selecting the right customer to engage, for the right purposes at the right time is far more important from creating a massive communication.

Jag har i denna studie haft som syfte att undersöka hur förmågan att skriva för hand ser ut för elever i mellanstadieålder i en svensk grundskola. Mitt syfte har också varit att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan förmågan att skriva för hand och förmågan att skriva med textkvalitet. För att nå svar på mina frågeställningar genomförde jag en undersökning där 25 elever deltog. Undersökningen innehöll fyra testdelar som vardera var designade för att mäta olika delar i förmågan att skriva för hand och även ämnade att synliggöra förmågan att skriva med textkvalitet. Den forskning som ligger till grund för den här studien visar att det finns ett samband mellan en automatiserad förmåga att skriva för hand, förmåga att skriva med textkvalitet och skolframgång. Orsaken till detta samband förklaras av forskningen i hur olika minnesstrukturer kan användas och avlastas vid automatiserade förmågor jämfört med icke automatiserade förmågor. Resultatet av studien visar att det finns en stor variation i den undersökta elevgruppens förmåga att skriva för hand. Tydliga tendenser pekar även på att det finns ett samband mellan en automatiserad förmåga att skriva för hand och en förmåga att skriva med textkvalitet.

Försvarsmakten befinner sig i en transformation från ett insatsförsvar till ett invasionsförsvar. Anpassning sker vid Försvarsmaktens samtliga förband och berör all tjänstgörande personal. Denna studie har undersökt hur denna anpassning som stadfästes med försvarsbeslutet 2015 har avspeglat sig på den grundläggande officersutbildningen vid Försvarshögskolans Officersprogram. Studien har sin hemvist i de vetenskapliga fälten Military Innovation och Professional Military Education. Studien har bedrivits som en enfallstudie och har genom Michael Horowitz teorimodell Adoption Capacity Theory genomfört en tematisk analys utifrån tre övergripande teman; diffusion, resurser och organisation. Empirin i undersökningen har inhämtats genom intervjuer, officiella dokument och artiklar. Studiens resultat påvisar att ingen styrning om att anpassa den grundläggande officersutbildningen har utgått från Försvarsmakten. Vidare kan studien påvisa att Försvarsmakten och Försvarshögskolan har brister i det sätt myndigheterna kommunicerar med varandra. Studien uppfattar att det saknas en tydlig metod och en formell policy för hur denna myndighetssamverkan ska genomföras. Vidare kan studien konstatera att viss anpassning av utbildningen har genomförts, detta på initiativ av akademisk och militär personal tjänstgörande vid Officersprogrammet.

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The current experiment aims to integrate the neuropsychological and physiological consequences of rape trauma and physical restraint. Given the preponderance of rape on college campuses, it is important for continued research efforts to provide insight into the impact that this traumatic experience may have on the victim. Moreover, it is expected that an improved understanding of these consequences and mechanisms will provide a foundation for prevention and treatment efforts. Within this context, capacity theory provides a basis for appreciating that extreme stress may alter and/or damage neural systems principally associated with the regulatory control or inhibition over brain regions directly involved in the experiential processing and/or comprehension of the traumatic event. The aim of the present experiment was to explore how the experience of rape trauma may alter or diminish this capacity, resulting in deregulation, heightened reactivity, and sensitivity to decomposition from subsequent exposure to these events. It was hypothesized that individuals with resultant capacity limitations would differ in the regulatory control of cynical hostility or denial and sympathetic advances of the autonomic nervous system. Results demonstrated that women who have experienced rape showed decreased frontal regulatory control capacity compared to women who have not experienced rape as evidenced in sympathetic reactivity (heart rate, electrodermal activity, and systolic blood pressure) to frontal lobe stressors. Results are discussed in terms of the extant neuropsychological literature and the implications of observed differences for women who have experienced rape type trauma. / Doctor of Philosophy / Rape as a trauma type is a serious problem with the potential for severe impact on the lives of victims. Based upon past research that provides evidence for neural changes in specific brain pathways that control automatic bodily responses, the current experiment was designed to looked at how the brains of women who have experienced rape may differ from those of women who have not. By presenting women in the experiment with various external stressors and analyzing the automatic reactions of heart rate, blood pressure, and the electrical potential of the skin, it was demonstrated that women who reported a history of rape had increased difficulty controlling their physiological and emotional reactions to stress. The results support the idea that women who have experienced rape may see and experience the world differently than women who have not. The findings of the study are discussed in terms of the overall implications the observed differences may have on the lives of women who have experienced rape and future directions for improved research and interventions, including assessment and treatment, for rape as a trauma type.

近年來網路產業快速成長，本研究希望以網路產業中的「APP行動應用程式產業」出發，探討這些提供行動應用服務的新創團隊，在各創建階段時期的資源取得與內化，透過創業者給予的建議以及資料整理與分析，提供未來欲創業的網路創業家參考。由於新創事業的團隊人數較為精煉，公司規模也尚未建立，初期所探討的資源具有人身依附性，資源與知識主要專屬在員工身上。本研究透過實證研究，在新創事業成長的各個不同的階段，探討隨著組織的調整，公司要如何將員工自身的能力與資源有效地傳遞給團隊其他成員，並且最終內化成為組織內部所屬的資源。 為了深入了解轉換過程進而獲得實證結果，本研究採取個案分析方法，針對網路產業的創業家進行一對一訪談為主，從創辦人與合夥人，分別就公司不同資源應用上一一詢問。完整訪談過後經由整理、比較，以吸收能耐理論的獲取、吸收、轉換、應用為架構，以求歸納出各資源轉換成組織資源過程以及後續應用創新 研究結果顯示，在將上述無形資源轉換成組織所擁有的過程中，新創公司最先採取的都是資料庫的建立，然而形式化的歸檔動作只是一種初期的手段，只有真正讓這些「資源」，針對其獨特性有效地流動於組織中，才可能後續為公司帶來真正的創新與應用。新創事業應該把握此時組織靈活的優勢，越快找到適合公司的商業模式，越能快速的從生存期進到成功期，而研究中也針對不同的資源屬性，深入探討其轉換與應用中的不同之處。

This thesis addresses a problem at the nexus of operations, strategy, and economics: in concentrated markets, on the one hand firms may need to expand capacity in order to improve their competitive position, and on the other they also seek to avoid industry excess capacity causing poor industry conditions to destroy the intended value creation. These considerations are opposite to each other. Too much capacity leads to underutilized resources and drives costs up. In contrast, too little capacity will limit the operation's capability to serve customers and earn revenues. The literature of the operations management and operations research fields on capacity expansion is concerned with normative perspectives to invoke optimization techniques. In this stream of research, competitive capacity expansion is not extensive. Operations related studies often ignore the effect of oligopolistic competition on investment activities but explicitly model practical operational environments. Conversely, the literature of the industrial organization and business strategy fields on strategic investment focuses on quantity/pricing competition in oligopoly markets, and is concerned with descriptive perspectives to invoke game-theoretic modeling, emphasizing the effect of imperfect competition. There is an extensive literature of economics on a subject of capacity investment in oligopolistic competition environments. However, economics-related studies do not often address the detailed operational environments. The thesis focuses on the following five complicated factors affecting the union of operations, strategy, and economics: existing capacity, economies of scale, realistic production strategy, strategic interaction, and demand uncertainty. We make two main contributions. First, we extend the current game-theoretic models of strategic capacity investment by explicitly considering existing capacity, scale economies, and realistic production rules, which are often considered in the operations literature. Under reasonable conditions, we are able to solve the proposed models in closed form. Our second contribution is to use the type of generic strategy as firms' decision variable rather than quantity, price, or timing, which is often used in oligopoly theory. After analyzing equilibrium behaviors in the proposed models, our findings are supported by many empirical observations.

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Desde 1970, a relação entre o grau de internacionalização e o desempenho das empresas multinacionais (EMNs) tem sido amplamente estudada na literatura de negócios internacionais. Entretanto, os resultados são bastante controversos. Diante disso, revisões recentes sobre o tema propuseram uma nova agenda de pesquisa para avançar na busca por um melhor entendimento acerca da relação Internacionalização-Desempenho. Atualmente, por exemplo, há um consenso de que a literatura de Internacionalização-Desempenho minimiza o papel da gestão, aspecto amplamente negligenciado na literatura de negócios internacionais, mas que é altamente relevante, pois o processo de expansão internacional traz consigo exigências de processamento de informações por parte dos executivos do alto escalão. Portanto, este estudo pretende preencher essa lacuna de pesquisa, incorporando o efeito das características do alto escalão sobre a relação Internacionalização-Desempenho. Para tanto, o trabalho retoma a perspectiva tradicional da relação Internacionalização-Desempenho, combinada às teorias do Alto Escalão ou Upper Echelons e Capacidade de Processamento de Informações, para propor que a influência do grau de internacionalização sobre o desempenho da empresa depende do contexto de gestão dessas empresas, em especial das características relacionadas à capacidade de processamento de informações do alto escalão. A amostra do trabalho é composta por 100 EMNs selecionadas nas bases Capital IQ e Thomson One. Os dados foram levantados para o período 2004-2014, sendo estabelecida uma defasagem de 3 anos entre as variáveis independentes (2004-2011) e dependente (2007-2014), totalizando um painel com 100 unidades transversais e 8 unidades temporais (8×100=800 observações). As hipóteses do trabalho foram testadas com a aplicação da técnica de dados em painel, através do método dos Mínimos Quadrados Ponderados (MQP). Os resultados sugerem que existe uma forte influência de certas características do alto escalão sobre a relação internacionalização-desempenho, tais como nível educacional, experiência internacional, média etária e diversidade de nacionalidades. Assim, o estudo encontra apoio para a tese de que a influência do grau de internacionalização sobre o desempenho da empresa depende do contexto de gestão e da capacidade de processamento de informações do alto escalão dessas EMNs, aspectos cruciais para a empresa superar os desafios inerentes à expansão internacional e obter melhor desempenho no contexto internacional. Além disso, os resultados sugerem que o tamanho da empresa, a intensidade de P&D e a liquidez contribuem positivamente para o desempenho internacional das EMNs. Neste sentido, o presente estudo realça o papel da gestão para a relação Internacionalização-Desempenho, ao mesmo tempo em que proporciona à literatura de negócios internacionais uma melhor compreensão acerca do reflexo das características do alto escalão sobre as estratégias internacionais e o desempenho das EMNs / Since 1970 the relationship between the degree of internationalization and the performance of multinational corporations (MNCs) has been widely studied in international business literature. Meanwhile, the results are controversial. As a consequence, recent reviews about the topic proposed a new research agenda in order to advance the knowledge about the relationship between internationalization and firm performance. Currently, for example, there is a consensus that the literature about the internationalization-performance minimizes the role of management, a highly neglected aspect in the international business literature, but which is highly relevant, as the process of international expansion per se brings along requirements about information processing by top management team (TMT). Therefore, the present research intends to fill the research gap, incorporating the effect of top management team characteristics on the relationship between internationalization and firm performance. For this purpose, this research resumes the traditional perspective about the internationalization-performance relationship combining the theories about Upper Echelons and the Information Processing Capacity in order to propose that the influence of the degree of internationalization on firm performance depends on the management context of those companies, in particular the characteristics related to Information Processing Capacity by the top management team. The sample consists of 100 MNCs selected in the databases Capital IQ and Thomson One. The data have been collected for the period 2004-2014, whereas the independent variables (2004-2011) and the dependent variables (2007-2014) feature time lags between them and the panel is composed of 100 cross sections and 8 time units (8×100=800 observations). The hypotheses have been tested with panel data through the WLS (Weighted Least Squares) method. The results suggest a strong influence of certain top management team characteristics on the internationalization-performance relationship, such as educational level, international experience, average age and nationality diversity. Thus, the research finds support for the hypothesis that the influence of the degree of internationalization on performance depends on the management of these companies, in particular on the characteristics of information processing by TMT that are crucial aspects for the inherent challenges emerging in international expansion and for performance in the international context. Moreover, the results suggest that the firm size, the R&D intensity and liquidity contribute positively to the international performance of MNCs. Hence, the present study highlights the role of management for the internationalization-performance relationship and at the same time enriches the international business literature towards a better understanding about the TMT\'s characteristics in international strategy and MNC\'s performance