Management & Leadership THESIS AND RESEARCH TOPICS

With relevance to Management control systems and Strategy in a service perspective the interest of our bachelor thesis is shaped from the problems of internal service within organisations. How management and control systems within organisations affect employees, culture and performance thus affecting implimentation of strategies within the firm. Furthermore to examine the employee satisfaction and the correlation it has with a sustainable competitve advantage of the company.    ...

Did you know that many cyber security attacks on organizations occur not due to a lack of technical security measures, but rather due to human factors. Therefore, to effectively prepare for the growing threat landscape, organizations must address challenges related to processes, leadership, communication, and awareness. We are currently in the very beginning of our process on deciding the main focus of our thesis why we are very open to suggestions from your organization. This means that you hav...

What developer hasn’t heard of Dependency Hell or struggled with dependency management?  In my experience in the industry, I was frequently faced with lack of guidelines, prioritization and updates automation of the software dependencies that lead to severe complications in completing software.  Hence, this experience sparked my interest in conducting empirical research addressing dependency management practices. For this, I’m looking for a company that is interested in lea...

Introduction I am interested to study the process international companies undertake when going through a partial or full agile transformation (i.e. scrum, backlog management, use of digital tools, changing the working culture and mindset towards agile). The reasoning behind this approach is that there are increasing pressures for companies to transition towards agile practices but practitioners often lack guidance on how to do. Additionally, the change in employees' mindsets necessary for agile ...

We are a group of four students, that are seeking to establish a collaboration with an organisation.  Our interests lies within the communicative field, primarily regarding management and organisational culture. We are seeking a collaboration from which we are granted access to an organisation, that allows us to investigae current strengths and potential dillemas and challenges that the organisation may have, regarding management and culture. Our methodological approach will initially be 2-...

Digitalization strategies in the frame of servitized companies, with special reference to the barriers and problems to its application, given that there are external and internal enabling factors that can be or can not be controlled by the organisation, with the perspective of analysing empirical data and gather relevant theory about how to create a canvas that can show the set of factors that can be measured, studied, and controlled by the organisation, according to the theoretical frameworks o...

My interest lies within knowledge management and how organizations with a (primarily) 'personalization' knowledge management strategy can facilitate knowledge sharing by discovering and hereafter breaking down barriers. I am open to altering the content of the thesis to fit the needs and wants of a collaborative partner organization....

The theme of the research will be on intergroup leadership with a special focus on the different forms of leadership occurring when two or more groups are made to work together. The setting is optimally found in a pre-merger stage or in an organizational or inter-organizational project. To create a proper understanding, a broad variety of concepts will be utilized such as various understandings of identity work, the ingroup/outgroup trade-off in leadership, and psychological empowerment. This wi...

I am looking to write a thesis within the field of innovative change, organizational culture, leraning and development in collaboration with a company.  The content is not decided on yet, since I value the collaborative process and I take interest in the needs of my future collaborative company.  Keywords for interests:  Innovative change, development and organizational cultural processes in a given company   Suggestions for thesis topic:   M&A's: - How does it affcet th...

Research Question (not done, still being revised):  Which factors affect the trade-off between efficiency and flexibility?Size (revenue, employees, countries, divisions), industry (by industry code), type of product (Service, subscription, manufacturing), whether it is public or private, When should you focus on efficiency rather than flexibility?Through available theories and the survey results we  Method: We would like to create a survey that would be distributed to all SMEs wit...