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Global warming, biodiversity loss, pandemics – humanity today suffers from many life-threatening phenomena beyond those mentioned here. The root cause of those phenomena lies in the overuse of limited natural resources. Economic growth drives this overuse dramatically. Economic growth in turn is inter alia driven by enterprises. This thesis investigates how outdoor equipment enterprises can contri

The purpose of this study is to investigate the present discourses surrounding the urban housing landscape in Malmö, and how they are in tension with each other. Further, how they affect public actors, private actors, and residents. This is done by gathering material from a public, private, and residential perspective, and employing critical discourse analysis. The material is gathered through sem

Since the beginning of the 1960’s, there has been a widening gap in GDP per capita between the countries in the regions of East Asia & Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa. By growing more and shrinking less, some but not all, developing countries have deviated from a state of underdevelopment and caught up with the developed world. Moreover, it has been argued that the biggest chance of catching up

Den 1 januari 2019 trädde nya skatteregler för den svenska företagssektorn i kraft. De nya reglerna innebär bl.a. att det infördes en generell begränsning av ränteavdrag i bolagssektorn. Syftet med reglerna var att förhindra erodering av den svenska skattebasen. Implementeringen ifrågasattes i en rad remissinstanser då området dels blivit svåröverskådligt genom den turordningsregel som lagts tillOn the 1st of January 2019, new tax regulations within the Swedish corporate sector was set in motion. The regulations constitute a general restriction of interest deductions within a company. The main purpose of the new regulations was to prevent erosion of the Swedish tax base. The implementation was questioned in a number of bodies considering proposed legislation, as the legislative area has

The corona pandemic is the worst pandemic in Sweden's modern history. At the same time, the Swedish crisis management of the pandemic differs from other countries. In this case study, Swedish crisis management is examined according to two theoretical approaches: crisis management theory and institutional logic. The approach is theory- testing and the purpose of this study is to comprehend whet

Lagstiftaren har under de senaste åren haft som ambition att skärpa straffet för mord genom ökad användning av livstids fängelse. Avsikten är att livstids fängelse ska dömas ut för de fall av mord där omständigheterna sammantagna är försvårande. Mord med försvårande omständigheter bestraffas idag med fängelse i 15 – 18 år. I de fall omständigheterna är synnerligen försvårande är straffet livstids The legislator has during the recent years enacted legislation in order to increase the application of life imprisonment for murder. The intention is that cases of murder with aggravating circumstances should lead to life imprisonment. These cases of murder are currently punished with 15 – 18 years in prison. Cases of murder with exceptionally aggravating circumstances are punished with life impri

In 2016, the Swedish government released a comprehensive report stating that since 2012, the presence of beggars had become a common sight in towns and cities throughout Sweden. Furthermore, most of the beggars came from Romania and Bulgaria, where they faced discrimination and had few opportunities to support themselves and their families Later, in 2018, the administrative court made a ruling w

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study is to firstly identify and illustrate the problems within a selected warehouse. This dissertation is based on the 5s lean tool and also aims to develop solutions in order the warehouse to work in a more efficient way. Methodology: For this thesis, the observation method has been chosen as the most suitable way of gathering the necessary data. For 50 da

The purpose of this thesis is to identify potential factors that affect the patient's experience regarding the care and treatment they have received at the Swedish Red Cross' Treatment Center. The treatment center help people who are suffering from trauma linked to war, torture and/or severe migration journeys. In 2019, 454 of their patients answered a survey about how they experienced the

European policymakers are increasingly interested in encouraging and supporting social entrepreneurship. Addressing the goal, this thesis analyses the relationship between human capital and an individual’s propensity for social entrepreneurship in European countries. Additionally, it is investigated how institutional environment moderates this relationship. Utilising a dataset of the Global Entrep

Denna studie syftar till att ge en historiografisk granskning av den sovjetiska forskningen om Ivan Peresvetov, en moskovitisk politisk skriftställare på 1500-talet. Peresvetovs verk kännetecknas av till synes sekulära föreställningar, något som motiverade jämförelser av honom med samtida europeiska renässanstänkare i den sovjetiska historieforskningen från 1950-talet. Legitimiteten i sådana jämföThe present study aims to give a critical revision of the Soviet historiography on Ivan Peresvetov, a 16th-century Muscovite political writer. The works of Ivan Peresvetov are characterized by ostensibly secular ideas, a circumstance that motivated comparisons of him with contemporary European Renaissance thinkers in the Soviet historiography of the 1950s. The legitimacy of such comparisons has be

An attempt was made to create a museum that focuses on the issues of democracy, migration and human rights by the Swedish authorities in 2015. As a result of the feasibility study of such an institution, the Museum of Movements (MoM) began to operate in its temporary location in Malmö. In September 2020, it was decided that the museum would no longer be financed by the Swedish government and the d

The complexities of organizational coordination’s communicative constitution: A qualitative study on coordinators activities in BPO-environments. The notion of organizational coordination has a limited view of language and communication since scholars usually refer to communication purely as a referential system. Rather problematic is that the notion of business process outsourcing refers to organ

This research provides an overview of some of the frequently occurring themes in discussion of academic criticism toward child sponsorship with Swedish sponsorship staff. The study aims to provide a deeper understanding of child sponsorship, their purpose, and critique, than the one that can be draw from the existing literature which remains largely detached to the perspectives of the people on th

This thesis assesses the role of social capabilities in the development of Iceland’s economy in 1870-2019. Throughout the period, economic shrinking gradually decreased in the country. The paper argues that a lower frequency of shrinking resulted in better economic performance and that these changes are due to increased resilience to shrinking, provided by the build-up of social capability. By ana

Det blir allt mer populärt att spela eller gamea som man oftast säger. Framförallt gäller det unga killar som identifierar sig som gamers. Gaming-kulturen har växt otroligt fort de senaste åren och vissa gamers kan till och med leva på att gamea som sysselsättning, i någonting som kallas esport. Esport är ett område som det inte pratas så mycket om och därför är det intressant att undersöka. Syfte

This paper examines the “back-testability” of Expected Shortfall and if different backtesting methods produce similar results, with the aim of illuminating whether various markets have any effect on the methods’ ability to perform. In order to answer this question, the three backtesting methods – Test 1 and Test 2 by Acerbi & Szekely, and the Approximative Quantile Test by Emmer et al. – are i