The main purpose of this Master´s thesis, is to describe and discuss what constitutes the library collaboration between The Swedish Royal Library and the National Library of Guatemala, but also to analyse which effects the support has for public library work in Guatemala. The data consists of interviews and direct-observations during 2 months of fieldwork in Guatemala, Central America. The analysis is based on literature studies combined with the answers from the respondents and other results from the field work. We have found above all three factors to be of importance in the constitution of the collaboration between the National Library in Guatemala and the Swedish Royal Library: the Swedish library discourse, the Swedish aid discourse and the relationship between the people involved with the project. The library discourse in Sweden and in Guatemala emphasizes different aspects of the work.

The purpose of this study is to explore students? perceptions and experiences of the school-subject Swedish. Ten qualitative interviews with students in school year nine have been carried out and the results of these interviews constitute the basis of this study. The result shows that students have a straight-forward attitude towards Swedish as a school-subject. The students identify skills such as reading, writing and speaking, and work in school mainly concerns perfecting these skills. The students think of Swedish as a subject with a clear purpose and find it important and useful. The result also shows that the students want grading for the purpose of further motivation.

På grund av den ökade konkurrensen på världsmarknaden krävs det att företag ständigt utvecklas för att hålla sin position på marknaden. Nätverksstrukturen kan vara ett av många sätt att möta den hårda konkurrensen på mellan företagen. Uppsatsen behandlar två nätverksorganisationer med olika strukturer och arbetssätt där det ena företaget är uppbyggt utifrån ett franchisekoncept och det andra utifrån en federativ organisation samt strategisk allians. Syftet är att se hur organisationerna är uppbyggda samt belysa likheter och skillnader mellan dessa två företag. Uppsatsen bygger på en kvalitativ ansats med djupgående intervjuer med två delägare i Mäkleriet AB och med VD:n i JK Försäkringar AB..

Södra in Oskarström has the ambition to become the best client for silviculture contractors and another aim is that the contractors should feel a strong sense of community with Södra. Several factors play an important role in order for these ambitions to be realized. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the contractors feel about their business relationship with Södra. The study was conducted during the spring of 2015 through a questionnaire which was sent to all ten silviculture contractors working with Södra in Oskarström. Overall, it seemed like the contractors were satisfied with the collaboration.

Domestic violence against women is a widespread problem around the world, this study aims to investigate Swedish men?s attitudes towards this problem. To investigate this I have done a historic overview of the political attitude change and I interviewed two ethnic Swedish men and two men with a foreign background, this because to get a fair representation of our multicultural society. The results and conclusions is that the attitude haven?t changed that much over the years, it is mostly the latest decades that politicians and the medial debate have acknowledge the imbalance of power between the genders and that the patriarchy is a major factor towards this attitude.The interviewed showed that the men with foreign background had a tendency to have more traditionally attitude towards women then the Swedish men..

Systematic quality work in preschool ? How preschool teachers thinking and working with systematic quality work The purpose of this study was to investigate how Swedish preschool teachers thinking and working with systematic quality work. All Swedish preschools are required to work systematically with quality. This involves several steps that follow each other in a specific order. It includes following up, documenting and evaluating preschool activities.

Det finns starka skäl att tro att pengar spelar mer än enbart en materiell roll för våra organisationers styrning, utveckling och beteende. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är att det finns en annan sida av myntet som åberopar pengars symboliska värden.  Med en djupdykning i det teoretiska perspektivet om kulturen som ett styrmedel kan vi förstå pengar som det symboliskt indirekta som utgör ett väsentligt verktyg i skapandet av det system som leder till en mer lönsam organisation. Med hjälp av ett kulturellt perspektiv på organisation och ledning kan vi alltså förstå hur vi kan skapa ett system som ökar de anställdas prestation och organisationens effektivitet.  Den återstående frågan är hur vi praktiskt går tillväga.Syftet för uppsatsen är att undersöka hur ledningen kan gå tillväga för att skapa att belöningssystem baserat på kulturella mekanismer som leder till effektivare prestationer och en mer lönsam organisation.För att undersöka hur vi praktiskt kan gå tillväga för att skapa det system som leder oss fram till effektivare prestationer utförs en etnografisk fältstudie av företag Y mot bakgrund av de erfarenheter författaren har med sig från deltagande vid företag X.

Introduction and background: The 1990s crisis and the global financial crisis year 2008 shows the same indications that the property market was affected negative. The Swedish Property companies had a difficult time on the market when the crisis led to decreased property trade and financing problems for the Property companies. The Swedish property companies became less attractive on the market and contributed to a drop in prices on investment property.Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine if there is any relation between the Swedish Property companies impairments on their investment property and the global financial crisis year 2008.Method: The essay is based on a quantitative study where we examined Swedish Property companies? annual reports. We answered our questions and our purpose from the empirical data that we collected from the annual reports.Conclusions: The study resulted in that we found a correlation between the Swedish Property companies? impairments on their investment properties and the global financial crisis year 2008.

Studiens syfte är att utreda hur de egenskaper, som kännetecknar Swedish Meats förtroendemannaorganisation, påverkar företagets framgång i termer av volym- och medlemsutveckling. Denna utvärdering görs genom en jämförelse med Danish Crowns förtroendemannaorganisation. Danish Crown har rönt stora framgångar och är världens största köttexportör medan Swedish Meats har haft svårt att visa positiva resultat. Studien bygger på två teorier, nämligen situationssynsättet och agentteori. Med dessa teorier som grund formuleras ett antal hypoteser, från vilka frågor härleds till den intervjuguide som används vid intervjuerna. Det empiriska materialet samlas in genom kvalitativa, personliga intervjuer med åtta förtroendevalda i Swedish Meats och fem i Danish Crown. I Swedish Meats intervjuas ordförande i styrelsen, två styrelseledamöter, ordförande i förvaltningsrådet samt fyra regionrådsordföranden.

Within the interconnected global markets of today; people, products, and information travel at a pace never met before. In light of the global retail markets recent integration, consumers are opened up to new products and are beginning to develop a vetted interest in the heritage of those products. Within literature this process has been coined "Country of Origin" COO, and its impacts on consumer attitudes, product value- assessment, and overall behaviors has been one of the most emphasized areas of "international business" studies, during the last three decades. Numerous studies have shown a correlation between positive or advantageous associations to a country of origin, and the actual products representing and coming out of that country. It is by this synergetic process that so-called positive COO-effects are brought forth.The goal of this thesis stems directly from the still unexplored potential for Swedish firms to differentiate their products and brands on new international markets, through a strategic and coherent communication of relevant Swedish COO-effects.

Aim Capoeira is a sport and art form strongly associated with the Brazilian culture. The main aim of the study was to examine how the capoeira is introduced into the Swedish society. Also to study the practitioners and trainers experience around the culture meeting. The questions were the following: What differences and similarities exist within capoeira in Sweden and Brazil? How are Swedish practitioners and trainers from a Western culture affected by the culture meeting? How are the Brazilian coaches in Sweden affected by the culture meeting? Is there a Culture crash between the Brazilian and Western cultures in capoeira? MethodQualitative interviews were chosen as an approach because it was considered appropriate in terms of the purpose and questions of the study.

The transformational leadership and the Swedish Armed Forces? basic outlook on pedagogy are two factors that affect a Swedish military officer. The author has identified a need of understanding the process of personal development. An understanding that couldn?t be supplied by the transformational leadership but that was found in the Swedish Armed Forces? basic outlook on pedagogy.

This essay explores the Swedish state?s geopolitical view and creation, of the spatial spaces in and of the Arctic. With a critical geopolitical framework, a discourse analysis is conducted on the Swedish strategy for the arctic region, with the ambition to unfold the underlining spatial spaces, actors and dramas that this discourse creates. The result of this analysis shows that Sweden creates three different Arctic spaces within its geopolitical discourse; a Swedish Arctic, a Nearby Arctic and a Regional Arctic. This has major political consequences, which will be illuminated in the essay.

Studies have shown that user participation is a good method when improving or developing a product. The method gives a company insight in what the customer wants and needs. It has also been shown that user participation benefits all parts included. For example, it creates a greater relationship with customers than most other methods do. Webportals is one of the most interactive systems online and it gives companies a unique chance to improve and maintain their relationship with customers.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att klarlägga om Högkvarterets arbetssätt och organisation medgeratt Försvarsmakten kan ledas i enlighet med sin ledningsfilosofi. Uppsatsen svarade påföljande huvudfrågeställning; Vilket mervärde ger det att använda olikaorganisationsteoretiska resonemang och perspektiv vid en studie av Försvarsmaktensledningsorganisation? Den Högkvartersorganisation som studerades var HKV 03, fokus lågpå central nivå och det var materialet Högkvarteret använde för att kommunicera sinledningsfilosofi, organisation och arbetssätt till övriga i organisationen som användes somkällor. Den teoretiska ramen utgjordes främsta av Bolman & Deals nya framgångsfaktoreroch Ashkenas fyra perspektiv att studera organisationer på. I uppsatsen användes en kvalitativmetod med en kombination av induktiv och deduktiv ansats och ett hermeneutisktförhållningssätt.