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Varumärket Helsingborg - en kvalitativ studie om invånardeltagande i staden för dig som vill något

Sammanfattning Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur Helsingborgs stad hanterar balansgången mellan att å ena sidan bygga ett starkt varumärke och samtidigt vara lyhörda, lyssna på och involvera stadens invånare i detta arbete. Studiens empiriska material består av fem halvstrukturerade livsvärldsintervjuer med personer som arbetar med kom- munikation och varumärkesbyggande vid Helsingborgs sAbstract This study aims to examine how Helsingborg City handles the balance between creating a strong city brand and at the same time being responsive, listen to and involve the city’s residents. The empirical material in this study consists of five semi-structured interviews with people who are involved in the communicative and brand building work at the city of Helsingborg, as well as three str

Striving for a Competitive Edge Through a Knowledge Management System: A Critical Perspective on Knowledge Management

Today, organizational competitiveness largely depends on a company’s ability to learn, which is why more and more organizations aim to enhance organizational learning through practicing Knowledge Management (KM). Due to the little research on organizational culture and subcultures in KM literature, practitioners often embark on KM change efforts in a technocratic fashion and focus solely on techno

More than a pipeline: understanding and responding to the environmental injustices surrounding the Coastal GasLink pipeline conflict

The winter of 2020 was dominated by Canadian and international news coverage about a group of indigenous land defenders in Northern British Columbia, Canada. At the centre of the media frenzy was a pipeline conflict involving an indigenous community, namely, the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and Canada’s largest private sector investment ever which is set to cross directly through Wet’suwet’en territory. T

Diffractive Assemblies and Invertebrate Spaces: Communal Struggle in the Mexican Anthropocene

The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. Thus, it is the aim of this thesis to demonstrate the existence and strength of these space-making practices – which I choose

Efficient Discovery Of Binary Stars

Purpose: even in the era of exponential increase in the amount of stellar data gathered, binaries are still often overlooked in observational data due to the special handling they require. The goal of this work is to develop a method capable of automatically and efficiently identifying and extract double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2) from a spectroscopic survey, while being scalable and techn

Pearls Airport's Urban Village

Vid den nordöstra kusten av den karibiska ön Grenada ligger en övergiven flygplats. Denna extraordinära miljö ligger i en dal mellan tropiska berg täckta av frodig regnskog. Landningsbanan är en 1,5 kilometer lång historisk startbana som möter Atlantens livfulla vatten. Grenada har redan drabbats av orkaner och andra tropiska stormar. Utvecklingen av klimatförändringar skapar oftare och mer intenOn the north east coast of the Caribbean island Grenada, there´s an abandoned airport. This extraordinary environment is located in a valley between tropical mountains covered by lush rain forest. The landing stripe is a 1,5-kilometer-long runway of history, facing the rough Atlantic Ocean. Grenada has already suffered badly from hurricanes and tropical storms. While climate changes are evolving

Hur smarta måste vi bli för att minska matsvinnet?

Hållbarhet och digitalisering är två mycket omtalade ämnen idag, och något som genomsyrar samhället på såväl global som lokal nivå. Vår studie syftar till att undersöka hur vi med hjälp av modern teknologi, mer specifikt smarta kylskåp, kan minska matsvinnet i det privata hushållet. Genom kvantitativa och kvalitativa undersökningsmetoder, i form av intervjuer respektive en enkätundersökning, har v

Understanding climate action by teenagers as social movements : A case study of Youth 4 Climate Action in Korea

This thesis is about Y4CA, a youth organization in Korea for climate action. It discusses how non-teenagers support teenage activists for the sustained climate action by considering three factors for social movement: political opportunities, mobilizing structure and framing process by adding collective identity. By using mixed methodology, a survey about behavioral factors of teenagers, in-depth i

Emotional Labor in the Workplace. Sustaining smile vs. sustainable smile: a case study from Denmark

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to enhance the existing scope of emotional labor(EL) literature and broaden its reach to discussing the role of emotional labor in the workplace from a social sustainability perspective, exemplified within the context of hotel service work. It tries to identify how EL is experienced by hotel service employees and to understand how service employees percei

Trust Between Customers and Hotels: Through the Expression of Trust of Customers

The thesis aims to explore the customers' attitude and perception about trust between customers and hotels through the expression of trust of customers. Hotels nowadays interact and build relationships with customers frequently where there are many possible terms evoking expression of trust customers. In order to study the dynamic feature of trust, a qualitative approach is used. A netnographi

Exploring Consumer Engagement in the Circular Tourism Economy in practice of Liminality

This master’s thesis focuses on consumer engagement in the circular tourism economy. It is doing so by exploring the underlying ‘whys’ of consumer engagement in the circular tourism activities and the ways in which tourist situation can affect consumer engagement. The study supplies the liminality theory as an analytical tool through analyzing of 16 semi-structured interviews. The findings introdu

Optimization of aftermarket logistics with dual supply chains for Sandvik AB

Background: Aftermarket logistics is important for a manufacturing company to maintain customer satisfaction in the long run. However, the supply chain set for aftermarket parts is equally crucial as the original equipment. Modification or optimization of the logistics systems for slow-moving aftermarket items is inevitable. Sandvik, an engineering company in the mining industry is now interested

Bilder av drömhem - Om bildanalys som metod för att studera arkitektur

I uppsatsen undersöker jag hur begrepp och teori från visuell kultur kan användas för att analysera arkitektur och i synnerhet hem genom att utforma ett analysverktyg för bilder. Syftet är att undersöka hur föreställningar, värderingar och idéer hos betraktare kan påverkas av det som bilderna förmedlar, och vilken makt bildproducenter av bilder på arkitektur har som individer och grupper. Jag är s

Mitigating climate change, one hamburger at a time : a discourse analysis of how MAX Burgers AB communicates their carbon offsetting — and how customers perceive it

Klimatkompensation genom skogsplantering i Globala Syd har blivit ett allt mer vanligt sätt för företag att åtgärda sina växthusgasutsläpp, och därigenom sälja produkter och tjänster med netto noll utsläpp. I Sverige går snabbmatsrestaurangen MAX Burgers AB ett steg längre. De kompenserar 10 % mer än vad de släpper ut genom carbon dioxide removal (CDR), och hävdar därför att de har en "klimatCarbon offsetting through forest sequestration in the Global South has become an increasingly common way for companies to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions and thereby sell products and services with net zero emissions. In Sweden, fast food company MAX Burgers AB goes even further. They offset 10 % more than what they emit through carbon dioxide removal (CDR), thus claiming to have a “climat

Varför återvinns inte fler plastförpackningar? En kartläggning av hinder för en ökad materialåtervinning av plastförpackningar i Sverige

Under de senaste decennierna har produktionen av plast ökat exponentiellt. Mellan 1950 - 2015 har 8 300 miljoner ton plast producerats globalt, varav 6 300 miljoner ton beräknas ha blivit avfall. Av avfallet beräknas nio procent ha materialåtervunnits, 12 procent förbränts och 79 procent lämnats till deponi. Med samma avfallshantering och produktionstakt som idag skulle det innebära att ca 12 000 The majority of plastic packaging is not being recycled today, but burned for energy recovery or sent to landfill. This leads to vast losses of recyclable material, as well as elevated emissions of greenhouse gases from the extraction of fossil oil needed to sustain the production of new plastics. To be able take effective measures to increase recycling, causes of the low recycling levels first ha

Ett hälsofrämjande arbetsklimat - upplevelser av kommunikationen i relation till organisatorisk och social arbetsmiljö (OSA)

Studiens syfte undersöker hur kommunikationen, mellan medarbetare och chef inom restaurang- och cafébranschen, kan bidra till ett hälsofrämjande arbetsklimat. Detta görs genom en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer och två strukturerade elektroniska intervjuer på två olika arbetsplatser, för att undersöka deltagarnas upplevelser om kommunikationen som rör ämnet orgaThe aim of this study explores how communication, between coworkers and managers in the restaurant and café business, can contribute to a health-promoting work climate. This is done by a qualitative method including four semi-structured interviews and two structured electronic interviews, on two different workplaces, to examine the participants’ experiences about the communication on the topic org

Building and Maintaining Psychological Safety and Trust in Virtual Teams

The recent virus COVID-19 has forced companies around the world to change the way they work. Teams who usually work together in the same physical space are now experiencing working virtually from home. Previous studies demonstrate the importance of psychological safety and trust in the aim of building high-performing and effective teams. A virtual setting implies new challenges and opportunities f

Innovation for Social Inclusion - The Role of Researchers in the Global South

Knowledge inequalities persist between the Global North and the Global South, but also within countries between privileged and underprivileged segments of society. The purpose of this study is to understand the motives of researchers from basic science and technology to investigate on socially demanded issues as well as the obstacles they encounter. The study is based on the experiences from eleve

Sustainability-Driven Innovation and Financial Performance: How does it pay to be green?

Market and policy pressures increasingly demand a shift towards sustainable means of production; thereby, the inconclusive and long-standing debate between the impact of environmental efforts and economic performance at the firm level has never been so relevant. However, companies who seek to prioritize sustainability on their processes and outputs still need to focus on their financial returns.

Lärande för hållbar utveckling (LHU) bland beslutsfattare: En studie om hur LHU kan implementeras på arbetsplatsen

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur lärande för hållbar utveckling (LHU) kan implementeras på arbetsplatsen. Detta med bakgrund i att vi idag genomgår en klimatkris och att det krävs en total omställning av samhällets alla sektorer för att hålla den globala temperaturökningen under 1.5 grader. Uppsatsen syftar till att synliggöra vikten av att LHU blir ett systematisk inslag på arbetsplatse