proposed topics for master theses in management control and innovation (spring term 2014)...
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Proposed topics for Master theses in management control and innovation
(spring term 2014)
Supervisor: Andrea Fried
1. Specialist career programs for R&D personnel in knowledge-intensive organizations
- R&D specialist career programs as incentive systems and
enablers of technical innovation
- Diffusion of specialist career programs in Sweden/ in the world
- Comparison of specialist careers programs: document analysis (aims/ motivation for setting up and implementation) and qualitative interviews (realization)
- Aim: Development of evaluation criteria for specialist careers: contribution to the innovative capacity/ for enabling technical innovation of organizations and other criteria
Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2014
2. Power in organizations and its consequences for the implementation of performance measurement systems (PMS)
- Analysis of how power/ resistance/ support will be generated by management and employees during the enrollment of a specific PMS
- Taking into account a constantly changing environment: alterations in participating actors, their interests, PMS alternatives etc.
- Theoretical basis: e.g. Actor Network Theory
- Potential empirical examples: Balanced Scorecard, Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), Six Sigma or similar
- Either secondary analysis of existing qualitative data or survey of own primary data as basis for a case study
Castells, M., 2011. A Network Theory of Power. International Journal of Communication 5(2011), 773-787. Karstens, L. 2006. Management concepts: their transfer and implementation. Critical perspectives on international business 2(3), 195 – 207.Latour, B., 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2014
3. Open innovation and management control systems
- How influential are management control systems in open innovation processes?
- What is the intention to use control systems in open innovation processes?
- What are hindrances and chances ?
Proposed topics for Master theses - spring term 2014