Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om och i så fall hur revisionspliktens avskaffande har påverkat revisionsbyråernas arbete med relations-marknadsföring samt bibehållandet och skapandet av lojala kunder. Vår metod utgår från ett interpretativistiskt synsätt och vi analyserar med hjälp utav den hermeneutiska cirkeln. Vi använde oss utav en kvalitativ metod i form utav semistrukturerade intervju

The concept of adequate/reassuring (betryggande) safety in Swedish legislation for flammable liquid and gas is very hard to verify in established risk analysis methods. The difficulty lies in the fact that the concept of ade-quate/reassuring safety is only formulated in qualitative terms. The purpose of this report is to discuss and clarify how the concept of adequate/reassuring safety in parts of

The aim of this thesis is to make it simple and efficient to produce applications for smartphones. The main area of application is within the health care sector, where alarm receiving devices are needed to inform personnel of pending situations. Most medical alarm systems are unique and hence require a unique GUI (Graphical User Interface). However, at the core, the main functionality is to commun

In today’s dynamic market the use of knowledge about Human Factors is becoming a competitive mean to drive development and enhance usability. This Master Thesis is an attempt to study how increased machine reliance will affect the usability of equipment at Tetra Pak and also how Human Factors methods can affect and improve the development of new products and processes. The object of study is a n

Syfte: Uppsatsen har till syfte att undersöka hur styrelsearbetet har sett ut i nystartade innovationsföretag. Då det utförts relativt få undersökningar inom detta område, hoppas vi även kunna lägga grund för framtida forskning. Metod: Kvalitativ data har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. En iterativ ansats har valts. Teoretiska perspektiv: Utifrån befintliga teorier för bolagsstyrnin

The very recent catastrophe in Fukushima Japan has led to new incentives for promoting electricity generation through renewable energies in Germany. In this article the economic implications of those incentives for one German federal state, namely Mecklenburg – Western Pomerania, are highlighted. By `diving´ into this region and by applying several different forecasting methods as well as question

The management of the mining sector in Sierra Leone is characterised by numerous integrations of government and donor agency policies, resembling that of global development agendas advocating for improvements of governance, transparency, capacity building and revenue generation. We must view the global policies in their local scales in order to substantiate their actual effects. The central argu

This study is based on a field study conducted in Lima, Peru. The field study was financed by the MFS (Minor field study) scholarship of SIDA. My intention was to illuminate the street child’s process, as an actor in interaction with its surrounding environmental systems, to leave the streets of Lima, Peru. The questions that were related to this aim were how structural aspects, such as changes in

This paper is about the values within the volunteering work in conjunction with the ASSITEJ Performing Arts Festival and World Congress 2011. Using a questionnaire method amongst the volunteers in Malmoe, I have collected 93 answers on the reasons to why they became volunteers. As a theoretical framework I use Pierre Bourdieu’s declaration of symbolic, social and cultural capital to catch the non-

In March 2011 the Swedish government appointed a committee to investigate and analyze the literature’s situation and the literature area. The committee will not investigate the conditions and positions of the actors on the book market, nor analyze the distribution of the National Arts Council’s literature support – a support with the purpose to encourage publication of quality literature with grea

Both Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now are regarded as outstanding works in their respective field of art. Their reputation rests partly on their artistic value and partly on their preoccupation with topics which were highly relevant at the time of their publication/release. They are for the most part regarded as independent works of a

It is assumed that humanitarian aid in civil war does good by relieving the suffering of the civilians undergoing hardship. However, some authors claim that aid can also lead to the exasperation and prolongation of conflict. In this paper we test the hypothesis that humanitarian aid can lead to the exasperation of conflict in civil wars. Taking Operation Life line Sudan as an example this thesis p