?Fan fiction writing?, or the writing of stories based upon a popular entertainment franchise, has become a topic of academic discussion. Fan fiction writers have waked the ire of movie producers, since they often write fiction that is in direct contradiction to the movie?s plot or spirit. While most academic studies on fan fiction have concentrated on his confrontational aspect of the writers? psyches, we have found that the writers actually have a much more nuanced approach to their work, and are not necessarily hostile towards the directors and producers.

Title: The auditor?s recommendations to small businesses in the choice of K2 and K3Authors: Christopher Dimovski and Dennis Carlsson Published: Spring 2014 Background: The background of this study is the introduction of the new K-regulations. For small businesses, there is a possibility to choose between the rule-based K2 and the principal-based K3. It becomes mandatory to apply the K-regulations from 2014. We want with this study understand and explain the significance of the auditor and its recommendations to small businesses in the choice between K2 and K3. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe how the auditor makes recommendations to small businesses in the choice between K2 and K3 and through that create an understanding of what influence the auditor have when it makes recommendations and at the end contribute to the building of models. Formulation of problem: How can we understand and explain the auditor?s recommendations to small businesses in the choice of K2 and K3?Methodology: We have used a qualitative method where we have interview eight auditors.

Vi menar att undersöka om vid meddelande att VD avgår enligt vår definition frivilligt, se påverkan på aktiekursen i det berörda företaget både på lång och kort sikt. Om utfallet blir att underavkastning sker i en väsentlig del av händelserna, skulle det ge stöd åt att frivilliga VD-avhopp i de flesta fall vittnar om fallande lönsamhet. Vi genomför en eventstudie där vi analyserar ett visst antal frivilliga VD-avhopp inom två stycken händelsefönster. Där efter ser vi om vi hittar någon avvikande avkastning på grund av dessa frivilliga VD-avhopp..

In order for companies to be competitive they perform different types of development projects.  Due to globalization a greater focus is added on costs, not least on costs in development projects. Project controllers are involved in development projects in order to review the financial aspects. The authors have examined the role that project controllers hold in respect of two Swedish manufacturers, Volvo CE and Scania CV. The investigation has revolved around three main issues where the authors conducted interviews with controllers that do not work in development projects and project controllers in development projects. The goal of the interviews was to gain a greater understanding of the role of project controllers, how this role will differ from those that do not work in development projects and the difficulties faced by project controllers.

Every year, thousands tons of edible food are discarded by the grocery stores. This is food that could have gone to people that?s in need of it. In many countries, so called food banks are established in order to supply welfare organizations with this kind of food. Today there is no equivalent system existing in Sweden.

Metod:Vi genomför en eventstudie där publicerad ryktens effekt studeras under en specifik händelseperiod. Därmed ges möjlighet att kunna påvisa om det förekommer överavkastning på grund av rykten. Den eventuella överavkastningen beräknas med hjälp av marknadsmodellen. Empiri:Undersökningen baseras på 186 positiva rykten ur Affärsvärldens ryktesspalt Börsgolvet under tidsperioden 2004-2007. Slutsatser: Undersökningen fann att positiva rykten genererar en positiv överavkastning på kort sikt, om än i blygsam skala.

Celebrity endorsement has been a popular advertising strategy all over the world for the past few years. The purpose of this thesis was to find out why companies choose celebrity endorsement as advertising strategy and how the celebrity endorsement process appeared in companies. We choose to interview two companies in the retail business and the interviews were conducted with the marketing managers for each company. This study provided that companies utilize celebrity endorsement to increase their sales, and it is important that the whole company is in the celebrity endorsement process discussion before the company choose which celebrity they will work with. .

The aim of this project is to examine the needs and problems that exists amongst homeless people and to develop a solution that will help them in their everyday life. Since the homeless are a relatively large vulnerable group i Sweden, their everyday lives could be made easier in many ways.A clear definition of the target group is put together to create a good starting point. What state and help orginazations do to help the homelss and the society?s view of the homeless is also relevant and has been documented. Four personal stories have been put together to desicribe cases of clear problems existing in everyday life.Several interesting problems has been defined from the research and acceptance in the communtiy, desire to be seen and heard and a lack of confidence were the main needs.

Researchers and practitioners have recognized the need for ?transforming? every policy of the company into a competitive advantage tool. Thus, both the pricing approach and the supply chain practices of the firm have emerged as an important determinant of success. In this study, however, we are not only interested in these two aspects, but also in a third one-namely cultural conflicts as an obstacle and challenge. The interaction of the tree factors is extensively presented against the backdrop of Skanska and four of their closest Polish suppliers.

Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att få en klar bild av hur företag kommunicerar en varumärkesidentitet till en kulturellt annorlunda marknad. Metod: Vår uppsats har en explorativ ansats baserad på kvalitativa empiriska data inhämtade med hjälp av telefonintervjuer. Företagen vars varumärken vi undersökt är Tele2, Delovoj Peterburg, RFSU, ALAX, Volvo och Svenska Institutet. Slutsatser: Vi har funnit att företag besitter stor kunskap om den aktuella kulturen. De använder sig dock i huvudsak av standardiseringsstrategier.

Background: Diversified companies, for example audit firms, sometimes offer different kinds of products and services. Different key success factors can in the same company thereby evolve. Goal congruence has to be achieved in the business divisions as well as in the company as a whole even though each business segment might have to focus on different factors. Purpose: The purpose is to analyze if differences in technology and culture between the business divisions in diversified companies motivate a differentiated reward system. Method: The study has a case study approach.

I denna studie undersöker vi om det förekommer earnings management i resultathöjande syfte bland svenska börsnoterade företag vid tiden av en nyemission. Studier om earnings management vid nyemissioner har gjorts förut av exempelvis av (Shivakumar, 2000). Han kommer fram till att earnings management förekommer tiden precis innan en nyemission. Vi hittar dock ingen studie utförd på svenska företag, vilket vi vill undersöka närmare. Syftet med resultatet av studien är att visa intressenter till företagen att de kan bli vilseledda när de ska investera sitt kapital när earnings management förekommer..

Every year, reports are published that shows how universities fail to meet the demand from companies who are looking to hire students with solid communication skills. At the same time, the importance of communication for effective leadership is constantly increasing. Today, many business schools around the world states that they strive to educate future business leaders and have therefore realized the importance of teaching the skills of communications to its students. The majority of Swedish business schools, however, have not yet made communications an essential part of their curricula. This indicates that most business students in Sweden today, do not receive the toolkit needed to take on leadership roles.

Bactiguard is a Swedish company within the field of medichal technology. The company has been very prosperous since it was founded in 2005 and was electedÅrets MedTechföretag 2008 ?MedTech Company of the year 2008. According to a definition by NUTEK, Bactiguard is still considered a minor company ? despite high market value and international expansion.

Vårt syfte med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur profilskapande artefakter såsom restaurang och museibutik påverkar moderna konstmuseers grundsyfte. Vi har använt en kvalitativ undersökning av ett fallföretag för att besvara vår problemformulering. Empirin utgörs av en djupintervju med kommunikationschef på Moderna Museet samt två fokusgrupper. Vi kom fram till att de profilskapande artefakterna påverkar museernas syfte positivt. De hjälper till att locka fler besökare och underlättar museibesöket, sen är det upp till museet att se till att de lever upp till sitt syfte..