The practice of social development is situated within a broader phenomenological context known as the ―development paradigm‖—a grand milieu of institutions, policies, projects, and agents. Increasingly, social science discourses equate the development paradigm to a hegemonic project of empire epitomised by the moniker ―neoliberalism‖. As one such social development practitioner, I explore the ques

MC, Machine Corporation, although historically successful is facing challenges as the industry in which they operate is matured. They thus need to find new ways of generating revenues. The service and parts market penetration rate decreases in the Danish market as the machine ages, but the need of service and parts increase why we argue that there is a market potential not being exploited as of to

Sammanfattning: Syfte: Syftet med detta examensarbete är att förklara hur revisorer ser på risk när de bedömer potentiella klienter. Metod: Ett positivistiskt angreppssätt och en deduktiv ansats, med en kvantitativ metod, har använts för att nå fram till resultat för analysen. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Studien utgår ifrån ett eklektiskt teoretiskt angreppssätt och tidigare forskning inom området. Teo

Public Private Partnership, PPP, is a public procurement method involving the private sector used in several countries all over the world, now upcoming in Sweden. The UK, most prominent within this method, states that it offers good value for money, but the economic and financial benefits of PPP are still uncertain and subjects of debate. In order for the projects to be successful and to achieve v

Science parks are the facilitators of innovation, hosting new high-technology businesses. There are thousands of SMEs in Science Parks all around the world. This thesis is looking at an environmental initiative addressing these firms, IDEON‘s Lightfoot Academy. The science parks around the world have several approaches addressing sustainability. These approaches are outlined in the thesis, includi

Purpose: The thesis purpose is to examine how investors values differences in sales growth and profitability, as well as reacts to reported changes in these variables. In addition, the authors evaluate whether it is possible to earn abnormal returns, using Jensen´s alpha, by investing in stocks after reported improvements in these variables. Methodology: Due to the quantitative nature of the thesi

To discuss the current liquidity in inter-bank bond market, this paper uses high-frequency date of bond trading, and selects a series of liquidity measures to evaluate liquidity in the market respectively. Then correlation analysis is applied between liquidity measures, and the result reveals that some liquidity measures are highly correlated. Based on the correlations between liquidity measures,

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning. Katalyskammare för aktivitetsmätning med laser. Katalysatorer är oumbärliga i såväl livsprocesser som industriella tillämpningar. Bilismen är ett exempel där katalysatorer används vid såväl bränsletillverkning som avgasrening. Med hänsyn till miljön måste mycket ständigt förbättras, också katalytiska processer. I mitt examensarbete har jag karakteriserat en ny Industrial catalysts are very complex systems, often produced of nanoparticles dispersed in a so-called support material to maximize the surface area and minimize the cost. These catalysts are very difficult to study in surface science. Therefore industrial catalysts have been developed in a trial-and-error approach, with the loss of the fundamental understanding of the reactions. In surface scien

Autonomous industrial partners, i.e. trade unions and employers’ organizations, are vital parts of a modern welfare system, which are in turn realizations of human rights in the social-economic sphere. Issues of social policy, such as they are manifested in the welfare states are in the EU-setting within the competence of the members states. The social policy foundations of the welfare state have

Recent developments within sensual and sexy exercise have led to fashionable dance studios and gyms introducing their customers to pole dancing and other forms of sensual exercise. From the aspect of pole dancers being dirty workers the studios who teach pole dancing are now struggling to get away from the negative prejudices of the sport. We have been studying the corporate identity and image in

The persistence of regional disparities at different spatial dimensions, especially the income gap among three major economic belts (i.e. East, Central, and West), is one of the most striking characters of economic development process in China since the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s. In recent years, the regional disparity in China is not only a matter of serious academic concern