This thesis explores how Swedish foreign aid, delivered through Public-Private Development Partnerships (PPDPs), generates motives for engagement and creates business opportunities for Swedish Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). As Sweden increasingly aligns its foreign aid policy with national interests by increasing the involvement of domestic firms, it becomes important to understand why these fi

Bakgrund: Många personer med transerfarenhet önskar logopediskt stöd för att utveckla röst och kommunikation i könsbekräftande syfte. Beteendeinriktad könsbekräftande röstträning har lovande, men ännu svag evidens. De senaste åren har målgruppens mångsidiga behov uppmärksammats alltmer i forskning, liksom individens hela kommunikativa situation, inklusive röst- och kommunikationsrelaterad hälsa. KBackground: Many people with transgender experience seek voice and communication support provided by speech and language therapists (SLTs) within gender-affirming care. Behavioral gender-affirming voice training has promising, yet weak, evidence. Current research address the diversity of individual needs, as well as the individual’s communicative situation as a whole, including voice and communica

The aftermarket, with its spare parts and services, is a strong business driver compared to products from OEMs in the primary market. The MV sector, with features like autonomous driving, advanced mobility, etc., relies on data driven ecosystems apart from the conventional spare parts business. Such a market involves independent repairers, spare parts manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, end use

This study aims to investigate how corporate venture capital (CVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) influence innovation and financial outcomes in biotechnology firms following their initial public offering (IPO), and how factors like technological fit and failure tolerance mediate innovation outcomes. Using a sample of US-based biotechnology firms that completed IPOs between 2010 and 2020, w

This thesis investigates the relationship between board composition and internationalisation in large U.S. consumer discretionary firms, using the foreign asset ratio as a measure of global engagement. Drawing on resource dependence, agency, contingency, and upper echelons theory, it explores the effects of board size, average age, tenure, and gender diversity and assesses how Porter’s Generic Str

Using data on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactions available on the S&P Capital IQ database, this paper aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (EMNEs). Basing itself on the idea that EMNEs may differ significantly in their behavior, investment patterns, and strategic choices from their counterparts from already established ma

Research Question: How do Swedish coworking firms internationalise, and what are the Key Success Factors allowing for a successful internationalisation? Purpose: This study investigates what drives international expansion for Swedish coworking firms. It also sees why these internationalisation projects were or were not successful. By identifying the key factors behind the projects, the study aims

This thesis investigates the use of several acceleration schemes to improve the performance of the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm for linear programming (PDLP), a state-of-the-art first-order method for linear programming (LP). The three main acceleration schemes investigated are: Polyak heavy ball momentum, Nesterov acceleration, and steering vectors selected in a residual momentum directi

Contemporary experimental psychology is shifting away from constrained laboratory settings to tasks that more closely resemble real-world behavior. Traditional experiments often present stimuli at fixed screen locations, which restricts the use of active vision involving eye movements integral to the neural processes underlying perception, attention, and memory. Recent research has highlighted the

Although criminology has long debated the so-called ‘crime drop’, the shifting nature of criminality complicates any clear-cut assessment. While some offences have decreased, this is not necessarily due to moral reform or growing securitisation but rather to transformations in crime modalities. The illicit does not simply retreat or relocate, we argue; nowadays, it increasingly adapts, embeds, and

Moving beyond both utopian optimism's market-based solutions and terminal marketing's pessimism, this work introduces a dystopian optimism to revitalise critical marketing. We advocate for degrowth as an optimistic path forward and outline how marketing scholars can use critical performativity to be part of the transition to a post-growth economy.

Delar av den svenska arbetsmarknaden präglas idag av arbetskraftsexploatering, informalisering och arbetslivskriminalitet. Framförallt är migrantarbetare anställda inom bygg- och städindustrin utsatta och det är vanligt förekommande med icke utbetalda löner och utpressning (Arbetsmiljöverket, 2025). Trots detta har det fram tills nyligen varit tunnsått med initiativ från den etablerade svenska fac

The digitalisation of courtrooms brings both opportunities and challenges to the judicial process, shaping our understandings of trials and their participants in a myriad of, at times, unexpected ways, and transforming how we participate in, attend, engage with, and consume trials. While digital tools offer potential benefits, they can also impact core aspects of judicial integrity, such as the co

Aims/hypothesis: An intronic variant (rs10830963) in MTNR1B (encoding the melatonin receptor type 2 [MT2]) has been shown to strongly associate with impaired glucose regulation and elevated type 2 diabetes prevalence. However, MTNR1B missense variants have shown conflicting results on type 2 diabetes. Thus, we aimed to gain further insights into the impact of MTNR1B coding variants on type 2 diabe

Due to higher demands on the electrical systems in the aviation industry, the generation and distribution of electrical power, in aircrafts, needs to be researched and developed further. Key requirements include increased power capacity to meet future demands, a transition from AC to DC supply and an increased voltage level. For power generation, a generator is coupled to the jet turbine which mus

This thesis investigated the potential of using reactive power compensation to solve overvoltage issues caused by high amounts of distributed generation, such as rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems, in the low voltage grid. High voltages are caused by increasing distributed generation as the Swedish power grid shifts from centralised to decentralised power production. The aim was to manage overvol