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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Location-based marketing lead to the door of thebrick and mortar store : A study for Swedish clothing companies / Platsbaserad marknadsföring leder till dörren hos den fysiska butiken

Johansson, Sebastian, Johansson, Alfred January 2017 (has links)
The brick and mortar stores are decreasing their field of activity meanwhile online retail is increasing. Hence the purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine if the clothing industries’ brick a nd mortar stores could change their down going trend by using both location-based marketing and the digital footprints of a customer as part of their strategy.
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Spatially Explicit Assessment of Environmental Impacts in the Electronics Sector

Kali Diane Frost (11813585) 09 December 2021 (has links)
<div>As society rapidly migrates to digitized services, the Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) sector is projected to sustain a 16% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years, surpassing $1 trillion in revenue by 2024. The hardware infrastructure that supports ICT growth, such as semiconductor chips and hard disk drives (HDDs), is also experiencing parallel growth trajectories. Thus, large technology companies need to understand the environmental implications of growth in these vital components within their supply chains, as they strive to reach ambitious targets for carbon, water, and waste reduction.</div><div><br></div><div>Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for measuring environmental impacts along the life cycle of a product and is implemented here to measure emissions and resource use in the semiconductor and HDD manufacturing supply chains, and to quantify the benefits of circularity for HDD components. However, to understand how environmental impacts of a manufacturing process relate to the landscapes (i.e. ecosystems) where manufacturing occurs, one must look to methods beyond LCA. </div><div><br></div><div>Footprinting methods are a promising tool for bridging the gap between LCA process data inventories and site-specific impacts on ecosystems. Further, the footprint assesses the total volume of emission over a time period, which is aligned with the concept of absolute sustainability. As such, regionalized footprint methods for freshwater use in the semiconductor industry and toxic chemical pollution for the HDD rare earth magnet supply chain were undertaken. In each case, data from the LCA literature or custom LCAs were used as the basis for the life cycle inventory, but advanced methods including regional databases of water scarcity and toxicity factors were used to quantify and communicate impacts. Further, geographic information systems (GIS) were used to allocate emissions or water use from a manufacturing facility with their associated watershed, which enabled aggregation of data across various geographies (i.e. watershed, region, country). </div><div><br></div><div>This work implements multi-disciplinary methods, databases, and tools with the aim to bring water and chemical footprinting methods a step closer towards meaningful assessment of a product’s impact on local, regional, and planetary boundaries. </div><div><br></div>
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Social Media When Searching for New Customers : A Description of Prospecting Activities on Social Media / Sociala Medier När Du Söker efter Nya Kunder : En Beskrivning av Prospekteringsaktiviteter på Sociala Medier

Vipp Oskarsson, Robin, Dimakis, Alexander January 2020 (has links)
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to identify and describe how B2B salespeople utilize social media when prospecting for new customers based on a sequential sales process.Design/methodology/approach - The study employs an interpretive approach as it attempts to convey a phenomenon through the eyes of the participants. The data is derived from six participants collected through semi-structured interviews. The thematic analysis aids to decipher patterns in the data and display these descriptive and narratively.Findings - The study identified four themes of social media use when prospecting for new customers. Further, the study suggests that salespeople are using social media to identify and qualify the prospects and their competencies in a networking manner and consequently follow the key targets of interest in order to initiate possibilities for offering customized solutions or adapt their approach accordingly.Research limitations/implications - The findings describes prospecting on social media through identified themes and points to new techniques to obtain information regarding prospects. This study opens up for future research in order to strengthen the newly discovered themes and its underlying forces.Managerial implications - The study reveals that prospecting techniques on social media are exercised and fueled by a salesperson's own intuition. This should be considered by the management as the employees’ intuition may depart from a company’s core strategy and values.Originality/value - No studies has examined how prospecting is carried out in practice on social media. The empirical findings in this study provide a new suggestion of how social media is used by salespeople and accordingly contributes to current sales literature by adding four descriptive themes of prospecting on social media.
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Assessing the environmental sustainability of an apparel supply chain : the development of a conceptual model based on a comparative study of preferred tools and actual practices

Barås, Madeleine January 2015 (has links)
The apparel and textile industry is one of the largest in the world and is characterised by complex, global supply chains, water and chemical intensive processes as well as environmentally harmful raw material extraction and production. Because of this, environmental sustainability has become a key issue for the businesses in recent years. With this in mind, and considering an increasing demand for textile and apparel goods, the industry is in urgent need of improving the environmental footprint of its products. However, lack of transparency and available data throughout apparel supply chains decrease chances of producing accurate sustainability assessments, which in turn obstruct improvement measures. Moreover, companies often lack the in-house competence required to manage and create strategies for sustainability assessments. In this study an overview of an apparel supply chain is provided, highlighting phases, sub phases, input and environmental indicators. Appropriate tools for assessing the environmental sustainability of such a supply chain are inventoried and examined. Based on a case study, a literature review and a stakeholder opinion assessment, misalignments between actual practices within an apparel company and recommended practices of the researcher and stakeholder communities are uncovered. These identified misalignments enabled the development of a conceptual model, aiming at facilitating the process of developing an environmental sustainability assessment strategy within an apparel company.
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Labour Footprint: A framework to assess the use of socially undesirable labour in a complex economy / 労働フットプリント:複雑な経済における社会的に望ましくない労働の利用を評価するための枠組み

JORGE, ESTEBAN GOMEZ PAREDES 23 March 2015 (has links)
京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(エネルギー科学) / 甲第19088号 / エネ博第312号 / 新制||エネ||64(附属図書館) / 32039 / 京都大学大学院エネルギー科学研究科エネルギー社会・環境科学専攻 / (主査)教授 石原 慶一, 教授 手塚 哲央, 教授 東野 達 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Energy Science / Kyoto University / DAM
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The Salience of Stratification, Lifestyle and Residential Energy Efficiency Improvement in the Climate Change Discourse and Policy: Implications for Environmental Justice

Adua, Lazarus 03 September 2009 (has links)
No description available.
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Footprints: Tracking Individual Copies of Printed Books Using Digital Methods

Chesner, Michelle, Lehman, Marjorie, Shear, Adam, Teplitsky, Joshua 18 July 2019 (has links)
No description available.
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Caminos, caminos del deseo, senderos y pisadas en la práctica artística contemporánea. Una posibilidad de itinerario

Teira Muñiz, Ismael 20 November 2023 (has links)
[ES] La presente investigación aborda el vigente interés por la figura del camino a partir del estudio de una serie de prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, otorgando especial relevancia a los caminos del deseo. Se propone, así, un recorrido dividido en tres partes cuyo punto de partida se sitúa en el estudio de los contextos para el caminante, tanto desde el punto de vista de su justificación teórica e histórica como desde el propio análisis de los espacios físicos donde tienen lugar las prácticas caminantes, destacando aquellos donde es posible crear camino, entendiendo el paisaje más relacionado con la experiencia móvil del recorrido que con una imagen (López Silvestre, 2008). Otros lugares que también se acometen son la metrópolis, el jardín o la carretera. El presente estudio abarca un panorama extenso a partir de las obras de arte contemporáneo seleccionadas en diversas exposiciones de alcance internacional, destacando las celebradas en España. El itinerario parte del rastro más elemental -la pisada (footprint)- para recorrer distintas morfologías del camino en el arte contemporáneo desde finales de 1960 hasta la actualidad, tales como senderos (footpaths), escaleras, laberintos, pasillos, corredores, plataformas y puentes, así como el trayecto en el plano, textworks y audiowalks, o la poética del final del camino, entre otros. La última parte de la tesis está dedicada en exclusiva al fenómeno de los caminos del deseo, enfocado tanto desde las recientes publicaciones sobre el tema (Shuey, 2021; Coutts et al., 2019; Foster y Newell, 2019; Schorr, 2019, Jarosz, 2019) como desde la propia práctica artística. Esta investigación constata que la cuestión móvil de estar en el camino -in itinere- es decisiva para interpretar un amplio conjunto de obras de arte contemporáneo, formalmente emparentadas con A Line Made by Walking (1967), de Richard Long, pieza clave en el desarrollo del arte conceptual, demostrando que el recorrido experiencial constituye uno de los ejes centrales de la producción artística desde finales del siglo XX. / [CA] La present investigació aborda el vigent interés per la figura del camí a partir de l'estudi d'una sèrie de pràctiques artístiques contemporànies, atorgant especial rellevància als camins del desig. Es proposa, així, un recorregut dividit en tres parts el punt de partida de les quals se situa en l'estudi dels contextos per al caminant, tant des del punt de vista de la seua justificació teòrica i històrica com des de la pròpia anàlisi dels espais físics on tenen lloc les pràctiques caminants, destacant aquells on és possible crear camí, entenent el paisatge més relacionat amb l'experiència mòbil del recorregut que amb una imatge (López Silvestre, 2008). Altres llocs que també s'escometen són la metròpolis, el jardí o la carretera. El present estudi abasta un panorama extens a partir de les obres d'art contemporani seleccionades en diverses exposicions d'abast internacional, destacant les celebrades a Espanya. L'itinerari part del rastre més elemental -la trepitjada (footprint)- per a recórrer diferents morfologies del camí en l'art contemporani des de finals de 1960 fins a l'actualitat, com ara senderes (footpaths), escales, laberints, corredors, plataformes i ponts, així com el trajecte en el pla, textworks i audiowalks, o la poètica del final del camí, entre altres. L'última part de la tesi està dedicada en exclusiva al fenomen dels camins del desig, enfocat tant des de les recents publicacions sobre el tema (Shuey, 2021; Coutts et al., 2019; Foster i Newell, 2019; Schorr, 2019, Jarosz, 2019) com des de la pròpia pràctica artística. Aquesta investigació constata que la qüestió mòbil d'estar en el camí -in itinere- és decisiva per a interpretar un ampli conjunt d'obres d'art contemporani, formalment emparentades amb A Line Made by Walking (1967), de Richard Long, peça clau en el desenvolupament de l'art conceptual, demostrant que el recorregut experiencial constitueix un dels eixos centrals de la producció artística des de finals del segle XX. / [EN] This research addresses the current interest in the concept of the path through the study of a series of contemporary artistic practices, giving special importance to the desire paths. It proposes a journey divided into three parts, starting with an examination of the contexts for the walker, both from a theoretical and historical perspective and from the analysis of the physical spaces where walking practices take place, emphasizing those where it is possible to create a path, understanding the landscape more in relation to the mobile experience of the journey than as an image (López Silvestre, 2008). Other places that are also explored include the metropolis, the garden, or the road. This study encompasses a broad panorama based on selected contemporary artworks from various international exhibitions, with a focus on those held in Spain. The itinerary begins with the most elementary trace - the footprint - to explore different morphologies of the path in contemporary art from the late 1960s to the present, such as footpaths, stairs, labyrinths, corridors, walkways, platforms, and bridges, as well as the journey on the plane, textworks, and audiowalks, or the poetics of the journey's end, among others. The last part of the thesis is exclusively dedicated to the phenomenon of desire paths, approached both through recent publications on the subject (Shuey, 2021; Coutts et al., 2019; Foster and Newell, 2019; Schorr, 2019, Jarosz, 2019) and through artistic practice itself. This research confirms that the mobile question of being on the path - in itinere - is crucial for interpreting a wide range of contemporary artworks, formally related to Richard Long's A Line Made by Walking (1967), a key piece in the development of conceptual art, demonstrating that the experiential journey constitutes one of the central axes of artistic production since the late 20th century. / Teira Muñiz, I. (2023). Caminos, caminos del deseo, senderos y pisadas en la práctica artística contemporánea. Una posibilidad de itinerario [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/199980
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Citizen Sprouts: Exploring the Relationship Between Participation in Community Gardens and Ecological Citizenship

Nally, Mary J.V. 30 July 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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YouTube Family Vlogging as a Promoter of Digital Child Labour : A Case Study on ‘The Bucket List Family’

Carrêlo, Carolina January 2022 (has links)
Over the past decade, there has been a considerable rise in popularity of family vlog channels on YouTube. However, these videos have been receiving growing criticism for hosting the children as the main ‘stars’. With YouTube being the main source of income for some of these family units, concerns rise regarding the possibility of family vlogging accommodating a new type of child labour. For this reason, it is crucial to understand how the children’s rights might be threatened. At the same time, research within this field is still limited as family vlogging concerns a fairly recent phenomenon. Accordingly, the current thesis aims to fill these research gaps by contextualizing the practices of family vlogging through a rights-based approach. To do so, a case study was conducted on a YouTube account named ‘The Bucket List Family’. Using content analysis, 5 of their videos were analysed qualitatively and 100 of their video titles were analysed quantitatively. Findings confirm that the children played a central role in contributing to the popularity of the videos. Moreover, the children’s images were consistently and successfully used to further capitalize the family’s brand. Therefore, one can conclude that these children are being exposed to digital child labour, which can mean a possible breach of their rights. The considerable exposure of the children in the videos not only robs them from their privacy, but it also does so without their explicit consent, leaving them extremely vulnerable. As such, the conclusions of this thesis implicate that more research in this field is needed, so that future policymaking can be guided towards a better protection of the children. Additionally, by exposing the digital child labour practices behind family vlogging, this study hopes to bring more societal awareness to the topic.

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