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Swedish and international foreign aid’s impact on democratization processes: A qualitative study on Botswana and Uganda

Democracy promotion has received increased attention within development cooperation during the 21st century. The purpose of this study is to investigate foreign aid’s impact on democratization processes. Previous similar studies have mostly conducted quantitative methods or qualitative methods investigating foreign aid’s impact on economic outcomes. This study conducts a qualitative method and inv

The Impact of National Culture on Knowledge Transfer in Swedish Multinationals Operating in Developed Markets

The rapid globalization has led to a rise in the number of multinational corporations. One common objective among these corporations when expanding to other developed markets is to access intangible resources such as knowledge. Through the acquisition of knowledge, corporations can strengthen their strategic position and improve their competitiveness. When operating across national borders, variou

Load following in a Swedish nuclear power plant

Det svenska energisystemet är under ständig utveckling. Länge har vatten- och kärnkraft varit grundstenarna i energiproduktionen, där kärnkraft utgjort den så kallade baslasten och vattenkraften reglerkraften. Då allt mer väderberoende vindkraftverk byggs förändras förutsättningarna för det svenska energisystemet, där en stor del av elproduktionen blir allt mer oförutsägbar på grund av variationer

Biomass storage in Swedish forests: A case of land use

Hur vi förvaltar skogen påverkar klimatet Varför skogar är viktiga att undersöka och vad jag undersökte Klimatförändringar påverkar redan såväl mänskliga som naturliga system över hela jordklotet, och de förväntas påverka dessa system även i framtiden. Eftersom skogar absorberar koldioxid från atmosfären och sedan lagrar den i biosfären har de en mildrande effekt på klimatförändringarna. Vad gäll

The Moderating Effect of Absorptive Capacity upon Related and Unrelated Variety vis-a-vis Regional Growth - The Case of Swedish Regions

Empirical evidence for the growth effects of the concepts of related- and unrelated variety have been inconclusive since the introduction in 2007. This thesis contributes to the field by suggesting how the concepts of related- and unrelated variety may be moderated by the absorptive capacity found in a region. Absorptive capacity is suggested to work as a diffusion mechanism in relation to related

Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Impostor Profile scale (IPP30)

The Impostor Profile scale (IPP30) is a recently developed tool designed to delve into the nuanced aspects of the Impostor Phenomenon (IP), a psychological phenomenon where individuals wrongly attribute their successes to external factors, discounting their own abilities and often feeling like frauds. This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties, including factor structure, internal cons

Prepared for the future? Social work students, ontological insecurity and the turning point in Swedish refugee policies

The year 2015 marked a rupture in the post-war development of refugee reception and integration policies in Sweden. This rupture involved both a radical change in refugee policy and practice, and a rupture in the long-held collective self-image of Sweden as a country with generous reception and integration policies (Scarpa & Schierup 2018). This article responds to the question of how social w

The Aesopic Fable and the Study of Greek in Early Modern Swedish Schools

Focussing on the public school in early modern Sweden, this articleinvestigates the role of the Aesopic fable in elementary education in Greek. Asa background, the solid position of fable as genre in the teaching of Latin inmedieval Europe is sketched. When humanism launched Greek as schoolsubject, fable was adopted as reading material in the teaching of the newlanguage, partly for the same reason