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Social and ecological sustainability are recognized pillars of sustainable development. However, it is not always clear how they are supposed to be achieved jointly. This unclarity can lead to major tradeoffs between social and ecological sustainability which ultimately endangers our prospects for sustainable development. In Malmö, Sweden, the tension of social and ecological sustainability can be

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka kompetenser som anses viktiga för en revisor att besitta och utifrån Det dubbla greppet analysera hur den teknologiska utveckl-ingen i revisionsbranschen har påverkat revisorns kompetenser. Metod: För att undersöka syftet har en intressentanalys genomförts. Denna har genomfört med hjälp av kvalitativa och semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sex olPurpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate which competences that’s considered important for auditors to possess and based on Det dubbla greppet analyse how the techno-logical development has effected competences auditors possess. Methodology: In order to investigate the purpose of the essay the authors conducted a stakeholder analysis. To achieve this semi structured qualitative inter

The Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC was implemented in Finland by the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016, “Procurement Act”) which entered into force on 1 January 2017. The most important obligation of the Procurement Act is the obligation to organise a competi

The understanding of the link between the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and gender has been extensively researched and is widely accepted as foundational for achieving safe and equal provision of WASH-facilities. Interventions aimed at improvements in the sector are common in low- and middle-income countries, however, there is a limited number of approaches for measuring their outcom

In recent years, the use of childcare especially in rich countries, has gone through a huge development. Well-established theories and previous research suggest that the social infrastructure has a positive impact on economic growth and that there is a positive relationship between childcare and equality. However, studies about how childcare affects economic growth are scarce. The aim of the study

The spread of omotenashi has been growing somewhat rapidly for the past few years outside of Japan, notably to the region of South East Asia such as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand. This spread might be contributed to the widely expected positive impacts of omotenashi such as its capability to improve the overall level of customers’ satisfaction through the empowerment of the service

Den avtalsrättsliga lojalitetsplikten fungerar som skydd för parterna i den svenska avtalsrätten, och har sina rötter i den romerska rättens uttryck bona fides, vilket kan sammanfattas stå för rättvisa och hederlighet. Plikten kan ge uttryck för skyldigheter parterna emellan, som utöver det avtalade innehållet kan komma att aktualiseras i form av en allmän rättsprincip. Syftet med uppsatsen är attThe contractual principle of loyalty exists in Swedish contract law and protects the contracting parties. The principle has its roots in Roman law, and in its expression bona fides, which can be concluded as equivalence and honesty. The duty could express obligations between the parties which, in addition to the agreed content of the agreement, and may be used as general principle of law. The purp

Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to (1) investigate if product attributes relevant for early stages of the product life cycle enable the survival of disruption and (2) to further examine if there are any specific product attributes related to later stages of the product life cycle enabling market innovation. Methodology: For the purpose of this thesis, qualitative semi-structured int

In Sweden, both house prices and household debt have more than doubled over the last two decades. This rapid surge has generated concerns about a housing bubble and the economic consequences that may follow, resulting in a considerable body of research analysing the fundamentals of Swedish house prices. To assess how a bubble or a crisis would ripple over the housing market, it is key to also unde

Creative agency acquisitions by leading management consulting firms is a phenomenon that was recently discovered. Therefore, very few studies have explored M&As within this specific context. This lack of research is surprising because in today’s highly competitive environment businesses increasingly have started acquiring external creative capabilities to be able to provide end-to-end solution

The presence of the police in social media may be considered going against the otherwise factual, professional and impartial authority which they are lawfully required to maintain. This, as a result of social media communication tending to be less formal than traditional methods of communication. The aim of this thesis is to examine the social media presence of the Swedish Police from several dif

The omnipresent megatrend digitalization significantly challenges traditional banking organizations. Banking employees’ work life, including their job role and identity are subject of radical change. Due to banks’ importance to societies and economies, those consequences of digitalization need investigation to prepare for expected future changes. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to understa

Fler företag ser värdet av att implementera ett CRM-system för att få konkurrensfördelar. Implementationen har visat sig vara en svår process och en majoritet anses misslyckas. Genom att identifiera kritiska framgångsfaktorer har akademin försökt underlätta för framtida implementationer genom att peka på faktorer som bör beaktas för en lyckad implementation. En stor del av denna litteratur lägger

I en era av digitalisering är organisationers förmåga att anpassa sig till nya teknologier allt mer viktigt för att kunna förbättra befintliga verksamhetsprocesser. Blockchain är kortfattat en distribuerad databas som tillåter flera aktörer att ingå i ett och samma nätverk, vilket innebär att alla aktörer har samma version av dataregistret. Uppsatsen har som syfte att redogöra för vilka organisato

Introduktion: Patienter som genomgår öppen bukkirurgi har en ökad risk för att drabbas av hypotermi på grund av att en stor kroppsyta exponeras och utsätts för kyla. Hypotermi påverkar kroppens fysiologi på flera nivåer; koagulationen, immunsystemet och farmakodynamiken och farmakokinetiken blir påverkad. Detta kan resultera i ökad morbiditet och mortalitet. Syfte: Att sammanställa evidens med kva

Under senare år har tillväxten av gränsöverskridande M&A varit stor på den nordiska marknaden, vilken upplevde sin kulmen under 2018. Under samma tidsperiod har den nordiska marknaden kännetecknats av volatila växelkurser, vilket resulterat i en pånyttfödd diskussion om växelkursens påverkan på inflödet av utländska direktinvesteringar. Med avsikt att utröna huruvida ett samband faktiskt exist

This thesis deals with the problem of outsourced emissions, the situation when the consumption of (predominantly Global North) countries with high carbon efficiency drives emissions in (predominantly Global South) countries with low carbon efficiency. The EU as a climate leader and an economic superpower subsumes a large share of outsourced emissions. Outsourcing can be measured by the consumption

Reading promotion has a key role in the Swedish public library context. The Swedish Library Act includes reading promotion in paragraph 7. Even though the Act specifies that children and young adults should be given extra attention in the scope of reading promotion the Acts main aim is to serve the population as a whole. Reading promotion constitutes a significant part of the public libraries miss

Syftet med studien var att nå fördjupad förståelse för hur kollo som LSS-insats upplevs av föräldrar till barn med funktionsnedsättning. Föräldrarnas uppfattning om barnets och eventuella syskons upplevelse var också av intresse. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 11 föräldrar till barn med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning och/eller diagnos inom autismspektrat. Data analyserades med te