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Tackling grand societal challenges with digital temporary organizing : emerging collaboration and innovation dynamics
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis : 1207 (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 10.06.2025)Global, highly complex, and characterized by significant uncertainty, grand societal challenges (GSCs) pose significant threats to individuals, organizations, networks, and society as a whole. Driven by recent crises, such ... -
Tactile-Proprioceptive Robotic Grasping
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 18.06.2012)Robotic grasping has been studied increasingly for a few decades. While progress has been made in this field, robotic hands are still nowhere near the capability of human hands. However, in the past few years, the increase ... -
Tapping experiences of presence to connect people and organizational creativity
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (28.09.2018)The qualitative research presented in this dissertation focuses on individual experiences of presence (EPs) and their potential connections to organizational creativity. The overarching question is: How are EPs experienced ... -
Teacher autonomy and agency facilitating entrepreneurship education – A study of Finnish vocational education and training
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis : 1169 (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 05.12.2024)This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by providing a comprehensive understanding of vocational education and training (VET) teachers’ actions, with a particular focus on the influence of autonomy and ... -
Teachers’ practices of entrepreneurship education in cooperation with companies
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 04.03.2022)This thesis deals with entrepreneurship education in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades in basic education when it is implemented in cooperation with companies. The research focuses on teachers’ practices, and how they view and ... -
Techno-economic analysis of energy transition pathways and renewable energy technologies for a sustainable energy-industry system
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis : 1256 (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 14.01.2026)Climate change, driven by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, poses an existential threat, with global temperatures already exceeding critical thresholds. The energy sector is the primary source of these emissions, as ... -
Technology analysis of magnetically supported rotors applied to a centrifugal compressor of a high-temperature heat pump
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 13.05.2022)Despite decades of development of high-speed motors, challenges and limitations concerning high-speed powertrains and motors in industrial applications remain. Improved reliability and a smaller footprint together with ... -
Technology selection and group decision support systems: Case studies on supporting strategic technology selection processes
Acta Universitatis LappeenrantaensisURN:ISSN:1456-4491 (2002)The objective of the dissertation is to increase understanding and knowledge in the field where group decision support system (GDSS) and technology selection research overlap in the strategic sense. The purpose is to develop ... -
Testing microservice applications
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 18.10.2019)Software maintenance costs are growing from year to year because of the growing software complexity. Currently, maintenance may take up to 92 percent of the whole project budget. To reduce the complexity of the developed ... -
The accumulation of financial and social capital as a means to achieve a sustained competitive advantage for consumer co-operatives
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 12.12.2013)By so far, scholars have discussed how the characteristics of consumer co-operatives (cooperative principles, values and the dual role of members as the users and owners) can potentially give them a competitive advantage ... -
The board of directors as a part of family business governance – multilevel participation and board development
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 07.11.2014)In this study, I examine the board of directors as a part of family business governance. Both boards and governance have increased their attractiveness as a research topic lately. Research on boards has concentrated ... -
The Contribution of Socially Driven Businesses and Innovations to Social Sustainability
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 21.06.2017)Social sustainability is considered a fundamental component of sustainable development. A multifaceted concept, social sustainability has been studied through the lenses of disparate disciplines and theoretical perspectives. ... -
The Coopetition - Innovation Nexus: Investigating the Role of Coopetition for Innovation in SMEs
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 08.06.2017)Coopetition, i.e. cooperation among competitors such as Daimler and BMW who recently decided to merge their car sharing services, has become more than a buzz-word and has inspired practitioners and scholars to increasingly ... -
The Cycle Times of Working Capital: Financial Value Chain Analysis Method
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 05.12.2014)Interest towards working capital management increased among practitioners and researchers because the financial crisis of 2008 caused the deterioration of the general financial situation. The importance of managing working ... -
The demand for global student talent: Capitalizing on the value of university-industry collaboration
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 20.12.2012)The university sector in Europe has invested money and effort into the internationalization of higher education. The benefits of internationalizing higher education are fuelled by changing global values, choices and ... -
The deposition and light absorption property of carbonaceous matter in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 29.06.2020)The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau (HTP), known as the ―Third Pole‖ and ―world roof‖, contains the largest amount of glaciers outside the Arctic and Antarctic. Carbonaceous matter, mainly including black carbon (BC) and ... -
The Development and Implementation of the Clinical Decision Support System for Integrated Mental and Addiction Care
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 13.11.2020)For 60 years, clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have helped clinicians solve their daily chores. Initially, CDSSs were computer-assisted aids for diagnosing individual patient cases. The newest version of CDSS is ... -
The early activities of front end of innovation in oem companies using a new fei platform as a framework for renewal
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 28.11.2014)The main goal of this study is to create a seamless chain of actions and more detailed structure to the front end of innovation to be able to increase the front end performance and finally to influence the renewal of ... -
The effect of cationic-anionic polyelectrolyte multilayer surface treatment on inkjet ink spreading and print quality
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 10.12.2015)The focus of the work reported in this thesis was to study and to clarify the effect of polyelectrolyte multilayer surface treatment on inkjet ink spreading, absorption and print quality. Surface sizing with a size press, ... -
The effect of institutional settings on accounting conservatism – Empirical evidence from the Nordic countries and the transitional economies of Europe
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis (Lappeenranta University of Technology, 06.05.2011)The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate how different institutional settings affect accounting conservatism. These aspects are of interest because prior studies show that accounting quality is influenced not only ...
