Background and research problem: The former highly inflationary property market is currently undergoing a stagnation process. Investors have been used to annual growth figures in double digits,but now this is no longer considered to be a realistic outlook for future years. According to a report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Urban Land Institute, published by Avanza Wealth Management,the three most attractive markets for property investment in Europe are London, Paris and Stockholm. Because of this the authors have focused their investigation on two companies in the London andStockholm. The authors will additionally use an international bank, an estate agent and a consultancy firm for further information, with regards to the property market and risks associated with these typesof investment in particular.

This essay concerns the fantastic and its position in narration. The fantastic's defintion is based on Martin Horstkotte's defintion in The Postmodern Fantastic and the essay focuses on the noncontextual aspects such as the clash between two incompatible fictional worlds and the absence created. Instead of the ordinary identification of the established fictional world with realism and our reality it is suggested that both of the colliding fictional worlds are fictive and that the established one not necessarily need to be realistic. Exampels on how the fantastic takes place on the syntagmatic level in a narration is drawn from the short story ?Samvetets fantasi? by Clas Livijn when analysed with Peter Brooks' closurebased narratology theory in Reading for the Plot.

Back, I. & Hörberg, A. (2009). En ordförandegrupps känsla av sammanhang. C-uppsats i pedagogik.

This essay is a comparison according to the ideological thoughts about womens position in the society of Mao Zedong och Josef Stalin. The material I have analysed is writings by Mao and Stalin, in a wide range from leaflets to orders to the armies of the states of China and the Soviet Union. The method I have used is an ideological analysis where the attitude towards women is the target for my survey. The attitude towards women generally was not unified in the world during the time for Mao and Stalin. In many countries the women was intended to take care of the children and the home, not be active in working and fighting.

Globalization has among other tendencies led to the emergence of new ways of doing business. One of the ways for organizations to meet the demands of a new competitive landscape has been through management accounting change, a field which has become increasingly popular in research. This paper builds on that research and seeks to investigate the case of the implementation of a new management accounting system in a Swedish company which was triggered by strategic change. Commonality through the interactive approach is by some researchers seen as a key to successful change. This approach is contrasted to the importance of symbolic constructs and change recipients? cognitive effort to understand the meaning of change for which Framing theory is applied.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur chefens identitet diskursivt konstrueras i tidningen Chef under perioden 2011-2013 genom att urskilja de diskurser och subjektspositioner som finns i tidningen. Utifrån diskursteori analyseras hur tidningen genom språket konstruerar chefensidentiteten och vilka retoriska tekniker som används för att nå fram till läsaren. Jag kunde urskilja två diskurser som i sin tur erbjöd fyra subjektspositioner. De övergripande diskurserna var den humanistiska diskursen och den affärsmässiga diskursen och de fyra subjektspositionerna benämns medmänniskan, inspiratören, den starke och den affärsmässige. Med detta som utgångspunkt diskuteras hur chefens identitet konstrueras i tidningen Chef samt hur de båda diskurserna påverkar chefen och dess position gentemot organisationen och medarbetarna..

Trots ett allt mer urbaniserat samhälle går tillväxten i Sveriges glesbygder framåt. Att näringslivets satsningar på mindre orter kan vara avgörande för hela regioners fortlevnad skapade ett intresse hos oss för vad som attraherar företag att etablera sig på dessa mindre orter. Detta utmynnande i vår problemformulering; vilka drivkrafter har ett marknadsdrivande företag till etablering på mindre ort.Ett aktuellt fall av ett marknadsledande företags etablering på en mindre ort, är IKEA och deras val av etablering i Haparanda. Detta har både uppmärksammats och ifrågasatts varför vi fann sakfrågan intressant och givande att utreda.Syftet med vår studie är att identifiera och undersöka de bakomliggande faktorerna till Ikeas etablering i Haparanda. Våra delsyften är att utreda de avgörande faktorerna, undersöka hur företagets position på marknaden har påverkat beslutet samt hur Haparanda kommun har arbetat för IKEA:s etablering.Den process som bäst beskriver vår arbetsgång kallas för iterativ strategi.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att diskutera och analysera huruvida de från 2007 nya bestämmelserna om byråjäv uppnår sitt syfte, genom att undersöka dess påverkan på revisorns oberoende med avseende på kvalitet, tilltro och överensstämmelse. Uppsatsen är av induktiv karaktär med ett deskriptivt syfte. En kvalitativ metod valdes som forskningsstrategi för att samla in information. Vidare användes semistrukturerade intervjuer för datainsamlingen. Uppsatsens teoretiska referensram baseras på ämnesspecifika begrepp samt den internationella och svenska oberoenderegleringen.

The company Sound Precision has developed a new Line Array loudspeaker system (VHA-40). When using this system, their customers need computer aid to get the best possible sound-quality and control of sound levels for the whole audience. The aim of this thesis is to develop a truly useful sound quality simulator for the VHA-40. The system will help the sound engineers to position the loudspeakers for optimal sound by simulating loudspeaker configurations and visualizing the resulting sound quality and quantity. To solve this a human-centered design (HCD) approach is taken to implement a system that is truly useful for the users, meaning that they will use it more and hence deliver better sound for the audience.

This thesis serves to examine how manufacturing SMEs consider outsourcing. Furthermore, we aim to identify the main characteristics and patterns for these types of companies that can explain their rationale in such a decision. The chosen method for this thesis is abduction and selected research approach is multiple case studies. Seven case studies have been conducted at EAB AB, Esbe AB, Hörle Automatic AB, Pelly Industri AB, SGV Industrier AB, Swede-Wheel AB and Wulkan AB. Our findings have illustrated that although traditional outsourcing theory provides a good platform for explaining the rationale behind outsourcing decisions in SMEs, we have identified additional considerations that SMEs, operating as 2, 3 or 4-tier suppliers towards OEM-corporations, make.

This essay investigates the work situation for teacher educators at a university with focus on the subject areas education, research and administration. The research questions contain the work situation the teacher educators have, how they apprehend it, and how they find their position within the work organisation. Six interviews have been executed at the teacher education at a university. Some of the results from the investigation indicate that the teacher educators find education to be very a very demanding work and that the split of work during the academic year is uneven. The work with administration before and after the education, for example work with syllabuses and descriptions for courses, are activities demanding much time.

The purpose of this study is to use a qualitative approach to highlight the western involvement in Thai orphanages and, on basis of Western moral development workers and volunteers, enlighten how Western colonial heritage can be recreated in the humanitarian economic aid.The study is based on the recent tsunami disaster in 2004 which led to a huge voluntary effort by Western volunteers and organizations who wanted to rebuild the country. Now, seven years after the disaster, the country has recovered well and thanks to a strong turism, and industrial growth, the country has now reached the position of a middle income country with regional power.The study presents a selection of previous ressearch in the area from different critical perspectives. It is a field study based on qualitative interviews with six informants that highlights the individual engagment in humanitarian assistance. Theories based on Post-colonialism and globalization have been used in order to analyze and reach the result of this study..

Trots ett allt mer urbaniserat samhälle går tillväxten i Sveriges glesbygder framåt. Att näringslivets satsningar på mindre orter kan vara avgörande för hela regioners fortlevnad skapade ett intresse hos oss för vad som attraherar företag att etablera sig på dessa mindre orter. Detta utmynnande i vår problemformulering; vilka drivkrafter har ett marknadsdrivande företag till etablering på mindre ort.Ett aktuellt fall av ett marknadsledande företags etablering på en mindre ort, är IKEA och deras val av etablering i Haparanda. Detta har både uppmärksammats och ifrågasatts varför vi fann sakfrågan intressant och givande att utreda.Syftet med vår studie är att identifiera och undersöka de bakomliggande faktorerna till Ikeas etablering i Haparanda. Våra delsyften är att utreda de avgörande faktorerna, undersöka hur företagets position på marknaden har påverkat beslutet samt hur Haparanda kommun har arbetat för IKEA:s etablering.Den process som bäst beskriver vår arbetsgång kallas för iterativ strategi.

The market communication in organisations is vital to manage the competition. Studies have shown the importance of market communication in both private and public organisations.Since the past decade market communication has been acknowledged as an instrument to provide the organisations target group with valid information.This thesis is a study about the differences in market communication between private and public organisations. To manage this we asked ourselves the question:?- What distinguish the market communication in a private respective a public organisation??We have done qualitative interviews to get the best result for our study. We have interviewed both types of organisations and our respondents have leading strategic position in their organisations.Our research highlights important differences between private and public organisations in matter of tactics in market communication.In conclusion the result shows a great difference in how an organization is managing their communicative strategies all depending on if it is a private owned company or a public organisation..

Med utgångspunkt i både traditionell och samtida syn på finithet har det uto-aztekiska språket cupeño studerats. Flera grammatiska markörer för såväl subjektskongruens som temporala, modala och aspektuella distinktioner definieras. Dessa markörer kan i huvudsatser i cupeño uppträda i antingen ett auxiliarkomplex i Wackernagels position eller som affix på verbet. Subjektskongruens och olika TMA-markörer definieras som två skilda grammatiska system. Framför allt markörerna för subjektskongruens kan bibehållas i underordnade satser, som också har speciella markörer för underordning.