The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate how contemporary Swedish picture-books describe ethnicity. The analysis is based upon eight books that were published during the period 1996 to 2006. The thesis is based upon a qualitative content analysis and a model of analysis that has been constructed with inspiration from Maria Nikolajeva and Pil Dahlerup and their conceptions of analyzing literature. The study?s theoretical framework is primarily based on the sociology of literature and the perspective of the society in literature.

We have performed a study much similar to Ritter?s (1991) about long-term aftermarket performance of IPOs on the Swedish market during the years 1990 to 2002. The study resulted in evidence for that Swedish IPO do underperforms their benchmark-portfolios during a 36-months period. Though, the grade of underperformance depends of the chosen benchmark. The study is mainly focused on a particular benchmark, a portfolio of non-issuing firms matched by size and sector.

Såväl den teoretiska världen som näringslivet domineras idag av exempel på outsourcing, men under senare år har exempel på motsatsen demonstrerats. Scania är ett av dessa exempel. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa Scanias motiv för att insourca i en tid då outsourcing synes vara den mest utbredda trenden.För att besvara uppsatsens syfte har en kvalitativ fallstudie utförts genom att intervjua personer i Scanias verkställande ledning. Ett inourcingbeslut är av strategisk betydelse och är tätt sammankopplat med definitionerna av vad som är företagets kärnverksamhet och vilka dess konkurrensfördelar är. Scania ser produktion i allmänhet, och den av motornära komponenter i synnerhet, som kärnkompetens.

For a long time economic tax equalization system in Sweden has been creating dispute between Swedish communities. Despite the main purpose of the system - to reduce disparities and create equal economic opportunities for all communities ? some regions were not satisfied.The main purpose of this study is to determine what extant has equalization tax on investment spending of Danderyd municipality during 2000-2010 year period. The study is based on annual reports and personal interviews. The theoretical frame of the investigation is founded on Fjertorp's classification of investments and public choice theory.The investigation shows that there were no significant changes neither in investment spending or equalization tax during 2000-2010 period, even after the last changes of economic tax equalizations system in 2005.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to examine the discourses of concepts related to diversity and ethnicity in Swedish cultural policy. It focuses on how the society is presented in different contexts and how people with a different ethnic origin than the majority, are represented in the cultural policy of the Swedish State. The study is restricted to concern immigrants. Six governmental cultural policy documents, reaching over a time period of eight years 1995-2003 are examined as follows: Which key terms are used in the presentations? Which contexts and discourses can be distinguished? Have the discourses changed over the time period examined, and if so, how? The theoretical starting point in the thesis is the discourse perspective of Laclau and Mouffe.

Fiscal policy and its consequences have attracted much attention on both academic and societal level, in Sweden and elsewhere. However, the dependence between fiscal policy on municipality level and business cycles has only recently sparked a debate among Swedish economists. Studies point out that a law which came to force in 2000, balanskravet, may have caused municipalities to lower expenditures, alternatively raising taxes, during recessions. This thesis examines how the level of municipality taxes depends on business cycle fluctuations and the impact that balanskravet has had on this correlation. We employ econometric regressions, with annual data covering the period 1980-2014, to enable an analysis of the dependence between taxes and business cycles, both before and after the introduction of balanskravet.

Detta examensarbete utfördes på uppdrag av Scania. Målet var att ta fram koncept på en stänkskärm som skall placeras över den andra framaxel på lastbilar med dubbla framaxlar. Det togs även fram en uppskattning kring hur mycket värde en sådan skärm skulle skapa åt Scania. Dubbla framaxlar används då vikten över lastbilens främre del är så stor att den behöver delas upp på två axlar. Endast 8% av de lastbilar Scania säljer behöver dubbla framaxlar.

Vid ett G20 möte i Pittsburgh den 26 september 2009 togs ett beslut om att marknaden för OTC-derivatkontrakt behövde någon form av reglering. Tidigare hade brist på insyn medfört att det var svårt att uppskatta de risker som dessa kontrakt innebar. Detta kom att leda till att regelverket EMIR implementerades i Europeiska unionen. De huvudsakliga åtaganden som EMIR kom att innebära var ett rapporteringskrav gällande dessa affärer, ett clearingkrav vid omfattande användning av dessa typer av kontrakt samt implementering av förfaranden för att minska risk. I regelverket sägs dock att clearingkravet undantas om det går att bevisa att de ingångna OTC-derivatkontrakten motverkar risk i ett företags verksamhet och ej är ingångna i spekulationssyfte.Då EMIR påverkar alla de aktörer som använder sig av OTC-derivatkontrakt påverkar även detta regelverk Scania.

Tillverkningslinan för växellådans ingående axel har funnits i sitt nuvarande utförande sedan sensommaren 2013. Omställningstiden för linan översteg med råge det önskade, vilket ledde till långa stopptider och förlorad produktionstid. Under de förutsättningar som rådde hamnar genomsnittet för omställningstiden någonstans i intervallet 3-4 timmar, men tider kring 6 timmar hör inte till ovanligheterna. Målet med uppdraget var att, på den observerade linan, sänka omställningstiden till 30 minuter samtidigt som produkternas kvalitet bibehålls. Ett delmål under arbetets gång var att skapa förutsättningar för att tidsvariationen minskas samt att det definieras hur omställningstiden på linan ska mätas.

This is a reception study on how the idea of Paneuropa, as launched by the austrian count Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923, was received by the political weekly magazine Tidevarvet, a product of ? and an opinion forming organ for ? the social liberal wing of the Swedish suffrage- and peace movements. The main purpose is to examine to what extent there was an existent Europeanism in the public debate in Sweden during the interwar period, and how that discourse was constructed through the conceptual pairings disruption/unity and parts/whole. The study is conducted mainly through discourse analysis, combined with partly new research into sources such as the parliament, the newspapers and civil society to try to initiate a mapping over the wider reception of the Paneuropa project in a Swedish context. The study finds that the subject of Paneuropa is present throughout the almost entire period of the publication, namely 1924?1936, and that the question of a federal Europe is closely connected to the pacifist attitude of the editorial staff in general and writer/editor Elin W?gner in particular.

The purpose of this thesis was to analyze conception and foaling results of Swedish warmblood and Standardbred trotters using breeding statistics during the years 2000-2006. Key issues in this thesis were: Have the conception and foaling results of stallions changed during the period 2000-2006? What is the effect of the use of various breeding methods? Is testicle size correlated with conception and foaling results? How important are age, breed and level of inbreeding of the stallion for conception and foaling results? Breeding statistics were available for 537 Swedish Warmblood stallions and 305 Standardbred trotter stallions. To be included in the analyses, a stallion must have mated at least ten mares in total over the period 2000-2006. This criterion was met by 313 Swedish Warmblood stallions and 272 Standardbred trotter stallions.

The market of fruit and vegetables develops continuously to become tougher and more complex. The fast development makes it difficult to keep up with all the changes. This is the case for apples and tomatoes. The purpose of this work is to explain what the trade routes are like for Swedish imports as well as the Swedish production of tomatoes and apples, both in the present and the past times. There is also an ambition to create comprehension of the trade routes.

In order for companies to be competitive they perform different types of development projects.  Due to globalization a greater focus is added on costs, not least on costs in development projects. Project controllers are involved in development projects in order to review the financial aspects. The authors have examined the role that project controllers hold in respect of two Swedish manufacturers, Volvo CE and Scania CV. The investigation has revolved around three main issues where the authors conducted interviews with controllers that do not work in development projects and project controllers in development projects. The goal of the interviews was to gain a greater understanding of the role of project controllers, how this role will differ from those that do not work in development projects and the difficulties faced by project controllers.

The Swedish Lapphund is one of our eleven Swedish domestic breeds of dogs and one of Sweden?s oldest dogbreeds. The Finnish Lapphund?s origin and physical conformation is similar to that of the Swedish Lapphund. One aim of this study was to examine whether the average litter size differs between these two closely related breeds, and if so, try to find causes for this.

Scania CV AB i Södertälje har länge haft ett behov av att kvalitetssäkra de prototypartiklar som köps in till tester. I dagsläget tvingas kvalitetsingenjörerna att fokusera på artiklar som ska gå till serieproduktion vilket medför en osäkerhet i hur väl prototyperna stämmer med de ritningar och specifikationer som tagits fram. Genom en utveckling av tre arbetsdokument och en arbetsmetod för anskaffning av prototypartiklar finns nu en struktur som tillgodoser de behov som finns för kvalitetssäkring av prototypartiklar. Quality Assurance of Prototype Parts (QAPP) utgår ifrån teorier om hur kvalitetssäkringsarbete ska utvecklas samt ur empiriskt material från fallföretaget. QAPP är nu testat i pilotgrupper och kommer att arbetas vidare med av förvaltningsgrupper på fallföretaget..