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Denna uppsats har utforskat praktiska angelägenheter för val och hantering av nyckeltal för verksamheten för att hantera miljöpåverkan från leverantörers tillverkningsprocesser för leverantörer uppströms i leverantörskedjan. Studien har genomförts genom intervjuer med fem framstående företag inom området. Forskningsresultaten visar att det främst är direkta leverantörers miljöproblem kring energiaThis thesis has explored practical concerns for selecting and managing environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to manage environmental impacts of suppliers’ production processes upstream in the supply-chain. It has been accomplished by interviews with five front-runner companies. Findings show that companies primarily track environmental issues for 1st tier suppliers concerning energy use,

In Sweden the care of elderly is often criticized. Knowing that the average life expectancy is steadily increasing as well as the population of elderly we wished to examine how society is planning for the future. Thus the purpose of this study was to understand how politicians at municipal level construct future needs of, problems and possible solutions for the care of elderly. Six politicians of

The purpose with this study was to describe and analyze the hospital church function and importance in hospital care and its relation to the hospital counselor work. This study will also present the division of labor between the hospital church and hospital counselors. It will also examine the relationship between the hospital church and hospital curators and if there is a difference in the hospit

The modernization of China comes as one of the most interesting topics not only at this moment but also has been researched for a long time. The individualization theories come as a result of modernity. This thesis draws on ten in-depth interviews in order to analyze the individualization among the educated, middle-class young people who were born in the 1990s by testing Yan Yunxiang’s theories of

Transformativt ledarskap är en av de mest inflytelserika teorierna inom ledarskapsforskning idag och dess fördelar har blivit uppmärksammade från flertalet perspektiv. Syftet med följande studie var att undersöka relationen mellan personlighetsdrag i HEXACO-modellen, en utmanare till den etablerade femfaktormodellen, och uppskattandet av transformativ ledarskapsstil. Datan samlades in genom en intTransformational leadership is one of the most influential theories in leadership research today and its benefits have been highlighted from several perspectives. The purpose of the following study was to examine the relationship between personality traits in the HEXACO model, a contender to the established five-factor model, and the appreciation of transformational leadership style. The data was

It is a common experience among children to witness domestic violence, but how much does it affect the child later on in life? The purpose of this paper is to present what happens to the child mentally and physically when domestic violence against women results in the death of a mother and the imprisonment of a father. The paper also presents ways to minimize the impact the event has on the child.

The study set out to analyse the discourse surrounding ‘the digitalisation’ in relation to the labour market in the Swedish Government Offices’ Digitalisation strategy and the government report that builds it, utilising Bacchi’s (2009) WPR-approach. The discourse appears to further the premise that ‘the digitalisation’ will have austere effects on nearly all parts of society. ‘The digitalisation’

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what the blockchain technology is and how it can be used to store digital certificates. Blockchain has gotten lots of attention since it was presented in 2008 for the digital currency Bitcoin. Certificates are present in many different industries. The work done in this thesis has an exploratory approach. The work performed consists of a case study and

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka definitonen av en icke-internationell väpnad konflikt. Konflikten i Libyen respektive Syrien kommer att användas som exempel på hur olika detta kan tolkas. Definitonen av en konflikt är av stor betydelse för vilka regler som ska appliceras på den och för straffansvar. IIVK regleras i internationell humanitär rättsliga (IHR) konventioner som GenèvekonveThe purpose of this paper is to examine what constitutes a non-international armed conflict (NIAC), using the conflicts in Libya respectively Syria as examples of how different this can be interpreted. This definition is of great importance when it comes to what rules to apply and criminal accountability. NIACs are regulated in international humanitarian law (IHL) conventions such as the Geneva Co

In this essay I analyze the exhibition ”Peoples of the earth”. In order to do this I have asked questions that look into the intentions of the exhibition, the experience of the visitor and the future changes that the ethnographic department is working towards. The methodology used to study these questions are my own experiences from the exhibition, an interview with museum curator Mille Gabrie

This study is based on texts that concern experiences of sex in the grey zone between bad sex and rape. My aim is to elucidate how shame, age and the positions victim and perpetrator are used to tell stories about unpleasant sexual experiences. I also investigate how the authors renegotiate the conditions for how it is possible to talk about these experiences. The results show that the social con

Title: Investor relations from the perspective of young investors: A quantitative study of individual investors’ preferences in information and communication channels. Author: Cathrine Lorvik Advisor: Jesper Falkheimer Language: Norwegian Problem: Within the research field of investor relations there is lacking studies that focus on individual investors, i.e. the receiver perspective. At the same

This paper was written in an attempt to study a less researched area of Swedish development aid and its effort to help build institutions in developing countries. Our purpose is to examine to which extent the practice of “twinning” - exchange projects between equivalent or similar government agencies in different countries - can lead to institutional development. We have interviewed five Swedish a

Titel: Strategiskt resonemang i dagstidningsbranschen Seminariedatum: 2014-05-26 Kurs: FEKN90 Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet, 30 ECTS. Författare: Jacob Baarlid Ericson och Sofie Bohman Handledare: Stein Kleppestø Nyckelord: Dagstidningsbranschen, strategisk förändring, strukturella branschförändringar, strategiskt resonemang, Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att kartlägga de strate

In this age of information, a person is accustomed to on demand and within seconds retrieve all thinkable information between heaven and earth with the help of a technical device. It’s therefore important that information is stored and presented in such way that a person can embrace it with ease. The IT company Nilex, where this research took place, provides such a storage in the form of a knowled

En av de mest centrala författningarna på förmögenhetsrättens område är den svenska avtalslagen. Lagen tillkom genom ett juridisk samarbete mellan de nordiska länderna. Den antogs 1915 i Sverige, och därefter även i de övriga nordiska länderna. Då lagen nu uppnått en hög ålder väcks frågan om den behöver reformeras, eller om den än idag fungerar väl i det moderna samhället. Den här uppsatsen syfta

This project has focused on improving the psychosocial working environment for hospital staff that uses electronic patient records in Region Skåne. Through making qualitative interviews with nurses, doctors and medical secretaries that use patient records on a daily basis I’ve gotten a view of some of the issues with the current system. The problems today seem to be that the documentation system

The objective of this thesis is to give a general account of the MCMC estimation approach dubbed data cloning, specically performing maximum likelihood estimation via Bayesian Monte Carlo methods. An account of the procedure will be given, and it will applied to four dierent maximum likelihood estimation problems: simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, a stochastic dynamical model (