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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of normative control by analyzing how culture is perceived and maintained, in an organization which is defined as non-managerial. The empirical part of this study was conducted through an interpretive, abductive and qualitative research method. The empirical data is collected through a case study of the IT-consultancy firm Brightside and involves e
The EU’s normative power has been questioned vis-à-vis Grand Powers like China, India, and Russia. It has also been doubted in relation to trade policy, where the economic benefits challenge the incentive to act normatively. In this thesis, qualitative content analysis is conducted to find out how normative is the EU towards China in trade policy, by focusing on a case study of the Comprehensive I
China and Russia are two influential powers within the international system which have different understandings of the threshold of nuclear use. The purpose and effect of possessing nuclear weapons have been widely researched but have yet to be utilised to analyse the broader effect on security. This thesis intends to understand the relationship between nuclear weapons’ purpose and the role and on
This Bachelor’s thesis attempts to provide a better understanding of how US government-funded development agencies justify their funding, how that process is conducted, and in what ways it relates to the actual practice of development. Namely, the study looks at the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the United States Agency for International Development. Specifically, it looks at how these
An attempt was made to create a museum that focuses on the issues of democracy, migration and human rights by the Swedish authorities in 2015. As a result of the feasibility study of such an institution, the Museum of Movements (MoM) began to operate in its temporary location in Malmö. In September 2020, it was decided that the museum would no longer be financed by the Swedish government and the d
This thesis describes the process to build an entity recognizer and disambiguator, named HERD. The goal of the system is to find mentions of entities in text and link those mentions to a unique identifier. This system is designed to be multilingual and has versions in English, French and Swedish. I use Wikipedia as a knowledge source of both names and concepts, and Wikidata, a language agnostic,
After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. This thesis builds from the infusion of agonist theory in
Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what impact a multinational corporation’s diverse national cultures has on the corporate branding process, in order to further develop practices and theories pertaining to the management of corporate brands. Methodology A qualitative approach with an explorative nature, applied to a single case study with embedded units using pattern matchin
On the 17th of January 2002 the Swedish government presented a bill to the Swedish parliament, proposing ways of strengthening the Swedish democracy through reforms for increased elements of participatory democracy. A public report on the state of the Swedish democracy had been released two years earlier with similar enthusiasm for participatory democracy. However, the participatory ideals of
The relationship between free trade and the environment is often considered conflicting and the debates surrounding it are infected. My thesis deal with this conflict and how environmental concerns are integrated in three regional free trade agreements, North American Free Trade Agreement, The common market of the southern cone (MERCOSUR) and Southern African Development Community (SADC). I point
In 2011, Liberia saw a drop in women’s representation in Parliament from 14% to 11.65%. In an effort to understand and aid in reversing this declining trend, this thesis aims to highlight the barriers to and strategies for enhancing women’s participation in the Liberian Parliament. To accomplish this goal 21 semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed via academic and context-specific d
A human-rights based approach (HRBA) to development is increasingly promoted by researchers and adopted by development actors. The approach integrates the fields of development and human rights by transforming development goals into obligations, but is criticized for being more rhetorical than brought to actual change on the ground. This study compares an international non-governmental organizatio
Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att ta reda på om det finns ett samspel mellan kreativitet och kunskapsöverföring inom organisationer, eftersom det finns olika perspektiv som kan ställas mot varandra. Frågeställningar: Hur påverkar kreativitet förutsättningarna för arbete med kunskapsdelning inom organisationer? Vilka aspekter av kunskapsöverföring mellan anställda kan påverka de kreativa procPurpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether there is a connection between creativity and knowledge transferring within organizations, since there are different perspectives that can inhibit each other. Questions at issue: How does creativity influence the knowledge transferring work within an organization? What aspects of knowledge transferring between employees could affect the cre
The thesis contributes to the debate of an emerging European strategic culture on the use of force. This is highly relevant in order to understand the future development of the military operations within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). In order to be able to analyse the motivations of the following operations: Concordia, EUFOR DR Congo and Atalanta, the research builds on the constr
The thesis presents a synthetic approach to the concept of power structures within international regimes by combining neo-liberalism, realism and rational choice theory in a structure/agency approach. The theoretical argument is applied to a case study of the power structure within the GATT/WTO agricultural negotiations and its development from 1947 to 2004. The three primary actors in the analysi
The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine what effect two different models of acquisition have on user satisfaction with information resources at academic libraries. The two models examined are the traditional model where a subject specialist librarian makes the selection, and the user-governed model where the larger part of the selection is based on user requests. The scope is the librari
Several prominent international reports have recently highlighted a disorganised international peacebuilding regime. In particular, coordination and cooperation have been emphasised as insufficient. This research paper aims to address this problem by applying neoliberal institutionalist theory to test the hypothesis that the peacebuilding regime can best be strengthened by creating an internationa
