The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the regulatory power, efficiency and impact of export control on Swedish arms export from the 1980s onwards, linked to the delegation of authority of permit license to the Inspectorate of Strategic Products in 1997. An increase in the administrative sector, based on a collective decision making process and established criteria and guidelines, aimed to strengthen the control of arms export to non-democratic and problematic states. In short, the aim of the study is to investigate and analyze whether there was a decrease in the arms export to problematic states or not. On one hand, it is reasonable to assume that the introduction of the new regulation entailed a more strict arms export policy. However, previous research has showed that regulations are sometimes not effective since incentives to breach these may be present.The study begins by examining the Swedish case and situation in terms of arms manufacturing and export, as well as the delegation of authority and legislation applied to the field over time.

Rapid development in the realms of electronic publishing has had a profound impact on information services in general and the academic library in particular. Since mid 1990´s an increasingly number of scholarly journals and other information resources have been made available electronically. Electronic books are the newest electronic service in the hybrid library and can be seen as the third wave in the digital library. Although electronic books have for a long time existed as electronic texts such as digitalized classics or other texts in the public domain, it is not until recently that e-books have been distributed and packaged in a commercial form. As more e-book models are being developed, libraries are being forced to take e-books into consideration when planning their information services.The aim of this master thesis is to describe the first stage of implementation of the new electronic media, the electronic book or e-book, in Swedish academic libraries.

Abstract This paper discusses protectionism of intellectual property rights in general and the conflict between large pharmaceutical companies? rights to patent and developing countries? rights to cheap generic preparation in particular. The essay focuses above all on HIV/AIDS medicine. The description tries to give an image of the different interests that collide and why they collide. The different actors are above all the pharmaceutical branch, including researchers, inventors and salesmen with their economic interest of revenue, and the population of the development countries and their pressed situation considering the great need of medicine.

Förhållandet när en elitishockeyspelare kontrakteras av en svensk ishockeyklubb regleras av tre olika avtal. I uppsatsen görs en inledande utredning och granskning av dessa avtal som är skräddarsydda för att användas som grund för att besvara de två nedan angivna frågeställningarna.Avtalen granskas först utifrån ett arbetsrättsligt perspektiv där vi undersöker ishockeyspelarens rättsliga ställning och fastställer om spelaren kontrakteras av sin klubb i egenskap av arbetstagare eller om han är att anse som självständig uppdragstagare samt undersöker vilka konsekvenser detta får i form av tillämpligheten av svensk arbetsrättslagstiftning. Avtalen undersöks sedan ur ett avtalsrättsligt perspektiv med fokus riktat på hur långt de grundläggande principerna om avtalsfrihet och avtalsbundenhet kan sträcka sig samt vilken inbördes ställning och förhandlingsposition avtalsparterna har vid avtalsskrivandet. Vi undersöker vidare hur ett ingånget avtal kan fullgöras samt på vilket sätt avtal kan begränsas i syfte att skydda en avtalspart i underlägsen ställning från att drabbas av oskäliga avtalsvillkor. Rättsläget är utifrån denna problemställning oklart vad gäller spelaravtal inom svensk elitishockey.Inom ramen för de två frågeställningar som vi vill besvara gäller den första frågeställningen vid den situationen att en svensk ishockeyspelare som står i ett avtalsförhållande med en svensk ishockeyklubb väljer att lämna klubben för spel i NHL.

This master of economics paper discuss that the globalization has lead to increasing internationalization among small Swedish IT- companies in the service sector. Sweden has a long history of foreign trade but in the beginning of the industrialization only large companies that produced goods answered for the foreign trade. Before, the Swedish companies begun their operations abroad in fairly nearby markets and only gradually penetrated far-flung countries. Now this is no longer possible. When small companies nowadays seek growth in other countries there is no time internationalize with the same approaches as before, especially when the company offers a service.