Budget är ett styrinstrument som har fått utstå en hel del kritik, bland annat för att vara ett föråldrat styrsätt och ett slöseri med företagets resurser. Trots detta så är det idag det mest använda styrinstrumentet för företag i beklädnadsbranschen. Vårt syfte med denna studie är att undersöka hur man arbetar med ekonomistyrning i ett modeinriktat företag i detaljhandeln och vidare diskutera hur

The legislation in Sweden regarding tobacco advertising has gradually become more and more aggressive, which comes from the will to reduce the harmful effect that the tobacco companies can have on the consumers` health. This causes restrictions on the tobacco companies possibilities to express themselves, which raises questions about the interplay between laws concerning tobacco advertising and fr

This Master’s Thesis, under the Division of Machine Design at Lund Institute of Technology, was conducted at Presona AB located in Tomelilla, Sweden during the first half of 2006. Presona AB is a leading manufacturer of equipment for handling and compression of waste. The object of the thesis is to reduce the manufacturing cost of Presona’s heavy duty stationary compactor. This is acquired by rede

The objective of this Master’s Thesis, entitled “How to increase tolerance regarding co-planarity when using larger shield cans”, is to find solutions for how to solder larger shield cans to the printed wired board (PWB) without losing shielding effectiveness. Advantages with larger shield cans, i.e. combining several smaller shield cans into one large with internal walls, are saved board space, e

De senaste årtiondena har gapet mellan efterfrågan och resurser inom svensk sjukvård ökat. Det är därmed rimligt att tro att situationer som kräver prioriteringar mellan sjuka vårdtagare uppstår och kommer att fortsätta uppstå. Vi har därför undersökt vilka etiska grunder som finns för prioriteringar och beslutsfattande inom sjukvården, och hur denna värdegrund betraktas inom svensk sjukvård. Geno

Brasilien är en nation som den senaste tiden gått framåt både ekonomiskt och demokratiskt, det är ett land som har potential att få en betydande roll i världspolitiken. Trots sina framsteg kämpar de med återkommande skandaler av korruption. På T.I:s årliga lista över korrumperade länder i världen får Brasilien siffran 3,7, då siffran 10 innebär att landet är ”minst” korrupt och siffran 0 ”mest” ko

Stater med allvarliga interna problem har i allt större utsträckning kommit att betecknas med etiketter som exempelvis ”failed state”. Detta fenomen kan analyseras i anslutning till en historisk utveckling där framför allt kalla krigets slut och terrorattentaten 2001 kan betraktas som milstolpar. Kategoriseringen av problematiska stater kan analyseras som en diskurs som växt fram under perioden ef

The purpose of this report is to show how construction trailers can be more energy efficient. It also shows how NCC could cut their energy costs, and carbon dioxide emissions using construction trailers. This report was developed with NCC, a large-scale customer which hires many construction trailers. Building processes at today’s construction sites use a lot of energy. The main focus when buildin

Detta examensarbete har gått ut på att utveckla ett nytt avlänkningssystem till en myntsorteringsmaskin. Det utfördes på uppdrag av SCAN COIN AB som tillverkar bl.a. myntsorteringsmaskiner. För att kunna öka prestandan i deras modernaste myntsorterare SC Active 2200 var de intresserade av att undersöka möjligheten att använda en ny teknik för avlänkning av mynt. Det befintliga avlänkningssystemet

Interventionerna i Irak och Afghanistan lyckades på relativt kort tid störta de gamla regimerna. Den efterföljande återuppbyggnadsfasen var i båda fallen på förhand stipulerad i den överordnade strategin. En prioriterad del av denna återuppbyggnad var reformeringen/organiseringen av ländernas interna säkerhetssektorer. Denna uppsats rör sig inom denna problematik och belyser försöken att skapa nya

There are approximately 200 million international migrants in the world today as well as countless irregular migrants that would benefit from more open migration. Despite this, borders remain closed for many and the right to free mobility is only granted to a few. Theories speak of a hierarchy of power dictated by those who can move freely and those who cannot. Using this as a base, our study look

I denna uppsats analyserar vi hur man kan förstå Bushadministrationens till synes paradoxala insatser för att främja demokrati i Irak i förhållande till dess relation med Saudiarabien. Inspirerade av Graham Allisons studie av Kubakrisen i boken Essence of Decision (1971) utgår vi från tre olika teoretiska perspektiv för att förstå vårt problem. De perspektiv vi valt att utgå ifrån är de tre klassi

In the mid-90s, a nation-wide famine broke out in North Korea, driving people across the border into China in search of food. This was the start of a slow and steady exodus. China claims that these people are illegal migrants, and that a treaty with North Korea obligates it to return them. Others argue that they are refugees that should be protected against refoulment, because of the harsh punishm

Development in the sense that we currently use the term has existed since the post-war period and its orthodoxy has changed significantly in the course of time. With economic growth as a first objective, development suffered a crisis in the 1980/1990’s, in view of the lack of concrete results and the increase in poverty at a world level. Human development emerged as a re-orientation in development

The European Union is in many ways a huge and vast organization. With an increasing number of members and a deeper cooperation in many areas, the EU constantly needs to change to adapt to new opportunities and challenges. But in parallel to this development there is an entirely different debate, one that concerns the democratic legitimacy of the cooperation as a whole. The European Union is unique

The purpose of this study was to examine experiences of treatment needs of women in drug abuse in social services and in women focus treatment institutions and to which extent the efforts are considered to be adapted to the women´s needs. The reason of this aim is the fact that women in drug abuse rather than men in drug abuse run a larger risk of being exposed to physical, psychical and sexual vi

The aim of this study was to examine how social workers are described by actors of other professions’ who regularly cooperate with social workers. Social work with children is an area that involves several professions. The questions we intended to look at were: How do these actors describe and view the social worker and his or her work? How do other professions look at their collaborations with so

Purpose: To compare the differences and similarities that apart the corporate governance systems of Pakistan and Sweden by using a research model developed for this purpose. The same model will compare how major companies of the countries are expressing this in information to shareholders. The thesis begins with an introduction to corporate governance and its internalization of the subject. It is

We have made a thesis about Collaboration for Innovation in the Öresund region from a Swedish perspective. The thesis is taking both regional and corporate aspects into consideration when studying this subject. The empiric material is based upon several interviews with persons having knowledge about our subject as well as a web survey including 49 companies situated in the Öresund region. We have