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The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces towards second-hand shopping for clothing. Though literature on this topic already exists, there is still room for further examination, especially when adding other perspectives to it. Therefore, this project is especially concerned with gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations for shopping second-hand, looking into

Denna kvalitativa studie syftar till att undersöka hur medarbetare i Helsingborgs stad upplever organisationens externa kommunikation. Mer specifikt undersöks hur organisationens Instagramkonto @helsingborgsstad upplevs och hur dessa upplevelser påverkar den autokommunikativa processen. Denna process uppstår då interna publiker tar del av den externa kommunikationen. Genom semistrukturerade intervThe aim of this qualitative study is to examine how employees in Helsingborg’s stad percive the organizations external communication. More specifically the aim is to examine how they feel about the organizations Instagram account @helsingborgsstad and how these experiences affect the auto-communicative process. Said process occurs when internal audiences come in contact with the external communica

Impaktiter är bergarter som har bildats av ett eller flera meteoritnedslag och delas in i tre grupper: chockad berggrund, nedslagsbreccior och nedslagssmältor. Den här studien strävar efter att redogöra för de olika typer av impaktiter som finns beskrivna från jorden, och att beskriva tidigare ostuderade prover av impaktiter från nedslagsstrukturen Mien i Småland, Sverige. Proverna kallas: MIE15_0This study aims to describe the different types of impactites that are present on Earth and to characterize previously undescribed samples of impactites from Mien, an impact structure located in southern Sweden. Impactites are rocks that are generated from one or several meteoric impacts and they are divided into three groups; shocked rocks, impact breccias and impact melts. The impactites that ar

Title: Employee Motivation through Higher Purpose: A double edged sword Authors: Petra Erkkilä & Thekla Welp Supervisor: Sverre Spoelstra Submission Date: 20th of May 2016 Keywords: Non-profit organisation, employee motivation, higher purpose, social responsibility Purpose: To critically review the impact of organisational purpose on employee motivation and to understand employee motiva

Utmattningssyndrom är ett växande problem och något som skapar stora bekymmer och kostnader för såväl individer, organisationer som samhälle. Denna studie undersöker det samband som finns mellan prestationsbaserad självkänsla (PBS) och stressfaktorer i arbetslivet och dess relation till utbrändhet. Genom en webbenkät (N=184) undersöktes deltagarnas prestationsbaserade självkänsla, skattning av arbBurnout is a growing phenomenon and is causing large problems and costs to individuals, organisations and society alike. This study examines the relationships between performance based self-esteem (PBSE), work related stress factors and burnout. Through a web survey (N=184) the participants PBSE, work related stress factors and degree of burnout was measured through the Pbse scale, Areas of Work S

Temporarily unavailable products in the grocery retail environment cause problems for multiple parties, resulting in possible sales losses for retailers and high dissatisfaction among consumers. With price promoted products being twice as often out-of-stock (OOS) as regular-priced items, the need for a further understanding of reactions to price promoted products is evident. The purpose of this th

This thesis has been pursuing an objective to investigate the recent developments in the field of high oxygen barrier materials for the dairy based medical nutrition portfolio. The main goal of this research was to identify the materials and/or approaches that would allow the decrease of oxygen ingress with resulting shelf-life extension. Both flexible (pouch) and rigid (bottles) packaging has bee

Den här uppsatsen bygger på en översättning av två amerikanska krönikor om dataspel, skrivna av Ian Bogost och publicerade i antologin How to Talk About Videogames (2015). Uppsatsens inleds med en textanalys av källtexten som baseras på Lennart Hellspong & Per Ledins analysmodell (1997). Textanalysen följs av ett antal överväganden inför översättning där den globala översättningsstrategin funk

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore multicultural violence work at shelters in Finland from a feminist postcolonial perspective. The main interest of this study is to analyse the shelter workers’ ways of speaking about multicultural clients, on their own position and on their working methods. The study is based on four semi-structured interviews with shelter workers and on six observatio

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på varför vissa konsumenter väljer att handla ekologiskt och vad som är deras drivkrafter. För att undersöka dessa motivationsfaktorer används en kvalitativ metod där tio ekologiska konsumenter har djupintervjuats och en fokusgruppintervju med fyra konsumenter har genomförts. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av kunder som kontinuerligt handlar i butikerna Sju

The Brazilian tax system is known to be very complex. The main reasons to that is presumably the fact that the federalist pact adopted by the Brazilian Federal Constitution gives a considerable autonomy to all federal entities (the federal government, the states, the Federal District and the municipalities) to impose levies. Besides that, the Brazilian tax system is composed by numerous levies, su

Beginning with the question of whether, and how, gender equality can be measured, this thesis is written with the ambition to evaluate one aspect of the Swedish government’s equality goal, equality in power and influence, with the help of an index. It departs from a discussion within the field of gender studies where gender equality is found to be an “empty” word that can be used for a variety of

Author: Amanda Ljungdahl Title: “We grow people as well.” A qualitative study of the value of horticultural projects for socially vulnerable groups. [Translated title]. Supervisor: David Hoff Assessor: Malinda Andersson The aim of this study was to examine the value of social and therapeutic horticultural projects for socially vulnerable individuals, regarding both how horticultural activities a

Allt fler organisationer med en house of brands arkitektur, vilket kännetecknas av att företagsvarumärket döljs bakom flertalet olika fristående, välkända produktvarumärken, har på senare tid lagt ner stora resurser på att kommunicera det övergripande företagsvarumärket. Således kan ett skifte och en ny trend identifieras i hur organisationer med denna struktur interagerar med sin marknad. Denna sToday, more and more organisations with a house of brands architecture, characterized by a strong company brand and several independent, well-known product brands, are using a large amount of resources on communicating the company brand. This development indicates a shift in how organisations with this architecture operates on the market. This study aims to examine how organisations use branding s

We decompose the monthly Swedish consumer confidence index into a rational part based on fundamentals and an irrational part based on exogenous, irrational beliefs. Subsequently, we investigate the impact of investor irrationality and its short-term predictability on industry returns in Sweden. In addition, we provide an explanation to the reason some industries are more prone to investor sentimen

The aim of this study was to examine attitudes towards mental health help-seeking among young adults. By using a quantitative method, handing out questionnaires to 145 young adults in upper secondary schools in Skåne, we asked questions about their perceived mental health and how normal or stigmatizing they regarded help-seeking in general. In scientific studies and governmental reports regarding

Studien har som syfte att analysera om centralbankerna har ändrat sitt sätt att föra flexibel penningpolitik efter finanskrisen. Studien väljer att lägga till huspriser som en förklarande variabel då denna faktor var en bakomliggande del av finanskrisen och anses vara intressant att studera i sammanhanget. Studien har utgått ifrån Taylor-regeln som har bevisats kunna förklara räntesättningen av ce

Surrogate motherhood and whether it should be legalized or not, has been a controversial area in Sweden. Swedish law has not any evident legislation prohibiting surrogate motherhood, but existing law can be interpreted as not allowing such arrangements. Due to that, many couples in Sweden are going abroad in order to implement surrogate arrangements. Therefore, some problems have occurred when the