Newcomer’s strategy for adjustment is to employ active strategies of information seeking through established members of the organisation. Insiders hold the power to control knowledge exchange. Insiders regulate what knowledge they share and what knowledge they take in from newcomers’ prior experiences. Newcomers react to insiders control with holding back expertise and refraining from brin

The empirical study reported in this essay concerns Swedish university level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) and their lexical inferencing skills, that is, their ability to guess the meaning of unknown words in a running text using different types of knowledge and textual cues (Haastrup, 1991). More precisely, the present investigation explores the relationship between students’ in

This paper assesses how Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) impacts female labour force participation in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). To deepen our research we additionally consider whether FDI lead to a decrease in the gender gap in employment participation in the region. The motivation of this research is that SSA governments have been implementing policies to attract FDI in their economies while littl

Private retail banking is a central aspect of contemporary life in Sweden. By engaging in banking actions and activities, individuals are able to access money, make payments and commercial transactions, and aim to organize and control private finances. Through the introduction of banking onto digital platforms, handheld devices and plastic cards, banking has become more flexible, mobile and indivi

En studie om godhetens idé, gestaltad i karaktären furst Mysjkin i Fjodor Dostojevskijs roman Idioten. Teoretisk utgångspunkt för analysen av romanens etiska och religiösa innehåll är västerländsk idealism och rysk-ortodox tradition. Genom att använda de narratologiska begreppen story och plot undersöks berättelserna kring varat, tiden och döden,samt Mysjkin som godhetens idé. I den övergripande s

The focal point of this thesis is the peacebuilding environment in Nepal following the end of the civil war in 2006. A fieldwork investigation was conducted focusing on the perceptions of inhabitants of Kathmandu on peace and peacebuilding issues using semi-structured interviews. By investigating these perceptions the study seeks to answer three main questions: -How can the contrasting perspecti

The aim of the study was to examine the effects of sex-disaggregated budgets (SDBs) by looking at Guatemalan cooperatives. The method of the study was semi-structured interviews carried out with Guatemalan cooperative members and staff accessed through the Swedish Cooperative Center (Swedish development non-governmental organization). The main conclusion is that the SDBs have had substantial posit

We explore whether an investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) is value creating for a firm’s shareholders. We start by establishing a relationship between CSR, corporate reputation and shareholder value. Assuming that membership in a recognized sustainability index signals a commitment to CSR to shareholders and potential investors, we explore both the short-term and intermediary impac

Även om monopol eller en dominerande ställning på marknaden i sig inte anses utgöra ett missbruk i konkurrensrättslig mening, bär ett företag med stark marknadsposition ett särskilt ansvar för att inte begå konkurrensbegränsande handlingar. När konkurrensrätten ingriper i ett dominerande förtags handlingar bör så ske med åtanke av de underliggande överväganden som ligger till grund för konkurrensrEven though competition law will not regard dominance and monopoly as abusive per se, an undertaking with strong market power carries a certain responsibility not to engage in anti- competitive conducts on the market. When competition law is interfering in the conducts of dominators, it is important to take into account the underlying considerations of, on one hand, preservation of efficient compe

Abstract Authors: Johan Nilsson and Emma Johnsson Title: Självbestämmandets villkor - en uppstats om personalens förhållningssätt på gruppboenden inom LSS Supervisor: Lars Harrysson The aim of this study was to examine how staff members within the work area of group homes for disabled grownups conduct themselves in relation to their clients’ rights to self-determination. The base of the study was

Recent studies have shown that increased liquidity is perhaps not always strictly beneficial and that high trading volumes can produce trading noise causing increased volatility above that based on fundamentals. This study investigates whether this applies to the Swedish stock market by analyzing dual-class stocks that have the same cash flow rights but different control rights and different tradi

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan fysisk självkänsla och självskattad fysisk aktivitet hos svenska barn i fjärde och femte klass, samt att undersöka eventuella könsskillnader i den fysiska självkänslan. Intresse fanns även att undersöka om faktorer som idrottslig förmåga, kroppsattraktivitet, fysisk styrka och fysisk kondition har en påverkan på den fysiska sjä

Författare: Björn Bengtsson Handledare: Radhlinah Aulin, Byggproduktion LTH Examinator: Stefan Olander, Byggproduktion LTH Syfte: Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur aktörer i arbetskedjan hanterar konflikter mellan varandra i byggproduktionsskedet. Syftet är även att identifiera de mest förekommande faktorerna som ger upphov till konflikter mellan de olika aktörsgrupperna och föreslå åtgärder

Authors: Cecilia Boweden and Louise Jannesson Title: A Phenomenon in a borderland -The school's responsibility in case of cyber bullying [translated title] Supervisor: Lars B Ohlsson Assessor: Ulrika Levander Schools of today are facing more and more it-technology in teaching. Young people are using the technology both within school and at home because both parents and school staff give t

Kriminalisering är en bland många olika former av social kontroll. När en gärningstyp kriminaliseras beläggs den med straff genom lagstiftning. En kriminalisering ska lämpligen användas som en sista utväg, ultima ratio, eftersom den innebär en inskränkning av individens valfrihet och efter en överträdelse individen kan drabbas av straff, som i sig oftast är menat och uppfattat som något ont. Ett aCriminalization is one among many forms of social control. When an act is criminalized, it is enforced with a penalty by law. Criminalization should be used as a last resort, ultima ratio, since it restricts the individual's choice and after a violation individuals may suffer retribution, which in itself is usually meant and understood as something evil. A too high rate in criminalization may

The essay is concerning soft skills and especially soft skills within the field service engineer role. The authors are identifying the term soft skills and which soft skills that are desirable for a field service engineer working for Tetra Pak. The authors are suggesting how to develop these desirable soft skills in a training environment. The methodology used in this essay is qualitative interv

Beslutstödssystem har använts inom sjukvården sedan slutet av 1950-talet och används idag av både operativ personal och ledning. Denna uppsats undersöker hur effektiva dessa system uppfattas av användarna när det gäller patienthantering och i synnerhet hantering av vårdköer. Satsningen kömiljarden bidrar med ett starkt ekonomiskt incitament där det gäller att hålla nere kötiderna på landstingen i

I denna uppsats jämförs den svenska och den engelska arvsrätten, med inriktning på bröstarvingars rätt att ärva. Syftet med uppsatsen är dels att redogöra hur båda systemen ser ut, dels att utreda vilka likheter och skillnader som finns mellan systemen. Även nutida diskussioner om laglott och testamentationsfrihet tas upp för att utreda om det kommer ske en eventuell förändring i det engelska elle

UNSCR 1325 highlights the importance of studying the relation between identity and international policies, and could be considered an example of how constructions of international policies are made through political representations of different groups. Traditionally in security discourses, women have been portrayed as the most vulnerable group of people in times of armed conflicts. Some feminists