According to a new doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa, high degree of corporate brand architecture standardization has a positive indirect effect on financial performance in cross-border mergers and acquisitions(CBM&A).
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The results from M.Sc. Jari-Mikko Meriläinen’s doctoral dissertationt show that Western European stakeholder banks served as a shock absorber during the 2008–2009 financial crisis and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis.
According to the doctoral dissertation of Heikki Palomäki in the field of information technology, the small wireless buttons will be part of our future when the everyday routines of the living require new intelligent flexible and reliable solutions for example for the supervision of children in the day-care centres.
Man Yang’s dissertation titled “International entrepreneurial marketing: Decision making in international business” studies how rapid internationalizing firms with scarce resources conduct marketing in the global marketplace.
International business travel can have many positive effects on travellers’ personal and professional growth. However, this travel can also have a detrimental impact on family life. This is one of the conclusions of Kati Saarenpää’s doctoral dissertation in the field of management..
Technology companies are increasingly trying to grow their revenues by creating value to customers through services. In practice, however, customer and company views on value and its creation do not always meet. This is shown in the international marketing dissertation by Tiina Leposky, where the author studies the service transition of a Finnish multinational enterprise.
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four leading Finnish universities to collaborate on developing world-class research into sustainable future applications for internal combustion engines.
Nebojsa Dimic’s dissertation titled “Essays on Emerging Market Finance” examines the attributes and risk characteristics of major financial asset classes in emerging countries.
According to M.Sc. Lotta Pitkänen’s dissertation in Public Management at Vaasa University, young leaders have different views on what is important in ethical leadership. However, they share a common view pointing out that employees should be appreciated.
What is synergy and how is it created? And how to research synergy? Lic.Sc. (Econ.) Simo Keskinen has examined the subject in his doctoral thesis in the field of Industrial Management.