Facilities Management – Friend or Foe?
(2010) MIO920Production Management
- Abstract
- Purpose: This master thesis aims to understand how the
development of the leading FM companies will influence
upon the service strategy in Crawford Sweden.
Design/approach: Literature review of published work concerning FM along
with interviews with a range of people within Crawford
and in the FM business.
Research limitations: Owing to constraint of time, the authors have had to
make some delimitation; e.g. the thesis only concentrates
on the Swedish market. Read more under Delimitations.
Practical implications: The thesis helps Crawford and other service providers to
understand the role, desires and development of
FM companies. It could be used as ground and foundation
to the strategic decisions‐making process with FM firms.
... (More) - Purpose: This master thesis aims to understand how the
development of the leading FM companies will influence
upon the service strategy in Crawford Sweden.
Design/approach: Literature review of published work concerning FM along
with interviews with a range of people within Crawford
and in the FM business.
Research limitations: Owing to constraint of time, the authors have had to
make some delimitation; e.g. the thesis only concentrates
on the Swedish market. Read more under Delimitations.
Practical implications: The thesis helps Crawford and other service providers to
understand the role, desires and development of
FM companies. It could be used as ground and foundation
to the strategic decisions‐making process with FM firms.
Originality/Value: The thesis has contributed to the research area of FM,
more specifically to the relations between an
FM company and a service provider.
Conclusions: The general conclusion is that, with the right conditions
and prerequisites, Crawford could look forward to a
successful future together with FM companies. (Less)
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http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1971749
- author
- Axelsson, Pontus and Davoust, Tommas
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MIO920
- year
- 2010
- type
- M1 - University Diploma
- subject
- keywords
- Facilities Management, Facility Management, Service Provider, Business Model.
- other publication id
- 11/5354
- language
- English
- id
- 1971749
- date added to LUP
- 2011-06-17 08:10:47
- date last changed
- 2011-06-20 12:19:10
@misc{1971749, abstract = {{Purpose: This master thesis aims to understand how the development of the leading FM companies will influence upon the service strategy in Crawford Sweden. Design/approach: Literature review of published work concerning FM along with interviews with a range of people within Crawford and in the FM business. Research limitations: Owing to constraint of time, the authors have had to make some delimitation; e.g. the thesis only concentrates on the Swedish market. Read more under Delimitations. Practical implications: The thesis helps Crawford and other service providers to understand the role, desires and development of FM companies. It could be used as ground and foundation to the strategic decisions‐making process with FM firms. Originality/Value: The thesis has contributed to the research area of FM, more specifically to the relations between an FM company and a service provider. Conclusions: The general conclusion is that, with the right conditions and prerequisites, Crawford could look forward to a successful future together with FM companies.}}, author = {{Axelsson, Pontus and Davoust, Tommas}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Facilities Management – Friend or Foe?}}, year = {{2010}}, }