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This paper investigates the barriers that immigrant woman entrepreneurs (IWEs) face in starting their firms, and the strategies they use to overcome them. The study interviewed seven IWEs in Skåne, Sweden to gain a deeper understanding of their experiences. The study uses a theoretical framework that focuses on gender, family, culture, social and human capital and the institutional barriers as the
This thesis examines how the transition from a linear product development process to a faster and iterative one affects the extent and quality of cross-functional collaboration within a company. It investigates both what changes such a transition entails, as well as how they may be explained. The setting of the study is the software development department of a multinational consumer electronics fi
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore what students at samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten in Lund thought were important characteristics for a future attractive workplace, which work motivation they had and if there was a correlation between these. The study also examined if there was a difference between men and women. The research method was survey and we collected the data thro
Abstract Arbetets art: Kandidatuppsats, 15 poäng. Sidantal: 40 sidor Hur påverkas huspriserna av boräntor och vad skulle ske med huspriserna om ränteavdraget slopades? Författare: Arash Saleh Tabari Handledare: Klas Fregert Datum: 2015-01-12 : Bakgrund Jag har valt att undersöka ränteavdraget och effekten ett slopat ränteavdrag skulle få på huspriser. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda p
Examensarbetets titel: Dina åsikter spelar roll - En kvalitativ studie av konsumentrecensioner online Seminariedatum: 2015-01-15 Ämne/kurs: FEKH29, Examensarbete kandidatnivå i marknadsföring, 15 HP Författare: Jens Boström, Denis Maliqaj och Bobo Tiger Handledare: Clara Gustafsson Fem nyckelord: Konsumentrecensioner online, e-WOM, CCT, Gemenskaper, Informationsdelning vid konsumtion. Syfte:Title: Your opinions matter - A qualitative study of consumer reviews online. Seminar date: 2015-01-15 Course: FEKH29, Degree Project in Marketing Undergraduate Level, 15HP Authors: Jens Boström, Denis Maliqaj and Bobo Tiger Advisor: Clara Gustafsson Key words: Online consumer reviews, e-WOM, CCT, Online Communities, Information sharing regarding consumption. Purpose: The purpose of this stu
För att beskriva det naturliga energiflödet till vattenkraftverken i Argentina har man kalibrerat modellen Scania-HBV. I Argentina är vattenkraftverkens installerade elproduktionskapacitet 11095 MW och står för 36 % av den totala kapaciteten. Det är möjligt att göra vinster i elmarknaden genom att modellera inflödet av energi eftersom man bättre kan förutspå hur mycket energi som är tillgängligt f
This study investigates whether privately funded aid projects enable a more effective development compared to publicly run, with the perspectives of local street-level bureaucrats at focus. The purpose is to highlight aid workers as much of policy is being formed and put into practice at street-level rather than policy level in developing countries. New emerging actors on the aid arena also calls
Denna fallstudie undersöker en rektors ledarskap på en grundskola i en kommun i södra Sverige. Syftet för studien är att analysera rektorns ledarskap i förhållande till lärarnas lärande och utveckling och vidare hur lärarna uppfattar detta. Kommunen använder sig av ett externt kvali-tetsverktyg (LS) i syfte att ledaren ska utveckla medarbetarna för att det vidare ska öka resultatet i organisatione
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka individers förmåga och vilja att göra val, mer specifikt vilka faktorer som kan leda till att individer ibland väljer att inte välja alls. Jag har undersökt teorier kring ångeraversion och förväntad ånger, påverkan av beslutskostnad och tidsinkonsistenta preferenser och prokrastinering, och hur dessa påverkar individers benägenhet att undvika att välja. Mi
Health Information has a great potential to support decisions in the Health System. Making a decision in Health System (HS) can no longer be seen as a problem owing to technical advancements in computing and telecommunications. This is due to the harnessing of the effective decision-making process in order to leverage information flow. However, how the information flow in Malawi supports decision-
The purpose of this study was to investigate massively-multiplayer online role-playing games from the social interactionist perspective. The aim was to chart the social interaction within the game environment as well build upon previous known findings concerning player's in-game preferences as well as the sociability of the game environment. The questions addressed by this study were: - How d
Authors: Matilda Berggren and Sanne Modin Title: The power within empowerment - A study of the outreach work performed by Mentor Mothers in The Kingdom of Swaziland Supervisor: Anna Angelin Assessors: Anna Meuwisse and Max Koch Our aim with this thesis was to identify potential barriers and potential possibilities in the work of Mentor Mothers. Through interviews with women working in the project
In compliance with the environmental objective Non-toxic Environment, the city of Landskrona town and the County Administrative Board of Scania collected and analyzed Cormorant eggs (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) from the island Gråen outside Landskrona for various pollutants. This study aims to investigate whether measured concentrations of mercury (Hg), Zinc (Zn), and Copper (Cu) exceed those fr
We study the determinants of corporate CDS spreads for 125 companies headquartered in the Eurozone, with an emphasis on sovereign CDS spreads as a main determinant of corporate CDS spreads in levels and changes. This is done by analyzing financial companies, as well as non-financial companies. The period of analysis is from January 2004 to April 2014, which has been divided into 3 sub-periods; bef
Summary Title Are older consumers of interest for the Swedish Apparel market? A study of older consumers’ attitudes and interests in apparel Deadline 12 January, 2007 Course FEK 533 Authors Brusk Kutlay and Linda Nordén Tutors Björn Carlsson and Roland Knutsson Keywords Older consumer, apparel, lifestyle, attitudes, consumer behavior Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate weather the
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Purpose: To explore how the changes in work life, here represented and depicted through the concepts of knowledge work and knowledge worker, have been incorporated in the official psychosocial work environment discourse in Sweden. Methodology: Critical discourse analysis, contrasting the official psychosocial work environment discourse to literature on knowledge work and knowledge worker, to explo
The research presented in this paper is based on interviews with 51 employees from 51 different organizations (including private and public sectors). Employees were interviewed more than once, over a period of 6 months, each interview lasted between 30 min to 1 h. The discussion in this paper is based on interviews during sessions which were explicitly dedicated to Information Systems and Cybersec
Denna avhandling är en sammanläggningsavhandling som består av tre enskilda forskningsartiklar som undersöker om och hur de inflytelserika åren, negativa händelser och kollektiva kriser påverkar social tillit – tron att dom flesta människor går att lita på. Trots det omfattande vetenskapliga intresset för social tillit, baseras större delen av tidigare forskning om hur social tillit formas över liThis dissertation is a compilation thesis comprised of three individual research articles that explore whether and how the impressionable years, detrimental events and collective crises predict social trust – the belief that most people can be trusted. Despite the widespread scholarly interest in social trust, most previous research in the formation of social trust over the life-course is based on
