Det har skrivits mycket om Karen Blixen genom åren, både av danska, svenska och engelsktalande författare. Hennes liv och författarskap har fascinerat många, så även mig. I min uppsats kommer jag att ta fasta på några frågeställningar med anknytning till Den afrikanske farm. Ett syfte är att belysa genreproblematiken, och svårigheten att sätta in Den afrikanske farm i något av de vedertagna genre

Social media has taken a prominent position in our society and is constantly debated in media; warnings are mixed with promises of big opportunities. Young people writing about fashion and every day life make big money, politicians seek online for voters and big companies have found a new way to interact with their customers. Publishing houses and writers are forced to find their place in this new

In order to increase trustworthiness and obtain societal legitimacy, media organisations want their members to become ambassadors. But becoming an ambassador requires identification. Often management tries to foster identification by implementing organisational values without including members in the process of constructing such values. In the present study we explore member identification in rela

For any acquisition to take place the assets to be sold must be valued. Some argue that an asset is worth whatever an acquirer is willing to pay for it at any given time. We believe that there is an underlying value (intrinsic value) that depends on the expected future cash flows of the asset and the risk associated with these cash flows. There exist several methods for estimating this value. Trad

Swedish Match is a global Group of companies with a broad assortment of market-leading brands in smokeless tobacco products, cigars, pipe tobacco and lights products. The South African organization comprises of three individual companies that were acquired between 1999 and 2001. This thesis was focused on two of these three companies, Leonard Dingler and Best Blend with pipe tobacco as the most im

Informationsläckage har blivit ett allt större problem sedan näringslivet blivit allt mer konkurrenskraftigt. Fenomenet informationsläckage är ett diffust och komplext ämne eftersom det kan ske på många olika sätt vilket gör det svårt för organisationer att skydda sig emot det. Denna undersökning innefattar studier på myndigheterna Lunds Kommun och Försvarsmakten, där vi undersöker vilka handlings

The purpose of this Master thesis is to see if the kitesurfing market has changed by evaluating whether or not the kitesurfing market is a homogenous market or if it is diverging into different segments with diverse preferences. Furthermore the purpose was to look at how a North kiteboarding best can work on the kitesurfing market. Hence parts of the purpose were to understand market conditions, c

International roaming has been a frequently debated subject in the European telecom sector lately. While prices on most other mobile services have been reduced by half during the past few years, roaming charges have remained fairly static since the service was first introduced with the birth of GSM. While generating large profits for Europe’s dominating operators, the situation constitutes a restr

Nahoj Nim has for a long time been very successful at developing, producing and selling packaging solutions for the food industry. Today, however, Nahoj Nim faces a new challenge as competitors are gaining market shares. The purchasing unit Component & Technical Consultant Purchasing (hereafter referred to as C&TCP), involved in sourcing, contracting and managing the supplier base for comp

Problem description To develop strategic guidelines for the production that are in line with the vision and marketing strategies of the company. Purpose The purpose is two folded. The first part aims to facilitate future strategic decisions concerning manufacturing. The second is to illuminate why the company should take the manufacturing strategy into consideration when taking other strategic dec

EasyArchive is a vendor of an email archiving software solution. EasyArchive’s sales are not growing with the same speed as the market, which is forecasted to grow with up to 1000% within the next 5 years. EasyArchive’s direct sales force can expand but the company is also evaluating alternative marketing channels. The number of potential types of channels and the number of players in each channel

Women employment is one of the economic variables which may determine the fertility behavior of women. Unlike western nations, very limited studies have been conducting regarding the relationship between women employment and fertility behavior of women in developing countries, specifically in sub-Saharan African countries. In this paper the association between employment status and fertility beha

The no-supply rule provided for in Article 19 and 29 of the Directive constitutes a deviation from the system of VAT. It enables Member States to consider that no supply of goods or services has taken place in the event of a transfer of a totality of assets or part thereof. Although the practice of the Court of Justice sheds light on some issues relating to the transfer of business (what exactly t

During the Cold War days, neo-realism was strong with its claim that foreign policy only could be characterized by self-interest and power-maximizing. The theory was dominating the field of international relations theory during the war's most intense days. However, new elements seem to have appeared thrown into the international politics since the dismantling of Berlin Wall. So, will neo-reali

The public debate on prostitution and the Swedish Sex Purchase Law is still unfinished and highly controversial, not only in Sweden but also abroad. The Sex Purchase Law has attracted much international attention because the law is exclusively aimed at the purchaser of sex and does not single out the prostitute as an offender which makes this law unique in an international comparison. On the basi

Under 2010 anmäldes 18 200 brott mot skattebrottslagen, inklusive grovt skattebrott och vådslös skatteuppgift. Skattebrott upptäcks och anmäls vanligtvis av Skatteverket eller av konkursförvaltare. I de flesta fallen förekommer även en skatteprocess i vilket det ingår skattetillägg. Skattetillägg är en särskild avgift som utgår med 40 % av den skatt som felaktigt deklarerats. Det finns ingen som In 2010 almost 18 200 crimes against the Tax Act, including gross tax crime and tax misdemeanors were reported in Sweden. Tax crimes are usually detected and reported by the Swedish Tax Agency or the liquidator. In most cases a tax procedure even occurs with the debiting of tax surcharges. Tax surcharges is a special charge added to the normal tax with 40% when the income was wrong declared. Ther

The aim of this thesis is to present a proposal for an evolved SQAD (Safety/Quality Assurance and Demonstration)-methodology. SQAD is a Safety Case-based methodology with the main purpose of supplying an effective tool for organizing and demonstrating system safety. Just as Safety Case, SQAD is designed to be a document that proves series of claims with the purpose to declare a system safe. This t

Denna studie är baserad på att förstå om det finns en influens från andra ädelmetaller, industrimetaller och vätskor på variationen i guldpriset. Studien ger ytterligare ett alternativ på forskning om vad som influerar guldpriset och tordes vara unik. Regressionsanalys används för att se om några av metallerna eller vätskorna kan förklara något av variationen på guldpriset. Av samtliga testade, vi

Syftet med detta arbete är att jämföra terrängtypsklassningar baserade på data från satelliterna Landsat och SPOT. Resultatet utgör underlaget för de slutsatser som dras angående de olika klassningarna, och om de fördelar respektive nackdelar som finns vid användande av de olika scenerna baserade på data från respektive satellit. Klassningarna sker digitalt med maximum-likelihood metoden, och som The aim of this work is to examine the quality of digital terraintype classification using 3-bands multispectral data from the Landsat and SPOT satellites. The resulting classifications are compared with each other using different verification methods based upon ground truth data from field studies and infrared aerial photographs. The results from the verifications indicates that it is possible to

This is the result of a field study performed during July -September 1990 in Bakel, eastern Senegal. The village Bakel is in a semi-arid region with low agricultural productivity as a result of drought, degraded soils and excessive rainwater runoff. The thesis presents environmental conditions of the region and the water harvesting techniques introduced by a Swedish funded reforestation project. A