May-Brith Lund

Lund University

This paper examines the current trends of corporations that have completed a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability report. To gain an overview of the rapid growth in sustainability reporting the issues and trends that are analyzed are geographic locations of main headquarters, size by number of employees, size by market capitalization, sector breakdown and financial performance. The ...

Lund University

At the end of the 20 and the beginning of the 21 century, South-Western Sweden is characterized by the development of small residential satellite localities surrounding the bigger cities. Because of the lack of workplaces in these localities, their inhabitants are forced to commute to the bigger cities for work. A mixture of variables – land planning, bad planning of bus traffic, few travel alt...

Lund Institute of Technology

Modern machinery, such as automobiles, trains and aircraft, are equipped with embedded distributed computer control systems where the software implemented functionality is steadily increasing. The development of such systems, however, is still a relatively new and young discipline. There is consequently a lack of tools, methods and models to support, in particular, the early architectural desig...

Dynamics Within and Outside the Lab :Proceedings from the 6th GRASP conference, Lund University, May 2008

We investigate the degree to which participants’ predictions of a simulated stock price are influenced by predictions made by a herd of five other (fictitious) participants when they consist of a majority or minority. The results of Experiment 1 showed that the participants followed a majority herd independently of whether its predictions were accurate or random. In Experiment 2, the majority i...

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