New and innovative retail models such as product-service-systems (PSS) seem to offer a promising solution for more sustainable shopping activities. However, the adoption rate of PSS remains to date regretfully low. With the aim to investigate this problem, the present thesis focuses on the rental fashion model of use-oriented PSS and examines emotions that consumers experience in this context, whe

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand young adults’ practicalities of digital detoxing and the respective motivations to act upon these actions. Therefore, this research aims to create knowledge about what young adults do to actively detox from the digital technology and to understand their Motivations behind. Methodology This research took inspirations from an interpretivist ontolog

This case study aims to problematize the inequalities concerning the contraceptive responsibility that are expressed through marketing, from a feminist perspective. The studied case is the contraception app Natural Cycles and focus lies on the terms control, freedom and knowledge as means of power practice. The study combines research fields of advertising, gender studies and power and should be v

En tredjedel av all mat som produceras världen över slängs. Det innebär många bortkastade resurser och en onödigt stor miljöpåverkan från livsmedelsindustrin. Omkring 90 % av all mat som slängs från butiker i Sverige är matsvinn: mat som hade kunnat användas om det hanterats annorlunda. I dagsläget finns det en del aktörer som arbetar med matsvinnsreducerande åtgärder, bland annat tillverkning av Food loss is of great importance considering its waste of natural resources and the negative environmental impact caused by the food industry. To reduce food loss, some actors donate, produce and retail what we here entitle circular food products: products made from food loss. However, the market for these types of products is neither stable or certain and there is a need for increasing the value

Att som organisation lyckas attrahera, behålla och utveckla medarbetare anses ge betydande konkurrensfördelar. Ett led i denna process handlar om att introducera nya medarbetare för att de ska få en bra start på sin karriär. Kring området introduktion trängs “experter” med råd och tips för hur organisationer bör genomföra sina introduktionsprocesser på bästa sätt. Syfte med föreliggande studie är

Källmiljöer är grundvattenberoende ekosystem med en betydande roll för den biologiska mångfalden. Svenska skogar är rika på källor, som riskerar att påverkas av närliggande skogsbruk. I EU-projektet GRIP on LIFE IP som bland annat Skogsstyrelsen deltar i ska våtmarker och vattendrag uppmärksammas och eventuellt restaureras och i dessa naturområden ingår källmiljöer. Syftet med detta examensarbete Spring environments are groundwater dependent ecosystems, which play an important role for biodiversity. In Swedish forests there is an abundance of springs, many of which risk being affected by forestry nearby. In the EU project GRIP on LIFE IP where, among others, the Swedish Forest Agency take part, wetlands and streams will be brought to attention and possibly restored. In these biotopes, spri

Interpreting the text and the discourse is the fundamental idea of the critical discourse analysis (CDA) and it enables you to look beyond the actual written words and focus on the discursive climate. It is of outmost importance to keep in mind that the interpretation of a text is only just that, an interpretation. We live in a society amongst different people and what one person believes to be tr

Amino acids that are in close contact in a protein structure tend to co-evolve, which gives rise to sequence correlations. Direct coupling analysis (DCA) is a method for predicting such contacts directly from sequence correlations, without assuming any prior knowledge of structures. To this end, sequence correlations are modeled using an Ising-like ansatz, whose couplings are determined through an

This thesis examines the question of whether Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are under an obligation to refer questions on the interpretation of EEA law to the EFTA Court (the Court). These countries enjoy access to the EU’s internal market through the EEA Agreement. Article 34 of the Surveillance and Court Agreement, concluded between the EEA/EFTA States, establishes an advisory opinion procedu

Søren Kierkegaard är berömd för sin subjektiva existensfilosofi, där individen är kapabel, autonom och självständig. Subjektet kan själv utvecklas genom att ta språnget och våga. I en sådan filosofi, varför behövs Gud, frälsningen och framför allt en frälsare?The aim of this bachelor’s degree essay is to investigate and analyse Søren Kierkegaard as a theologian. Out of the traditional conception of Kierkegaard’s philosophy about the autonomous, free, capable and free to develop oneself, I ask the question – in what purpose do God need to incarnate in order to save humanity? To this question I ask three additional subqueries: according to Kierkegaard in

In an increasingly globalized world, the contact with diverse individuals on a daily basis is unquestionable. Individuals regularly seek intercultural experiences and skills as a way to enrichen their professional and personal approaches and stand out in today’s competitive markets. This study focuses on international master students from Lund University’s School of Economics and Management (LUSEM

Till följd av utvecklingen av Web 2.0 har konsumenterna fått en större inverkan på varumärkes marknadsföring och har nu möjligheten att integrera med andra konsumenter och marknadsfö-ringens innehåll. Marknadsförare har utvecklat en ny marknadsföringsstrategi med anledningen av den digitala utvecklingen. Denna nya strategi har fått namnet influencer marketing. Tidigare studier har först och främstDue to the development of Web 2.0 the public has the ability to interact with others regarding the content of marketing. This has led the public to having a greater impact than ever on the marketing field. In response to the changes, marketers have developed a new marketing strate-gy. The new strategy is called influencer marketing. Most previous studies of influencer market-ing have had their stu

Stock Performance Differences in Swedish Life Science Companies with or without Research-based Science Park Affiliation Seminar date 2018-06-01 Course BUSN 79 Business Administration: Degree Project in Accounting and Finance - Master Level, 15 ECTS Authors: Eric Isacsson and Liana Trichkova Advisor: Håkan Jankensgård Key words: Science park affiliation, university ownership, life science, lon

As passive investing has grown in popularity, the number of available passive investment strategies have risen as well. This paper strives to investigate one of these investment strategies, namely fundamental indexation. More specifically, the aim of this study is to investigate if fundamental indices are more mean-variance efficient compared to capitalization-weighted indices. Given that the supe

Abstract In this study the purpose was to examine whether participating in a conflict management training program called No Power No Lose for employees in a state run institution for compulsory treatment of drug abusers correlated with occupational self-efficacy (OSE). OSE was measured using self-reported scores on two different scales purporting to measure occupational aspects of the self-efficac

This paper analyses the employment rate in various municipalities on both the Swedish and Danish side of the Oresund strait and how the Oresundsbron bridge has differently affected them following its construction in the year 2000. Data from the collaborated statistics database Orestat is analysed using the difference-in-difference method. The theories used to form our hypothesis are Paul Krugmans

Title: Understanding the boost for knowledge sharing in the front-end: A single case study about motivation to cross-functional share knowledge in the front-end Date: May 2018 Course: ENTN39 Master’s Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Internship and degree project (Master’s thesis 15 ECTS) Authors: Herslow, Carl-Johan & Wild, Max-Joseph Supervisor: Ass. Professor Shibayama, Sotaro Exam

This project will take a look at the city development process in an African city that by taking part in this race to urbanization and growth, is losing track on the quality of space it is creating. What could one do when the desire to change is not the only factor that matters? When politics, priorities and resources start to define the spaces around us. How far can one go to make sure that the

Tidigare forskning visade på att ledarskapsstilarna i CPE-modellen (Change-, Production- & Employee-centered leadership) är olika effektiva. Annan forskning visade att tidigare prestationer har en positiv korrelation till collective efficacy. Sambandet mellan CPE-modellen och collective efficacy inom idrottslag har däremot inte undersökts. Studiens frågeställning var därför att undersöka hur dPrevious research showed that the three leadership styles in the CPE-model (Change-, Production- & Employee-centered leadership) varies in efficiency. Further research showed that prior performances has a positive correlation with collective efficacy. The relationship between the CPE-model and collective efficacy, however has not been researched. This study, therefore, aimed at answering wheth

The failure or flourishing of companies in their core businesses can often be attributed to events and developments rooting outside their focus of attention. Many research streams are concerned with early detection, interpretation and acting upon these weak signals from companies’ peripheries - with Peripheral Vision by Schoemaker & Day (2006) being one of the most systematic approaches. Due t