Sökning: "Envelopment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Envelopment.
1. Envelopment of retrovirus and vaccinia virus
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes envelopment of retrovirus and vaccinia virus. Retrovirus envelopment, i.e. budding, occurs from the plasma membrane (PM) of infected cells in an environment that is abundant with cellular proteins. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Efficiency Measurement and Corporate Social Responsibility
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Ranking corporations based on sustainable and socially responsible practices. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach This study ranks publicly listed corporations based on social and environmental (i.e. LÄS MER
3. Efficiency in Education - A Multilevel Analysis
Sammanfattning : Sweden spends altogether about 4.5% of GDP on primary, secondary and upper secondary school. Considering the magnitude of this investment it is important that these resources are used efficiently. In this thesis efficiency in public education is analysed on three different levels: The municipal level, the school level, and the individual level. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Manufacturing Production in a Developing Economy: Kenya 1992-94
Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of five separate empirical papers based on panel data from Kenyan manufacturing firms in the food, wood, textile and metal sectors, collected during the early 1990s, and an overview of the economic literature on small firms in developing countries. The principal tools of analysis are the microeconomic theory of production and econometrics. LÄS MER
5. Economic Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Investments
Sammanfattning : Paper 1 (with Catalin Starica): This study conducts an in-depth analysis of the association between a unique ten-dimensional set of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scores and firm profitability, as measured by Return on Assets (ROA). We find that non-linear (semi or non-parametric) regression methods bring important improvements in explaining profitability relative to a classical linear approach. LÄS MER