Background Traditional banks monopolized financial services, but the 2008 crisis spurred Fintech's emergence as an alternative. Fintech challenges banks with innovative solutions, while Sweden thrives as a Fintech hub. Profitability is vital due to the recent shift in focus from growth. Modern Fintech research is lacking, thus creating gaps in both knowledge and studies among the Swedish Fintech-sphere.  Purpose  The study analyzes leverage, return on equity, and bank size ratios in Swedish Fintech companies. It examines their impact on profit margin and aims to identify correlations. The results aim to enhance understanding and provide guidance for optimizing key figures to increase profitability among Swedish Fintech-companies.  Methodology The study utilized a quantitative approach with a deductive method and cross-sectional design. Data consisted of secondary data and was collected through the database Retriever Business. A total of 1198 observations were analyzed using correlation matrix, bivariate, and multivariate regression analyses.  Results  The quantitative analysis revealed that both debt to equity ratio and return on equity has a significant relationship, while bank size has only a partially significant relationship with profit margin.  Conclusion  Swedish Fintech-companies reveals a positive relationship between return on equity (ROE) and profitability. Furthermore, the leverage ratio also positively affects profitability. Moreover, Bank size shows a slight negative impact.

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2014-2015 / Ce travail de maîtrise a pour but de confronter les théories sociales de Niklas Luhmann et de Jürgen Habermas, afin d’éclairer les défis que le monde contemporain pose à la pensée philosophique. À la suite d’un examen approfondi, qui nous mènera à revisiter les traditions classique (Weber et Durkheim) et moderne (Parsons) de la sociologie, il sera possible de mettre en évidence les implications qui s’ensuivent pour les concepts de société, de rationalité et de normativité. Plutôt que de prendre parti pour l’une des théories en question, nous décèlerons leur signification philosophique en exposant la manière dont elles abordent le phénomène de la complexité. Nous discutons enfin de la place qu’occupe l’humanisme au sein de la théorie sociale contemporaine. / This M.A. thesis compares the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Jürgen Habermas. Its main goal is to cast light upon the problems that philosophical thinking encounters in its attempt to understand modern society. The Luhmann-Habermas debate is presented from a comparative perspective, which will then lead into key problems of both classical (Weber and Durkheim) and modern (Parsons) traditions of sociology. It is our contention that this debate reveals two alternative standpoints from which the concepts of society, rationality, and normativity can be conceived. Instead of endorsing one theory or the other, this thesis would rather display their philosophical significance by addressing the manner in which they deal with complexity. Finally, the place of humanism within contemporary social theory is examined.

<p>Coaching har blivit mycket av ett slagord inom företagsvärlden och olika konsultfirmor. Men vad innebär det konkret för individer och organisationer? Denna studie kommer att behandla coaching utförd av en ledare. Därav kommer både ett öppet och modernt ledarskap som coaching kräver behandlas, samt huvudämnet coaching.</p><p>Bakgrunden till studien är främst att allt för många ledare idag fortfarande rekryteras med auktoritär ledarskapsstil som inte prioriterar utveckling av de anställda, samt att coaching som definition ibland misstolkas. Så syftet är att behandla dessa frågor och diskutera kring frågeställningarna: <em>Vad är coaching? Vilken betydelse har coaching?</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>Metoden som tillämpas i denna uppsats är en kvalitativ studie med fyra representanter från Brynäs IF hockey A-lag, tränaren Niklas Czarnecki, assisterande tränare Tommy Jonsson, spelarna Ove Molin och Emil Sandin presenterar deras verklighet omkring ledarskap och coaching.</p> / <p> </p><p>Coaching has become much of a catchphrase in the business world and various consulting firms. But what does it mean specifically for individuals and organizations? This study deals with coaching conducted by a leader. Therefore the study will examine both an open and modern leadership as coaching require, and the main subject coaching.</p><p>The background to the study is based on that too many leaders today recruits authoritarian leadership style that does not see the potential of their employees and the definition of coaching is sometimes misinterpreted. So the aim is to address these issues and discuss the questions: <em>What is coaching?</em> And <em>What is the importance of coaching?</em></p><p>The method applied in this study is a qualitative method with four representatives from Brynäs IF hockey A-team, which trainer Niklas Czarnecki, assistant trainer Tommy Jonsson and players Ove Molin and Emil Sandin present the reality about leadership and coaching.</p><p> </p>

Coaching har blivit mycket av ett slagord inom företagsvärlden och olika konsultfirmor. Men vad innebär det konkret för individer och organisationer? Denna studie kommer att behandla coaching utförd av en ledare. Därav kommer både ett öppet och modernt ledarskap som coaching kräver behandlas, samt huvudämnet coaching. Bakgrunden till studien är främst att allt för många ledare idag fortfarande rekryteras med auktoritär ledarskapsstil som inte prioriterar utveckling av de anställda, samt att coaching som definition ibland misstolkas. Så syftet är att behandla dessa frågor och diskutera kring frågeställningarna: Vad är coaching? Vilken betydelse har coaching?   Metoden som tillämpas i denna uppsats är en kvalitativ studie med fyra representanter från Brynäs IF hockey A-lag, tränaren Niklas Czarnecki, assisterande tränare Tommy Jonsson, spelarna Ove Molin och Emil Sandin presenterar deras verklighet omkring ledarskap och coaching. / Coaching has become much of a catchphrase in the business world and various consulting firms. But what does it mean specifically for individuals and organizations? This study deals with coaching conducted by a leader. Therefore the study will examine both an open and modern leadership as coaching require, and the main subject coaching. The background to the study is based on that too many leaders today recruits authoritarian leadership style that does not see the potential of their employees and the definition of coaching is sometimes misinterpreted. So the aim is to address these issues and discuss the questions: What is coaching? And What is the importance of coaching? The method applied in this study is a qualitative method with four representatives from Brynäs IF hockey A-team, which trainer Niklas Czarnecki, assistant trainer Tommy Jonsson and players Ove Molin and Emil Sandin present the reality about leadership and coaching.

Die historischen Avantgardebewegungen haben mit dem Angriff auf die Autonomie der Kunst ein Erdbeben erzeugt, das sowohl die zeitgenössische Kunstpraxis als auch die ästhetische Theorie nachhaltig bewegt. Das Vermächtnis der historischen Avantgarden bleibt insofern als the Living Dead bestehen, als die Forderung, politisch wirksame Kunst zu schaffen, seit dem Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts immer wieder begraben und wiederbelebt wird. Auf der Ebene der Theorie pendeln diese Debatten zwischen der Konzeption einer autonomen Kunst einerseits und einer heteronomen Kunst andererseits, wobei Erstere einer philosophischen und Letztere einer soziologischen Kontextualisierung von Kunst entspricht. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt diese beiden Perspektiven – einmal die ästhetische Theorie von Jacques Rancière und einmal die Gesellschaftstheorie von Niklas Luhmann – nebeneinander und zeigt, wie ein künstlerisches Schaffen – hier Marko Peljhans Projekt Makrolab – zugleich politisch wirksam und politisch unwirksam sein kann. Mit diesem Schritt wird die Diskussion über politische Kunst auf die Diskussion über die Wirksamkeit verschoben. Es wird festgestellt, dass die Frage nach politisch wirksamer Kunst nur im Rahmen einer kulturhistorisch spezifischen Vorstellung von Wirksamkeit möglich ist. Wird diese Vorstellung von Wirksamkeit durch eine andere ersetzt, verliert die Frage nach politischer Kunst ihren Sinn, es erschließt sich jedoch ein neues Verständnis des gesellschaftlichen Wandels, das weit über die Themen der Kunst hinausgeht. / By attacking the autonomy of the arts, the historical avant-gardes caused an upheaval which has resonated in the contemporary artistic practices as well as in art theory to this day. The legacy of the historical avant-gardes remains in the state of the living dead, since the demands to make political art have since the beginning of the 20th century repeatedly been buried and resuscitated. On the level of theory, these debates have been oscillating between the concept of an autonomous sphere of art on the one side and the heteronomous sphere of art on the other, whereas the former corresponds to a philosophical and the latter to a sociological contextualisation of the arts. This text combines both of these perspectives, putting Jacques Rancière’s philosophy of art and Niklas Luhmann’s social theory side by side in order to show how a singular artwork – here Marko Peljhan’s project Makrolab – can be understood as politically efficient and not politically efficient at the same time. With this step the discussion about political art is shifted to a discussion about efficacy and brought to the conclusion that the question of political art is only possible within a frame of a culturally and historically specific conception of efficacy. When this specific conception of efficacy is replaced by another, the question about political art loses its meaning. However, it is exactly at this point that a new understanding of social change opens up, which reaches far beyond the domain of art theory.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:28:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Henrique de Oliveira Blecher.pdf: 692820 bytes, checksum: e4a2de43fd4085590d5e3230bc0ccd54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Relying on Luhmann s systems theoretical observation on modern society, this dissertation aims, having the basic education reality in Brazil as an empirical model, at questioning the basic systemic theoretical notions of the current debate on the distinction inclusion/exclusion. After presenting the main aspects of Luhmann s theory on modern society, mainly the system of law and its relation to education system, this work will try to assess the most remarkable aspect of Luhmann s concept of the inclusion/ exclusion relationship within a new reality of functionally differentiated society, in which individuals are not only situated out of society but also, to be precise, within its the exclusion domain. In that way, Luhmann has put lights on some fundamental issues regarding the implicit norm of full inclusion, which seems to be the main focus relied on inclusion/exclusion debate nowadays. Following this new path, Luhmann also directs his attention to the different conditions of inclusion/exclusion as being surrounded and here it is really important to map the theoretical ground out by conditions within function systems, organization and interaction systems. Luhmann s point of view comes down to the idea that inclusion is not the rule anymore, by contrast, exclusion is. This work closes off with a critical analysis of Luhmann s re-description of the quoted distinction and, raising the reality of basic educational access in Brazil, considering, moreover, the quality of it, suggests that the system theory might suffer from an empirical deficiency. In the present work, once having the figures on educational inclusion/exclusion in Brazil and its further developments exposed, we come across the fact that the system theory seems to have difficulties to grasp and to depict the actual mechanisms of social exclusion in the world / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo, partindo da forma que Niklas Luhmann observa a sociedade moderna e tendo como modelo empírico a realidade da educação média no Brasil, questionar as noções básicas da teoria sistêmica acerca do debate sobre a distinção inclusão|exclusão. Além de apresentar os principais aspectos da teoria de Luhmann sobre a sociedade moderna, especialmente o sistema jurídico e a sua relação com o sistema educacional, este trabalho tentará, ainda, acessar, a partir da teoria sistêmica, o mais relevante aspecto da distinção inclusão|exclusão em uma sociedade diferenciada funcionalmente, na qual os indíviduos estão não somente fora da sociedade, mas também, para ser preciso, inseridos no domínio de exclusão. Desta forma, Luhmann ilumina alguns dos mais fudamentais problemas relacionados com a norma implícita da inclusão total, que parece ser o principal foco do debate sobre inclusão|exclusão nos dias de hoje. Seguindo este caminho de observação, Luhmann também irá direcionar sua atenção para as diferentes condições de inclusão e exclusão e afirma que esta distinção é determinada e aqui entender a questão é de suma importância para caminhar pelo solo da teoria sistêmica pelas condições internas dos sistemas funcionais, organizacionais e de interação. Luhmann defende a idéia de que inclusão não mais seria a regra, pelo contrário, a exclusão é que seria.. Esta dissertação pretende trabalhar com uma análise crítica da forma como Luhmann re-descreve a distinção inclusão|exclusão. Destacando a realidade do acesso à educação no Brasil, considerando, acima de tudo, a sua qualidade, sugere, então, que a teoria dos sistemas possa sofrer de uma deficiência empírica ao observar a distincão da forma que o faz. Havendo exposto os números sobre a educação no Brasil, sugerimos que a teoria sistêmica encontra dificuldades em apreender e descrever os atuais mecanismos de exclusão social no mundo

A questão da justiça é tema sempre presente nas perquirições da filosofia do direito. Como tema recorrente deve ser submetido a novas investigações à luz de paradigmas teóricos alternativos e inovadores. A teoria dos sistemas de Niklas Luhmann representa um marco teórico capaz de inaugurar novos percursos investigativos no estudo da função do direito e de sua relação com a justiça, ora como função, ora como capacidade de adaptação. A ideia da autopoiese e sua elaboração na teoria dos sistemas de Luhmann torna possível observar essa relação entre direito e justiça dentro do contexto do aumento da complexidade e da contingência na sociedade moderna. A presente tese busca produzir uma investigação jusfilosófica, com inspiração interdisciplinar ao combinar-se com especulações teoréticas da sociologia jurídica de inspiração luhmanniana. Ao utilizar uma metodologia fundada na pesquisa bibliográfica primacialmente nos idiomas originais, a tese persegue a reconstrução da teoria da justiça na perspectiva do funcional-estruturalismo de Niklas Luhmann. Na consecução deste projeto, a tese utiliza a metáfora do horizonte, de matriz fenomenológica, para propor a dualidade entre justiça operativo-funcional e justiça adaptativo-mutante. Dualidade que servirá de baliza para conclusões desta tese que poderá trazer uma contribuição original à cultura jurídica nacional. / The problem of justice is an ever-present issue in the investigations of philosophy of law. As a recurring theme, it should be subjected to further investigation in the light of alternative and innovative theoretical paradigms. The systems theory of Niklas Luhmann is a theoretical framework capable of opening new routes for studies and researches on the role of law and its relation to justice, either as function either as adaptability. The idea of autopoiesis and its elaboration in Luhmann´s systems theory makes it possible to observe the relationship between law and justice within the context of the increased complexity and contingency in modern society. This thesis aims to produce an investigation in the philosophy of law with interdisciplinary inspiration when combined with theoretical speculations of legal sociology of luhmannian inspiration. Using a methodology based on a primary bibliographic research in works in their original language, the thesis pursues the reconstruction of the theory of justice from the perspective of functional-structuralism as thought by Niklas Luhmann. In pursuing this project, the thesis uses the metaphor of the horizon, in its phenomenological matrix, to propose the duality between justice as operation and adaptation (mutant). This duality will serve as a beacon for the conclusions produced in this thesis that can bring an original contribution to legal culture.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Iracema Andrea Arantes da Cruz.pdf: 978519 bytes, checksum: 3c1635bc026bcfbd03092fa9af36950f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present study analyses the Economy of Communion (EoC), a Project launched within the Focolare Movement - a Catholic, Ecumenical, Interreligious and Intercultural Movement present in 182 countries. The study is based on the hypotheses that the EoC represents a possible means of Catholicism to influence the economic system by acting simultaneously both at civil and religious level. The importance and relevancy of this study lies in the fact that it introduces the EoC in a wider context according to the theory of Social Systems by Niklas Luhmann, which understands modern societies as an entity composed of sub-systems, each of them representing diversified, specialized and relatively autonomous, but inter-related functions for the maintenance and evolution of the major society. Thus religion is recognized as a system co-existing side by side with others, finding ways to maintain itself in relation to them, once it lost its hegemony as a source for social order. Based on the analyses to the emergence, delimitation and the role of the EoC according to Luhmann s approach, the present study argues that EoC can be considered a means in which Catholicism influences non-religious fields by assuming an inter-systemic relation / A presente pesquisa analisa a Economia de Comunhão (EdC), um projeto que surgiu no interior do Movimento dos Focolares católico, ecumênico, inter-religioso e intercultural, presente em 182 países, a partir das hipóteses, segundo as quais, a EdC atua simultaneamente nas esferas civil e religiosa, além de ser um possível meio de a religião cristã católica atuar sua influência na esfera civil, neste caso, no sistema econômico. A importância e pertinência deste estudo podem ser justificadas pelo fato de introduzir a EdC em um contexto mais amplo, a questão da função da religião na contemporaneidade, segundo a abordagem da Teoria dos Sistemas Sociais de Niklas Luhmann, considerada adequada, exatamente, por entender a sociedade contemporânea funcionalmente diversificada e especializada, organizada em sistemas relativamente autônomos, que possuem uma lógica própria, mas que estão continuamente em relação com os demais sistemas da sociedade. Assim sendo, a religião é entendida como um sistema que co-existe ao lado dos outros, tendo de encontrar modos de manter-se em relação com eles, uma vez que, a partir da modernidade, perdera a hegemonia como fonte da ordenação social. Ao final da pesquisa, esta dissertação conclui que a EdC pode ser considerada um meio de a religião cristã católica influir em âmbitos não religiosos, a partir da relação inter-sistêmica, tendo analisado a surgimento, a delimitação e o desempenho do projeto, de acordo com a abordagem luhmanniana

A questão da justiça é tema sempre presente nas perquirições da filosofia do direito. Como tema recorrente deve ser submetido a novas investigações à luz de paradigmas teóricos alternativos e inovadores. A teoria dos sistemas de Niklas Luhmann representa um marco teórico capaz de inaugurar novos percursos investigativos no estudo da função do direito e de sua relação com a justiça, ora como função, ora como capacidade de adaptação. A ideia da autopoiese e sua elaboração na teoria dos sistemas de Luhmann torna possível observar essa relação entre direito e justiça dentro do contexto do aumento da complexidade e da contingência na sociedade moderna. A presente tese busca produzir uma investigação jusfilosófica, com inspiração interdisciplinar ao combinar-se com especulações teoréticas da sociologia jurídica de inspiração luhmanniana. Ao utilizar uma metodologia fundada na pesquisa bibliográfica primacialmente nos idiomas originais, a tese persegue a reconstrução da teoria da justiça na perspectiva do funcional-estruturalismo de Niklas Luhmann. Na consecução deste projeto, a tese utiliza a metáfora do horizonte, de matriz fenomenológica, para propor a dualidade entre justiça operativo-funcional e justiça adaptativo-mutante. Dualidade que servirá de baliza para conclusões desta tese que poderá trazer uma contribuição original à cultura jurídica nacional. / The problem of justice is an ever-present issue in the investigations of philosophy of law. As a recurring theme, it should be subjected to further investigation in the light of alternative and innovative theoretical paradigms. The systems theory of Niklas Luhmann is a theoretical framework capable of opening new routes for studies and researches on the role of law and its relation to justice, either as function either as adaptability. The idea of autopoiesis and its elaboration in Luhmann´s systems theory makes it possible to observe the relationship between law and justice within the context of the increased complexity and contingency in modern society. This thesis aims to produce an investigation in the philosophy of law with interdisciplinary inspiration when combined with theoretical speculations of legal sociology of luhmannian inspiration. Using a methodology based on a primary bibliographic research in works in their original language, the thesis pursues the reconstruction of the theory of justice from the perspective of functional-structuralism as thought by Niklas Luhmann. In pursuing this project, the thesis uses the metaphor of the horizon, in its phenomenological matrix, to propose the duality between justice as operation and adaptation (mutant). This duality will serve as a beacon for the conclusions produced in this thesis that can bring an original contribution to legal culture.