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This thesis is placed in the context of talent management and revolves around the phenomena of talent and talent wars. The two phenomena have received increased attention in the talent management discourse during the last decades as the international competitiveness for talents among organizations has become amplified. The purpose of this thesis has been to explore, analyze and compare different p
Syfte: Syftet med studien är att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur småskaliga producerande företag verksamma inom livsmedelstillverkning kan bli mer motståndskraftiga mot negativ extern påverkan i form av globala kriser. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsansats och är utförd som en multipel fallstudie med abduktiv ansats. Genom en komparativ forskningsdesign genomfördes elva semistruktPurpose: The purpose of the study is to create a deeper understanding of how smallscale producing companies active in food manufacturing can become more resilient to negative external influences such as global crises. Methodology: The study has a qualitative research approach and is performed as a multiple case study with an abductive approach. Through a comparative research design, eleven semi-s
Elitidrottare utsätts kontinuerligt för fysiologiska och psykologiska krav. En alltför krävande mental och fysisk ansträngning riskerar att öka skaderisken bland unga elitidrottare och kan yttras genom såväl fysiska skador som mentala bekymmer. Syftet med denna kvalitativa ansats var att undersöka för unga handbollsspelares upplevelser av idrottspsykologis träning och i förlängningen huruvida tränElite athletes are constantly exposed to physiological and psychological demands. An excessively demanding mental and physiological effort could increase the risk of injury among young elite athletes and can be manifested through physical injuries as well as mental problems. The purpose of this qualitative approach was to examine young handball players’ experiences of sport psychology training and
The Kalix River, located in the northern part of Sweden, experiences a slowdown in water flow during cold winters. However, in spring, when snow and ice melt in the mountains, the water flow starts to increase. Towards the end of spring, there is usually a rapid and unpredictable surge in water flow known as the spring flood. The arrival of the spring flood is stochastic in time and does not occur
Tonkilometermetoden används för beräkning av andelstal för enskilda vägar som är gemensamhetsanläggningar. Den trafikmängd som olika fastighetstyper genererar återspeglas i vissa framtagna schablonvärden. Eftersom det saknas framtagna schablonvärden för specialfastigheter såsom vindkraftverk och vattenkraftverk har jag genom detta examensarbete undersökt möjligheten att ta fram schablonvärden för The ton kilometer method is used to calculate participatory shares for private roads which is joint facility. The amount of traffic that different property types generate is reflected in certain produced templates. Because there are no templates for special properties such as wind turbines and hydroelectric plants I have investigated if it is possible to produce these types of values. I have also
Title: Navigating the Landscape of Strategic Investment Decisions Course: BUSN79, Degree Project in Accounting and Finance, Master, 15 ECTS Authors: Ida Pettersson & Arnela Saranovic Supervisor: Johan Dergård Examiner: Anders Anell Key words: Strategic investment decision, managerial judgment, economic rationality, decision making behavior, uncertainties Purpose: The purpose of this study is t
Risk attitudes influence a wide range of financial decisions in the household, such as investments, consumption, and savings. It is, therefore, crucial to understand risk attitudes and how they change throughout the life cycle, in order to determine and predict economic behavior. In this study, we investigate the impact of changes in family structure on individuals' financial risk attitudes by
Studien syftar till att öka förståelsen för det relativt nya fenomenet Corporate Social Advocacy genom att undersöka hur det kommuniceras på sociala medier idag och hur budskapen mottas av konsumenter. För att besvara studiens frågeställningar har empiriskt material samlats in i form av två virtuella kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer med deltagare från två olika generationer: generation X och geneThis study aims to provide insight to the rather new phenomenon Corporate Social Advocacy by examining how it is communicated on social media today and how the message is received by consumers. In order to answer our research questions we have gathered empirical material through two qualitative virtual focus groups consisting of respondents from two different generations: generation X and generati
Planning for an aging population is a phenomenon that has become increasingly more pertinent for Swedish planning agencies. As the number of people within the oldest age groups is rising, the society as a whole is faced with challenges in order to accommodate the increased number of elderly. One key concept within elderly urban planning is mobility, which describes an individual's ability or c
Sustainable development and sustainable urbanism has been receiving an increasingly influential role in urban development throughout the last decades, and many cities label themselves as ‘green’, ‘smart’, and ‘sustainable’. At the same time municipalities have been experiencing increasing economic pressure due to decentralization processes, which has resulted in them carrying a central role in dev
The aim of this study is to examine how social workers in child welfare identify and reflect on stress in order to research to what extent social workers understand and use empathy in their professional role. The aim was also to examine the extent to which these social workers have developed an understanding of secondary traumatic stress, a particular type of stress where empathy is identified as
Digitalisation has had a profound effect on our society. Much of our daily lives revolve around digital errands that, providing we have the appropriate skills, provide us with innumerous conveniences. Unfortunately for those who do not have such competencies, these normal everyday tasks have become unmanageable and as a result of the McDonaldization of society there are very few places to which th
Gender Studies departments have struggled to legitimize their own space in the Swedish academia from 70´s. Even when the institutionalization of Gender Studies can be told as a success story, its departments continue to be quite paradoxical spaces in the academia, where the feminist oppositional tendency seems to collide with academic standards and requirements. Additionally, this clash is aggrava
The author of this work has launched a Swedish brand producing fine quality leather goods and acquired an atelier operating in the heart of Transylvania, Romania, with the manufacturing of leather goods since 1991. The production house now needs a new building in Cluj in order to grow and meet the new work ethics. As a response to the collapse of a sewing factory building in Bangladesh 2013, kill
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the default risk of acquiring companies. The sample consists of 276 transactions carried out between 2010 and 2018 by acquirers from Western European financial sector. We estimate the acquirer’s default risk using Merton Distance-to-Default model and further regress a set of independent variables with the changes in
Many studies on how to encourage pro-environmental behaviour have been done. However, they have tended to focus on individual behaviour in isolation of social interactions despite increasing scepticism about the effectiveness of this approach in promoting the necessary transition toward a more sustainable society. Such a transition constitutes a central part of the transformational mode of sustain
This project started out of love for the enjoyment of healthy food. A summer in France opened up my world to the wonderful beverage that is natural wine and the beautiful process of making it. But, there is a strong critical agenda in the Nordic countries, and the natural wine has not gotten a warm welcome. I found a potential to increase interest by introducing natural wine in a new way tha
Due to insufficient knowledge on preschool teacher reporting obligations, studies show that fewer reports are made regarding children that might need help. The aim of the study was to illustrate how preschool teachers interpret and apply the law on reporting obligations in preschool activities and to illustrate the collaboration between preschool and social services. What does preschool teachers t
The following paper documents the experience of a fieldwork realized in July 2012 in Kviberg, a marketplace in the outskirts of Gothenburg. It is located in an area of high unemployment and a high number of inhabitants born outside Europe. A series of conversations with its merchants were documented and consequently, contrasted with other information sources, mainly articles from the local newspap
