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The Telecom industry is facing a paradigm shift, where the industry is converging with Internet technologies and the market is becoming more sophisticated. This results in more demanding customers, and the need for offering more content and services with a focus on usability for the end-users. The operators are starting to loose both their strong position and revenue in the Telecom industry, due t

I uppsatsen analyseras Harry Potter-böckernas skildring av hur det dras upp gränser mellan olika raser inom magivärlden i förhållande till Zygmunt Baumans teori om hur judarna under 1800-talet utsattes för antisemitism på grund av att de antogs överskrida nationalitetsgränserna. Dessutom förs en argumentation för att böckerna kan läsas som en allegori över vår världs rasism. Rasismen i magivärlden

The corporate governance mechanism should be evaluated by both region and company levels, since legislation setting and regulatory enforcement are equally critical. It is found that Hong Kong outperforms than Mainland China at both levels, hereby more converge towards OECD Principles. There are root causes contributing to the differences and similarities of corporate governance in the regions, whi

This thesis is a study of the Swedish culture politics, in particular the area of cultural heritage. My ambition was to look into the cooperation between the municipalities in Scania (Skånes kommuner) and County Administrative Board in Scania (Länsstyrelsen i Skåne) to try and find out if that is the reason for the absence of useful information about our prehistoric cultural heritage on the web p

Representations of librarians have appeared in popular culture for a long time. Previous research has found that the most common image of the librarian is the spinster, but only a smaller part of the research has focused on the underlying causes. Drawing inspiration from Radford and Radfords (1997) article ”Power Knowledge and Fear: Feminism, Foucault and the Stereotype of the Female Librarian”, t

Bakgrund Hållbarhet är ett koncept som har fått uppmärksamhet och som har gått från att vara ett ”modeord” till något som är integrerat i de flesta företags strategi. Författarna är intresserade av hur affärsmöjligheter kan bli utvärderade från ett hållbarhetsperspektiv och hur hållbara produkter kan skapa ett marknadsvärde. Företaget, som är verksamma inom kemi industrin, är intresserade av att k

Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of the Governments contribution Creative school (Skapande skola) on a cultural business by a case study of Skissernas museum in Lund. By investigating the difference in work process between the projects implemented with and without Creative school I can identify the impact of the contribution on Skissernas museum. The biggest difference b

The presence of God and religion in America is a well known fact, and for many Americans also of great importance. My interest places focus on the none-believers living in a country where God always is present. The religious climate in America is changing and the amount of none-believers is growing progressively. Changes are necessary to make the balance of power between believers and none-believe

The thesis studied non-financial Swedish firms classified as large- and mid-caps listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange active in 2009 throughout the time period 1990 to 2009. The firms were divided into multinational and domestic firms using a foreign sales ratio. Recession periods were defined as periods with negative GDP growth. We found that the speed at which a typical Swedish non-financial firm

Our main findings are that Swedish cross-border M&A’s on average perform positively around the announcement of cross-border M&A’s, which is contrary to previous studies. Furthermore, we also find cultural distance to positively impact the announcement effect of cross-border M&A’s, also contradictive to previous findings. However, we cannot ensure that cultural distance itself affects t

The overall objective of this thesis was to investigate how CSR is approached by commercial banks in the U.S and Sweden respectively. We have therefore made a comparative analysis of the national differences in terms of CSR. This research was done by introducing and identifying dimensions that affect the CSR practices in each country. These dimensions have been analyzed based on the national busin

Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av en lättläst barnbok, som i sin tur är baserad på en myt från Snorres Edda. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys, som i viss mån utgår från Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledins (1997) modell, och som grundas på Göte Klingbergs (1977) teorier om bearbetning och översättning av böcker för barn. Därefter följer en kortare diskussion om övervägande

2 Abstract The paper focuses on evaluating the most performant Value-at-Risk models from the perspective of financial institutions. A number of 18 VaR methodologies were used for this purpose, comprising of parametric and non-parametric methods, some of which include time-varying volatilities estimated by means of GARCH and asymmetric GARCH models. All methods were applied on real P/L data extract

A common question that leadership students are facing today concerns the nature of leadership itself. House et al. (2004) call leadership as an enigma-a puzzle within a puzzle since there is no comprehensive definition that encompasses all divergent views about leadership. Researchers like Jackson & Perry (2008) argue that leadership is predominantly an American construct due to the fact that

This thesis aims to explore to what extent internal branding efforts foster the level of understanding necessary to allow a brand to act as the uniting force of a virtual web. We conclude that focusing on recruitment can establish a baseline for brand understanding, but refined communication processes are necessary to facilitate the level of understanding required to encourage web members to actua

This paper models the dynamics of capital structure listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ during 1995 to 2010. The subsamples classified by given leverage level and specified periods of time are tested. The main contribution is that macroeconomic conditions and firm characteristics are incorporated regressed for non-linearity test. We provide the evidence of non-linear patterns among low leverage and high

In principal our empirical findings confirm the applicability of the Uppsala Model on SMEs. However we believe the Uppsala Model to be very general. This is the reason why it fails to explain some complexities in the real world. Simultaneously the model’s general approach is also its biggest strength. Since it focuses on explaining the fundamental elements of internationalizing firms it is possibl

Since the strategy of “Going Global” to be implemented, the Chinese OFDI has been increased rapidly. For a long time, governments in developed countries as well as some scholars hold the different attitudes that OFDI will crowd out Chinese domestic 5 investment. In this study, we empirically analyze this relationship between OFDI and domestic investment in China based on the data from 1986 to 2010

The main purpose of this study is to examine how employees relate to and experience the organizational brand. This is done by examining the brand discourse, to discover how participants in the study relate to this discourse.

Tea Party-rörelsen har sedan den bildades år 2009 fått stor medial uppmärksamhet och dess inflytande över det amerikanska politiska klimatet har varit mycket påtaglig. Vårt intresse av att studera rörelsen grundar sig främst på dess starka värderingar och åsikter, samt dess färgstärka företrädare. Ett välkänt faktum gällande Tea Party-rörelsen är den hårda kritik de riktar mot president Obama och