<p>By applying discourse analysis to six interviews with officials and development workers at the Swedish solidarity organisation AGS, this thesis analyses power in development cooperation, and the construction and function of discourses surrounding the field. It discusses rhetorical and strategic shifts from development aid to partnership and solidarity. By exploring how the informants speak of priorities, privilege and difference in relation to ideas of race or ethnicity, and class, the objective is to show how the solidarity position and development context is discursively created. What differs between solidarity, partnership and development aid? In what ways are the White Western Development Worker image constructed and challenged? The thesis discusses contemporary postcolonial relations between and within African and Swedish societies. It examines difficulties regarding gender mainstreaming efforts as an example of how Swedish development workers and officials discursively construct and deconstruct images of Selves and African Others.</p>

<p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera ett tredjepartslogistiskt samarbete mellan en vinimportör och dennes distributör utifrån importörens perspektiv. Arbetet avser att lyfta fram vilken typ av relation som finns dem emellan. För att finna svaren till vår undersökning har frågor skapats utifrån valda teorier om partnerskap, samverkan och riskhantering. Frågorna har sedan ställts till personer som arbetar hos både vinimportören och distributören. Spontana samtal och en observation har genomförts i kontorsmiljön hos vinimportören. Vidare har ett studiebesök genomförts hos distributören för att studera deras lagerverksamhet. Efter analys av den empiri som vi erhållit och av utvalda teorier har vi funnit att samarbetet mellan vinimportören och distributören är mer av partnerskapskaraktär än det traditionella kund-/leverantörsförhållandet. Det som styrker detta är följande:</p><p>· Deras nuvarande relation baseras på ett ömsesidigt ge och ta.</p><p>· Det finns varken en inre konkurrens eller styrkemätning dem emellan.</p><p>· Partnerna gör vad de är bäst på inom respektive verksamhet</p><p>· Dessutom bedriver de inom vissa områden ett gemensamt utvecklingsarbete, vilket slutligen leder till en vinst för båda parter.</p><p>Vi har även funnit att stabiliteten i partnerskapet är hög, de har arbetat ihop under lång tid, men graden av närhet i partnerskapet kan anses vara låg. Dessutom visar studien att vin-importören och distributörens partnerskap bygger på mellanting mellan ett främjande och integrerat samarbete. Vidare har vi funnit att den miljö de verkar i är väldigt styrd av Systembolaget.</p>

<p>The new Welfare Reform in Norway consists of the establishment of a new welfare office; NAV office. The NAV office will open in all municipalities within 2010 as local partnerships between the state and the municipals as equal partners. The central government will keep responsibility for the national services and the local governments will keep responsibility for the locally provided welfare services. As such the NAV office will consist of two separate public servcelines, with the accountabilities for their individual services intact. The Government wished to keep the separation between the national and local governmental services but needed to ensure the provision of a more holistic, integrated and effective service delivery, more in tune with the public need. The aim was to provide a more joined-up welfare service and to put more effect behind the efforts to achieve the reform goals: increased work participation, more user-friendly services and more effective public administration. The NAV office as such becomes a local one-stop-shop.</p><p>The challenge of this partnership is that two separate, traditionally hierarchic public structures embark on a partnership venture where the more relational and both vertical and horizontal communicational skills are required, true to the spirit of the joined-up government model. Our aim with this study was to investigate how a few early onset NAV offices cope with this partnership stunt. We particularly wished to examine how the partners establish and use the important vertical and horizontal dimensions, and how the partnership manager operate to facilitate the partnership activities.</p><p>We mean that the focus of 4 partnership actors rather than two governmental partners is more correct with respect to depicting the situation in the local NAV partnerships and how the central partnership managerial duties are shared. We have developed a new model of how they divide the partnership responsibilities between them and the operations of an emergent essential partnership driving force. We have also due to the nature of the NAV partnership actors and the way they operate in the partnership, developed a new partnership model. This dialogue model is a more accurate picture of the NAV partnership than the original partnership model.</p><p>The early attempts to provide integrated services has not reached the potential we have hoped for, partially due to the allowance of the two partners to continue service production in the old way while the reform structure and following administrative challenges are ironed out. We believe that an understanding of the particularities of partnership management and the adherence of the relational qualities to the partnership structure is a prerequisite in successfully managing the NAV partnership and thus the reform goals. This needs to be the imminent focus of the reform participants.</p>

<p>The Swedish municipalities have always been going through some kind of changes. These changes can for example be a consequence of economic factors and/or changes in the society. Today we can se how the municipalities characterize of different kinds of co-operations in forms of collaborations, partnership and networks. What does this development mean to the local administrators? The purpose of this study is, due to the circumstances that have affected the Swedish municipalities in the twenty-first century, to investigate whether these changes have led to a new kind of local administrator. To do so, I formulated three research questions:</p><p>1. a) Which are the interviewed local administrators assignments?</p><p>b) Does the interviewed local administrators participate in any kind of collaborations?</p><p>2. What kind of problem shall the interviewed local administrators solve in their work?</p><p>3. What loyalty does the interviewed local administrators embrace?</p><p>Empirical materials for this study have been collected in qualitative interviews with eight local administrators in Karlstad kommun. I reached the conclusion that there is a new kind of local administrator that is characterized by their considerable freedom of action. The new kind of administrator takes initiatives and they have an extensive circle of contacts. The biggest part of this kind of local administrators work takes place in different kinds of collaborations and networks, they’re consequently dependent of other actors in their line of work.</p>

The new Welfare Reform in Norway consists of the establishment of a new welfare office; NAV office. The NAV office will open in all municipalities within 2010 as local partnerships between the state and the municipals as equal partners. The central government will keep responsibility for the national services and the local governments will keep responsibility for the locally provided welfare services. As such the NAV office will consist of two separate public servcelines, with the accountabilities for their individual services intact. The Government wished to keep the separation between the national and local governmental services but needed to ensure the provision of a more holistic, integrated and effective service delivery, more in tune with the public need. The aim was to provide a more joined-up welfare service and to put more effect behind the efforts to achieve the reform goals: increased work participation, more user-friendly services and more effective public administration. The NAV office as such becomes a local one-stop-shop. The challenge of this partnership is that two separate, traditionally hierarchic public structures embark on a partnership venture where the more relational and both vertical and horizontal communicational skills are required, true to the spirit of the joined-up government model. Our aim with this study was to investigate how a few early onset NAV offices cope with this partnership stunt. We particularly wished to examine how the partners establish and use the important vertical and horizontal dimensions, and how the partnership manager operate to facilitate the partnership activities. We mean that the focus of 4 partnership actors rather than two governmental partners is more correct with respect to depicting the situation in the local NAV partnerships and how the central partnership managerial duties are shared. We have developed a new model of how they divide the partnership responsibilities between them and the operations of an emergent essential partnership driving force. We have also due to the nature of the NAV partnership actors and the way they operate in the partnership, developed a new partnership model. This dialogue model is a more accurate picture of the NAV partnership than the original partnership model. The early attempts to provide integrated services has not reached the potential we have hoped for, partially due to the allowance of the two partners to continue service production in the old way while the reform structure and following administrative challenges are ironed out. We believe that an understanding of the particularities of partnership management and the adherence of the relational qualities to the partnership structure is a prerequisite in successfully managing the NAV partnership and thus the reform goals. This needs to be the imminent focus of the reform participants.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera ett tredjepartslogistiskt samarbete mellan en vinimportör och dennes distributör utifrån importörens perspektiv. Arbetet avser att lyfta fram vilken typ av relation som finns dem emellan. För att finna svaren till vår undersökning har frågor skapats utifrån valda teorier om partnerskap, samverkan och riskhantering. Frågorna har sedan ställts till personer som arbetar hos både vinimportören och distributören. Spontana samtal och en observation har genomförts i kontorsmiljön hos vinimportören. Vidare har ett studiebesök genomförts hos distributören för att studera deras lagerverksamhet. Efter analys av den empiri som vi erhållit och av utvalda teorier har vi funnit att samarbetet mellan vinimportören och distributören är mer av partnerskapskaraktär än det traditionella kund-/leverantörsförhållandet. Det som styrker detta är följande: · Deras nuvarande relation baseras på ett ömsesidigt ge och ta. · Det finns varken en inre konkurrens eller styrkemätning dem emellan. · Partnerna gör vad de är bäst på inom respektive verksamhet · Dessutom bedriver de inom vissa områden ett gemensamt utvecklingsarbete, vilket slutligen leder till en vinst för båda parter. Vi har även funnit att stabiliteten i partnerskapet är hög, de har arbetat ihop under lång tid, men graden av närhet i partnerskapet kan anses vara låg. Dessutom visar studien att vin-importören och distributörens partnerskap bygger på mellanting mellan ett främjande och integrerat samarbete. Vidare har vi funnit att den miljö de verkar i är väldigt styrd av Systembolaget.

By applying discourse analysis to six interviews with officials and development workers at the Swedish solidarity organisation AGS, this thesis analyses power in development cooperation, and the construction and function of discourses surrounding the field. It discusses rhetorical and strategic shifts from development aid to partnership and solidarity. By exploring how the informants speak of priorities, privilege and difference in relation to ideas of race or ethnicity, and class, the objective is to show how the solidarity position and development context is discursively created. What differs between solidarity, partnership and development aid? In what ways are the White Western Development Worker image constructed and challenged? The thesis discusses contemporary postcolonial relations between and within African and Swedish societies. It examines difficulties regarding gender mainstreaming efforts as an example of how Swedish development workers and officials discursively construct and deconstruct images of Selves and African Others.

Being in a relationship where the partner has Asperger's syndrome makes you indirectly affected by their disability as it affects not only the disabled but also the partner. The partner may be faced with a lack of understanding from their partner with Asperger's syndrome and from its surroundings, where the syndrome including causes, limits ability in social interaction and communication. The study is a qualitative study based on six asynchronous interviews conducted via email with partners who are in a relationship with a partner who has Asperger's syndrome. The aim of the study was to increase understanding and to highlight partners experience to be in a relationship where the other partner has Asperger's syndrome and how outside support from the environment is perceived. Results of the study showed that all six partners felt that everyday life was structured around the partner with Asperger's syndrome. There was a perceived feeling of loneliness because of the partner with Asperger's syndrome not caring about the partner and of being the one taking the greatest responsibility in everyday life for it to work. There was a feeling of stress, anxiety, lost confidence and frustration but there was also a strong desire and commitment to their partner with Asperger's syndrome. There was a strong love for the partner with Asperger's syndrome and a willingness to get the couple relationship to work. The results show that partners need and want support from the environment. It is important that they receive the support they need. The type of support needed varies but the important thing is that it is flexible, tailored and personalized for the couple or the individual partner's needs. The results indicate that there is a benefit for the couple relationship when the partner with Asperger's syndrome has a diagnosis. Both parties can thus get a better understanding of why certain things are the way they are and then work from there.

Idag är IT en grundförutsättning för att företag och organisationer ska kunna behålla och utveckla sin verksamhet och sina affärer. Om en verksamhet av någon anledning inte har kompetensen, resurserna eller viljan att fokusera på IT kan dessa verksamheter istället välja att outsourca dessa aktiviteter på en extern leverantör. Enligt konsultföretaget Tieto (2013) kommer outsourcingen av IT i den offentliga sektorn att öka samtidigt som det finns relativt lite forskning idag kring just detta. Syftet med studien är identifiera och beskriva kritiska framgångsfaktorer vid outsourcing av IT när en offentlig organisation outsourcar till en privat leverantör. Kritiska framgångsfaktorer är här ett stöd för bättre beslutsunderlag och en tydligare målstyrning. Studien har genomförts via ett kvalitativt angreppssätt på respondenter från både offentliga organisationer samt privata leverantörer. Litteraturgenomgången har resulterat i en analysmodell som har använts som underlag under studien. Studien visar att när en offentlig organisation ska outsourca IT till en privat leverantör är det först och främst viktigt att den offentliga organisationen gör en förstudie på sin egen organisation. Här kan det vara bra att låta en utomstående organisation göra en granskning av den. Båda parter måste veta de juridiska implikationer som en outsourcing innebär och har du inte den kunskapen bör den skaffas via exempelvis konsulter. Var också noga med att välja de personer som kommer vara ansvariga för relationerna. Dessa personer ska vara kommunikativa och väl insatta i verksamheten. Sätt gemensamma mål och visioner med din partner för att båda ska bli engagerade i samarbetet. Skriv också avtal där det går att göra justeringar efter hur omvärlden förändras. Allt detta måste också vara tydligt beskrivet i avtalet för att undvika missförstånd.

Att vara partner i de större revisionsbyråerna i Sverige innebär dels att en roll som delägare axlas och dels att individen fortsätter tjänstgöra i den operativa verksamheten. Medarbetarnas motivation till att ta klivet högst upp för karriärstrappan och anamma ett partnerskap har studerats. Däremot, en studie som ser till vad byrån letar efter hos den optimala partnern har tidigare inte genomförts. Syftet med studien är att utreda och skapa förståelse för den rekryteringsprocess som tillämpas när en ny partner ska väljas ut inom de större revisionsbyråerna i Sverige. Studien tillämpar en tvärsnittsdesign med en abduktiv ansats för att utreda hur rekryteringsprocessen genomförs i de fem största revisionsbyråerna i Sverige. Denna förståelse fångas genom kvalitativa intervjuer som genomförs med nuvarande partners. För att skapa förståelse för denna process ur ett teoretiskt perspektiv appliceras styrformerna; resultat-, beteende- och normativ styrning. Utifrån detta kan en teoretisk reflektion genomföras samt öppna för studiens abduktion genom en inducering av den empiriska informationen. Studien finner att revisionsbyråerna genomför både interna och externa rekryteringar, där interna rekryteringar förespråkas. Inom revisionsbyråerna finns tre olika partnertyper; omsättningspartners, ledarpartners samt specialister. Resultatet visar att en revisionsbyrå eftersöker individer med ett affärsmannaskap, genom en kommersiell attityd och entreprenöriella egenskaper. Dessutom är kandidatens förmåga att leda och utveckla medarbetare väsentligt. Trots ovan visar studiens resultat på att partnerrekryteringen är baserad på den aktuella situationen. / Being a partner in the big audit firms in Sweden means that a role as a part-owner is shouldered and that the individual continues to serve the operational activities. Employees' motivation to climb the stairs and embrace a partnership is previously studied. However, a study that observe what the accounting firm is looking for, to find the optimal partner has not been conducted before. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and create an understanding of the recruitment process that is applied when a new partner is to be selected within the big accounting firms in Sweden. The study applies a cross-sectional design with an abductive approach to investigate how the recruitment process is carried out in the five largest accounting firms in Sweden. This understanding is captured through qualitative interviews conducted with current partners. In order to create an understanding of this process from a theoretical perspective, some control forms where applied; result, behavior and normative control. Based on this, a theoretical reflection could be conducted as well as open to the study's abduction through an induction of the empirical information. The study finds that the accounting firms applies both internal and external recruitment, where internal recruitment is advocated. There are three different types of partners within the accounting firms; sales partners, management partners and specialists. The result shows that an accounting firm seeks individuals with a business acumen, in terms of a commercial attitude and entrepreneurial characteristics. In addition, the candidate's ability to lead and develop employees is essential. Despite the above, the study's results show that the recruitment is based on the current situation.