Master theses: Recent submissions
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap
(2021-06-30)Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment has increased significantly, resulting in employees losing their job both temporarily and permanently. As the pandemic is recent, there is a need for more research ... -
NUDGING TOWARDS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY- An empirical study on the effects of nudging
(2021-06-30)The transition to a Circular Economy serves an important role in reaching sustainable consumption and production patterns to mitigate global warming. In this thesis, we explore how nudging can promote pro-environmental ... -
Corporate Tax Rates and Economic Growth- A panel study of private investment in the OECD countries
(2021-06-30)Since the 1980s the corporate tax rate of the OECD countries has been on a downward trend, moving from levels of about 44 percentage points on average down to about 25 percentage points in the 2010s. The objective of ... -
Measuring Labor Demand using Job Ads
(2021-06-30)Using the largest digital job ads platform in Sweden, we construct a daily labor demand index based on millions of job ads. This daily index functions as a less expensive, high frequency complement to o cial survey data. ... -
BORN DIGITALS A Multiple Case Study on the Internationalization Process of Nordic Healthtech Firms
(2021-06-29)The entrance of digital technologies has led to the emergence of Born Digital firms, who internationalize by digitalizing their value chain. Prior research on the internationalization process of small and medium-sized ... -
Boom, Bust and Betrayal- Business cycles and securities fraud in the US between 1996-2019
(2021-06-29)We study the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the number of settled securities fraud cases through the proxy of SEC class action lawsuits. We perform an empirical study of all SEC class action convictions ... -
The effects of taxes on fossil fuels on firms’ environmental and economic performance
(2021-06-29)This thesis evaluates whether taxes on fossil fuel use have decreased firms’ carbon intensity and whether carbon pricing has negatively affected firms’ economic performance. This is done using a firm level panel dataset, ... -
Do past habits affect present household waste recycling levels among individuals? - A study on university students in Sweden
(2021-06-29)The body of literature in environmental economics broadly documents the role of household waste recycling in determining the quality of the environment. Social norms and attitudes closely affect recycling behavior among ... -
Immigration and Inequality: Evidence from Sweden
(2021-06-29)I empirically study the relationship between the share of foreign-born individuals and municipality income inequality measured by the Gini index. I use Swedish municipality level data from 2000 to 2019, showing a positive ... -
Having the workplace at home: A case study exploring the boundaries between work & home during the pandemic period
(2021-06-29)Think about a morning walk before starting the working day, the number of calendars, the frequency of breaks or the clothes people wear to work; these among others are dimensions of where individuals draw the line between ... -
Labour market integration in an MNC- Crafting social sustainability from below
(2021-06-29)The growing demand of corporations to take social responsibility for their businesses has contributed to a spectrum of corporate social responsibility literature. Though how companies actually operationalise social ... -
The travel of a labour market integration method- Institutional contexts shaping the translation of an idea into practice
(2021-06-29)The study investigates how public and private organisations adopt novel labour market integration practices and their implications. It is informed by the case of one Multinational Cooperation (MNC) and two municipal ... -
Balancing relationship between academia and business community in terms of soft skills supply and demand in the labour market
(2021-06-29)The interplay between the different logics and possibility of their balancing is of great interest and these issues have been extensively studied. Such actors as academia and the business community follow different ... -
Sustainability at stake: incorporating circular economy into an organization
(2021-06-29)Circular economy has been located as one solution to combat climate change, which puts large pressures on corporations. Earlier studies of circular economy have focused on what needs to be done but studies of how to ... -
“I can’t hear you, you’re muted” – Socialization in virtual communities of practices- A case study of how newcomers’ transition into a new organization is affected by a virtual onboarding process
(2021-06-29)Previous literature on onboarding processes has had its point of departure in physical settings. To contribute to further research on the subject of onboarding, this paper investigates onboarding in a virtual setting. ... -
Managing an Environmental Jolt- A Case Study of How a Swedish SME Made Sense of a Sudden Increase in Demand from the Global Covid-19 Pandemic
(2021-06-29)In today’s society organisations frequently have to cope with and respond to unexpected events. This study aims to investigate how a sudden increase in demand from an environmental jolt, in this case, the global Covid-19 ... -
Difficulties in achieving business and IT alignment- A qualitative study drawing upon coordination theory to explore the complexities and tensions between business and IT
(2021-06-29)Organizations today are facing changing demands in the business environment at the same time as the rate of technological change is increasing. This may impose implications on the relationship between business and IT, ... -
Digitalization in Accounting- Construction of identity in new role by accountants during digitalization
(2021-06-29)Digitalization is being used across all sectors to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of any organization and the field of accountancy is not immune to it either. Due to advancements in technologies, the accountants’ ... -
How Digital Communication Initiates Relational Erosion- A Multiple Case Study of Relationships in Three Swedish SMEs
(2021-06-29)The study takes interest in digitalization’s influence on people in their business lives and more particularly on how digital communication technologies affect relationships at SMEs. It starts by introducing the topic to ... -
Conflicts or constructive collaboration?- A study investigating the coordination of the sales-marketing interface in a digital context
(2021-06-29)This study investigates how coordination is achieved between the functions sales and marketing in B2B organizations, and how increased digitalization affects the coordination between different functions. The paper uses ...