The representative democracy has become weakened during the last decades. At the same time the United Nations declared at the Rio de Janeiro meeting in 1992 that environmental problems can best be solved by involvement of all concerned citizens in decision-making. The main purpose of this study has been to examine if citizens panels is a possible way to involve citizens in environmental decision-making and what the outcomes can be. Furthermore the study has investigated what the participation has contributed to environmental politics and how representative the results have been. This has been carried out by investigating the Piteåpanel in the municipality of Piteå by conducting interviews.The result of the study shows that the involvement of the citizens in the decision-making influenced the environmental politics of the municipality.

Denna studie är utformad som en utvärdering och skiljer sig något från en ordinär uppsats. En väsentlig del i skillnaden är att teori delen upptar en större del i den ordinarie uppsatsskrivningen medan fokus kring en utvärdering mer inriktar sig på för vilket syfte utvärderingen görs, för vem och ur vilka perspektiv tolkningarna görs. I min studie har jag gjort en utvärdering kring ett samverkansprojekt mellan Försäkringskassan och Malmö stad där syftet med denna varit bland anat att se till hur projektet förmått att nå upp till sina mål och om projektet tillfört något ur ett kvalitativt eller effektivitets perspektiv. Det empiriska materialet inhämtades genom sju semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer inom tre olika kategorier; handläggare från Försäkringskassan, handläggare från Malmö stad samt deltagare. Materialet transkriberades och analyserades utifrån olika teman varefter uppgifterna ?triangulerades? i syfte att bekräfta resultat sedda från olika perspektiv.

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka, beskriva och analysera förändring av arbete med CSR i ett stort svenskt globalt klädföretag för åren 2000 till 2010. Vidare ämnar vi undersöka vilka motiv som kan ha kommit att påverka detta.Frågeställningar: - Hur har arbetet med socialt och miljömässigt ansvar förändrats inom H&M mellan år 2000 och 2010?- Hur kan ovanstående förändring och motiven till H&M:s arbete med CSR förklaras utifrån legitimitetsteori, intressentteori samt ur strategi- och lönsamhetsperspektiv?Teori: I denna uppsats används legitimitetsteori, intressentteori samt teori om CSR ur strategi- och lönsamhetsperspektiv för att söka vilka motiv som påverkar H&M:s CSR-arbete.Empiri: Empirin i denna uppsats är hämtad ur H&M:s års- och hållbarhetsredovisningar för åren 2000 till 2010. Den presenteras i form av en empirisk analys med en tematisk indelning utifrån den teoretiska referensramen.Slutsatser: H&M:s CSR-arbete har förändrats under undersökningsperioden och har kommit att bli mer centralt i företagets verksamhet. Den största förändringen har skett sett ur ett strategi- och lönsamhetsperspektiv där CSR har blivit en allt viktigare del.

Earlier this year the Swedish migration board gave a part of their responsibility for the separated children to those municipalities that have signed an agreement with them, so that the children can get the best handling of their matters and also to lift the heavy pressure of the Swedish migration board. Our aim in this paper is to see how this division is made and which areas of responsibility they have. We want to see how this process is being handled in relation to these children?s rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Swedish law. To get the best information possible we used a qualitative method.

Företag publicerar allt mer information om deras sociala miljömässiga och ekonomiska ansvar.Denna information presenterar de i sina årsredovisningar under avsnittet Corporate Social Responsibility. Idenna studie undersökt har vi undersökt hur rapporteringen i en bransch påverkas efter en incident och omdet finns spridningseffekter och imitationsbeteende när det gäller CSR-rapporteringen. Som utgångspunkthar vi valt incidenten i Mexikanska golfen den 20 april 2010. Då skedde ett stort oljeutsläpp i sambandmed att oljeföretaget British Petroleum's plattform Deepwater Horizon exploderade. Oljeutsläppet varomfattande och hade stor effekt på BP's rykte hos allmänheten.

The purpose of this paper is to study how Swedish CFOs perceive that the requirement for companies to issue quarterly reports affect business operations in the company. The fact that it is regulations on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, and not the law, that requires companies to issue quarterly reports makes Sweden unique in Europe. The paper is based on interviews with CFOs from 32 companies quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The major finding in the study is that a majority of the CFOs perceive that the pressure for short term results, created by quarterly reports, affect their work and the investment decisions made in the company. Also CFOs feel that the market over interprets the information given in quarterly reports.

The overall aim of this study is to examine how Swedish women?s youth- magazines describes women. Through a social constructivist perspective, this essay particularly focuses on how the magazines deals with issues of gender and sexuality and what norms they reproduce. The magazine?s image of the young Swedish woman is a somewhat complex one, although one thing is strikingly clear: she is very different from men.

The Swedish nonprofit sector is experiencing a sectoral change, moving closer to the corporate sector to become more commercialized. The recruitment of leaders with corporate experience constitutes one of the factors influencing this development. Hence, to create an understanding of this sectoral change, the thesis aims to investigate the motivational forces underlying the leaders' decisions to work within the nonprofit sector. Additionally, the thesis seeks an understanding of why the leaders' decisions were made later in their careers. Through conducting qualitative interviews with leaders representing top management of six humanitarian organizations in Sweden, the study finds that nonprofit leaders with corporate background, analogous to volunteers and employees, are motivated by a sense of relatedness to the vision of the organization.

The Swedish society woke up Boxing Day 2004 to the greatest disaster in modern times. As a result of a strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean tsunamis occurred that devastated resorts where thousands of Swedes were. In the disasters tracks were uncovered government paralysis and shortcomings of the systems control. The purpose of this study is to examine the capacity and means to demand accountability of politicians and officials of the Swedish political system. Extensive studies and the report from the commission of disasters will form the basis for the study.

The proportion of elderly people in Sweden is increasing. Many of these live at home and as their age increases so does the likelihood of health problems and the need for support, medical attention and care. Personnel working with home help provide a large part of this care, including areas of home-based care that are the responsibility of the district nurse. The purpose of this paper is to describe how home-help personnel perceive their work in the area of home-based care, as their views are an important factor in the ability to provide a care system that funktions successfully. The method employed here is phenomenografic and nine subjects from a home-help group have been interviewed.

The thesis ?Vi fixar och trixar oss fram till att hjälpa människor? focuses on social work in the field of prostitution and human trafficking in Sweden. Through semi-structured interviews with social workers in the municipalities of Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö working with persons selling and buying sex, and through discourse analysis, the author analyses the perceptions among these social workers of the relation between human rights, prostitution and human trafficking, and the social work which they conduct.The thesis concludes that although the social workers perceive prostitution and human trafficking and social work in this field as human rights related, they are not explicitly using a human rights based approach in their work.The thesis concludes that the social workers identify several aspects that infringe on the rights of their clients in relation to the human rights principles of Universality, Non-discrimination, Accountability and Rule of law and the principle of Participation and Inclusion. They portray the human rights situation of street based sellers, especially those not being Swedish citizens and those affected by human trafficking, as severe.The thesis concludes that the social workers find several obstacles (legal as well as structural) that diminish their ability to strengthen their clients? human rights situation.

In theory, the logic behind partnerships is simple: All organisations have strengths, but no organisation has all the strength required to do everything. Triggered by global perspectives and challenged by sustainability objectives, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 pointed out needs for corporate responsibility. In this conference, Private-public partnership, PPP, was identified as a potential way to work towards sustainability, especially as a way to emphasize a corporate responsibility commitment. Nowadays, organizations exist to satisfy the needs and interests of all their stakeholders, such as customers, markets, shareholders, as well as secondary stakeholders such as media, NGOs, and society at large. Addressing all stakeholders and working towards a sustainable business development makes PPP a potential solution, but also a source of challenges.

Since a lot of the power in a professional bureaucracy lays within the operative profession with its strong corporate culture and strong co-workers the executive occupy a weak position. Their power comes from the complexity of the operative professionals work and the difficulties to supervise that work. To avoid conflicts it?s important to make all expectations on the executive equivalent. This can be done by defining the roles of the executives in a philosophy.

In the year 1800, about 5 % of the world population lived in cities (World Wide Fund for Nature, 2012, 3). Today that number is about 70 % in Europe and North America, and in 2050 it is expected to be 86 % in the developed world and 67 % in the developing world (www, UN, 2009). In addition, the global population is expected to increase with 2.2 billion people until 2050. As a result of the population increase more food has to be produced which requires more transport from the countryside to the cities. However, this flow of resources faces some difficulties.

Warning-labels as a mean of communicating social responsibility in the store. Previous studies have shown conflicting results regarding the effectiveness of warnings-labels as a way of communicating health hazards to customers and making them more conscious about the risks and changing their behavioural intentions. The focus of this study is to shed some light on how the customers react to warning-labels with different levels of fear in the store atmosphere. The results of this study tells us that liking of the retailer and its image as being socially responsible is not enhanced by the usage of a warning-label. If the retailer decides to use a warning-label, in spite of this fact, the recommendation is to use a high level of fear if the purpose is to make the category seem more risky and make the customers want to change their behaviour.