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Thesis purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of brand transparency and test their impact on the customers’ perception of transparency within the apparel industry. More specifically, the study has two objectives firstly, to identify the antecedents of consumers’ perception of brand transparency, and secondly, to empirically test the identified antecedents and their im

Several governments recently adopted strategies to facilitate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), one of the reasons being the pursuit of sustainability – a claim with little scientific grounding so far. In this thesis, I strived to outline the scope of AI’s potentials by showing i) the limits of its theoretical and practical usefulness and ii) the political barriers to using it for s

After the success of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, China chose to deepen the opening of the stock market further and launched the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect on December 5, 2016. This paper examines the market liberalization between China and Hong Kong stock markets and the price discovery progress for cross-listed stocks in the two markets before and after the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Co

There is a theoretical debate among social movement scholars around an increasing concern with the role of technology in terms of key social movement activities, including mobilization, running and engaging in campaigns and making claims on authorities. This research deals with this debate and contributes to it with this case study on the Georgian women’s movement. The research examines women’s m

This scientific report has mainly studied the concept of Industry 4.0 and the possibility to send data from a temperature sensor to the cloud, a process which is an example of the term Internet of Things. The study has been conducted for the consultant business Rejlers to give the CEO as well as the Technical Manager a broader view of how they could implement IoT on behalf of costumers in the futu

Kvinnor och män drabbas olika hårt av ett förändrat klimat och deras möjlighet att anpassa sig till ett mer extremt klimat beror till stor del på tillgång till finanseringsmedel. Under de årliga klimatförhandlingarna, det vill säga Klimatkonventionens partskonferenser (COP) för de länder som undertecknat Klimatkonventionen, behöver därför beslut fattas som främjar en mer jämställd fördelning. SyftWomen and men's ability to adapt to climate change depends largely on access to climate funding. Therefore, it is highly important that international climate politics make decisions in order to promote equal and gender sensitive financing. This study seeks to increase understanding of how gender is problematized and integrated into international climate finance mechanisms. The starting point i

EU:s reviderade förnybarhetsdirektiv (RED II) – potential att effektivisera den svenska tillståndsprocessen för vindkraft Vindkraften har stora möjligheter att bidra med en del av lösningen till vår tids största utmaning: klimatförändringen. Vindkraftens utbyggnad och utbredning är dock en fråga som i Sverige är förenad med komplexa avvägningar mellan olika, ofta motstående, intressen. TillståndIn Sweden, wind has been recognized as a necessary power source to fight climate change. But the expansion of wind power is associated with conflicting interests. The permit process to build and operate wind power plants is often described as inefficient and complex, with long lead times. This study investigates possibilities for how the Swedish permit process for wind power can be streamlined.

The purpose of the thesis work is to investigate how contractors can involve environmental certification in the tender phase of a project and provide a basis for solutions to problems that may arise in environmental certification with CEEQUAL. CEEQUAL (The Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment & Awards Scheme) is a certification system for assessing environmental issues and social

Title: An Industry Perspective: The Perceived Barriers in Different Forms of U-I Collaboration and How they Influence the Outcome Date of the seminar: May 2018 Course: ENTN39 Master´s Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Internship and degree project (Master´s thesis 15 ECTS) Authors: Olaf Bouwstra & Tillie Johansson Supervisor: Joakim Winborg Examiner: Sotaro Shibayama Research que

Title: The valuation and recognition of internally generated brands & trademarks Seminar date: 31st May 2017 Course: Degree project – Accounting and Finance, BUSN79 Authors: Mikael Nilsson & Aisha Hawwari Supervisor: Kristina Artsberg Examinator: Susanne Arvidsson Key words: Internally generated brands, Brand valuation, Reliability, Recognition, Accounting Purpose: In this thesis

There is an ongoing discussion in information retrieval research regarding the merits of subject indexing with controlled vocabularies as opposed to relying on free-text descriptions. Earlier research has compared subject headings with other metadata, such as document titles or tables of contents, to determine the relative value of subject headings as subject access points in an information search

Climate change as an environmental and social phenomenon exacerbates the increasing ecological strain on Earth. Therefore, a plethora of measures is needed to get onto a more sustainable track towards a low-carbon society. We need to act fast as we are approaching the point of no return. Many strategies to mitigate and stabilise the climate have been developed, one of them being low-carbon initiat

Over the last century, large-scale water megaprojects have become a globally widespread method of addressing water scarcity by moving water from areas of water surplus to deficit. The U.S. state of California is a megaproject pioneer, having constructed two infrastructural systems in the mid-1900s that transfer water as far as 640 kilometers to satisfy agricultural and urban growth. While these pr

This study aims to investigate the possibility of creating template times for rail works. Furthermore the study identifies a few effects which template times could have on planning of rail works, traffic and economy. Template times are being considered by the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, for the early stages of planning when there is a need to estimate the time required within t

Vid marktekniska undersökningar i finkorniga jordar är det av stor vikt att korrekt kunna bestämma den odränerade skjuvhållfastheten. Detta görs idag vanligtvis ute i fält med en uppsjö av sonderingsmetoder som ger olika mått på hur fast jorden är. För homogena leror och sand finns det en stadig empirisk grund för hur dessa sonderingsparametrar räknas om till odränerad skjuvhållfasthet, men hur se

Enligt den amerikanska forskaren Richard Florida är det idag kreativitet och initiativkraft som driver ekonomin och utvecklingen framåt. Det samhälle som lyckas bäst är det som bäst tar vara på befolkningens kreativa potential och som mest framgångsrikt lockar till sig kreativa individer. Genom att analysera vilket samband som finns mellan Skånes kommuners satsningar på kultur & fritid och fasThe study aims to see if there is an impact of culture & leisure on property prices. To determine if there is a correlation method of regression analysis is used. The analysis is applied on two models, which will be called: Kommunmodellen and Staffanstorpsmodellen. Kommunmodellen consists of variables that explain property prices at a municipal level such as number of citizens, taxes, employme

I Sverige stiftar den folkvalda riksdagen lag. Riksdagen får dock inte stifta vilka lagar den vill – dess kompetens inskränks av regler till skydd för mänskliga rättigheter. Idén om universella mänskliga rättigheter kommer från den så kallade naturrättsläran. Naturrättstänkare har sedan antiken argumenterat för att alla människor har vissa grundläggande fri- och rättigheter, oavsett om dessa stiftIn Sweden, the elected Riksdag is the legislator. However, the Riksdag may not pass just any law – its competence is limited by rules protecting human rights. The concept of universal human rights originates from the philosophical tradition of natural law. Natural law philosophers have argued, since Antiquity, that all humans have certain fundamental rights and liberties as a consequence of human

The aim of this study is to examine how the need for belonging and search for an identity manifest themselves in the autobiographical works of two gay contemporary writers: Abdellah Taïa and Édouard Louis. Both authors have, during their childhood and adolescence, been confronted with a society that tried to exclude them for being ‘different’ and not fitting in the heterosexual norm. Suddenly, the

Uttrycket “övervakningssamhälle” är något som det talas om mer och mer. Vilket inte är så konstigt då många allmänna platser ofta är övervakade med antingen film eller ljudupptagning. Att kunna identifiera individer som på något sätt har brutit mot lagen eller förutse oönskade situationer är något som stärker vår säkerhet och ordningen i samhället. I många länder ses detta som helt nödvändigt och This report describes the product development process of a new product series of camera housings, adapted for modular applications. The purpose of the project was to develop a module containing a wiper, adapted for outdoor camera housings. The master thesis was performed at Axis Communications AB, a leading company in the surveillance camera industry. The camera housings of outdoor surveillance ca