In online auctions bidding frequency tends to increase towards the last minutes of the auction. This thesis investigates why bidders might choose to engage in last minute bidding, sniping, in Tradera auctions (Tradera is a Swedish subsidiary of eBay). Tradera uses a hard-close rule and a second-price rule. In hard-close auctions the dead-line occurs at a specific time, after which new bids are not

The purpose of this thesis was to study about the implication of Mandarin language in creating unity among ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. The research was carried out by exploring the role of Chinese school in order to produce an analytical overview of language and unity in Malaysian Chinese context. The identity issue was also being analyzed to find out how Mandarin language helps to create Chinese

Using a master’s-level human rights program funded by Sweden at Peking University, this case study sought to explore the connection between legal education and social change as influentially advanced by the Law and Development Movement (LDM) and now reflected in various donor-funded law and governance projects in China. To evaluate the program’s underlying assumptions of change, the study examined

Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur de aktiviteter som personal på Röda Korsets behandlingscentrum för krigsskadade och torterade i Malmö använder för att hjälpa barnen som befann sig i riskzonen för att utveckla posttraumatiskt syndrom. Undersökningsgruppen bestod av sociolog, socionom, bildterapeut och volontärer i teamet. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes. Deltagare berättade om akti

The European Union (EU) and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) since 2002. The EPAs are intend to replace present agreements which due to its discriminatory element against other developing countries, not are compatible with the WTO regulations. The liberalisation of the EPAs has triggered some concerns regarding the risk

In this paper we examine the volatility dynamics of cross-listed stocks. Specifically, we study deviations in volatility between a sample of Swedish stocks listed on the OMX Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) with Stockholmsbörsen (SSB, the Stockholm stock exchange) as their home market, and their corresponding DRs listed on Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The main questi

Syftet med denna uppsats är att granska relevanta teorier kring marknadsföring och forskning kopplat till sociala medier. Med hjälp av teoretisk granskning och empiriska undersökningar analyseras de faktorer som företag och organisationer bör ta hänsyn till avseende användandet av sociala medier. Avslutningsvis presenteras en modell som beskriver ett strategiskt tillvägagångssött för hur företag b

Title: Black Jack: A New Perspective on Protean Career within Management Consulting Seminar Date: June 1, 2011 Course: BUSM18 Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and Change- Master Level Authors: Victoria Jezierski, Teigan Margetts & Susan Sjölund Advisor EHL: Stephan Schaefer & Katie Sullivan Advisor VCT: Sverre Spoelstra Keywords: Career, protean career, traditional career, mana

This thesis treats the effects of various factors on the price development of agricultural estates in Sweden. An econometric approach is used to determine the impact, the factors included are chosen with regards to extensive interviews with people with industry insights and long experience of the business. The purpose is to describe and analyze the price development over time. Our results indicate

Studien syftar till är att undersöka hur ett relativt nyetablerat varumärke kan kommunicera ut ett budskap på en redan befintlig marknad. Vi har i studien använt oss av kvalitativa metoder, enkäter, individuell intervju och djupintervjuer för att samla in empiriskt material.För att undersöka detta använde vi Paulúns som fallföretag och kom fram till att det fanns en del områden som Paulúns skullle

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study if and how Swedish accounting regulation create misunderstandings between Swedish aid agencies and stakeholders. Further we are going to analyze if there is a need to improve Swedish accounting regulation to increase faith between the agency and its stakeholders. Methodology: The study is based on a qualitative approach and the primary sources consis

Syftet: Syftet med denna uppsats var att utreda hur fallföretaget utåt sett förmedlar sina anställda som experter, och internt, hur de anställda får en positiv gruppidentitet, samt vad man kan tillskriva teorin gällande detta. Metod: Vi har en kvalitativ studie med abduktiv ansats. Vi ser verkligheten som en del av oss och har använt oss av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teori: Ett kunskapsföretag

Uppsatsen syftar till att beskriva och analysera individers reaktioner i förändringsprocesser och omfattar en presentation av två perspektiv. Inledningsvis presenteras ett Change Management perspektiv, där motstånd, såsom t ex kritik mot förändringen, via en omfattande litteraturstudie visat sig vara den dominerande synen på individers reaktioner i förändringsprocesser. Motstånd är därtill något s

Abstract Authors: Sebastian Jerneck & Johan Krantz Title: Where are youths placed by social workers? - What criteria will the social secretary take into account in the placement process? Supervisor: Max Koch Assessor: Johan Cronehed This thesis examines which conditions influence social workers' placements of youths. We interviewed seven social workers in four adminstrative regions. Our r

The purpose of this study was to find female discrimination at Japanese workplaces in Bangkok metropolitan region because Japanese working system contain high female discrimination and gender inequality. Thus it was interesting to know the situation of female discrimination in Japanese firms in Thailand whether it exists or not. In this thesis, the feminist research approach was used as the main f

The purpose of this study is to bring forward the issue of public opinion making as a tool for online collective action (literally knows as human-flesh search)to implement social controlin Taiwan.According to several months’multiple data collection from the internet, this study isdesigned to answer the questionof howhuman-flesh search can implement social control. The paper adoptqualitative resea

China has the world’s largest telecommunication market and the competition in this market is becoming fiercer among corporations. To survive and increase market shares, competitive advantages are the key factors each corporation strives for. As one of the representative companies in the industry, China Mobile established in 2000, with its competitive advantages, has expanded rapidly and led to hug

The theory of Market Microstructure Invariance proposed by Kyle and Obizhaeva (2010) is presented and tested on spread data for bond futures. The data used are transformations from over 150,000 observations of futures on German government debt securities (Schatz and Bund) and 10-year US treasury notes. To account for the possible presence of long memory processes, we perform a GPH-test that displa