Essays about: "effects of culture on trade"

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  1. 1. Decentralized collaboration in a complex environment: an organizational ethnographic study of the collaboration process in Lomma Municipality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Oscar Björkenfeldt; [2018]
    Keywords : Municipal collaboration; Inter-organizational collaboration; Trade Unions; The Codetermination Act; New institutional theory; Organizational Ethnography; Collaboration agreement; The Codetermination Act MBL ; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The relationship between employer and employee at the Swedish labor market is statutory in the Codetermination Act (1976:560), which declares that negotiations are to be concluded between the employers and affected trade unions before significant organizational changes are made. However, many organizations alternatively choose to terminate local collaboration agreements intended at increasing participation and influence. READ MORE

  2. 2. Change put to work. A degrowth perspective on unsustainable work, postwork alternatives and politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Maja Hoffmann; [2017]
    Keywords : unsustainability; critique of work; postwork alternatives; politics; degrowth; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Unsustainability is persistent despite growing awareness that the industrial way of life, its modes of production and consumption need to be transformed. In academic sustainability contexts, however, attention is rarely paid to how industrial societies basically operate and how our everyday life is implicated beyond the usual suspect: consumerism. READ MORE

  3. 3. Culture and trade facilitation: How our values determine the effectiveness of trade institutions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Malin Källén; [2016]
    Keywords : trade facilitation; Culture; trade; generalised morality; religion; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In recent years new ways to deal with trade barriers, aside from the traditional tariff and quota reductions, has been introduced to trade negotiations. These have the collective name of trade facilitation and focuses on the less visible parts of barriers to trade. READ MORE

  4. 4. Understanding the Problems in Volume Production and their Connections to Management of New Product Introduction Projects : A Case Study of the Project Management Factors and the Appurtenant Production Effects from Ramp-Up of New Product in Production for Contract Electronics Manufacturing

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Industriell ekonomi

    Author : Niclas Frost; [2016]
    Keywords : Ramp-Up; New Product Introduction; Contract Manufacturing; New Product Development; New Product Development Projects; Production Ramp-Up; Industrialization; Time-To-Volume; Contract Electronics Manufacturing; Volume Production; Series Production; Low-Volume Production; Production Disturbances;

    Abstract : The ongoing globalization of companies has resulted in a highly competitive business climate where companies have to be cost-effective but still flexible with fast response to customer feedback and present in the international scene. In order to meet the fast paced technological development from the competition and changing demand of the customers, companies focus on creating new products and reducing their time-to-market with an early product launch to gain profits from increased market shares. READ MORE

  5. 5. NGO’s role in a public-private partnership : assessment of environmental educational efforts on short term

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Wictoria Bondesson; [2014]
    Keywords : CSR; education; evaluation; food retail; ICA; KRAV; organic; promotion; PPP; shared value;

    Abstract : Business is changing and so are society’s expectations. Companies are expected to take responsibility for their trade and the context they are operating in, by looking at socially, economically and environmentally aspects. Many companies handle it by implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) to their line of action. READ MORE