Forest management plans have been sold to private forest owners by wood supplying companies for a long time. These plans are considered to be effi-cient tools to identify measures and wood volumes, and are simply a starting point for discussions between private forest owners and round wood pur-chasers. However, large variations are observed between different purchas-ers, in their usage of the plans. The purpose of this report is to identify to what extent a forest management plan can promote an increase in the amount of wood which a round wood purchaser can obtain and to find differences in the way of using the plans between different wood purchasers. Furthermore, the purpose is also to ana-lyse if varying owner structures can be underlie variations in the selling of forest management plans. Qualitative interviews with nine of Stora Enso?s round wood purchasers were performed.

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Styrning för framgång - En fallstudie i telekombranschen.

An industry in distress was the breeding ground for a noted pricing strategy, labeled name-your-price. The industry was the music industry and the pricing strategy bears reminiscence of how medieval buskers earned their living during the dark ages; by letting the customers decide how much the good was worth, embodied by a thrown coin into a hat or similar collector. Translated into the contemporary corporate environment of today, where technical innovations provides access to the intellectual property for free, a few mighty economic actors have once again turned to the strategy were it all started; letting the customer set the price. The hat has been replaced by a box for your credit card number and the live music by a MP3 file, but the similarity is striking. The business model have been applied in other industries as well with various levels of success, thus the purpose of this thesis is to set up a framework for where the name-your-price strategy is applicable.

The aim for my thesis has been to investigate how literature, or fiction, is used in management education. What books are used ? is there a literary leadership canon? What do the educators and the writers on this subject suggest that these books can teach the leaders? What are the philosophical foundations of this education? And ? last but not least ? does what the educators and writers offer respond to the needs of the businesses? My investigation shows that there is a canon in the area of management and fiction, where realistic 19th century novels, alongside with Shakespeare?s plays are dominant. Female writers and non-western writers are very underrepresented. The positive outcomes of reading and discussing these literary works that the educators and writers suggest do substantially correspond with the needs of the businesses, as presented by my sources.

We have conducted a case study on Trelleborg AB to examine how entrepreneurial the company is. We used a model called "entrepreneurial orientation (EO) with five dimensions that should be considered when striving to be entrepreneurial. The goal of being entrepreneurial in this thesis is achieving organic growth. The contingency of the case company determines the generalizability of the finding..

Due to a globalised world business travel is flourishing. This paper examines how middle level executives, travelling a lot in their work at a multi-national company, feel about their travel. It looks for links between business travel and work satisfaction among them. A short presentation of the patterns of business travel and relevant motivational and stress theories is given. Data for the paper is collected using a survey (78 participants) and interviews.

Följande faktorer är avgörande för Rambölls innovationssträvanden: Branschlogik.Ramböll verkar i en bransch där aktörerna försöker positionera sig med kvalité, men där priset är den främsta konkurrensfaktorn på en homogen marknad.Strategi. Ramböll försöker framstå som innovativt men detta når inte ner till medarbetarna, som i första hand styrs av effektivitetskrav. Vinst- och effektivitetskrav påverkar verksamhet i större utsträckning än innovationsambitioner. Ledningen bör göra ett medvetet val om vilken strategi som skall användas..

Syftet med vår uppsats är att redogöra för om företag idag kan få förtroendet från sina kunder att tillta genom att de inför en kvalitetscertifiering t.ex. en ISO 9000-standard. Vi har även försökt att tolka vad som mer kan ha påverkan vid en kunds förtroendebedömning av företag. Resultatet vi har kommit fram till är att företag måste arbeta mer gentemot sina kunder än att enbart verka utifrån en kvalitetscertifiering för att erhålla förtroende..

Vi har funnit att makrotrender har en mindre direkt påverkan på den direkta utformningen av och innehållet i reklam. Samtidigt har vi funnit att mikrotrender oftare kan utnyttjas mer konkret i reklam. Att använda sig av trendriktig reklam är ett strategiskt val beroende på om annonsören vill vara trendsättare eller efterföljare. trender kan användas i reklam som koder för att bättre nå den avsedda målgruppen..

Caran has a strong belief that women leaders affect the financial profitability positive. Since women leaders are intangible resources it is very difficult to calculate its exact value. The authors found that one of their measurement methods can?t be used to calculate the value of women leaders. The other measurement method can calculate significance between women and men leaders and provides an index to be compared to other groups.

2005 avgiftsbelades periodieringsfonden, tidigare hade den varit en skattefri kredit från staten. I och med avgiftsbeläggningen var företagen tvugna att ta ställning till om den var värd att betala för. Lagstiftarna hävdade att det var de stora bolagen som skulle drabbas hårdast av förändrigen medan kritikerna hävade motsatsen. I denna kvantitativa undersökning har genom intervjuer med tio företag, fem stora och fem små, samt två revisorer undersökts om företagen, utifrån storlek, drabbats olika av avgiftsbeläggningen..

Vi vill presentera och jämföra svenska och amerikanska regelverk som reglerar redovisningen av bonus- och incitamentsprogram, undersöka hur redovisning av bonus- och incitamentsprogram har utvecklats i Sverige och koppla denna utveckling till det rådande läget i USA. Kärnan i vår slutsats är att Sveriges företag tenderar att utforma sin redovisning av bonus- och incitamentsprogram mer och mer i likhet med hur dessa redovisas i USA. Vi har i vår undersökning sett att skillnaderna mellan länderna, både gällande regelverk och hur redovisningen ser ut i praktiken, har minskat..

The public service within health and care has changed remarkably during the last 30 years. It has been inspired by management ideas from profit-making businesses. Those thoughts are an umbrella term called Nex public management. In what way has New public management influenced the public service in Sweden? Important concepts in the change of public service are quality, effektivity and goals.

Large companies in today?s business environment are to a great extent depending on their credit score by rating institutes like Moody?s and Standard & Poor?s. There is however indications that these big institutes are not always rating companies accurately. This is why this thesis aims at developing a new credit rating model, CRITA-Score, with the objective of determining a company?s financial health more accurately.