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This field study is made to analyse possible spillover effects on domestic export companies within the Export Processing Zones in Kenya. More specifically this paper aims to investigate if, how much and through which ways potential spillover effect impinge upon the companies in question. The specific spillovers investigated are imitation, skill acquisition, competition and export. The analysis sho
This thesis inquires into the land policies carried out by the Chinese Communist Party during the 1940’s and 50’s. Using contemporary research and original sources, the land policies of the two periods are described and compared. It is concluded that the land movements of the two periods were different in terms of both aims and outcomes. The “land reform movement” of the 1940s was launched in a co
Over the last 25 years a new asset class has been developed in Sweden. Inflation linked bonds which are issued by the Swedish national debt office. The asset class has not yet been covered in many academic articles despite that the market size for inflation linked bonds is over 200 billion SEK in Sweden. My study will mainly focus on two things; the development of the Swedish market; the risk prem
The goal of this research is to asses the reach and characteristics of the Phantasmatic as a proposed concept, useful to understand fundamental aspects of the romantic subjective experience in artists, aesthetes and writers. This experiential level has been exemplified in artists that had been living or intermittently residing in Dresden during the first half of 19th century. Caspar David Friedric
I denna uppsats undersöks huruvida omgivningen har en inverkan på ett enskilt lands tillväxt i Afrika söder om Sahara och Västeuropa, samt om skillnader avseende den direkta omgivningen föreligger beroende på om det enskilda landet befinner sig på någon av dessa två kontinenter. Uppsatsen fokuserar på omgivning och tillväxt. En ekonometrisk modell ställs upp med utgångspunkt i ekonomisk teori samt
Women represent the majority of the world’s poor, and are simultaneously discriminated against in access to land, jobs and financial resources. This study demonstrates how increased access to credit can help women circumvent problems of lacking job opportunities, increase their status and lead to enhanced development. The fact that credit to women spurs development to a greater extent that credit
Denna studie behandlar bemanningsföretag, och mer specifikt vilken roll de har i dagens vårdsektor i Sverige. Diskussionen har avgränsats till att främst behandla hyrläkare. Min ansats är att få en överblick över fenomenet, samt undersöka varför det vuxit fram:
• Var finns hyrläkarna och vilken eventuell problematik finns kring dem
• Varför använder sig de svenska landstingen av hyrläkar
Abstract: The study covers several aspects of Thai immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden. The main focus is to study whether they should be regarded as ‘Working poor’ and why Thai working poor entrepreneurs in Sweden still continue their businesses. Moreover, employing the concept of the necessity and opportunity entrepreneur, the study explores their reasons to become an entrepreneur, and what kind o
Several prominent international reports have recently highlighted a disorganised international peacebuilding regime. In particular, coordination and cooperation have been emphasised as insufficient. This research paper aims to address this problem by applying neoliberal institutionalist theory to test the hypothesis that the peacebuilding regime can best be strengthened by creating an internationa
This report is part of a Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Master Thesis was performed at SCA, a global paper company that operates within the segments personal care, tissue, packaging, publication papers and solid-wood products. SCA sells products in more than 100 countries. Tork is the global brand name for SCA prod
The purpose of this thesis has been to examine the condition under which Social Enterprises exist on the market. Also how it affects the that they are a part of the social economy and the third sector. The study is based on qualitative interview as method. Six Social Enterprises has been interviewed. Social Enterprises as seen as an arena is heterogenic. The enterprises have the same ground va
Motivet till uppsatsen är ett intresse för hur lärare kan utveckla sin lärarförmåga och bli mer medvetna om sina möjligheter att utnyttja interaktionens positiva effekter på mänsklig växt. I hermeneutisk anda, med den hermeneutiska cirkeln som inspiration, har lärarkommentarer i utvärderingar efter handledningsgrupper analyserats för att undersöka om lärare själva beskrivit deltagandet som interak
This is an explorative qualitative study of a cognitive-behavioural group treatment (CBT) with seven young women within the framework of a larger project. The project’s main objective was to get participants to start working or studying. The function of our particular treatment program was to help the participants reach this goal. Group CBT treatment included psychoeducational components as well a
Sedan införandet av det tidigare skattesystemet genom 1928 års kommunalskattelag (1928:370), KL, har de svenska skattereglerna för inkomstbeskattning av en fysisk persons näringsverksamhet genomgått en rad materiella och strukturella förändringar. I kommunalskattelagens ursprungliga lydelse stadgades särskilt en särreglering gällande verksamheter med anknytning till en jordbruksfastighet och
Syftet är att undersöka om det är möjligt för företag att generera aktieägarvärde på andra sätt än enbart via kursutveckling och direktavkastning, samt att undersöka vilken roll företagens olika typer av ägare har i förhållande till aktieägarförmåner och rabatter. Vidare ämnas undersöka huruvida investerare efterfrågar denna typ av alternativ aktieägarersättning. Studiens primära angreppssätt är k
Syftet är att undersöka en underleverantör i fordonsindustrin som på ett framgångsrikt sätt hanterat finanskrisen och kontrastera och relatera detta till hur den påverkat branschen i stort. Vi vill vidare undersöka hur de har bemött dessa utmaningar, hur de betraktat sin situation och hur de agerat och varför. På så sätt vill vi identifiera avgörande faktorer bakom dess överlevnad .
Problem: Dagens fragmentariska samhälle har ökat vikten och samtidigt försvårat kommunikationen av organisationsidentitet. Uppsatsen tar ett brett grepp om den problematiken genom att sammanföra förståelsen av tre fält, kommunikation, berättelser och identitet då dessa är tydligt interrelaterade men inte tillräckligt belysta i förhållande till varandra, och särskilt i relation till kommunikationen
Title: Storytelling – How employees make sense of organizational stories. Subject: The master thesis explores employees processes of sensemaking when reading and discussing stories about their organisation. The subject for this study is thereby called storytelling, but it also focuses strongly on the process of sensemaking. Purpose: The purpose is to contribute to an understanding of storytelling
What is the impact of an enlarged regional trading area on excluded neighbouring countries propensity to export? Utilising the gravity model, this study assesses the impact of EU’s fifth enlargement on Ukraine’s propensity to export in order to explore whether Ukraine has been a bystander to EU’s fifth enlargement. The empirical gravity equation is specified to yield the Within estimate used to ob
Ten years ago a giant infrastructure named Oresund Bridge has been created connecting two regions, Scania and Zealand, as well as two nations, Sweden and Denmark; since the date of this spatial union, different trends related to economic, cultural and social issues have been under the investigation of the academic work. The present research has the purpose to analyze the main characteristics and t
