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Looking at the Two Sides of the Equation - How Servitisation Affects the Sustainability-oriented Innovation Adoption Dilemma

Research question: How does servitisation affect the adoption of sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs)? A qualitative study on the role of servitisation on barriers and drivers for SOI adoption. Methodology: The methodological framework for this research is a qualitative multiple case study following an abductive approach. The agricultural industry was used as an empirical tool to conduct th

Spanskspråkig skönlitteratur på svenska. En bibliometrisk och översättningssociologisk undersökning av perioden 1987–2017

Föreliggande uppsats är en bibliometrisk samt översättningssociologisk undersökning av den spanskspråkiga skönlitteraturens närvaro i Sverige under perioden 1987–2017. Syftet är först och främst att undersöka hur mycket spanskspråkig skönlitteratur som har översatts till svenska, vad som översatts, vem som översatt och vem som utgivit litteraturen. Uppsatsens andra syfte är att försöka utröna vad

DevOps team – vad ska vara med?

Den konstanta förändringen sker ständigt i dagens snabbt föränderliga och konkurrensutsatta IT-värld. För att hänga med i förändringarna kommer organisationer behöva anamma DevOps. DevOps är en sammanslagning av de två orden Development (Dev) och Operations(Ops) och gör det möjligt för organisationer att snabbt och frekvent kunna leverera mjukvara av hög kvalitet till kund. När organisationer impl

Framing climate change risks: An instrumental case-study of transnational risks in the response to climate change

The current climate crisis experienced in the 21st century is a never seen before challenge that needs a collective response to address this global problem. Current processes of adaptation concern themselves mostly on local, regional or national level. As of now, the response to climate risks has not led to a cooperative approach to the issue, which has led to detrimental effects for those countri

Beskrivning av våld mot barn i litauiska dagstidningar : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om hur litauiska dagstidningar beskriver våld mot barn mellan år 2016 och 2018

The aim of this study was to examine how Lithuanian newspapers described child abuse between the years 2016 and 2018. The study is based on 42 articles about child abuse from Lithuanian newspapers, which were later processed with qualitative content analyzis. The analyzis of the articles was based on two different theories; claims-making theory and social constructivism. The result of the study sh

Säker köttbullsproduktion

The Swedish legislation regulates that food producers provide safe food from a microbiological perspective. One way to ensure the foods´ quality, is to control the microbiological levels by combining the measures of different time durations and temperatures during cooking. The elimination of microorganisms in food depends on both temperature and time. The higher the temperature, the shorter the ti

Minimum Wages and Poverty in India

A minimum wage policy has often been implemented to get workers out of poverty. However, the policy’s impact has been questioned, both theoretically and empirically, whether it fulfils its purpose. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of minimum wage on poverty in India. After the liberal reforms in 1991 has India been growing steadily, which has been followed by decreasing poverty

Genomic data reveal shared ancestry between Neolithic hunter-gatherers from mainland Sweden and the Baltic Sea Island Gotland

The hunter-gatherer group of Neolithic Scandinavia, the Pitted Ware Culture (PWC), appeared when the initial farmer society, the Funnel Beaker Culture (FBC), had already existed for several hundreds of years. They lived side by side first with the FBC, and later with the Battle Axe Culture (BAC), without adopting the agricultural lifestyle. Although the PWC individuals from a Baltic Sea Island (Go

Education and CO2 emissions through the macroeconomic lens: Assessing their relationship in developing countries from 1996 to 2014

This thesis investigates the macroeconomic relationship between education and CO2 emissions in developing countries. Building on existing literature, a framework is constructed that tries to identify the links underlying this relationship. Education is postulated to affect CO2 emissions in developing countries indirectly through inducing growth, fostering technological change, driving structural t

Eoliska avlagringar och vindriktningar under holocen i och kring Store Mosse, södra Sverige

Eoliska sanddyner är en sällan undersökt resurs ur ett paleoklimatperspektiv. Genom att undersöka dynernas geomorfologi och strukturer kan de klassificeras som olika dyntyper. Eoliska sanddyner kräver speciella omständigheter och förutsättningar för att bildas och agerar värdefulla klimatarkiv för de tidperioder då de avsatts. Dessa klimatarkiv kan berätta om den lokala miljön gällande bland annatAeolian sand dunes is a seldom studied resource from the perspective of paleoclimates. By analysing the dunes geomorphology and structures they can be classified into different type of dunes. Aeolian dunes require special circumstances and conditions to be met to enable their deposition. The sand dunes can then act as precious climate archives for the time periods during which they were formed. Th

Some (just) like it hot: Apolitical politics in the Italian Cabinet

The current Italian Cabinet was composed in 2018 by two populist parties who had never been a relevant participant in the Government before. Social media play a significant role in the communication of both parties, who use Facebook and Twitter to directly reach the citizens. Members of the parties with relevant positions in the Cabinet are delivering an extremely uncommon and often apolitical onl

Our bodies our fights! An explorative analysis of women’s bodies as political territories of struggle and resistance in the global south

The present study represents an explorative analysis on women’s bodily expressions from the global south, more specifically women from five Latin American countries: México, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Peru, in the context of mobilizations from the last International Women’s Day. From theoretical perspectives that interconnect epistemological aspects of feminism and resistance, this research p

The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and The Critical Success Factors of Big Data Analytics

Over the past years, big data analytics (BDA) has gained more attention in both academic fields and business communities, and it was perceived as very beneficial for organizations. However, taking into consideration the quick and chaotic nature of its evolution, in addition to its high dependence on cutting edge technologies, BDA implementations were characterized as vague and risky projects with

FDI and CO2 Emissions in the ASEAN-5 and India

With the tremendous increases in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the last four decades arose the problem of a possible relationship between FDI and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Scholars have hypothesized that international companies invest in countries with lax environmental regulations to escape high production cost, we call this the pollution haven hypothesis. The ASEAN-5, i.e. Indonesia,

’’Vi är nog många som lever i skam, skuld och tystnad’’ : En kvalitativ dokumentstudie om partners till personer med alkoholberoende

This research explored how partners of alcohol addicts articulate experiences of guilt and shame. The method chosen for this qualitative study was a document analysis of an online internet forum specialised in supporting relatives of alcohol addicts. The collected data included 20 distinct forum threads and the data was analysed using Becker’s labelling theory and Goffman’s stigma theory. This stu

Upphovsrättsligt skydd för idéer och koncept – En jämförelse mellan EU-rätt och amerikansk rätt

Upphovsrätten präglas av flera svåra gränsdragningar varav denna uppsats fördjupar sig inom en av dessa. Svårigheten som behandlas i detta sammanhang består av problematiken att avgöra var gränsen går mellan ett skyddat verk och en oskyddad idé. Vissa aspekter inom området är tydliga, i form av att enbart en idé inte kan åtnjuta upphovsrättsligt skydd medan en färdig produkt har möjlighet till skyThe Copyright law is filled with difficulties regarding boundaries of with this thesis deepens itself within one of these. The difficulty in this context consists of the problem of determining where the boundaries, in which a work can be qualified for copyright protection, lies between a protected work and an unprotected idea. Since certain aspects of the field are clear, in the form of that an id

Virtual Reality for Prototyping Personalization of an Autonomous Drive Context

The development of Autonomous Drive is escalating, but designing for User Experience in autonomous vehicles remains a challenge since there are no such vehicles out on the commercial market today. Designers are struggling to gain customer insights since the target customers never tried such a product. On the other hand, the main user group of Autonomous Drive in the future will most likely be peop

”Man måste se det som ett jobb” : En kvalitativ studie om hur sjukhuskuratorer resonerar kring och hanterar emotioner i arbetet.

The aim of this study was to investigate and explain how counselors at hospitals describe their experience and coping with emotions at work. The study was based on five qualitative semi-structured interviews with counselors in hospital settings. The main issue in this study was to identify social workers’ strategies for coping with emotions in emotional labour. The primary theoretical framework fo