Background: The construction industry is Sweden’s single most important industry branch with a significant influence on Sweden’s wealth. The political restrictions that once controlled the industry are today almost gone. This combined with an unbalanced supply and demand situation on the Swedish constructions market, caused by urbanisation, has led to increased pressure on the Swedish construction companies who now are forced to find new methods in their struggle to contain or increase their competitive advantage. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to survey: which strategic variables are of great importance in today’s Swedish construction industry with focus on the four main actors, JM, NCC, PEAB and Skanska. Furthermore is the purpose to give these actors advice regarding how to contain or increase their competitive advantage. Method: This thesis takes the shape of a case study even if not all the criteria’s embedded in this line of academic study has been reached. The thesis is mainly built upon five interviews conducted with the four companies and with an expert in the construction field. During the creation of this thesis information has also been gathered through publications such as industry literature annual statements and scientific journals. Conclutions: We have reached the conclusion that the studied companies, in several aspects, acts as if the industry still where regulated, the main reason for this behaviour is, according to us, the conservative thinking. Therefore we see a great potential for development and use of partnering in the construction process between the involved companies. We also see that cost benefits can be realised trough the development of prefabrication standards in the industry. It is also our opinion that cost benefits can be achieved through a centralised purchasing department.

This paper aims to examine how the driving forces of the Swedish CNG market have impacted OKQ8’s strategies. This has been conducted through the four drivers’ coercive-, market-, resource- and social drivers. The papers conclusion is that all drivers impact on OKQ8’s strategy but that coercive drivers have the most significant impact on the CNG market and OKQ8’s strategy. OKQ8’s decision to establish a cooperation together with E.ON was smart decision since they minimized their own ambiguity in this market that depends on governmental policies and incentives.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore disruptions Swedish wind turbines onshore are exposed to, and to estimate their economic impacts on the operators. We want to investigate whether there is a need for a more developed service and maintenance market within the Swedish wind power market. This study focuses on wind power, a renewable energy source in an emerging market, which experiences exponential growth. Sweden is a minor actor in the wind power market with a production of around 2 TWh yearly. The government aims at a total production of 10TWh in 2015 and 20TWh in 2020, which equals an annual growth of 24%. However, we hypothesize that the Swedish wind power market is negatively affected by a service and maintenance market which is underdeveloped due to a lack of competition. This results in lengthy repair times and disproportionate costs for wind power operators. The study was carried out by conducting semi-structured qualitative interviews and by sending out a survey to approximately 300 wind power operators. Six interviewees were wind power operators and one interviewee was a representative from an independent service supplier. We have also analysed the current cost situation of operators with theories about maintenance costs and we have also carried out an industry analysis on the service and maintenance market, which was based on Porter’s structural industry analysis. After conducting a structural analysis of the service and maintenance market, we can conclude a lack of competition today as there is a dominance of the wind turbine manufacturers as the service supplier. Furthermore we can see that this lack of competition has negative effects on the efficiency of the service and maintenance provided. The results also stress a need for a more developed service and maintenance market. We have found that the profitability for the Swedish wind power operators is challenged if the service and maintenance market is not keeping pace and meeting the demands of the rapidly growing Swedish wind power market as a whole.

In the trend of international development, multinational corporations should face three major international challenges: global integration and coordination, regional differences and responses and global innovation and learning. The backgrounds and motivations that enterprises adopt the strategy of internationalization are different. Whereas, enterprises to implement international strategies will inevitably involve the design and layout of channels. Therefore, ¡§Distribution Channel Strategies¡¨ are the major business strategies of the overseas subsidiaries of multinational corporations. Today is the era of ¡§who controlling the channels will win.¡¨ Besides providing superior quality products or service, enterprises should have adequate channels to, with lower cost or shorter transferring time, give customers convenient points to purchase and send the products to the target market, therefore, to create a good business performance. This thesis focuses on the distribution channel strategies of multi-national companies and gives a case study of ¡§Taiwan Furukawa.¡¨ We investigate internal and external environments and the business performances of two distribution channel strategies, and use case study method to the empirical analysis, which belonging to a single case design with a single design pattern of the subject. Three industry analysis methods, including value chain analysis, SWOT analysis, and five force analysis, is adopted to analyze the internal and external environments. We find that the sharp drop in revenue alerted Taiwan Furukawa to investigate the agencies and corporate customers in the sales network. They found the problem is that the business objectives of the agencies and Taiwan Furukawa are inconsistent, causing a significant reduction in sales volume. Then, the revenue has grown significantly after Taiwan Furukawa adopting ¡§direct sales¡¨ and ¡§zero-stage channel¡¨ substituting for ¡§indirect sales¡¨ and ¡§one-stage channel,¡¨ respectively. Above all, we find the ¡§zero-stage channel¡¨ has three functions, including direct sales, information channel, and customer service.

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to explore disruptions Swedish wind turbines onshore are exposed to, and to estimate their economic impacts on the operators. We want to investigate whether there is a need for a more developed service and maintenance market within the Swedish wind power market.</p><p>This study focuses on wind power, a renewable energy source in an emerging market, which experiences exponential growth. Sweden is a minor actor in the wind power market with a production of around 2 TWh yearly. The government aims at a total production of 10TWh in 2015 and 20TWh in 2020, which equals an annual growth of 24%. However, we hypothesize that the Swedish wind power market is negatively affected by a service and maintenance market which is underdeveloped due to a lack of competition. This results in lengthy repair times and disproportionate costs for wind power operators.</p><p>The study was carried out by conducting semi-structured qualitative interviews and by sending out a survey to approximately 300 wind power operators. Six interviewees were wind power operators and one interviewee was a representative from an independent service supplier. We have also analysed the current cost situation of operators with theories about maintenance costs and we have also carried out an industry analysis on the service and maintenance market, which was based on Porter’s structural industry analysis.</p><p>After conducting a structural analysis of the service and maintenance market, we can conclude a lack of competition today as there is a dominance of the wind turbine manufacturers as the service supplier. Furthermore we can see that this lack of competition has negative effects on the efficiency of the service and maintenance provided. The results also stress a need for a more developed service and maintenance market. We have found that the profitability for the Swedish wind power operators is challenged if the service and maintenance market is not keeping pace and meeting the demands of the rapidly growing Swedish wind power market as a whole.</p>

In the 1990s, the fact that Hong Kong cinema thrived in the world market, with both art and commercial films, is a theoretical anomaly. Despite its petite size and lack of government support and protection, it has survived both colonial administration and Hollywood domination. Hong Kong has a long history of prolific filmmaking, and has flourished during a decade full of challenges, and out of proportion to the size of the city and the industry. Hong Kong film is now recognized for its directors’ personal style and action aesthetic. How did this happen? How did Hong Kong filmmaking develop into an efficient system that could survive the harsh conditions of its past and thrive in the competitive environment of the 1990s? Hong Kong’s story is one of paradox and Hong Kong cinema relates that story by embracing paradox in both its industrial system and cultural ideology. This project is a formal, cultural and industrial analysis of Hong Kong cinema in its multiple contexts. Instead of replicating the Hollywood studio system or other national cinema models, Hong Kong cinema, like bamboo surviving by bending with the wind, has developed a flexible system adapted to its habitat, but that also simultaneously created a space for a unique style of filmmaking with a transnational perspective. I will investigate how the cinematic system worked, and how individual filmmakers devised tactics to both work within and push the limits of the system. I will explore what they reveal about the local condition I call “orphan island anxiety”, a deep sense of insecurity underneath the economic miracle, and a paradoxical state that people from a non-conventional nation state experience in an age of universal and normative ideas of the nation. The case of Hong Kong cinema will illuminate for us an industrial model substantially different from that of Hollywood, and a voice that was missing from official Sino-British talks, which reveals a cultural sensibility not found in either Hollywood or in Chinese national cinema. / text

Darbą sudaro trys dalys: Pirmoje dalyje pateikiami verslo šakos strateginio vertinimo modeliai, analizuojami įvairių autorių darbai šia tematika, parenkamas modelis, kuris panaudotas atliekant tyrimą. Antroje darbo dalyje aptariama nekilnojamojo turto sektoriaus situacija Lietuvoje ir užsienyje, pateikiamas išskiriama nagrinėjama verslo šaka pagal ekonominį veiklos rūšių klasifikatorių. Trečioje dalyje pateikiama Kauno miesto nekilnojamojo turto agentūrų veiklos patrauklumo įvertinimo tyrimo organizavimas ir eiga, aprašomas atliktas tyrimas. Darbo apimtis yra 59 puslapiai. Darbe pateikiama 2 lentelių ir 13 paveikslai, 13 priedų. Naudotos literatūros sąrašą sudaro 103 šaltiniai. Pateikiami priedai, naudojami darbe nagrinėjamų temų išsamesniam paaiškinimui. / Master exploratory work theme is “Strategic Evaluation of Real – Estate Sector”. The working purpose is to evaluate Kaunas Real - Estate Sector atractiveness, because in Kaunas there is no such kind of research. Industry atractiveness eveluation can help to make strategies for firms. In the first part of the work there is represented assessment of industry. Different authors writting articles in this theme and their suggested models of industry assessment are simillar, so in this work choosen Crowther (2008) suggested model. Using external assessment looking througth time lines. The main thing in choosen model is to evaluate Porter’s five competitive forces (entry of competitors, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, rivalry among the existing players) to make strategic groups map and decision about industry atractiveness. In the second section the discussion is about Real-Estate Sector situation in Lithuania and abroad. Looking through Classification of economic activities in oder to define industry for analysis. So choosen industry is Kaunas city Real – Estate activities. In this city there is no such kind of research. “Dataminator” organization making researches in different industries, also in Real – Estate. This organization use interview and secondary datas methods, as doing in this work. Organization using model for industry assessment is very similar to Crowther (2008), but organizaition is painding attention to indivudual companies... [to full text]

This master thesis deals with increasing performance using benchmarking in selected engineering company in the Zlín region. The theoretical part introduces the concept of benchmarking in the context of improving business performance. The main part however is in-depth case study on business performance. Based on both secondary and primary data sources are the selected engineering companies in the Zlín region evaluated by the benchmarking. Building on outcomes of this evaluation are presented possible recommendations for the selected company in order to enhance or even eliminate identified weaknesses.

This thesis aims to analyze the rules of competition of the commercial launch industry between the years 2010-2020 to better understand the market and gain strategic insights for market share captivation or profitability. The industry is analyzed quantitively within the theoretical framework of Porter's five competitive forces. By the means of a Pooled OLS model, we conduct a regression analysis with five industry proxies that closely relate to Porter’s five forces to explain competition in the industry. The results provided us with enough evidence that quantitively applying Porter’s five forces with industry specific proxies leads us to a better understanding of competition in the commercial launch industry. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that the strongest competitive force is the threat of buyers. While the threat of competitive rivalry, power of suppliers and new entrants are relatively weak but highly significant, the threat of substitutes is of very low significance to affect market competition. The result of the analysis is then used as a tool to provide strategic insights for industry actors for optimal positioning in the market. Finally, we present some suggestions for future research on the subject, as well as other industry analysis using the theoretical framework.

本研究之動機起於麥肯錫顧問公司的調查報告，報告中提到，若企業有良好的公司治理制度，投資者願意支付多一些以持有該公司股票。本研究從公司治理和產業前景兩個角度切入，並參考國內外文獻選出四個代表性的公司治理變數以及從國內券商和金融商情機構所公開之產業研究報告中，建立產業景氣循環相對位置之虛擬變數，目的是量化質性的報告，期望能理出一條脈絡。 根據本研究實証結果可知，就公司治理變數方面，僅有代表資訊揭露品質的指標即”是否有發行海外存託憑證”，此變數與股價溢酬關係為正向且顯著。因此，當我們還在對財務報表的會計師查核簽證感到質疑之時，或是証期會尚未將上市櫃資訊評鑑工作步入正軌之時，本研究所採用之海外存託憑證變數，似乎是現階段可供參考且實用的代表指標；至於所選用之其他公司治理變數，不論董監持股、管理者持股或是否設有獨立董監，都對股價溢酬的影響顯得關係不大，也呼應了行政院對証交法關於獨立董監的設立，採日本以鼓勵自願的做法而非強迫。 就產業前景而言，預測本來就是一件很不容易的工作，更何況是瞬息萬變的高科技產業，由本研究得出的結論恰好與反市場心理法則不謀而合，或許是分析師錯把許多數據指標誤認為是領先指標，並依此對未來前景做預測；但也有可能是現今的投資者都非常的精明，善用反市場心理法則來投資操作，姑且不論問題是出在分析師或是聰明的投資者，但根據本研究，至少發現對兩兆產業而言，若是將產業研究報告建議當作投資的唯一圭臬，似乎並不是明智之舉。 / The motivation of the thesis origin from the reports of McKinsey consulting company. According to the reports that institutional investors would willing to pay premium to hold the stock if the company build up well corporate governance institutions. The thesis decide to incise from corporate governance and industry foresight, and then find four representative variables of corporate governance and constitute dummy variables of industry recycle position. The aim is trying to understand which variable would affect premium through earnings-transmitting effect. Based on the empirical results, with view of corporate governance, the quality of information transparency (whether issue deposit receipt or not) is positive and significant to premium. Consequently it seems to be a practical index when we get confused to the reality of financial reports, moreover, the other variables about corporate governance are nonsignificant including the holding of director and supervisor、the managerial holding or whether constitute the independent director and supervisor. The conclusions about whether constitute independent director and supervisor consist with the act of government which considers that modifying direction of the security law is free to choose instead of forcing every company to do so. With the view of industry foresight, it’s not a piece of cake to predict how it’s going in the future. According to the results that psychological rule of anti-market seems to be a usable method. Keywords：Corporate Governance、industry foresight、industry analysis