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The increased number of companies supplying knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) has caused a highly competitive market during the recent decade, where actors on the market struggle to gain competitive advantage and especially vulnerable are companies that offer engineering services. Underlying factors for the difficulties to provide competitive services on the market for engineering servi

How can design be used to minimize negative environmental impact? I strongly believe that we, human beings, are facing an unavoidable paradigm shift. The world we have created for ourselves is a ticking bomb and we need to rethink the fundamental system in order to have a future at all. In this project the goal was to understand what role design can play in the process of reaching a more sustaina

Uppsatsen analyserar bildspråket i Erik Lindegrens diktsamling mannen utan väg med utgångspunkt i författarens egen formulering om hur ett tänkande i bilder gör dikten till "vision". Metoden är närläsning och den teori som i huvudsak används är hämtad från den danske litteraturvetaren Thorkild Bjørnvigs analys av genitivmetaforen inom modernismen, från surrealismen (i synnerhet Salvador

Consumption of clothing, fashion and shopping has increased and the fashion industry is driven by the constant need for bigger profits while fashion consumption today is a major villain in the globalization debate. New shopping centers and malls are steadily built throughout Sweden, and the craving never seems appeased. But what is it that drives us to continually consume this excess amount of clo

Den ökade internationaliseringen av företag har skapat mångkulturella arbetsplat-ser. Medarbetare måste kommunicera effektivt för att uppnå gemensamma mål, men kulturella skillnader anses ofta vara en hindrande faktor för kommunikation-en. Syftet med studien har därför varit att undersöka kulturens betydelse för den dagliga kommunikationen mellan medarbetare i internationella företag. Genom en kvaAs a result of globalization we are witnessing increasingly international work-places with employees from culturally diverse backgrounds. To achieve corporate goals and fulfill daily tasks employees at Xylem need to communicate effectively with colleagues that might not share similar frames of reference. Seeking to un-derstand the significance of cultural differences in the international workplace

Tidigare forskning tyder på att en välinformerad och delaktig patient upplever mindre preoperativ ångest och postoperativ smärta. Enligt rådande lagar ska patienter vara delaktiga och vården ska vara individanpassad. Trots detta finns idag inga riktlinjer kring hur den preoperativa informationen och bedömningen ska gå till inom Region Skåne. Syftet med studien var att beskriva allmänkirurgipatient

Author: Erika Wilhelmsson Title: The (un)changed views on youth unemployment- a critical discourse analysis of the job guarantee for young people [translated title] Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Anett Schenk There is currently disagreement about whether youth unemployment should be seen as a societal-, or individual problem, and from there also how youth unemployment should be solved. A job

The paper sheds light on financial contagion within the Euro Area and Asia, and contagion from the Euro Area to Asia during two recent crises: the global financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis. Applying the multinomial logit regression model, the paper investigates how the macro-finance variables affect the coincidence of extreme negative returns (coexceedances). In addition, I apply

This thesis will critically analyze the extent of inclusion and exclusion among young children of immigrants from Mexico to the the United States in the California Early Childhood Education System (ECE), commonly referred to as preschool. It will analyze inclusion based on the public ECE program, Head Start. Using secondary analysis, it studies how Head Start has been successful in promoting inclu

Med den digitala utvecklingen har varumärkesinnehavarens kontroll över vad som berättas om varumärket minskat. Vem som helst med uppkoppling till internet kan idag skapa och dela med sig av sin egen varumärkesberättelse. När varumärkesinnehavaren öppnar upp för att inkludera konsumenten i varumärkesbyggandet, bland annat på sociala medier, samskapar de gemensamt varumärkets mening. Studien visar aThe digital evolution has led to a decrease in the brand owner’s control of the stories that are being told about the brand. Anyone who is connected to the web can today create and share their own brand stories. When the brand owner includes the consumer in the brand buiding process, i.e. in social media, they co-create the brand meaning. This study shows that the consumer’s brand narratives deriv

Credit risk arises in almost all financial activities. One way to hedge and trade risk is to use Credit Default Swaps that act like an insurance against credit events. The value of the CDS is related to the probability of the reference entity defaulting. In this paper we aimed to determine how well the variables implied by the Merton model explain the CDS spread. A panel data study of 16 companies

Studiens syfte är att genom en fallstudie på en offentlig förvaltning beskriva på vilket sätt mellanchefers arbete med balanced scorecard bidrar till att skapa en länk mellan ledningens vision och den operativa verksamheten. Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och har genomförts i form av en fallstudie inom en förvaltning i en kommunal verksamhet. Empirin har samlats in via djupintervjuer med nio me

In this study the question is raised of how environmental inspections can improve the way excavated materials are handled, from the beginning to the end. The goal of this study is to see how regulatory authorities can contribute to make sure that the excavated materials end up where it is supposed to and to see if they are possible to re-use excavated soil. The Swedish Environmental Protection Age

Många forskare lyfter fram fenomenet att gränserna mellan intern och extern kommunikation suddas ut. Det är däremot tämligen outforskat vad detta får för betydelse för organisationers kommunikation, vilket denna studie tar avstamp i. Ett exempel är att medarbetare genom dagens kommunikationsmöjligheter kan lyfta en organisations interna sakfrågor i digitala diskussionsarenor. Syftet med uppsatsen Many researchers express that the boundaries between internal and external communication are being blurred. However, since few studies suggest what communicative implications this has for organizations, our study explores a highly under investigated topic. One way in which the blurring of boundaries is expressed is that employees can bring forth internal organizational issues in online issue arena

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) kan ge ökad konkurrenskraft och är i många fall avgörande för tillverkande företags överlevnad på sikt. Systemet medför dock stora investeringar, vilka har visat sig vara svåra att rättfärdiga. MES-implementationen har av den anledningen visat sig kunna dröja vilket kan medföra förlorade affärsmöjligheter för företaget. Syftet med studien är att vara ett stöd

When it comes to reading, there are rather large differences between boys and girls in skill and frequency, and these differences have persisted for decades. For the last few years I have sensed an increasingly negative image of boys and men in the ”public conversation”. What to read is a matter of personal choice, yet this personal choice is, in this conversation, connected to war, men’s violence

In the aftermath of 9/11, a heightened development of security provisions within the United States of America (US) has been observed. This thesis seeks to study how these security provisions have influenced the process of a securitization of migration and the conceptualization of migrants within the US. This research paper applies Foucault’s notion of biopower to study this issue by examining risk

There is a growing interest in and demand for supervision to support professional development in human service organizations. This study focused on clinical group supervision provided by social workers in health care to employees at a university hospital in southern Sweden. The aim of the study was to examine the relation between the significance of supervision to the employees, when it comes to d