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Aim: The aim of this degree project is to carry out the corporate wide analysis and investigation to identify the existing and upcoming sustainable practices in Thule AB, general awareness and perception on sustainability among employees and to calculate carbon footprint of a bike rack, a Thule product produced at Seymour plant, USA. Approach: We embarked on this project by dividing it into two di
This thesis provides insights into consumers´ emotions influen-cing the decision-making process when buying and consuming ecological grocery products. Based on a constructionist perspective and an abductive view on the relation between theory and research, a qualitative ap-proach has been applied in order to fulfill the purpose of this study and to obtain in-depth knowledge about consumers’ emotio
Purpose of thesis: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the most salient store attributes that influence store choice of Vietnamese grocery consumers. The store choice phenomenon herein is analyzed under the fierce competition between traditional grocery channel and modern retailers. The research also aims to discover underlying reasons why Vietnamese grocery consumers choose traditiona
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on possible cultural, political and legal problems and possibilities that may arise when western companies enter the Chinese market by means of an industrial park. Conclusions: Industrial parks are not a universal establishment strategy that solves all potential problems. For small and medium enterprises entering the Chinese market through an industrial p
In 2018, the satirical public service prime time programme ‘Svenska Nyheter’ (Swedish News, SVT, 2018-) sparked a serious and multifaceted debate in Swedish press and comments sections, after launching the web tool ‘SKOLKO’ (translates into ‘SCHOOL QUE’ but also connotes the word ‘skolka’, meaning ‘to cutting class’). The tool was designed to make fun of but also correct an unfair allocations syst
In Sweden a new red list was issued 2000, but there is no published list of the most important areas for biodiversity preservation. I use woodliving and red-listed beetles as indicators of “hot-spots” for biodiversity preservation, since these insects constitute a large proportion of the red-listed forest living species in Sweden. Based on museum and many large private collections of beetles from
This thesis analyzes and compares two cases of entrepreneurial projects. One is classified as a failure due to termination and one is classified as success and, in the time of writing, still up and running. The theoretical framework is built on the article “Entrepreneurial motivation” by Scott Shane, Edwin A. Locke Christopher J. Collins published in Human Resource Management Review. This framewor
Objectives: In this thesis we studied the performance of active extension portfolios constructed by using momentum/contrarian strategies. Fundamentally, the difference between the 130/30 and the long-only asset classes is the relaxation from the long-only constraint. The main implication of this study is to find out whether the 130/30 strategy is value adding, in comparison to other actively manag
XBRL is an XML based, meta-tagged financial reporting language, which is anticipated to become one single standard for electronic filing of financial statements. Numerous studies have identified errors and inconsistencies in XBRL filings. Error-laden XBRL documents are a serious concern for many stakeholders. Many questions have been raised regarding the potential assurance of XBRL filings. These
This article aims to mirror a time of radical change in Swedish jazz education through perspectives formulated in the jazz journal Orkesterjournalen. During the 1980s, jazz musicians are still typically viewed as self-taught; you learn how to play jazz through listening and through playing together in contexts where fellow musicians function as informal “teachers”. The growing formal jazz educatio
This article looks at upcycling and the library of things from intellectual property law perspective
This thesis addresses the highly topical subject of global income inequality within the developed economies. A constructive analysis approach inspired by Swedish political scientists Bo Rothstein, Lennart Lundquist and Björn Badersten is employed analyze the economics blockbuster Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty. Empirical, normative and constructive theories
