Spenshult AB är ett reumatikersjukhus som ligger i Halland. De specialiserar sig på vård av och utveckling av hjälpmedel för personer med nedsatt rörelseförmåga på grund av bland annat reumatiska sjukdomar. Utöver deras egen forskning och utveckling bedriver de även en testningsverksamhet som andra företag kan använda sig av. Där låter de faktiska brukare, det vill säga personer med nedsatt handfu

The thesis aims to determine the implications that the managerial approach and in particular IFRS 8 has upon the decision usefulness of financial statements. The further aim is to make a fundamental academic judgement about the need of this approach to be based on a hierarchy between the primary qualitative characteristics in order to produce decision usefulness information and thus accord with th

Title: Identifying with fun and family in the time of changes and downsize. Seminar date: June 1st, 2009 Course: Masters thesis in Business Administration Programme for Managing People, Knowledge and Change, 15 University Credit Points (15 ECTS). Author: Ellert Örn Erlingsson and Elvar Ólafsson Advisor: Sara Louise Muhr Key words: Cultural family metaphor, Resistance, Cynicism, Organizational iden

The study was conducted through an abductive approach and a qualitative research strategy using a hermeneutic epistemological stance. The data was collected using interviews and respondents selected with a purposive sample technique. With interviews as a data collection technique, we have gathered data from five respondents representing larger listed companies, auditors from the four largest audit

The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the role of Track II and Track III diplomacy as a means to shape Sino-Japanese relations. It studies the Track II and Track III diplomacy and its interplay and interrelations with Track I diplomacy in Sino-Japanese relations since the end of the WWII. It analyzes the function of Track II and Track III (or non-governmental) diplomacy and their interrel

De flesta organisationer drabbas någon gång av en kris som kan ha förödande konsekvenser för deras varumärke och fortsatta verksamhet. De senaste årens ökade bevakning av organisationer samt den tekniska utvecklingen av medier har gjort att krishantering blivit ett svårhanterat men avgörande område. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur organisationers krishantering fungerar, samt v

Electronic dance music has been a subject of scientific scrutiny for the past four decades. Many-coloured global club culture is most often seen as lacking political and social agenda, purely pastime-related occurrence within youth subculture. However, in different cultural backgrounds electronic dance music may play different roles and occupy different places. This thesis researches the case of e

Uppsatsen behandlar de konflikter om skogen i Böda kronopark på norra Öland som utspelade sig mellan staten och den lokala allmogen under perioden ca 1835-1850. Bakgrunden är den nya skogspolitik som statsmakterna börjar praktisera under första halvan av 1800-talet, där skogen ses som ett kapital som ska förmeras genom långsiktiga och på skogsvetenskaplig grund upplagda planer. I samband härmed om

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the status of exclusive Mycenaean woolen textiles. The focus will be on the international, long-distance trade sphere in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Helladic III-period. The essay aspires to reach conclusions regarding the Mycenaean palaces' attitude to textile production as a socio-economic institution in the Mycenaean society based on evi

Abstract This study focuses the electoral reforms and the practical performances of the Non-party Caretaker Government in terms of its role to ensure that the ninth parliamentary elections be free, fair and credible. In Bangladesh, after Parliament had been dissolved, the constitutionally-mandated Non-party Caretaker Government was appointed to oversee the parliamentary elections, its main purpos

One of the unsolved puzzles in democratization studies today is the prevalence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. Previous comparative studies have overlooked the region because it does not contain a single case of successful democratization. Middle Eastern scholars, on the other hand, tend to lack the theoretical tools on what it would take for this area to democratize. The purpose of t

Uppsatsens syfte är att visa och förstå hur hur marknaden för revisionsbolagen och revisionstjänsterna kommer att påverkas, ur synvinkel från dess intressenter, vid avskaffandet av revisionsplikten för små företag år 2010. Uppsatsen utgörs av en indukativ ansats där primärdata i form av intervjuer och sekundärdata i form av studier utgör grunden för informationssamlandet.

Resultatet visar att AHP ej kunnat generera en och samma kapitalkostnad som CAPM. Det vi funnit är att de godtyckliga elementen är för stora varför vi ej ser att AHP bör tillämpas av onoterade bolag.

This Master's thesis is a part of the present EC-project called WWAAC, World Wide Augmentative and Alternative Communication. WWAAC is a co-operation between a few companies and organisations in Europe that aim for making a larger part of Internet services more accessible for people with communication difficulties. The users are often not capable of reading, writing or speaking so they may use

The purpose of this Master’s thesis was to investigate and create a concept for searching and detecting different objects using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in order to ease the everyday life for people with visual impairments. The finished prototype was tested with Johanna Olin, who works as a sight counsellor at the Eye Clinic in Malmö. The final test was carried out using th

The aim of this master's thesis is to find out if it is possible to integrate haptic hardware support in the open source 3D game engine Crystal Space. Integrating haptic support would make it possible to get a haptic representation of 3D geometry in Crystal Space and therefore take advantage of all the benefits a 3D game engine provides, when building haptic applications. An implementation of