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Consumer Incentives for Participating in a Circular System - Understanding the Use of Reusable Food and Beverage Packages
(2023-07-03)Human actions are causing a growing negative impact on the environment and measures must be taken to halt this trend. In response, the EU and Sweden have developed new regulations to be implemented, aimed at reducing the ... -
Consumer intentions towards AI in the healthcare industry
(2022-08-04)Two major challenges for the healthcare industry are to reduce misdiagnosis of patients and to become more efficient in everyday practice. The lack of efficiency became extremely apparent by the pressure on healthcare ... -
CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR ECO- AND FAIR TRADE CLOTHES IN GOTHENBURG
(2012-03-01)The aim of this thesis is to examine consumers’ attitudes and preferences towards eco and fair trade clothes in Gothenburg. As the market of these products is inadequate we conducted a contingent valuation (CV) study asking ... -
Consumer Tribes in Virtual Worlds: Case Audition Online Game
(2016-09-22)An explanation of player motivations in purchasing commodities in virtual worlds provides the foundation of understanding how players make sense of virtual products differently to one another and how motivations of virtual ... -
Consumer Value Generation in Circular Business Models
(2021-07-02)This thesis focuses on the consumer value generation within circular business models (CBMs). With the aim of exploring the practical tendencies of value generation for consumers, the thesis takes on a qualitative multiple ... -
Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs
(2004)This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a ... -
Consumers and the Circular Economy - A study of consumer behavior about recycling and reuse of mobile phones
(2017-06-28)The aim of the study was to research consumer behavior concerning past-use and end-of-life WEEE in Sweden, with a particular focus on consumer attitudes towards recycling and reuse of used mobile phones in the context of ... -
Consumers’ food waste behaviour in restaurants
(2017-06-30)Reducing food waste is one strategy to minimize environmental food print, and to handle a growing population in a sustainable way. Restaurants have the highest consumer food waste in the public sector (Silvennoinen et ... -
Consumers’ sustainable choices in fashion: The influence of the relationships between sustainability labels, related competences and meanings of the sustainable shopping practice
(2020-06-16)Sustainability labels have been used extensively in fashion companies recently as a way to communicate with consumers about sustainability issues, and to inform them of their choices by presenting relevant information ... -
Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space. Transnational Television
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06)The present article addresses how stereotyped constructions of migrants’ television behaviour should be contrasted with empirical investigations into the perceptions and articulated practices of migrants themselves. In ... -
Consumption and Investment Demand when Health Evolves Stochastically
(2017-10)The health capital model of Grossman (1972) is extended to account for uncertainty in the rate at which a stock of health depreciates. Two versions of the model are contemplated, one with a fully functioning financial ... -
Consumption changes due to expected future income as a result of Covid-19
(2021-07-02)This thesis aims to investigate the effects of the pandemic on individuals’ expectations regarding future income and thus their consumption behavior. The research will therefore contribute with new insights into the ... -
Consumption of dietary iron sources among Tajik women
(2012-10-23)Järnbrist orsakad av anemi är en av de vanligaste sjukdomarna i utvecklingsländer. Anemi påverkar arbetsförmågan och är därmed ett hinder för utveckling både för individer och för länder. I Tadzjikistan antas mer än 40 % ... -
Consumption Theory with Reference Dependent Utility
(2006)This paper presents a closed form consumption function for an individual when he derives utility from both his current and previous consumption and from the consumption of his relevant others. I show that the traditional ... -
Contact Allergy to Propolis and Beeswax Occurrence, Diagnostics and Chemistry
(2022-10-03)Cosmetics, including biocosmetics and “natural” skin remedies are common causes of contact dermatitis. Two frequent ingredients in biocosmetics are beeswax and propolis, which are known causes of contact allergy. These ... -
Contact induced change in Bena (G63) – A study of ‘swahilization’ in a Tanzanian vernacular language
(2012-10-12)The aim of this study is to describe how Swahili is influencing the vocabulary of Bena (G63), one of the vernacular languages of Tanzania. The paper is written within the field of contact linguistics and relies on theories ...