Denna studie genomförs med syftet att undersöka huruvida företag som förvärvar presterar långsiktigt bättre eller sämre än företag som inte ägnar sig åt förvärv. Vidare undersöks vilken påverkan olika omständigheter vid förvärvstillfället kan ha på utvecklingen av det förvärvande företagets aktiepris. Studien är utförd som en kvantitativ eventstudie. En multipel regressionsanalys har gjorts för at

The purpose of this study was to explore, from a Lean perspective, the possibilities to improve IKEA DC Älmhult's operational efficiency in the processes of receiving and shipping. Through Process activity mapping, the current practices for shipping and receiving operations were described and analyzed in detail. Waste, primarily in the form of transport, motion and waiting, was identified and

The aim of this study has been to discuss how couples that have shared the division of parental leave equal discuss parental leave and gender equality in a Swedish context. It has been done through caring out interviews with five couples that has shared the parental leave equal. The motives behind an equal division of parental leave is motivated around ideas of gender equality and awareness of mor

Abstract Author(s): Robert Hildingsson Title: When zero-vision is no longer valid. A study in Social Work on the experiences of the Substitution treatment. Supervisor: Annika Capelán Köhler Assessor: TBA The purpose of the study was to shed some light on the national drug policy of “zero-vision” – that is, the Swedish governmental no-drug policy – from the point of view of the participants of th

Author: Alida Karlman and Emma Jonerud Title: Young Children's Opportunities towards Development and Attachment at an Orphanage in Uganda Supervisor: Bodil Rasmusson Assesor: Malin Arvidson This study was performed at the orphanage Sanyu Babies Home in the capital city Kampala of Uganda and became possible with the financial support through the Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarship from SIDA. T

The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of how a contemporary social movement in Sweden uses social media as a way of mobilization. The case for this study was a social movement initiated by professionals working with unaccompanied minors. These professionals were frustrated with restricted asylum laws and wished to see more “humane asylum politics”. Since its start in the mid-fall of 2

The aim of this study was to examine how care managers work in relation to mental health issues amongst the elderly population in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven care managers from four municipalities in Sweden. The empirical data collected from these interviews was analysed through the concept of Michael Lipsky´s theory of street-level bureaucracy and through Robert B

The purpose of this study was to examine how five writers portray their childhood with one or two parents with alcohol abuse problems in autobiographies. The research questions concerned the impact of parents’ abuse problems on the writers’ childhood, if they felt that they had got adequate support and help from others, and important turning points. The empirical material was five autobiographies,

The aim of this study was to focus on how municipal social-workers work with honor related abuse (HRA) in a smaller community in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to study if there were any changes in how the municipal social-workers described their work with honor-related abuse today compared to the year of 2012. The theories and the perspectives used for this study include: the gender theory,

This study details the factors which affect the adoption of electronic and online voting in national elections. It researches adoption theories such as Davies' Technology Acceptance model (TAM) and Rodgers' Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) model. The study pays particular attention to three factors - secrecy, trust and accessibility. The paper then focuses on four nations due to their differe

Aims: This study has investigated how people with both the legal intervention contact person and sheltered housing under LSS (Swedish Rights Law directed to people with disability) view the experience of having a contact person. The aim was to examine the interviewees’ experiences of the relation with contact persons. Method: Empirical evidence is based on four semi-structured interviews with fou

The intention with this study has been to research social workers experience in handling honor-related cases. I interviewed four social workers through semi-structured interviewing. The interviewed was both government practicing social workers and social workers who mainly practices different kinds of conversation support. Many topics were found to repeatedly appear through the interviews that wer

The curriculum for high school changed in Sweden 2011 and sexual education was elaborated in four subjects in high schools. In 2013 the National Agency for Education in Sweden published an education tool to help teachers implement sexual education in all mandatory subjects in high schools. A qualitative research through interviews with six young women have been made to investigate how young adults

The purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish newspapers and tabloids have constructed gaming problem during the year 2016. We have studied how the press describe the game, the problematic player and the different stakeholders of this social problem. We have used social constructionism as a theoretical perspective in our analysis. A qualitative content analysis was used to analyze 18 a

Our purpose has been to examine their approach and experiences considering the work with needle exchange programs, as well as what perceptions the employees are experiencing from the society. We chose a qualitative approach to our study. In our study we have conducted six interviews with employees at needle exchange programs in three different cities in Skåne. We have asked questions such as what

Prediction of the spread of combustion gases from a fire is a major area of interest when analyzing buildings from a safety point of view. Hence programs with this aim are continuously being evaluated for the estimation of their validity. The purpose of this report was to produce and compare complementary results for an up to date version of the program Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to what was pr

Denna uppsats är skriven på uppdrag av Lunds tekniska högskola och Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap. Uppdraget består av att modellera antalet dödsbränder som sker i Sverige över tid, samt undersöka ifall det har skett någon signifikant förändring. Detta görs utifrån ett antagande om att dödsbränder är Poisson-fördelade, därmed betraktas antalet dödsbränder över tid som en Poisson-proceThe authors of this thesis were tasked with modelling fatal fires in Sweden to answer the question, whether the quarterly number of fires has changed over time. The usage of the Poisson distribution in modelling accidents and mortalities is well attested. Problems arise when measuring the number of fire related mortalities, as several deaths can be attributed to one fire. This violates the assumpt

I Sverige föds varje år cirka 1000 barn med hjärtfel. Föräldrar till barn med livshotande hjärtsjukdom utsätts för stress under lång tid och för att föräldrar ska känna trygghet i samband med deras barns hjärtoperation är därför information av stor vikt. Syftet med studien var att belysa föräldrars upplevelse av den information de fick i samband med sitt barns första planerade hjärtoperation som g

Bakgrund: Då andelen äldre i samhället ökar förväntas även antalet som drabbas av demenssjukdomar att öka. Samtidigt förekommer undernäring i stor utsträckning hos personer med demens. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskans omvårdnadsarbete avseende prevention av undernäring hos personer med demens. Metod: Studien är en litteraturstudie där 11 artiklar inkluderats samt analyserats med en integrerad a

In this thesis we investigate if following the magic formula can yield superior investment returns in relation to the risk taken. The magic formula is a term coined by Joel Greenblatt, describing a systematic approach to successful stock investing. The strategy identifies high value companies based on return on capital that are selling at a discount to their intrinsic value based on the company’s