Search for dissertations about: "gatekeeping"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word gatekeeping.

  2. 1. On Aligning Returns Management with the E-commerce Strategy to Increase Effectiveness

    Author : Klas Hjort; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Returns management; supply chain management; alignment; case study; experimental research; gatekeeping; avoidance; reverse logistics; strategy; e-commerce; Logistik; Handel och IT; Bussiness and IT;

    Abstract : The returns management (RM) process has traditionally been seen as a value recovery process, which has resulted in an efficiency focus in the returns flow. This thesis present, the effects on a fashion e-commerce organisation, which is underprioritising or neglecting RM in general and consumer returns specifically. READ MORE

  4. 2. Returns Avoidance and Gatekeeping to Enhance E-commerce Performance

    Author : Klas Hjort; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; returns management; customer service; demand chain management; e-commerce;

    Abstract : The mail order business was once a traditional method of selling and distributing clothes, and other commodities, to customers. Now, the e-commerce trend, with more sophisticated techniques of marketing, selling, and distributing goods, has not only challenged the traditional mail order system, it seems also that the traditional retail chain and even fashion chains are being challenged. READ MORE

  5. 3. Protecting Our Children : A comparative study of the dynamics of structure, intervention and their interplay in Swedish child welfare and Canadian child protection

    Author : Evelyn Grace Khoo; Lennart Nygren; Ulf Hyvönen; Gudrun Kristinsdottir; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; child welfare; child protection; social services; comparative; cross-national; social work; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a case study of how two agencies in Umeå, Sweden and Barrie, Canada protect children found in need of child welfare services. The project's purposes are to describe how children are protected from harm in these two contexts, to illuminate the similarities and differences in the child welfare systems reflected at the local level, and explicate the significance of uncovered similarities and differences. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sexual violence : epidemiology, treatment and access to health care

    Author : Gita Rajan; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Sexual violence is recognized by the World Health Organization as a “… global public health problem of epidemic proportions, requiring urgent action” [1]. In Sweden, the estimated incidence of penetrative sexual violence is 45 000 per year [2-4] . READ MORE

  7. 5. Factors shaping demand for prostethic dentistry treatment with special focus on implant dentistry

    Author : Birger Narby; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Aim: The main aim of this thesis was to investigate how attitudesinfluence the latent and manifest need, desire, demand, and utilizationfor dental implant treatment, considering the gatekeeping processbetween need and demand, and between demand and utilization ofdental treatment.Material and Methods: A conceptual analysis of the need anddemand concept from the literature was a first step in the study. READ MORE