This thesis examines the role of mobile access to virtual worlds in massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG:s). Online gaming worlds have existed for decades, but ever since the smartphone has become more common, new interaction possibilities to these worlds have emerged. We have conducted a literature review to clarify existing gaps in the research community regarding mobile virtu

Linde Gas is one division belonging to The Linde Group, which is an industrial gas and engineering company. With its 53000 employees in 70 countries and related sales of about €12 billion, The Linde Group is a world leading company. Linde Gas has two different types of delivery agreements which are seen as profitable; the customer can call in himself to place an order (”Order Only” customer) or th

Due to the human population, urbanization and the standard of living is increasing, the municipal solid waste is increasing in the same pace. While the society overall is getting more environmentally conscious and getting a better insight in the consequences of not managing the waste that is produced in a better way than dumping it on deposits, problems arise and especially in larger cities. Big p

Orwak is a company that has manufactured machines for waste compaction, mainly cardboard and soft plastic, for over 30 years. They offer the customer a complete compression solution which improves the efficiency and the total economy. In 2006, Orwak introduced a new marketing concept called “Less is More” to improve their sales. In this concept, Orwak has identified and presented ten important fac

The Convention of the Rights of the Child came into force in 1990 after a number of ratifications from various nations around the world, including Sweden. When Sweden agreed to undertake the obligations of the convention, the swedish government were committed to protect and ensure children’s rights. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether or not the swedish government is fulfilling this

Background: In many businesses is the next customer not the end-customer but another company that further refines the product. This type of business relations demands a different type of marketing than regular supplier-customer businesses. Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) are concept that means design, manufacturing, testing, distribution, after-sales service of electronics products to the

Purpose of the master thesis is to develop an algorithmic trading model for a single asset, which is well functioning on the Scandinavian market. Deliverables: The main focus has been towards creating an indicating model to quantify market impact, cost of trading and model an efficient trading frontier. Methodology: Initially we focused on research papers and literature within our specific field t

EasyArchive is a vendor of an email archiving software solution. EasyArchive’s sales are not growing with the same speed as the market, which is forecasted to grow with up to 1000% within the next 5 years. EasyArchive’s direct sales force can expand but the company is also evaluating alternative marketing channels. The number of potential types of channels and the number of players in each channel

Investments in infrastructure projects in developing countries are often seen as risky by private investors and local capital markets are not fully developed. Consequently, financial resources and guarantees are often to a large extent provided by financial institutions. Financial and economic analysis is important in assessing infrastructure investment proposals in order to assure that they are f

This thesis describes how business can be improved using a number of rather new methods; Data Mining, Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management. The idea presented is that an organization, through data, owns a lot of information about their business and customers. In order to turn this information into knowledge, it needs to be interpreted. The knowledge acquired will improve the

The urban dwellers, particularly females, have desperately been penalized by abject unemployment in paid labor market. Despite of inconsiderable job discrimination by gender, females’ employment status is significantly lower and unemployment status is rampant compared to males’. With increasing of labor supply in the market and comparatively limited demand for labor by employers, females are recom

This research paper examines whether the prevention of Member State's taxes avoidance can justify hindrance of the TFEU freedoms. The legal research performed leads to the conclusion that, despite the fact that such justification existed in the past in the ECJ's case law, it was de facto abolished within the ambit of Case C-196/04 Cadbury Schweppes, since in this case the ECJ restricted t

The major question arising in relation to cross-border service transactions is how far a company could go in VAT planning, particularly, by use of fixed establishments, and what should be the limits of acceptable VAT planning. On the one hand, businesses have a freedom to select the most beneficial legal structure and a freedom to conduct their business activity; on the other hand, it is not clear

This thesis is focused on exploring what insights a human ecological perspective could provide on the understanding and practice of political consumerism. This is divided and conducted in two sections, the first section is a theoretical discussion which is devoted to defining political consumerism and reconseptualizing some aspects and components of it as well as to positioning it in a wider and m

Unemployment is rising quite dramatically almost everywhere of the world. Undoubtedly, it is a very debating and heart touching issue of the present times to the policymakers. The recent past introduction of labor market rigidities and inflexibilities in the late 1980s, that play a significant role on unemployment is a very common world’s debating topic across Europe. It is blamed that rigid labor

Syftet med uppsatsen var att jämföra antalet kvinnliga respektive manliga författare som elever i den senare delen av grundskolan får kännedom om. För att undersöka det använde jag mig av läroböcker i svenska riktade till årskurs 7-9. Antalet författare i alla undersökta läroböcker räknades samt viktades på olika sätt. Först efter hur många gånger de nämndes i läroböckerna och därefter efter hur m

För att uppnå större kostnadskontroll på sina IT tjänster och samtidigt ha möjlighet att vara konkurrenskraftig inom sin bransch väljer fler och fler företag idag att använda sig av molntjänster. Molntjänster kan ses som en form av tjänster som levereras över internet. Dock finns det många frågetecken runt säkerheten, vilket gör att många företag har svårt att förlita sig helt på molntjänster. För

IT-System får idag en allt större och betydande del i organisationer, därmed ökar även beroendet av att informationssystemen ska fungera. Utan sina informationssystem kan verksamheter helt stanna upp eller försenas kraftigt. Riskerna som kan leda till systemhaveri är många och en god beredskap samt åtgärdsplanering krävs för att effektivt hantera dem. Med en god planering kan de negativa konsekven

Women employment is one of the economic variables which may determine the fertility behavior of women. Unlike western nations, very limited studies have been conducting regarding the relationship between women employment and fertility behavior of women in developing countries, specifically in sub-Saharan African countries. In this paper the association between employment status and fertility beha

Grön-IT är ett relativt nytt begrepp inom IT-sfären och i denna uppsats behandlas problematiken kring vilka definitionerna är, hur arbetssättet baserat på definitionerna går tillväga och identifieringen av olika faktorer som bidrar till vad Grön-IT består utav. I min uppsats har jag valt att undersöka den svenska regeringen, Malmö stad och Lunds kommun och deras förhållningssätt till begreppet gen