In a time when concern for the environment is a topic that is met with both love and hatred, organic goods and services become increasingly common on the market. Communication efforts with the purpose of increasing the proportion of organic products consumed are being conducted by both private and public actors. However, achieving attitudinal and behavioral change within complex areas such as this comes with many difficulties.Within public opinion change, a common way of achieving a change in behavior is to use fear appeals and scare tactics. Earlier studies have shown that messages prompting a low level of fear can be more effective than messages prompting a high level of fear, since a high level of fear tends to raise defense mechanisms in the consumer. The purpose of this essay is to examine whether fear and defense mechanisms is a problem when it comes to making consumers choose organic products, as well as studying whether messages prompting low levels of fear are more effective than those prompting high levels of fear.This quantitative study is conducted in the form of a questionnaire-based experiment, comparing the effectiveness of two messages prompting different levels of fear.

This paper is about employees' opinion towards libraries. The target group consists of employees at industrial research institutes in Sweden. Libraries offer several more services today than they have done before. I think many people do not recognise all of them and I also think the knowledge and the opinion about libraries have to do with use of them. Since I am curious about if this is true or not the purpose of this essay is to find out, through an attitude research, the employees', at industrial research institutes, opinion about library service.

Examensarbete - Civilekonomprogrammet. Ekonomihögskolan vid Linnéuniversitetet. Författare: Josefin Pettersson & Robert HåkanssonHandledare:  Professor Sven-Olof Yrjö CollinExaminator:  Christopher von KochTitel: Vad förklarar revisionskvalitet? ? En studie om revisorns benägenhet att ge en going concern-varning.Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: Revisionskvalitet har under senare år fått ökat fokus till följd av revisorsskandaler. Kvalitén kan betraktas som låg då ett bolag som gått i konkurs inte fått en varning om fortsatt drift i föregående revisionsberättelse.

The purpose of this study is to chart and describe which content and different models that teachers use when teaching English as a foreign language at upper secondary school in Sweden. The study was performed through a phenomenonographic point of view, where the aim is to present and compare different understandings within a certain area. Our study emanates in Lars-Göran Malmberg?s theories about different teaching models used when teaching Swedish, which have been transferred and modified by Bo Lundahl into teaching English as foreign language. On the basis of this theory, six individual interviews with different teachers at upper secondary school were carried out with concern of discussing the content and aim of English teaching.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine which role public libraries play or could play within bibliotherapy. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five librarians who, in one way or another have experienced bibliotherapy activities. Further, we have interviewed two treatment assistants and one counsellor, who have cooperated with the librarians, to get their view. We have used the following research questions: Which bibliotherapeutic activities, if any, are pursued in public libraries in Sweden, and how do they look upon bibliotherapy? What role do public libraries play/could play within bibliotherapy? Ever since the term bibliotherapy was coined in the beginning of the twentieth century, the definition has been under debate. We have identified four main subjects of discussion.

Titel: Urval, Bedömning och Beslutsfattande av going concern- En studie ur ett revisorsperspektivNyckelord: Going concern, bedömning, revisionsbevis, hård- och mjuk informationBakgrund och problemdiskussion: I yrkesverksamma revisorers arbetsuppgifter ingår det att uttala sig om företagets förmåga att leva vidare under nästkommande år. Den information som företaget presenterar kan bestå av räkenskapsrelaterad information samt verksamhets- och förvaltningsrelaterad information. Den information som företaget lämnat till revisorn delas in i tre revisionsområden och kan klassificeras som två skilda informationstyper, hård och mjuk information. Den hårda informationen innefattar räkenskapsrelaterad information som ofta är historisk medan information rörande företagets förvaltning och verksamhet består av mjuk information, som ofta kopplas samman med företagets framtid. För att göra en korrekt bedömning ligger det i revisorns uppgift att välja ut korrekt och användbar information som skall ligga till grund för uttalandet i revisionsberättelsen rörande going concern.

Redan i samband med Kreugerkraschen i början av 1930-talet började man ifrågasätta och ställa krav på revisorers oberoende. Problematiken kring revisorers oberoende är än idag en högst aktuell fråga. Effekten av en revisor som inte förhåller sig oberoende kan vara att företagets intressenter förses med information som inte är rättvisande. Bakomliggande faktorer som kan påverka revisorers oberoende är revisionsbyråns arvoden och klientföretagets storlek. I denna studie kartlägger vi andelen orena revisionsberättelser och going concern-varningar hos företag som gått i konkurs.

Sweden's contribution to the world today is not labor-intensive industry, it is high technology and know-how. Many of the rules concerning employment security for the workers derived from the industrial era and have been to some extent modified by hand. This paper focuses on the discrepancy between the purpose of the priority rules in Swedish law and how it works in the reality. My opinion is that due to the development of the labor market, a powerful revision of priority rules is needed. In addition to today's job market is knowledge-intensive I point in the paper at a number of factors that contributed to the loosening of the priority rules. Examples of these are the increased incidence of temporary staffing, more open markets and more multinational companies, political will to disadvantaged groups in the labor market should be prepared job and gender issues.

The purpose of this paper is to understand the climate of the street and how it can be modified to better meet the needs of the street and the user groups. At the same time the conditions of the street and its surroundings also has to be taken into account. To accomplish this it is necessary to have a broad knowledge of the climate conditions in the city. Therefore an overview of the climate elements and how these are modified in the built-up areas are given. The part of the paper which deals with the city climate has a global approach to be able to give an as complete picture as possible.

One of ABB Power Systems´s business areas is HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) technology. HVDC is used for transmissions for both short and long distances. One of Power Systems?s products is called HVDC Light. HVDC Light is a relatively new technology for power transmission, but have before only been used for motor drives applications.

Concerns for the environment and our impact on it are becoming more prevalant; however, we rarely act accordingly. Consumers mainly choose products based on perceived personal benefits despite the environmental motives that increasingly affect them. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the major drivers behind the purchase of ecological wine. A quantitative study was conducted, using Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as an initial starting point. The subsequent model was then completed with three variables: environmental concern, feelings and word-of-mouth.

I samband med den stora Enron-skandalen i USA, då företagets revisor hjälpte till att undangömma stora skulder från dess aktieägare, blossade än en gång debatten om revisorers oberoende upp. Några av de faktorer som enligt tidigare forskning ofta påverkar revisorns oberoende är storleken på arvodet, längden på revisionsuppdraget och det reviderade företagets storlek. I vår studie kartlägger vi andelen utfärdade going concern-varningar bland finansiellt stressade företag som fortlevt samt prövar om finansiellt stressade företag som för första gången erhållit en GC-varning är mer benägna att byta revisor än andra finansiellt stressade företag som inte erhållit någon varning. Vidare prövar vi om finansiellt stressade företag är mindre benägna att byta revisor om de haft sin revisor under en längre period. Studien avslutas med att vi kontrollerar om de revisorer som har utfärdat en going concern-varning till finansiellt stressade företag som inte gått i konkurs förlorar mer i uteblivet arvode än de revisorer som inte utfärdar någon varning.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine which role public libraries play or could play within bibliotherapy. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five librarians who, in one way or another have experienced bibliotherapy activities. Further, we have interviewed two treatment assistants and one counsellor, who have cooperated with the librarians, to get their view. We have used the following research questions: Which bibliotherapeutic activities, if any, are pursued in public libraries in Sweden, and how do they look upon bibliotherapy? What role do public libraries play/could play within bibliotherapy? Ever since the term bibliotherapy was coined in the beginning of the twentieth century, the definition has been under debate. We have identified four main subjects of discussion.

I samband med den stora Enron-skandalen i USA, då företagets revisor hjälpte till att undangömma stora skulder från dess aktieägare, blossade än en gång debatten om revisorers oberoende upp. Några av de faktorer som enligt tidigare forskning ofta påverkar revisorns oberoende är storleken på arvodet, längden på revisionsuppdraget och det reviderade företagets storlek. I vår studie kartlägger vi andelen utfärdade going concern-varningar bland finansiellt stressade företag som fortlevt samt prövar om finansiellt stressade företag som för första gången erhållit en GC-varning är mer benägna att byta revisor än andra finansiellt stressade företag som inte erhållit någon varning. Vidare prövar vi om finansiellt stressade företag är mindre benägna att byta revisor om de haft sin revisor under en längre period. Studien avslutas med att vi kontrollerar om de revisorer som har utfärdat en going concern-varning till finansiellt stressade företag som inte gått i konkurs förlorar mer i uteblivet arvode än de revisorer som inte utfärdar någon varning.

Our study aims to discover how young men aged 15-19 perceive the image of men in women?s magazines. To do this we let eight young men read the two women?s magazines most read by young women their own age, Vecko Revyn and Cosmopolitan. We want to find whether they consider this image to be representative of their own reality.