Sökning: "Furniture industry"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Furniture industry.
1. Design i informationsåldern : Om strategisk design, historia och praktik
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the change in design where companies came to regard it as a strategic asset. A background to the change was the emerging Information age with a global competition, flexible production and saturated markets. Consumption became more symbolic and less material. LÄS MER
2. The constitution of enterprise : an institutional history of inter-firm relations in Swedish furniture manufacturing
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3. Wastewater generated by the wooden floor industry : Treatability investigation applying individual and coupled technologies
Sammanfattning : During the last half-century a growing concern has taken place in the world regarding water shortage and public health associated to water pollution. Safe discharges of industrial effluents and water reuse within the industry have been encouraged and several initiatives have promoted the development of wastewater treatment technologies with the main focus on industrial sectors that generate large volumes of wastewater. LÄS MER
4. Moving beyond stewards versus agents : Exploring business managers as existential beings in the interior-design and furniture industry in Småland, Sweden
Sammanfattning : Exploring two theoretical positions in the field of corporate governance – stewardship theory and agency theory – Moving beyond stewards versus agents homes in on the positions’ respective conceptions of managers. Although fundamentally drawing a clear line between the two positions, these conceptions also conjoin them. LÄS MER
5. Using Tentacles in Planning and Scheduling Work : Activities, Roles and Contributions
Sammanfattning : Handling production scheduling is increasingly difficult for manyenterprises, and human involvement is necessary. The overall objective ofthis research was to gain further understanding of planners’ and schedulers’work within the manufacturing industry, to elucidate how their worksituation is formed, and to explain their significance to other employees’work and company activities. LÄS MER