Bakgrund: Inkubatorer är organisationer som syftar till att hjälpa nystartade företag att växa och överleva sina tidiga år. Det finns tydligt beskrivet hur inkubatorernas stödprocesserär utformade, men beskrivningar om hur och varför de utformats på detta sätt lyser med sin frånvaro. Ett fåtal forskare har antagit eller beskrivit kopplingar mellan processutformning och organisationers målsättning, men ingen tydlig koppling verkar ha identifierats. Genom att sammankoppla målsättning och process syftar denna studie till att illustrera hur processer utformas, både inom inkubatorer och hos andra organisationstyper. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva hur målsättningen hos icke-vinstdrivande svenska inkubatorer påverkar utformningen av inkubatorernas inkubationsprocesser. Metod: Uppsatsen utgår ifrån ett konstruktionistiskt perspektiv med en abduktiv ansats, som i sin tur inneburit ett iterativt arbetssätt. Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsdesign, och undersöker 11 svenska inkubatorer i en fenomenbaserad små-N-studie. Uppsatsens respondenter valdes ut genom ett i huvudsak målstyrt urval, och data från respondenterna har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. En tematisk analys har utförts baserat på den empiriska data för att finna kopplingar till uppsatsens frågeställningar. Slutsats: Studien drar tydliga kopplingar mellan målsättning hos svenska icke vinstdrivande inkubatorer och deras inkubationsprocesser. Dessa kopplingar kan dras både mellan övergripande mål och specifika mål inom organisationerna. Urvalet till en inkubator påverkas mycket av inkubatorns olika mål. Vissa delar av handledningsprocessen, främst nätverksaktiviteter och rådgivning, påverkas också tydligt av inkubatorns mål. Denna studie har dessutom påvisat att de specifika målen som formulerats hos inkubatorerna ofta baseras på de övergripande målen. / Background: Business incubators are organizations with a purpose to help new ventures grow and survive their early years. There are descriptions of the general incubation process, but clear motivations of their process design are sorely missing. Some researchers suggest links between the goals of organizations and their process design, but a clear connection seems to be missing. By connecting goals and processes, this study aims to illustrate how processes are formed within business incubators as well as other types of organizations. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe how the goals of Swedish non-profit incubators influence the design of business incubators’ incubation processes. Methodology: The study is based on a constructionist perspective with an abductive approach, which in turn has led to an iterative study process. It is based on a qualitative research design and investigates 11 respondents through a small-N-study. Respondents were chosen based on a mostly goal-driven selection process, and empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with each respondent. A thematic analysis was conducted on this data to answer the research questions posed. Conclusion: The study draws clear connections between goals of Swedish non-profit business incubators and their incubation processes. These connections can be made from both organizational goals and specific goals within the organizations. Incubators' selection processes are largely affected by the different goals of the organization. This is also true for networking and guidance activities within the incubator. In addition, the study has shown that specific goals within the incubators are largely influenced by their organizational goals.

The thesis deals with a marketing stratégy inovation focusing on community event „Day of Princesses“. Theoretical part defines terms related to organizing non-profit organization, marketing and marketing strategies. Further, it decribes marketing analyzes which are assembled in the second part of this work. Final section of the thesis is develoted to own resolution proposals, which should lead to improvement of current situation.

The subject of the thesis is to analyse and evaluate the current motivation system of internal and external employees in the non-profit organization Rosice Leisure Center and then suggest measures to improve it. The thesis consists of theoretical, analytical and proposal part. The theoretical part deals with the definition of concepts of non-profit organizations, motivation and their selected forms. The second part includes an analysis of the current situation and evaluation of research focused on the opinion of selected employees. Based on the results, the proposal part includes measures to improve the motivation system.

In my thesis I prepare design of organizational change of Catholic University Student's Movement Brno, o.s., non-profit organization. It describes the objectives and activities of the association and it defines key positions, characteristics of workload of teams, collaborates and volunteers. My thesis describes competences and responsibilities of individual team members. It describes also management of the whole organization including team meeting's organization.

This master´s thesis is focused on marketing management of a selected Golf Club - civic association. The main subject matter is an analysis of current marketing utilization in management of the Golf Club and to find appropriate ways of corrective solving in this field, which will lead to attain the role of the club and ensure development and operation of the Golf Club. The thesis is divided into four main parts. The first part defines the goals and methods of the work. The second part is focused on theoretical foundations, which are the basis for the next section. The third part focuses on analysis of the association and its surroundings. The last part contains the specific proposals of marketing activities of the Golf Club for achieving the set objectives.

Young volunteer's perception of volunteering and their experiences with peer reactions to volunteering Bc. Barbora Stolínová Abstract Peer influence is usually studied in the field of negative behavior. This thesis handles the topic of influence of peers and their reaction to prosocial behavior and volunteering as one of its manifestations. In the first part of thesis a search of research from foreign countries was performed. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted in the second empirical part of this research. The aim was to find out how volunteers perceive their volunteering within their social environment, which reaction of their peers they experience and how they deal with them. Target group for this research were young volunteers in the age from 15 to 25 from environmental non-profit organizations. Findings from the empirical analysis of the focus group and interviews can be used for work with volunteers in organizations, so there are recommendations for volunteer coordinators in the final part of the thesis. Key words Volunteering, volunteer, youth, young people, peers, peer reactions, non-profit organization

In today’s constantly evolving technological environment, businesses have more tools to support decision-making and these can be categorized as Decision Support Systems (DSS). One of the tools is Business Intelligence (BI), which is regarded as a high-priority investment in organizations nowadays. Even though there exists a vast amount of research in the DSS area, most of the influential work is conducted in time incomparable to today’s technological environment. In addition, most of the research focuses on profit-seeking organizations, as BI has been regarded as a tool to increase profits. However, non-profit organizations also use BI, but are not portrayed in the BI research area. The aim with this study is to explore how BI is used in relation to decision-making in a non-profit organization and to investigate the crucial factors in the usage of BI in relation to decision-making. A qualitative case study approach is applied where the Swedish non-profit organization Systembolaget AB is the case company. The main findings indicate that interaction between the two decision-making types is needed when using BI in a non-profit context. Moreover, having data literacy, data reliability, and data accessibility is found crucial in order to achieve BI success in relation to decision-making, especially when more and more decisions are made at the operational level. Finally, the results of this study amplify the need for an update in the DSS framework.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how two female volunteers from two different NGOs help and support vulnerable women, who have been exposed to incest. This includes how these abused women and the picture of perpetrators are perceived and described by the volunteers. The study has also examined the collaboration with social services. The study results show that the volunteers within the two NGOs lack cooperation with social services, and that the work with support-seeking women can be perceived as both positive and negative. Positive experience is described by being a volunteer as part of an important change. Negative experience describes the volunteer as painful as it involves listening to, and taking part of these women's self-experienced stories, about their own experiences of incest. The work as a volunteer with support-seeking women, has been shown to offer support in various forms of support groups. The volunteer's task is to listen in these support groups and to confirm what the women seeking assistance are saying. The result has also shown that the women seeking support, are perceived as very afraid and degraded at the beginning of the meeting with the volunteers, but that they at the same time bear strength within themselves. The result also shows a lack of cooperation between the NGOs and social services. This is even though both activities work for the same clientele, which is the women seeking support. / Syftet med den här studien har varit att undersöka hur två kvinnliga volontärer från två olika frivilligorganisationer hjälper och stöttar kvinnor som har blivit utsatta för incest. Det inkluderar hur dessa utsatta kvinnor och även bilden av förövare upplevs och beskrivs av volontärerna, samt volontärernas samarbete med Socialtjänsten. Studiens resultat visar att volontärerna upplever att arbetet med stödsökande kvinnor kan upplevas som både positivt och negativt. Positiv upplevelse beskrivs genom att som volontär få vara en del av en viktig förändring. Negativ upplevelse beskriver volontären det som smärtsamt, då det innebär att lyssna till, och ta del av dessa kvinnors självupplevda berättelser, kring sina egna erfarenheter av incest. Arbetet som volontär med stödsökande kvinnor har visat sig gå ut på att erbjuda stöd i olika former av stödgrupper. Volontärens uppgift är i dessa stödgrupper att, lyssna samt bekräfta det som stödsökande kvinnor berättar. Resultatet har även visat att de stödsökande kvinnorna upplevs som väldigt rädda och nedbrutna i början av mötet med volontärerna, men att de samtidigt bär på en styrka inom sig själva. Resultatet visar också på ett bristande samarbete mellan frivilligorganisationerna och socialtjänst. Detta trots att båda verksamheterna arbetar för samma klientel, som är de stödsökande kvinnorna.

The topic of this thesis is the role of non-profit organizations in supporting the education of socially disadvantaged Roma students. The thesis provides the analysis of the involvement of non-profit organizations in the process education support. The theoretical part of the thesis defines essential concepts in the area of education of socially disadvantaged students including support strategies with the emphasis on Roma students. The thesis provides an overview of the impact of social disadvantage on the education process, the affirmative processes utilized in school environment and the available support from the non-profit organizations. The research part of the thesis analyzes the data obtained through interviews with the employees of four selected non-profit organizations providing the support in the education of socially disadvantaged Roma students. The interviews are focused on identification of main forms of education support provided by non-profit organizations, their benefits in the education process of a socially disadvantaged student and the limits and opportunities presented in this process by the cooperation of non-profit organizations and schools. Through the analysis of information, experiences and opinions collected through the interviews, the research attempts to provide a complex...

Detta är en kvalitativ studie där syftet var att bidra med kunskap kring hur icke-vinstdrivande organisationer konstruerar hållbarhetskommunikation, detta genom att undersöka hur Marine Stewardship Council [MSC] konstruerar sin hållbarhetskommunikation utifrån hållbarhetsdimensionerna: ekonomisk-, social- och ekologisk hållbarhet. Detta genom en riktad kvalitativ innehållsanalys av MSC:s externa kommunikation från deras hemsida och instagramkonto. Det teoretiska ramverk som applicerats på analysen är de tre hållbarhetsdimensionerna, vilka även utgör temana i analysen. Analysen har utförts utifrån ett kodschema där kategorier, underkategorier och koder har identifierats i materialet. Resultatet av analysen visade att MSC framställt sin kommunikation genom de tre hållbarhetsdimensionerna på flera olika sätt. Deras arbete kan också relateras till det teoretiska ramverket för denna studie. Dock konstateras det att det finns utrymme för vidare diskussion kring huruvida en mer allvarsam ton är en användbar strategi för MSC eller inte. Vidare visar resultatet att MSC beskriver flera av fiskeindustrins problem i relation till samtliga hållbarhetsdimensioner, dock hade kommunikationen upplevts mer trovärdig om en mer nyanserad bild av lösningar framställts.  Slutligen diskuteras resultatet i relation till tidigare forskning och därefter presenteras slutsats, reflektion samt förslag på vidare forskning. / This is a qualitative study with the purpose of contributing knowledge about how non-profit organizations construct sustainability communication. This has been done through analyzing how MSC construct their sustainability communication in relation to the following dimensions of sustainability: economic-, social-, and environmental sustainability. By doing a directed qualitative content analysis of MSC's external communication from their website and Instagram profile. The theoretical framework that has been applied to the analysis is the three sustainability dimensions, which also forms the themes of the analysis. The analysis was done using a coding scheme where categories, subcategories, and codes were identified in the material. The result of the analysis showed that the MSC portrays their communication through the three dimensions of sustainability in several ways. Additionally, their work is related to the theoretical framework of the study. However, there is room for further discussion on whether the MSC would benefit to use a more serious tone or not. Furthermore, the result shows that the MSC describes several problems that relates to the fishing industry. Although, their communication would be perceived as more believable if a more nuanced image of solutions were presented. Lastly, the result is discussed in relation to previous research followed by the conclusion, a reflection, and suggestions for future research.