Essays about: "Stickiness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the word Stickiness.

  1. 1. Sustaining Sustainability - A qualitative study on how a company's performance management system (PMS) is used to navigate the co-existing pressures of sustainability and profitability

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Charlotta Hallin; William Bramberg; [2024]
    Keywords : Sustainability; Performance management systems; Sustainability control systems; Institutional logics;

    Abstract : This paper examines the escalating pressures on organizations to adopt sustainable practices in response to the climate crisis. The urgency to address sustainability concerns has driven the enactment of reporting legislation, necessitating an exploration of challenges on this topic. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘A Catalyst Into Queer Life’: Gender-Open Parenting as an Abolitionist Practice

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Pao Zuccotti; [2023]
    Keywords : Abolitionist Phenomenology; Gender Abolition; Gender-Open Parenting; Gender Creative Parenting; Gender Neutral Parenting; Transgender Studies;

    Abstract : As practitioners of gender-open parenting, the refusal to impose a gendersex identity on children, my interviewee/collaborator and I engage in a dialogic interview about our shared embodied, everyday, relational parenting practices. I ask: What do we do when we do gender-open parenting? What does gender-open parenting do? If Marquis Bey and their black trans feminist theory set the scene, Sara Ahmed provides me with the concepts to move the methodology toward an abolitionist phenomenology beyond resistance to cisgender ideology. READ MORE

  4. 3. An Investigation of How Hydrophobicity, Water, and Surface Topography Influence Macroscopic Particle Accumulation on Surfaces : A Case Study of Grass Accumulation on Robotic Lawn Mower

    University essay from Jönköping University/JTH, Industriell produktutveckling, produktion och design

    Author : Rasmus Brask-Nilsen; Petter Ydrestrand; [2023]
    Keywords : Macroscopic Particles; Accumulation; Hydrophobicity; Humidity; Topology; Adhesion; Experiments; Design of Experiments; Grass; Robotic Lawn Mower;

    Abstract : This master's thesis project investigates the impact of hydrophobicity and topology on dry and wet macroscopic particle accumulation on surfaces. The report begins by outlining the challenges associated with this phenomenon and the existing theories and methods used to study it, including adhesion, surface engineering, the Lotus effect, and humidity. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Cost Stickiness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Patrick Aurenz; Andreas Magnusson; [2021]
    Keywords : Cost Stickiness; Asymmetric Costs; ESG; CSR; Cost Behavior; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose: This paper studies the impact of corporate social responsibility on cost stickiness, as well as showing additional evidence of stickiness among European firms. Methodology: OLS regression and fixed effects model. READ MORE

  6. 5. Concrete in vertical slipforms : A process for determining a suitable concrete composition

    University essay from KTH/Betongbyggnad

    Author : Ellen Gegerfelt; Alva Hasselqvist; [2021]
    Keywords : Slipforming; fresh concrete; workability; consistency; alternative binders; slipform rate; lifting cracks; delamination; lump formation; Glidformsgjutning; färsk betong; arbetbarhet; konsistens; alternativa bindemedel; glidformshastighet; lyftsprickor; delaminering; klumpbildning;

    Abstract : In the construction industry of today, many projects are getting bigger, higher and more complicated than ever before. The most important material in these projects is concrete and the process of casting has developed a lot during the last century. READ MORE