The goal of this report is to explain the effects of hosting a mega sporting event, in this case the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup. Two different kinds of effects is examined; economical or cyclical which is represented by the unemployment rate and psychological effects which is represented by the number of suicides. A difference-in-difference method is applied comparing effects in host countries

Titel Krisarbetets förändrade villkor: En fallstudie av E.ONs kundrelaterade kriskommunikation i ett digitalt medielandskap. Författare Joel Callegari och Lovisa Fey Handledare Asta Cepaite Nilsson Nyckelord E.ON, kriskommunikation, sociala medier, digitala medier, senmodern krishantering, kundkommunikation, nätverkslandskapet, webb 2.0, risksamhället. Problem Nätverkslandskapet skapar förän

The starting point of our master’s thesis was the recent debate regarding the school library arising from the implementation of the new version of the Swedish Education Act (Skollagen SFS 2010:800). Many have criticized the new Education Act, claiming that it puts a too large focus on the library as place. Some even claim that the school library as place is out-dated and not relevant in today’s so

Syftet med denna studie är att utforska huruvida före detta patienter upplever att DBT-behandling inom barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin har bidragit i skapandet av ett liv värt att leva. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med åtta kvinnor i åldern 17-22 år som genomgått DBT-behandling för mellan ett till tre och ett halvt år sedan. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med hjälp av Interpretative PhenoThe study aims to investigate whether former patients experience that DBT-treatment in a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic has helped them in building a life worth living. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women aged 17-22 years who had undergone DBT treatment one to three and a half years ago. The data were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), wh

Our aim is to study if and how LGBTIQ has been made invisible in the public library context, and how this can be countered. In order to do this, we have studied the public library of Hallonbergen, located in Sundbyberg, Sweden. Hallonbergen is the first library in Sweden certificated by RFSL (The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights). The certificate shows that they

Vårt syfte är att undersöka L&D-specialisters upplevelser av sin yrkesroll. Vi söker företrädesvis empiriska kopplingar mellan yrkesrollen och följande delar: - utbildning och arbetslivserfarenhet - personliga egenskaper och kompetenser - egen utveckling och yrkets utveckling Vi ämnar att se såväl på delarna var för sig som på den helhet de utgör. Kvalitativ data är insamlad via personliga in

In the wake of the globalization, international tax planning structures has become vital for US investors in order to meet economic challenges and to survive on the competitive market. This research indicates that countries in Europe, such as Sweden and Switzerland, provide a favourable environment for US multinational corporations to set up holding companies as a way to enjoy benefits of legal ta

The aim of this Master´s thesis is to study how the Swedish bill, "Education for children who are staying in the country without authorization", constructs a relationship between legal versus illegal status, and how this relationship affects undocumented children’s integrity in relation to the principle of public access to official records (“Offentlighetsprincipen”). The main hypothesis

This thesis explores the causes and ramifications of representing women in gender-equality advocacy within the realm of International Development cooperation’s. This study shows that through representing the issues of development and the people for whom they are aimed - we risk constructing and reconstructing conceptions of what the postcolonial feminist field of studies calls ´third world differe

Problemet som föreligger denna uppsats grundar sig i företags vilja att kommunicera med sina intressenter i sociala medier, där intressenterna inte har samma intresse av en dialog med företag. När väl intresse för företag skapats uppkommer ett nytt problem när företag har svårt att hantera dialogen. Med denna uppsats vill vi ge en fördjupad förståelse om hur företag arbetar med relationsskapande g

Bakgrund: De blivande föräldrarna har ofta svårt att förstå vad fosterdiagnostik så som KUB syftar till. Därför är barnmorskans kunskap och hennes förmåga att förmedla informationen till den gravida kvinnan/paret betydelsefull, för att de ska kunna göra ett informerat val. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka barnmorskans inställning till och kunskaper om KUB samt om det finns behov av en m

The famous novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, will be the subject of this thesis. I will seek to research the character of Mr. Rochester and his use and display in four film adaptations. All the adaptations will be compared to the source as well as to each other to determine how the character of Mr. Rochester is circumstantial each time. The adaptation theories from theorists such as Robert Sta

SMS-betalningar var fram till den första februari 2013 en mobil betalmetod på frammarsch i Sverige då det var den mest använda mobila betalningsmetoden. I augusti 2010 infördes krav på att företag som erbjuder betaltjänster måste ha tillstånd från Finansinspektionen. Mobiloperatörer som förmedlar SMS-betalningar omfattas av detta krav och som svar till detta introducerade man tjänsten WyWallet. F

Though much research in entrepreneurship has evaluated the role of personality traits in entrepreneurs, few studies have addressed the personality traits of entrepreneurship students. In this study we measure five key entrepreneurial personality traits; the need for achievement, perception of risk, locus of control, independence, and self-efficacy. This is accomplished using survey data from 31 en

”I gränslandet mellan privat och offentligt” är en kvalitativ studie om arbetsgivares entré på Facebook och dess betydelse för konstruktionen av identiteter författad av Mariam Cissé och Caroline Lindkvist vid institutionen för Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds Universitet under vårterminen 2013. Sociala medier är idag en del av mångas vardag och Facebook används av nära fem miljoner män

Background: There is an ongoing trend amongst management within engineering and construction business to adopt Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Since this line of business requires timely information in order to take the adequate decisions and actions to ensure that no delays occur. Kockums AB operates within the defence industry with development, design and production of naval vessels. This comp

House prices and their movements are a topic of much interest in today’s society. Most of the population in a country is affected by house price movements in one way or another. The debate mostly focuses on house price bubbles. In this thesis it is argued that the debate should widen its focus. During times of crises, house prices’ conditional variance increases and this harms the economy. Thus it

Arbetsrätten är föränderlig och rikt avhandlad. Lag (1982:80) om anställningsskydd, LAS, var kontroversiell redan vid instiftandet av föregångaren till den nuvarande anställningsskyddslagen. Lagen väcker stor debatt i massmedia och på diverse forum. Massmedias intresse och politikernas argumentation har lett till att gemene man har en egen uppfattning om anställningsskyddet och dess verkan. I dennThe labor law is ever changing and widely debated. The Employment Protection Act was controversial even at the time of the legislation of the predecessor to the current Act. The law creates a wide debate in the mass media and on miscellaneous forums. The interest of the mass media has lead to the general public having created their own perception of the law and its effect on the protection of the

This essay examines the relation between unemployment and self-employment using panel data covering all 27 European Union member states. The European Union contains of highly heterogeneous economies. A certain degree of heterogeneity is also prevalent within the group ‘self-employed’. The hypothesis tested in this essay is stating that unemployment leads to self-employment in accordance with the ‘

This thesis will examine how innovation effects in merger cases are assessed in the EU and the US, with a brief comparison between these two systems, supported by guidelines and relevant case law mostly in the high-tech sector. It will establish that the two systems are similar in their assessment, however one can say that the US has been more future oriented and has included innovation market ana