Alla människor ska ha rätt till att utöva kultur och detta är en rättighet som inte alltid framkommer i samma utsträckning som andra rättigheter, så som rösträtt och yttrandefrihet. Det finns nationella kulturpolitiska mål som kommunerna ska eftersträva, dock så har de ingen tvingande makt och därför kan kommunerna och förvaltningarna själva bestämma över vad de ska placera resurserna. Kommunernas självstyre leder därför till att vissa områden, så som kultur, ständigt drabbas av besparingar. När Kulturförvaltningen är drabbad av en smal budget, så får vissa områden givetvis lida för detta. Enisk mångfald är ett sådant område, som hamnar i skymundan när budgeten är liten. Studiens syfte är därför att undersöka etnisk mångfald i den kommunalt finansierade verksamheten Kulturskolan i Karlskrona kommun.

Stockholms stadsteater (Stockholm?s city theatre) is a public theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. During the last ten years, the theatre has increased its audience by 40 percent, has been called a ?success story? by culture politicians in Stockholm as well as others in the cultural field, and is today the largest theatre in the Nordic countries. At the same time, there is a recurring debate, primarily in the national morning papers? culture sections, concerning Stockholms stadsteater.

Denna uppsats undersöker hur en analys av politiska styrmedel kan blottlägga outtalademålsättningar hos ett politiskt område. Styrmedel är det offentliga systemets instrument för attrealisera olika politiska mål; de presenteras ofta som neutrala verktyg, men i själva verket ärde präglade av värdeladdade antaganden och djupt politiska till sin natur. Häri finns enkontrast som gör att deras utformning kan avslöja outtalade målsättningar inom ett politisktområde. Uppsatsen är en fallstudie som tillämpar styrmedelsteori på det kulturpolitiskalandskapet i New Orleans, USA. Offentliga företrädare i staden har länge använt kultur somett ekonomiskt tillväxtmedel för att öka dess attraktionskraft och uppsatsen erbjuder enempirisk djupdykning i hur New Orleans kulturpolitiska styrmedel förhåller sig till detta.Det material som studerats är dels själva styrmedlen i form av offentlig dokumentation ochdels djupintervjuer med kulturpolitiska företrädare i staden.

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine the ways in which culture and cultural policy are being articulated in the process of Lund's application to become Sweden's European Cultural Capital of 2014.I have used Dorte Skot-Hansen's three cultural political rationalities: the humanistic-, the sociological- and the instrumental rationality, as well as and Jenny Johannisson's extension of those into three cultural-political discourses, as sensitizing concepts in my analysis. The questions raised are: How are the three rationalities/discourses articulated in the chosen central documents and in the process surrounding them? Which themes and arguments dominate the chosen documents?The main objects of my study have been four texts that have been produced in the applicationprocess: a Prestudy, a Plan of action, a Broschure and a Cultural policy. Along with them local political protocols, newspaper articles and other related material have been used. The research method applied was a qualitative eclectical textual analysis with emphasis on the content and on tracing the way the rationalities were expressed in the material.The rationalities were all found to be articulated in the four texts.

Uppsatsen syftar till att underso?ka kulturtidskrifternas roll och status i det svenska samha?llet idag, bland annat genom intervjuer med verksamma redakto?rer pa? olika kulturtidskrifter. Som problembakgrund presenteras den paradoxala situation som kulturtidskrifterna sta?lls emot: de anses som viktiga fo?r yttrandefrihet, demokrati och ma?ngfald men blir a?nda? fo?rsummade och underprioriterade inom politik och forskning. Utifra?n detta formuleras tre fra?gesta?llningar:Hur ser redakto?rerna pa? den politik som drivs kring kulturtidskriften?Vad anser redakto?rerna att kulturtidskriften har fo?r roll och status i samha?llet?Hur kan kulturtidskriftens roll och status tolkas utifra?n de intervjuaderedakto?rernas svar, den ra?dande kulturpolitiska diskussionen, kulturteorier ochtidigare forskning?Dessa fra?gor analyseras utifra?n intervjusvaren, tidigare forskning, Horkheimer ochAdornos teoretisering av kulturindustrin, Habermas teorier om det offentliga rummet samt Bourdieus fa?ltteori och teori om ekonomiskt och kulturellt kapital.

Denna undersökning syftar till att kartlägga Botkyrka Kommuns kulturprofilering samt se hur den påverkar det konstnärliga innehållet hos kulturverksamheterna som är verksamma inom kommunen. Detta är en fallstudie med en kvalitativ forskningsdesign där primärdata utgörs av ostrukturerade intervjuer med tio informanter som på något sätt arbetar inom ramen för Botkyrkas kulturarbete. Informanterna utgörs av en politiker, en extern kulturstrateg, tjänstemän och verksamhetschefer på kulturverksamheterna. Förutom Botkyrka kommun har Cirkus Cirkör, Mångkulturellt centrum, Subtopia och Xenter funnits representerade i studien. Det analytiska verktyg som använts verkar med bakgrund till de reformativa förändringarna inom offentlig förvaltning och tankarna om den nya ekonomin, där kultur och ekonomi närmar sig varandra allt mer. Utifrån institutionaliserade idéer skapas en växelverkan mellan regler, aktörer och handling som i sin tur skapar och skapas av diskurser.

Product development cycles become shorter and shorter. The time from idea to market has become an important competitive factor. Despite this, methods used for making the product development process faster are surrounded with uncertainty about their efficiency. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the pros and cons of ?best practice? methods for shortening lead times and how these methods effect the lead times in research and development.

The well-being of employees has become a key concept in the rhetoric of the company boards and business literature of today. There is however not much statistic evidence of a connection between economic results and the perceived working climate. This thesis sets out to investigate whether there is a positive correlation between economic results and working climate on a work group level. It also aims to study which specific working climate factors influence the results. In order to meet its purpose this thesis analyzes employee satisfaction questionnaire data and economic results from more than 300 work groups.

In December 2004 an earthquake coursed waves that hit Thailand. Over 5000 people died, and Sweden was the tourist country that has been effected the worst. The catastrophe precipitated Sweden in crises and the demand became high for Swedish government to act. Swedes followed the development via media, why media became the crucial element for how the public perceived politicians? acting.

In theory, the management control of maintenance functions is described as problematic due to the nature of the work performed in the unit. The purpose of this thesis is to examine these predicted problems in practice. Further,the thesis aims at identifying how these control problems may affect the relationships between the maintenance department and its internal customers. A case study has been conducted in one of Sweden?s largest industrial companies to investigate the said control problems in practice.

Media has power and impact. It is therefore important for managers to be able to handle media storms when they arise. If not, the brand can be affected negatively. It is managers who should learn to handle media storms because the managers constitute an important part of the external face of the company. Because it is managers who should learn to handle media storms it is interesting to study how media storms should be handled from a theoretical management-perspective.

Title: ?The director should be treated with silk gloves.? A discourse analysis of the film director as a leader and a case study of a short film Seminar date: 19 February 2008 Course: Master thesis in organizational studies, 20 Swedish credits Author: Johanna Ranes Advisor: Ph.D. Nanna Gillberg Key words: Film, the film director, discourse analysis, social constructionism, gender studies, creative leadership. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to illustrate and problemize the consequences of the traditional male domination in film creation for a female director by critically examining the construction of the film director. Methodology: The study is based on a qualitative case study which was conducted as a participant observation.

Of all observable societal trends, the proliferation of standardizing processes is striking. Auditing standards are an illustrative example of this. Not only privately owned companies must today make available numbers and key figures to satisfy needs of information and knowledge. Government agencies are increasingly conforming to this trend, adopting standards for quality assurance and monitoring, producing numbers and annual reports ? despite their somewhat ambiguous task and role.

Purpose This thesis tries to create an understanding of how male homosexual entrepreneurs, both as persons and as a concept, relates to the fact that entrepreneurship, as well as the society as a whole, is heteronormative. Moreover, it examines by what methods the male homosexual entrepreneurs cope with the seemingly paradox of a homosexual man who also is an entrepreneur. Method The method has been qualitative from a social construction-point of view. We have made semi-structured interviews with nine male homosexual entrepreneurs and structured the findings from the interviews with a computer programme and mind mapping techniques. We have compared the structured findings with theories, in an abducting manner, to find out an answer to the purpose of this thesis.

During the last 20 years, the Swedish health care system has faced major changes. One of them is the increasing pressure to generate economic profit due to private businesses entering the market. Health care units are forced to make some structural changes in order to become effective and efficient. As a result merger and acquisitions has become a part of the health care sector, and seems to be an increasing phenomenon. Mergers and acquisitions have mainly been studied in the industry.