Bachelor Thesis

Aim

After completion of the course the students should be able to: - Identify issues in organisations that might need further investigations and formulate these into research questions - Design a study by showing methodology awareness - Systematise the collected data to fit the chosen issues that are defined in the research questions - Analyse data by using the developed theoretical frame of reference - Draw conclusions from the analysis that can provide answers to the identified research questions - Assess other thesis and in this suggest what the strong parts are, what parts will need improvement and to provide suggestions of how improvements can be made

Content

Choices made in the thesis process as well as their way of dealing with the subject should indicate that they have taken deeper understanding concerning methodology as well as theoretically and empirically. Both the process and the result – the thesis – should be characterised by a high degree of methodology awareness, clearness in problem statement, in formulating research questions, in handling empirical data and in developing a theoretical frame of reference to be used to analyse the empirical data. The aim of the course is for students to develop further and extend their ability to deal with problems independently and in a scholarly manner within the sphere of business administration. Another aim of this course is to provide an in-depth knowledge of business administration, and to give the students the opportunity to examine a problem related to the previous business courses through empirical studies. Students are to choose, delimit and write on a thesis subject within the area of business administration. The students are free to choose between writing a more traditional theoretical thesis or to carry out an independent research project on behalf of a company or some other organisation in Sweden, within the EU or somewhere else in the world. The students’ works in teams of 2-3 students belong to a peer learning group and is supervised by a tutor.