Intellectual Property Protection : an External Factor that Influences a Foreign Company’s Market Entry Mode into a Prospective Market

Intellectual Property Protection is been understood in this paper as IP laws and enforcement of these laws in order to protect intellectual property rights. The goal of this research work is to understand how Swedish companies view issues regarding to Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) and how it influences a foreign company?s market entry mode. In order to achieve this objective, the Nigerian market situation and its? laws that govern IPP will be used to analyzed this issue. This paper argues that IPP is an important factor that influences a company?s entry mode and this argument finds IP laws and enforcement as two variables that influence the market while the market situation influences the foreign company. In carrying out this research literature was reviewed and interviews carried out. The research methodology section has presented a qualitative research and explains the nature of the interview stages that have been used to achieve the goals concerning the findings of the empirical data. A qualitative method was adopted by carrying out in-depth semi-structured interviews. The empirical data collected from the investigation were gathered and analyzed based on the research questions. The findings show that IPP of a host market influences a potential foreign company through the market situation that is also influenced by IP laws and enforcement. The outcome of these findings argues that the Swedish companies that were interviewed in this research will enter the Nigerian market through an intermediary mode. This has been based on the current IPP system of Nigerian.

Biolinguistics or Physicolinguistics? Is The Third Factor Helpful Or Harmful In Explaining Language?

Noam Chomsky (2005) proposed that a ‘third factor’, consisting of general principles and natural laws, may explain core properties of language in a principled manner, minimizing the need for either genetic endowment or experience. But the focus on third-factor patterns in much recent bio-linguistic work is misguided for several reasons: First, ‘the’ third factor is a vague and disparate collection of unrelated components, useless as an analytical tool. Second, the vagueness of the third factor, together with the desire for principled explanations, too often leads to sweeping claims, such as syntax “coming for free, directly from physics”, that are unwarranted without a case-by-case causal analysis. Third, attention is diverted away from a proper causal analysis of language as a biological feature. The point with biolinguistics is to acknowledge the language faculty as a biological feature. The best way forward towards an understanding of language is to take the biology connection seriously, instead of dabbling with physics.

"Det handlar om att nå ett resultat" : En fallstudie om partsrelationer och förhandling under en omstruktureringsprocess

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka relationerna mellan parterna under en omstruktureringsprocess. Syftet är också att granska nedläggningsprocessen samt när lagar och avtal träder in. Uppsatsens referensram tar upp nedläggningsprocesser av Rydell (2015) och Wigblad & Österberg (2009), den svenska modellen med lagar och avtal Elvander (1995) Iseskog (2014) förtroende och förhandling Fischer et al. (1992) och Walter & McKersie (1991). Med hjälp av dessa begrepp och modeller analyseras och tolkas relationerna i en nedläggningsprocess vid SSAB i Borlänge, där 210 medarbetare varslades i början av 2015. Av dem var 170 kollektivanställda. Nedläggningsprocessen genomfördes med hjälp av Trygghet- och Flexibilitetavtalet (ToF), utan att någon tillsvidareanställd förlorade sitt arbete. Undersökningen bygger på kvalitativ forskning med semistrukturerade expertintervjuer där sammanlagt fem respondenter från SSAB och IF Metall intervjuades. Dessa respondenter var nyckelpersoner under nedläggningsprocessen och förhandlingsprocessen. Resultatet av intervjuerna har analyserats och tematiserats utifrån referensramen. Studiens resultat visar att goda relationer mellan parterna ger enklare förhandlingar med framgångsrika resultat. Samverkan mellan parterna bygger på ett långvarigt ömsesidigt förtroende. Detta förtroende är av vikt för att samverkan skall bli till verklighet.