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I gränslandet mellan organisationsföreträdare, professionell person och privatperson: En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av socialarbetares bloggar.
On social media platforms, such as blogs, the boundaries between private life and working life can be blurred. When social media is used by people who can be seen as agents for human service organizations this can give rise to both ethical and relational issues. On the one hand socialworkers like everyone else should have the right to express opinions and act as private persons on the internet. On
Off the Edge of the Map: A Study of Organizational Diversity as Identity Work
“Diversify or die” is a recurring and rather dramatic call for organizations to recruit, retain and manage a demographically diverse workforce, advocated by the business case for diversity, also known as diversity management philosophy. Diversity management places diverse social identities at the heart of organizational success and has gained much attention from management consultants and managers
Personnel Resistance in Public Professional Service Mergers: The Merging of Two National Audit Organizations
The human side of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – with focus particularly on resistance - has puzzled scholars for decades. Still, there is little discussion as regards to how the concept should be defined or understood. Often expressions of resistance, rather than its actual content, are described. What do personnel actually oppose? In this dissertation, the content, process, and context of
Supply Chain Management in the Construction Industry
In this licentiate thesis the implications of a deliberate use of logistics knowledge have been investigated by describing and analyzing the use of a supply chain management approach in the construction industry.
A five-step approach is used in the thesis. First, theoretical models are developed from the supply chain management literature. Two models are elaborated; One model identifying sup
Barn i köpingen Löddeköpinge - in utero/in vivo/in morte/ - En studie av barndomens hälsa och status i en medeltida handelsort
Investigating CSR Anchoring in an Organization
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
Onomatopoesi : översättning av onomatopoetiska uttryck i manga
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
Behind Allocation of EU Funding - A Quantitative Study of the Relation between Internal Factors of Municipalities and Allocation of EU Funding in the Municipalities of Skåne
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
Offer för missbruket? En diskursanalys av dags- och kvällspressens framställning av sexmissbrukande män och kvinnor
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
Det svåra uppdraget - en studie om chefers upplevelser och erfarenheter vid avslutande av anställningar inom offentlig sektor
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
Svensk medverkanslära - Om rättssäkerhet vid fleras delaktighet i brott
"Är jag tjock hörni?" En studie om kommunikationen på ett pro-ana forum.
Motivating Users and Boosting Their IT Use — A Preliminary Study at Alfa Laval
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Online food shopping reinvented : developing digitally enabled coping strategies in times of crisis
City-wide model-based analysis of heat recovery from wastewater using an uncertainty-based approach
Around 90% of the energy requirement for urban water systems management is for heating domestic tap water. In addition, the energy content of wastewater is mainly in the form of heat (85%). Hence, there is an obvious interest in recovering a large portion of this heat. However, city-wide scenario analyses that evaluate heat recovery at various locations while considering impacts on wastewater trea
“How Far Is the Closest Bus Stop?” : An Evaluation of Self-Reported versus GIS-Computed Distance to the Bus among Older People and Factors Influencing Their Perception of Distance
Previous research showed that living closer to bus stops could be a factor in promoting a healthy and active lifestyle. However, most of the studies relied on self-reported measures of distance, which might be affected by several confounders. In this study, self-reported distances among study participants were compared to actual ones, computed by the use of GIS (Geographic Information System) tech
Bordering Principles and Integration in Urban Context
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior
Purpose: Forensic populations have high prevalence rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACE), but specific pathways from childhood victimization to adult victimizing behavior remain unclear. Difficulties in emotion regulation may prove to be a more proximal risk factor that functions as a pathway between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior (AAB). In this study, we investigated concurrent ass
