The aim of this Master´s thesis is to examine the debate in Swedish library press concerning outsourcing of public libraries. The two magazines studied are BBL (Biblioteksbladet) and bis (bibliotek i samhälle). The period of time covered by the selected articles is 2005 to 2011. Although there are still quite few cases of tendering arrangements in Sweden, the question has been raised in the last years by the decision of the Municipality of Nacka (Stockholm) to outsource their public libraries. Another important factor for bringing the question into focus has been the general elections of 2006, which brought an alliance of right-wing parties to power.     In this thesis the arguments of the participants are documented and analyzed.

Många företagare som driver mindre företag ser redovisningen som något komplicerat som tar tid från företagets egentliga syfte. I och med att lagen kräver att en redovisning genomförs väljer därför många småföretagare att köpa redovisningstjänster, det vill säga de outsourcar redovisningen till redovisningskonsulter. Sedan 2010 har revisionsplikten avskaffats för de allra minsta företagen vilket har medfört att marknaden står inför en förändring där redovisningskonsulterna får ta mer ansvar än tidigare. För redovisningskonsulterna innebär det att arbetsuppgifterna utökas och att nya kunder kan tillkomma. För att möta denna förändring är det av intresse för redovisningskonsulterna att få  insikt om hur småföretagare  resonerar när de bestämmer sig för att köpa redovisningstjänster och hur denna köpbeslutsprocess går till  för att möta småföretagarnas behov.

SammanfattningGenom denna studie ville jag utforska den agens som uppstår i mötet mellan barnen och den pedagogiska dokumentationen samt hur posthumanistiskt inspirerade analyser av re-visittillfällen kan bidra med förståelse för de yngsta barnens möjlighet till kommunikation och meningsskapande genom den pedagogiska dokumentationen. Jag observerade och filmade re-visittillfällen där en grupp yngre barn möter dokumentation för att få syn på vad som sätts igång i detta möte. Genom att använda en posthumanistisk ansats betraktas inte bara människor, utan också ickemänniskor som agentiska, de gör och genererar förändring (Lenz Taguchi, 2012:12). Tänkande, intention och kommunikation brukar betraktas som mänskliga förehavanden men i ett posthumanistiskt perspektiv betraktas det som fenomen som uppstår i intra-agerande mellan olika agenter. Analyser av filmsekvenserna gjordes utifrån Barads (2007) diffraktionsbegrepp och Lenz Taguchis (2012) begrepp om cirkulära och horisontella rörelser vilka beskriver processerna i användandet av pedagogisk dokumentation.

Media and social media have been proved to occupy an increased amount of time in people's everyday lives and affect how individuals interpret reality. This phenomenon is referred to as the medialization and its implications on organizations and their members become important to understand. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine how members of an organization under intense scrutiny from the media are affected by this exposure in their everyday work. To gain knowledge about the area a qualitative case study was performed on the Swedish train operator SJ AB - one of the most media exposed organizations in the country. A theoretical framework is developed for the study and discusses organizational identity, stigmatization and motivation.

Health care costs in relation to GDP are escalating all over Europe and the Swedish health care industry is not an exception. Between 30 and 50 percent of resources used in health care are considered waste, in the sense that they don't contribute to increased health. This illustrates the big need for hospitals to become more efficient which is why many hospitals today are trying to move towards a process-oriented organization. This paper therefore aims to identify the elements necessary for this type of organizational change, the barriers encountered when moving from a functional to process oriented hospital as well as how to overcome them. The case study was conducted at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset and shows the importance of not just transmitting a sense of urgency but also communicating that the upcoming change is long term.

The aim of this research was to gain a comprehensive understanding of how daily activities impact the organizational culture within the Swedish Police enforcement agency, Polismyndigheten. The study specifically explored the influence of the purported culture of silence on organizational culture. Employing a case study approach, data were collected with a qualitative method from a total of 15 individuals, including students and officials affiliated with Polismyndigheten. The findings were categorized into five distinct groups, revealing a noticeable gap between employees and management. Additionally, the study identified generational disparities and a lack of a clear set of core values.

Today more and more municipalities interact across a wide range of sectors. The reasons tostart interacting are varying and for those who succeed with this form of work, there arebenefits in terms of efficiency and knowledge exchanges. But are the reasons that interactalways obvious? Sweden currently has 290 municipalities of varying size and allmunicipalities have basically the same mission, to deliver services to its residents.Information technology allows municipalities to digitize much of the workload, but theintroduction of the technique is not without problems. For small municipalities, there are greatdemands to deliver reliability and support for their internal and external services.

AbstractPurpose/Aim: The purpose of this paper was to identify the communication process at the company Cherry casino and see what opinions the employees had about it. Moreover, an evaluation of the used strategies was done and an analysis about what perhaps could be done to improve the attitude, communication and in the end the result for the company.Material/Method: The empirical material was gathered through qualitative interviews and theory application.Main results: The transmission of information regarding the regular work related information works just fine and the channels used are well chosen. But more large-scale information that deals with the company?s plans, strategies and targets is not handled in the right way. Neither is the respond.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur outsourcing av kundserviceaktiviteter förändrar kundrelationen och företagets möjligheter att implementera framtida kundstrategier. Som utgångspunkt har outsourcingteori ställts mot relationsmarknadsföringsteori. Företag vill till största mån vara så nära sina kunder som möjligt, men genom att outsourca kundservice tillförs ett ytterligare led mellan företaget och kunden. Outsourcing av kundservice-aktiviteter kan ifrågasättas ur ett relationsmarknadsföringsperspektiv. För att ta reda på förändringen av företagets kundrelationer vid outsourcad kundservice har vi genomfört en kvalitativ undersökning av företag som outsourcar sin kundservice och de företag som tillhandahåller outsourcingtjänster.

Within the fields of business as well as the academic, there is a growing interest for the role images play in an organized conception of the world. This paper acknowledges the relevance of such images and ideas, and its purpose is to examine the fixed ideas and conceptions of the world as they appear in a Swedish organizational context. The Swedish Trade Council is a hybrid organization between the state and private sector with an outspoken purpose of defining an image of the outside world for small and medium size enterprises in Sweden. The underlying question in focus for this study is: What central conceptions of the world appear in the Swedish Trade Council?s information films ?Världens möjligheter?? Within organizational studies, a postcolonial theory has to a large extent been overlooked.

In organizations today Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming a common means to try to gain legitimacy and credibility for their business. A successful CSR strategy has the potential to generate positive outcomes for a company and reaching out to stakeholders about the corporation?s contribution in the field is an important part of the work. In this study I examine how the employees at Max Hamburgare receive the corporation?s efforts within sustainability, how it is perceived and what this means to the employees.

I dagens hårda konkurrens blir det allt viktigare för organisationer att koncentrera sig på sina kärnkompetenser och minska sina kostnader. Detta kan göras genom outsourcing som har blivit en allt mer utbredd företeelse bland organisationer. Intressant är att relativt lite uppmärksamhet har ägnats åt relationerna mellan organisationer och leverantörer och hur organisationer kan styra och kontrollera dessa relationer. Den existerande litteraturen idag behandlar främst relationerna inom en organisation och inte mellan organisationer. Vi har därför valt att studera den eventuella problematik en organisation upplever när de styr sina outsourcade funktioner.

Vi har med detta magisterexamensarbete avsett att belysa outsourcingens roll i och med en allt mer nätverksliknande organisationsform och hur L M Ericsson styr de stora organisationsmönster som blir kontentan av dessa utläggningar. Genom teorier angående outsourcingens karaktäristika, imaginära organisationer och med Simons ekonomistyrningsteorier som utgångspunkt har vi försökt skapa oss en bild av vår frågeställning. Denna har vi sedan testat empiriskt genom att göra en fallstudie i L M Ericsson som har genomfört dessa förändringar i så pass stor omfattning och under sådan tid att det gjort det möjligt att få ut resultat som är gångbara i andra fall och företag som funderat på eller genomfört liknande omstruktureringar. Den analys som följt av teori och empiri har bland annat gett oss slutsatsen att styrningen av leverantörer och outsourcingpartners många gånger är de samma oavsett om de ses som ?köp-sälj? relationer eller djupare allianser.

Work and health are strongly connected because people spend the most part of their adult life in a workplace. The work environment influences the fellow co-workers experience of health and learning in different ways. Accordingly the organizations influence has by doing so, created a great significance to fellow co-workers experiences. Organizational changes often create turbulence within an organization and are often experienced negatively by the fellow-co-workers even if it will give positive effects later. The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses- and assistant nurses experiences of health and learning related to organizational changes.

The study focuses on mapping how well prepared the counties in the west region of Sweden is in case of restructuring. The study explores what kind of activities and routines that contributes to prepare the organization for restructuring. The study also aims to investigate the effect of precedent restructuring, and if the counties who experienced restructuring are more prepared than others.The research within the field of restructuring characterizes of an evaluating nature and the focus has been after the restructuring occurred. There have also been a lot of studies of the negative consequences on individual and organizational level. Since downsizing is a frequently used method by management despite its consequences is it important to investigate how organizations can learn and thereby be more prepared for restructuring.