Essays about: "Financial struggles"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words Financial struggles.

  1. 11. Challenges of implementing social and environmental sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap

    Author : Fujan Amirzadeh; Mattias Boström; [2020]
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    Abstract : The term sustainability is a topic that has been increasingly acknowledged in the modern business world. This has raised awareness and increased understanding of the different dimensions and how paying attention to sustainability can help to improve different aspects of the organization. READ MORE

  3. 12. Alien Octopodes: Öyvind Fahlström's Du gamla, Du fria, and the Institutional Practice of Swedish Experimental Feature Films

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Oskar Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Öyvind Fahlström; Du gamla; Du fria; Provocation; Peter Kylberg; JAG; Michael Meschke; Skärseld; Rune Hagberg; …och efter skymning kommer mörker; Carl Gyllenberg; Som i drömmar; Peter Weiss; Hägringen; The Swedish Film Institute; avant-garde film; experimental film; Swedish experimental features; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate the discursive networks and production contexts of the rare and insular phenomena of Swedish experimental features. As a point of departure, the tentative and limited filmography of Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström is expanded upon, as the thesis present a unique case study on his first and only feature film Du gamla, Du fria (“Provocation”, 1972). READ MORE

  4. 13. Civil society and democracy : the case of union activism in Luanda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Linete Roque Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : Civil Society; Trade Union; Unionism; Democracy; Angola; Africa; Human Rights; Polit-ical Rights; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Based on fieldwork interviews from two different trade unions in Luanda, this study aims to reflect on the role of civil society for the consolidation of democracy in Angola, and in particular, the challenges of trade unionism and its effects on democracy. Using the meth-od of inductive reasoning to process data, it first addresses themes derived from the inter-views such as Financial struggles, Trade union resistance and Lack of a grassroots-perspective, themes which are then analyzed in relation to Larry Diamonds Conventional notion of civil society. READ MORE

  5. 14. The makings of a social entrepreneur: A study of the concept and the role, applied to the case of Stadsbruk

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Louise Ekman; [2018]
    Keywords : Social entrepreneurship; Third sector; Social impact; Urban context; Relations of power; Power geometry; Commercial urban farming;

    Abstract : As an effect of the neoliberalist development, the public sector has outsourced the provision of some public services to the private and the third sector. This has led to the expansion of the latter, and a more central position of the actors related to it; among them the social entrepreneur. READ MORE

  6. 15. Assessing Japan’s renewable energy situation: Can the Feed-In Tariff policy and the Energy grid situation constrain the future of renewable energy in Japan?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Slavomir Major; [2017]
    Keywords : Principal-agent Theory; Energy Grid; Feed-in Tariff; Renewable Energy; Solar PV; Wind Energy; Systematic Review; Policy Analysis; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis uses the principal-agent theory to analyse two interconnected problems within the Japan’s renewable energy sector, namely the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) policy, and the energy grid issue. Following the Fukushima accident, while the nuclear power plants remained closed, Japan’s renewable energy sector was able to experience enormous growth. READ MORE