Search for dissertations about: "outsourcing maintenance"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words outsourcing maintenance.
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1. Property Maintenance : Concepts and determinants
Abstract : Introduction Strategic property management aims at balancing the question of how the needed space is to be secured, maintained, increased or disposed of in a cost effective manner under a mixture of decisions and actions. In recent years, the interest in building maintenance has increased as more and more of the housing stock built after the Second World War is in need of major renovation. READ MORE
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2. Exploring Public Procurement of Swedish Railway Infrastructure Maintenance
Abstract : In 2002, Sweden started to outsource its railway infrastructure maintenance. Through gradual exposure (i.e. outsourcing one contract area at a time), the Swedish Transport Administration has developed its competence of being a client towards its contractors. READ MORE
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3. Unwrapping Cobol : Lessons in Crisis Computing
Abstract : By engaging with COBOL, a detested and would-be obsolete programming language, the dark sides of automation are examined in this thesis: hidden workforces and computational infrastructures that are, in reality, central to the execution and maintenance of global economic and informational flows. Frictions within these flows are made more visible in moments of crisis when asymmetrical power structures are surfaced, as demonstrated in an analysis of the infamous Y2K Bug, its connection to the outsourcing boom in India and the legacy of COBOL. READ MORE
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4. Managing Risks in Business Critical Outsourcing : A Perspective from the Outsourcer and the Supplier
Abstract : Companies are increasingly outsourcing business critical activities to suppliers of outsourcing services. As the complexity and business criticality of the outsourced activities increases, the risk of poor performance increases. READ MORE
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5. Dependability and maintenance analysis of railway signalling systems
Abstract : Railway signalling systems are composed of several different systems; each has its own purpose, but the main functionality of the overall system is determined by the interoperability between them. Railway signalling systems ensure the safe operation of the railway network, and their reliability and maintainability directly affect the capacity and availability of the railway network, in terms of both infrastructure and trains. READ MORE