Today, about one-third of all produced food and drinks are neither eaten nor drunk and turn into food waste. To put this number into perspective, the amount of wasted food would feed three billion people each year. From 2012 to 2018, Swedish grocery stores have more than doubled their amount of food waste, now reaching 100 000 tons per year. This is an outcome of deeply rooted norms of hygiene and

Macroeconomic conditions heavily influence financial markets, and the leading corpus of theory in the field lays out some general principles observed by investors and asset managers alike. However, while the theory is sound, it is hard to measure how much effect these conditions have. To better understand this scenario, this study uses a novel technique that combines traditional causal inference w

The study contributes to developing research on organizational learning from failure and innovation by bringing in the manager's perspectives via a qualitative interpretative case study. By exploring the impact of managerial practice impacts organizational learning from failure and innovation as a process, we aim to support managers in navigating the complexities of learning from failure and i

In any given industry, fragmentation, namely the state of a disintegrated landscape of market participants’ offerings, can have detrimental effects on firms and customers in the likes of inefficiencies or inconvenient offerings, respectively. Despite recent first steps towards consolidation of offerings through, for example, platform ecosystems, the German mobility industry is still largely fragme

During the last decade, an increasing number of technological developments have occurred that utilise surveillance for functionality. Much of modern means of communication and socialising now firmly rest on surveillance technology. Whereas most scholarly work aims to interpret the effects of surveillance on individuals through an aggregated perspective, this thesis explores a more grounded approac

Denna uppsats berör ämnet kring möjligheten till kontroll och ansvarsutkrävande av privata vårdutförare. Ämnet utreds kring Agentproblemet (Principal-agent problem) och vi undersöker hur agenten; privata vårdalternativ förhåller sig till principalen; kommuner och regioner. Hur relationen utformas kan leda till konsekvenser gällande rådande handlingsutrymme hos agenten vilket kan möjliggöra risk fö

In our theoretical background, we highlight previous literature on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, greenwashing, and corporate responses to accusations as well as the communication techniques used to neutralise accusations and scandals.The purpose of this study is to develop a deeper understanding of how organisations use communication as a tool to publicly respond to accusations. We aim to explore whether existing techniques are being used or if new techniques can be discovered.

This paper investigates the characteristics of the relationships of the Born Global firm’s network and with what intentions they are established during inception and the phase of early growth. An in-depth overview of existing literature is provided and additional insights are delivered through a multiple-case study of four Born Global firms from the Öresund region in their early stage of evolution

Det finns ett utbrett stöd för att decentralisering kan göra en organisation effektivare. Uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur territoriell decentralisering påverkar medborgarnas välfärd genom att undersöka sambandet mellan kommunstorlek och verksamhetens subjektiva effektivitet, det vill säga hur nöjda medborgarna är med kommunens verksamhet. I decentraliseringsteorin finns det motstridiga argumenThere is strong support for the argument that decentralization can make an organization more effective. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how territorial decentralization affects citizen utility by studying how the size of the municipality affects the subjective effectiveness of municipal activities, that is how satisfied the citizens are with the municipal activities. There is contradic

Företaget, vars webbstatistik ligger till grund för analyserna i uppsatsen, verkar inom retail. Produktsortimentet innehåller mode för dam, barn och herr samt inkluderar även produkter inom kategorierna möbler, heminredning och elektronik. Under de diskussioner som föranlett uppsatsen uttrycker företagaren en önskan att få veta när det är tryggt för dem att störa en kund i kassan, exempelvis med eThis thesis analyses web statistics belonging to a national B2C e-commerce in retail. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate abandoned carts amongst logged in customers with at least one product added in to their cart and at least one visit to the payment page. Since the response variable "cart" is binary and we are studying the probability of a cart being abandoned, the suitable me

In this paper, we replicate a study by de la Croix et al. (2013) to analyze the effects of population aging in Germany when implementing two different counterfactual pension systems. De la Croix et al. (2013) use a dynamic overlapping generations model to simulate population aging and its effects on the French economy. Calibrating and analyzing the same model as in de la Croix et al. (2013) with n

Är höghastighetstågen en lösning som väntar på ett problem? Syftet med höghastighetstågen är att de ska underlätta omställningen till ett klimatneutralt samhälle, eftersom de transporter som idag sker med flyg istället kan ske med de energieffektiva höghastighetstågen. Samtidigt förväntas höghastighetstågen leda till ökade transporter och tillväxt – man kan alltså säga att poängen är att både låtThe Swedish government has decided to start building high-speed rails. The objective of this study is to analyze the policy process behind this decision. This is done using Bacchi’s What’s the Problem Represented to Be approach, which is designed to investigate the problem representations behind any policy, as well as their underpinnings. Eight different problem representations have been found,

Although the digitalization in the working place seems to be inevitable, employees’ sensemaking on digital internal communication and employee voice through enterprise social media has been ignored in the strategic communication research field. This study problematizes the insufficient knowledge in digital internal communication and highlights the employee perspective. Another research problem is

Despite increased interest for process-oriented and complexity driven research in strategic communication, much research is still based on traditional definitions and assumptions of strategy and communication. This is problematic, since research increasingly suggests that organizations are constituted bottom-up through interactions and communication, where strategy is influenced and co-created thr

The aim of this study was to examine health care social workers’ and psychologists' perception of counseling (stödsamtal), how jurisdictional work can be seen within counseling and what significance the jurisdictional work has for the health care social worker’s professional identity. The method chosen was semi-structured interviews with four health care social workers and four psychologists,

In the wake of digital development, the ease with which knowledge can be distributed has drastically changed the scientific climate and the view of how science and social science should be practiced regarding the sharing of knowledge production. A new paradigm in the production and sharing of scientific data, based around the idea of openness as the way to lead and further engage society through s

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to examine how multilingual literature is acquired by public libraries in three municipalities of varying sizes in Skåne: what channels are used for purchase, what the selection process is based on and whether the target population is involved in the process. It also looks to explore the extent to which the professional librarians are representative of the po

Same-sex marriage has made its trend on social media in Thailand especially on Twitter under the #MarriageEquality hashtag as the topic was being brought up to the Parliament on February 9, 2022. Currently, though there are studies on LGBTQ in Thailand no recent study focuses on revealing the connection between hashtag activism, personal action frames, and LGBTQ movements. Therefore, by using the

In recent years, brand activism has been mentioned as a new evolution in corporate sociopolitical involvement. From the customers’ perspective, they expect brands to be more vocal and take a stance to tackle challenges. They do not want neutral brands anymore. However, in the rising trend of brands becoming activists, the debates of “trustwashing” also arise. Most existing research regard of brand

In the last decades, the debate on climate change as a security threat has gained leverage. The topic has been debated in multiple international instances, such as the UN system. One of the most vulnerable groups to climate change are the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) due to their geography but also their developmental challenges. Because of this, they have been strong actors in the climat