The more globalized, dynamic and quickly changing society creates complexity and uncertainty that is challenging for many leaders of today's organizations. To handle this complexity it can be argued that the organizations of today are in need of more consciousness-developed leaders. In can also be argued that today’s formative leadership development programs, focusing on leaders acquiring the

Popular science summary: Having problems with statistics? Try Bayesian! While many of us are afraid of the abstruse concepts and annoyed by a lot of limitations in classical statistics, Bayesian methods provides user-friendly way to do statistics. They are intuitive, explicit and have a wide range of applications. In conservation planning, different sources of evidence need to be integrated to

Seminar date: June 2, 2014 Course: Master in Accounting and Management Control Authors: Cristiano Marcias and Christoffer Odin Advisors: Per Magnus Andersson and Anders Anell Five key words: target costing; competitiveness; contingency theory; cardinal rule; mechanisms; Purpose: to develop a hypothetical target costing best practice framework based on the combination of multiple theoretical models

This thesis aims to show that the doctrine of analogia entis, the analogy of being, is a proper form of thought for Catholic theology, because it is based on a theological metaphysics. The thesis includes a very brief historical account of the concept of analogy in philosophical and theological metaphysics, but has for its real starting point the exclamation of Karl Barth that the analogia entis i

The purpose of this paper is to explore corporate approaches to brands in the assessment of potential acquisitions in business-­to­‐business settings. The paper examines the corporate brands of three case companies -­ ALS Global, Göteborg Energi, and Trelleborg AB -­ in regards to their acquisition activities. Additionally, we have conducted an extensive literature review. Further, our research ph

Popular science summary: Cancer is genetic disease arising due to mutations in our genome. Gene fusions are one type of mutation that has a strong impact on tumor development. They are often characteristic for specific tumor types and can therefore be used a diagnostic tool. The identification of new gene fusions have, in the recent years, been highly successful using a newly developed technique

Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to eliminate the gap between theory and practice about corporate governance in selected countries in Eastern and Central Europe, which have transitioned from a socialist to a market economy. Method: We collect the necessary data for 28 European Countries from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Countries are then grouped into 4 r

In a globalized world subjected to ongoing rapid technological development and increasingly evocative entertainment, advertisers are turning their attention to methods of provocation in an effort to induce actionable behavior from the consumer. Struggling to fight their way through the challenging environment of todays saturated market and appeal to the increasingly desensitized consumer, advertis

The aim of this master thesis was to conduct a concept study to optimize SCAN COINs Coin Acceptance Module (CAM) with focus on cost reduction and a shortened assembly time. SCAN COIN is one of the world leading companies for cash processing machines. The CAM is a central component in most of SCAN COINs machines and is the component in which coin counting and sorting takes place. There are two vari

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between product market competition and innovation in seven European countries for the period 1987-2006. To approximate change in competition level three measures are considered: mark-up level, import penetration and the number of firms on the market. Innovation is measured as R&D intensity. The analysis shows that effect of product market co

Studien ämnar undersöka om det finns något samband mellan styrelsens sammansättning och VD:ns ersättning i svenska publika aktiebolag. I uppsatsen utformas och testas hypoteser efter rådande svenska förhållanden. Studiens resultat visar att styrelsens sammansättning har betydelse för VD:ns ersättningsnivå. Ett negativt samband finns mellan styrelsens storlek, andel internationella styrelseledamöt

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur åtalade kvinnor beskrivs i domar vid Lunds Tingsrätt, samt om dessa beskrivningar kan tänkas förklaras och motiveras med hjälp av kriminologiska teorier. En annan avsikt med uppsatsen var att efter sammanställningen av vårt analysmaterial föra en diskussion om rätten kan tänkas sända ut icke åsyftade verkningar till samhället rörande framställningen av

At Haväng in eastern Scania, South Sweden, an underwater landscape occurs on the seabed. The landscape consists of deep-rooted pines standing in organic deposits. Due to sea level changes, the area was exposed during two phases (11,700 to 10,700 and 10,000 to 8,500 years ago) so that pines could live there, to subsequently drown and end up submerged. This study aims to show how the Baltic Sea form

Social workers have an increased risk to meet suicidal people during their career especially if they are working in the field of psychiatry. The main purpose with this study was to examine and understand how social workers in the psychiatry field define their role in the interaction with suicidal patients. To answer my questions I have interviewed five social workers that currently work in psychia

Child poverty is a growning issue in the Swedish society today. Research in the area demonstrates differences in support and intervention work around Sweden, which appose the principle of equality that underpin Swedish welfare policy. Combating child poverty is a shared concern between different political actors. It does not in itself constitute a specific policyarea. But it is linked to activitie

Chockmetamorfa strukturer i alkalifältspater har genom studier i polarisationsmikroskop identi-fierats i graniter från Siljan- nedslagskrater. De mikroskopiska strukturer som observerats omfattas av; deformation bands, ladder textures, planar fractures, ”long deformation features", samt planar deformation features (PDFs). Stufferna härstammar från samma bergart, Järna graniten, från olika tryShock metamorphic features have been identified in alkali feldspars within granitic rock samples from the Siljan impact structure in Sweden. Observed features include deformation bands, ladder textures, “V-textures” planar fractures, “long deformation features”, and true planar deformation features (PDFs). The studied samples are of the same lithology but come from different shock pressure interva

Föreliggande studie syftar till att undersöka talmotorisk förmåga hos svensktalande barn med typisk utveckling i åldrarna tre respektive fem år med testet Dynamisk Motorisk Talbedömning (DYMTA). DYMTA är uppdelat i två nivåer, A och B, i vilka barnets talmotoriska förmåga undersöks på ett dynamiskt sätt, för att få en uppfattning om vilken typ av stöd barnet behöver för att uppnå korrekt artikulat