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Abstract Title: The Art of Shielding Luxury Brands: Defensive Strategies for Success Seminar date: 2023-06-01 Course: FEKH29, Degree Project Undergraduate level, Business Administration, Undergraduate level, 15 University Credits Points (UPC) Authors: Arvid Vesterberg, Oscar Frithiof and Stefan Karlsson Advisor: Jon Bertilsson Key words: Brand image, luxury brands, automotive industry, defensive,
The meat sector is a known contributor to pressing environmental and public health problems such as climate change and antimicrobial resistance. Despite this, efforts to encourage changes in meat consumption face multiple barriers. One such obstacle is the fact that the meat industry engages in lobbying efforts to influence public opinion and delay policy formation. This study aimed to identify wh
Theories on discourse accessibility and givenness suggest that nominal discourse entities vary with regard to how likely they are to act as antecedents to anaphoric expressions. Many factors are thought to affect the accessibility of a nominal entity in the mental model, including its morphosyntactic form and grammatical role. Moreover, previous research has shown that reflexive pronouns can be il
Objectives: Colombia is proving to be a notable epicentre of risk for individuals actively engaged in human rights advocacy. Notwithstanding this pervasive risk, individuals continue to champion their cause on a daily basis. A trend is emerging of more and more Indigenous women taking prominent leadership roles to catalyse social change. With determination, these women are challenging entrenched s
In a changing world order, emerging middle powers from the global South may seek new positions in international societies. Using the United Nations as an international society, this thesis aims to investigate what roles the emerging middle powers, Brazil and South Africa, enact in pursuing permanent seats at the Security Council. This research conducts a qualitative text analysis using official da
In the current archival science paradigm, archives implement AI-technologies to provide content as structured, machine-readable data. One of these technologies is Handwritten Text recognition (HTR) which can transcribe handwritten text. Thus, HTR turn raw digitized archival documents into machine-readable format. Technology is not developed in a vacuum, but is shaped by heterogeneous factors, ther
Due to the changing nature of employment, contemporary early career employees place more value on work-life balance than any other generation before them. Our purpose is to provide a contextual overview that identifies and illuminates some of the defining characteristics of the early career employees employed in the banking sector. The integration of the boundary and motivation theory enable us to
Purpose: The objective of this study is to determine whether or not board gender diversity influences the capital structures of S&P 500 firms. This is done based on the premise of female risk aversion and conventional capital structure and agency issues theories. With this foundation, we intend to close the knowledge gap regarding the effects of gender diversity on corporate boards. Methodol
I takt med att beståndet av ägarlägenheter har utökats har frågor om fastighetsförvaltning och driftkostnader blivit angelägna att undersöka. Syftet med examensarbetet är att utreda de fastighetsrättsliga och fastighetsekonomiska konsekvenserna av fastighetsbildningsbeslutet för bildandet av ägarlägenheter. Följande forskningsfrågor har undersökts i examensarbetet: • Hur ser utformningen av ägarlThe increasing stock of condominiums has raised questions about property management and operating costs. This thesis aims to investigate the consequences of forming condominiums from both a property law and property economics perspectives. The research questions cover the design of condominiums and the impact of property formation order on operating costs and property management. It will also inve
Purpose The aim of this research paper is to provide valuable insights to existing theoretical foundation of choice of capital structure, and exploring the relationship between capital structure and firm performance through testing whether capital structure affects firm performance in the USA listed healthcare and energy companies. Theoretical perspective The presented theories cover different vi
Since 2010, the Swedish railway has been open to competition for passenger train traffic. Despite extensive deregulations, the state-owned enterprise and previous monopoly Statens Järnvägar has managed to retain its previous position as the reigning actor of the Swedish railway. This thesis aims to analyse an incumbent firm's effect on an industry, targeted with regulatory interventions. It wi
Indigenous peoples are one of the most marginalized social groups in Ecuador. Emerging as a new actor contesting this situation, indigenous youth defenders (IYD) appear to be leading initiatives that promote indigenous rights in the country. Thus, grounded in Social Movements Theory, this thesis aims to explore the perceived role of IYD in broadening the promotion of indigenous rights and identiti
Objectives: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - a labour-intensive and low-tech mode of minerals extraction and processing - has received increasing attention amidst global commodity booms and its concurrent expansion. Infamously associated with negative social and environmental impacts, responsible mining initiatives have emerged to promote, measure, and enforce sustainable mining practices
This thesis examines how China has been portrayed in the Annual Threat Assessment reports of the U.S. intelligence community between 2013-2023. A qualitative document analysis is conducted on 9 publicly available threat assessment reports issued during this period. The theoretical framework applied is threat perception theory, which posits that a state’s perception of threats guides strategic poli
This thesis examines the effects of pseudo and quasi-random number generators on the accuracy and efficiency of Monte Carlo Integration in the case of the multivariate normal distribution. The study compares the performance of the Mersenne Twister (a pseudo-random number generator) with Sobol and Halton sequences (quasi-random number generators). By evaluating these generators across different dim
Inom fastighetsbildning är lämplighetskravet ett centralt begrepp som lägger grunden för alla fastighetsbildningar och fastighetsregleringar som genomförs. Grundpelarna som bygger upp lämplighetsprövningen är belägenhet, omfång, och övriga förutsättningar. Trots detta finns det förhållandevis lite fasta gränser eller riktmärken att hålla sig till, vilket delvis är meningen, men det kan göra lämpliA property’s suitability is a central part of the Swedish Property Formation Act. It states that any creation or reformation of property must be suitable in regards to range, situation and other circumstances. Despite this, the actual requirements as to what is suitable are very vague, which in part is on purpose to account for changing politics and research. This master’s thesis aims to clarify t
Title Powering Tomorrow - Implementation of Battery Energy Storage System in today's Power Grid Authors Henrik Ramström and Krenar Gerxhaliu Supervisor Ingela Elofsson, Dept. of Production Management, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University Maricruz Bravo, Flower Infrastructure Technologies AB Background We are currently undergoing a transition in the industrial development, taking plac
Following the continual degradation of climate, the issue of climate change has increasingly been integrated in world politics. The European Union has itself implemented climate policies to adverse the tendency. However, the union has also given rise to the principle of free movement, a concept tightly connected to the EU’s carbon intensive transport sector. Research has shown the need for the EU
