SAMMANFATTNING Examensarbetets titel: Att Brygga Förtroende, Förtroendets påverkan på ex ante- och ex post transaktionskostnader. Seminariedatum: 2017-06-02 Ämne/Kurs: FEKH19, Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete inom Strategic Management på kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng. Författare: Joakim Olsson, Johanna Hjälm och Linda Österdahl Handledare: Niklas Lars Hallberg Nyckelord: Transaktionskostnadsteorin,

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how increased female political participation has affected domestic gender-based violence in Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda saw an estimated 800,000 people being killed in a genocide. The country’s economic, political and social structure was left in shambles. Post-genocide, women made up 70% of the population and were forced to take on new roles in the rebuilding

Autonomous vehicles, or as we usually know them by, self-driving cars, are often presented as the transportation technology of the future. The possibility of a vehicle to drive itself without any human intervention or manual control finally becomes possible. The common machine learning algorithm that is being used in autonomous vehicles is the deep learning network. Deep learning is a machine lea

Sandviken är en småstad i Gästrikland med omkring 25 000 invånare. Staden har vuxit upp kring det järnverk som etablerades på platsen 1862. Sandvik AB är än idag den dominerande arbetsgivaren på orten med cirka 6000 anställda. Sandviken har likt många andra mindre städer problem med ett allt mer utarmat centrum. Stadskärnan blir allt mer öde och ett av de mest centrala kvarteren, kv Släggsmeden,

Purpose: Return policies are an important component for consumers when making a decision to transact with an E-tailer, as such it is equally important for E-tailers’ that the returns policy aids in this decision by reducing information asymmetry. While lenient return policies have the ability to influence the customer positively, they are also subject to opportunistic behavior from consumers, as

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur accounts används i finansiell rapportering av företag som misslyckades att nå prognoser av analytiker. Vi ämnade dessutom att undersöka likheter och skillnader avseende användandet av accounts bland utvalda företag i Sverige och Singapore.

Studien avsåg undersöka hur kontext påverkade eventsegmentering och minnesbaserad, temporal bedömning. Vidare undersöktes samband mellan psykiskt mående och förmåga till eventsegmentering. Ett datoriserat minnestest användes för att utforska hur kontext påverkade upplevelsen av temporal närhet mellan två objekt. Objekten hade tidigare presenterats med antingen samma kontext, två olika kontexter elThe study intended to examine how context influenced event segmentation and memory based, temporal estimation. Furthermore the study explored correlation between mental illness and event segmentation. A computerized memory test was conducted to investigate how the contexts influenced the estimation of temporal proximity between two objects. The objects were presented with either same context, two

Det huvudsakliga syftet med detta examensarbete är att utveckla ett konceptförslag på ett avtagbart handtag till köksredskap som är anpassat till personer med reumatism. Då reumatism ofta inträffar i en senare del av livet har individen i fråga redan en uppsättning av köksredskap. Handtaget är därför menat att vara avtagbart så att användaren kan använda sina existerande knivar istället för att kö

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to understand how customers construct the relationship, prior identified in the literature, between packaging, haptic sensory and perception with regard to FMCG products. Furthermore, we aimed to explore the role of haptic packaging characteristics on FMCG products for customers. Methodology: The philosophies of epistemology and ontology were considered b

When an agitator is in commission for an extended period of time the impellers can become clogged. In order to clean the impeller, the agitator is runned backwards. This is one of the main functions for a product that CG Drives & Automation is developing for a customer in the agitator business. The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to develop and test this product for CG Drives & Automati

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a wood material that is often used as load-carrying element in multi-storey buildings (with more than two floors) with wooden frame. Sometimes it is necessary to make notches in load-carrying elements in order to create space for installations. Today there are no instructions regarding how to design CLT in Eurocode. Design of CLT can instead be based on European tec

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to understand the key managerial challenges associated with Big Data. The research aimed to look at the possible obstacles that managers need to overcome while implementing Big Data. The main research question is : What are the main managerial challenges associated with Big Data and what steps are needed to overcome those? Methodology: Based on the concepts of

En internetbaserad enkätstudie med 823 deltagare undersökte huruvida det gick att finna variationer i könsidentitet som överskred en binär syn på könsidentitet, om det fanns upplevelser av könsinkongruens i en icke-klinisk population samt hur två mått på könsidentitet förhöll sig till varandra. Detta undersöktes i en icke-klinisk population. Könsidentitet definierades som ”vilket kön en känner sigAn internet-based survey with 823 participants explored the possibility of finding variations in gender identity that lay outside the gender binary, whether any experiences of gender incongruence were present, as well as how two measures of gender identity were related to one another. This was explored in a non-clinical sample. Gender identity was defined as "the gender one feels like".

Purpose: To examine the wealth-generating effects of LBO exits from the PEs perspective depending on different exit strategies, and to identify how private sponsors’ features like historical performance, size, experience etc. might influence the success of the exit as well as the exit route choice. Methodology: A short-term event study to detect a cumulative abnormal return around LBO exit announc

Sammanfattning Problembakgrund: Forskning visar att mellanchefer har en utsatt roll med krav från många håll. Vidare har det visat sig att mellanchefer i grundskolan ofta slutar sitt arbete för att det är påfrestande på flera sätt. I grundskolan skapas förutsättningar för elever till att bli goda medborgare, vilket kräver att betydelsen av hållbart ledarskap uppmärksammas och förverkligas för mell

In response to the outbreak Global Financial Crisis and European Debt Crisis, major central banks took very accommodative monetary policy stances. By slashing interest rates to the zero-lower bound and introducing unconventional monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing they hoped to boost aggregate demand and inflation. This paper investigates the workings of QE, money creation, potentia

The present study aims to contribute to the research-practice gap debate by addressing the understudied managers’ perspective. Based on a theoretical framework, it incorporates the managers’ stance on four dimensions previously debated by scholars, namely perceived relevance of the research-practice gap, stakeholder relationships, reasons for the gap and research utilization. The small-scale explo

The biological age (BA) equation is a prediction model that utilizes an algorithm to combine various biological markers of ageing. This model has been used to assess the ageing process in a more precise way and may predict possible diseases better as compared with the chronological age (CA). Here study focus on predicting BA as deviation from healthy state of aging and treats CA as known and unkow

Exponering för naturliga element och miljöer har utifrån Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989) visat sig ha positiva effekter på upplevd återhämtning av förmågan till riktad uppmärksamhet. Tidigare forskning har däremot i liten utsträckning undersökt om och i så fall hur denna effekt påverkas när en miljö innehåller information från olika typer av miljöer. Ett experiment med upp

Marriage is closely tied to economic status, and delayed marriage is often a sign of poor economic conditions for younger people. After a century of decline, marriage rates in Ireland appeared to turn a corner in the 1930s. This study examines this apparent period of transition using census data and finds that in reality marriage rates for men engaged in agriculture continued to decline at least u