Bakgrund och problemdiskussion:Sedan Relevance Lost-debatten pÄ 1980-talet har ekonomistyrningen utvecklats. Detta har Àven fÄtt en pÄverkan pÄ controllerns roll inom organisationen. Parallellt med detta har informationsteknologin utvecklats mycket snabbt. Flera studier har undersökt hur ERP-system, som blev vanliga pÄ 1990-talet, har pÄverkat controllerrollen. Efter ERP-systemens intÄg har business intelligence blivit allt högre prioriterat.

10 years ago the School Library ForumÂŽs core activity started; the development of model libraries. Since then, no comprehensive study of the School Library Forum has been made. How does the organization actually work and how do professionals perceive the changes of the organization? Against this background, the purpose of my essay is to examine the activity of the organization School Library Forum with a focus on organization and learning from the viewpoint of the learning organization. The following issues have been helpful to meet the purpose of the study:? How do the business developer, the principals and the school librarians experience the collaboration on the school-libraries model-library activity?? How does the collaboration contribute to learning within the organization according to the business developer, the principals and the school librarians?? How do the business developer, the principals and the school librarians perceive the changes in the School Library ForumÂŽs organization, seen from the perspective of the learning organization?By conducting five interviews with stakeholders in various positions within the organization, such as business developer, principals and school librarians, a deeper insight into how respondents perceive the business from the perspective of the learning organization is obtained.

VÄr uppsats undersöker, om hur möjligheterna för utbyte av information samt samarbete mellan Telecom Citymedlemmarna kan förbÀttras, med ÀndamÄlet att stÀrka deras konkurrenskraft gentemot externa konkurrenter..

Företag letar efter att effektivisera informationsutbytet genom elektronisk handel och fler smÄföretag vÀljer att investera i olika lösningar för att erhÄlla fördelarna med elektronisk handel. Trots nackdelar och barriÀrer anser de intervjuade smÄföretagen som har investerat att det Àr fördelarna som övervÀger och de Àr positiva till en fortsatt investering. De avgörande faktorererna nÀr smÄföretag vÀljer att investera i elektronisk handel och de erfarenheter och resultat företagen har erhÄllit genom investeringen har varit en del av syftet i arbetet..

Businesses role in society is changing. Corporations are expected to take responsibility, not only for their traditional business conduct, but also for social and political issues. A rise in globalization and international trade has led to an increased interest in the concept of CSR. Accordingly, stakeholders are expecting multinational companies to be accountable for existing issues in developing countries. New business models are needed to meet increased expectations of responsibility and shared value creation. Based on an understanding of the need for new business models a multinational corporation is studied in a local context, where a radically new way of doing business is developed.

Growth of small businesses is vital to the Swedish economy, and many entrepreneurs want their enterprises to grow. However, the business climate of today is more changing than ever, and attributes becoming increasingly important for companies in order to deal with this are flexibility, speed, and adaptability: characteristics normally attributed to small enterprises. As a larger organization often is associated with more rigidity as a consequence of a higher degree of formalization, entrepreneurs are hesitant to seize growth opportunities, as they fear it will have negative impact on the aforementioned competitive advantages their enterprise possesses as a small business. This simple case study of a growing small enterprise investigates the effects of organizational growth on a small business' organizational structure and through its above mentioned advantages. The study finds that avoiding formalization while growing damages the competitiveness of the firm, and concludes that a degree of formalization is a necessity to maintain the flexibility, speed and adaptability in a growing small business..

Beslut innebÀr att vÀlja mellan olika alternativa handlingar för att uppnÄ de angivna mÄlen. För att underlÀtta beslutsfattande finns det ett antal olika stödsystem som tar fram underlag till besluten. Vi Àr intresserade av att se hur dessa understödjer strategiskt beslutsfattande och till vilka typer av beslut som de anvÀnds.Uppsatsens syfte Àr att granska beslutsstöds betydelse och hur beslutsstöd kan underlÀtta organisationens verksamhet och dess beslutsprocesser. Vi vill skapa en bakomliggande förstÄelse om beslutstöds anvÀndbarhet och huruvida beslutsstöd anvÀnds, samt i vilken utstrÀckning. Vi vill Àven undersöka de nackdelar som skapas i och med anvÀndandet av beslutsstöd.Studien visar att anvÀndning av Business Intelligence effektiviserar beslutsprocessen och möjliggör för ett ökat proaktivt agerande.

All companies face risk in their daily business. Internationalised companies tend to experience higher risk due to for example unfamiliar business environment than companies that act only on the national market. Estonia became independent as late as in 1991 and is therefore a new interesting market for many companies in neighbouring countries like Sweden. Risks that are most apparent for an internationalised company are political risk, currency risk, capital and interest rate risk, business risk and credit risk. Our intention of this study was to find out how Swedish companies acting on the Estonian market faced the different risks when entering the Estonian market and how they value the risks today.

To start a company on the Internet is something that has appealed a lot of people during the last couple of years. Some of the companies have succeeded in their struggle but a lot of companies have failed to live out their ambition. This paper deals with the concept of e-commerce and aims to study whether or not the companies that has succeeded has made use of business models and what other factors that is important that you wont find in any written theory.The paper also aims to study the concept of business models and what a business model consists of. To be able to do this research we have interviewed three different companies that are all active in e-commerce and have survived for at least three years. Two of the companies are classical web shops that sell products to their customers and the last one is a site with articles about hardware and IT business in general.

This paper is about sensemaking. By using sensemaking we have derived bankruptcy factors from business leaders? own statements about their bankruptcies. The focus in this paper is to ensure how business leaders create meaning about the bankruptcies, which is also our research question.To make the study feasible, we used a method that corresponds well to the purpose of our work. The collection of data started with collecting a number of newspaper articles with direct quotes from business leaders.

Uppsatsens syfte Àr att undersöka vilken ekonomisk betydelse crowdfunding har för företag i uppstartsfasen nÀr de Àr i behov av kapital. Det teoretiska perspektivet vi utgÄtt ifrÄn Àr tvÄ teorier: det finansiella gapet och preferensordningen i pecking order teori. Detta för att se vilken ekonomisk betydelse crowdfunding har för att tÀcka det finansiella behovet och Àven se vart i preferens-ordningen denna finansieringsform hamnar. Det empiriska datainsamlingssÀtt denna studie anvÀnder sig av Àr tvÄ stycken intervjuer med öppna frÄgor. Empirin bestÄr av redovisning av intervjuer med tvÄ respondenter. Studien visar att crowdfunding har en ekonomisk betydelse för företag i uppstartsfasen. Detta genom att vara ett komplement till de traditionella finansieringsformerna. .

Att vi mÀnniskor överöses av kommersiella budskap frÄn företag innebÀr att vi tvingas selektera vilka budskap vi uppfattar. Företags marknadsföring kan vi avskÀrma oss ifrÄn, men hur reagerar vi dÄ vÀnner vill sÀlja produkter till oss? Syftet med studien Àr att undersöka om och i sÄdana fall hur vÀnskapsrelationer och affÀrsverksamheter pÄverkar varandra inom ett nÀtverksföretag, samt belysa dessa effekter. För att besvara syftet har kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts med ÄterförsÀljare inom ett av de största nÀtverksföretagen i Sverige. Studien visar att nÀr ÄterförsÀljare integrerar vÀnskap och affÀrsverksamhet uppnÄs bÄde positiva och negativa effekter.

The communicating home concept has been defined byidentifying the dominating communication technologiesto/from and in the homes, the most important customerbehavior and user needs, the dominating products and thedominating actors of the industry.The evaluation of the communicating home industry has beenperformed with a five forces framework analysis and theoriesregarding value migration and value structures of industries. Ithas been concluded that actors of communication technologies,goods and access services will compete fiercely. The barriersof entry will however be high. When it comes to contentservices the situation is completely different. These actors will,to the largest extent, meet lower competition and low barriersof entry.

Abstract: Hightech EU/Japan ? a research about European hightech companies? interest in establishing business on the Japanese market with the help from a middleman. Subject: Marketing. Problem: The Japanese market is highly developed and therefore interesting for foreign companies. The Japanese culture is very different from the European and this together with the long distance creates problems for European hightech companies to compete on the Japanese market.

Background: During the 2000s, there has been an increased interest in studying business management and strategy implementation with customer focus in public organisations. To achieve business goals it is important to continuously work with strategies to meet customerdemands for increased efficiency and service. Purpose: The aim of the essay is to examine how to work on strategy implementation in a municipal real estate company from a management perspective in order to achieve overall goals. Method: The study?s methodology is a case study based on qualitative telephone interviews that were conducted with representatives in managerial positions from various levels of the company. The choice of the qualitative data was considered relevant in relation to the chosen topic of the thesis. The empirical data was then compared to the theoretical framework of the thesis. Results: Strategies guide the company to achieve the overall goals, which are later on broken down into operational targets.