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Strong and Weak Ties of the Born Global Firm

This paper investigates the characteristics of the relationships of the Born Global firm’s network and with what intentions they are established during inception and the phase of early growth. An in-depth overview of existing literature is provided and additional insights are delivered through a multiple-case study of four Born Global firms from the Öresund region in their early stage of evolution

Spelar storleken roll?

Det finns ett utbrett stöd för att decentralisering kan göra en organisation effektivare. Uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur territoriell decentralisering påverkar medborgarnas välfärd genom att undersöka sambandet mellan kommunstorlek och verksamhetens subjektiva effektivitet, det vill säga hur nöjda medborgarna är med kommunens verksamhet. I decentraliseringsteorin finns det motstridiga argumenThere is strong support for the argument that decentralization can make an organization more effective. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how territorial decentralization affects citizen utility by studying how the size of the municipality affects the subjective effectiveness of municipal activities, that is how satisfied the citizens are with the municipal activities. There is contradic

De kom, de klickade, de övergav

Företaget, vars webbstatistik ligger till grund för analyserna i uppsatsen, verkar inom retail. Produktsortimentet innehåller mode för dam, barn och herr samt inkluderar även produkter inom kategorierna möbler, heminredning och elektronik. Under de diskussioner som föranlett uppsatsen uttrycker företagaren en önskan att få veta när det är tryggt för dem att störa en kund i kassan, exempelvis med eThis thesis analyses web statistics belonging to a national B2C e-commerce in retail. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate abandoned carts amongst logged in customers with at least one product added in to their cart and at least one visit to the payment page. Since the response variable "cart" is binary and we are studying the probability of a cart being abandoned, the suitable me

Modeling a Pension System Reform: A Replication Study Comparing the Effects of a Fully Funded Reform in Germany and France

In this paper, we replicate a study by de la Croix et al. (2013) to analyze the effects of population aging in Germany when implementing two different counterfactual pension systems. De la Croix et al. (2013) use a dynamic overlapping generations model to simulate population aging and its effects on the French economy. Calibrating and analyzing the same model as in de la Croix et al. (2013) with n

Nästa: höghastighetståg? En analys av den svenska policyprocessen kring byggande av nya stambanor för höghastighetståg

Är höghastighetstågen en lösning som väntar på ett problem? Syftet med höghastighetstågen är att de ska underlätta omställningen till ett klimatneutralt samhälle, eftersom de transporter som idag sker med flyg istället kan ske med de energieffektiva höghastighetstågen. Samtidigt förväntas höghastighetstågen leda till ökade transporter och tillväxt – man kan alltså säga att poängen är att både låtThe Swedish government has decided to start building high-speed rails. The objective of this study is to analyze the policy process behind this decision. This is done using Bacchi’s What’s the Problem Represented to Be approach, which is designed to investigate the problem representations behind any policy, as well as their underpinnings. Eight different problem representations have been found,

Embrace a new era of digital internal communication: employees' sensemaking of internal communication through enterprise social media

Although the digitalization in the working place seems to be inevitable, employees’ sensemaking on digital internal communication and employee voice through enterprise social media has been ignored in the strategic communication research field. This study problematizes the insufficient knowledge in digital internal communication and highlights the employee perspective. Another research problem is

Emergence of Strategy in Practice: Strategizing Processes of Communication Practitioners

Despite increased interest for process-oriented and complexity driven research in strategic communication, much research is still based on traditional definitions and assumptions of strategy and communication. This is problematic, since research increasingly suggests that organizations are constituted bottom-up through interactions and communication, where strategy is influenced and co-created thr

Att vinna ett fält utan strid - Om jurisdiktionsarbete kring och inom det stödjande samtalet och dess betydelse för hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorns professionella identitet

The aim of this study was to examine health care social workers’ and psychologists' perception of counseling (stödsamtal), how jurisdictional work can be seen within counseling and what significance the jurisdictional work has for the health care social worker’s professional identity. The method chosen was semi-structured interviews with four health care social workers and four psychologists,

'Science done right' : Öppen vetenskap i samtid och framtid

In the wake of digital development, the ease with which knowledge can be distributed has drastically changed the scientific climate and the view of how science and social science should be practiced regarding the sharing of knowledge production. A new paradigm in the production and sharing of scientific data, based around the idea of openness as the way to lead and further engage society through s

Litteratur på många språk : utbud, urval och delaktighet på folkbiblioteken i tre kommuner i Skåne

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to examine how multilingual literature is acquired by public libraries in three municipalities of varying sizes in Skåne: what channels are used for purchase, what the selection process is based on and whether the target population is involved in the process. It also looks to explore the extent to which the professional librarians are representative of the po

Hashtag Activism and Connective Action: A Case Study on #MarriageEquality in Thailand

Same-sex marriage has made its trend on social media in Thailand especially on Twitter under the #MarriageEquality hashtag as the topic was being brought up to the Parliament on February 9, 2022. Currently, though there are studies on LGBTQ in Thailand no recent study focuses on revealing the connection between hashtag activism, personal action frames, and LGBTQ movements. Therefore, by using the

Trust in Brand Activism: A look at self-love campaigns of beauty brands

In recent years, brand activism has been mentioned as a new evolution in corporate sociopolitical involvement. From the customers’ perspective, they expect brands to be more vocal and take a stance to tackle challenges. They do not want neutral brands anymore. However, in the rising trend of brands becoming activists, the debates of “trustwashing” also arise. Most existing research regard of brand

Climate Security on the Global Arena - The role of Small Island Developing States in the global climate security debate

In the last decades, the debate on climate change as a security threat has gained leverage. The topic has been debated in multiple international instances, such as the UN system. One of the most vulnerable groups to climate change are the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) due to their geography but also their developmental challenges. Because of this, they have been strong actors in the climat

Living Transnational Financial Lives: Exploring the Everyday Financial Practices, Networks and Subjectivities of Singaporeans in Sweden

This thesis examines the everyday financial lives of transnational migrants through the case of Singaporean migrants in Sweden. Drawing upon the scholarship on the financialisation of everyday life and transnational migration across economic and sociocultural geography, this thesis develops a conceptual framework that explores the everyday financial practices, networks and subjectivities that shap

Next Stop: Value Creation - Analysing the Potential to Enhance Public Transport Authorities’ Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility by Providing Mobility as a Service

Concepts such as Creating Shared Value [CSV] and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility [SCSR] respond to a demand for organisations to take responsibility for their contributions to increasing social issues such as social exclusion or the effects of climate change. The concept of SCSR is describing activities that provide economic values for organisations while at the same time targeting socia

Att söka i tystnaden : en informationsvetenskaplig studie om universitetsstudenters erhållande av information om hiv

The aim of this study is to discuss the hiv-related information behavior of University students. Since the AIDS epidemic of the 1980's there has been a shift in the general discourse surrounding HIV, where panic has changed to silence. The general public's lack of knowledge and correct and current information on the topic has however remained a problem, and even though the general attitude

Mikrofluidikchipp för exponering av biologiska partiklar för varierande molekylära stimuli

Easy exposure of biological particles for molecular stimuli is of interest when examining the effects of antibiotics on different bacteria or to perform toxicity analysis for biophysical studies of vesicles. Such experiments require advanced equipment that can only be found in laboratories and are vastly time-consuming. A possible solution to the problem could be a “lab-on-a-chip”, which in short

“Gold is gold”: Understanding the role of European actors along the supply chain of Colombian gold

Gold mining causes various negative social and environmental impacts in countries of extraction like Colombia. Voluntary and legal efforts to tackle these challenges have recently increased in Europe. To understand the complex supply chain and the impact of the newly evolved governance structures better, more research is needed. Based on a literature review and interviews, I identify important Eur

”Det känns på tok för godtyckligt” - Utbildade sva-lärares kompetens att genomföra behovsbedömningar

Denna uppsats undersöker huruvida behovsbedömningen som genomförs i grundskolan för att ta reda på elevers eventuella behov av undervisning utifrån kursplanen i svenska som andraspråk, är ett problem för utbildade sva-lärare. Uppsatsen motiveras främst mot bakgrund av 1) de rapporter och granskningar som konstaterat att behovsbedömningen genomförs på olika sätt och med olika kvalitet, där det inte

Opening the Black Box

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how underwriter reputation, VC-backing and offering size affected the fees paid to underwriters on Nasdaq First North during the time period 01-01-2021 to 31-12-2021. In doing so, the study aims to contribute to a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the entire cost image associated with going public. Methodology The authors decided to us