The concept of economic convergence is nowadays both a challenge and an ambitious objective. In this concept one may find equality in growth through a dynamic “catching up” relationship. A gigantic economy such as China came back on the global scene through a miraculous growth trip that occurred during the last thirty years. Regionalism though, which was a distinct trait of this economy seems to h

Syfte: Att undersöka huruvida familjeägda företag presterar sämre än icke familjeägda företag från ett aktieägarperspektiv genom att jämföra med Nasdaq OMX index. Därigenom visa på att ”long-run underperformance” förekommer på den svenska marknaden varefter vi ämnar konkretisera de bakomliggande orsakerna till detta. Metod: Prestationsbedömning av företagen görs med hjälp av buy and hold abnormal

Time to degree is one of the main concerns not only for the students but also for the colleges and universities all around the world. Time to degree could be influenced by different features, such as age, gender or admission criterion and so on. Survival analysis could be used to calculate the probability for a student to graduate in any specified length of semesters while Cox proportional hazard

Since Rose published a paper suggesting the WTO does not serve to increase the world trade, the organization has become a subject of heated debates. This question is especially important for Russia, as the country becomes the official member of the WTO soon. This dissertation extends the existed empirical evidence of the analysis of the trade outcomes as a result of joining the WTO, applying the p

Överallt i det svenska samhället finns det fenomen som går att härleda till människans vilja att integrera livet, eller en del av livet, i samförståelse med naturen. Som exempel kan fenomen som naturturism, ekologiskt och närproducerat livsmedel nämnas. Detta kan vara ett tecken på att det existerar en myt. Syftet är att genom en dokumentanalys av tidningarna Lantliv, Livet på landet och Land ta r

Arctic communities are currently experiencing the effects of climate change. This paper contributes to a growing body of vulnerability and adaptation research in the Arctic. This case study provides an assessment of current vulnerabilities and offers insight into how climate change is experienced in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The predominantly qualitative research method involved semi-s

Fem nyckelord: Organiseringsform, Relationsspecifika tillgångar, Transaktionskostnader, Förtroende, Opportunism Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur transaktionskostnader och förtroende är relaterade till varandra. Metod: Via en deduktiv ansats genomfördes en tvärsnittslig studie med hjälp av en webbaserad enkät. Enkäten mätte två variabler (Förtroende och Transaktionskostnader) med 14 fr

Malmö stad präglas av ett antal invandrartäta förorter med miljonprogram som grundidé och uppbyggnadsideologi. Tanken, på sjuttio-, åttio- och nittiotalet var att låta nyanlända invandrare få tillgång till boställen där de kunde känna sig hemmastadda med grannar som kanske talade samma språk eller hade andra dylika egenskaper som i sin tur skulle göra att dessa individer och familjer skulle känna

Bland det första Kommunistpartiet gjorde när Folkrepubliken Kina etablerades år 1949 var att upprätta ett eget folkbokföringssystem, det s.k. hukousystemet. Det var egentligen inte helt nytt, utan snarare en ny variant av det system som skapats redan år 1931 av nationalistiska Guomindang. Regelverken i de båda systemen är mycket lika och vissa element kan dessutom spåras många dynastier tillbaka iImmediately after founding the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the communist party established their own household registration system called hukou. Although a new system, hukou had much in common with the previous household register set up in 1931 by the Guomindang government. Both systems had similar regulations and some elements have roots in the Imperial China. Hukou was established for

This thesis discusses the concept of masculinity in Chile. It does this by outlining attitudes towards masculinity and examining how young Chilean men identify themselves in their role as men in today’s society. Thus, the study aimed to frame the current view of masculinity in Chile by examining the study participants’ views of what makes the “ideal man” in Chilean society. The purpose of this exa

The exhibition medium, despite being regarded as one of the world's oldest mediums, has attracted little interest from Museology research. In this thesis, we approach the subject by writing a piece of exhibition history, or rather exhibition archaeology, regarding the prehistory exhibition Fornsalen at Malmö Museer from 1978 as a time document. We emphasize, based on Michael Polany’s theories,

The world economy has undergone the transitional period of rebalancing in economic power from the Northern to Southern economies over the past decades, with the shifting becoming even more visible after the phenomenon of the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper examines the role of three large emerging economies, China, India and Brazil, as the new regional and global economic drivers via t

Snowball is a new development board for embedded designs presented by ST-Ericsson. It features a fast ARM based 1GHz processor. There are currently two officially supported operating systems available for the Snowball: Android and Ubuntu. There is a brand new mobile operating system in development called Tizen. Tizen is developed among others by Samsung and Intel and features a HTML5 based softwar

Under produktionen för ett bygg- och anläggningsprojekt är entreprenören styrd av tidigare utformade produktionsdokument. Pågrund av produktionens förändringar är arbetsplatsens produktionsdokument ofta i behov av uppdatering, samordning och visualisering för att hållas aktuella och tydliga för produktionsarbetarna. Det har visat sig att hanteringen och uppdateringen av produktionsdokumenten inte

Sweden has a vision of building a sustainable society. To reach this vision a number of goals, such as transportation political goals, regional goals and environmental goals, have been set. One way to reach the aforementioned transportation political goals for a good and safe traffic environment is to increase the use of public transport and thereby reduce the need for people to use their car. Com

Saab Training Systems develop training systems for civil and military use. The company desires a possibility to connect the flight simulator X-Plane 10 to other simulators with the use of their existing integration platform, WISE. X-Plane has a built in plug-in manager which makes it possible to use third-party plug-ins for the simulator. There is a free SDK available for writing plug-ins. This SD

Ådalsbanan, an existing railway-line in northern Sweden, is a line that has been upgraded from the current Swedish signaling system, ATC, to the new standard in Europe, ERTMS. While the upgrade was ongoing there was a problem discovered, there were too many gradients on the line for the system to handle. This is because the system can’t handle more than 31 gradients on one movement authority, whic