This essay is about how the company management should prepare to avoid BOHICA syndrome to develop from a reorganisation. BOHICA syndrome is a cynical attitude, acquired by recurrent disappointments from, for example reorganisations. If the company management is attentive and identifies and addresses such disappointments, BOHICA syndrome can prohibit the possibilities in future to work efficiently and profitably in the company. BOHICA syndrome are thus by extension a threat to the company?s survival.

The retailing industry has an extremely high density of brands. In order to differentiate its offer, both retailers and suppliers, are constantly forced to come up with new ways to launch their products. A collaborative strategy between two brands is called co-branding, which means that both the private label and the supplier's brand are displayed on the new product packaging. Several studies have shown that a co-branding strategy is successful, but many operators are still reluctant to use co-branding in fear of long-term losses due to potentially damaged business relations. The objective of this study is to explain how the product- and brand related value for customers, retailers and suppliers is affected by co-branding between private labels and national brands.

AbstractA master thesis in business administration 30 hp, Jönköping International Business School, Spring semester 2012.Authors: Sarah Henningsson & Jim BörefeltSupervisor: Urban ÖsterlundTitle: Commercial real estate investment ? Factors from an investor perspectiveBackground and problem: In this study, we focused on the real estate investor and the factors and issues that may arise and affect real estate investment decisions. It has been put in relation to the other parties in the process of assessing and affecting real estate investment decision. The parties that we studied are real estate investors, banks, brokers and appraisers.Purpose: This study aims to describe and explain the factors that affect commercial real estate investments for investors, credit assessment conducted by the bank and valuation made by the broker and appraiser.Delimitations: We have chosen to limit the study to commercial real estates including residential, retail and office properties, industrial properties and combinations thereof. Agriculture buildings and forestry plots are not examined.

As a Swedish landscape architecture student living in Australia for five years, I have often wondered if my memories and my associations with the landscape and the nature in Sweden, are the same as other Swedish people living in Melbourne. Most of the Swedish people who live here in Melbourne remember and associate Sweden?s nature and landscape with where they grew up or where they used to live. The plants that most of the Swedish people I asked missed from Sweden were associated to special feelings or activities. The general type of landscape people remember from Sweden is that of a landscape covered in forests, which you can walk freely through. With these memories as a foundation and with inspiration from the Swedish landscape architect Thorbjörn Anderson?s way of creating places, by letting a few strong changes play against the existing elements,2 but also with consideration of the climate and the severe shortage of water that is current in Melbourne, will I create a design concept for the garden surrounding the Swedish Church in Melbourne. A design concept that will generate memories and associations to Swedish landscapes..

I mars 2008 stod en statlig offentlig utredning klar med förslaget att avskaffa revisionsplikten för alla små och medelstora aktiebolag, detta för att främja det svenska företagandet. Revisionen innebär sedan länge en kvalitetsstämpel vid arbetet med krediter och ett avskaffande skulle kunna innebära ändrade förutsättningar vid kreditgivningen. Den svenska bankmarknaden består till stor del av de fyra storbankerna; Swedbank, Handelsbanken, Nordea och SEB. Dessa bankers inställning till förslaget har studerats i ett flertal uppsatser och rapporter. I denna uppsats genomförs därför tre personliga intervjuer med Sverigefilialer till utländska banker; Fortis Bank, DnB NOR Bank och Upplandsbanken (provinsbank inom Danske Bank) och två personliga intervjuer med fristående sparbanker; Sala Sparbank och Sparbanken i Enköping. Revisionens betydelse idag och hur kreditgivningsprocessen därmed skulle påverkas vid ett avskaffande i de undersökta bankerna, visade sig skifta och tycktes bero på storleken på de företag som utgör bankernas kundkrets.

The aim of this thesis is to develop a new business model for district heating and cooling firms which can contribute to a stabilization of the Swedish national energy system. The business model is developed for a district heating and cooling firm and is exemplified with Fortum Heat. The theoretical investigation around the topic creates a rigid base for following qualitative empirical studies. Osterwalder?s canvas for business model generation is used together with a Casual Loop Diagram to identify a number of business opportunities which stabilizes the national energy system.

AbstractSince the 2006 election the country of Sweden is governed by four Liberal and Conservative parties. Parties that by cooperating maintain power in office and forms a so called coalition. A coalition that not only can be seen at the national but also at the local level. According to pervious research coalitions that holds control of the seats in the government at the national level tends to increase the total expenditures compared to other types of government formations. Can a similar connection be seen at the local level? This the fundamental issue of this essay.

The special relationship between Israel and the US has been subject to questioning, and good many theories have tried to explain why it is so strong. The most common explanation is rooted in the school of realism, where strategy and national interest decide who one's ally is. This essay aspires to examine another possible reason for allianceformation; identity. Several books, which make for the theoretical backbone of this study, have been written on the subject of sharing beliefs, identifying with others and the consequences of this. The question being asked is whether Israel and the US actually share beliefs and, if so, which ones.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how a context-specific form of abstracting of fiction film developed in relation to the cultural policy of Internationella biblioteket IB, theoretically can be motivated and practically shaped. The background of the cultural policy of IB is analysed and theoretical standpoints and problematic aspects regarding subject representation discussed. Theories which claim intersubjectivity as an ideal for subject representation and searches for objectivity in the process of subject analysis are criticised in light of the concept of interpretation as the only means to produce meaning and subjects in relation to fiction. Birger Hjørlands context-oriented theories of subject representation are used to theoretically motivate the context-specific form of abstracting. To suggest how a practical framework for abstracting can be created, film theoretical models of interpretation are examined in relation to the field of subject analysis and formal criteria of abstracting.

The recent development in society?s structure has given rise to a more complex reality for the Swedishbanks. There is an increased pressure from external stakeholders for the banks to take a greater socialresponsibility in society; the bank must therefore focus on both direct as well as indirect effects of itsactions. The term corporate social responsibility implies that the company does not only focus on itsfinancial status but also on values such as ethics and environment. These commitments are crystalized,more or less clearly, in the banks? lending policy?s, whom are entirely defined by the banksthemselves.The nature of the abstract CSR expression gives rise to uncertainty, both in regards to the banks ownefforts towards social responsibility but also for the external stakeholders, for which it can be quitedifficult to understand what commitments are actually made.This study aims to investigate how the Swedish banks public statements, with regards to their lendingpolicy, correlates with the actual actions carried out by the banks.

: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och undersöka kundlojaliteten inom Länsförsäkringar Bergslagen samt ge förslag på taktiska åtgärder som företaget kan använda sig av vid utformandet av sin marknadskommunikation för att vidare utveckla och bibehålla lojaliteten hos sina lantbrukskunder..

The ambition with this study is to look into and create an understanding for how an intranet can work as a support system in work processes in capacity as a source of knowledge. We want to enhance the understanding for which kind of knowledge that can be coded in and transmitted by an intranet, and which that is lost in this process. We also want to clarify what it takes to get this knowledge, in collaboration with the intranet, to support the work in an organization. It is a qualitative case study at a Swedish bank. It consisted of semi standardized, half structured interviews with five people in one of the bank?s local offices.

Avregleringar och utvecklingen inom IT har inneburit en ökad möjlighet för utländska banker och internetbanker att slå sig in på den svenska bankmarknaden. Den ökade konkurrensen mellan banker och utvecklingen inom IT har gjort det lättare för bankkunder att byta mellan olika banker och att vara kund hos flera samtidigt. Många företag lever med en uppfattning att så länge kunderna är nöjda, så är de lojala.Studenter är ett kundsegment som bankerna försöker attrahera med speciella erbjudanden och antalet studenter vid landets högskolor ochuniversitet uppgick hösten 2006 till 338 000. Till följd av ökad konkurrens och därmed tilltagande kundillojalitet har det blivit allt viktigare för banker att finna och tillgodose de faktorer som påverkar kunderna vid valet av bank. Studenter har uppvisat tendenser till att ständigt söka efter det bästa alternativet och mångagånger visat sig var illojala.

Att varumärken utvidgar sig är inget nytt fenomen, däremot börjar det bli allt vanligare med varumärkesutvidgningar mot banktjänster. Varumärken som ICA, Skandia och IKEA har redan utvidgat sina varumärken till att även erbjuda banktjänster. Trots den omfattandeforskningen om varumärken och varumärkesutvidgningar mot nya varor och tjänster finns det knappt någon alls forskning om varumärkesutvidgningar mot just bankmarknaden. I detta arbete försöker författarna att förklara vad som påverkar utvärderingen av en varumärkesutvidgning mot bankmarknaden.Syftet med denna uppsats är att utveckla en modell för vad som är viktigt i en utvärdering av en varumärkesutvidgning mot bankmarknaden. Detta genom att utgå från Aaker och Kellers modell från 1990 för sedan utveckla den med variablerna varumärkeskapital, varumärkesförtroende och uppfattad risk.För att kunna se vilka komponenter som är viktiga vid en utvärdering av en varumärkesutvidgning mot banktjänster, har författarna utefter vissa förbestämda kriterier valt tre varumärken.

In today?s ever-evolving society the use of cash is replaced by digital services in the banking sector. Some local banks restrict manual cash handling while others remove it completely. This essay examines how management accounting is affected by restricted cash handling. The theory clarifies that management accounting strategies create guidelines and provides specific framework for employees and managers in the organization.