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Flera studier visar att valet av etableringsmetod är väsentligt vid etablering utomlands. Tidigare undersökningar ger dock varierande resultat. Japan har en väldigt annorlunda kultur och flera företag har tvingats ge upp sina etableringsförsök. Syftet är att beskriva fyra svenska dotterbolagsetableringar i Japan och analysera effekten av kulturskillnader och deras påverkan på etableringsprocessernSeveral studies have shown the importance of the market entry mode when entering foreign markets. However, previous studies give various results. Japan is said to have a unique culture and many companies have been forced to give up their attempts to enter the Japanese market. This thesis aims to describe the entry process of four Swedish subsidiaries in Japan and analyze the effects of cultural di

Bangladesh has a long history of coping with and recovery from disasters. Although climate extremes are increasingly taking huge tolls especially in the Southwestern part of the country, households are resisting the negative outcomes of these events as best they can. This research explores the coping strategies of the people of a coastal village in the wake of a cyclone, Aila. The vulnerability ap

Wetland and biodiversity loss affect both ecosystem function and human wellbeing. However, it is argued that the incremental rate of farmland abandonment provides opportunities for ecological restoration to help reverse this negative trend. This thesis applies ecosystem service framework and psychological ownership theory to analyse a wetland restoration project in a semi-urban town of Jablonné v

Due to anthropogenically created climate change, global cities are facing inundation by rising sea levels. This study aimed to fill knowledge gaps in understanding the exposure of urban infrastructure such as roads, railways, buildings and parks to sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios, and how this would affect local populations. Three economic hubs, namely London (United Kingdom), Bangkok (Thailand) an

Topological qubits based on non-Abelian Majorana bound states (MBSs) are protected by parity which is challenged by quasiparticle poisoning (QPP). In this work, we show how QPP affects transport through a pair of coupled MBSs weakly connected to two current leads, using an open system approach and full counting statistics. We find that the correct low-energy physics requires one to include next to

The purpose of this research is to examine how the family law secretay’s role is created by other professions regarding custody trials. The research will focus on the experiences of the family law secreties and their participation in custody trials along side of the legal disputes concerning; custody, residence and contact within families. The methods that has been used are; semistructual intervi

Despite extensive research on Quality-of-Services (QoS) analysis of 5G networks, practical applications remain limited. This gap may be attributed to the lack of available tools and the complexity of developing or configuring technical systems to implement theoretical approaches. To address this, we developed an edge control system within a private 5G base station, utilizing Precision Time Protoco

Background: Vacations at international nightlife resorts represent an important but also risky element in the lives of youth in many countries. There is an urgent need for evaluating the role played by bars and nightclubs in producing and reducing risks; this task is important, especially at upcoming nightlife resorts with limited experience in managing young partygoers from other countries. Metho

acuum-assisted closure (V.A.C.®) is a novel treatment for wound healing, which has been used extensively during the last years in a growing number of clinical applications. This wound-healing technique is based on the application of local negative pressure to a wound. During treatment with vacuum-assisted closure, several beneficial wound healing mechanisms are initiated. Topical negative pressure

This chapter explores the relationship between long-term exposure to neighborhood income inequality and adult mortality in Landskrona during a period of declining economic disparities. Using geocoded data from 1939 to 1967, the authors examine three interconnected hypotheses concerning income inequality and longevity. The analysis considers spatial changes in neighborhood inequality over time and

In 1998 a new regional development policy was introduced by the Swedish government. A central feature in the policy was the formation of partnerships at the regional level. The partnerships were meant to consist of local and regional stakeholders, representing a great variety of interests, who would collaborate in order to improve regional development. The new policy was promoted, besides being mo

Railway expansion is usually associated with containing and supporting economic growth. This particular research approaches railways from the angle of technological potential. It explores whether railways can drive China towards technology-led growth, and if so, the way in which this process occurs. The study uses a theoretical framework of complementarities adjusting it to the qualitative analysi

It is well established that there is uneven availability of credit across space, in particular for SMEs. The evidence on whether this translates into differences in actual business investments remains scarce. We assess this question by using firm-level data for Swedish firms and estimate the extent to which the average investment-cash flow sensitivities of firms vary across the urban–rural hierarc

The influence of tab size and location on the flow structure, distribution of pressures on the surface, and heat transfer in the separation region behind the backward-facing step at Reynolds number Re = 4000 was experimentally investigated. The effect of tabs on the distribution of the local pressure and heat transfer coefficients in the longitudinal and transversal directions was studied. The pre

This paper studies the problem of coordinating a group of nth-order integrator systems. As for the well-studied conventional consensus problem, we consider linear and distributed control with only local and relative measurements. We propose a closed-loop dynamic that we call serial consensus and prove it achieves nth order consensus regardless of model order and underlying network graph. This alle

Public transport systems in different parts of the world are currently undergoing a change characterised by the introduction of battery-powered electric buses in everyday operations. The introduction of electric buses brings new challenges such as high investment costs and technology concerns, as well as new forms of collaboration between both established and new actors. The aim of this paper is t

This paper estimates the effect of female economic empowerment on domestic violence. I use individual level data from high-quality Swedish administrative registers on women's earnings and hospital visits relating to assault. With this third-party reported violence measure, I overcome the issue of selective under-reporting of violence. I proxy female economic empowerment with a measure of women's p

High-pressure homogenizers are widely used in industrial processes to produce emulsions with small droplet sizes. During the process, cavitation occurs under industrial process conditions. In order to investigate the flow conditions inside a homogenizer geometry, CFD simulations are commonly used, since it is not possible to evaluate local flow conditions experimentally. However, these studies hav

A thermodynamically consistent model for multiphase flow in swelling cellulose based material is adopted. The material is decomposed into a fiber phase, a gas phase and an inter-fiber water phase, where the fiber phase consists of a fiber water and a dry fiber constituent and the gas phase is an ideal gas mixture of water vapor and dry air. The model is derived within mixture theory and includes l