The objective of this paper is to examine the possibility of predicting the recovery of a distressed firm into a turnaround based on its current financial situation and a set of variables that are considered of having a significant impact on the turnaround probability. To assess this problem 150 firms are used that were distressed at some point during the period 1991 to 2001. These firms were all

Syftet med vår studie är att studera hur ishockeyföreningars strategiska arbete stödjer deras verksamhetsidé. Därför vill vi studera hur ishockeyföreningars verksamhetsidé vuxit fram. Avslutningsvis vill vi identifiera svårigheter som föreligger strategiskt arbete i ishockeyföreningar. Utifrån en abduktiv och kvalitativ ansats har vi genomfört en fallstudie av fyra stycken ishockeyföreningar. Vi h

Denna uppsats huvudsyfte är att beskriva och analysera vilka faktorer som är avgörande för hur anställda mottar förändringsprocesser till följd av förvärv, samt hur ledningen kan påverka dessa faktorer för att få medarbetarna att arbeta som medkrafter till förändringarna. Syftet är även att utifrån analys av teori och empiri att bidra med ett framställt teoretiskt ramverk. Undersökningen har gjort

Syfte: Vårt primära syfte med denna uppsats är att analysera och beskriva hur CSR kan implementeras i den övergripande företagsstrategin. Ett delsyfte är även att analysera i vilken utsträckning det är möjligt för företag, som inte uppfattas verka för ett hållbart samhälle, att arbeta med CSR. För att empirisk kunna studera implementeringen av CSR ämnar vi att göra en fallstudie av ett företag, vi

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a form of wireless communication technology enabling data transfer by putting two devices close to each other. The main idea behind NFC is to integrate wireless payment and tag reading in mobile phones along with peer-to-peer communication. An example of the benefit with NFC peer-to-peer communication is that it gives the possibility to quickly set up a Bluetooth

The Single Molecule Spectroscopy Group at the department of Chemical Physics in the Chemical Centre of Lund University conducts research involving spectroscopy on single molecules of organic dyes. Fluorescence microscopy using a wide-field scheme has been used and such a scheme has many advantages such as full image capture at once when using a high sensitivity CCD or CMOS camera. Using different

An engineer always strive to help in the continuous exploration of the unknown. By doing so we go further out in space and further down in scale. This is the case with microfluidics which in the last years have gotten a lot of attention. This thesis will examine and better try to understand and optimize a fluidic system that uses ultrasonic trapping. Its application may be everything from enrichin

In this Master's thesis I present a means of finding active sources of cortical electrical activity from electroencephalogram (EEG) data acquired during operation of a brain-computer interface (BCI). A novel subspace-based technique was used to suppress spatially correlated EEG interference sources, followed by a technique that estimates the source parameters with a near maximum likelihood per

This thesis, issued by Securitas Direct, investigates the possibility of using acoustic emission as a basis for an intrusion alarm application. Piezoelectric elements were used to detect and characterize fractures in glass, metal and wooden materials. As a comparative study, the functionality and possibilities of using an existing glass break detector, GlassAlertTM, on wooden materials were invest

This essay examines the implicit relationship between political science and rare events, or so called Black Swans. The purpose is to analyze Black Swan weakness by evaluating the nature of political analysis and political theories. The key to this assessment is the analysis of the predictive powers of political analysis and theories. This essay claims, on the basis of Karl Poppers historicism crit

During the devastating civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone women’s organizations played an important role for the emergence of peace, and are still influential in the building of equal and democratic societies. In Liberia, however, the women’s movement was more successful in influencing and affecting the warring parties for peace and gender equality and the purpose of this thesis is to outline

This thesis aims to develop a theory on the role of water in an intrastate peacebuilding process, which is an area of research that has not yet been explored. The notion presented and which drives the following argumentation is that water with its practical, essential, local and cooperative characteristics could be an important factor in a peacebuilding context. The theoretical discussions take as

Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV) have the potential to play a dominating role in future scientific efforts to understand and model biological systems through the creation of artificial cells. GUV:s span a wide range of possible applications that include their use as biosensors, cell encapsulation agents and biomicroreactors. In order to allow GUV:s to reach their full potential, efficient, reliabl

̊r 1947 utbröt den så kallade Kashmirkonflikten och det har sedan dess varit mycket oroligheter mellan Indien och Pakistan om vem som har rätt till Kashmirområdet. Denna avhandling syftar till att förklara vilka faktorer som har bidragit till Kashmirkonfliktens uppkomst samt analysera hur dessa faktorer påverkat konfliktens utbrott . Det görs genom att analysera både internationella och inhemska f

This study is about citizen participation in regional visionary development and focuses on what makes the democratic system legitimate. The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the regional visionary plan in aspect to normative ideas about democracy. This democratic norm is borrowed from K. Sjövik and focuses on citizen participation in all aspects of democracy. The primary material for thi

Since the mid 90s more focus has been put on the problems surrounding hooliganism, especially in the media. This began when football referee Anders Frisk was injured during a football game. Nowadays, the police use more and more resources to prevent the problems with hooliganism and new laws have been instituted to handle the problem. More and more politicians, football players, coaches, and club

Through discourse analysis I investigate how the Swedish liberal party, Folkpartiet, constructs two opposing identities in their discourse of alienation (in Swedish utanförskap). I draw from Torben Bech Dyrbergs theory on how identities are constructed through the logics of difference and equivalence (1997). Laclau and Mouffe are the main inspirations for analyzing the organization of the discours

That democracy brings peace has been long known. That war may, in certain cases, bring democracy has not. However, the essay begins by exploring the history of humanitarian and liberal interventions, as well as the history of ideas behind them. I have found that the first cases appeared in the 19th-century, though they were rare until the second half of the 20th. I have also discussed legal and et