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  • 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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[en] DELEUZE AND PERSPECTIVISM / [pt] O PERSPECTIVISMO EM DELEUZE

EMANUEL MELLO MATTOS DE CASTRO 16 November 2015 (has links)
[pt] A pesquisa centra-se na importância do conceito de Perspectivismo na filosofia de Gilles Deleuze. Procurando desarticular a forma-Sujeito, para Deleuze pontos de vista têm a ver com diferenças e não com identidades; a constituição não de sujeitos e objetos, mas de perspectivas ou pontos de vista. Em Deleuze, o perspectivismo não é a relatividade do verdadeiro, mas a verdade da relatividade. / [en] This research focuses on the importance of the concept of Perspectivism in Gilles Deleuze s philosophy. Trying to dismantle the Subject form, for Deleuze points of view have to do with differences rather than identities; not the constitution of subjects and objects, but perspectives or points of view. In Deleuze, perspectivism isn t the relativity of the true, but the truth of relativity.
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Undervisning av naturvetenskaplig litteracitet? : En intervjustudie av mellan- och högstadielärare

Karlsson, Cecilia, Thorby, Jessika January 2024 (has links)
Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur mellan- och högstadielärare arbetar mednaturvetenskaplig litteracitet, med fokus på den skrivna texten, på mellanstadiet och högstadietmed fokus på elever i lässvårigheter. För att besvara syftet genomfördes två delstudier därkvalitativ intervju användes. Sammanlagt intervjuades tio lärare, fem på respektive stadie.Forskningsöversikten behandlar naturvetenskaplig litteracitet, läsförståelsestrategier och detnaturvetenskapliga läromedelsspråket. Som analysverktyg används teorierna the Simple view ofreading samt teorin om undervisningsaktiviteter som ska främja utvecklandet avnaturvetenskaplig litteracitet, Vision I, Vision IIa och Vision IIb. De olika aktiviteterna fokuserarpå läsning, praktiska moment och att kunna använda naturvetenskap i vardagen. I uppsatsen görsäven en distinktion mellan fundamental och härledd naturvetenskaplig litteracitet. Resultatet visaratt de intervjuade lärarna i båda delstudierna utgår från ett härlett perspektiv på naturvetenskapliglitteracitet där undervisningsaktiviteterna syftar till språkutveckling och förmåga att användanaturvetenskapliga kunskaper utanför klassrummet. Mellanstadielärarna arbetar medspråkförståelse i form av begreppsutveckling och i diskussioner kring texten, medanhögstadielärarna arbetar med språkförståelse i form av, framförallt, begreppsutveckling. Lärarna på båda stadierna arbetar främst med härledd litteracitet och samtliga undervisningsaktivitetermen huvudsakligen med att lära ut begrepp och använda dessa i vardagen. För att arbetabegreppsutvecklande använder lärarna på båda stadierna förutom texter även bilder och filmer. Mellanstadielärarna efterfrågar ett omfattande stöd från speciallärare medan högstadielärarna intehar reflekterat över hur speciallärare kan stötta den naturvetenskapliga undervisningen
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Has the Person with Dementia Lost the Right to Autonomy? : A Discussion of Ronald Dworkin's View on the Moral Status of the Advance Directive

Groesmeyer, Marianne January 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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Barnets bästa : En studie om hur domstolen tar hänsyn till barnet som aktör i umgängestvister. / The best interests of the child : A study how the court take into account the child as an actor in access disputes.

Hörnbäck, Felicia, Hadzic, Armin January 2017 (has links)
The CRC is an ethical foundation documents to strengthen children's position in the family law process and ensure that both the child's needs and rights are met. According to article 12 all children have the right to participate in processes and decisions that affect them, where their opinions should be given weight in accordance to their age and maturity. Even to meet the child's best interests (article 3) should be the main target at each crucial decision on issues affecting children. The definition of the child's best changes in time and place and leads to individual assessments needs to be made based on the needs of each child, by their individual interests and situation. In practice it may also be deemed to be a dilemma to consider both articles, tension may arise when the child ́s will and the best interests of the child do not correspond. Based on theories of child's status as an actor or non-actor in the assessment through the different perspectives: care logic and legal logic, we want to understand how assessors in different cases of access account to the articles that determine their decisions. Our study has been conducted through a qualitative research with textual analysis of five Swedish cases from District Court and Court of Appeal from the years 2015-2016. The outcome of the study shows that two logics (care logic and legal logic) generates in the assessments of the child ́s best and that their decisions is depending on which one of those thats dominate. The results also shows that the children ́s will depends on its age and maturity which also determine the children ́s influence and status as actors or non-actors in the legal process of access
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Qualité de la relation mère-enfant en contexte de violence conjugale : analyse des écarts de points de vue entre la mère et l’enfant

Deshaies, Louise-Anne 11 1900 (has links)
La relation mère-enfant est une variable déterminante de l’adaptation de l’enfant exposé à la violence conjugale. Toutefois, les rares études qui analysent simultanément le point de vue de la mère et celui de l’enfant au sujet de la qualité de leur relation révèlent peu de liens entre eux. La présente étude vise à identifier les variables associées à l’écart dans l’évaluation que la mère et l’enfant victimes de violence conjugale font de la qualité de leur relation. Au total, 117 mères victimes de violence conjugale et leur enfant âgé entre 8 et 12 ans ont participé à l’étude. Conformément aux hypothèses, plusieurs variables déjà liées à la qualité de la relation mère-enfant en contexte de violence conjugale sont associées aux différences de points de vue. C’est le cas pour les troubles extériorisés de l’enfant, son degré de parentification, la détresse de la mère et les troubles intériorisés de l’enfant. En revanche, l’intensité de la violence conjugale, la présence d’abus physique et le sexe de l’enfant ne prédisent pas de manière significative les écarts de point de vue entre la mère et l’enfant. La discussion montre l’intérêt de prendre en compte non seulement le point de vue de la mère et celui de l’enfant à propos de leur relation mais également leurs écarts de point de vue et les facteurs qui y contribuent. / The mother-child relationship is a determinant factor that predicts the adaptation of children exposed to domestic violence. The few studies who consider both mother and child perceptions of the mother-child relationship quality find little similarity between them. The current study identifies the variables associated to different perceptions between mothers and children exposed to domestic violence while evaluating the motherchild relationship. The research was conducted with 117 abused women and their children aged 8 to 12. In accordance to the hypothesis, many variables that are already linked to the mother-child relationship’s quality in a context of domestic violence are associated to differences in points of views. It’s the case for the externalized problems of the child, his parentification degree, the mother’s distress and the internalized problems of the child. On the other hand, the domestic violence’s intensity, the physical abuse and the child’s sex do not significantly predict the difference in points of views between the mother and the child. The discussion underlines the importance of evaluating the mother’s and the child’s perceptions as well as the differences between them and the contributing factors.
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View-Based techniques for the efficient management of web data / Techniques fondées sur des vues matérialisées pour la gestion efficace des données du web

Karanasos, Konstantinos 29 June 2012 (has links)
De nos jours, des masses de données sont publiées à grande échelle dans des formats numériques. Une part importante de ces données a une structure complexe, typiquement organisée sous la forme d'arbres (les documents du web, comme HTML et XML, étant les plus représentatifs) ou de graphes (en particulier, les bases de données du Web Sémantique structurées en graphes, et exprimées en RDF). Exploiter ces données complexes, qu'elles soient dans un format d'accès Open Data ou bien propriétaire (au sein d'une compagnie), présente un grand intérêt. Le faire de façon efficace pour de grands volumes de données reste encore un défi. Les vues matérialisées sont utilisées depuis longtemps pour améliorer considérablement l'évaluation des requêtes. Le principe est q'une vue stocke des résultats pre-calculés qui peuvent être utilisés pour évaluer (une partie d') une requête. L'adoption des techniques de vues matérialisées dans le contexte de données du web que nous considérons est particulièrement exigeante à cause de la complexité structurelle et sémantique des données. Cette thèse aborde deux problèmes liés à la gestion des données du web basée sur des vues matérialisées. D'abord, nous nous concentrons sur le problème de sélection des vues pour des ensembles de requêtes RDF. Nous présentons un algorithme original qui, basé sur un ensemble de requêtes, propose les vues les plus appropriées à matérialiser dans la base des données. Ceci dans le but de minimiser à la fois les coûts d'évaluation des requêtes, de maintenance et de stockage des vues. Bien que les requêtes RDF contiennent typiquement un grand nombre de jointures, ce qui complique le processus de sélection de vues, notre algorithme passe à l'échelle de centaines de requêtes, un nombre non atteint par les méthodes existantes. En outre, nous proposons des techniques nouvelles pour tenir compte des données implicites qui peuvent être dérivées des schémas RDF sans complexifier davantage la sélection des vues. La deuxième contribution de notre travail concerne la réécriture de requêtes en utilisant des vues matérialisées XML. Nous commençons par identifier un dialecte expressif de XQuery, correspondant aux motifs d'arbres avec des jointures sur la valeur, et nous étudions des propriétés importantes de ces requêtes, y compris l'inclusion et la minimisation. En nous fondant sur ces notions, nous considérons le problème de trouver des réécritures minimales et équivalentes d'une requête exprimée dans ce dialecte, en utilisant des vues matérialisées exprimées dans le même dialecte, et nous fournissons un algorithme correct et complet à cet effet. Notre travail dépasse l'état de l'art en permettant à chaque motif d'arbre de renvoyer un ensemble d'attributs, en prenant en charge des jointures sur la valeur entre les motifs, et en considérant des réécritures qui combinent plusieurs vues. Enfin, nous montrons comment notre méthode de réécriture peut être appliquée dans un contexte distribué, pour la dissémination efficace d'un corpus de documents XML annotés en RDF. / Data is being published in digital formats at very high rates nowadays. A large share of this data has complex structure, typically organized as trees (Web documents such as HTML and XML being the most representative) or graphs (in particular, graph-structured Semantic Web databases, expressed in RDF). There is great interest in exploiting such complex data, whether in an Open Data access model or within companies owning it, and efficiently doing so for large data volumes remains challenging. Materialized views have long been used to obtain significant performance improvements when processing queries. The principle is that a view stores pre-computed results that can be used to evaluate (possibly part of) a query. Adapting materialized view techniques to the Web data setting we consider is particularly challenging due to the structural and semantic complexity of the data. This thesis tackles two problems in the broad context of materialized view-based management of Web data. First, we focus on the problem of view selection for RDF query workloads. We present a novel algorithm, which, based on a query workload, proposes the most appropriate views to be materialized in the database, in order to minimize the combined cost of query evaluation, view maintenance and view storage. Although RDF query workloads typically feature many joins, hampering the view selection process, our algorithm scales to hundreds of queries, a number unattained by existing approaches. Furthermore, we propose new techniques to account for the implicit data that can be derived by the RDF Schemas and which further complicate the view selection process. The second contribution of our work concerns query rewriting based on materialized XML views. We start by identifying an expressive dialect of XQuery, corresponding to tree patterns with value joins, and study some important properties for these queries, such as containment and minimization. Based on these notions, we consider the problem of finding minimal equivalent rewritings of a query expressed in this dialect, using materialized views expressed in the same dialect, and provide a sound and complete algorithm for that purpose. Our work extends the state of the art by allowing each pattern node to return a set of attributes, supporting value joins in the patterns, and considering rewritings which combine many views. Finally, we show how our view-based query rewriting algorithm can be applied in a distributed setting, in order to efficiently disseminate corpora of XML documents carrying RDF annotations.
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Image Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Views / Évaluation de la qualité des images obtenues par synthèse de vues 3D

Tian, Shishun 22 March 2019 (has links)
Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) est une technologie fondamentale dans plusieurs applications liées à la 3D, telles que la vidéo en mode point de vue libre (FVV), la réalité virtuelle (VR) et la réalité augmentée (AR). Cependant, l'évaluation de la qualité des vues synthétisées par DIBR a également posé de nouveaux problèmes, car ce processus induit de nouveaux types de distorsions, qui sont intrinsèquement différentes des distorsions provoquées par le codage vidéo. Ce travail est destiné à mieux évaluer la qualité des vues synthétisées par DIBR en multimédia immersif. Au chapitre 2, nous proposons deux métriques complètements sans référence (NR). Le principe de la première métrique NR NIQSV consiste à utiliser plusieurs opérations morphologiques d’ouverture et de fermeture pour détecter et mesurer les distorsions, telles que les régions floues et l’effritement. Dans la deuxième métrique NR NIQSV+, nous améliorons NIQSV en ajoutant un détecteur de “black hole” et une détection “stretching”.Au chapitre 3, nous proposons deux métriques de référence complète pour traiter les distorsions géométriques à l'aide d'un masque de désocclusion et d'une méthode de correspondance de blocs multi-résolution. Au chapitre 4, nous présentons une nouvelle base de données d'images synthétisée par DIBR avec ses scores subjectifs associés. Ce travail se concentre sur les distorsions uniquement induites par différentes méthodes de synthèse de DIBR qui déterminent la qualité d’expérience (QoE) de ces applications liées à DIBR. En outre, nous effectuons également une analyse de référence des mesures d'évaluation de la qualité objective de pointe pour les vues synthétisées par DIBR sur cette base de données. Le chapitre 5 conclut les contributions de cette thèse et donne quelques orientations pour les travaux futurs. / Depth-Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) is a fundamental technology in several 3D-related applications, such as Free viewpoint video (FVV), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). However, new challenges have also been brought in assessing the quality of DIBR-synthesized views since this process induces some new types of distortions, which are inherently different from the distortions caused by video coding. This work is dedicated to better evaluate the quality of DIBRsynthesized views in immersive multimedia. In chapter 2, we propose a completely No-reference (NR) metric. The principle of the first NR metrics NIQSV is to use a couple of opening and closing morphological operations to detect and measure the distortions, such as “blurry regions” and “crumbling”. In the second NR metric NIQSV+, we improve NIQSV by adding a “black hole” and a “stretching” detection. In chapter 3, we propose two Fullreference metrics to handle the geometric distortions by using a dis-occlusion mask and a multi-resolution block matching methods.In chapter 4, we present a new DIBR-synthesized image database with its associated subjective scores. This work focuses on the distortions only induced by different DIBR synthesis methods which determine the quality of experience (QoE) of these DIBR related applications. In addition, we also conduct a benchmark of the state-of-the-art objective quality assessment metrics for DIBR-synthesized views on this database. The chapter 5 concludes the contributions of this thesis and gives some directions of future work.
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Estratégias bem sucedidas na interação universidade e empresa: uma análise da trajetória de instituições privadas

Koste, Raquel Cecilia Jung 16 August 2010 (has links)
Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-07-16T21:04:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 22c.pdf: 4652907 bytes, checksum: ab21111b63aa4aebf99649423c80f786 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-16T21:04:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 22c.pdf: 4652907 bytes, checksum: ab21111b63aa4aebf99649423c80f786 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-16 / UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / O conhecimento é o fator-chave para a criação do novo e a inovação é dependente do capital humano e da cooperação entre as pessoas e organizações. Este estudo qualitativo utiliza o método do estudo de caso e busca compreender a evolução de estratégias bem sucedidas de interação universidade e empresa e identificar os principais diferenciais que explicam os ganhos estratégicos decorrentes das parcerias. A seleção das instituições para este estudo – PUC-Rio e Fundação Dom Cabral e o relacionamento com a Petrobras – considerou o fato de serem de natureza privada, com trajetórias bem sucedidas de relacionamento com empresas e reconhecidas pela excelência no ensino e pesquisa. A trajetória destas empresas é marcada por eventos que permitem observar as implicações dos relacionamentos e da mobilização dos recursos estratégicos para a prática da inovação. O aporte teórico que embasa a análise da interação Universidade-Empresa se utiliza da abordagem da Hélice Tríplice, das Redes Interorganizacionais, da Visão Baseada em Recursos e da Visão Relacional. A análise dos dados coletados apresentou evidências de que o diferencial estratégico das instituições pesquisadas é obtido a partir de posicionamentos e ações estratégicas ao longo do tempo; da capacidade de gerar conhecimento e inovar; da capacidade de conexão com o mercado e de desenvolver novas competências organizacionais; da capacidade de mobilizar recursos internos e de estabelecer parcerias através de relacionamentos interorganizacionais; e da capacidade de atrair e reter talentos que possam contribuir para a excelência acadêmica, a sustentabilidade e a efetiva participação no desenvolvimento social. / Knowledge is the key factor for the creation of anything new and innovation is dependent on human capital and cooperation among people and organizations. This qualitative study uses the case study method and seeks to understand the evolution of successful strategies of interaction between university and industry and to identify key differences that explain the gains arising from strategic partnerships. The selection of the institutions for this study - PUC-Rio and Fundação Dom Cabral and the relationship with Petrobras - considered the fact that they are private in nature, with histories of successful relationships with companies and recognized for excellence in teaching and research. The trajectory of these companies is marked by events that allow us to observe the implications of the relationships and the mobilization of strategic resources for the practice of innovation. The theoretical bases that support the University-Industry interaction are the Triple Helix approach, the Interorganizational Network, the Resource-Based View and the Relational Vision. The data analysis presented evidence that the strategic differentiator of the institutions surveyed is derived from placements and strategic actions over time, the ability to generate knowledge and innovate, the ability to connect with the market and to develop new organizational skills, the ability to mobilize domestic resources and to establish partnerships through interorganizational relationships, and the ability to attract and retain talent that can contribute to academic excellence, sustainability and effective participation in social development.
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Fluxos de conhecimento em subsidiárias de corporações multinacionais: uma survey de empresas no Brasil / Knowledge flows in subsidiaries of multinational corporations: a survey of companies in Brazil.

Lessa Neto, Antonio Thomaz Pacheco 05 November 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Thomaz Pacheco Lessa Neto.pdf: 3151767 bytes, checksum: d39f096f36e24de37a2e846d245fa19e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-11-05 / Knowledge flows, especially in subsidiaries of multinational corporations, now have an increasing importance in organizations and therefore the discussion of research in the field. The aim of this work is to analyze flows not only through transfers, but also conversions of knowledge between the three families of intangible assets (external structure, internal structure and individual competence), since, for the creation of value, the key lies in the fact that such transfers and conversions be effective (SVEIBY, 2001). Concerning the method, this dissertation presents an empirical study through a survey applied along the Brazilian subsidiaries of multinational corporations, from a theoretical construct Knowledge-based view (KBV) where makes an analysis of the assets of individual competence, internal structure and external structure, and having for its object of study brazilian companies in Brazil listed in data collection known as the best and biggest from business magazine EXAME covering the year 2012. The study indicates, for the sample data (nine respondents) removed of the universe effectively researched (140 companies and not the initial 565), that there is the maximization of value creation from knowledge flows in two directions only by knowledge transfers and conversions of Individual Competencies for External Structure, within the Internal Structure, of Internal Structure for Individual Competencies and within the External Structure / Os fluxos de conhecimento, de modo especial em subsidiárias de corporações multinacionais, passam a ter uma importância crescente nas organizações e por consequência nas discussões de pesquisas no campo. O objetivo deste trabalho é a análise dos fluxos, não somente através das transferências, mas também das conversões, de conhecimento entre as três famílias de ativos intangíveis (estrutura externa, estrutura interna e competência individual), uma vez que, para a criação de valor, a chave reside no fato de tais transferências e conversões serem eficazes (SVEIBY, 2001). Quanto ao método, esta dissertação apresenta um estudo empírico desenvolvido através de uma survey aplicada junto às subsidiárias brasileiras de corporações multinacionais, a partir de um construto teórico da visão baseada no conhecimento (VBC) - ou Knowledge-based View (KBV) - onde se faz uma análise dos ativos de competência individual, de estrutura interna e de estrutura externa, e tendo por objeto de estudo as empresas do Brasil listadas no levantamento de dados conhecido como Melhores e Maiores da Revista EXAME referente ao ano de 2012. O estudo indica, para a amostra dos dados (nove respondentes) retirada do universo efetivamente pesquisado (140 empresas e não as 565 iniciais), que existe a maximização de criação de valor a partir dos fluxos de conhecimento em duas direções somente pelas transferências e conversões de conhecimento de Competências Individuais para a Estrutura Externa, dentro da Estrutura Interna, da Estrutura Interna para as Competências Individuais e dentro da Estrutura Externa
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CEPs effekt på FP i fossila bränsleintensiva företag: Påverkas relationen om företaget har en CSR-kommitté? : En kvantitativ studie av 827 publika globala bolag / CEP's impact on FP in fossil fuel firms: Is the relationship affected if the company has a CSR committee? : A quantitative study of 827 public global companies

Hohenthal, Johanna, Setterberg, Edvard January 2019 (has links)
Syfte: Företagens miljömässiga ansvar har blivit en allt mer central fråga för företagets intressenter. Tidigare studier som har behandlat relationen mellan Corporate Environmental Performance CEP och Financial Performance FP har resulterat i varierande utfall. Två faktorer som anses påverka denna relation är olikheter mellan branscher och brister i det interna organisationsarbetet. För att få en tydligare bild av relationen mellan CEP och FP behöver forskningen utvecklas för företag som agerar i en ur miljösynpunkt tung bransch. Syftet med studien är att förklara om det finns ett samband mellan CEP och FP i fossila bränsleintensiva företag och se om sambandet är starkare eller svagare om företaget använder en CSR-kommitté. Metod: Studien utgår från en positivistisk forskningsfilosofi med en deduktiv ansats. Studien har en kvantitativ strategi och har formats av en longitudinell design, där sekundärdata har inhämtats för åren 2014-2017 från databasen Thomson Reuters Datastream. Detta har genererat ett urval bestående av 827 publika bolag från hela världen vars data har analyserats i statistikprogrammet SPSS och presenteras i tabeller. Resultat & slutsats: Studiens resultat visar att det finns ett positivt samband mellan miljödimensionen CEP och den finansiella prestationen mätt utifrån både redovisningsmåttet ROE och marknadsmåttet Tobins Q för fossila bränsleintensiva företag. För de fossila bränsleintensiva företagen med en CSR-kommitté visade även resultatet ett starkare samband mellan CEP och FP än för företag utan CSR-kommitté. En jämförelse mellan olika sektorer visade en tydlig variation mellan resultaten, där vissa sektorer hade ett negativt samband mellan CEP och FP. Examensarbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar till den empiriska forskningen och utökar förståelsen för relationen mellan CEP och FP genom att studera fossila bränsleintensiva företag, som är en miljömässigt tung bransch. Studien bidrar även med teoretisk information om huruvida kontinuerligt arbete via CSR-kommittéer påverkar denna relation. Vidare ger studien ett praktiskt bidrag genom att uppmuntra företag att engagera sig i CEP-aktiviteter, istället för uppkomsten av tvingande miljöregleringar, för att nå lönsamhet. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Ett förslag till fortsatt forskning är att gå djupare ner bland fler sektorer för att kunna se skillnader mellan branscher och göra djupare analyser mellan dessa för att få en större förståelse om relationen mellan CEP och FP. Det kan också finnas skillnader mellan företag av olika storlek, därför är ett andra förslag att dela upp och jämföra resultaten mellan stora och små företag. / Aim: The company's environmental responsibility has become an increasingly central issue for the company's stakeholders. Earlier studies that have addressed the relationship between Corporate Environmental Performance CEP and Financial Performance FP have resulted in varying outcomes. Two factors that are considered to affect this relationship are differences between industries and shortcomings in internal organization work. In order to get a clearer picture of the relationship between CEP and FP, research needs to be developed for companies acting in an environmentally heavy industry. The purpose of the study is to explain if there is a connection between CEP and FP in fossil fuel firms and see if the association is stronger or weaker if the company uses a CSR committée. Method: This study is based on a positivistic research philosophy with a deductive approach. The study has a quantitative strategy and has been formed of a longitudinal design, where secondary data has been collected for the years 2014-2017 from the Thomson Reuters Datastream database. This has generated a sample of 827 public companies worldwide whose data has been analyzed in the SPSS statistics program and presented in tables. Result & Conclusions: The result of the study shows that there is a positive correlation between the environmental dimension CEP and the financial performance, measured based on both the accounting measure ROE and the market measure Tobins Q for fossil fuel firms. For the fossil fuel firms with a CSR committée, the result also showed a stronger relationship between CEP and FP than for companies without a CSR committée. A comparison between sectors showed a clear variation between the results, where some sectors had a negative link between CEP and FP. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes to empirical research and understanding of the relationship between CEP and FP by studying fossil fuel firms, which is an environmentally heavy industry. The study also contributes with theoretical information about whether continuous work through CSR committees affects this relationship. The study also provides a practical contribution by encouraging companies to engage in CEP activities, instead of the emergence of compelling environmental regulations, to achieve profitability. Suggestions for future research: A proposal for further research is to go deeper into more sectors to see differences between industries and to make deeper analyzes between them to gain a better understanding of the relationship between CEP and FP. There may also be differences between companies of different sizes, so a second proposal is to divide and compare the results between large and small companies.

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