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Leadership is often proposed as a key solution for social change, although the actual meaning remains unclear. By studying leadership in the context of Indian feminist NGOs’ hybridity, situated in-between Western structures and the values of the Indian Women’s Movement, I intended to deepen our understanding of the lived meaning of leadership and followership, beyond its buzzword character. Throug

Gymnasie- och universitetsutbildning var länge en elitens domän. Med ekonomisk tillväxt och ökande teknisk komplexitet växte dock behovet av specialiserad kunskap och färdigheter. Inför och under industrialiseringen tog systemen för högre utbildning emot ett ökande antal studenter och breddades med ett växande utbud av kurser och typer av utbildningsinstitutioner.Danmark, Norge och Sverige utgör rHigh school and university-level education was long an elite pursuit. However, with economic growth and rising technical complexity, the need for specialised knowledge and skills increased. In the run-up to and during industrialisation, higher education systems admitted a growing number of students and diversified across an increasing range of courses and types of educational institutions.Denmark,

What future aspirations have informed the incentives for producing children's literature in Muslim minority communities? What social dynamics and theological debates have accompanied its visions of Islamic futures? What narrative tropes, visual-aesthetics norms and literary genres has it appropriated, while maturing into an innovative religious-pedagogic-literary expression? Probing such questions

Older adults with intellectual disabilities are not adequately prepared for ageing and show anxiety and uncertainty regarding the future. Therefore, the two-year educational intervention "Good Life in Old Age" was implemented to improve their understanding of ageing and enhance their well-being. This study aimed to explore the meaning of ageing during and after the intervention from the perspectiv

In this essay I attempt to bring clarity to the discourse production within Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagerkrantz biography: Zlatan Ibrahimović: min historia (I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field). The biography describes the history of the football player Zlatan Ibrahimović, his background in the suburban area of Rosengård in Sweden, and his relationship towards football to mention a few

Based on the imbalances caused by asymmetric information and opaque supply chains, this study aims to contribute to the research field of logistics and supply chain management by exploring the potential of blockchain technology within logistics. The main focus is on increasing supply chain transparency for both suppliers and consumers, and improving contractual coordination in order to secure fulf

Denna studie ämnar öka förståelsen för hur content marketing och relationsskapande kan ges uttryck i digital kommunikationen mellan ett tjänsteföretag och dess kunder. Studien är av kvalitativ fallstudiekaraktär och det empiriska underlaget består av inlägg publicerade på fallorganisationen Avanza Banks sociala mediekanaler samt delar av företagets hemsida. Materialet har analyserats ur ett sändarThe aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how content marketing and relationship building can be expressed in digital communication between a service company and its customers. The study was conducted as a qualitative case study and the empirical material consists of web content gathered from the social media accounts and website of the case organization, Avanza Bank. The empirica

We conducted a qualitative study in the consultancy SoftConsulting and took an interpretative and critical perspective to analyze our findings. The main purpose of this thesis is to develop a more nuanced understanding of consultancies in terms of organizational culture and of consultants’ identity and motivation. Further, to find out how organizational culture and performance management systems i

During the last decade Sweden has seen rising immigration of vulnerable EEA/EU citizens. In many cases these individuals live in homelessness and difficult social conditions. In desperate situations municipalities can provide support. However, the level of support that is provided for EEA/EU citizens varies greatly between municipalities. This study examines if there’s a positive correlation betwe

The phenomenon of gender-based violence (GBV) and the magnitude it takes in Argentina is raising great concerns within the country, intergovernmental organisations and women’s movements. Since 2015 a women’s movement named Ni Una Menos was established to create visibility and fight for the eradication of gender-based violence in the country. Building upon the Integrative Ecological Framework, usin

This thesis examines the creation and development of the modern Chilean Food System. Providing a description of the system focused on the production and consumption areas, the fruit export complex and the salmon industry are characterized. They are situated within the context of the process of neoliberalization experienced by the Chilean society after the Military Coup of 1973. The priority given

The aim of this study is to examine the interrelationship between contemporary French luxury fashion and political struggles by examining the garments with explicit political statements from the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2015 Chanel runway, the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2017 Dior runway and the menswear fall/winter 2017 Balenciaga runway analysis as to discern the possible reasons and effects

Services of general economic interest are economic activities that public authorities identify as being of particular importance to citizens and that would not be supplied or would be supplied under different conditions if there were no public intervention. Examples of services of general economic interest are transport networks, postal services and social services They are provided by States to i

The aim of this sociological study is to explore and to understand mechanisms of power being embedded in daily procedures of detention establishment with the focus on the case officers’ work tasks. In the study the emic approach is being used in order to understand from within power at detention. Observations, field notes, interviews and written documents constitute the empirical material being co

To suggest that slums exist in Sweden is still rather controversial. However, several cases of highly unacceptable housing conditions have been revealed lately. The aim of this study is to examine whether there is slum in Sweden today, and further and more importantly, to identify the mechanisms that enables slum to arise. The fundamental theoretical perspective for the essay lies in “the right to

The aim of this study was to investigate the third-phase process, exploring participant’s perceptions and experiences as part of the research. The third-phase process is a labor market policy for those who’ve been unemployed for four hundred and fifty (450) days or more. The selection process was based on five participants between the ages of thirty- two (32) and fifty- three (53) years old, two m

In this project I discuss perfection and perfectionism. The ideals in our society are challenging and sometimes impossible to live by. This goes for everything from social life, to looks and career. I based the research both on readings, talks, experiments and a own observations. In a survey I found that most of the participants that was in design school felt a lot of performance anxiety, and tha

Abstract Child labor is a widespread and growing phenomenon in today’s world. Though child labor exists in all parts of the world, the extent of the problem is very high in developing countries. Ethiopia is one of the countries where child labor exists in an extensive scale. The main objective of the study was to investigate the causes of child labor and its impact on children engaged in the weavi

The Swedish County Council (SCC) has witnessed a decline in public political participation and a lack of trust in government instances over the last decade. These problems are particularly pronounced in socially and economically challenged neighbourhoods where the SCC is requesting new methods to increase public participation. This qualitative case study examines how Helsingborg municipality, Swed