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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Diversity in Boards of Directors - Opening the “black box” : a quantitative study on how diversity characteristics will influence organizational outcome in public sector with board process as a mediator

Resteljica, Marigona, Haskic, Ines January 2013 (has links)
Globalization has brought people together from different countries with different aspects of life. Thus, the increase of globalization has brought different diversity topics in light both in era of researchers’ as well as an important political question regarding Board of Directors. However, research on diversity in the corporate world is something that exists and has been a topic of many researchers throughout the years. Nevertheless, many questions have not been entirely answered. The purpose of this dissertation is to explain how diversity in Boards of Directors mediated by board process influences organizational outcomes in public sector. We used six different diversity variables namely, age, gender, culture, tenure, education, and experience in order to see how they affect board process which in turn affects organizational outcome. A positivistic research philosophy has been used, with a deductive approach and a quantitative research, adding a pilot study to further strengthen the value of the dissertation. In addition, this study is based on assumptions stated in Non-profit governance, New Public management, Corporate Governance with Agency theory, Behavioural theory and Resource dependency. Due to the limited research on diversity in public sector with board process as a mediator in Sweden and on Swedish organizations, this dissertation attempts to fill this gap. This study is conducted on Swedish universities that are listed by the Swedish government. Several ways were used to measure our six diversity variables in Boards of Directors. Although board process is a broad term, decision-making was defined as board process in this dissertation. Furthermore, six different outcome variables were used to define organizational outcome in public sector. Our seven hypotheses were all based on earlier research from both the private and the public sector. Similarly to earlier research our results were mixed. Four of our seven hypotheses was not supported due to no significant relationship regarding decision-making and outcome whilst three of them were supported. This research may be of value for Swedish government and the public sector due to the increasing globalization.
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Kick off in the Scandinavian soccer leagues

Kristensen, Martin, Nilsson, Daniel January 2014 (has links)
This study emphasizes on the Scandinavian soccer leagues team performance and what shapes it. This has been a widely discussed area where previous researchers have focused on factors such as organizational structure, organizational strategy, team level and individual level. The study takes this field to a new level with a combination of these factors in order to conceptualize team performance on a new level. The purpose with this study is to explain how organizational strategy, structure, team level and individual level factors affect team performance, in the Scandinavian elite soccer leagues. In order to investigate this phenomenon we have used a deductive approach. Further, this study emphasizes a quantitative approach where the data has been collected through a document analysis. In this study the findings indicates that the variables that has been chosen are highly correlated to team performance. However, due to the short time frame this study has fostered, it has been hard to generalize how the variables affect team performance. The limitations are that the study´s findings are only based on a two year span, which makes it hard to generalize the results. However, it is clear that the chosen variables have a significant impact on team performance in Scandinavian soccer leagues. The original value of this thesis is a new conceptualization on team performance within the soccer industry.
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The Pièce de Résistance of Leadership Networks : A study of network member attitudes

Ottosson, Fabian, Albertsson Engman, Linus January 2018 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to clarify and document the member perspective of leadership networks in terms of how members’ attitudes toward, and underlying reasons for participating in, leadership networks can be explained. This purpose was fulfilled by asking and answering the questions of how member attitudes toward, and underlying reasons for participating in, leadership networks can be explained. The study was conducted via a pre-research study of one network organization as well as interviews with two other network organizations. In total, the study investigated three network organizations, including 19 respondents, 13 for the survey and six for the interviews. It was concluded in both the pre-research as well as the main research, that expectations from the members’ perspective had a tendency toward organizational outcomes in the pre-consumption phase, and that the expectations on the network were mainly focused on individual outcomes in the post-consumption phase. The study also demonstrates that there are factors outside of the study’s analytical framework, such as the network position, the ego network structure and the whole network structure, that affect the network outcomes, and thus potentially the explanation for the members’ attitudes toward, and underlying reasons for participating in, leadership networks.

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