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Foreign direct investments entry mode strategies and post-entry subsidiary survival can be influenced by several different types of determinants. Yi Wang’s research analyses the impacts of firm, industry and institution specific determinants on foreign direct investments (FDI) ownership mode strategy, FDI establishment mode strategy and subsidiary survival together. Field of the study is marketing.
According to Satu Hautamäki, competence management plays a major role in decentralized basic medical education. The field of Hautamäki’s dissertation is social and health management.
Nelson Abila explores in his doctoral thesis issues of policy and sustainability of biofuels adoption in Nigeria. Field of the study is industrial management.
The latest newsletter, Research News, is out now. In the November issue you can read what graduate student Man Yang studies, what university lecturer Pieta Turkka has studied in her article and what are the activities of the Smart Electric Systems -research group.
Ilkka Sillanpää studies the implementation of supply chain strategy. The question is why strategy implementation fails. Field of the study is management.
Anne Söderman studies the role of networking capability in business managers' recipes on success of a company. The field of the study is management.
Omar Abu-Ellan studies the interference mitigation using group decoding in multiantenna systems. Field of the study is telecommunications engineering.
Pete Hokkanen studies what does freedom of religion mean and how it shall be taken into account in multicultural schools in Finland. The aim of public multicultural school must be factual equality and equality of views. According to Hokkanen pattern “one part together and other part separated” offers the best way to take into account the confessional rights of majority and minority in schools. Field of the study is public law.
Johanna Särkijärvi studies the development of regional retail bank branch networks in Southwest Finland building on the theories of innovation diffusion, central place theories and location theories. Field of the study is regional studies.