The purpose of the project is to recommend one common way of how to calculate a conversion factor that should be used to convert sales into the corresponding volume in cubic meter. The conversion factor is a forecasted average value per cubic meter of an IKEA product and could be seen as a model of the future. The authors of the thesis have no intensions to provide a perfect model that is an exact

Purpose: The Chinese mining industry is the third biggest in the world in terms of scale and magnitude. Due to the growing importance of the Chinese market, Sandvik Mining and Construction is investing heavily in China. As a result, there is a need for a new marketing plan for China. The marketing efforts will increase much, but since the marketing department has been relatively undeveloped, there

Research question: Investigate the maturity of takt implementation in the organization and suggest areas for further improvements to maximize the outcome of the change effort. Deliverables: The project has focused on creating a comprehensive view of the maturity in the takt implementation and the results are delivered in a written report and an oral presentation both to Tetra Pak and Lund Universi

Ever since Scalado was founded in the year 2000, the company has grown remarkably fast compared to other mobile software companies. Today the company has a turnover of about SEK 150 million and is one of the largest middleware companies in the mobile phone industry. Scalado’s core business lies within mobile imaging solutions and their technology is present in more than 600 million mobile phones.

ABSTRACT An organization that for the most part has routines that are defined and managed as projects and where the projects are carried out parallel to each other is called a multi-project organization. In such an organization, the projects can be unique or recurrent, large or small and organized in different ways, but in common for these organizations are that the projects are many, that they in

Purpose: To develop a model, questions and criteria that can be used to assess and benchmark the environmental management performance of firms. Delimitations: An evaluation is not supposed to take more than two weeks to conduct and prerequisites the companies’ full cooperation. Methods: Qualitative and quantitative data was collected from interviews, internal documents and literature studies to de

Abstract The Corporate Planning Process within ST-­‐Ericsson requires each division within the company to develop its own five-­‐year plan, which later will be consolidated into a corporate long-­‐term plan. L3M, the division subject to this study, has so far only submitted one long-­‐term plan. Both the process of developing the plan and the plan itself was considered unsatisfactory. This thesis

Since recently, Vestas Northern Europe has been facing a buyers’ market with more demanding customers than before. In addition, a rapid growth and a restrictive risk policy have caused inefficiency within the organization. The purpose is to investigate how the efficiency in the sales phase can be increased in advantage for additional projects to be handled. The efficiency is to be increased withou

The report aims to determine and explain differences in the cost structures of the Detailed Energy Audit-phase of Energy Performance Contracting-projects at Schneider Electrics Energy Solutions in Denmark and Sweden. Method: A longitudinal and a cross-dimensional study are conducted on eight projects. Quantitative data collected from project documentation and qualitative data acquired through inte

Framtidens stora biodrivmedel kommer till största del utgöras av 1:a generationens etanol och FAME, i tidsperspektivet 10-20 år som denna rapport behandlar. Andra biodrivmedel kommer dock att dyka upp, men kommer en-bart att uppta mindre marknadsandelar och framför allt nischmarknader som fordonsflottor. Detta baseras på 38 djupintervjuer med intressenter från alla led av branschen samt statistik-

Syfte Syftet med det här examensarbetet var att ta fram en generell modell för att beräkna hur reducerade ordersärkostnader påverkar orderkvantiteter. Modellen användes i en fallstudie på Skånemejerier för att se vilken effekt QB Food Techs yoghurtmixer skulle ha på produktionen av syrade produkter och samtidigt försöka ta fram andra åtgärder för att minska ordersärkostnaderna. Metod Tidigare fors

According to Austrian Business Cycle Theory a policy-induced lowering of the short policy interest rate below an unobservable natural interest rate can lead to an unsustainable boom in the economy, resulting in misallocated capital. As the unsustainability of this boom eventually becomes apparent and corrected the misallocated capital gets liquidated and causes a recession. It is thus of interest

The alternative dispute resolution (the “ADR”) is an alternative dispute settlement procedure. It pursues the main objective to resolve the disputes arising between the parties to a contract in an amicable way with the aid of independent professionals or so-called neutrals. Nowadays the role of ADR is becoming more and more important, and the number of agreements containing ADR clauses is constant

This essay explores to what extent enterprises can be held responsible for the protection and promotion of human rights. To this end two lines of analysis have been used. First the essay compares the language used in three key documents on corporate social responsibilities with the language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the two International Covenants on Human Rights (196

The purpose of this study is to examine how the voluntary disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility in annual reports affects the stock prices of corporations listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange. A quantitative method, with qualitative elements, is applied. The quantitative method is used to measure how CSR reporting affects stock prices, while the qualitative element is highlighted when ranking

Recent advances in human brain imaging techniques have shown that it is possible to correctly identify thoughts associated with specific categorises of conceptual knowledge. A semantic space is created through word clustering from a corpus and cross-referenced with words read during a natural reading task while at the same time recording EEG. These results show that it is possible to correctly clas

Varumärkesförfalskning är idag ett allmänt förekommande problem. Utbredningen av förfalskade varor riskerar att minska incitamenten att investera och bygga upp varumärken, på samma sätt som incitamenten att investera i och utveckla läkemedel skulle minska om möjligheten till patent försvagades. Varumärkesförfalskning är ett problem för både konsumenter och näringsidkare. Konsumenterna riskerar attCounterfeiting in gods is a fast growing issue affecting both consumers and businesses worldwide. Consumers might mistake a fake with the original product and traders threaten to weaken their brands and the sale is lost in favour of the counterfeit gods. In the long run the expansion of counterfeiting gods might lead to less incentives for businesses to invest and develop trademarks. From the firs

Nowadays, most ship acquisition transactions are performed through the finance instruments, such as loan agreements. Whereas parties to this ship finance contracts, from one side, usually, is ship owner as borrower, and, from other side might be, financial institution, as lender – such as banks, funds or private companies. Thus, whatever principal amount of the loan would be finally agreed the len

Under första världkriget brevväxlade den franske poeten Guillaume Apollinaire med två kvinnor: Geneviève-Marguerite-Marie-Louise de Pillot de Coligny-Châtillon, av Apollinaire rätt och slätt kallad "Lou" och Madeleine Pagès. Uppsatsen analyserar breven från Apollinaire.

Winter transportation is equally important as the summer transportation, or even more meaningful for countries, which are affected by the winter conditions. In this perspective, the focus of this paper is in the Baltic Sea, which is a sea, where some of its areas are frozen every year. During winter times, vessels may face heavy ice conditions and extreme weathers when navigating through ice fiel