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Based on an explorative case study approach, this thesis investigated whether the Uppsala model functioned in Samsung Electronics Corp. (SEC) case. The purpose of this study was to upgrade the Uppsala model by using a representative case of SEC. This thesis found that there are two dimensions derived from the Uppsala model. The first dimension is the sequential nature of the internationalization p
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Undersökningen baseras på prover ifrån borrkärnor som tagits från sandstenar vilka avsattes för ca 200 miljoner år sedan. Vid denna tid var hela nordvästra delen av Skåne täckt av ett stort delta med en avsättningsmiljö som gav sandstenar med ett stort innehåll av ler. Ler deponerades då det rådde lugna vattenmiljöförhållanden, såsom vid olika årstidsvariationerAn examination of permeability differences was made on plugs obtained from six drill cores in both horizontal and vertical directions, representing different facies of the Hettangian strata from the Höganäs Formation. The permeability analyses distinguish permeability differences from anisotropy and an index was created to evaluate the anisotropy. The cause of the measured anisotropy in this study
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Den afrikanska kontinentplattan bildades då flera äldre plattor kolliderade. Namibia ligger i skarven mellan två sådana gamla kontinentplattor där södra Namibia tillhör Kalahariplattan och norra Namibia tillhör Kongoplattan. Mellan dessa två plattor löper ett brett bälte, det så kallade Damarabältet. Detta bälte var före kollisionen mellan plattorna ett sund därThe Mon Repos covers an area of approximately 10 x 4 km. It consists of a zoned intrusion, where the peripheral parts are monzodioritic and the central areas granitic. Mon Repos is situated in central Namibia approximately 150 km northwest of Windhoek. The area is a part of the Pan-African Damara Belt, which extends from the coast northwestwards through central Namibia. Mon Repos has been dated to
This thesis investigated the effects of word accent mismatch on the processing of word accents in Swedish. It was found that Accent 2 is more strongly associated with suffixes in the mental lexicon as compared to Accent 1.
"Executive summary The tourism sector is today the largest business sector in the world, employing over 230 million people. It has been growing incessantly the last decades and shows no tendencies to slow down. Tourism can bring strong economic support to a developing country, but has also been pointed out as a major contributor to climate change as well as environmental degradation and poll
More and more corporations around the world is starting to work in project form and leaving their traditional function based way of organising themselves behind. This leads to new ways of driving and implementing changes and improvements. It requires another approach and this approach has to deal with the individual employee in a greater extend. Alfa Laval often questions how to make a project to
It is commonly assumed that the speech production process is started and guided by a clear conception of what to say, i.e. an intention or a pre-linguistic message. This intention can also function as a standard of accuracy against which actual performance can be measured. But critique against the idea of such a centrally governed process has been offered, and propositions for how a distributed mo
The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical framework that can be applied to both religious and secular terrorism. It is suggested that terrorism can be divided into two categories; practical and ideological. The first category, terrorists with practical objectives like sovereignty or end to repression, are generated by local conflicts. These local conflicts can also have a global impact
There has been considerable scepticism in Europe over the reliability of Russia as a secure source of energy for the EU. Despite Russia and EU being economically interdependent with regard to energy and other trade, there is still concern over potential supply disruptions. What can be gathered from media and scholarly sources is that Russia is potentially an unreliable supplier yet it is currently
The government of Mexico has a rhetorical aspiration to create a more inclusive political system and has increased the level of political rights and civil liberties for its citizens significantly. That the possibility to participate from a legal and institutional perspective exists does not necessarily indicate that all individuals participate to the same extent. The purpose of this thesis is to
This thesis suggests that neither the cue nor the result of a diffusion process need be manifested in a policy-change, but can indeed be simply the maintaining of the status quo, or rather, the hindrance of transformation. Also, it attempts to use this theory of regional diffusion of stability to explain the robustness of the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This thesi
The philosophy of social science is today, from the perspective of the scientists themselves, dominated by the notions of quantitative and qualitative research. Social scientists make distinctions between a wide range of different aspects of research in terms of what is quantitative and qualitative. The purpose of this paper is to integrate these distinctions into a useful conceptualization. First
A sample of Swedish rape cases (n = 28) that occurred during the years of 1998 and 2002 were selected with the primary objective of discovering differences in the behavioral structure of the offender depending on the nature of any prior relationship with the victim. Three offender categories were established: Intimate, Familiar and Friend. These were then used as boundaries for behavior elicited b
