Title: To improve an office, a workplace, a company. Authors: Emanuel G Eriksson & Erik Ekström Technology Management Lund University, Sweden Advisors: Stefan Olander, Department of Construction Management Claes Svensson, Department of Business Administration Lund University Problem: It is difficult to determine whether an office environment is good or not. This weakens the importance and the

Studier har visat att små företag i tillväxtfas ofta saknar den struktur och kontroll på verksamheten som krävs för att kunna styra ett större företag. Det är en förutsättning för framgångsrik tillväxt att små företag får kontroll på lönsamhetsdynamiken, vågar tänka i nya banor, effektiviserar interna processer samt bygger upp ny kunskap i syfte att förbereda för de utmaningar ett större företag s

Etisk marknadsföring har i dagens konsumtionssamhälle blivit vanligare. I dagligvaruhandeln sprider sig alternativa produkter som sätter sig emot en förödande kapitalism. Det föreligger här intressanta aspekter som är värda att plockas upp till ytan och granskas. När företag med en etisk framtoning iscensätter och marknadsför naturlighet, vänder de kapitalismens baksidor till sin fördel för att ök

Faiveley Group is an international company present in 22 countries, and with their headquarters in France. The subsidiary Faiveley Transport Nordic AB, Faiveley, is responsible for the Nordic and Baltic markets and is also the competence centre for the development of the BFC brakes. Faiveley is currently in a changing period and various projects are currently in progress, including hiring outside

Scientific abstract: As the increasing attentions drawn to the environment and climate change issue, the profound impact on the earth system made known to nearly every corner of the world. A great variety of global protocols and conventions has been established aiming to reduce global environmental risks and maintain a healthy earth system. In order to monitor, supervise these protocols and conven

Remote sensing is an extensively used technique in ecosystem monitoring or analyzing the carbon balance on the earth surface. The most dominant part of south west Skåne is agricultural land and MODIS derived Vegetation Indexes (VIs) are able to investigate the seasonality of crop fields. The values of VIs represent the different stages of spring greening up of crops and it shows the non-linear and

Today’s global competition forces manufacturing companies to re-evaluate their existing processes, technologies, manufactured parts and services in order to focus on strategic activities. The question whether to make or to buy goods or services represents a problem faced by many companies when deciding between keeping technologies/processes in-house or purchasing them from an outside supplier. In

This is a study of the growing phenomenon volunteer tourism, defined as Westerners traveling to countries in the ”third world”, mainly through commercial agencies, with the purpose of ”helping out” in social and environmental projects. The purpose is to examine how the volunteer travel as a social practice produces discursive meaning, identities and subject positions. I have studied the web pages

The aim of this thesis is to explore how power and normality are treated in From patient to citizen – a national action plan for disability politics (2000) (In Swedish "Från patient till medborgare – en nationell handlingsplan för handikappolitiken"), and to explore how or if the disability politics objectives take into account more intersections of power than just (dis)ability. The cen

This paper applies optimal foraging theory to an osteological material from the mesolithic site of Ringsjöholm, in Scania, in an attempt to test the diet breadth models relevance to archaeological theory. This paper also presents results from the osteological analysis of Ringsjöholm. Focus is directed towards the hunting of large mammals, in particular aurochs, moose, red deer, roe deer, wild boar

Som studenter vid Lunds Universitet och Enheten för media- och kommunikationsvetenskap har vi funnit att svensk media mer och mer har börjat uppmärksamma och belysa personer med funktionsnedsättning. Vi ser dessa individer i allt ifrån tidningsartiklar till i långfilmer. Intresset har legat i hur dessa personer framställs och vad det är för typ av bild som media väljer att belysa. Vi har valt att

EU-rättens arbetsrättslagstiftning hade i sitt inledningsskede främst till syfte att undvika konkurrenshinder och att säkra den fria rörligheten. Med tiden utvecklades dock arbetsrätten till att lägga större fokus på det sociala området, sociala handlingsprogram antogs och att uppnå jämlikhet mellan könen blev med tiden något eftersträvansvärt. Utvecklingen fortsatte och likabehandlingsdirektivet The labour legislation in the EU had in its early stages the purpose to avoid barriers of competition and to ensure the free movement within the union. Over time, as EU labour law developed, a greater focus was put on social matters and achieving gender equality became desirable. As a part of this development, the Equal Treatment Directive was adopted. The Directive regulated equal opportunities i

Under 2008 svarade EU:s offentliga upphandling för 17-18 procent av EU:s BNP. Huruvida offentliga medel skall kunna användas som instrument för att förverkliga politiska ambitioner eller om upphandlande myndighet endast skall ta hänsyn till ekonomiska aspekter har varit föremål för diskussion. Jag har valt att kartlägga de normgivande regelverk som reglerar arbetsrättslig hänsyn vid offentlig upphIn 2008 public procurement made up 17-18 percent of the EU GDP. The issue of whether the disbursement of public funds can be used to promote social objectives, including preservation of labour law requirements or whether public authorities only shall take economic considerations into account when deciding what to purchase, has been subject to discussion. In this thesis, I have chosen to describe t

Ett olovligt bortförande eller kvarhållande föreligger när ett barn under sexton år har blivit bortfört eller kvarhållet i en stat, som inte utgör barnets hemvist, i strid med vårdnadshavarens vilja. 1980 års Haagkonvention, som har införlivats i svensk rätt genom verkställighetslagen (VerkstL), har utarbetats i syfte att skydda de barn som har blivit olovligen bortförda eller kvarhållna mellan laThe 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention), incorporated into Swedish law by the verkställighetslagen (VerkstL), aims to protect children from the harmful effects of cross-border abduction. Under the Hague Convention, the legal guardian of the child in his or her state of habitual residence enjoys ‘rights of custody’ over that child. The removal or

This paper examines how cyber warfare as a new empirical phenomenon can be understood and explained through the classical security theory of realism. As states begin to view cyberspace as part of their strategic interest, the main divisions of neorealism provide different explanations as to the intentions and interactions of states. The hypothesis of this paper is that realism is not enough to und

Problem: Scania Commercial Vehicles (Scania CV) initiated the project, as a result of a vision regarding future preventive maintenance (PM) programmes. This vision and its core concepts will impose great changes to the way PM for heavy trucks are viewed upon at Scania CV. Within this vision many questions have risen, one of which is: How does one measure the performance of a preventive maintenance

Problem Definition: The aim with this master thesis is to examine the available European Union funded financial support for investment in agricultural machinery in Romania. Its regulations and limits and what customer group Väderstad Verken AB shall target during the pending European Union budget period 2007-2013. Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to increase the understanding of the a

The paper identifies the effects of the adoption of EU cohesion policy in Sweden, namely a significant involvement of subnational actors within designing and implementing the policy, a stimulated activity of regional authorities, a relationship between the different administrative levels mainly characterised by cooperation and dialogue and the increasing importance of flexible, inclusive, network-

Då vi idag lever i en extremt medialiserad värld där medier till stor del styr vår självuppfattning är det viktigt att undersöka hur kvinnoidealet framställs i media. Vi har i denna uppsats valt att titta närmre på hur de unga kvinnorna i Elles modereportage framställs, då vi redan vet att många av modellerna som syns på dessa sidor i magasinet inte återspeglar en verklighetstrogen bild av "d