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EU som institution har präglats av beskrivningar av att vara ett neo-liberalt projekt. Tidigare forskning anlägger att det dock finns premisser för en ideologisk förändring. Genom konstaterande av samverkan mellan det ekonomiska systemets utfall och dess konstruktion är det möjligt att hypotetisera att finanskrisen som drabbade Europa 2007–2008 kan ha haft en inverkan på den ekonomiska politiken.
In this thesis, the short- and long-term event study methodology are applied in order to assess whether M&As, in the pharmaceutical industry, create any abnormal return for the acquirer. The majority of the previous research finds a negative abnormal return but the short-term event study seems to generate slightly positive abnormal returns outside the U.S. There is a limited amount of research
The aim of this report was to investigate the prominence effect as an underlying reason for saved-lives insensitivity in moral decision-making. Saved-lives insensitivity, the tendency to help fewer rather than more victims, causes unnecessary suffering. Why this tendency occurs is still unknown, but the prediction of this study was that the prominence effect is an underlying mechanism. The promine
Background and Objectives: This research explored the possibility of organisations implementing the work of CIP for the right beneficial reason, or if the implementation was done because the subject is a trend. While CIP-methods are getting more and more popular, it remains in many cases unclear which concepts suit best to what organisation. Having a single organisation implementing a numerous var
This research addresses the role of social capabilities over the growth trajectory of natural resource (NR) rich developing countries through a case study – an analytical narrative using data from various sources – of the Chilean experience since the early 1900s to the present. The paper adopts a novel framework, which identifies four distinct but interrelated dimensions of social capabilities: tr
As the world is becoming more digital, the use of data is rapidly increasing. To protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches, the regulations will become stricter. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become effective on the 25th of May 2018. This will mean big structural changes for organizations, but it will also mean tougher requirements for gathering and maintaining pe
The benefits of economic growth (e.g. capital accumulation) are mainly being enjoyed by people in the Global North, while its negative byproducts (e.g. pollution) are mainly being endured by people in the Global South. Our focus on economic growth has led to the erosion of social wellbeing. And continuing economic growth on this planet with finite natural resources could have even more severe cons
It is questionable how project management can aid an organization’s pursuit of achieving a sustained competitive advantage through innovation. Especially within the technology industry, organizations are facing increasing competition in today’s dynamic environment and are obligated to act in order to fulfill customers’ eagerness for innovative products. This research study is targeted at merging t
This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, ha
There were around one million apartments built in Sweden during 1965 to 1974 as part of the so called Swedish Million Programme, almost half of them concentrated in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe. These building are now considered unattractive. The need of renovation is urgent in many aspects -ventilation, windows, balconies, facades and sanitary pipe replacement. The total investment cost for t
Background/Problem Description: Creating innovative products and take them to the market is a struggle for many companies around the globe. At the Department of Security & Enterprise at Sony Mobile Communications in Lund it was believed that the innovation process could be enhanced if more focus would be put on pricing, adoption and timing. The belief at the department was that these three fac
Det sker en förändring inom turistbranschen idag där traditionella källor till information som turistbyråer och destinationers besökshemsidor läggs ned och städer istället satsar på sociala medier som TripAdvisor för att ge turistinformation. På grund av den förändring som nu sker har vi valt att göra en kvantitativ undersökning över i vilken grad TripAdvisor används och anses som en pålitlig käll
Den colombianska konflikten har resulterat i att miljontals colombianer har tvingats överge sina hem. Syftet med den här studien har varit att undersöka och analysera hur väl UNHCR:s policy beskriver situationen för asylsökande från den colombianska ursprungsbefolkningen och asylsökande afrocolombianer. Syftet har även varit att ta fram de mest lämpliga lösningarna för dessa asylsökande. Materiale
The problematic aspects of the car and car dependency in the cities form together one of the most central challenges when it comes to achieving sustainability in today’s society. This case study seeks to examine how regulations of minimum parking requirements affects the level of sustainability in the municipality of Helsingborg. The aim is to critically investigate the configuration of this plann
Under 2016 sade ett stort antal barnmorskor upp sig kollektivt inom Region Skåne. Uppsägningarna var en protesthandling och del i en arbetsplatskonflikt som kretsade kring ökad återhämtning för att garantera barnmorskornas hälsa och patientsäkerheten. Uppsatsens syfte är att förstå hur och varför protesterna resulterade i kollektiva uppsägningar. Materialet består av kvalitativa intervjuer med bar
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur utbildning behandlas i förhållande till EU:s mervärdesskattelagstiftning. Vidare kommer denna uppsats att analysera rättsfall från EU-domstolen och hur domstolens tolkningar av begreppet utbildning relaterar till principen om neutralitet. Med detta som bakgrund kommer uppsatsen gå vidare och titta på hur Sverige har implementerat reglerna för denna typThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate how educational services is regu-lated for tax purposes under EU Law. Further, this thesis will analyse the case law considering educational services from the CJEU and consider how the Courts interpretation relates to the principle of neutrality. With the reg-ulation and case law as a basis, the thesis will then consider how the regula-tion of education
Det finns flera sätt att begränsa konkurrensen, men det finns bestämmelser i nationell och EU-rätt som spelar in när man gör det. Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera den rättsliga ramen i svensk nationell rätt kring konkurrens mot en arbetsgivare och undersöka under vilka förutsättningar en anställd får konkurrera mot en arbetsgivare. Uppsatsen kommer också att ta en titt på hur konkurrensklThere are several ways of restricting competition, but there are regulations in national and EU- law which come into play when doing so. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the legal framework in Swedish national law concerning competition against an employer and examine the conditions under which an employee is allowed to compete against an employer. The essay will also take a look at how com
The purpose of the study was to provide a foundation to understand the potential implications of performing digital acquisitions and its effects on digital capabilities for traditionally non-digital businesses. A two-way, time and entity, fixed regression model was adopted to investigate this relationship in the electric utility industry, between the years 2010-2021. The theoretical framework of
