This paper attempts to illustrate a gap when it comes to the knowledge about unpaid volunteers in Swedish organisations. The person-oriented explanations of individual preferences when choosing an orientation in which to volunteer does not suffice to explain and enlighten the fact that there is a gender-based division that orientates women towards voluntary work within organisations with a social direction, while men tend to choose sports-oriented voluntary tasks. This illustrates a pattern that is common in society in general. Eight interviews including four women volunteering in socially oriented organisations and four men in sports-oriented organisations have been conducted. An attempt has been made to explain results from earlier research as well as the respondents reasoning about their voluntary work with gender related theories.

En kvalitativ studie genomfördes för att studera vad som pÄverkar och skapar motivation till beteendeförÀndring hos drogmissbrukare. Studien undersökte ocksÄ miljöns betydelse för att bryta ett drogmissbruk. En intervjuguide med öppna frÄgor skapades. Genom ett kriteriebaserat snöbollsurval kontaktades tio personer varav nio mÀn och drogfriheten var i genomsnitt 3.2 Är. Enligt drive theories Àr motivation en drivkraft som ger energi till att sÀtta igÄng, upprÀtthÄlla och rikta behovsrelaterade mÄl.

The numbers of mergers and acquisitions have increased significantly in the last period of time. Although this popularity for mergers and acquisitions, most of the mergers and acquisitions fail to create value. One explanation to this failure of value creation is, according to several studies, how companies treat integration of information systems in the pre-merger evaluation. The research within the field argues that information system integration should have a proactive role in mergers and acquisitions, meaning that information system integration should support the organizational change and normally be considered in the premerger evaluation. The aim of this thesis is to study issues that affect whether companies choose to consider information system integration proactively, when involved in mergers and acquisitions.

Bakgrund och problem: Corporate Social Responsibility, företagets sociala ansvarstagande,innehÄller ekonomiska, miljömÀssiga och sociala aspekter. Redovisningen Àr frivillig och detfinns inte nÄgra klara regler för hur den ska se ut. DÀremot sÄ har det skapats riktlinjer somvÀgleder företag i deras redovisning av socialt ansvar. Allt fler företag vÀljer idag att förlÀggasin produktion i utvecklingslÀnder vilket har lett fram till att de ifrÄgasatts angÄende hur dehanterar de mÀnskliga rÀttigheterna i dessa lÀnder. Detta i sin tur har gjort att företag vÀljer attredovisa sitt arbete med sociala aspekter.Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats Àr att undersöka hur olika företag i Sverige redovisar socialaaspekter samt vad de redovisar inom detta omrÄde.

Bakgrund: Antalet cancerfall ökar konstant, men tack vare förbÀttrade metoder för att upptÀcka och behandla cancer överlever allt fler denna sjukdom. BÄde sjukdomen och dess behandlingar kan ge en pÄverkan pÄ kroppen, men Àven den sexuella lusten och funktionen kan pÄverkas och förÀndras. Ett fungerande sexualliv utgör en viktig del av livskvaliteten för de flesta. VÄrdpersonalen har en viktig roll i att förbereda patienten pÄ vilka symtom de kan förvÀnta sig, men patienterna önskar ofta avsevÀrt mycket mer information Àn vad som ges. Syfte: Att belysa cancerpatienters behov av sexualitetsrelaterad information.

The purpose with this study is to map the research front and the research base in information science, by using the bibliometric methods bibliographic coupling and author-co citation analysis. The research questions are: 1. What is the nature of the research front in information science, regarding which areas that are being studied? 2. What is the nature of the research base in information science, regarding which authors who are most cited, and how they can be grouped? The data used in the study were gathered from articles published in the journal Journal of the American society for information science and technology, published between 2004-2006, respectively 1986-2006.

SammanfattningFöretag utbyter och delar ofta information med varandra. Informationen kan omfatta en mÀngd olika uppgifter om företagen. Informationen kan underlÀtta inför samarbeten, öka företags insikt pÄ marknaden och ge företag effektivitetsvinster. Utbyte och delning av information kan dock under vissa omstÀndigheter vara konkurrensbegrÀnsade. Det faststÀlldes redan Är 1968 nÀr Kommissionen uttalade att utbyte av information mellan konkurrerande företag kan hÀmma den fria konkurrensen.

This analysis is about the fourth basic competence and how you can define it, what it includes and if it is possible to find it in the new curriculum for the Swedish high school; Gymnasiereformen -07. The analysis was focused on the following subjects; Mathematics, Social science and Swedish. The aim with this analysis has been to create a summary in the field of information literacy and to define the fourth basic competence. The analysis were focused on and delimited by the following conceptions; information literacy, digital competence and the information search process. The sources of information has primarily been taken from the field of information literacy and statements from professionals in the fields of information literacy and education.

VÄr uppsats undersöker, om hur möjligheterna för utbyte av information samt samarbete mellan Telecom Citymedlemmarna kan förbÀttras, med ÀndamÄlet att stÀrka deras konkurrenskraft gentemot externa konkurrenter..

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine video games, gamers and gaming from an information science perspective. The purpose of the study is partly to study video games as a type of information system and partly to study gamers information use, information seeking and also the experience of gaming. A selection of five games have been analysed using a topology for video game analysis created by Espen Aarseth. A quantitative investigation has also been made, in the form of a web survey distributed through four Swedish online forums, the result of which was analysed using Carol Collier Kuhlthaus model of the information seeking process.

Consumers today leave a fragment of information when they pay with their debit and credit cards. The aim of our work is to investigate ways to design a concept of a system in which digitally stored information that today is fragmented among several different holders, can be assembled into a system and made available to consumers. In our study of how a system for financial flow of information should be designed, we intend to study the present situation and the attempts made to alter it into a more informative reality. We intend to investigate the flow of information when a consumer pays by card, and the possible solutions regarding the design and transportation of digital receipts. A majority of the information of our digital consumption is today handled digitally.

This paper studies, from a client perspective, how three Swedish municipalities work with information about a voucher system in homecare. The paper is a qualitative study using structured informant interviews and analysis of documents. The interviewees are responsible of information about the voucher system in the municipalities. The studied documents describe and clarify the voucher system of the municipality. Neo-institutional organization theory is used to analyse the result.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a small company manages its information, primarily the organization of digital documents. The two dominating themes are classification and information politics, the former in the context of a corporate environment and the latter to help us to describe the situation at the company. The method used has involved observation of the company's current computer network structure and also interviews with six employees at different levels in various departments at the company. The result of our investigation has been the realization that, although logical structure is important when organizing documents in a digital environment, it is also necessary to have rules regarding its implementation..

AnvÀndarna av extern redovisning fokuserar pÄ framtiden medan traditionell redovisning baseras pÄ historiska data. Amerikanska undersökningar visar att analytiker efterfrÄgar mer icke-finansiell information för att kunna göra bÀttre prognoser. Företagens Ärsredovisningar fungerar idag som informationsbÀrare och Àr ett viktigt beslutsunderlag för analytiker. Syftet med uppsatsen Àr att beskriva de svenska förhÄllandena vad det gÀller redovisad och efterfrÄgad icke-finansiell information. Genom att studera svenska Ärsredovisningar samt tillfrÄga analytiker hur de stÀller sig till icke-finansiell information har vi besvarat följande frÄgor.

The tourism industry in EU is one of the biggest sectors and employs about20 million people. A key factor of the industry is information, much oftourist information is today on the Internet. On Internet there is twoways information can flow, the information can either be pushed to aconsumer or the consumer of the Information can pull it from a source.In a feasibility study for the report the participants expressed thatthey thought the tourist information on the Internet was unpersonal anddidnt fill their informationneeds. The purpose of the report was to findout how push and pull of touristinformation can be balanced on Internet.The empirical data was collected with a feasibility study, a survey anda case. The survey was conducted at IT-University and School of Business,Economics and Law at Göteborg.