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During the past year my academic career has been rather different than the years before. In my undergraduate studies of economics & business economics, a mixture of different disciplines like microeconomics, marketing, organizational theory and finance, all I needed to worry about was to make sure I would pass the courses. I found that a rather unsatisfying way of studying; grades didn’t motiv
Syfte:Vårt syfte är att studera hur förväntnings- och prestationsgapet mellan revisorer och intressenter ser ut i Sverige, där investerare står som representanter för intressentgruppen. Vi avser också att undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar förväntnings- och prestationsgapet samt utreda om de senaste årens stora revisionsskandaler, likt HQ Bank, har haft någon påverkan på gapet i Sverige. Metod:
Skånemejerier is a dairy cooperative in the region of Skåne in southern Sweden. It collects milk from roughly 500 farmers around the region on a daily basis. Skånemejerier has developed an IT system that allows end consumers to ‘trace’ their milk to a number of farms that each have contributed to the milk in a specific milk carton. There is a code on the top of Skånemejerier milk cartons which is
Abstract: According to Skånemejerier executives, approximately 80% of greenhouse gas emissions occur on the farm. Public concern in greenhouse gas emissions has steadily grown over the past few years prompting inquiries about the amount of greenhouse gases are emitted by Skånemejerier during its course of business. The most common question received relates to the amount of greenhouse gas emitted i
A combined document with The green teams business plan and my own theoretical reflections.
Organizational resource acquisition including finance and people in a dynamic environment affects the venture’s business activities and even its establishment. This paper aims to examine the concept mass customization and the process of obtaining resource commitments for the creation of a new venture called D.B.M. in the face of liabilities of newness. To this end, a case study based on the first-
With the popularity of sustainability reports in industry due to rising awareness about environmental, economic, and social issues stakeholder pressure has increased on companies to formally report on the triple bottom line. Not only that, the process of developing a sustainability report by itself is beneficial to the company in monitoring its practices and planning for the future. This need has
The new term “sustainability marketing communications” emerged and the has gained increased interests and implementations in recent years. The aim of the degree project is to provide suggestions to Skånemejerier on the basis of current state in dairies and trends in marketing communications in the entire industry. Benchmarking is applied throughout the study and two different benchmarking processe
This thesis explores entrepreneurial theories in every day practice using the case study of Trafvid which is an entrepreneurial start-up company. Some of the theories that have been covered include the effectuation process and the role of legitimacy, customer reference and trust on start-up ventures. This thesis also covers some first mover advantages. This paper is an Autoethnography as the autho
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The purpose of this paper is to personally reflect on my experiences over the course of the Master in Entrepreneurship programme at Lund University 2010 – 2011. This paper explores character traits of entrepreneurs as well as friendship within entrepreneurial teams. Various research articles and theories on entrepreneurship in general, entrepreneurs’ character traits and friendship are presented.
Problemställning Lunds Energikoncernen AB projekterar i dagsläget ett biobränsleeldat kraftvärmeverk med placering i Örtofta mellan Lund och Eslöv.Arbetet med att planera, uppföra och ta anläggningen i drift utförs av Eslöv Lund Kraftvärmeverk AB (ELKV AB) ett dotterbolag till Lunds Energikoncernen AB. Idrifttagning av verket var initialt planerad till hösten 2011 men da projektet blivit försenat
Problem discussion: The internal foundry of ITT Flygt occasionally has problems with on-time delivery to the product workshops. This could lead to extra costs regarding labour and stock keeping. ITT Flygt are today unaware of the extent of these costs. Objectives: The main objective of the master thesis is to investigate the effects of low delivery accuracy from the foundry to PVC. This main objec
To compete on mature markets, businesses need to create processes able to meet the demands imposed by the market. The most important aspect for manufacturing companies is to have production processes and infrastructure able to support the order winners and qualifiers that exist on a specific market. The processes and infrastructure need to be aligned and meet the same order winners and qualifiers.
This thesis considers a number of problems concerning research and development in medium sized companies. In the thesis a company is studied in three dimensions. The first is the role of research and development in the studied company and which focus the organization should have. The second dimension is a measurement system for research and development. The third is how the department of research
Background: Customers for buses and coaches on the European market ask for complete vehicles from one supplier. Since Scania CV are only manufacturing chassis, their sales companies must co-operate with body builders in order to offer a complete product and service backup. This means that the sales companies in connection with every order have to deal with two order processes, one for Scania CV an
Presentation of The progress of the company during the last ten years has resulted in a the problem: gradually increased range of new products. As a consequence, the production requires a more refined production control and hence a well working MRP-system. The aim of the thesis has been to create a basis for starting up the MRP part of the ERP-system in the company. Purpose of To define, analyse a
The company Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings in Sege, have certificates for environment and quality management systems according to ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. During spring 2003 they launched a new product, Tinova VX, which became a success. By studying the product development process, knowledge about the systems and the usage of them could be gained. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyse the s
För att kunna föreslå förbättringar i ALP: s produktionslayout insåg vi rätt tidigt att det första steget för detta arbete var att sätta sig in i företagets produkter och hur de tillverkas. Vi inledde därför vårt arbete med en kartläggning av produktionen och dess olika produktionslinjer. Med detta som grund fortsatte vi sedan med att föreslå en ny layout, samt förbättringar i delar knutna till de
Electrolux Laundry Systems (ELS) is a leading supplier of professional laundry solutions worldwide. The main product categories are washing machines, tumble dryers, and ironers. There are several models of each product category, suited for different customer needs and business areas. There are also many different control systems, in fact too many. In 2008, ELS started a project called Project Glo
