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Greenland constitutes one of the youngest democracies in the world and is a society characterised by significant social, economic and political inequality. Centuries as a Danish colony have left it with relatively weak institutional structures and with limited tradition for public dialogue. Today, as the country is at the verge of new large-scale industrial developments, calls for increasing publi
Abstract Title: The Path Dependency of former monopolists Seminar date: 2013-05-30 Course: FEKN90 Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet (30 ECTS) Authors: Niklas Sandberg and Henrik Karlsson Advisor: Matts Kärreman Five key words: Monopolist, Path dependency, Strategy, Competition and Deregulation Purpose: To explain how path dependency is affecting the strategies of former mon
This study examines work culture among the contemporary Swedish professional communication field. Key standards of the field and their origins are analysed through participant observation in branch seminars and interviews with practising professionals. The results indicate that status in the work culture is centred around innovative thinking, change and focus on the future – ideals related to Enli
Maintaining peace and security has during a long time been the goal and concern of the international community. What must be noticed is the fact that its concept is changing and adapting to the incessant changes of the world and therefore also the meaning of peace and security follows the same pattern of change. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has since its outset been an actor who
Mental ill-health among adolescents – From professional social workers perspective (translated title) Abstract Authors: Erica Månsson and Victoria Bergendorff Title: Mental ill-health among adolescents – From professional social workers perspective (translated title) Supervisor: Åsa Lundqvist Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed The purpose of this study was to examine the mental ill-health a
This essay is about democracies effects on war, in a world level view. The work is a quantitative study in which I, from the theories of the democratic peace theory and alternative theories to the democratic peace theory, am trying to answer my question: What impact has the percentage of democracies in the world on the percentage of countries in a state of war? The question above is tested in a ti
The purpose of this study is to analyze whether an active sexual-life should be considered as a human right and to also analyze what responsibility the state has towards fulfilling this potential right for disabled persons, who are often incapable of creating an active sexual-life on their own, due to physical or mental restrictions. The study is built on an argumentative analysis and is categoriz
Denna kandidatuppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i forskningsfältet förändringskommunikation. Syftet är att förstå och problematisera mellanchefers syn på sin kommunikativa funktion i en förändring, vad som påverkar deras synsätt och hur de kan motiveras att bidra. För att uppfylla studiens syfte har tio kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts i den valda kommunala organisationen. Studiens resultat visar att This bachelor’s thesis base is placed in the research field change communication and aims to understand and problematize middle managers view of their communicative function during change. Through the research we also aim to understand what influence the middle managers view and how they can be motivated to make a contribution. To fulfill the aim of the study we have done ten qualitative interview
The present paper is an analysis of Swedish law, as expressed obiter dictum in the Supreme Administrative Court decision of HFD 2012 ref. 20, regarding applicability of Swedish general anti avoidance rules in relation to tax treaty commitments. The purpose of the paper is to put Swedish law, as envisaged by HFD 2012 ref. 20, into an international perspective by drawing internationally relevant con
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to interpret in what ways the core values are expressed in managerial work as well as in what ways these values impact the managerial work in a knowledge intensive firm. Methodology: This study views the world as a social construction and has an interpretative starting point. The qualitative methodology is embraced, and the empirical data is collected through
The aim of this study was to examine how swedish newspapers writes about domestic violence from a gender and a categorization perspective. Violence between partners is an social problem that affects both men and women which crime reports shows. In this study we’ve done a content analysis on 27 newsarticles from five swedish newspapers. For this study we’ve asked these two research questions: How d
