Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDIBM 29.
Palm oil is the most produced vegetable oil and accounts for 30% of the global vegetable oil production. This significant production generates negative externalities such as contributing to climate change, deforestation of the rainforests and biodiversity loss. However, this vegetable oil holds many advantages as well, such as having the highest agricultural yield, creating jobs and wealth for...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 54.
Switzerland is the country with the highest number of breweries per capita in the world (Genillard, 2018). In 2019, the number of microbreweries is around 1000. However, it has not always been the case that Switzerland was the leading country in terms of number of microbreweries. Indeed, in 1990, there were only 32 microbreweries in Switzerland. This phenomenon is something recent and even if the...
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London : Longmans Green, 1889
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 55.
Lavaux, the Swiss vineyard which has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2007, is renowned for its terrace vineyards, its traditions, its breath-taking views on the Geneva Lake, and its unique landscape configuration. The purpose of this report is to provide an in-depth analysis of the perception and behaviour of the public towards Lavaux, and to compare them with the promotion of...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDIBM 34.
The research’s goal is to provide insights about tea market opportunities in Switzerland, and to analyse how a Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SMEs) from Ecuador can deal with the export process for the first time and build up a business strategy to enter a new market. The report analysed the different barriers such as, the poor infrastructure, lack of access to new technologies and...
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In: Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2013, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 189-208
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 58.
No one can question the critical role that the real estate market represents for its economy, either by its size or its particularities. In Switzerland, the current tax system requires all property owners to pay a tax on the rental value, a fictitious taxable income that is calculated according to the potential income that the landlord could have generated if he rented his property to a third...
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In: Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics, 2018, p. 526-548
This chapter deals with the two Romance languages which are officially recognized as minority languages of Switzerland, Romansh and Italian, and with Francoprovençal and French dialects spoken marginally in the francophone area of Switzerland. Romansh, the language that has gained new recognition in the process leading to the quadrilingual Swiss Confederation, is considered in most detail. The...
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In: Methods in Contemporary Linguistics, 2012, p. 463-486
The present paper addresses the question of territoriality with reference to the Swiss minority language Romansh, taking account of the contributions of jurists who were dealing with the legal situation in Switzerland and showing the importance of the principle in the common perception of the national languages of Switzerland. Furthermore, insights from a philosopher, Philippe Van Parijs, who...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDEE 372.
In the first part of my bachelor thesis I am presenting the watch industry in Switzerland. My goal is to impart the most essential information to convey a good overview about this highly interesting domain. I am explaining the current state of the sector, but also important historical events like the quartz crisis from the 1970ies. Furthermore, there is an introduction to the most important Swiss...
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