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The research brings the following conclusions: knowledge sharing plays essential role in communicating the need for organizational change; employees need time to identify themselves with the change aspect to become more customer-oriented. Some of the reasons for current discrepancies in Wind lie within unstructured and inconsistent communication, rapidly changing business environment, triggers cre

The paper deals with the influence of the exposition of the sky (expressed by means of a so called sky view factor) on the air temperature in different levels above streets in the city of Malmö, Sweden. It also describes a method of calculating the sky view factor.

In this paper the different factors that are of importance for the iceconditions in the southern part of the Sound are discussed. The factors are: the air temperature, the water temperature, the wind, the current, the salinity, the coastlines and the quantity of ice in the southwestern part of the Baltic Sea. The wind and the current have an influence on the iceconditions, and this is studied more

This paper is a documentation of the storm and the inundation that hit the Murcia-Alicante regions, southeast Spain, in November 1987. It is also a description of the Murcia region from a geographical point of view. Special attention has been payed to the severe erosion i the area and the relations between vegetation cover, climate and erosion in this moisture stressed Mediterranean environment.

This study starts from the historical view of China’s real estate industry formation and development. It is evidenced that there were no real estate industry nor real estate market in China’s long past history. China’s real estate industry was firstly emerging since the early 1980s; its development to a large extent should be attributed to the national Housing System Reform. During the 30 years de

This phenomenological study focuses upon the phenomenon of health tourism and Swedes going to India for Ayurvedic treatments. An emergent design was used in attempt to discover the underlying motive forces for seeking Ayurvedic health-care in India. Five participants volunteered to share their experiences of Ayurvedic treatments by filling out self-reports. The softwares of Sphinx Lexica and MCA M

This thesis analyzes the evolution of integration between equity markets based on a market index and six sector indices for four countries that adopted the EMU in 1999 as well as two countries that did not. The purpose is twofold; first to identify if the integration has increased and secondly try to determine if the EMU has played a part. The estimation window is set to January 1987 to December 2

Goals of this thesis is to investigate how the Foundry Chinese Managers perceive leadership, and how they construct their leadership skills in their daily working environment in that specific foundry context and whether the Chinese leadership is still following the traditional Chinese Culture or they have their own ways to lead. We are using a qualitative/inductive method. We are using already exi

Title: Effects of In-store Promotions on Brand Awareness Date of the Seminar: June 2nd Course: BUS 808. Master thesis in international marketing Author: Luiz Gustavo Pinke Rodrigues Advisor: Karin Alm Examinator: Ulf Johansson Keywords: In-store promotion, Brand Awareness, Consumer buying intention, Retailer, Point-of-Purchase Thesis purpose: This thesis is aiming at bringing brand into considerat

Examensarbetets titel: Sociala media – Bankernas väg till ökad kundlojalitet Seminariedatum: 2011-01-10 Ämne/kurs: FEKP01, Examensarbete magisternivå, 15 poäng Författare: Lisa Ledenvall, Christina Rådberg Handledare: Christine Blomqvist Fem nyckelord: Sociala media, bank, lojala kunder, nätverk, strategi Syfte: Vår studie syftar till att få en djupare kunskap om hur aktörer på den finansiella mar

The purpose of this study is to test if there is discriminatory behaviour in the allocation decision in Swedish IPOs. By using a unique data set provided to us by two investment banks containing almost half of all IPOs during the chosen time period, we tested the share allocation between institutional and retail investors. The quantitative part has closely followed prior research methods presented

Notions of cultural identity and its importance have changed significantly during recent decades, affecting everything from state politics and public debate to conflicts and war. This is very much true for the cultural identity of people perceived as indigenous, either by others or by themselves. My field site for exploration of these issues is Guatemala. The question I pose is: How do local peopl

Despite much research on the socioeconomic effects of public education in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region, few studies have been made that investigate the qualitative dimensions of these countries’ national education systems, modes of instruction, and educational materials. Knowledge- and skills attainment should be at the core of such research, as well as the sociocultural, hist

The persistence of regional disparities at different spatial dimensions, especially the income gap among three major economic belts (i.e. East, Central, and West), is one of the most striking characters of economic development process in China since the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s. In recent years, the regional disparity in China is not only a matter of serious academic concern

China’ growth over its transition period was characterized by unequal distribution of growth, which took many forms but was most evident between rural and urban areas, and between Coastal and Inland provinces. In this study, I will mainly focus on the Inland-Coastal Divide and try to measure whether inequality between Eastern and Western Provinces continued to widen between 2000 and 2009. In order

This report incorporates a product development project, carried out in close connection with the Malmö-based biotechnology concern - Eurodiagnostica - that specializes in development of diagnostical tools for human diseases. The product, that is to be set under development by this project, is a faecal extraction tool. The device will enable the process of dissolving a specified volume of human fae

Recently, China has become the largest exporter and stays one of the most extensive inward FDI destinations worldwide. A question arises, to what extent inward FDI had an impact on the exports growth? Firstly, theoretical reviews of China’s FDI policies and what influence they have on exports performance are provided. Secondly, two hypotheses focusing on different time periods are proposed. Furthe

A number of ESCOs in Ontario are expanding their standard business model of energy performance contracting to include financing and expertise for the inclusion of renewable energy generation. This paper is a qualitative exploration of this business practice, referred to here as “renewable energy contracting”. Through semi-structured interviews with ESCO experts and a literature analysis, this rese

This essay examines Zygmunt Bauman’s Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies from a methodological perspective. Bauman’s method is influenced by phenomenology and psychoanalysis, and has many followers in different fields. I provide a critique of this method, and show it to be inadequate for explaining or drawing conclusions about the world. Instead, I propose a return to classical socio