Title: Technology Scouting in China For identifying cost reduction and opportunities for innovation Authors: Tor Blomdell and Oscar Örtendahl Tutors: Bengt Järrehult – Adjunct professor, Department of Packaging Logistic, Lund Institute of Technology Sigvald Harryson – Associate professor, Institute of Economic Research, Lund School of Economics and Management Lars Sickert - Technology Analyst, Tec

Web 2.0, popularly known as social media is gaining attention from organizations as a tool for capturing the tacit knowledge of employees. Social media has been highly successful in the internet which has gained it this attention. However, organizations, which employ social media inside have faced many hurdles to making them a success in meeting their goals. This does not mean that social media is

Sammanfattning Det har under en tid funnits en oro över att vi har en bostadsbubbla på den svenska fastighetsmarknaden. Vissa menar att priserna ligger både 20 och 40 procent över det förväntade värdet medans andra menar att det finns utrymme för ytterligare ökningar och att någon egentlig grund för en bubbla saknas. Uppsatsen har för avsikt att undersöka huruvida dagens verkliga fastighetspriser

The aim of the current retrospective study was to investigate the subjective experience of momentum and the presence of momentum in performance. Earlier studies have focused on studying individuals and novices in fictive situations. We decided to study the phenomenon on a team level. A case study was conducted on ten female elite handball players who were asked to carry out a survey where the aim

Abstract Title: RFID goes bananas - Change management for implementing RFID technology Authors: Viktor Hebrand and Fredrik Swahn Tutors: Per Magnus Andersson, Associate professor Department of Business Administration, Lund University Daniel Hellström, Assistant professor Packaging Logistics, Department of Design Science, Lund Uni-versity Robert Davstedt, Project Manager Nowaste Logistics A

In our master thesis we want to investigate how the extensive and intensive trading is affecting Germany’s air condition industry. We are going to focus on countries located in Europe and divide them in to five different sections. The data that we are using comes from OECD and the time length for the data set is from 1997-2007. Our thesis is divided into five different parts. We begin to explain h

Utvecklingen av mobiltelefoner och elektroniska betalningar har kommit långt men ännu finns ingen framgångsrik mobilbetalningstjänst i Sverige som går att använda som ersättning för traditionella betalningsmedel. Många misslyckade försök har gjorts att introducera en lösning. I den här studien har faktorer för en ökad acceptans och diffusion av mobilbetalning identifierats igenom en litteraturgeno

This paper explores the validity of assuming the existence of a Swedish R&D paradox based on the relationship between R&D expenditures and economic growth, and what implications the existence of such a paradox ought to have on policies that concern R&D expenditure. Consequently, in the first instance, the relationship between Gross Expenditure on Research & Development (GERD) and G

De agila systemutvecklingsmetoderna uppstod eftersom det fanns krav på en mer lättrörlig systemutvecklingsmetod. En av de mest tillämpade agila metoder är Scrum som är anpassad för små projekt. Populariteten av Scrum har ökat konstant tack vare flera framgångar och detta har medfört att organisationer på senare år blivit intresserade av att tillämpa Scrum i stora projekt. Detta har dock visat sig

One of the characteristic things about the dialects on the south island Kyushu of Japan, is the usage of the verb endings -yoo and -too. The focus of this thesis will be on the usage of these two in the city Fukuoka. -yoo and -too are often compared with the verb ending -te iru used in standard Japanese, which for example is used for expressing progressive actions and resultative actions. Since th

The purpose of this study is to determine whether it is easier to predict the default probability in EU than in the USA or vice versa by analyzing the time period 2006-2009 which is characterized by the financial crisis. We will also establish whether there are any differences in the prediction of default probabilities between non-financial and financial firms. To be able to perform the study, we

Executive compensation is one of the most widely discussed topics since the latest economic turmoil. Shortly after the S&P 500 decreased by almost 50 percent in fall 2008, 70 percent of the 200 largest corporations in the United States reported changes in compensation packages for their executives. This study gives the reader an empirical insight into the stock market reaction following the an

Innovation is a popular concept among organizational researchers, all of whom tend to share a common consensus that it is highly important for organizational effectiveness. Furthermore, whether theoretically or conceptually presented, innovation has been widely described and argued as something which organizations can control and manage with a view to increase their levels of competitiveness. Howe

Despite the current attempt of scholars over the last decades to liberate literature from the dualistic, binary-minded gender thinking by presenting multiple concepts of gender identity construction (cf. Pullen & Simpson 2009; Linstead & Pullen 2006), our society is still constructed by the differentiation of women and men based on stereotypes (Nentwich 2006; Billing & Alvesson 2000).

Hence the power relation between East and West is challenged the purpose of this thesis is to problematize the postcolonial critique through a case analysis of a merger between an Eastern and a Western organization. We have investigated if the postcolonial lenses can be reversed where it is not necessarily East who is subject to these experiences and additionally we have problematized the postcolo

Since 2004, two important legislative amendments have been introduced in Sweden; the strata property in 2004 and the condominiums in 2009. During the same time period, the demand for apartments is high in the same time as the accesses for attractive land to build new properties are scarce. As a commercial developer, Skanska Fastigheter Göteborg therefore wants to investigate the opportunities to c

I dagens kunskapssamhälle går det att se ett växande behov av att bevara, sprida och skapa kunskap i organisationer och i dess projekt. Genom att använda sig av olika IT-stöd såsom Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) kan en organisation förbättra sin kunskapsspridning inom ett specifikt projekt och ge medarbetarna en möjlighet att både bidra till organisationens lärande, men även ta del av andra pe

Vi vill med vår uppsats belysa hur användandet av mobiltelefoner för Internetaccess ser ut i nuläget. Vår målsättning har varit att försöka få fram en bild av hur en användare fattar sitt beslut att övergå från att använda sin mobiltelefon som vanlig telefon till ett mer multimedia inriktat tjänsteurval. Vi har frågat oss vem det är som använder sin mobiltelefon till detta,varför de har valt att gWith this thesis we want to research how the usage of the mobile phone for Internet access looks like today. Our goal has been to try to create a picture of how a user makes the decision to move from using the mobile phone for voice only to a more multimedia oriented choice of services. We have asked ourselves who is the user who uses the mobile phone for this, why have they chosen to do so and wh