TitleFactors for success : a study of school libraries at compulsory schools and how to integrate them in the educationAbstractThis Master's thesis aims to identify success factors for the integration of school libraries in the education. The search for factors are concentrated to three areas: control documents for the school and school library, the Principal and organisation and the collaboration of librarians and teachers.The method consists of three parts: a documetary study, a questionnaire survey and interviews. The documentary study aimed to reveal how concrete control documents for schools and school libraries are concerning pupils' information literacy and school libraries. The questionnaire survey gave a general view of the situation of school libraries in Skåne and to help identify two suitable objects for closer examination. Gunnesboskolan and Rönnowskolan were chosen, and the Principals, the school librarians and teachers representing different subjects were interviewed.Our results indicate that there are important factors in all three areas examined.

This thesis has aimed to study steering process and institutionalization in the context of educational policy work. This has been conducted by using empirical material from the political decision-making process that preceded the implementation of a new national program on how Principals should be educated and certified. By using an aggregated theoretical point of view containing new institutionalism and traditional Swedish curriculum theory, the process was analyzed from different perspectives. The results depict a process that contained several actors who tried to shape the Principal education program differently. From the theoretical perspectives, the decision-making process could be understood as an act of both self-interest as well as trust in their own beliefs and cultural values.

This essay deals with the issue how to define the concept successful school and what ingredients it includes. To aim this task I have interviewed four Principals at upper secondary schools, two placed in community schools and the other two working for non-community schools. We have discussed how the Principals define a successful school, whether they believe that the Principal has a major part in contributing to the schools success or not and further if they think that schools have anything in common with private companies.The Principals all agreed on what components they believe a successful school consists of, that is good school results from the pupils, a high comfort level for the pupils at school, professional management from the Principal and a high level of young people who wants to attend the particular school.Further I have studied Swedish and foreign research in the area of successful schools and management in schools to get at good background in this matter..

Syfte: Uppsatsen använder kvantitativa metoder för att utröna huruvida aktierelaterade incitamentsprgram påverkar företagets förmåga att skapa värde för ägarna. Metod: Uppsatsen använder kvantitativa metoder och ett abduktivt angreppsätt för att besvara frågeställningarna Datainsamling: Data samlas in genom en årsredovisningsstudie och en internetbaserad enkät. Kursutveckling hämtas från SIX Trust och indexutveckling från affärsvärlden Teori: Den teoretiska grunden utgörs av Principal-agentteori och en genomgång av de aktierelaterade incitamentsprogrammen uppbyggnad och agentkostander. Utifrån denna grund skapas hypoteser som sedan testas. Slutsatser: Det går inte att mopt bakgrund av denna studie påvisa att förekomsten av aktierelaterade incitamentsprogram påverkar företagets totalavkastning till ägarna..

In 2014 came new guidelines for after-school centers. These guidelines clarifies that it is the Principal who is pedagogically responsible for the after-school centers. Due to that fact we became interested in investigating how Principals describe their educational leadership for after-school centers. With qualitative interviews as a method we have investigated how four Principals describe their educational leadership for the after-school center based on the new guidelines and how they talk about their employees and the after-school centers. Our results are based on the empirical material we received from these interviews. By analyzing this empirical material, based on the theory of situational leadership, we received answers to our research questions. .

Ett undantag från revisionsplikten infördes för mindre aktiebolag den 1 november 2010, som berör ungefär 70 % av de svenska aktiebolagen eller 250 000 bolag. Vid kreditgivningen behöver bankerna information för att minska risken och vikten vid att informationen stämmer är stor. Revisorn är ett sätt för att bekräfta informationen och öka trovärdigheten för räkenskaperna. Detta ledde till vår problemformulering: Förändras trovärdigheten i ett bolags finansiella rapporter om aktiebolaget väljer bort revisionen? Vilka konsekvenser får det för bolagen i relation till bankerna?Syftet är att få en bild av om trovärdigheten hos ett bolag förändras då de väljer bort revisionen och vilka konsekvenser det kan få.Studien har en deduktiv ansats, vilket innebär att vi började med datainsamling och teorier.

We came across the discussion about the so-called duty to report (14 kap 1 § SoL) and we found some previous research, showing that preschool teachers are hesitant to report, and that they want real evidence that children are being mistreated, even though the duty to report clearly states that they have to report as soon as they suspect that a child is being mistreated. Our purpose became to study what tendencies and conditions preschool teachers and Principals, placed in the municipalities of Hässleholm and Kristianstad, have to fulfil their duty to report according to the social services act, when there is a well founded suspicion that a child is being mistreated.  We split the purpose into the following research questions:   Do local guidelines about how preschool teachers should act when suspecting that a child is being mistreated exist, and are they being followed? To what degree does the staff has knowledge about these guidelines? How do preschool teachers experience the treatment from colleagues, Principals and social welfare officers when they´ve done or wanted to do a report? How do preschool teachers experience the reactions of a report from custodians? We did conversational interviews with two Principals, one from the municipality of Hässleholm, and one from the municipality of Kristianstad. We also made focusgroup interviews with the staff, three persons each from one of their respective preschools. Our conclusion is that preschool teachers are unwilling to report mistreatment.

Aim The aim of the study is to, from a comparative perspective, examine Principals? view of leadership in successful schools. Questions: How do the Principals describe their own leadership? What subject positions do the Principals take? Method Three Principals were interviewed in the study. The interviews lasted for about 60 minutes.

A description and analysis of the sales process of ERP systems is presented; also the consequences for the parties involved are discussed. The chosen methodological basis is an inductive research design consisting of a case study based on interviews. The analysis of the empirical data is done with a proposed analytical framework. Based on the agency theory, the analysis is tightly knitted together with opportunism. There are three controlling factors: relationships (relationship marketing), contracts (Principal-agent theory), and competition.

This work is a study of how the Principal's educational leadership designs in two different forms of organization. I have chosen to do a comparative study between how two headmasters identify educational leadership, and to what level they feel they can act as educational leaders in their school. The comparison is made between two educational organizations, and two Principals? image, one in Sweden and one in New Zealand. I have chosen interview as method and I have only two respondents on the grounds that is the person's unique perception I want to bring into focus.

The aim of this paper is to see if Sweden has implemented the recommendations and taken notice of the guidelines for employment that the Commission and Council set up every year and from this see the role of the Commission and Council for the national employment politics. The years that I focused on in the paper are year 2000- 2004. The method that is used is a case study research that is exploratory and explanatory. The theoretical starting points are theories about delegation, cooperation and a variation of control and autonomy. This is recognized in the Principal- Agent theory and the Principal- Supervisor-Agent model.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka om Svensk kod för bolagsstyrning har bidragit till förändringar jämfört med tidigare reglering samt praxis och om så är fallet, få en djupare förståelse för vilka dessa förändringar är. Vi kommer även att utreda vilka för- och nackdelar som Koden har fört med sig. Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod, då vi har genomfört tre öppna intervjuer. Vår teoretiska referensram har utgått från Principal-agentteorin och självreglering. Vi har vidare beskrivit regelverket Koden samtidigt som vi har redogjort för remissinstansernas diskussion kring Kodgruppens betänkande.

Sedan år 2005 har det varit obligatoriskt för börsnoterade företag i EU att följa den internationella redovisningsstandarden IFRS 3 vid företagsförvärv. Vid ett företagsförvärv ska förvärvaren allokera kostnaden för förvärvet genom att först värdera de materiella tillgångarna till verkligt värde, sedan de immateriella tillgångarna och till sist allokera det som eventuellt blir över till goodwill. Att identifiera immateriella tillgångar och därmed skilja dem från goodwill anses vara en svår och komplex uppgift. Företagen har kritiserats för att generellt undervärdera immateriella tillgångar och övervärdera goodwill vid företagsförvärv, för att inte lämna tillräcklig information om hur de kommit fram till goodwillbeloppet och för att inte ta uppgiften att identifiera immateriella tillgångar på allvar.Om denna kritik är riktig, vilket mycket talar för, innebär det rimligen att företagsledningarna har ett intresse av att övervärdera goodwill. Detta intresse kan vara helt oegennyttigt, och enbart för företagets bästa, men det kan också vara egennyttigt.

Rapporten syftar till att belysa och analysera den svenska lagstiftningen som har kommit kallas lärarundantaget ur ett mikroekonomiskt perspektiv. Lagtexten reglerar patenträttigheter främst mellan enskilda forskare och högskolor. Syftet med analysen är att kommentera eventuella ekonomiska effekter på utformningen av system för ersättning och dess effekter på incitament att bedriva forskning. Ett resonemang om effektiv riskdelning vid kontraktsformulering förs även. Rapporten bygger främst på ekonomisk litteratur och artiklar publicerade i tidningar med ekonomisk anknytning.

The major difference between venture capital-firms and other financiers is that their business idea is not only providing capital but also knowledge in business development. The ownership structure of an venture capital-firm can be private as well as public. The Swedish government is today one of the major actors in the Swedish venture capital-industry. The purpose of this study is to shed light on how venture capital-firms involve itself in its portfolio firm and if this contributes to an increased value of the portfolio firm. We also try to shed light on differences in how a public and a private venture capital-firm gets involved in its portfolio firm and if there is any difference in how they can contribute to added value.We have chosen to interview two public and two private venture capital-firms and one of their portfolio firms.