Essays about: "Socially Desirable"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the words Socially Desirable.

  1. 11. A CITY TO GROW UP IN -A Study of How the Integrated Child Impact Analysis Tool Can Contribute to Social Sustainability in Urban Planning

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Hannes Kärrman; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Sustainability; Urban Planning; Children; Deliberative Planning;

    Abstract : This case study explores how the Integrated Child Impact Analysis (ICIA) tool is used in the urban planning process in the city of Stockholm. The purpose of the study is to understand how the focus on children’s rights can contribute to social sustainability through urban planning projects. READ MORE

  3. 12. “When shall we laugh?”: Gratiano and the two faces of comedy in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jakob Lindner; [2019]
    Keywords : Shakespeare; The Merchant of Venice; Freud; Bakhtin; comedy; relief theory;

    Abstract : Comedy is an inherently pleasurable phenomenon with beneficial psychological functions, but its potential to bring on undesirable and socially destabilizing consequences is less intuitively obvious. In this essay, I argue that one of the hitherto under-recognized features of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is its covert problematization of the phenomenon of comedy itself, and that the play invites its audience to become more aware of in what situations laughter is constructive and appropriate. READ MORE

  4. 13. Socially responsible investments and shareholder engagement in the Swedish pension fund system : A case study on the Swedish AP funds

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Adam Skol; [2019]
    Keywords : social and environmental outcomes; influence instruments; shareholder engagement dialogue; socially responsible investments; sustainable development;

    Abstract : In recent years, institutional shareholders have more frequently engaged themselves in dialogue with corporations on corporate social and environmental factors (ESG factors) through a new investment strategy often referred to as socially responsible investments. The Swedish public pension funds work with socially responsible investments and shareholder engagement are based on their mandate to serve the Swedish people and to manage their retirement capital in a desirable way. READ MORE

  5. 14. FACTORS INFLUENCING GREEN CONSUMPTION : The moderating effect of market maturity

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF)

    Author : Amin Babazade; Uliana Paramzina; [2019]
    Keywords : green consumption; green products; market maturity; moderating effect; factors influencing green consumption; emerging markets; developed markets.;

    Abstract : Purpose – The purpose of this master thesis is to examine factors influencing green consumption and to explain the moderating effect of market maturity on these factors in developed and emerging markets.Design/methodology/approach – In this research the pragmatism epistemology was employed as the scientific perspective of the current research. READ MORE

  6. 15. Dynamic access pricing of Google Maps's user data

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Theresa Goop; [2018]
    Keywords : Dynamic Access Pricing; Big Data;

    Abstract : The present thesis examines interactions on the mobile cartography market where firms use big data as a competitive advantage. I develop a dynamic access pricing model suggesting a regulatory scheme to maximise social welfare in which a regulator sets a price for user data that is made accessible to a potential entrant to a side market, the mobile advertising market. READ MORE