Seminariedatum: 2014-06-04 Ämne/kurs: Examensarbete i Strategic Management på kandidatnivå, 15 HP. Författare: Siri Albrecht, Adam Svingstedt och Hugo Wennberg Handledare: Magnus Nilsson Nyckelord: E-handel, Returhantering, Returns Management (RM), Avoidance, Gatekeeping, Konkurrensstrategi, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Syfte: Att undersöka i vilken utsträckning gatekeeping och avoidance integ

With the diminishing reserves of oil and the growing public concern for environmental issues, the end of gasoline powered vehicles is getting closer each year. To prevent this from causing the personal and comfortable way of transportation mankind has gotten used to, to die with them, an alternative without the downsides of the gasoline engine must be developed. The environmentally friendly electr

The production of knowledge and claims of objectivity in Irish revolutionary historical narratives are discursively gendered processes which maintain a power-differentiation between the sexes through the assignment of a hierarchy of significance to the participation of men and women in the Irish struggles for independence. The partial visibility of women in such historical accounts is discursively

Syftet med denna studie är att analysera populära svenska arbetsgivares syn på fenomenet lärande i arbetslivet. Respondenterna för studien har varit företag på Universums lista över Sveriges mest populära arbetsgivare. Studien har tagit avstamp i en fenomenografisk metodansats med semi strukturerade intervjuer för datainsamling som har riktats mot anställda inom företagen som har insikt i företage

De finns många olika faktorer som påverkar miljöns tillstånd, varav två av dessa är produktion och konsumtion av livsmedel. Maten vi äter och slänger har en mycket negativ effekt på miljön, exempelvis genom utsläpp av växthusgaser och användning av kemiska bekämpningsmedel. Att arbeta med att minska klimatpåverkan från livsmedel är därför viktigt för att vi ska kunna förbättra miljöns tillstånd oc

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka om marknaden är effektiv före, efter och sammantaget vid produktannonseringar. Uppsatsen inkluderar nio bolags produktannonseringar och dessa har skett mellan 2007-2014. Metod: För att undersöka om det fanns en abnorm avkastning före, efter och sammantaget vid produktannonseringar har nio bolag studerats. Dessa har alla annonserat konsumenti

Abstract: This thesis combined the individual level longitudinal data, from the 2011 Ethiopian demographic and health survey, with annual GDP and price indicators, to examine the response of marital fertility to short term macroeconomic stress that Ethiopians has been facing in the last forty years. A two-level discrete time random effect models were employed to estimate the risk of next birth. Ru

The importance of body image is increasing in China. Academic research and news media point to the rising desire for an ideal appearance, especially among young people in the country, in order to gain an advantage in society. This thesis was conducted to examine if university students at a high-ranking university in China were influenced by commercial ideals in the media to the same extent as youn

The thesis analyses the EU arms embargo on China and the reasons why this sanction is in place since 1989. The arms embargo case characterizes the EU-China foreign relations also in general and in order to understand the real background behind this case, historical institutionalist perspective and path dependence theory is used. The thesis acknowledges two different paradigms – normative power and

Video on Demand (VoD) is a service that delivers video seamlessly to the consumer on demand. This thesis examines the consumers’ opinion on the different VoD services that exists on the Swedish market. To conduct our research we collected quantitative data by using a survey and then conducted a qualitative analysis. As a theoretical framework we used our own modified version of The DeLone and

The purpose of this research is to investigate the sociocultural discourses that are ascribed to the fairly new, yet increasingly popular consumer practice of volunteer tourism. Thereby, we aim to examine the extent to which volunteer tourism correlates with new social movements using Melucci (1989) and Touraine’s (1981) “three core representational elements” of every social movement: a common goa

This narrative study aims to examine how social pedagogues perceive and relate to violence and threats of violence in a social educational context in Denmark. Furthermore, the study examines how these perceptions affect the relational aspect of the profession. My interest in the subject is sprung out of personal experiences in multiple socio-educational projects. As such, my material is composed b

Background The forms of retailing can be divided into store retailing and non-store retailing. It is necessary for retailers who base their business in the fixed locations to conduct in-store marketing in the physical environment to enhance sales performance. Retailers generally take information and communication techniques such as store atmospheric design and interaction between shoppers and stor

In surveillance cameras rain and snow can introduce an unwelcome noise to the video stream. The resulting effect of the rain becomes bright streaks in the frames of the video. These streaks can disturb human viewers and image processing algorithms. Rain streaks can be hard to detect and remove as they are a very dynamic phenomenon dependent on camera settings and weather conditions. This thesis

The ability of the Merton model and the logistic regression to accurately forecast corporate defaults is evaluated. Additionally, the probability-of-default (PD) estimates obtained from these two models are compared with the corresponding rating class historic default rates presented by Moody’s. Data for 56 defaulted and 272 healthy US publicly traded organizations serves as the basis for this stu

Ecosystem services are becoming increasingly important in today’s society, since they provide us with vital resources such as food and fuel. Even though this importance is evident, ecosystem services are often taken for granted. Because of this it is essential to shed light on the importance of ecosystem services. One way to do this is to valuate these services in monetary terms. The purpose of t

In this thesis, the compatibility between the standards developed in ISO/TC 223 – Societal Security and the standards developed in ISO/TC 262 – Risk Management, is examined. A joint qualitative method of analysis, consisting of document analysis and semi-structured interviews, is applied. With the help of an operational definition of compatibility, the study results in a coefficient of compatibili

This project was performed in collaboration with ArjoHuntleigh’s Innovation Centre in Malmö, Sweden, from January 2014 to June 2014. The objective of the thesis was to design and develop a movable or removable plate/shelf. The Project has been carried out by using the methodology described in the book “Product development and Design” by Ulrich and Eppinger. The methodology has been modified to fi

In the development of a product or system it is important to know that all the requirements are verified and validated in order to maintain a good reputation and standard. Today ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB does not have a clear traceability between requirements and verification. In order to improve and create a clear formal traceability for their developing process a traceability examination ha