ABSTRACT This essay is about traffic analysis of Web servers. The purpose is to investigate if companies analyse the traffic on the Web server and if they use this information to create more than simple statistic reports. The questions that we will answer are the following: ? How common is traffic analysis on the Web server among companies? ? Is the Web administrator limited in analysing the Web traffic, if the company has the website on a Web hotel? ? Does the company uses the results they get from analysing the traffic on the Web server for updates and changes on the Web page? To answer these questions we made a questionnaire investigation by telephone interviewing the companies? webmasters. The extent of the investigation was 20 companies in Blekinge. The information we gathered from the investigation showed that it is becoming more common that companies analyse the traffic on the Web page and that they uses the information to more than statistic reports, for example updates and changes of the Web page.

Title: Shall I, shall I not? ? A study of how the intention to engage in entrepreneurial behaviour in Norrbotten is influenced by the financial support from the Structural Funds and the establishment of Ikea in the city of Haparanda. Author: Erica Carlson Tutor: Professor Carin Holmquist/ Docent Monica Lindgren Purpose:The purpose of this thesis is to study what aspects that cause the intention to start a company. Therefore this thesis will look at two different situations, the Structural Funds and the establishment of Ikea in Norrbotten, to try to find out if and how these two situations affect the intention among potential entrepreneurs to engage in entrepreneurial behaviour. Method: A qualitative method is used, since this thesis aims at getting an understanding of a specific phenomena; the intention to entrepreneurial behaviour.

Tendensen att försöka hitta de affÀrsmÀssiga argumenten (business case) för CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility eller företagens sociala ansvarstagande) började framtrÀda pÄ 1990-talet. VetenskapsmÀnnen insÄg dÄ att en enda forskningsdisciplin inte kan förklara hur företagens arbetssÀtt med CSR-frÄgor kan förbÀttra deras ?bottom line? och sÄledes bidra till en hÄllbar utveckling av samhÀllet. BÄde teoretiker och praktiker har vÀnt sin uppmÀrksamhet mot framgÄngsrika företag (bÀsta praxis).  I korthet innebÀr ett business case inom CSR ett besvarande av frÄgan ?Vilka fördelar har företagen och samhÀllet av CSR??.

Resultatet av denna undersökning och detta arbete har visat pÄ ett ifrÄgasÀttande av systemet, av sÄvÀl anstÀllda som chefer. Huvudanledningarna Àr framförallt okontrollerbarheten, den lÄga motivationsfaktorn och vad belöningen grundar sig pÄ. VÄr slutprodukt bestÄr av ett antal förslag till förbÀttringar av Kopparmyntet inom Swedbank.

Saab Aerosystems have had one dominating product, JAS 39 Gripen, and one dominating customer, FMV, for a long time. The operations management system at Aerosystems is adjusted for development of Gripen and as the business unit is trying to enter new markets with other products and customer the operations needs to be adjusted to fit the development and manufacturing of these products as well.The purpose of the master thesis has been to investigate how Aerosystems is managing requirements on operations from external customers and how to make improvements within this area. The aim has been to carry out a situation analysis to identify where improvements are possible and then produce proposals for improvements through studies of literature and other business units. The thesis also include a study of knowledge transfer within the business unit to investigate how this can be applied to improve the managing of requirement on the operations.An extensive interview study has been carried out in which interviews mainly have been conducted with employees at Aerosystems, but also at Saab Avitronics and Saab Aerostructures. The reason why these business units have been examined is because they have carried out a large number of successful businesses with external customers, which also are potential customers for Aerosystems in the future.The interviews have been analysed to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with the present way of working.

In the year of 2002 a new council regulation on community designs was implemented. In the beginning of the essay the legal situtation before the implementation is investigated and part of the purpose is to evaluate if it constitutes a solution to the problems with protection of fashion designs that existed then. Because fashion designs more or less were excluded from protection during the period before the implementation the fashion business developed a habit of unauthorized reproduction. This attitude among the market players is a central point of the essay. The essay starts off with a review of the earlier lack of possibilities regarding the protection of fashion designs.

Public concern and the need of responsible way of doing business have brought forward the issue of sustainability at the forefront of discussion in the last decade. Even though, food retailers are playing an important role in the economy, they are exposed for criticism by media and consumers for any socially and environmentally irresponsible business practices because, the potential environmental and social impacts from their operations are significant. These impacts need to be recognized and properly addressed. The main objective of this study was to assess the sustainable business management of a cooperative food retail business in Sweden, known as Konsum VĂ€rmland (KV). The necessary data and information on history and status of KV, and its practical activities concerning the implementation of sustainable development programs as well as the motivation and challenges encountered by KV during the implementation were gathered via reviewing different documents, research papers and press releases; interviewing decision makers and other personnel in KV and other researchers from Swedish University of Agricultural University who have investigated KV.

Syftet med uppsatsen Àr att studera hur risker kan minimeras vid outsourcing inom klinisk prövning i ett mindre biotekniskt företag. Studien bygger pÄ en kvalitativ fallstudie, vilken huvudsakligen Àr baserad pÄ intervjuer med nyckelpersoner inom fallföretaget Active Biotech. Genom denna studie har vi kommit fram till att de mest kritiska riskerna vid outsourcing inom klinisk prövning kan hÀrledas till förlust av kompetens eller förlorad kontroll över leverantören. En vÀl utarbetad outsourcingstrategi bÄde pÄ kort och lÄng sikt Àr dÀrför av betydelse för att minimera risker vid outsourcing av klinisk prövning..

Every year, thousands tons of edible food are discarded by the grocery stores. This is food that could have gone to people that?s in need of it. In many countries, so called food banks are established in order to supply welfare organizations with this kind of food. Today there is no equivalent system existing in Sweden.

Fenomenen mobilitet och mobila IT-tjÀnster Àr nÄgot som Àr mycket aktuellt idag inom flera sektorer. Mobilitet förknippas med ett oberoende av att vara pÄ en viss plats vid en viss tid och det kan skapa helt nya förutsÀttningar för kommunikation mellan medarbetare som jobbar i fÀlt eller Àr pÄ resande fot. Att kunna införa mobila IT-tjÀnster i sin verksamhet Àr för företag nÄgot som kan öka effektiviteten, spara resurser och minska fel i rapporteringen. TransportnÀringen, vÄrden, service och underhÄll, försÀljning, övervakning Àr verksamhetsomrÄden dÀr mobila IT-tjÀnster införts som hjÀlpmedel. OmrÄdet har dock kantats av sÄvÀl missbedömningar som succéer.

De allra flesta av oss kommer stÀndigt i kontakt med olika dataflöden vilket har blivit en helt naturlig del av vÄrt nutida informationssamhÀlle. Dagens företag agerar i en stÀndigt förÀnderlig omvÀrld, och hantering av data och information har blivit en allt viktigare konkurrensfaktor. Detta i takt med att den totala datamÀngden i den digitala vÀrlden har ökat kraftigt de senaste Ären. En benÀmning för gigantiska datamÀngder Àr Big Data, som har blivit ett populÀrt begrepp inom IT-branschen. Big Data kommer med helt nya analysmöjligheter, men det har visat sig att mÄnga företag Àr oroliga för hur de ska hantera och ta tillvara pÄ de vÀxande datamÀngderna.

The purpose of this Masters thesis was to examine women printers conditions in Sweden from 1483 to 1883. Women printers usually inherited their printing businesses from their husbands. We wanted to examine the circumstances surrounding women printers, how they managed to keep their companies and for how long. Of these 108 women we also wanted to focus on one in particular, Mrs Fougt. Mrs Fougts ownership of Kongl.

Globalization allows companies to expand and establish themselves in other markets, which can have unexpected consequences for those who are not aware of the controversy or sacrifices that are required, and Gothenburg, Sweden is not an exception. The study has focused on two institutional theories that can explain whathappens when a foreign direct investment takes place, Institutional work and Institutional duality. The study was conducted at Business Region Gothenburg and the interviews took place at department of establishment and investment. The result shows that to overcome institutional barriers they use networking, relations, and marketing of the region of Gothenburg as examples. The paper also argues that by performing some sort of institutional work, institutional duality occurs..

Purpose: During the last years Real Options have been established in many areas of the day-to-day business. Recent literature also tries to address Supply Chain problems with option theory, since an efficient Supply Chain increasingly gains in importance as a significant competitive advantage. This thesis tries to answer the question, if Real Options can mitigate the costs induced by the Bullwhip Effect as one of the major problems in Supply Chains. Methodology: The authors of the thesis used a deductive approach. Based on a theoretical model utilizing Real Option contracts and under the usage of a randomly created dataset the influence of the Bullwhip Effect on the company?s business and financial structure is examined and subsequently analyzed.

Every business is subject to service failures. The process of correcting these failures and turning disappointed customers back into happy ones is called service recovery. This is particularly important in the hotel business, where there are many moments of truth where customers may become dissatisfied. To further complicate things, service recovery is a process where you may have to correct errors of others - people beyond your control. The research field is relatively new and there are no turn-key solutions as to how to systematically work with service recovery.