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Title: The effect of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation: an empirical study of aspiring investment bankers and their extraordinary drive Seminar date: 2019-06-05 Course: FEKH49, Bachelor level thesis in organisation, Business Administration, 15 ECTS Authors: Afnan Al Khalifa and Andreas Källström Advisor: Nadja Sörgärde Keywords: motivation, identity work, extrinsic rewards, monetary c
Title: Constructing the Feeling of Luxury on Social Media: How Traditional Luxury brands, within the luxury goods sector, use Multimodal Communication to maintain Exclusivity on Instagram and TikTok Date of Seminar: June 4, 2025 Course: BUSN39 - Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Elvira Andersson and Hanna Nilsson Supervisor: Ulf Johansson Key words: Luxury Branding, Multimodal Comm
Strategic decision-making (SDM) is a core function of managerial roles, often carried out under pressure, uncertainty, and cognitive limitations. This thesis explores how overconfidence bias affects strategic decision-making in organisational settings. While cognitive biases have been extensively studied in psychology and behavioural economics, the specific impact of overconfidence on business-rel
The discrete Bak-Sneppen model is a Markov chain describing the co-evolution of n species arranged in a one-dimensional circular lattice with periodic boundary conditions. Each species i at time t is assigned a fitness value xi(t) ∈ {0,1} and the system evolves through local interactions: at each time step, a species with fitness 0 is selected, and its fitness—along with that of its two neighbors—
The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the services on the mobile Internet and to identify when, where, and how these service offerings can be profitable. The thesis is a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in the service value chain and with relevant experts. Case methodology have been used to gather and structure the empirical material from three c
This paper investigates the profitability of the zero-cost strategies (Winner-Loser) on the Eurozone market for the time period 1999-2009. We find that the Winner portfolio outperforms the Loser portfolio by, on average, 0,8% per month when we combine formation and holding periods of 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. As the sum of these two periods gets closer to 24 months, the excess returns tend to dissipa
The increase in cyber threats has prompted organizations to adopt more robust cybersecurity frameworks, such as the Zero Trust model. This study investigates the effects of implementing the Zero Trust model on organizations. Based on qualitative analysis of expert views, it finds that Zero Trust enhances an organization's security posture, despite requiring significant changes in user habits a
The paper Pendulum: the partial and global approach combines a historic introduction to the theoretical treatment of pendulum motion with presentation of data from measurements on a single pendulum. This comment focuses on the presentation and analysis of experimental data, and how the use of dimensionless variables in graphs would make use of the mathematical properties, placing the single measur
This article examines what happens when we listen to E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924), suggesting that sound has several important functions in the novel, which relate both to the conflicts between the different cultural groupings and to the existential questions that underpin the plot. In making a distinction both between eye and ear, and then between hearing and listening, the article a
We have prepared nanomaterials consisting of SiO 2 microgranules and Fe-containing nanoparticles on their surface and determined the size and composition of the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are shown to have a core-shell structure (α-Fe core and γ-Fe 2O 3 shell). The α-Fe core and Fe 2O 3 shell are responsible, respectively, for the broad and narrow lines in the EMR spectrum of the nanoparticl
The possibilities of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) are both exciting and potentially concerning in many aspects of higher education. One concern may be that the increased use of GenAI tools exacerbates and perpetuates structural inequities due to the material used to train these tools, counteracting efforts to build inclusive learning communities. In this chapter, we consider how univ
Background: The Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ11) is a commonly used instrument for measuring self-rated occupational balance. It needs further development, and therefore an additional 11 tentative items have been developed. One aspect of this is studying the interpretations and reasoning of people responding to the items/instrument. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and describe
Information encountered in different events, such as people and objects, can be interlinked in memory. Such memory integration supports novel inferences about the world. This study investigates the role of episodic context on memory integration in two experiments using an associative inference task. Participants encoded events with overlapping (AB and BC) and non-overlapping associations (XY) pres
ATP hydrolysis is the driving force of many life processes, yet the exact nature of and contributions to the energetics of this reaction are far from being clear. In particular, it is unclear how much of the driving force of this reaction is due to the separation of the already dissociated ADP + P(i) moieties rather than to the chemical event. This fundamental issue is explored here by ab initio c
The topic solvation thermodynamics is an important aspect of chemistry, dealing with the effects introduced by solvents onto solutes. In particular, biological systems are highly heterogeneous in their choice of solvent typically characterized by either being in a polar or non-polar environment. For example, the cytoplasm of cells constituting the internal environment of cells is an aqueous solven
During the Christianization of the early Slavic realms at the turn of the tenth century, a specific type of noble passion-bearing saint came about. Four saints were promoted in short succession in the western, north-eastern, and south-eastern Slavic realms in the span of less than a hundred years. All four were promoted as noble passion-bearing saints and prototypes of the good Christian ruler. Th
