Författare: Johan Binnelid, Lars Carlsson, Tobias Olsson Läsår: Vårterminen 2001 Handledare: Anders Hederstierna Problem: Under vår tid på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola har vi upplevt ett volatilt börsklimat. Detta borde, enligt de teorier vi läst om, medföra en höjd kapitalkostnad, vilket innebär en minskad investeringsbenägenhet och därmed en vilja att förändra företagets kapitalstruktur. Vi var även intresserade av att se om det volatilia börsklimatet hade någon inverkan på företagens utdelningspolicy. Syfte: Vårt syfte är att undersöka om den systematiska risken på Stockholmsbörsen har förändrats under perioden 1998-2000 och i så fall vilka effekter detta har fått för företagen inom IT/telekombranschen med fokus på investeringsbenägenhet, kapitalstruktur och utdelningspolicy. Metod: Vi har valt att studera fem olika företag inom IT/telekombranschen.

This study aspires to find an answer to what makes a negotiation for peace successful. In our pursue to do so we have chosen two cases to compare with each other through a set of different theories. The theories we believed could be relevant were ripeness/readiness, asymmetry, the strategies of mediation, intra-state conflicts and personal actors.The case-study consists of two negotiations that both took place in Camp David. The first one was between Egypt and Israel, 1978, and serves as the example of a successful negotiation. The second case was, again, with Israel but the counterpart was Palestine and took place in year 2000.

In the past, the meaning of marriage has been an agreement between two people to live together and have children in a legitimate manner. The marriage was not just to form a couple; it was also to merge two families together. From the early 1900s until today the allegation of marriage and its influence got a significant change compared to early societies which have aroused my interest to perform this into a research paper. My study is focused on marriage and social changes during the 1900s. Thoughts that arise now is that why there was a remarkable change in the marriage rate during the 1900s and whether there were any social changes had to do something with it.

The following chapters examine landscape architecture which engages in contested territories with an emphasis on the way in which landscape architecture can engage with the issues of divided cities or landscapes with similar social, cultural and physical properties. The project focuses specifically on the potential landscape architecture has for promoting or aiding in the reconciliation process of these areas, by examining the following questions. How can landscape architecture be used to benefit the peace building process of divided cities and landscapes? How can landscape architecture be used in the process of promoting spatial reconciliation in the case of Belfast? The investigation begins with a description of the background to the project in Chapter 1, which functions as a brief introduction to the urban phenomena that is divided cities. It then goes on to introduce the different methods and data employed in order to answer the research questions in Chapter 2. After introducing the problem and the methodology, a global overview of divided cities is performed in Chapter 3. This chapter is divided into two sections.

Sonja Åkesson is one of Sweden?s most well known poets. Her most productive period was from 1957 to 1977, and besides poetry she wrote novels and drama. Today, Sonja Åkesson is famous for criticizing society, mostly in a feministic way. But she was not aware of her critical approach until she became successful among her feministic readers in 1960, with poems like ?Äktenskapsfrågan? and ?Självbiografi (replik till Ferlinghetti)?.This essay examines professor Yvonne Hirdman?s theory about women?s inferior position in relation to men?s between 1930-1960 in Sweden.

Parallel imports often lead to lowered prices and is therefore regarded as good from a consumer's point of view. From a business'point of view this is not always the case. When do parallel imports occur? Is it possible to prevent parallel imports to protect an introduction of a product in another member state? The purpose of this thesis is to present situations where parallel imports occur and to see if it is compatible with competition law to prevent parallel imports. Furthermore I will analyse the future development after the group exemption of vertical restraints enters into force in June 2000.

Författare: Kim Jakobsson och Marcus Bjerhage           Handledare: Olle Duhlin              Examinator: Lars Lindkvist         Titel: Konsten att främja kreativitet ? En studie om ledarskap för kreativitet på olika hierarkiska nivåer                Bakgrund: Kreativitet har kommit att bli allt viktigare för företag och ledarskapet är ett mycket viktigt verktyg för att främja kreativiteten i organisationer. Det finns ett antal studier som tar upp olika områden inom ledarskap för kreativitet. Det saknas dock teorier som visar hur dessa områden skiljer sig åt beroende på vilken hierarkisk nivå ledarskapet utförs på.                 Syfte: Vår ambition med uppsatsen är att beskriva hur ledarskapet på olika nivåer inom företag påverkar kreativiteten hos de anställda. Detta gör vi för att kunna förstå eventuella skillnader och för att skapa ett sammanhang mellan olika områden inom ledarskap för kreativitet och vilken nivå ledarskapet utförs på.          Metod: Vi har använt oss av en abduktiv ansats med kvalitativ inriktning.

The European union started as an area of economic cooperation, but has developed into an area of cooperation in many legal fields. There are these days even cooperation when it comes to dealing with criminals. There is a new procedure called the European arrest warrant which goal is to make the extradition of criminals between the different member states in the European union more efficient. Sometimes when a state receives a European arrest warrant they have to extradite the person in question without doing any investigation of their own. The procedure is based on the principle of mutual recognition.

I wanted to focus this essay on the operative?s perspective of running religious organizations in the city of Karlstad and to see positive and negative aspects of their day-to-day life working with their organization, following up with a comparison of the difference and the similarities between those groups. After delimitating which groups I was going to examine, I implemented a qualitative study of four people, from two different religious groups, whom I performed interviews with. My method of performing these interviews and understanding the perspective of the informants, I had a semi structured interview guide along with a recent study that was opting for similar conclusions, only in a different county and with different input perspective. The result of my study showed a difference in establishment of their region but with a lot of similarities in problems with their religious and structural premises.

SammanfattningKandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, Ekonomihögskolan vid Växjö Universitet, redovisningsfördjupning, EKR 362 VT 2007Författare: Maria-José Benitez, Danijela Milos, Admir SkopljakovicHandledare: Erik RosellExaminator: Lars-Göran AidemarkTitel: Intern kontroll - En studie av arbetet med den interna kontrollen på Växjö och Halmstad kommun, följer de COSO-modellen?Bakgrund: Under de senaste åren har det inträffat händelser där ledningen i olika organisationer, agerat i oenighet med lagen. Det är mycket viktigt att det inte uppstår några väsentliga problem eller brister i en kommun. Därför är det i sin tur väsentligt att det finns en god och fungerande intern kontroll.Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga hur kommunerna arbetar med den interna kontrollen. Vårt syfte är också att se om de respektive kommunerna arbetar utifrån COSO-modellen.Metod: Uppsatsen bygger på positivistisk synsätt.

This essay is a philosophical investigation of the relation between children and their play. My aim is to see if children are autonomous when it comes to their play. Is there a moral boundary between those who take part in the play and those who do not? This topic is especially important when it comes to the moral status of a child in the Swedish pre-school. How should educationists act when it comes to children?s play?  Through an analysis of the notions of play and autonomy I show that play can be understood as something of a moral value to the child and if children should be seen as autonomous when it comes to their play.

Abstract This thesis is a case study aiming to give explanations to Russia?s annexation of Crimea in March 2014. By using three different theoretical perspectives, realism, regional hegemony and constructivism, the aim is to find different but also complementing explanations to the case. The theories realism and regional hegemony are related and also similar to each other, but still contributes with some different focuses on the case. Both realism and regional hegemony has their main focus on the sovereign state?s security and their power militarily, politically and economically.

Using the models from van Maanen and Schein (1977) and Dutton et al. (1994), we have been able to investigate the socialization process and organizational identification both from the organizational as well as the individual?s perspective. The link between these two perspectives establishes a better insight into the company?s actual socialization intentions and the individual?s identification with the firm.

United States is one of the two countries in the world that have not ratified the convention on the rights of the child, and one of the few countries that sentences children less than 18 years to life in prison without parole. Besides this, corporal punishment is legal in all the states of USA. This essay is aimed at researching how these three factors affect one another in the American context and what consequences may come out of it. By the use of reports from NGO's and UN treaties together with various theories about the subject in question, I have looked into the juridical climate for today's young Americans.The conclusion of the essay shows that there is a tendency in the United States to control violence with violence, from a local level and further to a state level. As long as this attitude proceeds, the situation for children at risk for being sentenced to life sentence will not improve..

In this essay I trace the historical theme in Djuna Barnes?s Nightwood, stressing the importance of the concept of forgetfulness in the text. Read alongside Nietzsche?s On the Use and Abuse of History for Life as well as his later thoughts on genealogy, the novel can be seen to concern itself with that same dilemma of history that he articulates in his philosophy. That is: how not to be overburdened by historical knowledge to the point where it petrifies life and prevents any real and novel action, and how at the same time, to make oneself conscious of ones own historicity, so as not to be governed to much by the past.I argue that Robin inhabits what Nietzsche would call the unhistorical state, whereas the other characters, in contrast, struggle with their relation to the past.