Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to generate a wider measurement of welfare by carefully chosen variables in mainly three different areas: economic, socio-economic and environment in order to generate a welfare index which describes the world yesterday, today and tomorrow. Method: With the Principal Component Analysis 14 variables from 115 coun-tries are studied and verified and analyzed wit

The innovative efforts of the pharmaceutical sector have provided society with numerous new remedies and medicines. Innovation is considered to be of key importance to the sector. The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the relevant legal frameworks should be developed to account for the innovative need of the sector. In order to develop these frameworks it is important to understand the underlyin

To estimate the relation between FDI and domestic firm exports, this paper employed several variables, such as domestic firm exports for each province, FDI, GDP, average money wage, the number of labors in manufacturing sector, exchange rate, dummy variable about exports processing zones, lots of time dummies. The panel data about these variables contains 4 municipalities and 23 provinces covering

Titel: Serviceföretagets val av distributionskanal. Författare: Caroline Balling, Elisabet Lundin Handledare: Carl R Hellberg, Jan E Persson Nyckelord: Distributionskanal, serviceverksamheters särdrag, intern marknadsföring, extern marknadsföring, serviceerbjudande, servicekvalitet, servicemisslyckande, image, varumärke Syfte: Att beskriva och analysera hur serviceverksamheters särdrag kan påverka

Abstract Author: Anna Sjögren Supervisor: Helena Hansson The intent of The Swedish social law from 1970 was to contrive an integrated and generalised form of social work. Despite this, specialisation has become the most common form of organising social work. The aim of this study is to examine the consequences that specialisation has on an organisation, the social work managers and on the client

There is an ongoing debate in Sweden about the Communicable Disease Act and if it should be modified because of the negative impact it has on HIV-infected people. The law is said to be counterproductive and does not protect the general public against the infection. The Swedish Communicable Diseases Act is unique because it places all the responsibility on the infected person and they must give the

Teoretiker menar att det finns vissa mer lämpade marknadsföringsstrategier för små, privatägda och exklusiva hotell. Dock går åsikterna isär angående om dessa strategier kan tillämpas generellt för alla dessa unika hotell eller om varje hotell bör applicera en specifikt konstruerad strategi som fokuserar på deras målgrupp och segment. Utifrån dessa tvetydigheter utförde vi en undersökning på just

Sammanfattning Den relativt nya tjänsten jobbcoachning har blivit ett hett och omdiskuterat ämne i dagens samhälle. Förr i tiden användes ordet ’coach’ som en metafor för att transportera en person till en bättre plats. I dag kan därför en jobbcoach ses som någon som transporterar en person till ett nytt arbete. Det är dock inte så enkelt som att kontakta en jobbcoach och förvänta sig att denna sk

TITEL: Our shop is like a theatre- säljares emotionella arbete i butiksmiljö. SEMINARIEDATUM: 2 juni 2010 ÄMNE/KURS: SMKK01, Service Management Examensarbete för kandidatexamen, 15hp FÖRFATTARE: Ulrika Lindqvist, Hanna Pedersen, Linn Svingstedt HANDLEDARE: Erika Andersson Cederholm, Henrik Loodin FEM NYCKELORD: Emotional labor, Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv, säljare, butiksmiljö, servicemötet.

Sammanfattning Författare: Sara Sjöholm Ericson, Alice Hedaiat, Louise Liedholm Titel: Bakom service recovery – En studie om hotelledningens arbete med att skapa förutsättningar för frontpersonalens klagomålshanteringsarbete. Kandidatuppsats: SMKK01, 15hp, VT-2010, Institutionen för Service Management: hotell och restaurang. Handledare: Anette Svingstedt, Filippa Säwe Bakgrund/Problem: Studien tar

This report is the result of a project performed at the Department of Clinical Chemistry at UMAS in Malmö. To reduce the load at the surgery, the possibilities to let patients treated with anticoagulant drugs test themselves using self-service terminals will be investigated. The testing of these patients is currently performed by the personnel. The goal of this project is to investigate how termin

Web 2.0, popularly known as social media is gaining attention from organizations as a tool for capturing the tacit knowledge of employees. Social media has been highly successful in the internet which has gained it this attention. However, organizations, which employ social media inside have faced many hurdles to making them a success in meeting their goals. This does not mean that social media is

One of the characteristic things about the dialects on the south island Kyushu of Japan, is the usage of the verb endings -yoo and -too. The focus of this thesis will be on the usage of these two in the city Fukuoka. -yoo and -too are often compared with the verb ending -te iru used in standard Japanese, which for example is used for expressing progressive actions and resultative actions. Since th

The purpose of this study is to determine whether it is easier to predict the default probability in EU than in the USA or vice versa by analyzing the time period 2006-2009 which is characterized by the financial crisis. We will also establish whether there are any differences in the prediction of default probabilities between non-financial and financial firms. To be able to perform the study, we

Executive compensation is one of the most widely discussed topics since the latest economic turmoil. Shortly after the S&P 500 decreased by almost 50 percent in fall 2008, 70 percent of the 200 largest corporations in the United States reported changes in compensation packages for their executives. This study gives the reader an empirical insight into the stock market reaction following the an

Despite the current attempt of scholars over the last decades to liberate literature from the dualistic, binary-minded gender thinking by presenting multiple concepts of gender identity construction (cf. Pullen & Simpson 2009; Linstead & Pullen 2006), our society is still constructed by the differentiation of women and men based on stereotypes (Nentwich 2006; Billing & Alvesson 2000).

Vi vill med vår uppsats belysa hur användandet av mobiltelefoner för Internetaccess ser ut i nuläget. Vår målsättning har varit att försöka få fram en bild av hur en användare fattar sitt beslut att övergå från att använda sin mobiltelefon som vanlig telefon till ett mer multimedia inriktat tjänsteurval. Vi har frågat oss vem det är som använder sin mobiltelefon till detta,varför de har valt att gWith this thesis we want to research how the usage of the mobile phone for Internet access looks like today. Our goal has been to try to create a picture of how a user makes the decision to move from using the mobile phone for voice only to a more multimedia oriented choice of services. We have asked ourselves who is the user who uses the mobile phone for this, why have they chosen to do so and wh

Melior är det journal- och dokumentationssystem som används av de flesta sjukvårdsinrättningarna i Sverige idag. Systemet har funnits sedan början på 90-talet och föll sig vara ett naturligt val för Region Skåne att implementera för ca 15 år sedan. Utvecklarna Siemens utlovade en integrationsversion av systemet för hela regionen redan vid förhandlingen, men en sådan integration finns fortfarande i

Title: Optimal Pairs Trading using Stochastic Control Techniques - A Critical Evaluation Authors: HO, Wang Ching & GALEEV, Roman Supervisors: Johannesson, Erik – Department of Automatic Control, Lund University Larsson, Karl – Department of Economics, Lund University Problem: As of date, quantitative trading methods are a strong growing niche of trading. More and more sophisticated models are