My thesis proposes a new understanding of flexibility in architecture. It investigates reasons for a generic and dull spatial expression of the majority of contemporary buildings. Nowadays, technology and lifestyle are changing so fast that buildings need to accommodate shifting functions. Unfortunately, in pursuit of flexibility, architects design featureless “boxes” which lack intentionality. C

Ecotourism has been touted globally as a tool that promotes sustainable development. Yet ecotourism and sustainable development are neither simple to define, nor straightforward in regards to their implementation. The aim of this thesis is to critically investigate ecotourism’s relationship to sustainable development. In doing so it develops its own conceptual framework on the sustainability goals

Title: Motivational factors of narcissistic millennials to participate in social commerce Seminar date: 31th May 2017 Course: BUSN39 Business Administration: Global Marketing Authors: Lisanne Gauw & Lisa Niesen Supervisor: Veronika Tarnovskaya Key Words: Social commerce, narcissism, social media, e-commerce, millennials, narcissistic traits, motivational factors, motivation theories Thesis pur

Title: Accelerating Service Innovation with Global Account Management – A Case Study at a Manufacturing MNC Author: Emma Malmström – Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management, em.malmstrom@gmail.com Tutors: Malin Olander Roese – PhD Researcher, Department of Design Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University and Susanna Bill – PhD Student, Department of Design Sciences, Fa

The aim of this paper has been to study how swedish governmental policy constitutes drugs and drug users as social problems and how these constructions relate to ideology and knowledge. Critical discourse analysis of several governmental policy documents show that the construction of ”the drug problem” is made up of discourse orders that advocate both epidemiological control strategies and symptom

As the packaging material (PM) becomes better defined from the results of technical development, its processing stages will be of greater complexity. The nip process is an example of one vital step in the lamination coating of PM, and this process is studied in the present thesis by analysing the surfaces of chill rollers (CR) and PM. Ideally, a laminated PM surface should be the perfect negative

Denna studie utreder omfattningen på den inverkan ekonomiska muskler inom elitklubbar i den svenska fotbollen har på sportsliga resultat. Med utgångspunkt från det stora utrymme ekonomin idag har inom elitfotbollsklubbar utarbetas en bivariat och en multivariat regression, vilka har till syfte att påvisa skillnader mellan lag hemmahörande i olika kommuner med skilda förutsättningar. Regressionen hThis study investigates to what extent the economic muscles within professional Swedish football clubs affect the sports performance. Using the fact that economy today takes a great space of the elite football operation as starting point, a bivariate and multivariate regression including different Dummy-variables is developed. The purpose is to demonstrate differences among various municipalities

Clusters are concentrations of businesses with highly specialized skills and knowledge with an approach to economic development. This approach encourages behavior that is procompetitive within institutions, rivals, related businesses and sophisticated customers so they can work together within a particular nation or region as a tightly connected network. The aim of this thesis is to create a deepe

Enligt kulturteoretikern Douglas Holt är ett varumärke summan av de narrativa berättelserna om ett varumärke. På senare tid har företags brand managers i allt större utsträckning börjat använda influencer marketing för att påverka dessa narrativ för att öka varumärkets brand equity. Denna studie undersöker hur olika narrativ som hör samman med ett varumärke konkurrerar om att vara det dominerande According to cultural theorist Douglas Holt is a brand the sum of the narratives surrounding the brand. Recently, brand managers are increasingly using influencer marketing to affect these narratives in order to enhance brand equity. This study investigates how different narratives associated with a brand compete for being the dominant narrative. The study does this by analyzing the phenomenon of

Representationskompetensen hos den verkställande direktören i svenska aktiebolag regleras genom 8 kap. 36 § ABL och därigenom rekvisitet ”löpande förvaltning” i 8 kap. 29 § ABL. Vad denna löpande förvaltning omfattar är dock inte helt tydligt och kan variera kraftigt mellan olika typer av bolag och situationer. Detta kan skapa såväl praktiska som juridiska problem för både bolag och den verkställaThe legal capacity for Chief Executive Officers (CEO) in Swedish corporations is regulated through the legal condition “everyday operations” in Chapter 8, 36 § of the Swedish Companies Act of 2005. What is meant with “everyday operations” is not completely clear and can vary massively between different kinds of companies and situations. This may cause problems from both a practical and a jurisdict

This thesis aims to investigate the advantages and limitations of the lean startup method. Eric Ries published the book The Lean Startup in 2011 and it quickly became popular among entrepreneurs and business developers. However, there is little research on the lean startup method as of today, which has inspired the authors of this thesis to investigate the significance and application of the metho

Uppsatsen tar utgångspunkt i en pågående diskussion kring postsanningsbegreppet och fokuserar på hur det samhällsvetenskapliga forskningsfältet empiriskt och teoretiskt belägger hur vi befinner oss i ett postsanningssamhälle. Studiens syfte är att utifrån en kritisk textanalys analysera det akademiska samtalet om postsanningsbegreppets bakomliggande mekanismer, sanningsanspråk och empiriska belägg

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur det politiskt korrekta talet kan främja ett beteende av självcensur, med utgångspunkt i exempel hämtade från nordamerikanska universitet, samt hur det kan påverka samhället och den enskilda individen. Insamlad empiri består av mediala händelser som belyser påföljder vid misslyckande av att förhålla sig politiskt korrekt. För att uppnå syftet med studien hThis study aims to examine how the politically correct speech can promote self-censorship and how it affects society and individuals, based on examples from North American universities. The empirical data consists of medial events that highlight sanctions in case of failure to remain politically correct. To achieve the aim of the study, a critical-theoretical discourse analysis has been done based

The heroon in Kalydon has been under investigation several times with different intentions: to date the building, to find the relative chronology between peristyle and tomb, and to study the sculptural programme. The building was interpreted by the excavators to suit the functions of cultic feasting and celebration related to the hero, but the actual function of the various rooms has been question

The aim of this study is to illuminate ideologies and discourses in the ongoing political discussion about forced marriage in Sweden. The aim is also to explore the consequences of these ideologies and discourses in terms of women´s subject positions and acting spaces. By examining 46 non-government bills regarding forced marriage three ideologies were distinguished in the material; women are bein

Vi lever i en informationsekonomi där varje företag är beroende av informationstillgångar. Detta innebär att informationssäkerhet måste utvecklas för att skydda känsliga tillgångar. Ett av de största hoten för lyckad informationssäkerhet inom en organisation är de felaktiga åtgär- der och beteende hos de anställda när de hanterar information. Myndigheten för Samhälls- skydd och Beredskap genomförd

The number of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions involving an emerging economy as either acquirer or target is steadily increasing. Cultural and institutional distance thereby are important issues for cross-border M&A value creation, since countries involved in the deal can be very different in terms of their cultural embedding (norms, values, beliefs) and/or their institutional domain (for

In this paper I use a procedure for selecting, combining and forecasting VAR models in order to improve the prediction of Swedish inflation. Three simple average combinations are evaluated with a number of tools. I conclude that a simple combination strategy improve the forecast ability and reduce the root mean square errors. The performance is an improvement over both a simple benchmark and a pre

There have been many studies made which measure the effects of trade facilitation on trade flows, and it is has been established that there are large gains from improving inefficient and cumbersome trade procedures that act as a barrier to trade. Still there are differences between countries and their level of trade facilitation. With a framework defining resources indicator and protectionist indi

Vid de flesta processer som innefattar insamlande av data kan det ibland uppstå problem som gör att all data inte samlas in korrekt. När detta händer uppstår det tomma platser i datan där värden saknas. Det finns många sätt att hantera dessa tomma platser och i många fall kan man bortse från dem. Om ett komplett dataset behövs för analys kan så kallade imputationsmetoder användas för att fylla i dImputation of data is the process of filling in missing values in an incomplete data set. Missing data is a common problem in many fields, not least in clinical research. This report aims to evaluate different methods for imputing missing data in health records of dialysis patients. The imputed data will, in a related project, be used to predict hospitalizations of dialysis patients. The hope is t