European Study Research Lisbon

Dear participants,

Your can upload your documents as following:

1. Log in on the EBF-website by filling in your e-mail adress and password at the right corner of the site.

Since the EBF-website is recently renewed, you probably should have to create a new password. You can do this by clicking on "wachtwoord vergeten" or "password forgotten" right under the login-box. Then, you can log in with your new password.

2. When you are logged in, click on "My EBF" and go to "ESR Lisbon Deelnemers" or "ESR Lisbon Participants". 

At the "My EBF"-page, you can update your profile if necessary, but most important you can go to the colomn at the right side of your screen and click on "ESR Lisbon Deelnemers" or "ESR Lisbon Participants" below the heading "Committee". Over here, you can see the list of ESR-participants.

3. Click on the button "Downloads" and "Upload new files". Lastly, select your document and upload it.

Every participant and committeemember can see the files that are uploaded on this part of the website. So you can check if your upload has succeeded by looking if your document is in the list of uploaded files.

In case you still have problems with uploading your files, just contact us by e-mail: esrlisbon@ebfgroningen.nl.

Valerie Sophie Siegle – Chairman
Dennis Reus – Acquisition
Merel Koppen – Acquisition
Agnes de Graaf – Research Coordinator
Savas Oroilidis – Travel Coordinator/Treasurer
Marjolein van der Krol – Public Relations

f.l.t.r: Agnes de Graaf, Valerie Sophie Siegle, Dennis Reus, Merel Koppen, Savas Oroilidis, Marjolein van der Krol

The theme for ESR Lisbon will be:

     “Survival of the fittest: Lions versus sheep”…
                              …competition in a changing environment.

 

Nowadays, competition gets stronger and corporate success is only reachable for companies, which are able to adapt as fast as possible to the turbulent environment. Portugal, as we all know, is one of the countries that has to deal with big environmental changes; only the best companies know how to deal with this.

The best companies in the market are marked as lions: the organizations that will turn out to be the strongest in the long term, and therefore will survive. Lions are the symbol of pride, resistance and pure power, which are the exact ingredients that make these companies the best.
On the other hand, sheep are interpreted to be weak, naïve and mindless; the companies with these aspects are the non-survivors in the market.

In our research, we are interested in the lions of the markets: What are their success factors? We are trying to divide up these success factors through the subthemes below.

 1. Technology

To what extent does the subtheme technology have influence on the survival position of a company? Is there a significant relation between technology and firm performance? One can think of technology as the systematic application of science in technique. Therefore, technology has to do with the sorting and ranking of information. Without technology there would not be a manner to process information and thus all information would be useless. This is why we can define the term technology in an economic sense as follows: The purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities.

 2. Strategy

You can think of strategy as ‘a way to get somewhere’. A good strategy brings you closer to your goal. Without a corporate strategy the goals and guidelines in a corporation would not be clear and every employee would only chase individual goals. In short, without strategy there is no consensus. By thinking this way, we can define strategy as follows: A method or plan chosen to bring a company to a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem.
By doing research we want to discover a relationship between the subtheme strategy and the survival position of a firm. To what extent does the fast changing environment calls for a change or adjustment in strategy?

 3. Labour

Through this subtheme we will investigate what kind of labour-related factors influence the survival position of a company; what kinds of labour is the company looking for and how does the company select these? Furthermore, how does the company manage their staff from an internal perspective?

 4. Culture

This subtheme will help us understand how corporate- and external culture can give a competitive advantage and why this is crucial for surviving. We can define culture as the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those or another. Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values (Geert Hofstede). We can derive from this definition that different cultures value things differently. In this way you can understand that cultural believes are crucial for the survival position of a company.

5. Market environment

With this factor we want to investigate which market environment-related factors influence the survival position of a company. By investigating this we ask ourselves what the success factors of the concerning market environment are for a company. We define market environment as all those factors that affect a company's operation, including customers, competitors, stakeholders, suppliers, industry trends, regulations, social and economic factors as well as technological developments. Examples of crucial factors in the market environment are infrastructure, competitors and government.

 

               

 

 

 

 

The application deadline is already due  

 

 

Address
ESR Lisbon
Nettelbosje 2
Postbus 800
9747 AE Groningen

Email
esrlisbon@ebfgroningen.nl
 

 

European Study Research is organized in cooperation with:

Restaurant Cave O Porto
Bakker Kamerbemiddeling
Café ‘t Vaatje
Old Town Hostel Lisbon
Restaurant & Café Pacific
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