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In times of globalization, cultural contact is a phenomenon that occurs on a daily basis. Immigration is a big contributor to the cultural contact. The phenomenon of immigration brings about many essential questions that can be hard to adjust to. The acculturation process itself is dependent of factors such as the contemporary societal climate as well as the active role of the immigrant. Questions
Human trafficking is a transnational phenomenon and it has been one of the most hotly debated issues in the development agenda for the last decade. This thesis focuses the attention on the phenomenon of women trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and takes as a case study the Republic of Albania. Albania has been, especially during the 90s, widely touched by the phenomenon, and since
The aim of this work is to critically examine the multimodal aspect of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (the Rotterdam Rules), in order to determine if the Convention would, in practice, bring the long desired legal uniformity and an overall beneficial environment for the shipping industry. The focus is on the liability prov
In an era of globalization, international legal frameworks and vigorous international politics, we cannot refrain from hearing about the extensive health crisis of the developing world. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and drug resistant tuberculosis are only a few of the widespread disease which appear almost surreal to the citizens of the industrial world. The debates and discussions regarding the importance o
The cash flow volatility could be either value destroying or value creating. It is also meaningful to classify the firms by growth options when analysis the firm value. These results develop the prior study to a more specification condition. Managers should focus on real cash flow management and the effects of firm¡¯s earning management should also be measured by cash flow rather than accruals.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the value premium associated with extent of hedging in the U.S. airline industry during the period 2006 to 2010 and to study the results of hedging on accounting performance as a proxy for firm value. The multivariate approach has been taken to measure the firm value using Tobin's q and accounting performance variables. The results show that hedgi
ABB has identified a potential in decreasing their levels of capital employed and in particular net working capital, NWC. To release tied up capital from the balance sheet, a decision was taken to start an initiative with focus on NWC. The focus area is to reduce NWC as percentage of revenues and to reduce the levels of overdues. The objective of this report is to describe a methodology for decrea
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to find intermodal transportation solutions for COMPANY X’s production in Turkey to different destinations in Europe. Methodology: The analysis is mainly based on quantitative studies. An inductive approach has been used to connect theoretical perspectives and the empirical material. Theory: General theories within transports and environmental effects are ill
The economie models of business are eonstantly developing and today il seems as if parts of the service industry are evolving inta a so called experienee economy. Collexium exclusive driver' s club has the intention of delivering experienees to a segment of automobil e enthusiasts in South Florida. As the company started out as late as December 2006, there are parts of the original strategy th
PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to investigate how private equity backed IPOs perform once they go public. That is, to investigate whether or not these private equity firms have created highly competitive, high performance portfolio companies and to see if the portfolio companies are able to retain those qualities even after going public. These results are then to be compared with previous re
An examination of the human rights and migration implications of climate change, current discussions on and proposed solutions to the issue of climate change migration and a critical analysis of the exclusion of climate change migrants within this discourse, along with a discussion of whether international law itself can be used to challenge this exclusion.
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how the semiconductor industry will develop during the period 2007-2012. Issues: The main issues presented are: • How will the competitive landscape change from 2007 to 2012? • How will companies succeed in the industry in 2012? • What position will the Integrated Device Manufacturers take in the value chain in 2012? Method: In order to achieve the purpo
Abstract of thesis (max 8000 characters) This qualitative study takes an inductive approach towards the field of gender and gender equality work. The main aim of the study is to gain understandings of how companies who seek recognition for their gender equality practices use an award for gender equality and how they view the concepts of gender and gender equality. Our research draws from a poststr
Online Access Panel (OAP) marketing research is a new method for conducting marketing research in order to create decision power. For example the decision power can be used in product development, business development and innovation. There are hardly any common practices agreed upon concerning OAP marketing research and there have been many discussions as to whether the method can be seen as repre
The purpose of this Masters thesis is to improve IKEA San Diego’s existing working routine related to the out phasing process of outgoing articles. At the retailer IKEA San Diego, the process of phasing in and out articles was not working efficiently. To this day there have been several problems to get the process of phasing in and out articles that approach their end date sale (EDS) to work smoot
Package Prototyping is a group within Tetra Pak R & D in Lund. Package Prototyping is producing different types package prototypes for different purposes. The sealing of the package prototypes is made with various sealing methods, in different sealing rigs, depending on package material. Package Prototyping has had problems with the quality of the package prototypes and have been searching for
Problem The aviation industry is a branch with extremely high quality requirements on spare parts and belonging documents. These documents, which assure that a part complies with authority requirements, are scanned and electronically saved in the stock receipt at Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH in Hamburg. The quality level of scanned documents is to investigate and shall provide useful informatio
My research seeks to present Public Private Partnerships in the delivery of welfare services most especially within a developing country context. I use a project case located in the South West region of Cameroon called RUMPI, jointly financed by the African Development Bank and Government of Cameroon to assess partnership contribution of two different types of institutions partnering for welfare d
This thesis analyses changes in operating performance for a sample of 110 Swedish buyouts from 2001 through 2008 based on measures of profitability, working capital management and employee management. Furthermore, regression models have been made in cases where we have significant differences between our sample and peer groups to test the correlation between company size and operational performanc
In recent years, disability rights has emerged as an increasingly important political issue in Ghana, primarily due to the mobilization of an organized and formidable national disability rights movement. In 2006 Ghana’s Persons with Disability (PWD) Act was signed into law, marking the promulgation of the most comprehensive piece of disability rights legislation in the country’s history. The objec
