Research about delegating or controlling purchasing with 2nd tier suppliers does not seem to be convergent; it discusses benefits and disadvantages of both purchasing tactics in various situations. There is no single tool today that we have found, that helps manufacturing companies decide when to control and when to delegate purchasing in the supply chain. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. F

The purpose of this study was to examine how the result of what the Supreme Administrative Court’s recent judgment has affected the three organisations called Youth and Adolescent Care (BUP), social service (socialtjänst), and The National Board of Institutional Care (SiS). Qualitative semi-structured interviews were made with at least two workers from each of three organizations. Several very dif

Twelve years ago, eleven European countries voluntarily abandoned their home currencies and joined the Euro. The founding fathers of the Euro believed that creation of the common currency would strengthen integration among the members and catalyze economic convergence progress within the common currency area. This study examines this issue in detail. I focus on labor productivity convergence and s

Apples vd Steve Jobs popularitet verkar bara öka och hans presentationer av företagets produkter hyllas av många. Den här uppsatsen analyserar presentationen den 7 juni 2010 då Jobs presenterade telefonen Iphone 4 på WWDC konferensen i San Fransisco. Frågeställningen som besvaras är om vi med hjälp av retorikens glasögon kan få en ökad förståelse varför Jobs presentationer är så framgångsrika. Ana

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ideological forces working in the sphere of quality assurance in higher education. Through discourse analysis on two seminal policy documents, the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA 2005) and OECD Work on Education (OECD 2010), the ideologically underbuilt discourses of Europe and Cost

En studie av Mia Törnblom - Självkänsla nu (2006) , Elizabeth Gummesson – Good enough: bli fri från din perfektionism (2009) samt Marta Cullberg Weston - Självkänsla på djupet: en terapi för att reparera negativa självbilder (2007) där författarnas metoder sätts i jämförelse med den franska existentialismen för att se om det finns några likheter mellan författarnas metoder och den franska existent

Efter ett antal uppseendeväckande händelser inom näringslivet, där bolagen tagit skada ekonomiskt, tycks ett av problemen vara att avgöra vem som skall bära skadeståndsansvaret. Skadan verkar ha uppkommit efter vad som förefaller vara ett felaktigt beslut. Ett beslut tagit av bolagsledningen, där det framförallt är oklart hur styrelseledamöterna ska bedömas i ansvarsfrågan. Bedömningen av ansvaret

This paper will analyze the construction of an optimal currency area using mean variance portfolio analysis, in order to determine what would have been the most stable monetary union for the European Union prior to the complete transition to the Euro currency on January 1, 2002. The analysis calculates the minimum variance portfolio of the potential European Union members by using there sovereign

Teachers’ experiences of school leadership behaviour and the social contexts in which these have taken place interest me. I aim to identify and understand what Swedish secondary school language teachers’ reflections are on what they require in terms of leadership from their principals in different contexts in order to gain personal job satisfaction. The objective is that this research can then fun

Situationen på dagens arbetsmarknad förändras ständigt och med det kommer även nya organisationsformer med nya och förändrade yrken och branscher. Kunskapsföretag är en relativt ny typ av organisationsform där man använder sig av högt kvalificerade individer och kunskapsarbete står i centrum. Organisationer inom bemanningsbranschen kan anses vara kunskapsföretag, och vårt syfte med denna uppsats ä

Primary education of good quality is necessitous to development, democracy and social inclusion. India has subscribed to the goals of education for all by 2015 and has embarked on immense priorities in education to reach the goals. Goals are often measured in terms of outcomes of literacy or school attendance. The main objective of this thesis is to take one step further and explore whether these

The purpose of this essay was to examine the definition of the work group by analyzing aspects of the work and the relationships within the group. By assuming a holistic approach in which the group is viewed as something beyond the sum of its individual members, this essay aimed at exploring what actually defines a collaborative work group, its structures, social climate, cohesion, norms and roles

Abstract Bachelor´s thesis in financial economics, Department of economics, School of economics and management, Lund. 15 ECTS, Fall 2010. Questions at issue - Will a portfolio composed with value stock outperform a portfolio composed consisting growth stocks between the years 1996-2009 on the Swedish stock market? - Will any of the portfolios create a risk adjusted excess return with comparison to

The purpose of this study was to examine social projects that use hip hop as a youth activity and illustrate how staff members in such projects can reason about the importance of hip hop. The investigation was limited to three social projects in Malmö Sweden, and the study was based on interviews. The aim was to answer the questions: ·How does the project staff legitimize hip hop as a youth activi

I denna rapport analyseras flödet i en QB600 mixer från QB-Food Tech. Rapporten behandlar två olika scenarion om två simuleringar vardera. Målet är att identifiera beteendet hos flödet vid olika val av turbinbladsvinklar och viskositet för flödesvolymen. Projektet innehåller både framtagning av CAD modell för mixern samt flödesanalys av denna. Modellen har ritats i Pro\Engineer och flödesanalysen

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

Diskussionen om allmän kameraövervakning i förhållande till personlig integritet når ett djupare plan än de rent faktiska omständigheterna. Att en kamera sitter på husväggen kanske inte stör den förbipasserande just i det ögonblicket. Inte heller stör det kanske att de lokala livsmedelsaffärerna övervakar butikerna med kameror och bevarar materialet en tid. Den som inte har något att dölja behöverThe discussion about video surveillance in relation to privacy does not simply concern the outwardly apparent circumstances. A camera on the wall may not bother the passer by at that very moment, nor surveillance in the local supermarket or the fact that the pictures are saved for a period of time. It may be claimed that those individuals who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. However, it

The purpose of this essay was to study power relations in social work and what happens when the client meets the system. The role of a social worker carries a two-sidedness, as to being a helper and a controller at the same time. Social work is often portrayed as an aid, and control and power is hidden. The study was done by looking into the care of adolescents with substance abuse problems. There

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

Uppsatsen behandlar etnisk mångfald inom kommunal förvaltning, och har sin utgångspunkt i hur man genom ledarskap kan arbeta med etnisk mångfald inom organisationen. I inledning presenteras ämnet övergripande, för att i bakgrund sedan smalas av kring hur det idag arbetas med etnisk mångfald på olika nivåer. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga chefers inställning till etnisk mångfald, vilket ligg