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Reinvestment in water and wastewater (WW) facilities is a challenge for Swedish water utilities. Nationwide, 4% of 184 organizations meet the requirements for a sustainable WW facility status according to the sustainability index (SI), the Swedish benchmark system. Eleven Swedish municipal WW organizations that had improved the status of their facilities were examined and are presented as good lea

Food operations use vast amounts of water. To reduce utility costs as well as concerns regarding water depletion in ecosystems, food businesses usually try to reuse their water. However, this often needs a recycling process to ensure the water is of good quality and safe to reuse in a food environment. This paper presents a case study of a grower of beansprouts and other varieties of sprouted seed

Local flexibility markets (LFM) for electricity are in their early stages, and most research has focused on their design aspects and aggregators, while little attention has been paid to providers and potential providers of flexibility resources. The present research aims to fill this gap by analysing data from 25 in-depth interviews with enrolled and potential flexibility service providers of two

Data quantities and their sources have amplified over the years and so has the trend to employ dashboard-based data visualizations into the hands of a wider audience of end-users. By selecting four of the most common data visualization formats and combining these into a dashboard this thesis quantitively explored the relationship between similarity features of dashboard-based data visualizations,

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and explore how personality traits of CEO’s affect the strategic decision of acquiring another company and whether the performance of the acquisition is affected by the examined traits. Methodology: The study follows a quantitative approach with a hypothetical deductive method. The data is primarily retrieved from transcribed earnings calls and

Sweden’s civil society is changing. The democratic civil organization, a symbol of the ideologically intertwined popular movement with its historical strive toward the welfare state, is increasingly adopting the concepts, resources and organizational models of the corporation. By challenging the member-run and altruistic ideals of the civil sector the process of corporatization is perceived as a t

Following five decades of isolation and ruthless military rule, Myanmar authorities started implementing various nominally democratic reforms. In response to these developments Western governments scaled back sanctions that had made the country anathema to foreign business. Writing within premises of late modernity, and the retreat of the state as primary political-geographical reference, this the

Examensarbetets titel: Kreditbetyg – åsikter för döva öron? – En studie om nedgraderade kreditbetygs inverkan på nordiska bolags aktiekurser Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka om ett bolags nedgraderade kreditbetyg genererar negativ abnorm avkastning för dess aktie. Studien undersöker även huruvida faktorer såsom kapitalstruktur, outlook och finanskrisen har effekt på eventuell negativ abnorm Title: Credit Ratings – Opinions that fall on deaf ears? A study about the impact of credit rating downgrades on Nordic companies’ share price. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether credit rating downgrades generate negative abnormal return on stock prices. It also examines if independent variables such as capital structure, outlook and the financial crisis have an impact on the

Since mid-2000s, a great emphasis of the global development agenda is directed toward women and their participation in society, especially as wageworkers and political actors. Hand-in-hand with this emphasis on women’s empowerment and gender equality as the ‘solution’ for development, the involvements of private actors in the development arena have increased as well. The notion of private corporat

The EU imposed targeted sanctions on Myanmar in 1996, which were later lifted in 2013. The sanctions were adopted because of the violation of human rights and the absence of democracy in the country. This study aims to examine the effects on Myanmar’s exports, due to the sanctions. The paper takes two approaches. First, it applies a gravity model to distinguish if the sanctions had an impact on th

Would slightly better performance be significantly more valuable from a market perspective? Would significantly better performance be just slightly more expensive to implement? When dealing with performance, usability, reliability, and so on, you often end up in difficult trade-off analysis. You must take into account aspects such as release targets, end-user experience, and business opportunities

In web-based health promotion programs, large variations in participant engagement are common. The aim was to investigate determinants of high use of a worksite self-help web-based program for stress management. Two versions of the program were offered to randomly selected departments in IT and media companies. A static version of the program including health screening tool, diary and information

Misaligned strategies that are developed within different units in a company is unfortunately a common occurrence. Generally, operations strategy and marketing strategy are difficult to align; the operations unit and the sales unit often have troubles understanding each other. If adding a capacity planning perspective to this issue, it is obvious that the two units need a full understanding for ea

This thesis aims to track the development of CSR and sustainability reporting in the airline industry. The emphasis is set only on the reporting practices and not on the companies’ CSR and sustainability activities per se. To analyse the development, a qualitative content analysis with a longitudinal-comparative research design was adopted. This thesis uses an inductive approach, discussing potent

Abstract IKEA’s business idea is to offer a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To be able to do this the costs must be kept as low as possible. Achieving desired customer service levels is although the key objective while cost reductions are a secondary focus. To be able to retain desired cu

In this paper we examine the volatility dynamics of cross-listed stocks. Specifically, we study deviations in volatility between a sample of Swedish stocks listed on the OMX Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) with Stockholmsbörsen (SSB, the Stockholm stock exchange) as their home market, and their corresponding DRs listed on Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The main questi

The purpose of this thesis is to identify similarities and differences in implementation and application of IFRS in the Big Four audit firms. In order to do this we are going to see how interpretations of IFRS are shared and transferred within the audit firms. We have chosen to use a case study approach with a qualitative approach and an abductive view. When collecting the data we have chosen to u