Purpose: The purpose with this empirical study is to investigate how many companies have chosen to apply the K2 framework and see why the remaining companies have chosen not to.Methodology: A choice of a quantitative approach has been applied to collect information and create a foundation for the problem. Furthermore a qualitative approach has been selected to cover the remains.Theoretical perspective: This section contains a presentation of the agency theory, the institutional theory, the k-project and a comparison of K2 and the existing regulation.Results: Three out of 143 companies applies BFNAR 2008:1. 13 out of 143 companies use self-generated intangible fixed assets. Out of 29 contacted companies only three know about K2. The 29 companies are from various lines of business within an area.Conclusion: The conclusion of our research is that the majority of the companies did not reject to use the K2 regulations.

The purpose of this study is to use a qualitative method to investigate the Swedish curriculums of 1919, 1962 and 2011 in search of attitudes and different usages of the popular culture of the time. To reach these conclusions Antonio Gramsci?s theories about cultural hegemony have been applied to prove how the superior classes, in this study these classes are represented by the Swedish school as an institution, use popular culture to maintain sovereignty of the lower classes. Ergo the problem highlighted in this study is whether the cultural class society exists in a fixed state since the 1919?s with the school as the institution to implement the tradition of cultural hegemony.

As companies exert themselves to find new ways of achieving market dominance and stronger brands, the phenomenon co-branding has become increasingly popular. By cooperation between two different firms the combined effects can result in synergies not only on the balance sheet, but even through softer values such as Brand recognition, equity and larger market share. Recently the fashion company H&M launched a collection together with the esteemed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The objective of this paper is to examine the effects the collaboration had on consumer?s attitudes towards the two brands.

Att hantera kunskapen inom organisationer blir allt viktigare för att kunna förbättra den organisatoriska konkurrenskraften. Detta kan bland annat uppnås genom ett ökat utnyttjande av kunskapskapitalet. Kunskapskapitalet brukar vanligtvis handla om att utforska tacit kunskap, det vill säga den kunskapen som finns i de anställdas sinnen.Från år 2010 och fyra år framåt förväntas en stor utmarsch av 40-talister från den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Detta kommer att få konsekvenser på arbetsplatserna. Konsekvenserna kommer bland annat att bli i form av underskott i kunskapskapitalet.Syftet med uppsatsen är ta fram en modell som illustrerar hur kunskap kan identifieras och överföras.

Det första Baselfördraget har kritiserats kraftigt för sin okänslighet för låntagares riskattribut. Empiriska undersökningar så som Arak, Corcoran 1996 visar hur låga risker hos kreditvärdiga aktörer passerar ouppmärksammade av banker. Hos obligationsmarknaden premieras dock de låga riskerna vilket speglas i lägre kreditkostnader för de kreditvärdiga aktörer som sökt sig dit. Uppsatsen utreder de förmodade framstegen inom Baselfördragen i deras förmåga att kvantifiera samt prisjustera för kreditrisk. I detta syfte definieras och testas tre kreditprissättningsmodeller.

Företag och organisationer arbetar i dag i projekt. Att arbeta i projektform kan medföra både för- och nackdelar när det gäller kunskapsöverföring. Kunskapsöverföring är viktig eftersom den möjliggör för medarbetare att använda sig av gamla lösningar på nya problem. Syftet med uppsatsen är att titta på vilken kunskap som sprids och på vilket sätt det görs mellan ett mellankommunalt projekt Kompetensare 2.0 och dess föregångare Kompetensare. Kompetensare 2.0 är ett mellankommunalt projekt mellan 10 olika kommuner som ska implementera arbetssättet och arbetsmodellen från Kompetensare.

Today the human being see energy as a matter of course but the resources that is used for extract energy is today not enough for the world demand. Of all the energy that is used in Sweden today approximately 40 % goes to the building stock. This number will most likely increase if not necessary actions will be made on the already existing building stock since new houses constantly are built which will be added up on the already existing energy supply. This takes cause of action on the already existing building stocks, to fulfill the demands of the future use of energy that has been set by the authority. At the same time the thermal conditions cannot be influenced by the necessary changes that must be made.

Servera R&S AB is Sweden?s largest wholesale company within the restaurant and food service industry. Servera R&S AB is the daughter company to Axel Johnson AB, which in turn is a part of the Axel Johnson Group with Antonia Ax:son Johnson as the owner. Servera is a nation wide company with a business concept of offering a complete selection of merchandise and services to the professional food service market. The company is split into for different regions: the north region, the middle region, the southwest region, and the southeast region and has its headquarter in Stockholm.

Social work as an traditional aid is an area that provides welfare services financed from public funds, which is one of the methods of microloans. Microloans have since the mid-1970s has become an increasingly common tool in the fight against poverty. Instead of purely assistance is now offered microloans from more banks and other institutions, as well as NGOs (non governmental organization). This paper aims to study whether and how microcredit can contribute to the empowerment of women in Bangladesh and India. This study is based on a qualitative text analysis, and has hence been based on a number of reports and articles. The paper examines, from a radical feminist perspective how microcredit can fight and eliminate poverty, and how empowerment can help women in developing countries to become independent and liberated. The introduction of micro-loan is considered to have positive effects on women's empowerment in the short term. But it is, however, the longer term effects that are considered to have the greatest positive impact on society's unequal structures.

In this undergraduate thesis you will venture on a journey through the land of democratic values and urban planning. My research question is stated as: whether or not urban planning can show effects on democratic values and whether or not the municipalities in Sweden takes these possible effects into account when planning their city centres. You will in my theory part of this thesis be able to read about different views on urban planning and on democracy. Famous authors like Robert D. Putnam and Richard Florida will be examined as well as other theorists on democracy and urban planning.

Denna uppsats avser att undersöka huruvida Porters Femkrafts-modell kan skönjas i ett företags strategi vid etableringen på en ny marknad. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att ta reda på om Tickets strategiska beslutsunderlag vid nyetableringen på den danska Internetmarkanden skedde utifrån Porters modell? Hur kan Tickets strategi kopplas till Porters modell? Hur skiljer sig Tickets strategi från Porters modell? Utifrån intervjuer med Ticket samt studerande av årsredovisning har data insamlats om Tickets agerande och formulering av strategi. Denna data har analyserats i förhållande till Porters femkraftsmodell för att klargöra skillnader och samband mellan teori och verklighet samt varför dessa har betydelse för företaget.Undersökningen visar att Porters femkraftsmodell kan kopplas till Tickets strategi men att det finns stora begränsningar i dess betydelse. De fem krafternas relevans varierar för Ticket.

Olsson, R & Ståleker H. Metoder med inriktning på beteendeförändringar för personer i behov av förändrade kostvanor. ? En litteraturstudie. Examensarbete i omvårdnad 10 poäng.

Syftet är att undersöka om Sverigefonder under en nio- sju- respektive femårsperiod genererar riskjusterad över- respektive underavkastning. Målet är därefter att härleda avkastningen till en fondförvaltares förmåga att framkalla en skev fond, alternativt till dennes eventuella selektivitets- respektive timingförmåga. Detta med hjälp av Jensens Alfa, Treynor & Mazuys modell samt Asymmetric Response Model. Ett första delsyfte är att utreda i vilken utsträckning avkastningen kan knytas till det fondbolag som förvaltar fonden respektive fondens förvaltare, antal förvaltarbyten, storlek samt omsättningshastighet. Målet är även att koppla egenskaperna till skevhet, selektivitets- samt timingförmåga.

Learning organizations and organizational development are interesting subjects that does not examine municipal organizations and private organizations an equal amount.  Furthermore, there exists little research on the effects of competence development for individuals in a leadership role within organizations. Because of this, we wanted to examine the impact of competence development in business modeling and how it affected local government activities. Competence development is used by organizations to develop their business and achieve a greater competitive advantage, but does competence development for individuals in a leadership role lead to organizational development? This paper examines competence development in the form of a business modeling course via the Bitstreamproject and the effects that occur within three municipalities as a result of the competence development. By interviewing three participants and four coworkers within different municipalities and studied the data from the Bitstream project, we can not conclude that competence development within business modeling leads to organizational development, only that it exists a tendency for it.

Today there are a number of different financing options but few of them are suitable for start-up companies. Business angels are in that case an exception and a suitable investor in these companies. Business angels are individuals who invest in young companies and differ from other financiers in the sense that the collaboration with the company is closer. Business angels are although few in numbers while the young companies often tend to be in most need of funding and has the greatest potential to grow.The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the cooperation between entrepreneurs and business angels and to identify which effects the financial gap have on these financial associations.Business angels and entrepreneurs collaboration are hard to interpret and therefore demanded a deeper examination. We thus used a qualitative method consisting of six different interviews in three different cases.The study shows that established collaborations between entrepreneurs and business angel?s seem to be affected by the financial gap to a great extent, which has been expressed in negative consequences.