Titel: Guide till sociala medier: Som tillämpning i marknadsföringsstrategin för Mentens ABFörfattare: Linda Söderholm, Hanna ÅmanHandledare: Finn Wiedersheim-PaulKurs: Kandidatuppsats, 15 hpÄmne: FöretagsekonomiSyfte: Syftet med studien är att hjälpa Mentens AB, ett litet B2B företag utan klar slutkonsument, att börja använda sociala medier och tillämpa dem på ett fördelaktigt sätt som ett verktyg i sin marknadsföringsstrategi.Metod: Studien är baserad på kvalitativ forskning genom en intervju med företaget Mentens AB, ett litet företag med önskemål om vägledning till sociala medier.Teorier: ?Varför sociala medier och vad företag bör beakta innan implementering?, ?Företagsbloggar som verktyg till att bygga relationer och stärka varumärket?, ?Att marknadsföra företagets kunskap genom YouTube?, ?Att ?skapa professionella nätverk med LinkedIn?, ?Dela kunskap genom SlideShare? och ?Hantering av rykten med hjälp av sociala medier?.Slutsatser: Företag idag har inte råd att undvika sociala medier utan måste tillämpa dem som ett verktyg i deras marknadsföringsstrategi. Mentens AB ska vara medvetna om fördelarna och nackdelarna med sociala medier. För att utvecklas måste de ta del av medierna och göra det rätt. Det är lämpligt att använda benchmarking för att hitta rätt sociala medier för företaget.

With a starting point in a project for reinforcing small scale business among immigrants in Sweden, carried out within Swedish for immigrants (sfi), the aim for this thesis is to examine the project from the view and experiences of the participants. Interviews with participants in the project have been inspired by the teoretical and methodological views of Grounded Theory.The interviews show that some participants want to start their own business, but almost as many don?t have that dream. The former group all have experience of being self-employed. They are aware of the difficulties but are nevertheless determined to proceed their dream.

För att ett företag ska kunna tillämpa lokal ekonomi, det vill säga ekonomistyrning på produktionsavdelningsnivå, är det viktigt att produktionsledaren har ett lokalt informationsstöd. Denna uppsats belyser design och användning av ett sådant stöd. Det som har undersökts är hur ett högteknologiskt tillverkningsföretag i lastbilsindustrin arbetar vid design av ett lokalt informationsstöd. Undersökningen har även belyst vad det lokala informationsstödet består av samt vad som uppnås vid användning av ett sådant stöd. Genom en kvalitativ fallstudie på Ferruform i Luleå undersöktes detta.

The aim of this study is to examine whether the image of the stereotype librarian has created conflict in young librarians´ personal identity and/or professional identity and if this has shown in their choice of clothes? Our purpose was to find out, with the help of their choice of clothes, the young librarians view of themselves as individuals and professional librarians. We have searched for the answers to the following questions: - Do young librarians experience that clothing at their workplace has any significance and if so, what do they want to signal with their clothing? - Do they experience that clothing and appearance has any impact on their personal and professional identity? - How do they relate, by their choice of clothes, to the stereotype images of the librarian? We have performed qualitative interviews with eleven young female librarians. As a theoretical framework we have used ideas and concepts from different areas of research; semiotics, social psychology, business administration and ethnology.

AbstractTrängregementet in Skövde Sweden, had send a request to the university of Jönköping by one specific purpose, the reason was if someone would like to do a bachelor thesis to investigate the regiments? internal communication. The aims for this study is by a qualitative method investigate the regiment?s internal communication. Focus is on quality and to be able to access the core, semi-structured interviews with the management, information office, officers and soldiers were accomplished.

Bakgrund: Bristen på information om immateriella tillgångar i den externa redovisningen har blivit alltmer påtaglig i takt med att dessa tillgångars betydelse ökat. Redovisningsrådet har för att reglera detta givit ut rekommendationen RR 15. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att utreda vilket behov marknadsaktörerna har av redovisningen rörande immateriella tillgångar för att understödja deras beslutsfattande och om nuvarande lagstiftning och rekommendationer möjliggör en redovisning som motsvarar detta behov. Avgränsning: Skattemässiga effekter berörs ej. Tillvägagångssätt: Information har samlats in från analytiker, kreditgivare samt Sveriges Aktiesparares Riksförbund, genom personliga intervjuer.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the internal information processing and management is carried out within a unit of Viskafors municipality. Furthermore, to explore and make recommendations of how the organisation can improve its internal information management. To get a full picture I have interviewed people at different levels of the organisation. The main findings showed that there was a dysfunction in the internal information processing and management. For example the study showed that the internal information did not reach out to the different parts of the organisation due to insufficient information processing.

This paper discusses the strategy and strategic change in the Swedish freight forwarding business and analysis factors that influence the forces of the business. Three companies of various sizes are chosen to be investigated as a case study, outline that cost leadership and differentiation are both important strategies for companies to compete in the market. However, companies outpacing competition do not only pursue either of the two strategies, the need the ability to add one (cost leadership) to the other (differentiation) in relationship to environmental change over time..

Some people do not have the opportunity to visit a physical exhibition because of limited time or long travelling distances, it is here the need for a web-based exhibition arises.This dissertation describes the development of an interactive web-site representing a part of a physical exhibition of over 200 interviews on different peoples immigration to inner Scandinavia. The interviews contain text, audio clip, pictures and video clip.The website contains modern programming technologies such as HTML5, ASP.NET MVC3, SQL, JavaScript and jQuery.A cover of the technologies used and how the project has been designed and implemented is explained in the dissertation. In the end of the dissertation we discuss about how the result of the project follows the goals we set up in the start phase. The result of this project is an interactive and easy to use web-site showing a part of the physical exhibition online. An easy administration to insert new information and edit existing without any major computer knowledge..

Det svenska taktiska radiosystemet (TARAS) bygger på en tekniskt liknande arkitektur som NATOs system JointTactical Information Distribution System/Multifunctional Information Distribution System (JTIDS/MIDS). JTIDS/MIDShuvudsakliga tjänst är den taktiska datalänken link 16. En avsikt med uppsatsen är att visa på vilka likheter ocholikheter som finns mellan dessa två radiosambandssystem ur ett tekniskt perspektiv. På grundval av dessa likheteroch olikheter studeras hurvida det finns någon internationell anpassningsförmåga av TARAS-systemet motJTIDS/MIDS-systemet. En anpassningsförmåga som syftar till interoperabilitet för svenska flyg- och sjöstridskraftergentemot NATO.

The purpose of this thesis was to study local bank offices work with customer satisfaction. A case study concerning two local bank offices was made, the cases were based on interviews with the managers at the bank offices. The research questions that we wanted this thesis to answer was how local bank offices create customer satisfaction among small business customers, and how local bank offices assess customer satisfaction among small business customers. The study showed that local bank offices find customer satisfaction among small business customers important and use complaints as the primary source in the process of creating customer satisfaction..

Companies have in the past decades changed fromtraditional manufacturing organizations into serviceorganizations. For these service organizationsinformation and competence have become animportant resource. The traditional view oninformation is that an employee use and search forinformation to reduce uncertainty for their decisionmaking. Even though information is strategicallyimportant for organizations, information is not valuedin any way. Hence, this thesis aims to valueinformation in terms of the utility it brings to theorganization.The conclusion is that four factors are important whenvaluing information in terms of utility.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to contribute to the development of business relationships between a supplier and its customers. The research area and research problem was further developed into three research questions. The research questions concerns the following subjects: the substance of business relationships and dimensions within relationships management that can be used in order to contribute to the development of a company?s business relationships.

AbstractThis master thesis is a hermeneutic inspired case study of how the value base regarding the environmental and social responsibility in the Swedish coffee company Löfbergs Lila AB is affecting the company's business. A thesis inspired by hermeneutics means that it is based on two ideas, the one of interaction between entirety and partitions and the one of interpretation (Alvesson & Sköldberg 1994). This cause that the emphasis is on how the reality is interpreted and that it never can be seen as completely objective.The case study was conducted during the spring semester of 2010 at Karlstad's University and consists of both empirical and theoretical material collected during this time. The empirical material in this thesis includes, among other things, interviews with four representatives of Löfbergs Lila AB, written material from the company regarding its work related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), some information about the coffee industry as a whole and different certifications for "ethical? coffee that exists on the Swedish market.The basic idea with CSR as a business strategy is that it can be financially beneficial for companies to take a social and environmental responsibility outside of the company (Vogel 2005).

Title:Changes in the auditing work of asset management companies.Advisor:Bengt BengtssonExaminer:Stig SörlingAuthors: Mattias Skog & Andrea CyganikPurpose:The purpose is to examine how the work of auditing asset management companies has changed since the crisis 2008.Methodology:The study is based on an adductive approach using a quantitative method.Theoretical framework:The theoretical framework includes previous studies and literature concerning the auditing business, the financial crisis, principal agent theory and stewardship theory.Empirical findings:The empirical material is based on answers from 22 auditors in 6 different auditing firms, and it was conducted by sending them a survey.Conclusion:The study showed that the major changes were changes in laws and regulations controlling the auditing business. New guidelines and laws were set to try and improve the quality of the auditing business while trying to restore stained reputation. New regulations were also set to increase the control the government have of inspecting the business through finansinspektionen..