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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to understand how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as knowledge is anchored in an organization. The importance of this anchoring comes from the organizational need to adapt to the contextual global awareness related to CSR, amplified by the organizational transparency and exposure. Methodology: A hermeneutical approach has been taken in this thesis. We h
Words that are used for mimicking sounds are called onomatopoeia. These words are extremely common in the Japanese language. In fact, they are so common that they are used even in formal situations. In Japanese, onomatopoetic expressions are often used as adverbs and can, as such, be used to explain how someone is laughing. By putting the onomatopoetic expression gera-gera, often along with the pa
The aim of this thesis is to study allocation of EU funding to the municipalities of Skåne between 2007 and 2009 in order to determine if there are internal factors which are of importance to the allocation of EU funding for the municipalities in Skåne. The objective is to study if a relation between internal factors of the municipalities and the amount of EU funding allocated can be observed and
Authors: My Ejdelind and Anna Salomonsson Title: Victim of addiction? A discourse analyse of the daily press and the evening papers´ portrayal of sexual addicted men and women. Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Anders Lundberg The purpose of this study was to analyse how media portray men and women that are addicted to sex. We also wanted to see if there were any obvious differences between
ABSTRACT Author: Göran Hjertstrand Title: The difficult task – a study of experiences among public sector executives in ending employments [translated title] Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall Assessor: Agneta Hedblom The purpose of this study was to examine experiences among public sector executives in ending employments. The study was based on semi structured interviews with five health and
This study was performed to investigate the psychosocial work environment for priests in Malmö and Lund. The purpose of the study was to identify differences in psychosocial work environment for men and women, and to identify most important areas of problem within the psychosocial work environment. To measure the work environment Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, COPSOQ, was distributed to 78
Volatility smile arising from the Black-Scholes model is a long studied subject in option pricing theory. By analysing higher order derivatives of the model, I hope to put another perspective to the problem. Accoridng to a study on the American S&P 500 future options, about 90% of the risks of holding an option in five days can be removed by using higher order derivatives of Black-Scholes. The
The debate over Corporate Social Responsibility is present in many parts of society. The business sector’s engagement in CSR has increased rapidly during the last decades. One important question this brings out is how CSR should be governed. The debate consists in large of two views – CSR should be regulated by law or forced regulation or CSR should be managed through private and civil regulation
Denna explorativa studie syftade till att undersöka eventuella samband mellan självkänsla och upplevelse av omvärlden hos individer med psoriasis. Utgångspunkten har varit Maarit Johnsons teori för inre och yttre självkänsla, Aaron Antonovskys teori om känslan av sammanhang samt Gilbert och Miles modell över upplevelse av skam. I undersökningen användes ett egenkonstruerat frågeformulär byggt på sThe purpose of this explorative study was to investigate any connections between self-esteem of individuals with psoriasis and their experience of their social environment. The basis of the study was Maarit Johnson's theory of inner and outer self-esteem, Aaron Antonovsky's theory of the sense of coherence and Gilbert's and Miles' model of shame. In the study a self constructed que
The purpose of this field survey was to investigate the employees´ work against corporal punishment with parents from other cultures at child welfare clinics. My questions were: - Which cultural factors could affect this work? - Does the employees at the child welfare clinics experience any ethical quandary when they affect cultural valuations of the parents? - How do the employees at the child we
The purpose of this study was to bring forward knowledge about threats and violence in health and social-care working environments. Based on literature, I studied how the complex of threats and violence were described in research and reports, in order to find out which theories, solutions and attitudes were proposed. I also examined the extent, character, situations and consequences of threats and
This essay focus on the actions three corporations in the city of Halmstad engaged when alcohol- and drug abuse were discovered among their employees. Important questions were the judicial obligations toward employees, knowledge on alcohol- and drug abuse within the company, alcohol- and drug policies, differences in actions according to type of abuse, reasons for dealing with employees with alcoh
Economic evaluations are used in the health care sector to help decision makers allocate resources. The objective of this study is to evaluate the cost effectiveness of a new diagnostic algorithm of deep vein thrombosis. Patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis are common at emergency departments, although few actually have the disease. The new diagnostic algorithm combines a pre-test probabil
