Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, Mid Sweden University, 41 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: The thesis investigates the leaders' possibilities to improve the ability of innovation generation and hence it examines the leading of the innovation process in the starting phase. The theoretical considerations address this problem by depicting factors that leaders can positively influence to improve the innovation ability.The empirical case study investigates the realisation of a leader's possibilities in a highly innovative environment namely the wireless telecommunications industry., abstract: During the last decades the environment of most companies has become increasingly dynamic and competitive due to the globalisation and internationalisation of markets. The intense competition leads to reinforced campaigns to win customers with new, unique products or services defending or improving market positions. Consequently, based on the increased variety, customers' expectations are rising while the time to market as well as the duration ot the product life cycle are decreasing. Cum1997, p. 22] Jon2002, p. 24, p. 31] Yuk2002, p. 294] The increased velocity and complexity of global business competition demand innovative, flexible and responsive solutions to emerge. Companies, especially those competing on the global scale, have to consider innovations as a key goal, a powerful influence on organisational performance and a strategy which creates a sustainable competitive advantage against a growing number of new, efficient and focused competitors. Hal2003, p. 434] Mum2002, p. 705] "Innovation is the source of increasing value and differentiation in an evermore crowded and homogeneous marketplace Jon2002, p. 31]." Innovation is crucial in times of economic growth, remaining the source of increasing revenues and profitability, but more than ever in

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0 (A), Mid Sweden University, 34 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Diese Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit den Anforderungen an Fuhrungskrafte in der Logistikindustrie in Schweden und Deutschland. Es wird genauer untersucht, inwieweit die Anforderungen durch die Kultur beziehungsweise die Branche (hier: Transportlogistik) beeinflusst werden. Eine Studie wurde in Form eines Fragebogeninterviews in 29 Unternehmen durchgefuhrt., abstract: During the last decades two factors had a great influence on organisations: First the development of computers and second the globalisation. With computers the relative importance of information increased rapidly compared with other resources as ownership of land, materials or work. Globalisation might be seen as a consequence of the developments in computer sciences but the changing of political systems with the opening of borders also had a great impact on this progress. Cle2004, p. 19f] In Europe the globalisation process was intensified by the political changes and the enlargement of the European Union. As one effect, business relations are getting more and more international. Not only do the big global players act on different markets but they also use smaller markets outside their home country to develop their business. The internationalisation process leads to a greater shipping volume of goods and to more specific transport concepts such as cross-border and just-in-time delivery. Hence, the transport industry is heavily infected by international business relations and the all-embracing supply chains rely on the operativeness of the logistics. The problems concerning the transportation are not only the longer distances and the smaller time windows but also cultural based reasons. Working with people from different cultural backgrounds might lead to misunderstandings and confli