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The aim of this study was to illustrate the phenomena of gaming addiction and problematic gaming. In order to achieve this, we have examined how people on the internet forum Reddit comprehend gaming addiction and problematic gaming, and how they construct gaming as a social problem/nonproblem. This study is a qualitative netnographic study, which means that we have conducted our research exclusive

The Klingon language was created as a "verbal movie-prop" for Star Trek and was not supposed to be a language for human communication. But today thousands of persons have studied Klingon and 20 - 30 persons can be considered fluent in the language. A linguistic field of power, a linguistic market, has been formed. The purpose of this thesis is to research how the Klingon language speaker

The report deals with the development of a lab environment in ABB's 800xA. The lab environment aims to streamline the testing of Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and thus streamline the start-up and implementation of industrial-scale process systems. The concept of the lab environment is to provide the opportunity to quickly set up a system in 800xA that can be used for testing, process dev

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra med ny kunskap kring kopplingen mellan varumärkesupplevelser och online brand communities. Detta ämnar vi åstadkomma genom en ökad förståelse för vilka varumärkesupplevelser som skapas på online brand communities och hur dessa skapas. Metod: Uppsatsen är genomförd med hjälp av en kvalitativ netnografisk metod. Teori: Uppsatsen grundas i teorier kring on

Our main findings are that Swedish cross-border M&A’s on average perform positively around the announcement of cross-border M&A’s, which is contrary to previous studies. Furthermore, we also find cultural distance to positively impact the announcement effect of cross-border M&A’s, also contradictive to previous findings. However, we cannot ensure that cultural distance itself affects t

Problem: More information is needed on how a company can overcome hardship during stormy business cycles. Appropriate management strategies on how to get the business going as the dust settles is essential in order for a company to sustain on the market. Management in any recession is difficult, especially in today´s turmoil. Nonetheless, corporate strategic renewal is needed to mitigate the risk

The course provides an introduction to Swedish politics. The political system in general, the constitution, the government and the political parties are discussed in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. Sweden’s role as a small country in a global context, both as a member of the European Union and the United Nations, is highlighted. Swedish attributes such as “The Swedish Model”

By using a set of firms engaged in merger activities, the aim of this thesis is to evaluate whether the stock markets were able to foresee synergy realization correctly in our specific companies. If markets show a tendency to over-/underestimate synergies, we find it interesting to investigate further why that is. A triangulation methodology, where the authors use more than one methodological appr

The purpose of this study is to identify if a relationship exists between excess cash and stock returns analysed across periods of boom and bust. Our findings document an overall positive relationship between excess cash holdings and stock returns. In regards to the specific period this paper documents a negative relationship in boom times and a positive relationship in times of downturn. From the

Goals of this thesis is to investigate how the Foundry Chinese Managers perceive leadership, and how they construct their leadership skills in their daily working environment in that specific foundry context and whether the Chinese leadership is still following the traditional Chinese Culture or they have their own ways to lead. We are using a qualitative/inductive method. We are using already exi