Under de senaste åren har det blivit allt vanligare att fastighetsägare outsourcar fastighetsförvaltningen, i stället för att bedriva den med egna resurser. Det talas om att outsourcing tillåter en mer flexibel organisation som möjliggör högre servicekvalitet till hyresgästerna. Samtidigt lyfts risken i att tappa kontakten med hyresgästerna och insynen i fastigheten fram som en av fördelarna med att bedriva fastighetsförvaltningen med egna resurser.Syftet med den här undersökningen var att undersöka hur servicekvaliteten i fastighetsskötseln kan påverkas av fastighetsägarens val av förvaltningsform. Genom att jämföra servicekvaliteten när den bedrivs med egna resurser och när den bedrivs outsourcad ville jag kunna peka på de för- och nackdelar som kännetecknar de olika förvaltningsformerna.Studien genomfördes i form av en jämförande fallstudie, och enligt kvantitativ metodik. De två bostadsföretag som valdes ut till studien var HFAB i Halmstad och AB Bostäder i Borås.

In scientific investigations on how organizations can learn from their mistakes the perspective is usually that of the social engineer; the object is to prevent human errors through modeling the system in a certain way. The aim of this paper is to explore the learning process from a different standpoint than those usually applied in organizational learning and error theory. By studying the learning process in Swedish health care I seek to discover how theoretical presumptions affect the outcome in terms of what we actually learn. The theoretical framework draws on two major discussions in contemporary political science; the question of structure and agency and the question of whether to focus on formal or informal structures when explaining organizational behavior.The investigation shows that Swedish health care tend to understand human errors as a result of formal organizational structure. Such a view leads to insufficient explanations to why errors occur but is useful in producing preventative measures.

Bakgrund och problem: Marknaden för business process outsourcing (BPO) växer i högtakt. BPO ger upphov till långsiktiga konsekvenser för organisationer och innebär storaomstruktureringar hos företag. Valet att outsourca affärsprocesser är ett viktigt beslut dåändrade processer innebär en mängd olika kostnader, både uppenbara och oförutsägbara. Detfinns ett stort missnöje bland företag angående BPO och ett allt större antaloutsourcingkontrakt förnyas inte. De studier som har utförts om outsourcing och BPO har intestuderat den påverkan en organisation utsätts för vid genomförandet av outsourcingprojekteller hur organisationsstrukturer förändrats efter implementeringen av BPO.Kostnadsökningar kan exempelvis uppstå som följd av att en företagsledning inte har tagithänsyn till vilka interna aktiviteter och resurser som krävs vid implementeringen av BPO ochstrukturella förändringar.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för den komplexitet som kan uppstå vidgenomförandet av BPO och specifikt finans- och redovisningsprocesser.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

With an IT outsourcing project there are many factors affecting how efficiency andquality develop in the outsourced activity. The Purpose of this study is to identifythese factors through a case study in a global company that is dissatisfied with theefficiency and quality of their outsourced helpdesk. For data collection methodsinterviews and observations were used. Interviews were conducted with people fromdifferent parts of the company in three different countries, all somehow involved inthe outsourced system. The observations were made with the outsourced company tosee how the employees work and fill information gaps that the interviews could notcover.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

The background to this report is the author?s ambition to understand individuals? work situation, how it?s formed in interaction between the individual and factors in the work-setting. Such an ambition is well in line with the concept of Human-Technology-Organization (HTO), a cross-scientific approach that puts a system-oriented perspective on how human, technolog-ical and organizational factors interact within work systems.The aim of this report was to explore managers? work-situation and generate an understanding of it from an HTO-perspective by using an organizational model as a framework for an interview guide and to analyze the work situation from an HTO-perspective following the ques-tions at issue:1. How does the managers experience their work situation?2.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen och beskriva hur små svenska företag som har offshore outsourcat sin produktion till tillväxtmarknader hanterar relationen med leverantören. Vi har i denna uppsats använt oss av en kvalitativ metod och genomfört en flerfallsstudie på tre stycken mindre svenska företag.   Teoretiska referensramen är främst inriktad på två teoretiska områden; offshore outsourcing och relationer. Dessa har vidare delats in i tre huvudblock för att ge en så lättöverskådlig bild som möjligt samt att täcka in de väsentliga delarna som krävs för att besvara syftet. De tre huvudblocken är följande; relationsetablering, relationsstyrning och relationskoordinering. Den teoretiska referensramen har sedan sammanställts i en teoretisk syntes som analytiskt sammankopplar teorin och ligger till grund för analysen.

Bakgrund & Problem: Globaliseringens framväxt har bidragit med ett omvärldstryck vilket tvingat branscher, främst inom bil- och elektronikindustrin, att omstrukturera sin verksamhet och satsa  på  sin   kärnverksamhet  för  att  nå  konkurrensfördelar.  Genom  att  automatisera  och systematisera produktionen kunde företagen sänka sina produktionskostnader. Det bidrog till att företagen började se de administrativa servicefunktionerna inom företaget som en börda, eftersom de inte bidrog till kundnyttan. Behovet att reducera kostnaderna och öka flexibiliteten bidrog till att företagen började överlåta icke-värdeskapande aktiviteter till underleverantörer. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka och analysera de bakomliggande anledningarna till varför tillverkningsföretag väljer att outsourca hela eller delar av ekonomifunktionen. Vidare är syftet att analysera hur tillverkningsföretagen behåller kontrollen inom företaget vid tillämpning av outsourcing på ekonomifunktionen. Metod:  Vi  har  använt  oss  av  en  kvalitativ  studie  för  analysen  och  valt  att  intervjua  tre tillverkningsföretag som valt att outsourca ekonomifunktionen, två som inte tillämpar outsourcing på ekonomifunktionen, samt två revisionsbyråer som har en djupare inblick i outsourcingbranschen.

This is a study about a company in Norrköping, called Stadium AB, and its first steps into the global market. We have studied how the conditions of the company have changed during their expansion. This study is not written from the viewpoint of business economics, it is rather a study from a cultural and social studies perspective. The study deals with subjects such as the globalization of society, organizational theories and leadership. The empiric material consists of Stadium?s staff magazine Tracks, the company?s swedish homepage on the Internet and an interview with Sussi Calås-Jonsson, Chief of the Department of Information at Stadium AB.

Problem. With the Swedish public sectors problem with efficiency in mind, several reforms have beeninitiated during the last decades. These reforms go, in academic contexts, under the name?New public management?. The reforms have resulted in, among other things, an increasedcompetition, privatization and goal-orientation in the public sector.

The purpose of this dissertation is to create an understanding of how a personal idea in the mind of an entrepreneur becomes an outspoken vision in one biotech company. More specifically, for what purpose the vision is used at different stages, how it is communicated, its content and what impact previous visions have on future vision work and in order to reach a deeper understanding of how vision develops over time and how it is used we have employed a qualitative approach based on a case study. The theoretical framework starts with the concept of vision and related concepts. Furthermore, the entrepreneur?s and manager?s usage of vision is examined.

The subject of this study has been organizational change within two Scandinavian green parties ? the Swedish Green Party and the Norwegian Green Party. Looking at the organizational changes within these two parties using Robert Michel?s famous concept the ?iron law of oligarchy?, I have studied whether these two parties have become more oligarchic after having been elected to the national parliaments of Sweden and Norway respectively. What I have found is that although these two parties still retain much of the original organizational structure that they have had, in particular the Swedish Green Party, change has occurred and seems to be occurring, at least in the Norwegian Green Party, which would indicate that the two parties have become more oligarchic.

Business incubation is an important force of economic development but relatively unheard of in organization theory. This is partly due to the fact that in organization theory, meta-organization or the organization of organizations has been neglected or left lagging as much theorization has been focused on organizing individuals. With the growing number of business incubators, and meta-organizations in general, the need for understanding a relatively new type of organization is prevalent.This case study of the business incubator Global Business Labs Botswana (GBL) aims to clarify the organizational differences among meta-organizations and traditional organizations on a case level, as well as explain the underlying factors for these dissimilarities. With respect to the nature of this case study no general conclusions are drawn from the results. The inference, however, is that the organization of GBL and its incubated companies differs from the traditional organization in five elementary aspects: the weak hierarchical structure, the operational autonomy of its members, the strong focus on recruitment processes, the member identity and the lack of formal sanctions.