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Background & Gap Innovation-oriented startups drive economic renewal by exploiting opportunities in uncertain, resource-constrained environments. However, while previous research focuses on objective performance metrics in established firms, little is known about how Swedish startups construct and negotiate marketing success in practice. Aim of the Study This study explores how Swedish-based
This study examines how authenticity is constructed, interpreted, and negotiated through strategic communication in informal market contexts, with a focus on the Onitsha Main Market in Nigeria. While existing research often treats authenticity as a property of products or a matter of consumer perception, less attention has been paid to how it is produced through everyday market interactions. Adopt
This thesis examines how cultural distance and institutional distance are associated with the ownership stakes acquired by US firms in cross-border acquisitions. Drawing on international business theory, two hypotheses were developed, proposing that greater cultural distance and institutional distance lead to lower post-acquisition ownership stakes. Applying a quantitative deductive research desig
This thesis investigates how players of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 morally make sense of in-game crime. The study is motivated by the fact that video games are important cultural spaces where players not only watch crime and violence but also participate in them through play. While previous research on violent video games has often focused on aggression and media effects, this th
Ätstört beteende (DE) och icke-suicidalt självskadebeteende (NSSI) förekommer ofta samtidigt under ungdomsåren och delar flera riskfaktorer, men deras longitudinella utveckling är fortfarande bristfälligt kartlagd. Denna studie undersöker prevalens, stabilitet och psykologiska prediktorer för upprepat NSSI och risk för DE från ungdomsåren till ung vuxenålder. Ett urval (N = 471) besvarade självskaDisordered eating (DE) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) frequently co-occur during adolescence and share multiple risk factors, yet their longitudinal development remains poorly understood. This study examined the prevalence, stability, and psychological predictors of repetitive NSSI and risk of DE from adolescence to young adulthood. A community sample (N = 471) completed self-report asse
Effective disaster risk management in today's evolving risk landscape necessitates functional collaboration between land use planners and preparedness actors, such as fire and rescue services and crisis management organisations. This study investigates barriers and enablers to such collaboration through a combined exploratory scoping study and empirical survey conducted in Sweden, revealing both c
In this interview, Professor Ian Manners of the University of Lund revisits the concept he helped define - Normative Power approach - to examine what it really means to think of the EU as a living, evolving political project rather than a fixed set of institutions. He explores which values the EU genuinely embodies on the world stage, beyond its own rhetoric, and how far these values hold up under
Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive behavior gives rise to sizable spin splitting even in materials composed of light, earth-abundant elements, offering promising prospects for next-generation spi
What does it mean for a business or industry to be and do good? And who can count themselves within the good economy? This article investigates the justification of goodness in mineral exploration and mining and uses the entwinement between value creation and destruction characteristic of mining to trouble notions of goodness in impactful industries. Based on analyses of indepth interviews, ethnog
What were the effects of having a distinctively African American-sounding name on educational attainment, occupation, income, marital status, and longevity in early 20th century America? How did those effects differ for people based on their phenotypical race/ethnicity? The findings of contemporary research have shown racialized names to be related to negative outcomes such as job interview callba
Objectives To investigate the effect of precarious employment (PE) on the risk of diagnosed chronic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among Swedish workers in occupations with strenuous working conditions. Methods This nationwide register-based cohort study included workers registered as living in Sweden in 2005, aged 21-60 at the 2010 baseline. Three samples were included: workers with high biomec
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) that is mutated in approximately 10% of pediatric neuroblastoma (NB). To shed light on ALK-driven signaling processes, we employed BioID-based in vivo proximity labeling to identify molecules that interact intracellularly with ALK. NB-derived SK-N-AS and SK-N-BE(2) cells expressing inducible ALK-BirA* fusion proteins were generat
The focus of this article is Alain Resnais’ representation of collective and individual memory and identity in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). The film is based on Marguerite Duras’ script from 1958 and remains faithful to this original text. With partial reference to Giuliana Bruno’s views on imaginary cities and urban cartography, the screened urban space will here be read as an emotive map in which
In the policy discourse on societal challenges, it has become common to think of innovation policy as a key tool for addressing societal challenges. However, we argue that innovation policy has limits to what it can do, and for it to remain a useful tool for tackling societal challenges, it is necessary to re-assess its role. Thus, this paper addresses the following research questions: To what ext
In this article, we propose generalized two-parameter (GTP) estimators and an algorithm for the estimation of shrinkage parameters to combat multicollinearity in the multinomial logit regression model. In addition, the mean squared error properties of the estimators are derived. A simulation study is conducted to investigate the performance of proposed estimators for different sample sizes, degree
The alighting and boarding times of commuter trains play a major role for the length of dwell times and are directly influenced by the flow rate of both alighting and boarding passengers, measured as the number of passengers passing through a door per second. It is, therefore, important to have a good understanding of passenger flow rates to better understand and schedule dwell times. Where previo
In this review, we analyze the existing literature on the role of alternative currencies within degrowth. While degrowth emerged in the early 2000s alongside growing awareness of accelerating environmental crises and widening global inequalities, alternative currencies have a longer history. Alternative currencies have served as devices for communities seeking to become less dependent on the domin
String intonation is a topic of pedagogical interest, but also a domain involving implicit, embodied knowledge that may be hard to convey in words. This study investigated how prominent string musicians approach expressive aspects of intonation, when only verbal means of pedagogical communication are possible. A search through the professional periodical The Strad with the combined keywords “expre
BACKGROUND: The degree to which avian migrants revisit the same sites to replicate routes from previous years has received more and more attention as the possibilities of tracking small to medium-size birds over multiple annual cycles have improved. Repeated measurements of individuals with an appropriate sampling resolution can potentially inform about their navigation and migration strategies an
A fundamental aspect of the human mind is its ability to perceive, understand, and remember life experiences, which we process as distinct and meaningful sequences of events, each with a clear beginning and end. This includes experiences from audiovisual media. However, while movies do not explicitly signal when one event ends and another begins, viewers still consistently and automatically percei
