The purpose of this thesis is to analyze whether internationalization affects firm performance in Japanese firms. Internationalization is examined through the degree of foreign ownership and the inclusion of one or more outsider foreign directors. The Methodology that was applied is based around two fixed effects panel data regressions where firm performance, measured in Tobin’s Q and ROA, is th

Insurance fraud is estimated to cost the Swedish insurance agencies three to five billion Swedish kronor each year. The insurance idea is simple, share the risk, but if policyholders take advantage of the system, the concept fails. Previous research states that norms or attitudes towards insurance companies are the main reason behind insurance fraud. This study aims to measure and evaluate social

Financial crises are recurring phenomena and studying how economic parameters affect outcome and recovery processes will most likely remain an area of intense research also in the years to come. The scope of this paper circulates around the causes and effects of two crises in the period 1985-2013 and their separate effects on the economies of Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Moreover, the main variabl

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vad som bidrar till positiv förändring i terapi. Forskningsstöd finns för att psykoterapi är en effektiv behandlingsform, men vad det är som är verksamt, vet vi mindre om. Patient respektive terapeut intervjuades efter två framgångsrika terapiprocesser med dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT). En kvalitativ ansats med halvstrukturerad intervju användes med fråg

Den här uppsatsen handlar om de förändringar på bästa tillgängliga teknik, d.v.s. BAT, som implementeringen av industriutsläppsdirektivet (IED) har inneburit. Syftet är att diskutera hur och på vilket sätt BAT har utvecklats i Sverige till följd av IED. BAT tillhör de allmänna hänsynsreglerna vilket gör den central vid all form av yrkesmässig verksamhet. I sammanhanget är principen om BAT tillämpThis thesis regards the changes to Best Available Techniques, BAT, which the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive, IED, has brought on. The purpose is to discuss how and in which ways BAT has developed in Sweden as a result of IED. BAT belongs to the general rules of consideration which makes it central in all forms of professional operation. In context the principal of BAT is app

It is a big challenge for social work to catch up on all the victims of honor-related violence and oppression. A group that isn´t usually mentioned in the media are boys. The aim of this study is to understand how the Swedish newspapers construct honor related violence, and oppression, against boys from a genus perspective, in the case of Abbas Rezai during the period 2006-2014. The study is based

Den svenska Kriminalvården och kriminalpolitiken har genom åren genomgått övergripande förändringar som efterhand inneburit hårdare straff och större fokus på säkerheten. Samtidigt som Kriminalvården har ansvar för verkställande av straff genom frihetsberövande har man även ett ansvar för behandling under och återanpassning efter frihetsberövandet. Kriminalvårdens verksamhet regleras av en lång raThe Swedish Prison and criminal policy over the years has undergone comprehensive changes that eventually led to tougher penalties and greater focus on safety. While the correctional authority is responsible for the execution of punishment by deprivation of liberty, it has also a responsibility for treatment during and reintegration after custody. The activity of the correctional authority is gove

Recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) is a way of constructing roads with less climate impact. However, the RAP often contain moisture which is known to be disadvantageous for the final product and will at the same time increase the production cost. A manufacturing method that also aims have less impact on the environment is NCC Green Asphalt. The method allows a lower manufacturing temperature than a c

The purpose of this study was to answer the question of what people with anorexia nervosa describe have helped them out of their illness. After reading five biographies about five girls struggling with the disease, I made a text analysis which concluded in four factors that the girls describe have helped them recover from anorexia nervosa. The four factors are awareness of the seriousness of the d

The purpose with this study was to understand what conceptions about sex and sexuality are conveyed in sexual health education in schools in Grenada as well as analyze how teachers and guidance counselors relate to those conceptions. Our focus was to understand how sex and sexuality is conducted and portrayed in the educational material and what the respondents believe is important when teaching t

The aim of this study was to examine how parenthood are constructed in the Swedish insurance system’s (Försäkringskassan) guidelines of support to families with child with disability. Also, the purpose was to understand the welfare state’s governing of the family. In order to achieve this goal, a discourse theory was used both as a theory and a method to analyze four of Försäkringskassan’s guideli

Majoriteten av jordens befolkning kommer idag i kontakt med plastbaserade Bisfenol A (BPA) förpackningsmaterial dagligen på grund av dess stora användningsområde. Detta leder till stor exponering av BPA då ämnet läcker ut ur materialet under användningen, vilket har risk att påverkar människor hälsa. Detta då det är hormonstörande, att det påverkar reproduktionen och hormonnivåer. Många sjukdomar Bisphenol A is one of the main chemicals used when producing plastic, polycarbonate plastic and epoxy plastic. These plastics are used to produce a variety of products and are often used in materials in contact with food. Bisphenol A leaks out of these materials and enters the body through different pathways, the most common being oral ingestion and absorption through the gastrointestinal tract. B

The aim of this study was to understand the experiences that social workers in the social services child protection unit has regarding their working conditions and how they reflect about their workload, staff turnovers, wellbeing in regards to the role of a social worker. Our qualitative study was based on seven interviews with social workers who worked in a middle-sized municipality in Skåne. Th

Author: Linnea Olsson och Sandra Brandt Title: Föräldrainvolvering vid samtal med minderåriga Supervisor: Johan Cronehed Assessor: Anna Tegunimataka The aim of this study was to examine counselors approach to parental involvement in dialouge with adolescents in the age 13-17 years old. The main questions in this study was 1) what is counselors view on parental involvement? 2) what is the counselo

This study examines the phenomena of “social clauses” that aim to uphold labour standards within the international trade regime and discusses examples of their implementation. “Social clauses”, despite their contentious past within the World Trade Organisation and preceding frameworks, can be found in a number of Free Trade Agreements and Generalised Systems of Preferences. The study initially set

The purpose with this study was to investigate how social secretaries in elderly care receive to dementia patients over the age of 65 in the care administration, focusing on the social secretaries discretion and the rights of the patients with dementia. The population consisted of four social secretaries in elderly care, granting assistance to dementia patients over the age of 65, and one nursing

Traditional financial theory, assuming rationality and stock market prices justified by fundamentals, has failed to explain the occurrence of several large stock market crises. Theories in behavioral finance suggest stock market overvaluation, eventually leading to stock market crises, partly occur due to noise trading. In this thesis, noise is captured through investor sentiment with the purpose

Information om information kring klimatanpassning Klimatet förändras, och denna förändring är med största sannolikhet orsakad av människan. Detta konstateras av FNs klimatpanel i deras senaste rapport. Det finns idag information om vilka utmaningar vi står inför och jag har i min studie tittat på hur denna information används i kommuners arbete med klimatanpassning. Det finns en liknelse som föThis study has looked at eight municipalities in Scania and how they use climate related information in their work with climate adaptation, and what information they would like to have access to in order to take the next step. The municipalities were chosen on the basis of population and are no extreme cases; rather they are examples of an average Swedish municipality. How the usage of information