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Den 11 september 2001 innebar början på en stor förändring i amerikansk inrikes och utrikespolitik. I kriget mot terrorismen har en omfattande diskriminering skett av icke-amerikanska medborgare både inom landets gränser såväl som utanför. För att rättfärdiga detta för sitt eget folk samt det internationella samfundet har man i politiken och retoriken skapat bilden av "den andre" som ett

The aim of this study about post-conflict economic, social and political reintegration of ex-combatants is to understand how such a process should be prepared for in order to help as many traumatized and sometimes destructive or disabled soldiers as possible to re-establish themselves as functioning civilians as well as preparing communities for their return. In order to do this I have focused on

The purpose of this study was to examine the nursing auxiliaries’ experiences before, during and after the implementation of Alsterbromodellen. The implementation of Alsterbromodellen meant that home care staff and residential care staff got consolidated and performed the same tasks. More specifically the aim was to find out how Alsterbromodellen has made an impact on the nursing auxiliaries’ work

The aim of the study was that in the light of societies individualization, examine foster parents and social workers perspective on family life and parenthood in the foster care. The method of the study was qualitative with semi-structured interviews. Three foster home and four social workers were interviewed. The questions that were asked were mostly about familiy life, parenthood, caring, gender

The Swedish district heating market is becoming increasingly saturated, whilst the UK heat market is about to run into copious turmoil due to the faltering and decreasing levels of natural gas available. Swedish companies are looking to enter new market segments, and there seems to be something stirring under the surface in terms of district heating in the UK. The development of district heating i

The number of companies that are discovering the benefits of having a process-oriented mindset is continually increasing. But moving from having a strict functional-oriented mindset to becoming more process-oriented does not happen over night. The road of transformation is long and many challenges are faced on the way. This thesis focuses on the question of how companies should approach a transfor

Denna rapport har som uppgift att gå igenom hur den nya krypterings och komprimeringsalgoritmen SCAM har utvecklats. Kryptering och komprimering är två vanliga begrepp inom datateknik och det finns många olika typer av algoritmer inom båda områdena. Rapporten går igenom en möjlig kombination av dessa två begrepp till en enda algoritm. Under projektets gång så har två nya algoritmer utvecklats, en

The purpose of this study was to examine the work of clinical social workers. More specifically our aim was to perceive the knowledge and competence of clinical social workers using their own description of their work. The main questions that we address in this thesis are: How do the clinical social workers describe their knowledge and competence? What are the opinions of clinical social workers o

The idea of integration has varied during different periods of time. The purpose with this study was to examine the meaning of integration in a specific “integration project”. How are the ambitions put into practice in a specific project? How is “good” integration defined? How is the education for the participants of the project organized in order to lead to the goal: to earn one’s living. These q

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Successful brand extension, niche marketing and maintenance of strong customer relations have been among popular issues for academic research over the last years. But the remarkable thing is that few studies have examined brand extensions in specialized niche players. This thesis seeks to analyze highly specialized niche market companies' abilities to expand their product portfolio moving away

This study aims to analyse the brand identity of sporting cities using existing sponsorship and city branding theory. A comparative case study was conducted between Melbourne, Australia (identified as the benchmark sporting city) and Malmö, Sweden (an emerging sporting city). Within the sponsorship realm, the theories of image transfer, corporate branding, congruence and sponsorship-linked marketi

The purpose of this thesis is to examine if and how CEO ownership affects firm performance on Swedish companies depending on the market conditions. We would also like to examine the question if this relationship still holds when taking the possibility of an endogeneity determined relationship into account. A quantitative approach using regression analysis and descriptive statistics have been used.

Some companies have chosen to differentiate their products by labeling them environmentally friendly, or “green”. Green products sends the message to the market that a particular company is caring for the environment, however the processes involved in making the product can be the reasons for a product being labeled green. The production processes of the final stage company in a supply chain may n

We have made a thesis about Collaboration for Innovation in the Öresund region from a Swedish perspective. The thesis is taking both regional and corporate aspects into consideration when studying this subject. The empiric material is based upon several interviews with persons having knowledge about our subject as well as a web survey including 49 companies situated in the Öresund region. We have

The purpose of this thesis is to provide insight into the recruitment and selection processes of high-tech companies in China and to advice returning Chinese overseas students on these recruitment and selection processes. We collected empirical data from respondents by using semi-structured interviews for the following qualitative analysis. Interview guide, selection of respondents, conduction of

The purpose of the thesis is to empirically investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and corporate performance. The estimated models will be used tp predict future corporate performance. Definitions of Intellectual Capital are presented as well as measurements of the concept, with focus on VAIC. Prior research investigating the relationship between intellectual capital and corpora

Issue of study: There is no clear framework for IPR negotiation to support the establishment of I-U collaboration by balancing their competing interests. For I-U collaborations within the same country, several sets of guidelines have been produced to emphasize IPR-issues in R&D collaborations. These have helped to increase awareness, but corporations and universities still report problems when