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Title: (un)coachable Authors: Lena Andres and Karlijn de Wijs Supervisor: Roland Paulsen Keywords: Organizational stress management, life coaching, work-related stress Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the experience of life coaching as an additional stress management strategy for organizations to prevent and reduce work-related stress. Therewith gaining a deeper understan
Vi som har skrivit det här arbetet älskar att sjunga. Sången är en del av vår vardag och vårt liv och är en stor källa till glädje. Vi har båda två stött på människor som inte har samma positiva förhållande till sång som vi och ville därför undersöka vidare vad det kan bero på. Vi har valt att kalla personer som anser sig inte kunna sjunga för ickesångare. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöWe who have written this study love to sing. Singing is a part of our everyday life and is a great source of joy. We have both come across people who do not have the same positive relationship towards singing as we have. Therefore, we wanted to investigate what could be the reason behind this more negative approach towards singing. We have chosen to call people who consider themselves unable to si
This project started in space and spacial jetlag, shifted towards SAD and the arctic till it landed to become a unisex watch for small to medium sized wrists. All in all, the amount of work done in the previous briefs have influenced the final result. The final result being an automatic retro-looking watch offered in five different colours as a way to cateer to a multitude of personalities wh
Denna studie syftar till att uppnå förståelse kring hur femvertising används för att porträttera kvinnan i reklam på ett icke-könsstereotypiskt sätt. En multimodal socialsemiotisk analys används för att undersöka vilka och hur det empiriska materialet använder semiotiska resurser för att kommunicera icke-könsstereotypisk reklam. Det empiriska materialet består av en reklamfilm Dream Crazier public
This research aims to examine how much impact social media channels have on stock returns during unusual market events. We do this by measuring the sentiment and activity on the Reddit forum wallstreetbets (WSB) regarding some of the six most mentioned companies during the first four months of 2021 and connect this to their relative stock returns. The sentiment is derived through a sentiment analy
Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie syftar till att undersöka hur arbete med sociala medier påverkar kommunikatörers arbetssituation samt att utforska strategier för att möjliggöra ett kommunikativt uppdrag som kan upplevas som påfrestande för individen. Genom djupintervjuer med praktiserande kommunikatörer visar studien hur arbete med sociala medier leder till en sammanblandning av den privata och pThis qualitative interview study aims to investigate how working with social media affects communication practitioners’ work situations. Moreover, it explores strategies for facilitating a communicative mission that may be perceived as stressful for the individual. Through in-depth interviews with communication practitioners, this study shows how working with social media leads to a merge of the p
Bakgrund: Barnmorskors upplevelser av att själva föda barn är ett relativt outforskat område. Befintlig forskning berör övrig vårdpersonals upplevelser av att vara patient. I Sverige sker de flesta förlossningar på sjukhus och en majoritet av alla yrkesverksamma barnmorskor är kvinnor. Detta innebär att många barnmorskor någon gång kommer att befinna sig i situationen som födande patient eller som
Developing and getting a new medicine approved is a long and expensive process and it would therefore be beneficial if it could be streamlined. In order to control the effect and safety of a new treatment, clinical trials are performed. Traditionally, these have been performed at physical clinics, but with digitalization the option to collect clinical data remotely has been presented. This thesi
The aim of this study is to analyze the differences in years of education for men and women, and how these differences affect economic growth. The author believes there is a significant loss of human capital in the world, when girls for different reasons do not reach the same level of education as boys. This loss becomes clear by inspecting the literacy rate for each gender, and when viewing the o
The main objective of this paper is to investigate price determining factors in Swedish grocery retailing. By combining economic theory with linear regression analysis the paper wishes to shed light on what kind of factors that are affecting Swedish food retailers when they are pricing food products. Different food retailers face different conditions when it comes to competition, demand, locality
In recent years, Kate Raworth’s new alternative macroeconomic model, “doughnut economics” (DE) has become increasingly popular within policies on different scales around the world. The doughnut-shaped framework addresses the urgent crises of our time by advocating for a balanced development that considers the planet’s well-being while securing our social needs. Since the introduction of the framew
This thesis set out to map the relation Swedish farmers have to their occupation and production, while also investigating what challenges farmers experience which in turn might affect social sustainability in Swedish agriculture negatively. Agriculture was approached as a case of low social sustainability based on the fact that more than one-third of Swedish farmers are over retiring age, while yo
Preterm birth is a leading cause for birth complications and neonatal mortality in the world. It remains difficult to predict whether a preterm birth will occur, which hinders the possible use of prevention treatments. This thesis investigates the use of machine learning models in the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth. In addition, possible heterogeneous performance of these models among dif
Syftet med undersökningen har varit att genomföra en kvantitativ undersökning av kandidatuppsatser i historia från Lunds universitet skrivna mellan åren 2004 och 2021. Det empiriska underlaget utgjordes av de uppsatser som fanns digitaliserade på Lund Student Papers. Kandidatuppsatserna undersöktes för att ta reda på om det fanns skillnader i val av tematik, källmaterial, metod, teori samt avgräns
This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic growth and gender equality in Africa between 1995 and 2019. The chosen measurement for gender inequality is UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index, GII, which is a well established index with extensive data access. A modification of an endogenous growth model is presented. The modified model attempts to illustrate the expected relationship betwe
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate if reporting on sustainability holds the standard for various frameworks and what factors determine ESG-points. The relationship between companies' total sales and various environmental factors were also investigated in order to understand the driving factors for companies to report on ESG and sustainability. The thesis is limited to nordic countries
A large amount of economic research is reliant upon census, survey, or national accounts as a source of data. For many developing nations, the quality of this data is widely recognised to be unreliable and is rarely available at the sub-national level. By using a new and improved source of night-time satellite imagery data, this study investigates to what extent this data can serve as a proxy to t
This bachelor's thesis seeks to investigate how the physical working environments of Born Global firms affect innovation, and more specifically analyze which physical attributes in the working environment nudge towards innovation. Born Globals are characterized as young firms with the ambition to gain global presence near founding. Since Born Global firms are at the beginning of their developm
Title: Motivations and barriers to purchasing a circular offering in the private and public sectors Seminar date: 2 June 2022 Course: BUSN29 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Léna Stoz & Nadine Vogt Supervisor: Annette Cerne Keywords: Circular economy, circularity, circular companies, circular offerings, sustainable buying, organizational buying, public procurement, buying motivatio
