Title: The Annoyance of Cultural Diversity Management Authors: Gijs Appeldoorn & Max Leo Rodeck Supervisor: Sverre Spoelstra Date: 22nd May 2015 Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to contribute to the merger and acquisition, the post-merger integration and, in particular, the cultural diversity management literature with insights into how middle managers experience organizationa

The dynamics of misvaluation and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have long been debated in light of the efficient market hypothesis. Still, the existence of misvaluation in itself raises the eyebrows of economists as it would entail the possibility of cross-border arbitrage. Consequently, within the debate trying to enlighten the matter, the primary purpose of this thesis is to investigate the dyn

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för hur konsumenters preferenser av försäljningskanaler reflekteras av deras relation till premiumvarumärken vilken vidare medieras via deras identitetsskapande. Metod: Denna studie har hermeneutik som utgångspunkt och har använt en kvalitativ metod med abduktiv ansats för att kunna kombinera befintliga teorier med insamlad empiri. Teoretiska pers

Hållbarhetslabb – ett konkret sätt att skapa hållbara städer Städer står inför många utmaningar. Redan idag koncentrerar städer utsläppsintensiva aktiviteter såsom transporter, boende och konsumtion och lider också av negativa effekter av utsläppen i form av ett förändrat klimat med bland annat värmeböljor eller översvämningar. Sociala problem som till exempel segregation är inte heller ovanligt Cities face growing pressures from increasing populations, giving rise to environmental and social problems. The transition towards more sustainable urban areas has thus become an urgent matter, demanding innovative solutions and means to test and deploy them. Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have emerged as a new approach to experimentation in real-life city settings. This thesis seeks to examine how ULL

This thesis explores the status of socio-political society, rule of law, and economic society in Communist Poland and contemporary Egypt prior to their respective transitions. After establishing a status of aforementioned societal institutions, this thesis will aim to show the influence these institutions had on a transition process in both of these cases. In order to achieve this task, the thesis

Unlimited vacation policies are a rising trend, particularly among startup and tech companies. Giving employees total freedom to choose their vacation days may prove to be beneficial for both company and employees. Within this paper, a qualitative research is presented, with the objective of finding out how unlimited vacation policies (UVPs) influence job satisfaction among employees, and what imp

Nytt verktyg för att studera svampars växtsätt Med ett nyutvecklat verktyg med mikrolabyrinter gjutna i silikon kan man studera svampars tillväxt på nya sätt. Svampars växtsätt är inte väl utforskat trots att de har en väldigt stor betydelse för mänskligheten. Att ha mikrolabyrinter i silikon under en kemisk gradient innebär att man bättre kan förstå hur svampens olika delar kommunicerar mellan Recent research has been done with fungal hyphae growing in mazes or hyphae growing under the influence of a gradient. This research could give new knowledge on how fungi grow in relation to its surroundings. As fungi are important for biological decomposing, human agriculture, medicine and many other areas, this has inspired us to study hyphal growth inside a maze simultaneously under the influen

This thesis describes the development of software for an X-ray spectrometer at MAX IV. The main functionality of the software is to create an energy spectrum from detector data. A new beamline, SPECIES, is under construction at the MAX IV synchrotron facility. One of the experimental stations at SPECIES contains an X-ray spectrometer. The spectrometer will be used to analyse X-rays scattered by r

Att öka förståelsen av sina kunder har utvecklats till en allt viktigare uppgift för dagens företag. För att få bättre kunduppfattning utvecklas i detta examensarbete ett nytt mått som bedömer kundinformation. Ett allt vanligare problem för affärsverksamheter är att försäljnings- och marknadsföringskostnader ökar. Detta beror på att dagens kunder har alltmer olikartade köpbeteenden. För att kunna Customer segmentation and target analysis are two essential tasks when identifying a company’s customers. To perform these tasks, this thesis develops and applies hybrid data-mining models, integrating clustering and decision trees. The hybrid models are applied to the life-logging camera company Narrative, in order to gain insights into their customer data. From previous research, we found that t

Prevention is the best and the most cost-effective way to stop crime and violence, it should therefore be a priority for society. The city of Malmö has recently started a crime preventive project in Almgården, which is a part of the city. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if the city of Malmö is working effectively with the project according to how scientific research says that a crime prev

Målformulering: Examensarbetet primära mål är att påvisa att de byggentreprenörer som arbetar med BIM bidrar till ett effektivare arbetssätt och ekonomiskt mervärde. Detta genom att visa att en fundamental BIM-nytta såsom mängdavtagning är en ekonomisk vinning. Syfte: Syftet är att påvisa attmängdavtagningav väggar, bärande samt rumsbildande, inklusive dörrar och fönster via BIM är ett ekonomisktPurpose: The primary purpose is to demonstrate that constructors, which use BIM, contributes to a more efficient work and economic value to the process of construction projects. This, by showing that a fundamental use of BIM in "quantity take-off” is a financial gain. Furthermore, the study aims to evaluate how projects affected by the extent of BIM-use is in current situation. Additionally,

Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka hur nya sociala entreprenörer arbetar för att bygga legitimitet i sina företag och huruvida de finner det vara en konflikt mellan de sociala aspekterna och att generera vinst. Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ fallstudie med abduktiv ansats. Vi genomför semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sex sociala företag och två inkubatorer i Sverige. Teoretiska per

This study of the characters of Deborah and Jael entails not only reading the Biblical text, but also reading both ancient and contemporary interpreters who in one way or another elaborate on the otherwise sparsely described characters. In other words: How they fill the gaps. The obvious problem for both ancient and contemporary interpreters is questions of gender, what does it mean that the story

Two ternary columnar composite crystals, Ba15Zr14Se42 and Sr21Ti19Se57, have been characterized and modeled three-dimensionally [1] and they are stated to have a commensurate crystal structure similar to several incommensurate ternary sulfur compounds [2]–[6]. To evaluate whether the two columnar compounds are isostructural to the sulfur compounds they need to be modelled four-dimensionally.

Spice can be seen as an herbal mixture that consists of synthetic cannabinoids, which are designed to provide a marijuana-like high. In Sweden and other countries there have been legal actions to ban the synthetic cannabinoids in Spice, but when a chemical becomes illegal the substances in Spice will be replaced with a new legal one. For that reason can Spice be seen as a drug placed in a so-calle

Understanding the regeneration of the human lung epithelium following injury is essential to the development of new therapies for lung diseases such as COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and IPF (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis). However, the current knowledge of the stem/progenitor cell hierarchy of the human lung epithelium is lacking. Based on known surface markers for basal cells, a

Syftet med studien är att undersöka kundlojalitet på lågengagemangsmarknader och därigenom förstå och redogöra för om företag som erbjuder lågengagemangsprodukter kan uppnå sann kundlojalitet utifrån sitt produkt- och serviceerbjudande och i så fall hur de detta kan göras. Denna abduktiva studie är utformad utifrån en kvalitativ ansats med inslag av kvantitativ metod i form av fokusgrupper, observThe purpose of this study is to analyze the customer loyalty that exists in a low-involvement market. The study will enable an understanding for if companies selling low-involvement products can attain true customer loyalty through the product and service offered, and if so, how this can be accomplished. This abductive study is using a qualitative framework with elements of a quantitative method b

The aim of this study was to examine how school counselors in a middle-sized and a small municipality in southern Sweden experienced bullying as a phenomena and how they worked on preventing the problem. We also wanted to examine how the internal and external cooperation worked in the different municipalities. The study was based on semi-qualitative interviews with school counselors on schools wit