The role of geographical distance on the flow of knowledge has been debated in empirical work over the past decades. The magnitude of this relationship is usually attributed to the type of knowledge in question; in which tacit knowledge—the focus of the thesis—is usually associated with a negative relationship. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate said role in the context of tacit knowledge f

Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån perspektivet att dokumentären Super Size Me är potentiellt ethosskadande, undersöka hur McDonalds har förhållit sig till detta genom deras reklamfilmer och en annons, och se ifall dessa kan ses som en apologia. Studien har även som syfte att undersöka vad människor som Morgan Spurlocks granskningar och anklagelser av multinationella företag kan bidra med. Ma

Student, daughter and prostitute - prostituted women creating their identeties online This study aims to understand how identity and the construction of identity occurs, the basis being online blogs written by women who sell, or have sold sexual favours. It aims to create an understanding of how women in their blogs define sexwork and define their identeties as “women who sell sex”. Sweden was th

Despite increasing focus on the role of fathers in the face of changing societal norms, we still do not understand men’s transition to fatherhood and how it may be related to his and other family members’ well-being. Given evidence of an association between psychological parameters of this transition and postnatal depressive symptoms, we explored longitudinal paths between expectant fathers’ paren

Bakgrund: Cervixcancer är idag en av de vanligaste cancerformerna bland kvinnor i världen och hälften av fallen leder till döden. Det finns ett starkt samband mellan det sexuellt överförbara viruset HPV och cervixcancer. En utbredd okunskap hos människor om HPV och dess skyddande faktorer har uppmärksammats. Syfte: Att undersöka hur sjuksköterskor kan arbeta preventivt mot cervixcancer. Metod: Lit

Normbrytande reklam, hur kan vi tolka den? Är det ett nytt fenomen? I denna uppsats studeras fyra av Åhléns reklambilder samt en reklamfilm från den uppmärksammade kampanjen ”bryt klädmaktsordningen”. Syftet är att studera den retoriska situationen som kampanjen produceras utifrån, samt bidrar till. För att göra det på bästa vis har ett diskursteoretiskt perspektiv också tillämpats med Norman Fair

The aim of this thesis is to present issues related to cross-border taxation of employee stock options and critically inquiring whether the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court’s reasoning about comparable situations in the two rulings concerning taxation of stock options is supported by ECJ case law. On 4th of November 2015, the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden issued two rulings concerning

The aim of the present study is to identify the extent to which English conceptual metaphors presented in Lakoff (1980 & 1987) apply in the framework of Japanese. In addition to that, certain Japanese conceptual metaphors not present in English are identified and analyzed. The study uses mainly a corpus of written Japanese and a two dictionaries as data sources. The results have shown that the

Title: "Anyone can be seen standing on a skateboard" – Focusing on Class, Gender and Sexuality among Young Skateboarders in Lund. The skateboard scene has since its inception been a male dominated field, despite their successfull gender equality, Sweden is no exception. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences and approaches regarding class, gender and sexuality among you

The aim of this study is to examine the applicability of dehumanization theory in studying the role of prior knowledge in psychiatric practices. The focal point is to examine how professionals in the psychiatric field reason when sharing information about specific users with new employees. By interviewing six employees working with supportive housing who themselves had experience of introducing ne

Syftet med detta arbete var att med utgångspunkt i self-efficacy teori och individuella karaktäristika som kön och erfarenhet, undersöka upplevelsen av maktövertagande i en anställningsintervju. För att undersöka detta gjordes en kvantitativ studie med en enkätundersökning som hjälpmedel. Datainsamling från sammanlagt 52 respondenter som alla har, eller nu arbetar som rekryterare med intervjuledniThe purpose of this study was to, with basis of self-efficacy theory and individual characteristics such as gender and work experience examine the experience of seizure of power/takeover in a job interview. A quantitative study that included a survey was made to investigate this phenomenon. Data acquisition from a total of 52 respondents who all have or are now working as recruiters with interview

The aim of this study is to examine how women have proceeded to end an abusive relationship, the support and help they received and whether there were any difficulties during this procedure. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with six women. All of the women are over 18 years old and have been out of the relationship for more than two years. The data is analyzed based on thematic analysi

Fjällsippan växer på Svalbard, precis som på många andra platser på norra halvklotet som har ett kallt klimat, som mer eller mindre runda kuddar. På strandbankarna i de västra delarna av Spetsbergen observerade Jonas Åkerman år 1979 att fjällsipporna hade ett annorlunda växtsätt då plantorna växte i ett halvmåneformat mönster. Åkerman föreslog att det är vinden som har skapat det ovanliga växtsättExposed, well-drained and nutrient poor areas on Spitsbergen are mainly covered by a plant alliance typical for Svalbard, the Caricion nardinae. Caricion nardinae is a circum-polar alliance, which is dominated by the creeping, ever-green dwarf-shrub Dryas octopetala. On the beach flats of western Spitsbergen, Jonas Åkerman (1983) observed in 1979 the plant Dryas octopetala growing in an unusual pa

How to best organize the social services unit of individual and family care (IFO) has been in question since the 1980ies. Two principal ways of organization have been used, called integrated and specialized organization. In an integrated organization, the social secretary works with all parts of the clients' problem picture. This structure used to be the norm but is today only employed by a fe

Several events have occurred recently that can be interpreted as springing from increased anti- globalization attitudes. Given this trend, it is of importance to investigate what causes this opposition. This study therefore analyzes if those who are predicted to be perceived losers from trade, according to the Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory, can explain globalization attitudes. The methodology is ba

Renskötselrätten är en samlingsterm för de rättigheter som tillkommer den samiska befolkningen och som regleras i rennäringslagen. Rätten går att jämföra med andra rättigheter - t.ex. servitut och nyttjanderätter - och kan kategoriseras som särskild rätt till fastighet. En stor skillnad från andra rättigheter är att renskötselrätten grundar sig på samernas traditionella brukande av mark och regler

Denna studie syftar till att belysa bemötandet av patienter som genomfört suicidförsök från ett patientperspektiv respektive sjuksköterskeperspektiv. En litteraturstudie genomfördes med integrerad analysmetod av tretton forskningsartiklar. Två kategorier identifierades: Behov av att bli respektfullt bemött, Betydelsen av sjuksköterskans kompetens. Resultatet påvisade att ett respektfullt bemötande

The aim of this study was to discover how caregivers in a caring home for elderly people work with the social and emotional part of the caregiving. To discover this, the study was based on 4 days of participating observations that took place on a caring home for elderly people in Sweden. The observations were focused on every staff in the caring home, but mostly on the caregivers. Throughout the s