The sharing economy emerged in the last decade as an innovative business model in response to economic fallout, societal distress, and surging awareness over the devastating effects of the climate crisis. It pledges to repudiate mass consumption in favour of a democratization of access to common resources. This thesis seeks to dissect how the Japanese government has employed the sharing economy––a

The integration of migrants' children in host societies has become one of the main challenges for Italy. Schools and educational institutions play a central role in this process as they provide a fundamental basis for human capital accumulation and integration of new migrant generation. In recent years, the exponential growth of Italy's second-generation migrants has increasingly shown the

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

There is a tendency for organizations to draw on social and political issues to make brands relevant to consumers, among which the appropriation of women empowerment discourse has attracted considerable attention because of its success in practice. Give the paucity of studies both in strategic communication to evaluate consumers responses to organizations’ communication strategies and in advertisi

This research aims to improve the understanding of the relationships between formal and informal strategic planning in reference to performance among SMEs. A qualitative case study was chosen as the approach for this thesis. The data was collected by conducting ten interviews with ten different manufacturing SMEs in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A purposive sampling was conducted to ensure relevance

Background: The current lack of knowledge among entrepreneurs to manage the e-commerce market has created an increased need for incubator activities and the support that incubators can assist entrepreneurs with. Incubators intend to contribute with support for companies by assisting with various services where the success of business development can lie in different combinations of these services

This thesis draws on eleven semi-structured interviews with Duterte supporters. It analyses how the president is perceived by Filipinos, more specifically by those who support him and live in Sweden and the Philippines, in order to provide an in-depth understanding of the appeal of Duterte to his supporters. The thesis focuses on the main reasons for Duterte’s popularity, the war against drugs and

I Sverige har den psykiska ohälsan ökat och år 2016 var det närmre 190 000 barn och unga vuxna som led av psykisk ohälsa. Tidigare forskning visar att identifieras psykisk ohälsa tidigt kan psykisk ohälsa i vuxen ålder förebyggas och skolsköterskor har en viktig roll i det arbetet. Studiens syfte var att undersöka skolsköterskors upplevelser av att arbeta och ge stöd till barn och ungdomar med psy

The purpose of this journal is to describe and analyse both the corporate leader's and the brand’s visibility in order to understand the different types of alignment between corporate leaders and brands. The research has a qualitative and inductive approach and is conducted through a multiple-case study where four leaders and their respective brands were described and analysed. The four cases

It is challenging for the food industry to deliver products that satisfy consumers changing desires and needs. Baobab is a fruit that holds potential for the development of trendy food products due to its rich nutritional profile and unique rheology. Unlike most fruits, it contains a dry pulp with a moisture content of 11-12 % (Phytotrade, 2008). Despite these features, baobab has been overlooked

The 2014 Êzîdî Genocide caused a rupture in the social fabric of the Iraqi religious Êzîdî minority. A search for meaning in the aftermath of violence has caused a group of Şingali poets to reconstruct memories of the past through their narration in Arabic prose poetry. A narrative analysis has been used on a selection of poems written and interviews conducted with five poets. I investigate their

Against the backdrop of universality proposals claiming that all the world’s languages share the way they conceptualise and express THINKING, this study investigates verbs of thinking in German and Swedish in a comparative perspective. In particular, it examines semantic specificity in verbs of thinking (the restricted availability of only one specific verb in a certain context), and the potential

This thesis describes attempts at estimating the uncertainty of the 2-metre temperature forecast error from a probabilistic point of view, utilizing Bayesian neural networks. Bayesian neural networks are a type of machine-learning algorithms used to find patterns in data and make probabilistic predictions. Multiple fields of output data from the ECMWF IFS global model, along with temperature measu

Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are often used in sunscreen and other cosmetic products with sun protection. They are also candidate to be used for various biological applications such as drug delivery, or in material science in for example solar cells. ZnO NPs are produced as liquid suspensions but also as dry powders, which increases the risk of exposure via the air. In this master’s thesis,

The endowment effect, that people tend to value goods higher if owning them than if not, conflicts central economic principles. A new theory explains this price disparity by uncertain sellers’ and buyers’ strategic reliance on opposite borders of a spectrum of possible utilities of a good. Through a review of concurrent theories, this paper highlights the superiority of the new uncertain utilities

För att utvärdera en relativt ny typ av filterbottensystem som finns installerat i ett flertal vattenverk i Sverige så gjordes en bedömning av samspelet mellan ett snabbfilters prestanda och dess filterbottensystem. Målet var att bedöma filterbottensystemets påverkan på kvaliteten av det filtrerade vattnet och på energikonsumtionen under backspolningsprocessen och att använda denna information förThe interplay between the performance of a rapid gravity filter and its underdrain system was to be assessed in order to evaluate the performance of an unconventional underdrain system that is installed in a number of water treatment plants in Sweden. The aim was to assess the influence of the underdrain system on the filtered water quality and the energy efficiency of the backwash process of the

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to, from a critical feminist perspective, illustrate and create understanding for how companies use feminism to broadcast commercial messages. Methodology: The study was conducted in the form of a case study. The analysis was made by doing a qualitative content analysis of images and text in order to illustrate the material’s underlying meaning. Theoretical

En renare miljö eller påminnelse att fimpar också är skräp minskar mängden fimpar som slängs på marken. Nedskräpning är ett stort och allvarligt problem både på ett miljömässigt och på ett samhällsmässigt plan. Plast är enligt genomförda skräpmätningar den överlägset vanligaste skräpkategorin i våra parker, städer och på våra stränder. Cigarettfimpen toppar listan inom kategorin – runt 1 miljard Various research and initiatives are being done to decrease the amount of litter in our environment. The most common type of litter found in our parks, cities and on our beaches is plastic, where cigarette butts are one of the most common subcategories. To be able to take effective measures against such a hazardous problem as this, one must look to the source of it – in this case human littering b