Title: From horse people to business leader Authors: Jennifer Norin, Maria Nyström and Therese Olsson Supervisor: Anders Wrenne Department: School of Management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Bachelor’s thesis in Business Administration, 15 credits Purpose: The purpose of our work is to deepen the knowledge of horse people's potential to act as successful business executives by finding out how a person can implement their practical experiences from a horse environment in a role as business leader. Method: This thesis has a qualitative approach in which we gathered the empirical material through three extensive semi-structured interviews by phone calls with managers of different riding schools. We also formed a poll with a quantitative approach to gather more overall information from a larger number of horse owners via social media. Results: This thesis shows that there are several skills that develops in the stable environment that are useful as a business leader. Skills like problem solving, time planning and budgeting and many more are introduced and developed in the life with horses and then implemented in the workplace.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:bth-14799 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Norin, Jennifer, Olsson, Therese, Nyström, Maria |
| Publisher | Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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