Bakgrund: Alkoholkonsumtionen har ökat markant i hela Sverige sedan inträdet i Europeiska Unionen 1995 då Sveriges alkoholpolitiks förutsättningar förändrades eftersom alkoholmonopolet stred mot EU:s öppna marknadsprinciper. Ökningen i konsumtionen har varit störst i södra Sverige eftersom det är i den regionen, nära övriga Europa, som alkoholens ökade tillgänglighet märkts av mest. Eftersom Syste

I den här uppsatsen kommer det att med hjälp av den kointegrations-teknik som utvecklats av Pesaran med flera, utredas om det fanns ett långsiktigt jämviktssamband mellan de tre förklarande variablerna oljepris, inkomst och växelkurs samt utländsk efterfrågan på turism i Sverige. Långsiktiga elasticitetsskattningar kommer att studeras för landsspecifika modeller med påvisad kointegration. Den ARDL

China’s economy has developed rapidly since the introduction of market reforms in 1978. In parallel came the reforms within the financial sector and the most of financial intermediation between savings and investment has been channelled through the banking sector. Thus far studies on the finance-growth nexus in China have focused on the financial sector as a whole. This thesis aims to determine th

This study seeks to find the effect of property rights on poor women living in Mumbai, India. It tries to explain and understand how property rights affect access to credit from formal banks and what impact such rights may have on women’s economic development. The study analyse housing and land reforms and poor peoples’ access to credit in Mumbai. The theoretical framework is the theory of Legal E

This thesis focuses on the econometric evaluation of the effects of major exports and imports on the balance of foreign trade in Pakistan. Various statistical techniques at our disposal have been used such as principal component analysis, stepwise regression and multiple linear regression. Attempt has been made to look out for the stationarity in the data for the balance of trade in Pakistan. Augm

Denna pilotstudie utgick från de kvinnor (N=14) som ingår i en kohort (Malmö-kohorten) av personer som genomgått rättspsykiatrisk undersökning under perioden 1999-2005. Fokus för studien var en kartläggning av faktorer som antogs spegla betydelsen av hereditet och uppväxtförhållanden. Teoretiska utgångspunkter var modeller för kvinnors utveckling av antisocialt beteende respektive anknytning. Stud

Detta är en studie som analyserar ett antal varianter av representationer av maskulinitet och manliga kroppar. Materialet bygger på utställningen ”Han i hennes ögon” av konstnären Britt Marie Trensmar. Uppsatsen har till syfte att studera vilka representationsformer av maskulinitet som uttrycks när kvinnor uppmanas att gestalta sin ”bild av mannen”. I uppsatsen ställs bilderna av manliga kroppar iThis is a studie that analyzes a number of variants of the representations of masculinity and male bodies. The material is based on the exhibition “He in her eyes” by the artist Britt Marie Trensmar. The essay is to study the representation of masculinity expressed when women asked to shape their “image of man”. In the paper the images of male bodies in relation to the media representations of mas

Tourism has recently been acknowledged as a potential means for sustainable development. This study examined what tourism has meant for the community members involved in community based tourism (CBT) projects in rural Quintana Roo, Mexico, with regards to the sustainable development of their communities. The study used a qualitative case study research design to compare two different approaches to

ABSTRACT Authors: Lina Bengtsson, Pär Eriksson Title: Homelessness – Five life stories Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyze five persons process to and from homelessness in order to gain a deeper understanding of why Sweden, with it's well-developed welfare state, still has a problem with homelessness. To answer this questio

Med en kritisk diskursanalys försöker jag besvara frågan på vilka normer och värderingar som det går att urskilja i fyra olika jämställdhetsplaner och hur dessa värderingar och normer är kopplade till kön, klass, sexualitet och etnicitet. Jag ifrågasätter vilka kvinnor och vilka män jämställdhetsplanerna och lagen syftar till och menar att andra maktrelationer blir osynliggjorda och även legitimer

In Delhi, as in many other large cities in developing countries, the inappropriate management of municipal solid waste is a significant flaw in the quality of life of its residents, and a serious threat to the environment. Taking the integrated approach to solid waste management as its point of departure, this thesis focuses on city residents as waste producers and their role in municipal solid wa

En studie som beskriver och analyserar Espresso House styrmodell och hur styrningen förmedlas från ledningen till distriktscheferna och vidare ner till platscheferna. Styrmedel som budget, nyckeltal och benchmarking beskrivs utifrån företagets styrmodell. Denna modell innefattar; strategi, ledningsfilosofi, organisation och styrmedel.

Purpose To investigate the predicted relation between macroeconomic risk exposure and growth in the context of the European oil industry. Methodology Multiple regression analysis Theoretical Macroeconomic uncertainty, Financial constraints, The hierachy of Perspectives Finance, Fundamentals of hedging Empirical 225 observations have been included to determine a beta coefficient Foundation of -2.83

The thesis aims to determine the implications that the managerial approach and in particular IFRS 8 has upon the decision usefulness of financial statements. The further aim is to make a fundamental academic judgement about the need of this approach to be based on a hierarchy between the primary qualitative characteristics in order to produce decision usefulness information and thus accord with th

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Title: Identifying with fun and family in the time of changes and downsize. Seminar date: June 1st, 2009 Course: Masters thesis in Business Administration Programme for Managing People, Knowledge and Change, 15 University Credit Points (15 ECTS). Author: Ellert Örn Erlingsson and Elvar Ólafsson Advisor: Sara Louise Muhr Key words: Cultural family metaphor, Resistance, Cynicism, Organizational iden

The purpose of this paper is to develop and propose from a social constructivist perspective a dynamic model for the concept of morale as it exists within two Swedish organizations. The impetus for doing the study comes from the current emphasis on maintaining or improving morale given the need for redundancies in the face of an economic recession. Further, to address the claims made that improvem

As a PhD research proposal, this paper is centered on the critical aspects of knowledge sharing and innovation under the background of global competition. By presenting an array of perspectives for understanding knowledge sharing and innovation, I get a close look at the problem within organizational control that goes central into innovation practice and knowledge sharing activities. To capture th

This Master Degree Project, presented as a Research Proposal, is critically portraying a couple contemporary Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) practices belonging to the Performance Management System: i.e. Performance Appraisals and Feedback. The SHRM function is being critically discussed against its’ history of development and secondly how this function acts as a representative of the ‘