Engelsk titel: Greater opportunities than interests : Civic culture and deliberative discourse on Swedish NGO websitesThis is a critical and normative study, which examines a selection of Swedish NGO websites as potential forums for civic culture and deliberative discourse in the public sphere. Sociocultural, political and sociological and media and communication theories are combined.The work is made within a Habermasian tradition, but the importance of a hermeneutic methodology is stressed, along with the sociocultural perspective to reach an understanding of why citizens engage in politics. In contrast to much of the earlier research concerning deliberative discourses on the Internet, a more informal understanding of how people discuss politics is stressed.The questions are: What kind of civic role do the websites discursive dimensions address? What kind of civic identity do the users address in the websites resource dimensions?The empirical results are both discouraging and encouraging for advocates who put their trust in the Internet as a potential civic tool, in these times when neoliberal models of citiziens are prioritizing citizens as consumers, thus neglecting citizens as political actors. The study reveals that the websites show good results in general, regarding the civic roles and identities of the websites as both discourse and resource for the users.

In today?s society it is not uncommon for people to move across borders. We are more likely to work and study in other countries, initiate cross-border relationships, acquire property in other states and change our residence. Therefore it is not uncommon for a per-son to leave inheritance in several states. The laws of succession differ between countries which creates an uncertainty among the devisors when planning their successions.

The thesis strives to reveal the dynamics between a central and a peripheral shopping area in Kalmar, Sweden. The establishment of larger shopping centers has become a hallmark of postindustrial cities. Cities globally are at risk of creating an urban economic rift between the central and peripheral shopping areas. By establishing major shopping venues around the traditional central business districts, cities hope to create a larger customer hinterland and thereby also increased economic growth. The aim of this thesis is answered by two research questions regarding collaboration and competition between two shopping areas; the central Kvarnholmen and peripheral Hansa City Mall.

ABSTRACTSince Robert D. Putnam first wrote about the causes behind the regional differences in economic and political development in Italy, the theory of social capital has truly flourished in the fields of social science. This days you constantly hear politicians and scholars stressing the important role of the quality of the social fabric to a society?s wellbeing. There all looking at ways to construct policies and institutions that help the spread of social capital.

The social dimension in the EU, explored through the document texts of the Treaty of Rome, the Lisbon Strategy, the Social Policy Agenda and the Swedish Strategy ReportThis paper explores the social dimension of EU social policy, except the aspects of the economic and labour market. The EU documents reveal an underlying line of thought stemming from the alignment of the six founding countries, spearheaded by France, with the conservative corporatist welfare model. As one of four European welfare models, the conservative corporatist model emphasises labour market issues, corporate social responsibility and the subsidiarity principle in EU social policy. It also influences how the texts define the terms social, social policy and social exclusion. The definitions determine how policymakers combat problems such as social exclusion and identify the policy issues to be included in EU social policy.The Swedish Strategy shows how the country is responding to the objectives that it has been assigned by the EU and how it plans to attain them.

Title: Culture?s Affect on the Determinants of Customer Satisfaction in Retailing: The Case of a European Retailer in the U.S. and China Date of the Seminar: 29th of May 2007 Course: BUS 809 Master thesis in International Marketing Authors: Lisa Bustamante Chesley Norman Charlotte Valind Advisors: Johan Anselmsson Cecilia Cassinger Keywords: International Retailing, Determinants of Customer Satisfaction, Culture, United States, China Thesis purpose: Our study aims to identify the determinants of customer satisfaction of two national cultures in a global retail setting, in order to clarify what role culture has, if any, in customers? satisfaction with an international retailer. Further, this will uncover if a Western perspective of determinants of satisfaction is a universal means of capturing what satisfies customers across cultures in a retail setting.

Denna uppsats underso?ker hur artisten Jaqe har kunnat sprida sin musik och sitt varuma?rke via sociala medier utan att ha na?gra konton pa? sociala medier registrerade i sitt namn, eller o?verhuvudtaget vara aktiv pa? na?tet.Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att underso?ka ett ho?gst ovanligt marknadskommunikationsfenomen som tycks motsa?ga ra?dande normer inom musikbranschen, fo?r att belysa huruvida man kan bedriva effektiv marknadskommunikation via sociala medier utan att o?verhuvudtaget vara aktiv online. Detta underso?ks genom att kartla?gga och problematisera Jaqes strategi samt ja?mfo?ra den mot Sveriges tva? sto?rsta skivbolags digitala marknadskommunikativa praktiker. Empirin besta?r av fyra kvalitativa expertintervjuer.

This exam paper has been a collaboration between the writers and SYSteam Utvecklingspartner in Huskvarna. The assignment was about finding a need for a mobile application, making a requirement specification document with design documents and parallel to this constructing a prototype. The assignment is summarized in the following questions:? How can companies in the forest industry benefit from mobile information technology?? How can a user centered perspective be used in the process of making the requirement specification document and the design documents?? How do guidelines for usability apply to a mobile application?Three visits to companies in the forest industry were made to find a need for mobile information technology solutions. After a small analysis of the different companies? problems and conditions the decision was to use Tenhults Impregneringsverk AB in the case study.We used the FA/SIM method in our job of finding the organization needs for change and the principles of User Centered Design in the work of constructing a prototype.The result of our work is a requirement specification with design documents and a prototype.

Problem. Sponsorship has increased continuously during the 21st century, however, at the same time the public interest of traditional promotion has been diminishing. The meaning of sponsorship is a very diffuse and therefore the concept needs to be investigated. Due to the multitude of sponsorship and its impreciseness about its financial value, it is difficult to evaluate sponsorship for companies, especially when there is a difficulty in choosing a decent method for evaluation.Purpose. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the concept of sponsorship, motives for sponsorship and evaluation of sponsorship according to the theory and give empirical examples of how these areas are being managed by companies.Method.

Mot bakgrund av den hätska debatt som har förts angående substitutionsbehandling, var syftet med vår uppsats att undersöka och beskriva de professionellas inställning till substitutionsbehandling av heroin-missbrukare ur ett etiskt perspektiv. Vi ville även undersöka de professionellas syn på socialstyrelsens riktlin-jer och kriterier beträffande substitutionsbehandling. Vidare ville vi få en uppfattning om de yrkesverksam-mas åsikter gällande en heroinmissbrukares möjligheter till vård, och detta i jämförelse med andra patient-grupper.Vi kan utläsa att det finns tre inställningar från de intervjuade beträffande substitutionsbehandling. Socialsek-reterarna på substitutionsmottagningen uttrycker att det är den överlägset bästa behandlingsmetoden för hero-inmissbrukare. Socialsekreterare från socialtjänsten är även de positivt inställda men ser inte substitutionsbe-handling som en universal behandling.

Med utgångspunkt i att e-handeln ökat markant de senaste åren, samt att vi tror att enwebbutiks framgång ligger i webbsidans användarvänlighet och unikum, avser vi studerahur en nischad modebutik kan nyttja dagens teknik för att bli mer framgångsrik. Studienfinner grund i ett antal semistrukturerade intervjuer samt en fallstudie av befintligawebbutiker. Med vår teoretiska referensram har vi noga analyserat det insamladematerial vilket vi erhållit under intervjuerna och fallstudien. Den teoretiska referensramenbaseras på teorier vilka behandlar webbdesign och användarvänlighet. Studien byggerpå teorierna Universal Design, Social Actor, designprinciper/designmönster samt detmänskliga systemet.

Utvecklingen går mot att företags andel immateriella tillgångar av de totala tillgångarna ökar och därmed dess betydelse. Immateriella tillgångar saknar fysisk substans och uppfattas som svårbedömda vid värdering. Frågan hur dessa svårbedömda tillgångar ska värderas och om de överhuvudtaget ska aktiveras i balansräkningen har diskuterats livligt de senaste åren. Vissa anser att immateriella tillgångar bör redovisas i balansräkningen för att ge en rättvisande bild av företaget och att modeller bör utvecklas vidare för att möjliggöra en aktivering av tillgångarna. Andra anser att en aktivering kan vara ofördelaktigt för företaget, exempelvis har det i ett experiment framkommit att redovisning av immateriella tillgångar ses som en svaghet.Skivbolag bygger sin verksamhet till stor del på immateriella tillgångar.

Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this thesis is to define and analyse how Swedish record companies work with digital musical content distributors. A more narrow aim is to show how the record companies and with the digital musical content distributors iTunes Music Store and Spotify create incentives for consumer?s to use legal digital music channels through the Internet. To further circle the core of the problem following questions have been asked: How does the record companies provide iTunes Music Store and Spotify with digital content and what is done by the record companies to retain control over the material? How do the record companies view digital musical sales and what incentives are given to consumers to buy music digitally? Finally, What position of power do iTunes Music Store and Spotify have on the digital content arena?Material/Method: The data collected for this thesis is retrieved through personal interviews with representatives from three of the four major record companies Universal Music, Warner Music and EMI and their Swedish branches.Main results: The consumer?s access to digital content through iTunes Music Store and Spotify is of the utmost importance and is a prerequisite.

Three main questions give the fundamental structure for this master thesis: 1) In what way is the notion of law being perceived in the following theologians respectively; David P. Scaer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Wolfhart Pannenberg? 2) In what way is the notion of law being perceived in the encyclical Veritatis Splendor? 3) Which similarities and divergences can be found in the respective expositions of the notion of law?For the purpose of comparison, I have employed four questions of analysis. These are: A) What is ?the law?? B) Is the law being effected, or is it working, in the world and if so - in what ways and for what purposes is it meant to serve? C) Does human beings have any capacities to understand and/or live in accordance to the law? D) Does the Gospel, perceived as the earthly life, actions, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, effect any alteration with respect to the purpose, range, function or interpretation of the law?In order to better understand Roman-Catholic concepts of law, the treatise on law of Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica is briefly presented.

Abstract"Citizen Influence, Forms and Effects - A study of the Resistance Concerning the Establishment of a Juvenile Detention Center in Kristinehamn 2005-2007"Political Science, Johan Utter This essay circles around the concepts of citizenship and the questions if and how citizens in the modern democracy can influence and effect the political decisions made by the governing body on the local level. This is done by the means of a case-study concerning the establishment of an institutional facility for convicted youths in Kristinehamn. The planning of this facility and especially its planned location in Sunneberg aroused a significant negative response from the citizens, demanding a better alternative for the location.The proposition resulted in heavy protests from the citizens as the planned location was viewed as an important recreation area, where the citizens could experience nature first hand, close to the centre of town. As a result, some citizens living close to the planned location, formed a network called "Bevara Sunneberg", whose purpose was to influence the decision-makers and make the citizen?s voices heard.