Sökning: "KIFs"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet KIFs.

  1. 1. Unpacking followership in a management consultancy

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Elanor Jacobs; Saga Gardevärn; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Followership; social constructions; professional service firms; PSFs; knowledge intensive firms; KIFs; management consultancy; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Purpose – The purpose behind our study was to understand how individuals socially construct followership in a management consultancy. We did this through exploring the relations between consultants and their selected leaders, as well as through exploring how they related to the notion of followership. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Use of Management Control Systems for Controlling Intraorganizational Knowledge Transfer from Change Projects

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Sissela Ekdahl; Michelle Holmberg; [2018-07-02]
    Nyckelord :Management control systems; Knowledge transfer; Change projects;

    Sammanfattning : Problem Background: Appropriate management of knowledge transfer is crucial for successful implementation of change. The use of management controls for controlling the transfer has been investigated, however mainly in knowledge intensive firms (KIFs) performing project-to-project or unit-to-unit transfer. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Kontroll eller fria tyglar? : En fallstudie om organisationskontroll inom konsultbranschen ur ett organisatoriskt perspektiv

    Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Företagsekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Nicklas Ygge; Robin Hagberg; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Organization control; identity regulation; knowledge-intensive firms; KIF; consulting companies; identity; Organisationskontroll; identitetsreglering; kunskapsintensiva företag; KIF; konsultföretag; identitet;

    Sammanfattning : Bakgrund: Då utvecklingen i det företagsekonomiska samhället har gått från ett industrisamhälle till ett kunskapssamhälle efterfrågas extern expertis från kunskapsintensiva företag. Många konsultföretag är goda exempel på den postbyråkratiska organisationsformen, som karaktäriseras av relativt få skikt av hierarki, flexibilitet, delaktighet i beslutsfattande och lösa karriärstrukturer, där identiteten blir svårmanövrerad. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Transcending autonomy and control through management accounting: A neoliberal perspective on MCS in the knowledge-intensive firm

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Författare :Victoria Scheer; Carl Lekvall; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Management Control Systems; Knowledge-intensive firms; Foucault; Neo-liberalism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to examine how Management Control Systems (MCSs) can balance the tension between autonomy and control in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The study was carried out by conducting an in-depth single-case study at the Swedish branch of an international management consulting firm. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Knowledge rhetoric in the “Big Four” consulting firms – the quest for legitimacy, and the peculiar case of similarity

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Joachim Lindberg; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Knowledge rhetoric; normative; mimetic; isomorphism; legitimacy; KIF; Big Four; Deloitte; PwC; EY; KPMG; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the practice of knowledge rhetoric in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The methodology applied to this qualitative study is based on the principles of a social constructivist paradigm. LÄS MER