Perspectives for Nordic Companies

Business Intelligence Practices: Adding Evidence from Organizations in the Nordic Countries

There is considerate interest in Business Intelligence (BI) from many perspectives, but little research describing design and use of BI in real companies is available (Granlund, 2011; Jourdan, Rainer & Marshall, 2008). The aim of this article is to add empirical evidence to the knowledge of BI practices, addressing calls for research. BI practices are reported from 193 large Nordic organization...

IBM Manufacturing in the Nordic Countries

Unlike other foreign computing companies, in addition to sales and service IBM early on also established production facilities in the Nordic countries. To provide a better understanding of the role of IBM in these countries, the article surveys IBM manufacturing in the region: what was produced, and where were these functions located? The term “production” is understood in a rather narrow sense...

Regulation and Competition on the Nordic Power Market Lars Bergman

There is a long tradition of close cooperation and short term power exchanges between the major power companies in the Nordic countries, i.e. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The main economic rationale of the short term power trade is the differences in terms of hydro power resource endowments between the countries and the resulting variations in short term relative cost conditions. Howeve...

E-Banking in the Nordic Countries - Its Emergence and Perspectives

Performance Evaluation of Thermal Power Generation Companies using Integrated Proposed Trustable BWM Algorithm and BSC Model (A Real Case Study)

In order to keep and improve the position of thermal power generation companies in the competitive market, performance evaluation is necessary. BSC is one of the most efficient performance evaluation models. In this model, there are two assumptions of equal weights of perspectives and equal weights of performance evaluation indicators, which are not necessarily true in real-world problems. BWM ...