In the past three decades, food packaging technology has undergone rapid change and the interest for packaging performance has increased. In developing countries, the main focus is to drive down the prices, resulting in primary packaging that often requires a greater need for a stronger secondary packaging than other countries. Yet at the same time, it is seldom that the primary and secondary pack

The question of the origin of Japanese is a mystery still unsolved, proven by the academic world teeming with various contradictory hypotheses. This thesis evaluates whether the Austronesian connection with Japanese is plausible in the face of the by amount of evidence much more firmly established Altaic-Japanese hypothesis, showing that measured by linguistic evidence there may be a connection to

BACKGROUND In the lamination process the use of surface treatment is necessary to improve the adhesion between the different layers of the packaging material. Surface treatment can be described as Techniques which change the surface characters without affecting properties of the bulk materials. One of the surface treatments is the ozone treatment where the ozone is applied to the hot melt just be

In the past three decades, food packaging technology has undergone rapid change and the interest for packaging performance has increased. In developing countries, the main focus is to drive down the prices, resulting in primary packaging that often requires a greater need for a stronger secondary packaging than other countries. Yet at the same time, it is seldom that the primary and secondary pack

Readers are presented with the idea that something significant and rather unusual is fomenting beneath the surface of the US economy regarding the renewed interest in all things handmade, handcrafted, or artisanally produced. That this interest is more than just a fad, and that its emergence is understandable in terms of theories of post-industrialism is what this essay aims to make clear. Discern

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Möjligheten till aktivt medborgardeltagande via internet skiftar mellan Sveriges kommuner. Om den enskilde medborgaren har tur bor denne i en kommun som erbjuder e-demokratiska tjänster för medborgarkommunikation, då långt ifrån alla kommuner erbjuder sina medborgare samma möjligheter. E-demokrati är en blandning internetbaserade funktioner som ska underlätta medborgarnas interaktion med beslutsfa

Vår utgångspunkt i denna studie är att studera hur ryktena byggs upp och sprids i det virtuella rummet, med fokus på företagsrykten som på olika sätt når sociala medier. Således studerar vi hur organiseringen av ryktesspridning sker, i det virtuella rummet. För studier av organiseringen av ryktesspridning är teorier som studerar struktur och innehåll på rykten viktiga, därmed tar vi här hjälp av n

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out if there is connection between current financial position of banks and level of risk disclosure in their annual reports. Methodology: The thesis is based on an abductive approach. Research strategy of this research is a qualitative method. Learning of annual reports is used as a method of collecting empirical data. Comparison was based on a sele

Purpose of thesis: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the most salient store attributes that influence store choice of Vietnamese grocery consumers. The store choice phenomenon herein is analyzed under the fierce competition between traditional grocery channel and modern retailers. The research also aims to discover underlying reasons why Vietnamese grocery consumers choose traditiona

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how a strong corporate brand identity can be created through organisational storytelling as a management communication tool. We have chosen to investigate family-owned companies as an empirical case due to the distinctive identity of this form of organisation, hence, the presence of a family in the business context. More specifically, we have investigated t

During the transitional period, most listed companies in China chose historical cost accounting rather than fair value accounting. According to our empirical test, share market, industry, size, auditing firm and foreign list are significant factors to explain the accounting choice while both of ownership and financial difficulties variables have no significant relationship with the accounting choi

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the development and perceived usefulness and problems of the BSC in the city of Copenhagen a few years after its original implementation. A qualitative approach is used throughout the thesis. Primary data is collected through interviews. The study takes its theoretical stance in previous research and studies conducted within the Balanced Scorec

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Examensarbetets titel: Faktorer som påverkar företags upplysningar om anläggningstillgångar – En studie av IAS 16 och IAS 38. Seminariedatum: 2010-06-04 Kurs: FEKP01, Examensarbete magisternivå, 15 HP Författare: Frida Lindblad, Anna Tullgren och Ilknur Ömer Handledare: Torbjörn Tagesson Nyckelord: Upplysningskrav, materiella anläggningstillgångar, immateriella tillgångar, IAS 16, IAS 38. Syfte: S

Sammanfattning Titel: Beyond Astonishing- En fallstudie av TAT och dess utvecklingsmöjligheter Seminariedatum: 15 januari, 2010 Ämne/Kurs: FEKP01 Författare: Maria Lilliehöök, Minh-Hang Palmgren, Anders Petersson Handledare: Fredrik Häglund, Allan T Malm Nyckelord: TAT, Användargränssnitt, Mobiltelefonbranschen, Tillväxtsstrategier, samarbeten Metod: En kvalitativ fallstudie av företaget TAT som g

The aim of this thesis is to explain if certain auditor attributes affect Swedish auditors judgment and approach towards risk. The chosen methodology for this study is an explanatory method with a deductive approach. The method has been commonly used in previous researches in the field of audit risk judgment. With this approach, hypotheses has been formulated and then later tested towards empirica

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the whole positioning process by means of existing positioning theories as well as interviews with marketing practitioners and consumers. Furthermore, the authors wish to provide the reader with an overview of the complete positioning process as well as how it is used in practice today in order to better understand how well suited positioning theories are

This study presents a survey of 215 Swedish and German listed companies and their voluntary social, environmental and ethical disclosure practices. An eclectic approach in explaining the differences has been used, focussing on cultural differences.