Previous reaserch has indicated that the almoners position in the somatic hospital hierarchy is poor. The purpose of this study was to investigate the position of the almoner in the hospital hierarch today, together with what this position is based upon.The questions at issue were:- Has the almoners position in the hospital hierarchy changed, or is it still poor?- In what way can the almoners position in the hospital hierarchy be explained?In order to get answers to our questions at issue, we interviewed totally 13 persons from the three chosen professional categories, i e four almoners, five doctors and four nurses. Two of the doctors worked at care centres and the other doctors worked in hospitals within the Region Skåne. The interview material was analysed from the concepts of Pierre Bourdieus; field and symbolic capital and by means of ideas from the closing theory.

The intrest and development of bioenergy and energy from renewable sources in Sweden has increased rapidly over the last few years. There are a whole lot of alternatives for those who would like to venture and invest in renewable energy production. Production of renewable energy opens up many opportunities for forestry and farming to venture a new branch of production, on basis of the primary production. Several of the new energy sources grows on farmland or in the forest. The opportunities exist in the primary products, as well as in refining and reselling, in the value chain of energy. The starting-point is the Farmer as an energyproducer. This master thesis studies the nature of farmer-own firms, who has invested in production of renewable energy.

Management consulting firms are dependent on attracting and recruiting new talents since the human capital has a vital role in these types of organizations. In the following years a new generation, Generation Y, will to a large extent enter the labour market. According to several studies this generation has different characteristics than older generations.This thesis examines management consulting firms? views of Generation Y and which strategies they use to attract and retain the generation. The fact that the subjects are unexplored led the authors to conduct a qualitative study of seven management consulting firms through in-depth interviews.

Purpose: The aim of this thesis is to create a greater understanding of organizational identification and the factors influencing this process. The understanding will be obtained by identifying what individuals identify them selves with and why this identification occurs.Method: The thesis is a case study with an abductive research approach with a focus on organizational identification. Data has been collected with a qualitative focus in interviews and images.Conclusion: The employees at Plain Capital primarily identify themselves with their profession, the company and their co-workers. The reasons why they identify are mostly because of the feeling of pride and participation. We have discovered a link between a strong group identity and a high organizational identification.

Background: Enterprises often refer to their employees as ?Our most valuable assets? in annual reports and other written statements. In reality, employees are seen as an expense rather than an asset in annual reports and the voluntary disclosure is often insufficient. Human capital disclosure has been discussed through decades and the latest topic in voluntary disclosure is called integrated reporting. Knowledge firms should disclose more about their employees than industrial companies due to the fact that the employees are a considerably more important asset to these types of enterprises.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study the disclosure of human capital, compare the disclosures between knowledge firms and industrial companies, and study the development of the human capital disclosures between the years 2003-2013.

The purpose of this study was to analyze recent appropriations of works of art in advertising. Why was art infused into magazine advertisements, how were the works of art tampered with to achieve commercial goals, how well did they function together with the ad copy? What did these advertisements want? What did the artwork contribute to the commercial message? These were some of the questions asked in the study that involved a closer look at four appropriations: one based on a battle painting by the Swedish 1900th century artist Carl Wahlbom, with a commercial message printed on top;  one a collage including an 18th century portrait of Marie Antoinettte by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; one advertisement was influenced by Dutch 1700th century still lifes, and, finally, one paraphrased Velázquez?s famous painting Las Meninas from 1655. Companies behind the advertisements featured a Swedish trade journal, a fashion exhibition in Paris, a shop for kitchen utensils in Stockholm, and an up-scale department store in Madrid.The ads, in different ways based on works of art, were evaluated as reasonably successful commercial messages. These ads, however, hardly qualified as works of art in their own right ? if that was the intention.

Titel: Riskkapitalavdraget och dess effekter i onoterade företagBakgrund och problem: Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är det riskkapitalavdrag som företagsskattekommittén lade fram år 2012. Dessutom så har de onoterade företagens problem att få tillgång till krediter och externt ägarkapital i flera undersökningar bekräftats.Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att ta reda på hur västsvenska onoterade aktiebolag påverkas av ett riskkapitalavdrag som bygger på företagsskattekommitténs förslag till riskkapitalavdrag.Metod: Vi har använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer i form av intervjuer över telefon efter ett semistrukturerat frågeformulär som tillät oss att ställa frågorna i den följd som samtalet flöt på i. Dessutom gavs det härigenom chansen att ställa följdfrågor. För att få en klarare bild av hur det ser ut för småföretag i Västra Götaland valde vi att efter våra intervjuer även skicka ut enkäter, samt att intervjua två Venture Capital bolag.Slutsats: Det är inget problem för företagen i studien att skaffa den mängd kapital som de behöver, därför skulle riskkapitalavdraget inte vara avgörande för dessa företags chans till tillväxt och utveckling.Sammantaget så leder detta oss till slutsatsen att för de företag som återfinns i intervjustudien så skulle riskkapitalavdragets storlek vara tillräckligt för att täcka eller underlätta att hitta ett tillräckligt stort antal investerare som kan täcka deras kapitalbehov.Förslag till vidare forskning: Studerande av detta fenomen skulle kunna undersöka företagens kapitalstrukturer istället och därigenom kunna dra slutsatser kring företagens eventuella behov av ett riskkapitalavdrag..

Titel: Riskkapitalavdraget och dess effekter i onoterade företagBakgrund och problem: Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är det riskkapitalavdrag som företagsskattekommittén lade fram år 2012. Dessutom så har de onoterade företagens problem att få tillgång till krediter och externt ägarkapital i flera undersökningar bekräftats.Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att ta reda på hur västsvenska onoterade aktiebolag påverkas av ett riskkapitalavdrag som bygger på företagsskattekommitténs förslag till riskkapitalavdrag.Metod: Vi har använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer i form av intervjuer över telefon efter ett semistrukturerat frågeformulär som tillät oss att ställa frågorna i den följd som samtalet flöt på i. Dessutom gavs det härigenom chansen att ställa följdfrågor. För att få en klarare bild av hur det ser ut för småföretag i Västra Götaland valde vi att efter våra intervjuer även skicka ut enkäter, samt att intervjua två Venture Capital bolag.Slutsats: Det är inget problem för företagen i studien att skaffa den mängd kapital som de behöver, därför skulle riskkapitalavdraget inte vara avgörande för dessa företags chans till tillväxt och utveckling.Sammantaget så leder detta oss till slutsatsen att för de företag som återfinns i intervjustudien så skulle riskkapitalavdragets storlek vara tillräckligt för att täcka eller underlätta att hitta ett tillräckligt stort antal investerare som kan täcka deras kapitalbehov.Förslag till vidare forskning: Studerande av detta fenomen skulle kunna undersöka företagens kapitalstrukturer istället och därigenom kunna dra slutsatser kring företagens eventuella behov av ett riskkapitalavdrag..

Abstract The increased focus on social capital theory has made its way into labour economics. This has led to the creation of a vast literature about the use of networks and informal search methods in the labour-market, a literature that to some extent also deals with immigrants search behaviour and their relatively high unemployment rate. Characteristic for the literature in the area is the lack of analysis of actual networks. Which types of contacts do these networks contain; how are the networks used in the labour-market; and which type of network generates a high amount of social capital. These questions are important for the general understanding of how social capital functions, within the labour-market, but also for the understanding of how immigrants use their networks in order to find themselves jobs.

An individual's social capital consists largely of the social networks that may consist offamily, friends and acquaintances. The social network is of great significance on olderpeople's physical and mental health. Aim: The overall purpose is to examine the knowledgeof social network and the health of the elderly. Method: Litterature review, using threedifferent databases, CINAHL, PubMed and Scoupus for searching of articles, with differentcombinations of keywords. Results: Different types of social networks have both positive andnegative effects on health.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the packaging design´s communications related to the colloquially brand's symbolic capital and how they became meaningful through experience and perceptions that led to the identification processes in the consumer society. There were eight interviews of snuff users who became my main collections materials. My theoretical framework was discourse psychology´s emphasis on language and Bourdieu´s concept provided important tools in the analysis of the material.I could highlight that packaging design and the brand had influenced the informants and given them symbolic beliefs and what it meant to sniff a certain brand. Color, brand awareness and price were crucial in choosing where the informants attributed themselves the cans symbolic values to their identity. It could be inferred high and low status perceptions based on stereotypes in the design itself..

The aim of this study is to examine the market reaction when information about a company?s foreign direct investment is announced and how that affects the shareholder?s value. Also of interest is whether the market reacts differently depending on which country the investment is established in and which mode of entry is used. This will be achieved by using an event study approach. The selection that was used consisted of 206 companies registered on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic homepage, which had during a time period stretching from 1999 to 2009 established a foreign direct investment in the regions BRIC, Europe or the USA using the mode of organic growth, joint venture or acquisition.

International expansion has long been associated with a positive trend that many companies, regardless of industry, choosing to realize mainly to expand its market share and hence its profitability. Various theories describe differentiated strategies to promote corporate expansion. Either they shall be financed by internal funds, or balancing equity with debt, or only increase leverage in order to achieve the desired results. This study focuses on the Swedish fashion market and its degree of internationalization. The purpose is to attempt to discern whether there exists a correlation between the degree of internationalization and its financial performance.The study was based on a quantitative approach where secondary data was collected so that we then would be able to perform regression calculations.

Demand has become increasingly difficult to forecast in today?s volatile markets. Being able to produce towards real demand is becoming vital for companies, since inventories of finished goods are expensive to maintain and because miscalculated products tie up capital that in the end is never repaid. More and more companies are using postponement strategies to delay the process of producing until real demand has become known. Tooling Support Halmstad is a company within the manufacturing industry, which has become aware of the benefits with postponement strategies for parts of their production.

The debate on the future of Nuclear power in Sweden has increased with the discussion on global warming. The uncertainty of fossil fuel- and carbonprices the latest years has aroused considerable interest in Nuclear from power companies, industry and politicians. Nuclear power plants have negligible CO2 emissions and are not directly affected by increased price of emission rights and fossil fuels. The future power production needs to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases to become sustainable. The purpose of this study is to examine the value for power producers to have the option to invest in Nuclear power and how a Nuclear power venture would affect future electricity prices. The study uses two methods, a traditional cash flow model and real option analysis, to estimate the value of Nuclear power.