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Market orientation and product orientation propose opposite approaches towards innovation and, thus, value-creation. This paper investigates the market-product orientation debate in the context of entrepreneurial start-ups. By studying strategic orientation from the perspective of start-up entrepreneurs, the research contributes to orientation theory, which has largely concentrated on processes fo

Achieving climate change mitigation targets requires a drastic cut in emissions from the transport sector – a huge challenge for regions where a heavily road-based mobility is already established, and where emissions have steadily increased for the past 20 years. Expectations of highly efficient, fast and ever-increasing mobility adds to the challenge. Oslo, Norway, is a highly relevant case in th

Till skillnad från andra immateriella rättigheter är i princip det varumärkesrättsliga skyddet inte tidsbegränsat. Detta medför att företag, istället för eller som ett komplement till patent eller mönsterskydd, kan se en möjlighet i att söka varumärkesregistrering för funktionell respektive estetisk design. Därför finns det i varumärkeslagstiftningen absoluta registreringshinder vilka innefattar aUnlike other Intellectual Property Rights, trademark law does not have any time restrictions concerning protection possibilities. This constitutes companies to apply for trademark protection for functional or aesthetical designs instead of, or as a supplement to, patent and design protection. Therefore, there are absolute grounds for refusal that include that a sign with either a technical result

Reseavdraget – Motverkar det politiska spelet incitament som kan förbättra miljön? Reseavdraget, att vara berättigad till att dra av en del av kostnaderna som uppkommer till följd av resor till och från arbetsplatsen på skatten, har förundrat mig under flera år. Är reseavdraget rättvist utformat, belönar det ett samhällsekonomiskt olönsamt val eller kan det skapa incitament för arbetspendlare attIncome Tax-deduction for commuting expenses has been criticised and discussed for a long time without having reached any conclusions or reformations. Critical opinions in the debate are that a reformation would disfavour taxpayers living in the countryside with no options except car commuting and decreasing size of labour market regions. At the same time tax evasion is a huge problem because taxpa

Framtagning av ett nytt funktionskrav för brandgasventilation av källare Om det brinner i en källare vill räddningstjänsten vid sin insats ventilera ut brandgaser utan att röken ska komma in i trapphuset i byggnaden. För att kunna göra detta på ett bra sätt måste luckor eller liknande för brandgasventilation finnas i källaren. Däremot är kravet för brandgasventilation av källare i dagens byggregleSwedish building regulations regarding fire safety design consist of performance-based requirements of which many are ambiguous, one of those is smoke ventilation of basements. The report aimed to clarify the purpose of this requirement, in order to ease practical application of it. The objective was to give a suggestion on how to formulate the requirement and to evaluate both standard and alterna

Idag utgör det självutnämnda kalifatet IS ett av världens mest fruktade och kanske allra kändaste fenomen. Stora militära insatser har initierats med USA i spetsen men samtidigt talar många röster idag dock för att man även bör bemöta IS på andra plan än det militära. IS idéer har fått stor spridning vilket kan härledas till det faktum att gruppen utgör en utvecklad kommunikationsapparat med en stToday the self-proclaimed caliphate IS is one of the most feared and well known phenomenon of its time. Major military operations against the group have been initiated with the United States in the forefront but at the same time expression of opinions argue that IS has to be addressed in other ways than just military. The ideas of IS have been widely spread, this proliferation can be attributed to

Studien syftade till att undersöka i vilken utsträckning som bedömningen av kvinnors värme modereras av deras fysiska attraktivitet och information om deras beteende. Detta undersöktes med hjälp av en dataapplikation där deltagarnas uppgift var att bilda sig en uppfattning om värmen hos åtta kvinnor, som varierade i grad av attraktivitet, utifrån den beteendeinformation som presenterades. 96 stude

It isn’t always easy to be a student and have a work besides the studies. One can be placed in a workgroup where they don’t take you seriously. Our aim with this study is to look closer into students that are studying social work at a university and work with social work besides their studies. We have chosen to have a qualitative approach throughout our study and the core of this study is to seek

Inter-frequency measurements are needed to determine when user equipment should make a handover to the best available base station in a cellular mobile network. The measurements are expensive from a resource point of view and therefore there is a need for optimization of this kind of measurements. In this work both this optimization and a way to predict the future of the measurements have been eva

The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces towards second-hand shopping for clothing. Though literature on this topic already exists, there is still room for further examination, especially when adding other perspectives to it. Therefore, this project is especially concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations for shopping second-hand, looking into

Denna kvalitativa studie syftar till att undersöka hur medarbetare i Helsingborgs stad upplever organisationens externa kommunikation. Mer specifikt undersöks hur organisationens Instagramkonto @helsingborgsstad upplevs och hur dessa upplevelser påverkar den autokommunikativa processen. Denna process uppstår då interna publiker tar del av den externa kommunikationen. Genom semistrukturerade intervThe aim of this qualitative study is to examine how employees in Helsingborg’s stad percive the organizations external communication. More specifically the aim is to examine how they feel about the organizations Instagram account @helsingborgsstad and how these experiences affect the auto-communicative process. Said process occurs when internal audiences come in contact with the external communica

Impaktiter är bergarter som har bildats av ett eller flera meteoritnedslag och delas in i tre grupper: chockad berggrund, nedslagsbreccior och nedslagssmältor. Den här studien strävar efter att redogöra för de olika typer av impaktiter som finns beskrivna från jorden, och att beskriva tidigare ostuderade prover av impaktiter från nedslagsstrukturen Mien i Småland, Sverige. Proverna kallas: MIE15_0This study aims to describe the different types of impactites that are present on Earth and to characterize previously undescribed samples of impactites from Mien, an impact structure located in southern Sweden. Impactites are rocks that are generated from one or several meteoric impacts and they are divided into three groups; shocked rocks, impact breccias and impact melts. The impactites that ar

Title: Employee Motivation through Higher Purpose: A double edged sword Authors: Petra Erkkilä & Thekla Welp Supervisor: Sverre Spoelstra Submission Date: 20th of May 2016 Keywords: Non-profit organisation, employee motivation, higher purpose, social responsibility Purpose: To critically review the impact of organisational purpose on employee motivation and to understand employee motiva

Utmattningssyndrom är ett växande problem och något som skapar stora bekymmer och kostnader för såväl individer, organisationer som samhälle. Denna studie undersöker det samband som finns mellan prestationsbaserad självkänsla (PBS) och stressfaktorer i arbetslivet och dess relation till utbrändhet. Genom en webbenkät (N=184) undersöktes deltagarnas prestationsbaserade självkänsla, skattning av arbBurnout is a growing phenomenon and is causing large problems and costs to individuals, organisations and society alike. This study examines the relationships between performance based self-esteem (PBSE), work related stress factors and burnout. Through a web survey (N=184) the participants PBSE, work related stress factors and degree of burnout was measured through the Pbse scale, Areas of Work S

Temporarily unavailable products in the grocery retail environment cause problems for multiple parties, resulting in possible sales losses for retailers and high dissatisfaction among consumers. With price promoted products being twice as often out-of-stock (OOS) as regular-priced items, the need for a further understanding of reactions to price promoted products is evident. The purpose of this th

This thesis has been pursuing an objective to investigate the recent developments in the field of high oxygen barrier materials for the dairy based medical nutrition portfolio. The main goal of this research was to identify the materials and/or approaches that would allow the decrease of oxygen ingress with resulting shelf-life extension. Both flexible (pouch) and rigid (bottles) packaging has bee

Den här uppsatsen bygger på en översättning av två amerikanska krönikor om dataspel, skrivna av Ian Bogost och publicerade i antologin How to Talk About Videogames (2015). Uppsatsens inleds med en textanalys av källtexten som baseras på Lennart Hellspong & Per Ledins analysmodell (1997). Textanalysen följs av ett antal överväganden inför översättning där den globala översättningsstrategin funk

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore multicultural violence work at shelters in Finland from a feminist postcolonial perspective. The main interest of this study is to analyse the shelter workers’ ways of speaking about multicultural clients, on their own position and on their working methods. The study is based on four semi-structured interviews with shelter workers and on six observatio