Background As a part of the Service Organization’s earlier initiated and at the moment on-going project; “A more efficient Service Organization”, daily management has been identified as playing a major part. The starting-point for this has been to gain insight into how the Service Organization is actually performing and how it would be possible to measure, follow-up and visualize this performance.

Problem Discussion Globalization and social media are factors that enhance the importance for countries to communicate their identity. The dynamics of competition has changed and in order to improve economic performance, attract tourism, trade and investment opportunities a strong country brand is needed. Project Objective This report aims to illustrate how country branding is done in China today,

Background:The African continent has shown significant social and economical improvements during the past decade. This has increased the incitements for investors to enter the continent. However great internal differences still exist and the attractiveness of different regions and sectors differs widely from an investor’s perspective. Markets Speaking is a Sweish-­‐Ghanian consultancy who has spec

Background: The thesis came to be in cooperation with a Swedish company producing and providing high-tech products. The product and service produced by the company which have been the focus of this thesis is considered an innovation, as it in contrast to similar products or services in the market uses a unique hosting system developed by the company, utilizing network and cloud computing. Even tho

Purpose The purpose of the master thesis is to create a Six Sigma based project steering model for Fast Track Projects in order for Plan & Secure Capacity to be able to benefit from efficient project execution processes. Methodology The project is performed as a clinical research where workshops with project leaders have been held in order to test the model. The data collection is based on int

Rife with violence, widespread fraud and finally ending up with the incumbent president Hamid Karzai retaining possession of the presidency through default following the resignation of lead contender Abdullah Abdullah, the afghan presidential election of 2009 was a complete disaster. Based on this starting point the purpose of this thesis is to examine the appropriateness of going through with th

For a few years’ time, there have been those who say that American power is declining relatively to its counterparts on the major power arena. According to Power Cycle Theory the probability of major war is highest when a major power is close to a critical point. In this paper I am testing the proposition made by the power cycle theory, that the probability of a major war is higher in a critical p

The focus of this study is the frozen ethnic conflicts emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These conflicts have been long disregarded by the EU and popped into European foreign policy agenda relatively recently. Thus the study tries to understand, first the security concerns that the unresolved state of these conflicts bear also for the EU security and what policy instruments the Union

Since the elections of 2010 there are 14 per cent women in the Colombian congress - a remarkably low number in comparison with several other countries in Latin America where quotas of allocation are common. Decades of armed conflict might give a hint of why gender progress has been slow in Colombia, but at the same time as stereotyped gender roles are highly dominating, women are in no sense passi

The focus of this study is to examine how an authoritarian regime within the Arab world, remarkably stable and long deemed as inhospitable to democratic tendencies, ‘suddenly’ witnessed mass pro-democracy movements and ultimately regime breakdown. In this thesis the case of Egypt is discussed. Firstly, in an attempt at establishing the core working mechanisms of an authoritarian regime; the conclu

With a pair of intersectional glasses this thesis approaches public policy and processes surrounding it. By asking the following research questions: From an intersectional departing point, which policies are (re-)produced through the street-level bureaucrat? How can this be analyzed with an intersectional departing point? I search for answers within a long-term project which participant's are

This paper addresses how to maximize the contribution of human capital regarding economic growth and regional development. Based on theoretical reviews and two cases studies, an optimal model is presented, and key factors that influence the output from human capital are proposed and compared to the earlier case studies. Suburban districts: Jiading and Songjiang in Shanghai experienced continually

Uppsatsen beskriver gällande rätt vid umgängestvister rörande barn och dess föräldrar i FN:s Barnkonvention, i den europeiska konventionen angående skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna och de grundläggande friheterna och i svensk rätt. Uppsatsens syfte är att med hjälp av gällande rätt undersöka huruvida umgängesreglerna innebär en rättighet eller en skyldighet för barn att umgås med föräldrarna. This paper describes the current law concerning the right of access between children and parents in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and in Swedish law. The intent of this paper is to discuss whether the current law regarding access makes it a right or an obligation for a child to

This study has a phenomenological approach and examines perceptions of a post-colonial situation held by subjects in Greenland This research has the dialogical self theory as its theoretical framing and applies an intersectionality perspective that operates with the categories ethnicity, diaspora and class. The work is based on self rapports of 15 Danish, 22 Greenlandic and 1 Faroese subjects with

In this essay the impacts of corruption on the bilateral trade of 25 EU countries from 1999 to 2008 are investigated. Corruption is the result of malfunctioning institutions and it leads investment flows to be less productive. Hence corruption is expected to impose cost on trade and therefore we expect that corruption mitigate the amount of trade. The negative impact of corruption on trade is most

This thesis paper studies the interrelationship between two phenomena: destination brand and iconic product. The aim of this paper is to show the interrelationship between two phenomena and examine how the iconic product can influence the destination brand. The research identifies main concepts of the work: the destination brand and the iconic product, studies the existing theory regarding those c

This paper starts from the concept of liquidity, and applies principal-components analysis to construct a composite indicator of liquidity of the Chinese inter-bank bond market. The comprehensive score that results from the above-mentioned analysis overcomes shortcomings of previous single indicators that can merely cover one dimension of liquidity, and it is of great help to disclose the relation

This study of plural suffixes in written plural contexts used by lebanese learners of second language French is based on previous works by Schlyter & Bartning (2004), Granfeldt et al. (2005) and Ågren (2008). The learning process of an L2 learner passes through stages that are clearly determined and systematic. In this study twenty lebanese learners of L2 French were asked to write a text base

Denna uppsats handlar om arbetsgivarens omplaceringsrätt i fråga om dess omfattning och inskränkningar. Utöver detta innehåller den en diskussion om hur möjligheterna att genomföra omplaceringar skulle påverkas av ett allmänt krav på godtagbara skäl. Arbetsgivare anses i princip ha fri rätt att omplacera arbetstagare, under förutsättning att det sker inom ramen för arbetstagarens arbetsskyldighet

Title: Stocks vs. their underlying commodity – a comparison analysis Seminar date: 2011-01-14 Course: FEKP01; Master thesis, 15 ECTS Authors: Daniel Varaona, Jonas Åström Supervisor: Susanne Arvidsson Key words: Commodities, stocks, return, volatility, correlation, diversification, vertical integration. Aim: Our aim is to investigate to what extent diversification and vertical integration affect r