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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) rely on innovation to remain competitive, yet their innovation processes often unfold under limited financial resources. While previous research shows that financial constraints reduce innovation activity, less is known about how such constraints shape the internal progression of innovation processes. This study examines how financial constraints influence
This study examines the relationship between four dimensions of psychological capital (PsyCap) and nascent entrepreneurial activity among Ukrainian refugees residing in European host countries. Specifically, it analyzes how internally and externally sourced fear of failure moderates this relationship, focusing on the psychological and emotional barriers that may limit refugees’ entrepreneurial
Background: Heavy‑duty road freight accounts for a significant share of global carbon emissions, yet the industry remains structurally inefficient, characterized by low margins and fragmented fleets. While electrification is essential for achieving climate targets, the transition introduces additional operational complexities, raising important concerns regarding profitability and scalability. Pu
Title Improving food preparedness in Swedish municipalities from a supply chain perspective - a multiple case study Authors Ellen Persson & Vera Hansen Contribution This thesis has been a complete collaboration between the two authors. Each author has been involved in every part of the process and contributed equally. Supervisor Andreas Norrman – Division of Engineering Logistics, Facult
Background Climate change has become one of the leading drivers of global food insecurity, and its effects are felt most strongly in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa. As environmental degradation and climate-related stresses increasingly affect agricultural production, large buyers of food com- modities become exposed to growing environmental sourcing risks. The United Nations World Food Program
Flooding of coastal infrastructure due to rising sea levels and storm surges can be mitigated by coastal protection. The design of such infrastructure depends not only on the storm surge still-water level but also strongly on storm-wave characteristics. Therefore, numerical wave modelling is essential in the absence of wave observations. Fetch-limited seas with low moderate wave-energy climates ar
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 newly sequenced individuals sampled from East Asia to the West Eurasian Steppe spanning nearly 10,000 years. Our results indicate correlations between the ancestry of dogs and specific ancient human p
This chapter concludes the Privacy at Sea volume, providing a careful overview of the contributions of maritime history to the field of historical privacy studies as expressed in the previous chapters. By focusing on the dynamics of contraction and expansion, this analysis demonstrates how notions of privacy were adapted from the shore to the ships, showing how strategies of privacy enabled people
Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our contemporary struggles with availability and control of personal information. When we ponder what people of the past valued and aimed to protect and what they considered threatening and needing uncovering, we achieve a broader perspective of the importance
The article presents the most important lexicographic resources and milieus in Scandinavia. Each section is dealing with both mono- and bilingual lexicography and puts emphasis on contemporary as well as historical dictionaries. The field of lexicography is old, which means that several dictionary projects were started (and completed) a long time ago. In several cases, such works have had been upd
This project investigates how power operates as performative in the everyday work experiences of employees of different ethnic backgrounds in a multinational organization. Rather than treating power as a stable possession held by individuals or institutions, the study conceptualizes power as enacted, reproduced, and negotiated through routine individual and organizational practices. For migrants t
At a time when journalism is said to be facing an epistemic crisis, the Baltic Sea islands tell a different story. On Åland, Gotland, Bornholm, and Saaremaa, local newsrooms still verify their information and connect to and sustain public life. Besides being a source of information, their journalism is also part of the islands’ shared identity – and a reminder that a free press is something worth
This study examines home-leaving patterns among Middle Eastern (ME) immigrants and youth with ME backgrounds in Sweden using population register data for individuals aged 17 to 35 between 1998 and 2022. Applying competing risks models, we analyse transitions from the parental home to independent living while accounting for marriage as an alternative pathway. The results show that youth of ME origi
Peripartum hysterectomy (PH), the surgical removal of the uterus during the peripartum period, is a rare but potentially life-saving intervention for severe obstetric complications such as major haemorrhage, uterine rupture, and placenta accreta spectrum (PAS). As a maternal near-miss event, PH carries substantial maternal and neonatal morbidity, mortality, and long-term psychological impact. Data
The article examines the significance of confessional culture for conceptions ofvocation, gender roles, and organizational forms within the Deaconess Institutionand the Deacon Institution during the period circa 1850–1910.The study shows that the traditional Lutheran understanding of the house-hold’s responsibility for one’s neighbor, as part of the earthly calling, was rede-fined within diaconal
This book provides a general guide to stone-structures of the pre-colonial period called zimbabwes. This is a name which denotes their usage as prestige buildings and that a particular quality of masonry with frequent application of wall decoration patterns was required, which distinguishes them from many other stone structures of coarse workmanship. At least 300 sites are known within the borders
