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Purpose: The sustainability impacts of supply chain practices have become a topic of contention, and customers are demanding more information on the sustainable performance of corporate entities. Sustainability reporting has emerged in response to these concerns as a method to showcase the sustainability performance a company’s supply chain to relevant stakeholders. However, research on the topic

I egenskap av lärarstudent med ett år kvar av utbildningen har jag fortfarande vissa svårigheter med att tolka den nya läroplanen, Lgr 11. Jag har därför undersökt hur yrkesaktiva lärare tolkar och hanterar den nya läroplanen. Studien innehåller också en analys av likvärdigheten av lärarnas tolkningar eftersom nya rapporter påpekar bristande likvärdighet i den svenska skolan. Studien är kvalitativAs a teacher student with only one year left until fully educated, I still have some difficulties completely understanding and interpreting the new curriculum, Lgr 11, for the higher grades of Swedish elementary school. Therefore I examined how working teachers tend to interpret and deal with this new curriculum. The thesis also contains an analysis of the teachers’ answers in the perspective of e

Genom EU-medlemskapet har Sveriges arbetsmarknad utvidgats till EES-medlemsländers yttre gränser i och med den fria rörligheten. Detta, tillsammans med en ökad gränsöverskridande rörelse, EU-utvidgningen i öst, samt EU-domstolens praxis i form av Lavaldomen, har satt press på den svenska modellen och mer närmare det svenska kollektivavtalssystemet. Uppsatsen uppmärksammar och påvisar att den svensThrough the membership in EU and the free movement, Sweden’s labour market has been extended to the EES-countries outer national boarders. This, together with an increased transboundary movement, EU-extension in the east, and the EU-Court´s judgements such as Laval, has put pressure on the Swedish model and more in detail the Swedish collective agreement system. This essay highlights and indicates

Undersökningen syftar till att förstå vad självständighet betyder och hur det upplevs av boende på vårdboende utifrån deras perspektiv med frågeställningen; Hur upplevs självständighet bland boende på vårdboende? För att förstå fenomenet använder jag Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv. Studien är kvalitativ med samtalsintervjuer och deltagande observationer som främsta metoder. Självständighet är

The world is urbanising at an unprecedented rate. Cities are perceived to be potential solutions as well as causes of the many problems our society faces. On the one hand, cities are considered the driving forces of prosperity through innovation, wealth creation and growth. On the other hand, cities are perceived to be the roots of urgent environmental and social issues. In fact, the very notion o

The world’s fisheries and marine ecosystems are in danger of collapse. Fish is a highly traded commodity worldwide and the WTO regulates most global trade. Yet, overfishing is an environmental problem and the WTO is not an environmental organisation. Due to its power and reach, increased observance of sustainability could be very influential. It is argued that a tool like ecolabelling can improve

This paper examines if it is possible to achieve a higher cumulative and risk adjusted return through an active portfolio strategy compared to a passive portfolio strategy. This is done through a mean-variance framework in which the variance is forecasted using two different models. The results show that it is possible achieve a higher cumulative and risk adjusted return by dynamically changing th

Urban design and city planning have historically been a practice undertaken by distanced experts and funded by detached donors and political bodies. The result is often urban sprawl, transit domination, and streets deprioritizing pedestrians. While urban areas do support innovation and knowledge-intensive production, the occurrence of social and environmental urban vulnerabilities is increasing an

In an effort to mitigate global climate change, the REDD+ mechanism (an acronym for ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stock’) continues to be put forward as an attractive carbon sequestration and forest conservation tool. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hosting m

I den nya översiktsplanen för Malmö, som antogs den 14:e maj 2014 läggs ett stort fokus på hur man kan stärka social hållbarhet genom insatser i den byggda miljön. De miljöer som beskrivs som socialt hållbara ska präglas av täthet och funktionsblandning. Detta står i skarp kontrast till vilken typ av miljöer som har förespråkats för att stärka social hållbarhet tidigare i Malmös historia. Under 19

Studiens syfte är att öka förståelsen för hur den köpande organisationens val av samarbetsstrategi kan påverka Green Supply Chain Managements genomslagskraft i försörjningskedjan. Teorin definierar begreppet Green Supply Chain Management och redogör för vilka hinder och drivkrafter som kan återfinnas vid miljöarbete. I den teoreriska referensramen definieras armlängdsstrategin samt relationsstrate

The purpose of this study was to investigate what preconditions Kurdish families in Sweden have to solve childcare and how they do it. This was done by using qualitative, semi-structured interviews with six Kurdish mothers of young children and theoretical foundations that links childcare, welfare conditions and transnational migration. The study shows that migration causes a vulnerability which m

This paper takes a performance-based approach to corporate governance and investigates whether compliance with the corporate governance code in Sweden equates to a lower cost of capital, measured as cost of equity, cost of debt and the weighted average of these, the WACC. The premonition is that adherence to governance codes should lower the risk profile of the firm, leading investors and creditor

Title: Managing service innovation in small-medium sized enterprises: a resource based view Date of Seminar: 3rd June 2014 Course: Master Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Internship and Degree Project (Master Thesis 15 ECTS) Authors: Elida Cimic and Junjie Ren Supervisor: Joakim Winborg Keywords: Service Innovation, Small and Medium sized Enterprises, Resource Based View, Innovation Strat

Denna uppsats är skriven med syftet att undersöka Malmö stads arbete med symmetrisk och dialogisk kommunikation med sina medborgare i sociala medier. Med uppsatsen hoppas vi nyansera bilden av de organisatoriska krav som ställs på organisationer för att kunna bedriva symmetrisk tvåvägskommunikation. För att uppnå vårt syfte har vi med ett hermeneutiskt förhållningssätt utfört textanalyser av MalmöThis study intends to research the city of Malmö’s work with symmetrical and dialogical communication with its citizens in social media. With this study, we hope to nuance the image of the organizational demands put on organizations to be able to manage symmetrical two-way communication. To reach our purpose, we have with a hermeneutical approach conducted document analyses of the city of Malmö’s

Nowadays, value at risk (VaR) has developed into a standard indicator in the financial risk measuring field. The aim of this study is not only to measure the risk of the Chinese stock market using VaR methods, but also to value whether the downside risk is priced in the expected return in the market. This study estimates VaR of six indices using four approaches at both 95% and 99% confidence level

Apartheid is officially abolished in South Africa since 1994. However, it still exists in the country today. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the heritage of apartheid still affects South Africa today, 20 years after it was abolished, and to show that racism is still very much a part of daily life in South Africa although it can be more or less disguised nowadays. My focus in this thesis i

There are many different methods for pricing discretely monitored barrier options. There is a trade-off, however, between speed and accuracy. The players on the financial markets would of course ideally want a method which is both exact and returns a price instantaneously. In this thesis we start from a fast, but on the other hand somewhat less accurate, approximation formula. It will be referred