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PURPOSE: The formation and spreading of market-, management- and individual-rights discourses into society, as well as the movement of consumerism, have paved the way for a transformation of the linguistic usage. The transformation suggests that the view of the care seeker has shifted from a waiting patient, via a consumer to a customer creating value. Another example of the process is that the fo

Due to the environmental impact of food waste and its implications on the economic performance of restaurants, the importance of reducing food waste has taken a central role in the management of restaurants. This paper examines the difficulties which arise in the restaurant industry in their efforts to reduce food waste. In addition the paper aims to answer the following questions: Is food waste p

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/mathematical-colloquium-edward-crane-university-bristol - 2026-07-04

För att öka vår förståelse av informationsdelning i försörjningskedjor så är studiens syfte trefaldigt: att granska och analysera existerande akademisk litteratur för att beskriva och strukturera forskningsområdet; att empiriskt utforska informationsdelning i en försörjningskedja som representerar mer än tre led; och att utforska kontextuella faktorer genom litteraturgenomgång och empirisk datainsTo increase our understanding of information sharing in supply chains the purposeof this licentiate was threefold: to review and analyze existing academic literature to describe and structure the research field; to empirically explore information sharing in a supply chain representing more than three tiers; and to explore contingency factors through literature reviews and empirical data collection

The aim of the research was to explore for possible effects of cultural dimensions on people's perceptions and feelings of their work situation. A phenomenological approach was followed, in which the participants answered an open-ended question about their work situation and the responses were analyzed with MCA-Minerva where the individual's life-worlds were made visible and discussed. Fou

The main goal of this investigation is to determine the optimal number of cashiers to be employed in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) queuing system, based on the number of customer arrivals, the average revenue generated per customer, and the rate at which each customer abandons the queue, referred to as the reneging rate. This is done by using continuous-time homogeneous Markov Chains to model the ar

LL_SMMS10_prel160802 Reading list for Service Management: Theory – Development and Traditions, 15 hp, SMMS10. Preliminary version   Book about writing literature reviews, ca 200 pages Choose one of four: Hart, C (1998) Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination, Sage: London. 230 pp. Jesson, J; Matheson, L & Lacey, F.M (2011) Doing your literature review: traditio

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/sites/ses.lu.se.en/files/ll_smms10_prel160802_0.pdf - 2026-07-04

The purpose of this study is to investigate a loyalty card and its relation to accompanying promotional benefits, and their linkages to grocery retail service loyalty. Also, the aim sets out to find relationships between demographic variables and proneness towards the promotional benefits, the loyalty card, and loyalty. A quantitative approach has been assumed and empirical data has been collected

4th September 2013, Wednesday QMOD 2019 Preliminary Program 13th October, Sunday 16:00-18:00 QMOD-ICQSS Registration 18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception 19:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner 14th October, Monday 08:30-09:00 Conference Opening 09:00-10:00 Plenary Session 1 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions 1 1 2 3 4 5 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Parallel Sessions 2 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break 15

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/sites/ses.lu.se.en/files/qmod_2019_preliminar_program.pdf - 2026-07-04