Dairy farms have during a long time been under pressure and this situation was aggravated during the spring and summer of 2009, when profitability declined to historically low levels. Lower milk price and relatively high input prices have caused Swedish dairy farms great liquidity concerns and profitability problems. For a long time, Denmark has been identified as a leading country for the agrarian development with a leading structural rationalization and willingness to grow. In 2009, it was shown that the Danish agriculture, which is generally more leveraged, has difficulties in maintaining profitability and when market price of land started to fall, the proportion of technically insolvent agricultural enterprises rose dramatically. In light of this prevailing situation, this study highlights differences between Denmark and Sweden with the hope to learn from each other.

Our study illustrates health communication in order to find out how widespread the knowledge is about osteoporosis and how to reach out with health information to the public. Our essay was conducted through quantitative surveys, which included 402 respondents. This in order to highlight the prevailing uncertainty about the public disorder osteoporosis, which is common in Sweden. We wish to examine trough which channels our respondents choose to collect their health information. The thesis framework includes theories such as McGuire?s ProcessingTheory, Agenda setting, Two-step hypothesis and Diffusion of innovation. Through these theories, we analyzed our empirical data that emerged. The results showed that our respondents had very low knowledge of osteoporosis, although theyshowed interest for health information. The results also showed that respondents were consistent intheir actions regarding which channels they came to turn to. They prefered their health informationfrom news papers and family, friends and work colleagues. When asked where they got their information from, the respondents answered mostly from family, friends and work colleagues, followed closely by newspapers. This shows that respondents are more receptive to informationfrom the channels of their own choice. The results also showed that the propensity to change behavior increases with the age of the respondents..

This study deals with one particular instance of foreign policy change in Sweden; The political take-off for enhanced Nordic Defence and Security Cooperation in the beginning of the 21st century which led to an agreement on a Nordic declaration on slolidarity. The aim of this study is to explain why the political development has undergone a rapid upturn and when such a policy change occur. Its purpose is to explain what factors and conditions that influenced the policy change. It also explores the meaning of the Nordic Declaration of Solidarity. The theoretical point of departure is Foreign Policy Analysis combined with John Kingdons policy-window theory.

Today digital guides are most frequently used by the museum and tourism industries. They are also used for education purposes. They make it possible to distribute information and have it easily accessible. In addition to written information they add sound, pictures and videos which lift the whole impression of the visited place to a higher level. A variety of systems currently in use today have been evaluated.

Allianser och interventionerEn studie av hur familjer upplevt en öppenvårdsinsatsoch hur behandlingseffekt kvarstårSammanfattningI Sverige utreds årligen uppskattningsvis 100 000 barn av socialtjänstens individ- och famil-jeomsorg och antalet strukturerade öppenvårdprogram har i det närmaste fördubblats sedan 1999. Många av dessa insatser har kommit att ersätta den traditionella institutionsvården. I och med ökningen av att antalet unga som numera hamnar i strukturerade öppenvårdsprogram behövs mer kunskap om såväl innehåll som resultat. Denna studies syfte är att undersöka och belysa en öppenvårdsverksamhets, i en mellansvensk kommun, innehåll d.v.s. vilka föränd-ringar som familjerna kan beskriva har skett samt om positiva förändringar kvarstår efter be-handling.

Sammanfattning Uppsatsens titel: Betydelsen av förtroende i ett strategiskt samarbete Seminariedatum: 2005-01-12 Kurs: FEK 582, Kandidatseminarium, 10 poäng Författare: Sofia Forsgren Malin Levén Christopher Norman Handledare: Nadja Sörgärde Fem nyckelord: Strategiska samarbeten, Förtroende, Förändring, SAS, Relationer Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka hur det kommer sig att samarbetet mellan två parter i en strategisk allians kan fortsätta trots minskat förtroende. Metod: Vi använder oss av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod där vårt fallföretag är SAS. Vår empiri består av både primär- och sekundärdata och ansatsen är av abduktiv natur. Teoretiska perspektiv: Det finns mycket forskning om strategiska allianser inom flygindustrin och teorin betonar vikten av ett gott förtroende mellan de samarbetande parterna. Uppenbart är dock att förtroendet mellan företagen sjunker när yttre faktorer tvingat en eller flera medlemmar i en allians att ändra sin strategi så att den i viss mån strider mot alliansens uttalade, såsom exempelvis i en lågkonjunktur.

Allianser och interventionerEn studie av hur familjer upplevt en öppenvårdsinsatsoch hur behandlingseffekt kvarstårSammanfattningI Sverige utreds årligen uppskattningsvis 100 000 barn av socialtjänstens individ- och famil-jeomsorg och antalet strukturerade öppenvårdprogram har i det närmaste fördubblats sedan 1999. Många av dessa insatser har kommit att ersätta den traditionella institutionsvården. I och med ökningen av att antalet unga som numera hamnar i strukturerade öppenvårdsprogram behövs mer kunskap om såväl innehåll som resultat. Denna studies syfte är att undersöka och belysa en öppenvårdsverksamhets, i en mellansvensk kommun, innehåll d.v.s. vilka föränd-ringar som familjerna kan beskriva har skett samt om positiva förändringar kvarstår efter be-handling.

Studies have shown that mergers and acquisitions often fail and that a reason to this might be that investment banks do not take any responsibility for the post merger integration. Despite this there have been no studies of the potential benefits of an investment bank taking a holistic approach to the M&A-process and including post merger integration in its service. This study identifies a couple of investment banks that does this and calls them holistic investment banks. In M&A-theory a successful process is often described according to so called success factors that need to be fulfilled in order to achieve a successful result of the merger or acquisition. The business model and work approach of one holistic investment bank is analyzed in this case study on the base of seven success factors from established theories.

A central question is what view of communication is dominating in a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. The study deals with communication theory from two different perspectives; the view of transmission and the view of creation of meaning. Falkheimer and Heide (2003) claim that the view of transmission is one-way communication where the receivers apprehend passivly. In the view of creation of meaning the goal is to develop and strengthen the common notion that exists in a group. Empirical studies were done, that consisted of qualitative interviews with politicians, directors of the municipality, and principals from three childcare and school areas, and also from one upper secondary school.

The Swedish sports retail industry has experienced extensive growth during the last decade, and this has attracted new entrants to the market, both start-ups and international followers. This has inevitably put more pressure on incumbents, which are now confronted with major challenges as how to retain their customers and market shares. Customer loyalty has been proved to be an important factor for customer retention and proposed to constitute inertia of switching behavior. In light of this problematization, the purpose of this study is to describe the underlying factors of loyalty and whether purchase habits could further explain customer loyalty. The aim is also to understand the strategic implications of the factors involved.

Följande studie syftar till att belysa hur organisationer idag arbetar med att mäta och följa upp sina immateriella resurser, vilket i denna studie avser personal. Vi lever idag i ett kunskaps- och tjänstesamhälle vilket innebär att människans bidrag i form av humankapital generellt värderas högre än materiella tillgångar. Dessutom medför en ökad globalisering ett hårdare affärsklimat och konkurrens. En konsekvens blir därför att organisationer för sin överlevnad måste vara allt mer lönsamma, vilket ökar vikten av en rätt hanterad personalresurs som kan generera kostnadsfördelar. Med den bakgrunden bör organisationer fokusera på metoder som kan synliggöra den allt viktigare personalresursen.

The purpose of this Master thesis is to examine theinformation use and information seeking behaviour amongpersons who actively work with information. For this study,interviews have been conducted with a group of six personswho work with information in information intensiveorganizations. The aim is to answer the following questions:What kind of information is connected to the respondents?work tasks? What is the purpose of their search forinformation? Which information sources do they use and whatkind of information sources do they demand? The theoreticalframework consists mainly of Wilsons information needs andinformation seeking model.The results of this study show that none of the respondentshad any strategic model for their work with information. Theinformation that the respondents were searching for is ofdifferent content and depends on the organization in which therespondent operates.

The first aim of this thesis is to descriptively identify and chart the activities of the strategic intelligence and environmental scanning that take place at the regional collaboration network Regionförbundet Örebro. This identification is essential in reaching the comprehensive and primary aim of the thesis: to discuss, through normative discourse, what the options of improvement are and in which ways systematic operations can be integrating parts in the organization. In order to offer guidance of development from the perspectives of environmental scanning, the question at issue has emanated from activities concerning the present methods of working at Regionförbundet Örebro.During the creation of this thesis, several interviews have been made with people who are regarded to be key roles within the regional collaboration network. An analysis has been made, based on governing documents and answers from the interviews, where possible improvements of the business have been identified. The inferences become parts of a greater potential of amelioration since they are presented as active solutions and proposals that can be directly adaptable to the organization.Our proposals of improvements/ameliorations are constituted by a number of concrete/explicit points such as: a wider public information supply and an introduction of several annual routines and methods..

Att samarbeta över företagsgränser är inget nytt fenomen, utan har förekommit sedan lång tid tillbaka som en lösning på omvärldens osäkerhet. Allt eftersom konkurrensen bland parter på marknaden växer blir den omgivande osäkerheten allt större. Detta medför att företag kontinuerligt söker nya möjligheter att överleva marknadens förändringar. Bildande av nätverk är därför något som under de senaste åren blivit ett alltmer populärt sätt för företag att hantera dessa omgivningsförändringar. En stor anledning till detta förfarande är att dagens företag inte besitter all den kunskap som behövs för att kunna konkurrera på marknaden, vilket kan erhållas genom ett nätverkssamarbete.

The aim of this study is to investigate leadership in sports organizations and business organizations. The study focused on common and important leadership components and the most important leadership processes in both business context and sports context. The study also investigated common and important leadership components, leadership challenges and which degree leaders used the transformative leadership. The study focuses on leadership components most importantly from the leaders view, including both sport managers and business leaders. The investigation was based on eight interviews, which are analyzed with content analysis.