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In the last decades, scholars, managers and consultants have shown increased interest in identifying the characteristics of high-performance organizations. Searching for ways to improve organizational performance and respond to a growing demand for quality products and services in a rapidly changing environment, this subject is of special interest of managers in both public and private organizatio
Despite being aware of the health risks associated with making “bad” health decisions, we seem to deny our personal vulnerability to the harmful effects of poor health behavior. Aiming to explore whether the harmful effects associated with poor health behavior are personalized once our peers suffer from them, reflected by improved health behavior and referred to as “peer effects”, this study uses
The use of internet based psychology interventions as well as yoga and mindfulness interventions in order to improve psychological health has increased during the past decades. However, most interventions are time and resource demanding and there is a need for investigating short and easily accessible interventions. In this four-week randomized controlled pilot study I measured the effects of the
Denna uppsats har som syfte att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur turismutvecklare på olika destinationer möjliggör värdeskapande för sina kunder. Vi vill även bidra med en förståelse för de möjligheter och utmaningar som självbetjäningsteknologi medför i värdeskapandeprocessen. Detta görs genom en kvalitativ metod och åtta djupintervjuer. Studien utgår ifrån två frågeställningar där den första
Strax väster om centrala Ystad, intill Ystad Reningsverk, återfinns en deponi vars ursprung har spårats tillbaka till tidigt 1960-tal. Deponin beräknas vara cirka 11 250 kv. m och begränsas i sydlig riktning av Östersjön. Vid tidigare markundersökningar inom deponin konstaterades det förekomma stora mängder fyllnadsmassor av heterogen karaktär hela vägen ned till strandkanten där även aktiv erosio
The purpose of this research was to do a case study of how value stream mapping (VSM) contributes to operational excellence within an ICT company. To illustrate this, a case study was conducted at Swisscom, a large Swiss telecommunications company. The motivation of the study was to contribute to research within the industry of information and communication technologies (ICT) and secondly, to high
Smoked ham is commonly eaten in Sweden. However, smoked ham consists of a lot of salt (NaCl) which is an important component in the brine. Since a high salt consumption increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, it is of great interest to decrease salt and other sodium-binding compounds in various food products, especially in smoked ham. Nevertheless, this is a challenge because the salt and o
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
Many people today possess a private digital photo collection. Such collections are often just chronologically sorted. One way to make photo browsing more interesting would be to suggest semantically related photos to a currently viewed photo, and if, in addition, such a relationship could be justified in words, that would create extra value for the user. To find a solution to this problem, the ap
Industrial gas turbines are widely used in different applications. These can be divided into two main categories; power generation (PG) and mechanical drive (MD). To be able to predict the performance of the system, Siemens has during the years developed simulation models for both steady state and transient operation. These models are mainly designed for PG, so there is a need for new MD models. A
This study has been conducted in cooperation with the County Administrative Board of Halland and the results will be used as input for the Board in the upcoming revision of their currently working energy- and climate strategy. The study shows the importance of goal formulation in goal-oriented documents, in this case energy- and climate strategies belonging to the different County Administrative B
