Today's unsustainable resource use is influenced by many factors. One key factor isproduction methods and patterns. Trough change of production patterns enterprises can bepart of the solution to a more sustainable society. This case study has analyzed environmentalperformance of the printer company Edita Västra Aros Ltd (EVA), who has gained awards forits environmental work, and what driving forces they have had during this work. The survey isbased on a qualitative method and the collected data consists of documents and staffinterviews, which have been analyzed with content analysis. This essay identifies four successfactors behind EVA’s successes within sustainable enterprise. Those are long-term systematicwork, monitoring of outcome, energy efficiency gains and communication throughenvironmental labels. Long-term systematic work has contributed to increased credibility,more efficient production and lower environmental impact. EVA has measured anddocumented and has been able to evaluate the effects of environmental measures. Energyefficiency improvements have resulted in competitive advantages and received interest asgood practice. EVA has communicated its environmental work well, using differentindependent environmental brands and labels. This has simplified communication of own andits customers’ environmental profiles. The driving forces for the environmental performancehave mainly been responsibility for the environment and cost savings. Measures, whichinitially were motivated from environmental liability and competitive advantages, have nowalso generated market advantages.

Vida Skog is supplying the whole Vida Ltd’s mills with wood raw material. This study aims to evaluate Vida Skog’s contractors and the relatively new contractorportal and to identify measures that are important for the contractors’ skills. The purpose with the portal is to facilitate co-operation between contractors and buyers by streamlining the logistics of the whole wood supply process. The study was conducted in the form of a questionnaire. Most of the respondents were positive to the portal. Most important for the portal’s functioning is that purchasers upload the contract directives of the objects in time. Suggested improvements in the portal were digital feedback, simplified interface, more and clear information and better maps. The respondents had, in many cases, a long professional experience and in 99 % of cases possessed sufficient forestry education. Most of the respondents were satisfied with the cooperation with their purchasers at Vida Skog and Vida Skog in general.

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Titel: Ishockeyagent som yrke! - Har Du vad som krävs, enligt spelarna? Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka agenternas roll inom svensk ishockey idag. Problemformulering: Vad gör att spelarna skaffar agent eller väljer att inte göra det? Vilka kompetenser vill en svensk ishockeyspelare att en svensk ishockeyagent ska ha? Metod: Vårt tillvägagångssätt för denna studie lutar sig emot en kvalitativ forskningsmetod där de primära källor utgjorts av intervjuer med 13 respondenter, som spelar ishockey på en nivå där agenter förekommer (divison 1 och uppåt i seriesystemen). Undersökningen har haft en deduktiv ansats där vi först utgått från forskning och teori för att sedan samla in studiens empiri. Slutsatser: Agenten behöver flera olika kompetenser. Däribland förhandlingskunskap, rådgivning, lyhördhet och förmågan att fungera i sociala sammanhang. Studien påvisar bland annat att spelarna idag inte ser förhandling som den primära kompetensen hos en agent. Snarare tyder verkligheten på att relationen mellan spelare och agent kommer i första rummet. Studien påvisar också att spelarna känner en avsaknad av utbildning hos agenterna och att man som spelare menar att agenterna därmed får svårt att stå till svars för sitt yrke.

Hållbarhetscertifieringssystem är något som kommit att användas i allt större utsträckning sedan införandet i Sverige under 2000-talet. Idag ökar antalet hållbarhetscertifieringar kraftigt för projekt i fastighetsbranschen medan anläggningsbranschen enbart certifierat ett fåtal. Orsakerna till den intressanta utvecklingen har studerats genom att ta reda på hur anläggningsbranschens beställare i offentlig sektor ska kunna ställa krav på användning av hållbarhetscertifieringssystem utan att strida mot lagen om offentlig upphandling (LOU). Studien har bedrivits i form av litteratur- och intervjustudie. Intervjuer har genomförts med olika aktörer i branschen med syfte att erhålla en branschenig åsikt kring hur man bör ställa krav på användning av hållbarhetscertifieringssystem i offentliga upphandlingar. Studien har även behandlat hur aktörerna följer upp och utvärderarar arbetet. Litteraturstudien analyserar tidigare arbeten i ämnet och utvärderar upphandlingar där man ställt krav på hållbarhetscertifieringssystem. De övergripande slutsatser som kan dras av arbetet är: Branschen efterfrågar ett standardiserat ramverk för hur kraven ska formuleras. Offentliga beställare bör upphandla likadant, oavsett var i Sverige de befinner sig. Fler pilotprojekt måste genomföras för att finna hur man uppnår maximal nytta med hållbarhetscertifieringssystemen. Branschen vill se tydligare och mer mätbara krav. För att inte strida mot LOU kan beställare formulera funktionskrav baserade på manualen till det hållbarhetscertifieringssystem man vill använda sig av. Beställare har få skäl till att oroa sig för överklaganden, då få upphandlingar överklagats på grund av hållbarhetsrelaterade krav. Det är viktigt med tydligt formulerade krav där val av hållbarhetscertifieringssystem, specificerade kriterier samt nivå framgår. Efter nya EU-direktiv kommer en uppdatering av LOU träda i kraft 2016 med avsikt att göra det enklare att ställa krav på hållbarhetscertifieringssystem. / Sustainability rating schemes has come to be used extensively since it´s arrival to Sweden during the 21th century. Today, the number of sustainability certifications increases for projects in the construction industry while only a few projects has been certified in the civil engineering industry. The reasons of the interesting development has been studied by investigating how the construction industry clients in the public sector should be able to claim use of sustainability rating schemes without infracting the Swedish public procurement act. The study has been conducted by literature- and interview research. Interviews were conducted with various stakeholders in the industry. The purpose was to obtain an unambiguous opinion of how clients should require use of sustainability rating schemes in public procurements. The study also discussed how stakeholders monitor and evaluate their work. The literature research analyzes previous work in the topic and evaluates procurements which contains requirements of sustainability rating schemes. The overall conclusions from this study is: • The industry demands a standardized framework about how to phrase requirements. Public clients should procure likewise, regardless of their location in Sweden. • More pilot projects must be implemented to find out how to achieve maximum benefit with sustainability rating schemes. • The industry wants more clear and measurable requirements. • Not to be contrary to the Swedish public procurement act, clients can phrase functional requirements based on the manual of the sustainability rating scheme they wish to use. • The clients should not worry about appeals, since appealed procurements because of sustainability requirements is rare. It is important to have clearly phrased requirements where the choice of sustainability rating scheme, specified criteria and level is clarified. • By the new EU-directives comes an update of the Swedish procurement act, which will enforce in 2016 with the intention of making it easier to set requirements for sustainability rating schemes.

This thesis aims to examine what strategies can be identified at LBGTQ-certified libraries in Sweden when arranging public events. The strategies are based on Douglas Rabers (1996) theory about library identities. To answer the purpose of this thesis we interviewed four librarians, who at the moment of the thesis worked at different LGBTQ-certified libraries. The results showed that all the strategies could be identified and that the librarians used all of them while working with the libraries' public events. The individual libraries had different purposes with the public events that had LGBTQ-theme; they wanted to create encounters between marginalised groups and others, broaden their events, or educate the local community. We also found that quality, marketing and the way librarians treated LGBTQ-people also were important to the interviewed librarians. In the interviews with the librarians we could also identify conflicts between the strategies. This thesis concluded that the librarians needed to use all three strategies to accomplish the different purposes of the public events at their libraries. We also concluded that the different strategies could be connected to the LGBTQ-certificate

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