Sedan slutet på 1800-talet har vi sett en stadig minskning i antalet timmar vi genomsnittligen arbetar per år. Denna trend stannade emellertid upp vid slutet på 1970-talet då den genomsnittliga tiden slutade minska, och under vissa år till och med öka. Syftet med denna studie är just att ta reda på vad individer tycker om arbetstidsförkortning med bibehållen lön utifrån ett generationellt perspekt

With the rapid development of digitalization and technology, the consumption environment has also changed a lot. Online food delivery has become a very popular way of ordering, especially with the covid-19 outbreak. But at the same time, the dark side it brings to sustainability cannot be ignored. This study aims to describe and understand the attitude and perceptions that influence consumer behav

Introduction and aim: From a sustainable supply chain standpoint, concern for workers' safety on the job is essential. Driving safety is vital since accidents in the trucking industry often result in the deaths of both truck drivers and other road users. We found a potential correlation between nicotine usage and driving safety risk in the literature. Sleep quality also appears to play a medi

Det här projektet har handlat om utmaningar. Utmaningen att transformera en fabrik, att orientera sig i historien, att hitta balansen och att gestalta hållbart för framtiden. Men framförallt om att utmana besökaren.

Both football and football fandom is historically male dominated. Female fans in football are a minority in all aspects of the sport and its surroundings. This study aims to analyze how female football fans cope in the heavily male dominated space of the football arena crowd. More specifically the aim is to analyze how female resistance to male hegemony is formulated within said area. The study is

Risk and return go hand in hand, and one way for a firm to mitigate existing and potential investors' risk in a stock is to employ a financial service; liquidity providing. The value of liquidity provision has become relevant as market uncertainties and shocks in the market create disturbances. In addition, the market environment has changed with regulation and the increase of high-frequency t

This thesis has presented a comparison between two occupied territories Tibet and Palestine as countries that have a long legacy of postcolonialism and strife for self-determination. The comparison was conducted from a postcolonial perspective of how Palestine is being occupied by Israel with full Western backing, while Tibet was occupied by another postcolonial country China. This clearly shows h

Att thaimassagesalonger och dess verksamma aktörer uppfattas vara associerade till sexindustrin utgör en påtaglig stereotypisk föreställning som lyfts fram i olika studier. Media har, enligt tidigare forskning, påvisats vara en central och bidragande aktör till denna stereotypiska föreställning och berättigandet av sexhandeln. Därmed syftar studien till att undersöka hur thaimassagesalonger och de

Despite the entrenched and acknowledged rational and emotional duality characterizing the organizational nature, much academic research tends to favor both the former aspect and quantitative approaches to study organizational emotionality. As the process of organizing is itself emotional, this lack of problematizations on emotional organizational constructs calls for more qualitative studies that

Denna studie problematiserar rättstillämpningen i fall där brottsrubriceringen “Våldtäkt mot barn” ogillas som domslut och “Sexuellt övergrepp mot barn” tillämpas istället. Studien analyserar domstolens argument och rättstillämpningen för dessa brott mot barn. Problemformuleringen som tillämpas i denna studie har utgångspunkt i frågeställningen, “Hur argumenterar domstolen kring rubriceringen sexu

Det här studien betraktar gudstjänsten i en Pingstförsamling med hjälp av Randall Collins teori om interaktionsritualer. Deltagande observationer tillsammans med en kompletterande intervju, samt spontana samtal i samband med observationstillfällena, utgör det material som ligger till grund för analysen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad som händer i människor när de firar gudstjänst tillsamm

In the last decades, low-income and low-middle-income countries still presents high levels of poverty despite several efforts by development organizations and policy makers to reduce poverty. Specifically, this paper tests if financial depth and financial access reduces the poverty headcount ratio in 45 low-income and low-middle-income countries and compares both results to know which measure is m

As the interest in greenwashing as a strategy for marketing increases, monitoring institutions in Sweden have not failed to acknowledge the tendency of unwarranted and exaggerated statements that has left the impression of products or services without any legitimate support. Even as institutions have voiced their active engagement in tackling this problem, critique has been raised arguing that gre

The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is a cornerstone of the union’s strategy to mitigate climate change and innovation is integral to emissions reduction, as well as an aim of the policy. To study if the EU ETS is associated with increased innovation, the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI) poses an interesting case. Not only is Sweden itself a leading innovator, but its PPI have rapidly reduc

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, t

The following essay aims to explore and analyse Niccoló Machiavelli’s, primarily, political and ideological use of history in his two most well known pieces of writing: The Prince and Discourses. The essay's theoretical framework is that of Klas-Göran Karlssons theory, namely use of history. In using this theory one analyse the, most often written or verbal, intermediation of historical knowle

With socio-economic hardships arising and dramatically worsening as a cause of the present-day financial crisis, The World Bank has warned against severe cases of brain drain as emigration becomes increasingly desirable to the Lebanese population. Lebanon, already possessing one of the world’s largest diaspora, can be characterized as being one of the largest remittance-receiving countries, where

The objective of this thesis is to understand how a retail space could facilitate a broader adoption of a novel technology. I aim to respond to the following questions, (i) ‘What characterises the practice of operating a smart technology for the home?’, (ii) ‘Which are the main barriers to reaching out to a broader range of customers, as opposed to only the technology interested customers?’, and (

The thesis sets out to explore how surveillance technology is affecting modern parental practices. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with parents of children aged 10-17, technological surveillance and parenting are studied. The data is analyzed though a combination of both preexisting concepts of Baumrind on child development and independent constructs. The concept of remote parenting has been deriv