Essays about: "national business system"

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1. 21. Promoting Sustainable Entrepreneurship Through Competition: The Case of Investment and Development Agency of Latvia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Rihards Mežaraups; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; Sustainable Entrepreneurship; governmental actors; institutional theory; business plan competition;

   Abstract : The aim of this research is to analyse and describe the promotion of sustainable entrepreneurship by governmental organizations to new entrepreneurs. The thesis looks into the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) which is the main governmental body for organizing business idea competitions in Latvia. READ MORE

3. 22. Allbolagen Revisited: a Tenants' Union in a Changing (de)political Landscape : A Neoliberal Delusion or a Democratic Imaginary?

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Lisa Kolarby; [2022]
   Keywords : Housing policy; public housing; neoliberalism; economisation; tenants; democracy;

   Abstract : The context of the rental housing market in Sweden has changed substantially in recent decades as neoliberal housing policies have been introduced. One prominent example is the 2011 “Allbolagen” reform that reframed the conditions of the public housing sector whilst destabilising the collective bargaining system for rent-setting. READ MORE

4. 23. To innovate or not - that is the question A study investigating how the number of patents applications has been affected by the EU ETS

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Alma Hemberg; [2021-08-23]
   Keywords : aviation; business enterprise investments; cement; difference-in-differences; emissions; environmental regulation; EPO; Espacenet; the EU ETS; GDP growth; gross domestic investments; innovation; IPC; manufacturing of iron and steel; OECD; patent applications; patents; Porter Hypothesis; R D;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how patent applications (as a proxy measure for innovation) in regulated sectors were affected by the implementation of the European Emission Trading System (the EU ETS) in 2005. The studied EU ETS-regulated sectors are cement and manufacturing of iron and steel with aviation sector as a placebo check. READ MORE

5. 24. Closing the Plastic Tap — Global Plastic Waste and the Circular Economy. A Multi-Regional Hybrid Input-Output Analysis of Plastic Waste Footprints

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2021]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Plastic pollution is a cross-national environmental and societal challenge that needs to be addressed from the point of view of global supply chains. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional “take-make-waste” models of production and consumption to create a closed-loop system so that plastic is trapped in the economy and not in the environment. READ MORE

6. 25. Community Supported Agriculture in Sweden and its transformative potential : A survey of farmers

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Tom Källgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Community Supported Agriculture; CSA; Andelsjordbruk; Alternative Food Networks; AFN; Sustainable agriculture;

   Abstract : Modern agriculture has made great strides in terms of efficiency, yields, and profits, but has come to be characterised by a large environmental impact and resource use, global transports, poor working conditions, and a lack of contact between producers and consumers. In response to these concerns, many different initiatives commonly referred to as Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been established to solve some or all of these issues. READ MORE