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This thesis presents a decomposition of Ireland’s manufacturing industry with respect to technological change, addressing productivity improvement and how these changes affect the regional system during transformation. This work is primarily based on the technology shift thesis, encompassing improvements in productivity arising from technological advancement and their associated divergence/converg
Abstract: This thesis treats the subject of rural development and nonfarm development in particular with a focus on community-based tourism. With support and examples from old development theories the aim is to explore how rural development in today’s world differs from the time of the industrial revolution and what that shift looks like. A case study of Buliisa district Uganda, stands as example
Undersökning syftade till att ta reda på om studenter vid Lunds universitet (N=139) skattade uppgifts- och relationsorienterade ledare olika effektiva och tilltalande beroende på om de beskrevs som kvinnor eller män. Två enkäter utformades med identiska beskrivningar av fyra olika fiktiva chefer, två uppgiftsorienterade och två relationsorienterade, där endast kön manipulerades. Till exempel beskr
China is a mega-diversity country with abundant natural resources, and the richness of these resources is demonstrated to be relevant with the local people’s historical interactions between biophysical and sociocultural systems. If we are to maintain biodiversity and strike a balance between human well-being and ecosystem service, it is important to incorporate the local people and their tradition
This research explores the project Stuttgart 21, which is going to reconstruct the main station of Stuttgart city and build new tunnels to connect the node with the high-speed line. This project has been triggering controversies over issues such as cost, risk, ecology, and public participation, and thus raised intense conflicts between supporters and opponents. Thus, this research aims to explore
Uppsatsen undersöker hur Katarina Frostenson i diktsamlingen Tankarna använder sig av myterna om Orfeus och Eurydike och om Philomela för att uttrycka en språkskepsis, likväl som en väg ur språkets problematik.
What do people think about privately financed culture? Are the opinions about it generally negative? With it’s background in the controversial exhibition Abstract Possible, the aim of this bachelors thesis is to investigate how people think private financing could affect culture, sorting out which arguments that are used in the debate and how people would prefer culture to be financed. My thesis i
The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of profitability’s relationship to leverage by presenting evidence of Swedish non-financial firms listed on the OMX Nordic Stockholm stock exchange. The thesis will discover how the relationship differs across firm size as well as how the relationship differs between different market conditions. The study takes a deductive approach with a
The aim of this study was to examine which norms and values of gender and sexuality that counselors at youth clinics want to convey to their visitors. The study builds on the assumption that sex and sexuality are constructed socially and culturally, and in relation to each other. My assumption was that the youth clinic visitors are affected by the norms that are mediated by the counselor. I believ
This thesis investigates and examines the factors that affect university students’ acceptance and intention to use Facebook, and then identifies the key factors among them. Information systems are growing rapidly and leading new Web 2.0 technologies into education. Therefore, finding the factors influence the user acceptance and intention to use Web 2.0 technologies in education context is recogni
I nuläget är automatiserad aktiehandel ett väldigt diskuterat ämne. Trots att det överallt nämns i media är den generella kunskapen om hur aktiesystemen fungerar och vad de faktiskt gör väldigt låg. Det lyfts ofta fram att de kan göra affärer snabbare än en människa klarar av och att de bidrar till minskat etiskt handlande på börsen. Målet med uppsatsen blev således att hitta brister och förbättri
Organisationers ökade engagemang för hållbarhetsfrågor, kan idag ses som en re-aktion av att omvärlden i allt större utsträckning förväntar sig mer än endast en förskönad fasad. Både interna och externa intressenter kräver allt mer pålitliga or-ganisationer med autenticitet och substans. För att leva upp till omvärldens krav krävs det en stark organisation med distinkt organisationsidentitet som bThe increased commitment to corporate social responsibility, seen among organi-zations, can today be viewed as a reaction to the fact that the outside world increa-singly expects more than an embellished façade. Both internal and external stake-holders demand more and more dependable organizations with authenticity and substance. When building a strong organization - to succeed in creating a stron
in Spanish literature. Different theoretical perspectives of a number of literary researchers studies of the narrator in second person are illustrated and based on these researches two Spanish literary works are analyzed. It is concluded that the second person narrator causes rhetorical power; The purpose of this study is to create an understanding about the use of the narrator in the second perso
Abu Dhabi and Helsingborg are two growing cities. Helsingborg is situated on the coast in southwest of Sweden and Abu Dhabi in the south east of the Arabian gulf in the UAE. The purpose of this study was to compare and study the current traffic situations in these cities and get an idea of how different parameters can vary between different places in the world. These parameters are then evaluated
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to identify the role of corporate sustainable entrepreneurship in linking sustainability and profitability on the strategy level and how the proactive drive of entrepreneurship can lead to a sustained competitive advantage. In relation, the purpose is to guide the case company towards a profitable inclusion of sustainability into the current strategic plannin
Då människors vardagliga liv allt oftare genomsyras av medierat material är det viktigt att närmare studera hur detta material kan påverka människors verklighetsuppfattning. Denna studie granskar hur hjälporganisationer i sina kampanjfilmer väljer att porträttera lidande och medlidande. De sätt som kampanjfilmerna väljer att illustrera lidande och medlidande på får konsekvenser för hur betraktarna
Swedish national legislation and environmental objectives state that cities should be planned in a coherent and sustainable approach, and in a way that limits the need for private cars. External commercial establishments are often brought up in the discussion of sustainable urban planning, since the locations result in urban sprawl and an increase in car traffic. This study examines how municipali
Socio-economic variables substantially determine fertility behavior and female labor force participation. Temporal fluctuations in socio-economic determinants of fertility and female labor force participation seem inevitable since they are subject to societal developments in the Philippines. Examining socio-economic variables over time contributes to an enhanced understanding of the current status
Mergers and Acqusitions (M&A) gör det möjligt för organisationer att utveckla sin verksamhet. Genom genomförandet av en M&A kan organisationer tillskansa sig olika typer av synergieffekter som leder till att organisationen kan utvecklas. Många organisationer är även beroende av de informationssystem (IS) som används för intern informationsspridning. Samtidigt som antalet genomförda M&A
