I denna uppsats analyserar vi de stora samhällsförändringarna i Jugoslavien och Egypten och identifierar den organisation som varit drivande i revolutionerna. En stor del av det empiriska materialet utgörs av berättelser och intervjuer med personer som direkt upplevt och varit delaktiga i händelseutvecklingen. Vi utgår ifrån teorin om sociala rörelser och i kombination med teorin om socialt kapita

Denna studie ger en problematiserande bild av organisation som en könsneutral företeelse. Dess två kompletterande syften är att å ena sidan problematisera begreppet könad organisation (”gendered organization”) och ge en kontextbaserad förklaring till dess innebörd, å andra sidan att undersöka om Företagsekonomiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet kan betraktas som en könad organisation. Den anv

In the Maldives tourism dominates the economy directly and indirectly with 70% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) making the country’s economy heavily dependent on this sector. This should (theoretically) also imply many job opportunities for the Maldivians; however only 3% of the tourism labour force is made up by Maldivian women as opposed to 51% which are Maldivian men. This low number of female w

This investigation is about Establishment reform that was launched by the Swedish government in December 2010, which is looked at from the discourse perspective. In order to reveal the contents of dominating and alternative discourses around the reform, as well as show the existing value conflict, Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is applied to the documents about the reform, parliament deb

Den 28:e november 2010 publicerade mediaorganisationen Wikileaks en dokumentläcka som bestod av 251 287 dokument från det amerikanska utrikesdepartementet. Denna läcka kom att skapa en het debatt runt om i världen. Ett av de länder som nämns bland dokumenten är Sverige och även här blossade en diskussion upp. Denna uppsats använder detta fall för att problematisera hur den svenska dagspressen rapp

ABSTRACT Author: Emmy Emanuelsson, Erika Jönsson Title: A qualitative study about how professionals reflect on learning-disabled parental capacity Supervisor: Alexandru Panican Assessor: Christina Erneling The purpose with this study was to explore how professionals in social work reflect on learning-disabled parental capacity from a child- and parent perspective. We have investigated two differen

I dagens informationssamhälle är ett av företagens viktigaste konkurrensmedel hur medarbetarna tar till sig, bearbetar och förmedlar information, med andra ord hur de kommunicerar. Kraven har blivit högre på internkommunikationen i moderna organisationer, vilket har fått konsekvenser för människors yrkesroll, vars mjuka värden prioriteras såsom förmågan att kommunicera. Därför är det av intresse aIn the information society, one of the most important competitive weapon for the companies, is how their co-workers process and mediate information, in other words how they communicate. The demands on the internal communication are higher today in modern organizations. This has consequences for people’s professional roles, which nowadays focus on soft qualities for example the skill to communicate

Den här uppsatsen undersöker vilken effekt mottaget bistånd har på den ekonomiska tillväxten. Detta görs genom en sammanställning över tidigare forskning inom området, samt med hjälp av enklare tester för att undersöka biståndseffektiviteten betingat på olika faktorer. Det visar sig att bistånd är beroende av att det finns en av bistånd oberoende miljö i landet som främjar ekonomisk tillväxt, då b

The purpose of this study was to examine the responsibility for children’s right to education. More precisely the aim was to find out who, in the on-going debate, was presented as being responsible of making sure that children, who have the right and obligation to attend school, actually do so. In my study I did a document analysis of two newspapers, one for teachers; Lärarnas tidning, and one for

This paper is a case-study of river rafting in California. The purpose is to contribute with an anthropological approach to the subject of risktaking within the adventure sport. The significance of the risk factor to identity creation af the rafting guide is examined. Furthermore it is examined, in which way strong character, autority, the stautus as river god/godish and adventure indentity is bei

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

On the ground of a highly dynamic economic environment, the necessity for time-varying risk measures emerged. Inclusion of higher-order conditional moments in asset pricing models is a very common topic in recent research articles. The present essay was inspired by the seminal work of Harvey and Siddique (1999), who proposed estimation of time-varying skewness and pricing its explanatory power by

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka medarbetarskapet hos personalen på en statlig myndighet i Skåne, både genom att undersöka om det fanns situationsrelaterade skillnader i gruppen som helhet, men även om det fanns skillnader gällande individrelaterade variabler som kön, anställningstid och utbildning. Material om personalens utveckling i medarbetarskapet, stilmönster, samt deras agerande i The aim of this study was to examine employeeship at a government agency in Skåne, both by examining if there were situational differences in the group as a whole, but also if there were differences regarding individually-related variables such as gender, seniority and education. Information about the development of the staff, employee style, and their actions in different situations, employee sty

The structural approach to credit risk modeling has gained a growing attention in both the academics and in the industry. In this dissertation, we outline the basic ideas and structures of the KMV (Merton) model and also explain some related issues before implementing this model. Referring to the KMV model, we use the KMV model to identify the credit risk of listed companies in China. We use real

Purpose: This paper analyzes the connection between the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and the South Korean stock market. It also focuses on the BDI’s connection to the three biggest shipbuilding companies in the country. Methodology: The paper embarks from an econometric perspective. Data was collected and tested through regression analysis. The approach is quantitative. Result: The result assesses that

The society has gone throw a structural change and with it, the political arena. Today several actors are involved in staging the "political". This pose questions about with what purposes these actors enter the arena and how they use communication as a tool to achieve their goals. The purpose is to describe and explain why, and how, different political actors work with strategic communic

This thesis analyzes how the field of library and information science is constituted in 580 theses written between 2000-2010, by library and information science students at the three Swedish universities Borås, Uppsala and Lund. Furthermore, I investigate how the findings from the three universities differ from each other and how the results as a whole can be understood in relation to libraries an

En detaljstudie av två böcker från Folkrepubliken Kina, Kina kan säga nej (1996) samt Kina är inte glad (2009). Dessa böcker är skrivna av två, delvis överlappande, författargrupper. De består av ett antal argumenterande essäer, i stilen närmar de sig programskrifter, och behandlar teman som har med Kina och Kinas (nya) roll i världen att göra.