The aim of this thesis is to give an insight to how work is being pursued within Swedish SMEin the clothing industry. Furthermore we investigate how efforts can proceed withenvironmental questions in a quest for sustainable development and bring clarity in thedifficulties that occur. Through the use of company examples and a description of how theywork we wanted to give stakeholders knowledge in what resources and procedures that areused today on the market. The function of the report is moreover to provide Swedish smalland medium-sized clothing enterprises suggestions and directions of how to advance withinsustainable development.In our theoretical frame we have chosen to administer the theories that we found suitable forour study. Seen from a perspective of sustainability we have thus applied the theories ofstakeholder and legitimacy, an analysis model for a company?s actions in environmentalquestions and the theory of SME which describes a small or middle sized enterprise?s fivecompetitive variables.The empirical frame we acquired for this thesis is presented in three chapters.

Lagen om läkemedelskommittéer infördes den 1 januari 1997 och innebär att det i varje landsting ska finnas minst en läkemedelskommitté. Syftet med kommittéernas verksamhet är att verka för en tillförlitlig och rationell läkemedelsanvändning, grundad på vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet. Detta gör kommittéerna genom att rekommendera läkemedel till en så kallad baslista. I denna uppsats görs en enkätstudie av kommittéernas attityder till och användning av hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar vid dessa rekommendationer. För att få en uppfattning om detta har en representant från varje kommitté i Sverige svarat på frågor som berör beslutskriterier, informationskällor, utbildning samt attityder till och användning av utvärderingars resultat.

The environmental situation is becoming increasingly critical. The energy sector and other industries have a big impact on our climate and the public is raising their voice for companies to admit their responsibility towards the environment and society. Companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and happily disclose their responsible performance in annual reports. But what messages are they conveying in their CSR-reporting, and what attitudes towards CSR can be found underneath the explicit content? The aim of this study is to discover which discourses exist in CSR-reports from Swedish energy companies, and how these discourses operate.

Introduction/Background: Economic evaluations help decision-makers to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation. Information generated from CEA can support evaluations of a new intervention with current praxis. The evaluations also provide information as to whether an intervention is cost-effective, both in economic terms and in health gains. Objective: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of economic evaluations in public health, with a focus on CEA. Use of economic evaluations is regarded as both a method for evaluation and as support for informed decisions.

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether some periods of declines in Swedish real credit can be explained by a credit crunch. Is it further possible, with these results, to do any conclusions about the banks behaviour in the on going financial crisis that has shadowed the country since 2007/2008? Method: A credit crunch is here defined as a period of supply-side restrictions on loans which doesn?t reflect the ongoing interest rates. By estimating a supply and demand function with a disequilibrium model the excess demand- and supply for credit due to different periods can be calculated. Conclusion: A credit crunch has been present during a period after the banking crisis of early 1990?s.

This Masters thesis is concerned with the complex planning process of setting up a citizen bureau in a public library. The aim is to find out how citizen bureaux are designed and to suggest a simplified model of strategic planning. The planning process is studied from a business perspective in the library context, and this perspective is also used to study citizen bureaux and their written plans elsewhere. A combination of qualitative methods are used: observations, focus group discussions and interviews. Observations in the public library showed a great need for an environmental analysis as well as structure to the planning process.

Det är av intresse för aktörer på den finansiella marknaden att prognostisera aktiemarknadens reaktion på en ändring av reporäntan. Flera arbeten har de senaste årtiondena försökt påvisa ett samband främst på den amerikanska marknaden. Denna uppsats försöker sig i stället på att finna en korrelation mellan annonsering av reporänta såväl som förväntningar på reporänta och en onormal avkastning på den svenska aktiemarknaden. I arbetet används en event study på Affärsvärldens index under perioden 1997 till 2007. Perioden är vald så att det initiala trovärdighetsproblem för riksbankens inflationsmål som förelåg före 1997 inte ska påverka resultatet.

Uppsatsen undersöker ifall hög BNP-tillväxt ökar risken för ekonomiska kriser. Detta testas genom att använda Tornells krisindexmodell och sedan utöka den med en variabel för BNP-tillväxt. Därefter testas för en rad länder signifikansen hos de olika variablerna. Från undersökningen kan jag dra slutsatsen att det generellt sett inte går att påvisa något sådant samband. Materialet innehåller dock stora skillnader mellan länderna beroende på hur pass industrialiserade de är.

Sammanfattning Denna studie utreder om ett långsiktigt samband mellan oljepriset och valda aktieindex kan påvisas. Tre typer av aktieindex har valts, generalindex, industriindex och råvaruindex, för Sverige respektive Norge. För att undersöka det långsiktiga sambandet mellan oljepriset och aktieindex används kointegrations- och regressionsanalys. Studien visar att det bara förekommer ett långsiktigt samband mellan oljepriset och ett fåtal av aktieindexen. Nyckelord: Olja, Kointegration, Tidsserier, Aktieindex Abstract This Study investigates if a long-term relationship between oil price and selected stock indices can be proved.

I denna uppsats jämförs det gamla kommunala utjämningssystemet, som gällde mellan 1996 och 2004, med det nya som trädde i kraft vid årsskiftet 2004/2005. Som utgångspunkt för analysen används ekonomisk teori med fokus på relationerna mellan olika nivåer av offentlig sektor. Den svenska modellen för ansvarsfördelning mellan stat och kommun, inklusive finansieringsrätten, kräver att kostnader som inkomster utjämnas över kommungränserna. Det övergripande syftet med det kommunala utjämningssystemet att upprätthålla kommunal självstyrelse utan att ineffektivitet och negativa samhällsekonomiska effekter uppstår. En betydande del av uppsatsen behandlar de två olika systemens effekter för olika kommuntyper.

Tillväxtteori är ett centralt inslag i nationalekonomiska studier. Lika centralt i finansiella studier är frågan om vad som förklarar aktiekursers utveckling. Ett eventuellt samband mellan dessa är av intresse att undersöka. Om tillväxt visar sig förklara en del av kursutvecklingen hos aktier är detta mycket användbart vid val av investeringsstrategier. För att undersöka om ett samband föreligger används en modifierad modell av teknologispridningsmodellen till grund för att skapa ett index som visar hur nära man befinner sig sitt steady state (det jämviktsläge en ekonomi rör sig mot på lång sikt).

Marketers of today are confronted by the fact that it is increasingly difficult to gain the customer's attention, as they first have to break through the ad clutter. In a landscape where the general attitude towards advertising is negative, one way to successfully deliver the message to the customer involves communicating through personal impact. By using stimuli containing identical information with different senders, this thesis seeks to quantitatively explore whether brands can make use of the personal networks of its employees, in their social media marketing strategy. The purpose of the study is to investigate if communication via the employees could enhance traditional communication effects, such as buying intention and electronic WOM intention. Furthermore, the study aims to examine which role the employee should hold when communicating on behalf of the brand, and if the communication effects vary with the degree of product involvement.

In contemporary public debate there is currently a great deal of focus attached to environmental problems and social responsibility. This trend is noticeable within the clothing industry, where it has become increasingly popular for new brands to market themselves with an environmental and ethical profile. An anthropological approach has been used to investigate how individuals understand ethical dimensions of clothing, and relates to the consumers? ideals that are pronounced by clothing companies with an environmental and ethical profile. Interviews have been conducted with young men, a group often absent in accounts of ethical consumption.

The integration policy in Sweden shall encourage individuals to support themselves and take part in society. It shall alsocontribute to equal rights and opportunities for women as well as for men. In Borlänge this has resulted in a program ofintroduction for new arrivals from other countries. However, at the unit responsible for economic support, they havediscovered that women with immigrant background more often than men seem to have trouble starting or became to anending of the program, which then especially leads women to a long-term dependence for economic support. The purpose of this study has therefore been to investigate what factors affect immigrant women?s participation in theintroduction, and what significance this participation has for their possibilities to become economically self-supporting,and integrated into Swedish society.

Title: CSR and profitability in three dimensions ? practical examples, Economic Value Added and previous researchAuthors: Linda-Marie Emilsson & Martina Classon Subject: Business AdministrationDate: 2011-05-26Mentor: Krister BredmarProblem description: Scientists have for a very long time disagreed about whether or not companies should work with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and if there is any correlation between CSR and profitability. There are mainly three different views according the correlation: CSR have a neutral impact on financial performance, CSR have a positive impact on profitability and CSR have a negative impact on profitability. One of the reasons behind the disagreement is the complexity measuring CSR. Scientist claims that EVA is a measure that can be used to measure the correlation between CSR and profitability.        Purpose: The intention with our essay is to find out if there is any correlation between CSR and profitability.