Problemformulering: Det blir viktigare och viktigare i dagens samhälle att tänka hållbart. Bolag behöver bidra till hållbar utveckling och redovisa sina hållbarhetsarbeten i sina rapporter för att vara med och konkurrera med andra bolag. I fastighetsbranschen kan man tänka hållbart när man bygger nytt men för att skapa ett hållbart samhälle måste man även tänka hållbart i förvaltningsskedet där man tar hand om det befintliga fastighetsbeståndet. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att erhålla en djupare förståelse för bostadsbolags hållbarhetsarbete genom att studera hur de tillämpar sin hållbarhetsstrategi i en renoveringskontext. Metod: Arbetet har genomförts genom en rapportstudie där information om bolagens hållbarhetsstrategi, mål och renoveringsåtgärder har samlats in från deras års- och hållbarhetsredovisningar. Vidare har en kvalitativ metod använts i form av intervjuer med respondenter från respektive bolag. Resultat & Slutsats: Rapporten kommer fram till att bolagen applicerar sin hållbarhetsstrategi på liknande men lite olika sätt. Vissa arbetar mer med social hållbarhet medan andra har mer fokus på energieektiviseringar och lönsamhet. Några av bolagen har ett tydligare bevarandetänk då de hellre renoverar än att installera nytt. Bolagen försöker att balansera alla hållbarhetsaspekter men ekonomin är det som styr vilka projekt som kan genomföras eftersom att investeringarna i slutändan måste vara lönsamma. Resultatet visar även att bolagen prioriterar sina renoveringar efter behov men att akuta åtgärder alltid går i första hand. Man kan man se att bolagens hållbarhetsstrategi genomsyrar deras hållbarhetsarbete i ett renoveringskontext. Det finns däremot många sätt de kan förbättra sitt hållbarhetsarbete och mer att lära kring hur man renoverar hållbart. / Problem formulation: It is becoming more and more important in today's society to think in a sustainable manner. Companies need contribute to sustainable development and report their sustainability work in their reports in order to compete with other companies. In the real estate industry, you can think sustainably when you build new properties, but to create a sustainable society, you also have to think sustainably in the management phase, where you take care of the existing property stock.  Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of sustainability efforts of housing companies by studying how they apply their sustainability strategy in a renovation context.  Method: The work has been conducted through a report study where information about the companies' sustainability strategy, goals and renovation measures have been collected from their annual and sustainability reports. Furthermore, a qualitative method has been used in the form of interviews with respondents from each company. Results & Conclusion: The report concludes that the companies apply their sustainability strategy to similar but slightly different way. Some work more with social sustainability, while others focus more on energy effciency improvements and proftability. Some of the companies have a clearer conservation mindset as they prefer to renovate rather than install new. The companies try to balance all aspects of sustainability, but the economy is what governs which projects can be implemented because the investments must ultimately be proftable. The results also show that the companies prioritize their renovations as needed, but that urgent measures always come first. You can see that the companies' sustainability strategy permeates their sustainability work in a renovation context. However, there are many ways they can improve their sustainability work and more to learn about how to renovate sustainably.

Sammanfattning Datum: 2023-05-30. Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i Företagsekonomi, 15 hp. Institution: Akademin för Ekonomi, Samhälle och Teknik, Mälardalens Universitet. Författare: Sofia Gynt och Tuva Kiiveri. Titel: Hållbarhetsrapportering av ett varumärkesskadat företag: En fallstudie om hur H&M anpassar sin signalering efter samhällets kritik får att återuppbygga sin legitimitet. Handledare: Aija Voitkane. Nyckelord: Hållbarhetsrapport, hållbarhet, signalering, legitimitet, CSR. Forskningsfråga: Hur förändrar H&M sin signalering som en reaktion på skandalerna för att återuppbygga sin legitimitet? Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen för hur anpassad signalering kan användas i ett varumärkesskadat företag för att återuppbygga legitimiteten. Detta utförs genom att undersöka samverkan mellan samhällets reaktioner på H&M:s hållbarhetsarbete och H&M:s respons på denna reaktion under åren 2012–2021. Metod: Denna studie bygger på en kvalitativ metod med ett deduktivt förhållningssätt. För att analysera empirin användes en tematisk analys med en induktiv ansats. Slutsats: Undersökningen visar att H&M förändrar sin signalering efter en skandal genom att implementera olika slags legitimitetsstrategier, specifikt reaktiva sådana, där H&M kortsiktigt rapporterar mer positivt om sådant som kan kopplas till skandalerna eller rapporterar om problemet på branschnivå. De erkänner även sina brister i samband med de flesta skandalerna, specifikt de större, men de är samtidigt vilseledande och selektiva i vad de rapporterar för att visa enlighet med samhället och på så sätt återuppbygga legitimiteten. / Abstract  Date: 2023-05-30. Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, 15 cr. Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University. Authors: Sofia Gynt and Tuva Kiiveri. Title: Sustainability reporting by a brand-damaged company: A case study on how H&M adapts its signaling in response to societal criticism to rebuild its legitimacy. Supervisor: Aija Voitkane. Keywords: Sustainability report, sustainability, signalling, legitimacy, CSR. Research questions: How does H&M change its signalling in response to the scandals to rebuild itslegitimacy? Purpose: purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of how customized signalling can be used in brand-damaged company to rebuild legitimacy. This is done by examining the interaction between society's reactions to H&M:s sustainability work and H&M:s response to this reaction during the years 2012–2021. Method: This study is based on a qualitative method with a deductive approach. To analyze the empirical data a thematic analysis was used with an inducive approach. Conclusion: The case study shows that H&M changes its signalling after a scandal by implementing different kinds of legitimacy strategies, specifically reactive ones, where H&M reports more positively in the short term on things that can be linked to the scandals or reports on the problem at the industry level. They also admit their flaws in most of the scandals, specifically the bigger ones, but at the same time they are misleading and selective in what they report in order to show accordance with society and thus rebuild legitimacy.

This study aimed to investigate, analyze, and illuminate the perception and experiences of elite male handball players on toxic leadership in sports. The sport handball was chosen as a study object with a phenomenological approach. 9 individual interviews were conducted with 9 different elite male handball players who play in 9 different clubs in Handbollsligan, the top male division in Sweden. The chosen leadership theory was the toxic triangle theory, which entails that there need to be three different dimensions to toxic leadership: the destructive leader, the susceptible followers, and the conducive environment.  The results show that players have experienced toxic leadership. Three different aspects of toxic leadership were found and analyzed in this study. Firstly, destructive leaders exhibit abusive behavior, striving for personal power and manipulating other people within the organization. Secondly, players/followers who obey and conform to the leaders’ actions, experience negative emotions like anxiety, worry, and loss of self-esteem. Thirdly, the conducive environment that enables the leader’s destructive behavior has been discovered to be isolated, had a lack of communication, and was under the total rule of the destructive leader. In summary, this foretells the experiences of elite male handball players with toxic leadership.

The imminent consequences of the deteriorating state of the socio-ecological systems pose significant challenges to the well-being of society and societal functioning. The financial sector, specifically banks, plays a crucial role in the transition toward sustainable development because they hold the financial resources and the power to allocate these resources. For banks to contribute to this transition, credit risk assessment (CRA) can serve as an impactful process for sustainability integration. However, as CRA is a well-incorporated process within banks, it is unclear if it is strategic enough to support a transition toward sustainability. This research, therefore, aims to analyse the key gaps, opportunities, and limitations for integrating sustainability considerations into the credit risk assessment process using a strategic sustainable development (SSD) lens. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) was used as a conceptual framework to give a better understanding of the sustainability challenge and to analyse how credit risk assessment can contribute to sustainable development. Data were collected through document review and semi-structured interviews with practitioners from Nordic banks who have relevant experience to explain how banks incorporate sustainability into their credit risk assessment practices within corporate lending and credit. A semi-systematic literature review was also done to determine the views and methods of integrating sustainability considerations into the credit risk assessment process according to academic literature. The findings were structured using the FSSD’s 5-Level Model (5LM) to identify the key gaps, limitations, and opportunities in literature and practice. The results suggest that the key gaps in integrating sustainability into the credit risk assessment process are sustainability data inadequacy, inaccessibility, incomparability, trustworthiness, and storage, and the qualitative manner of sustainability data. Further to these limitations is a competence gap where crucial skillsets needed include systems and sector-specific sustainability knowledge.

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Since MIT launched the first OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative in 2002, responses from the academic community have ranged from exuberance to angst. Some institutions have been reluctant to adopt a program of open publishing because of concerns about long-term funding and possible adverse effects on paid enrollment. Money is an issue, forcing some organizations that initially created OCW programs to furlough them due to funding challenges. This study examined the cost of converting online distance learning courses to OCW, the impact of opening these courses on paid enrollments, and the long-term sustainability of OCW through the generation of new paid enrollments. As part of this study, Brigham Young University's Independent Study Program (BYU IS) converted three university and three high school courses to OCW. BYU IS provided an option for OCW users to pay regular tuition and enroll in the online course for credit. The average ongoing cost to convert BYU IS courses to OCW was $284.12 per university course and $1,172.71 per high school course. The six opened courses generated 13,795 visits and 445 total paid enrollments in four months. The profit margin on the paid enrollments OCW generated was calculated to be 3.81% for open publishing to be financially self-sustaining at BYU Independent Study.

Swedish firms have become increasingly accountable for their impacts on the economy, society, and environment. Since the year 2016, Corporate Sustainability has emerged as a relatively new phenomenon forcing SMEs that meet certain criteria to report annual sustainability metrics. However,sustainability reporting has not yet become standardized. Previous literature acknowledges the importance of sustainability orientation for the firm and the managers’ role in developing a general understanding of how sustainabilitypractices add value to the firm. Moreover, the particular organizationalpractice of sustainability reporting is still immature and have scarcely been attended by contemporary literature.  This study aims to develop an understanding of how sustainability reporting practices look like in the firm, and whether sustainability reporting practiceshas affected today’s innovation management. To answer the research questions, a mixed research method were chosen with an inductive approach.Three kinds of data was collected and analyzed – sustainability reports, survey, and firm-level interviews – in a step-wise manner to explore the complexities of sustainability reporting practices and its’ impact on firms’ innovation management.  In this study, we found that there are complexities in establishing clear routines in the sustainability reporting practices due to the multiple internal and external actors involvement, and because of knowledge gaps within the firm. In addition, sustainability reporting practices positively impactinnovation management through the building of general awareness, or even culture towards sustainability. In turn, this has boosted the firms’ creativity in sustainable innovations. Moreover, sustainability reporting practices impact New Product Development in particular, through stakeholder engagement in reporting the contents included in the sustainability reports.  This study contributes to an updated understanding of Sustainability Reporting practices in general and its’ role in Innovation Management in particular. The adoption of sustainability reporting transfer activities that are intertwined and embedded with organizational- and managerial perspectives when pursuing alignment of Corporate Sustainability in an already complex system. Therefore, we conclude that sustainability reporting is vital indeveloping stakeholder engagement for firms aiming at incorporating sustainability practices. Moreover, this subsequently influences the outcomes in New Product Development.

This paper investigates the key corporate sustainability performance indicators from the consumers' perspective in Sweden. The aim is to deepen the understanding of consumers as main stakeholders and their preferences for corporate sustainability. An online quantitative survey with 1003 respondents showed that fair working conditions and employment terms were the most important indicators, followed by strong sustainability requirements for suppliers and actions in case of human violations. Furthermore, the research results show that young and better-educated consumers rank environmental parameters as a more important indicator. The research contributes to CSR and stakeholder theory in better understanding the consumers’ perspectives on corporate sustainability.