The globalisation of the world is believed by some to homogenise individuals from different national cultures. However, the values and norms of an individual are deeply rooted in their national culture and are therefore difficult to change. Since birth these values and norms are learnt through interaction with others within a specific national culture. The differences in values of a national culture are shown in the cornerstones of the nation. These cornerstones are language, aesthetics, religion and social institutions.

This report discusses the IT archetypes "governance strategy" and how it could be linked to the IT benefits at the company. The study is based on IT investments that have taken place in ten banks operating in Sweden today, where the reality was modeled on the basis of a questionnaire survey and an additional interview. The aim was to examine whether it is possible to find any correlation between the governance in the banks and obtained benefits for an IT investments.While the competition is intensifying in most companies there is a greater demand for efficiency in IT. The need for IT solutions is greater than ever and the number of IT investments is increasing significantly in most workplaces today, especially on banks. But even if the investments are increasing in numbers it does not necessarily mean that all types of investments are effective and beneficial to the company.

An unpredictable global environment has resulted in high unemployment in Sweden in 2025. To ensure continued positive development of the country's GDP, it is therefore important to promote organizational diversity, as this can in turn contribute to increased innovation. However, unconscious bias among managers and recruiters can lead to distorted recruitment decisions that risk undermining diversity efforts. This study aims to increase understanding of how managers and recruiters handle unconscious bias during recruitment, as well as to identify specific methods organizations can use to improve their diversity. The study includes twelve qualitative interviews with respondents in formal managerial or recruitment roles from eight different organizations, analyzed through theories and previous research.

Människor har alltid haft en påverkan på sin omgivning. Med en ständigt ökande befolkning och ständigt stigande konsumtion av naturresurser har påverkan blivit allt större. Naturen har besvarat utvecklingen med global uppvärmning och degraderande biodiversitet, vilket har resulterat i ett uppvaknande miljöengagemang. Brundtlandrapporten introducerade 1987 begreppet hållbar utveckling. Den hållbara utvecklingen kräver en koordination av samhällets olika aktörer.

North of the city of Stockholm lies the area called Södra Roslagen composed of several municipalities. The purpose of this essay is to discover how local informants describe the food culture of the region and analyse why some types of food are mentioned and others are excluded. Several people within the food industry of Södra Roslagen were given surveys asking them to describe the food habits of the area, from commodities and certain dishes to traditions. These answers were analysed using the theories regional food, regiocentrism, revitalisation, placeless food and the idea of viewing culture through the long and the short perspective.One informant mentioned that professionals in the food industry of the region tend to follow trends from the rest of the world and another that many producers work with ecological requirements. Södra Roslagen was also defined by some as having a taste of summer as this coastal area sees an influx of visitors during that season.

I detta arbete undersöks gymnasieelevers fysiska självuppfattning med instrumentet Children and Youth Physical Self-Perception Profile (CY-PSPP) för att reda ut om det finns samband mellan fysisk självkänsla och subdomäner till den fysiska självkänslan och betyg i kursen idrott och hälsa A. Hur förhållandena ser ut mellan dessa variabler är också centralt. Resultaten som analyseras har samlats in från tre gymnasieskolor i Mellansverige. 184 elever, 79 flickor och 106 pojkar, har fyllt i enkäten. Statistisk analys med chi-tvåtest visar samband mellan betyg i kursen idrott och hälsa A och pojkarnas varseblivning av fysisk självkänsla, fysisk kondition, fysisk styrka och idrottslig kompetens där pojkar som avslutat kursen med höga betyg har höga värden och det motsatta förhållandet gäller för elever i den lägre delen av betygskalan.

Målet med denna kandidatuppsats är att kritiskt granska medborgardeltagande inom svensk stadsplanering. Medborgardeltagande studeras i en samhällelig, ekonomisk och politisk kontext, med kritisk teori som utgångspunkt. Uppsatsen bygger på en litteraturstudie. Syftet är att bredda författarens kunskap om och förståelse av medborgardeltagande inför framtida arbetsliv, samt att lägga en teoretisk grund för fortsatta studier av medborgardeltagande. Den huvudsakliga frågeställningen behandlar villkor för medborgardeltagande, med fokus på förutsättningar och hinder för aktivt deltagande.

The subject-matter of the following essay is to investigate the relationship between what is commonly called Deep Ecology or Biocentric Philosophy, as articulated by the co-founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess, and later proponents of the biocentric school of environmentalist thought. I contrast Naess? concept of Self-realization as founded in his Ecosophy T to the ideas of american conservationist and co-founder of the radical green movement Earth First! Dave Foreman, and to the controversial finnish environmentalist and ecofascist Pentti Linkola?s ideological agenda of population-reduction respectively.According to some critics of the movement, especially the social ecologist Murray Bookchin and French liberal philosopher Luc Ferry, the Deep Ecology ideology is essentially misanthropic and totalitarian in structure. A central idea among deep ecologists is that ecosystems and natural entities have intrinsic value in themselves, even outside a human social context. This idea is thought of among deep ecologists to create a philosophically sound basis for counteracting the environmental global crisis.

Bakgrund och problem: Finanskrisen 2008-2009 hade sitt ursprung i överoptimistisk långivning med anknytning till fastigheter. Bostadsbubblan som hade uppstått mellan 2001-2006 i USA fick störst betydelse och kom att beskrivas som den främsta utlösande faktorn till finanskrisen. Bostadsbubblan sprack och huspriserna började falla under 2007. Krisen intensifierades och utvecklades till en global finanskris under 2008 då den amerikanska investmentbanken Lehman Brothers tilläts gå i konkurrs. Botten nåddes sannolikt under 2009 som präglades av en global recession.

This essay is about the history of the Swedish board game-industry from the 1970?s to today. The essay focuses on the companies in the business and how they change during this period and about the causes of this change. This essay aims both at accurately describing the development of the industry as well as asking the question of what influence factors from outside of the industry have upon the change during this period of time. The material used in this essay is mainly extracts from interviews with people who have been working in the industry during the period, as well as literature on the subject and product-catalogues from certain years in the time-frame.From this material I have outlined the basic history of the industry.

This essay started with a describing of Vision2020 that aims to get incoming tourism doubled and to make global travellers choose Sweden as their destination at the first place. Furthermore, we discuss those 12 priority markets that a Swedish leading communications company in the tourism Visit Sweden puts effort and promotes. Poland was not on the list of the selected countries. With our research we aim to show that the Polish market has potential. Compelling factors point to that Sweden and Poland are neighbour countries with good transport connections and, not least, that the countries have long historical relationships with each other.

Dagens ökade internetanvändning har öppnat upp möjligheten till etablering på en global marknad vilket har lett till ett ökat intresse att utforska nya potentiella marknader. Vi har därför gjort en studie av hur potentiella kunder i Polen och Sverige vill få information om en fastighetsmäklarbyrå för att se vilka likheter och skillnader som finns emellan länderna. Vår studie omfattar potentiella svenska och polska kunders inställning till utvalda planerade och oplanerade budskap som företagen använder sig av i sin marknadsföring.Syftet med undersökningen är att se vilka skillnader respektive likheter som finns vid hur första kontakten med ett fastighetsmäklarföretag ser ut för en kund i Polen respektive Sverige. Undersökningen visar även vilka marknadsföringskanaler som är mest önskvärda av potentiella kunder och ger dessutom en översikt över vilka kanaler företagen använder sig av i praktiken. Vi har genomfört både kvalitativa och kvantitativa studier.

Examensarbetet som beskrivs i denna rapport handlar om en ny teknik för att förbättra säkerheten för flygplan i luften och i närheten av flygplatser. Denna teknik benämns ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast), och är tänkt att göra det möjligt för piloter att själva få information om trafik i närområdet. Nuvarande system baserar sig i huvudsak på visuella observationer från flygledare i kontrolltorn samt radarspaning omkring flygplatserna. Med det nuvarande systemet kommer det att bli både dyrt och svårt att upprätthålla en acceptabel nivå på flygsäkerheten när trafiken ökar. Arbetet har bedrivits i AerotechTelubs regi i Linköping samt med hjälp ifrån företaget Sectra Wireless Technologies AB.

Evaluating and choosing suppliers based on price alone, has traditionally been the dominant strategy for supplier selection within the purchasing function. With the origin of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)-concept in the early 1990s, a new philosophy dawned that promoted the importance of knowing the effects of supplier performance on the buying firm?s internal costs. Since then, scholars have been arguing the case of TCO as a viable model for making purchasing decisions and conducting supplier evaluation. Still, after two decades little is known about its penetration and impact on the practices of buying corporations, leaving the questions of which costs are included in the purchasing organisations? decisions unanswered, and even more importantly why certain costs are considered and others not.

The purpose of this paper is to understand the climate of the street and how it can be modified to better meet the needs of the street and the user groups. At the same time the conditions of the street and its surroundings also has to be taken into account. To accomplish this it is necessary to have a broad knowledge of the climate conditions in the city. Therefore an overview of the climate elements and how these are modified in the built-up areas are given. The part of the paper which deals with the city climate has a global approach to be able to give an as complete picture as possible.