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This paper examines the impact of formal and informal institutions on the Chinese music industry. Standard utilitarian theory states that property rights are essential for innovation and this research tests the effects that intellectual property rights has on the Chinese music industry by using panel data on the provincial level for the years 1997 to 2011. In order to further investigate the Chine
This thesis focuses on the case of education and habilitation services in Cienfuegos, Havana, and Pinar del Rio to describe the well-being of persons with intellectual disability. The welfare of the target group is assessed through an ethnographic study of how actors from the societal sectors policy/service/household perceive that the well-being of individuals with intellectual disability is and c
Information technologies are omnipresent in almost every aspect of all businesses. This presence brings the need to align business and information technology strategies in the organization with aims such as increasing performance and gaining competitiveness in the marketplace. Enterprises are defined by their size and economic volume and there is a need to align IT and business strategies in small
The purpose of this research is to investigate the link between ESG performance and corporate financial performance, both from a management and a market perspective, for the technology industry in the US. Focusing on one industry leads to more conclusive results than previous research conducted across-industry. The approach used also helps to give a broad picture of the relationship between the ov
The research of pornography has always been sorrowful and affected by many accusations of researchers being ‘Porn apologists dressing up personal convictions to look more objective by attaching the word “studies” to the title of their journal’ or often according to anti-porn advocates they were ‘expressing their own opinions rather than producing research’ and were likely to write ‘fulsome article
This thesis analyse different understanding of the world how this leads to different actions with real consequences for people. In a public policy chain from the government of Sweden down to the field in Burkina Faso, civil servants have been interviewed in order to identify changes in discourses and what they may potentially mean. The use of qualitative data gives a deeper understanding of how in
The purpose of this research is to conduct a critical study which focuses on getting deeper insights into in-application advertising, especially, to understand the details of making in-application advertising, and to develop the existing advertising model for applying to the in-application advertising specifically.
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Hur ska vi fiska torsk i Öresund? Debatten om man ska fiska torsk i Sverige och i så fall hur har pågått under en längre tid. Detta för att torsken har minskat kraftigt efter år av överfiske. I Öresund har torskbeståndet dock klarat sig bättre, då trålfiske i sundet är förbjudet för sjöfartens skull. Här är torsken även ganska stor jämfört med övriga ÖstersjönThe objective of this study was to analyze recreational and commercial fishing and their respective effect on revenue and catches in the cod fishery in Öresund. This was done by including both recreational and commercial fishing in a bio-economic model. The results from the bio-economic model suggest that more fishing effort is being put in on the cod stock than what is most cost effective, by bot
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to give a contribution to the studies of what strategies those are of importance for challengers in consumer technological markets aiming for the market leader position. To be able to investigate this phenomenon we have chosen to study Microsoft’s second position in the video game console industry. In addition, we want to illuminate Microsoft’s competitive ad
Freedom of expression, including media freedom and pluralism, are at the core of the democratic processes. Media pluralism requires transparency, freedom and diversity in Europe’s media landscape. The broad perception and definition of the terms are based upon the willingness to charge media freedom and pluralism with expectations of very significant and sometimes even unachievable social and poli
The essay identifies the factors that help countries avoid the middle-income trap. We study the effect of institutional indicators, and the educational and technological policy variables on the income growth of the middle-income countries, with the focus on the upper-middle income countries; using the Cross-section OLS estimation and the Fixed-Effects panel estimation. For the countries that have
Valblindhet innebär ett misslyckande att upptäcka en diskrepans mellan ett val man gör och dess utfall. The misinformation effect uppstår när ens hågkomst av en händelse förändras för att ny, felaktig information om händelsen givits. Syftet med denna studie var dels att undersöka huruvida valblindhet kan skapas för personers hågkomst av en händelse de bevittnat, och dels om valblindhet i så fall pChoice blindness is the failure to detect a discrepancy between a choice and its outcome. The misinformation effect occurs when the recollection of an event changes because new, misleading information about the event is received. The purpose of this study was to merge the choice blindness and misinformation effect paradigms, and thus examine whether choice blindness can be created for individuals’
The dynamics of misvaluation and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have long been debated in light of the efficient market hypothesis. Still, the existence of misvaluation in itself raises the eyebrows of economists as it would entail the possibility of cross-border arbitrage. Consequently, within the debate trying to enlighten the matter, the primary purpose of this thesis is to investigate the dyn
Hegemonic feminism have often been criticised for organising from a white, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class perspective. As a counteracting of this many minority groups have chosen to organise separately, based on common interests or experiences. This thesis explores the politics of minority women and groups’ organising practices. It also discusses the compatibility of civil society and fem
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate which firm-specific variables can explain the cross-section of expected stock returns in the German market. The tested explanatory variables are market beta, firm size, the book-to-market ratio, the earnings-to-price ratio, leverage, the dividend yield, the cash flow-to-price ratio and sales growth. Furthermore, the thesis also examines the con
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze different factors which have an impact on the level of financial constraints that companies face. The main factors that are discussed in this paper are the size of firms and the level of country development, measured by institutional development, development of financial markets and economic development. Whited-Wu index is used to calculate the level of
The Master thesis «Shine» is consisting out of two parallel connected projects, based on a personal extensive interest for glittering, shimmering, shiny and dazzling effects. The first project is an exploration of a personal theme about the effect, in the theses referred to as «Shine». The second project is a concept of a tent, inspired from the first project.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current state of entrepreneurship education in Swedish compulsory schools. In light of the 2011 reform of the national Swedish Curriculum in which entrepreneurship education was first introduced, four schools are examined, through interviews with the principal and two teachers per school, to determine their perceptions and implementations of entrepre
