By 2030, all countries in the World have agreed on fulfilling the 17 Sustainable Development Goals: being a tool for Sustainable Development Worldwide. To accomplish this, all countries need to find solutions how to reach these goals in their National contexts. In this regard, the thesis has examined whether legal pluralism can be a way to reach SDG16 in Ecuador, and if it complies with individual

The benefits of economic growth (e.g. capital accumulation) are mainly being enjoyed by people in the Global North, while its negative byproducts (e.g. pollution) are mainly being endured by people in the Global South. Our focus on economic growth has led to the erosion of social wellbeing. And continuing economic growth on this planet with finite natural resources could have even more severe cons

The aim of this thesis is to investigate information use, equilibrium behavior and social welfare in a duopoly market with anti-coordination. The analysis is conducted through the application of a game theoretic model first introduced in a 2002 seminal paper by Morris and Shin, to the Los Angeles stringer industry. In this setting, freelance journalists selling footage to news networks have a moti

Personalen är organisationers viktigaste resurs och då chefer syftar till att leda, utveckla och organisera verksamheter blir rekryteringen av dessa individer avgörande för organisationers lönsamhet. För att rekrytera rätt person till rätt tjänst krävs det att arbetet blir gjort på rätt sätt. Felrekryteringar är kostsamma för verksamheterna och för att undvika sådana förespråkas standardiserade re

This paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship between the emerging financial market of China and the developed market of the US, both during and after the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Stock indices from the two countries are analysed to examine whether there exist any comovements between the different equity markets. Econometric time series testing of weekly stock values indicate that

This thesis provides insights regarding patentees’ motives to file and apply for patents. The respective motives are scrutinized in Austria, where interviews with patentees, as well as experts in this field were conducted. Furthermore, an extensive literature analysis provides an overview of motives identified in other international research projects. It got discernible that among the Austrian pat

ABSTRACT I detta arbete kommer det att belysas hur självbilden påverkas av grupper inom sociala medier på facebook. Syftet med uppsatsen är att genom intervjuer med några kvinnor från en tjejgrupp på facebook försöka bidra samt förklara hur dessa kvinnor framställer sig själva och hur medlemmarnas självbild påverkas utifrån andras framställning. Följande frågor har vi avgränsat oss till: Hur frams

Inspired by what appears to be a nationalist turn in cultural policy-making across Europe, this thesis is concerned with the recent upsurge in the canonisation of Danish culture as it seems to somewhat contradict the cultural policy priorities pursued by the supranational and intergovernmental bodies of which Denmark is a member. The purpose of the research is to investigate how collective identit

Gender Studies departments have struggled to legitimize their own space in the Swedish academia from 70´s. Even when the institutionalization of Gender Studies can be told as a success story, its departments continue to be quite paradoxical spaces in the academia, where the feminist oppositional tendency seems to collide with academic standards and requirements. Additionally, this clash is aggrava

Detecting lies is crucial in numerous contexts, including situations in which individuals do not communicate in their native language. This study investigated the influence of nonnative language use on lie detection in written statements. An online study prompted 100 native English speakers, referred to as judges, to assess the veracity of truthful and fabricated accounts of job experience written

The purpose of this study is to gain insights on what evokes consumer trust for (environmental) sustainability communication and shed light on how this trust impacts consumers’ perception of sustainability. A literature review and qualitative data collection, combining four focus groups and nine interviews, were the basis for a discussion on this topic. This study found that what evokes trust in s

Saving vultures from extinction: everyone’s business The eminent naturalist Charles Darwin once said vultures were “disgusting”. Well, we cannot argue that they are as cute as fur seals or cheetah puppies. However, these birds have an essential role in nature that needs to be preserved because, in fact, it ultimately benefits us. Vultures eat dead animals, either fresh or putrefied, and in that w

The purpose of this thesis is to gain a greater understanding of how “nätvandrare” and “chat supporters” experience the problem of cyberbullying based on a norm perspective. We are using these two groups as temperature sensors. We are studying young people from “Nätvandrare” and “chatsupporters” point of view. Cyberbullying is a subject that is constantly growing in line with digitalization. In th

A balance between conservation of nature and economic development is becoming harder and harder to achieve. While, biodiversity is blooming under strict protection laws, people are increasingly lacking tools and resources to feed their local economic growth and development. The following thesis aims at investigating the conflict around ski zone Bansko, located in Pirin National Park in Bulgaria. T

This research addresses the role of social capabilities over the growth trajectory of natural resource (NR) rich developing countries through a case study – an analytical narrative using data from various sources – of the Chilean experience since the early 1900s to the present. The paper adopts a novel framework, which identifies four distinct but interrelated dimensions of social capabilities: tr

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of normative control by analyzing how culture is perceived and maintained, in an organization which is defined as non-managerial. The empirical part of this study was conducted through an interpretive, abductive and qualitative research method. The empirical data is collected through a case study of the IT-consultancy firm Brightside and involves e

Normative causal reasoning is essential for proper decision-making to be conducted, which is highly relevant in areas such as personnel assessment and predictions of work performance. However, research has found consistent violations of the Markov Assumption, a defining aspect of normative causal models that indicates which nodes in a causal network that are conditionally independent of one anothe

This article adds to the understanding of incumbent inertia through the conceptual separation between voluntary inertia and implied inertia, and the analyzed dynamics of each in relation to core rigidities. Consequently, core rigidities are conceptually shown to be separate from incumbent inertia, concepts which are often confused in extant literature. Furthermore, the dynamics between core rigidi

Studied Case: This thesis focuses the research on the impact of Industry 4.0 at the Port of Barcelona. It considers of relevance the affect that the fourth industrial revolution is taking place in the workplaces all around the world. The researcher takes the case of the logistics service provider as the Port of Barcelona to understand the implication that the five major technologies characteristic