Empowerment is a concept that is well-known and used within the development, but is also a concept that is highly contested within the field where there is no coherence in what empowerment really is and how it is achieved. The main purpose of this thesis is to look into the concept of empowerment and how the perception of it is inefficient in terms of the discourse existing within the paradigm. Th

This study investigates the influence of CEO characteristics on corporate cash holdings. Previous research has already led to an extensive body of firm specific determinants of such, which connects tradeoff, agency and other theories. The upper echelons theory has until present not experienced major attention with regard to this field. This work shows that idiosyncratic managerial values, cognitiv

Varför sätter vi i Sverige de flesta solcellerna på tak? Att producera el från solceller på tak är något som blir allt vanligare i Sverige. Men hur kostnadseffektivt är det att placera solceller på tak? Ett tak har tyvärr inte alltid en optimal vinkel mot solen vilket minskar el-produktionen. I länder som Rumänien och Bulgarien produceras nästan all solel från anläggningar på marken, vilket myckThe electricity produced from photovoltaics represents only a small fraction of the total electricity consumption in Sweden, but the installed capacity in Sweden doubled for the fourth year in a row in 2014. If this trend continues it is both interesting and important to discuss where we want to see PV systems in our future society. Looking at the market share of different types of PV systems in o

The purpose of the thesis is to identify the key determinants of corporate liquidity in Swedish firms and whether these have changed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. For these means, data obtained from companies listed on the Swedish NASDAQ OMX Stockholm stock exchange are used to estimate a number of dynamic panel regression models in E-Views. The ambition is that the insights gained wil

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att förklara vilka faktorer som påverkar budpremiens storlek i publika företagsförvärv. Målet är, genom att undersöka ett antal utvalda variabler, att skapa förståelse för vad som avgör premien, samt vilka variabler som har störst och tydligast samband med dess storlek. Metod: Studien har en deduktiv ansats och en kvantitativ karaktär. Med hjälp av multipel regre

The aim for the graphical editor described in this paper is to simplify the creation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for PalCom (an “Internet of Things”-solution). Ideally, the people who are to use the GUIs will be able to create them themselves. Most graphical editors focus on placing graphical components (buttons etc.), then assigning them a function. The graphical editor described in this

Purpose: Consumers are forming deep love relationships with brands to a degree that involves the incorporation of the brand’s symbolic attributes to their own self-concept. However, though deep, these bonds are not indestructible. With that said, this thesis aims to investigate the consumer-brand love relationship with specific regard to the dissolution of these deep bonds. Methodology: In-depth s

This thesis has been performed at Saab Technologies in Gothenburg. Saab is a global defense- and security company that specializes in air-, land and marine defense. Saab in Gothenburg develops effective solutions for monitoring, warning, location and defense systems. The thesis work which has been initiated by Saab, involves development of methods and tools in order to dimension the network compon

The Swedish transport administration (Trafikverket) uses turnkey contracts as a tool in their work with the assignment from the Swedish government to increase innovation and productivity in the construction sector which railway is included in. Qualitative interviews of the three different actors: clients (Trafikverket), constructors and consults have been made for the study. This is to get a pictu

This thesis studies the concept of calculation of Value-at-Risk and Ex- pected Shortfall when the choice of model is uncertain. The method used for solving the problem is chosen to be Bayesian Model Averaging, using this method will reduce the model risk by taking several models into ac- count. Monte Carlo methods are used to perform the model averaging and the calculation of the risk measurements

Incubators can widely be defined as an organization, providing moderately priced office space and central services to young companies with the goal to support the start of these firms (Allen & McCluskey, 1990). However, the variety of incubator services is high, and there is limited research in the field of customer satisfaction in incubators. Therefore, the aim of this study is to enhance the

Brand management of start-ups is an under-researched area of study. The aim of this study is to uncover the branding practices of start-ups in Sweden and specifically to examine the perceived importance of branding, identify the brand identity creation process, reveal the brand positioning strategies employed by such firms and expose the most relevant brand building activities among the field.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current state of entrepreneurship education in Swedish compulsory schools. In light of the 2011 reform of the national Swedish Curriculum in which entrepreneurship education was first introduced, four schools are examined, through interviews with the principal and two teachers per school, to determine their perceptions and implementations of entrepre

This report presents a master degree project in industrial design from Lund University. The title, Lingering Impressions, relates to the way humans affect their shared environments, consciously and unconsciously, and the cumulative effects of these behaviours over time. With these effects as the starting point and main inspiration, theproject aimed to design less static products for public environ

South Koreans today take a remarkably liberal attitude towards plastic surgery, as the highest per capita consumers of plastic surgery in the world. This rise in surgery has accompanied dramatic change in the Korean attitude towards the body and advanced a new attitude, one that was rare as recent as in 1990. Moreover, this contradicts the long held Confucian attitude towards the body. Originating