In most of the fields, manufacturers are continuously pushed by the market to provide turnkey solutions to the clients. This phenomenon is especially appearing in recycled water projects since the water treatment technology is very specific and complicated to operate. To understand this trend, a real case study is conducted in Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS) in Australia. This thesis analyses the main reasons for VWS to propose Product/Service System (PSS) and the tools and methods used to provide such a solution. The internal structure of the company and its supply network are studied to understand the balance and VWS trade-off between technical risk decreasing, time to market reduction, innovation development and know-how protection. The role of synergies by VWS group companies is raised as a key to achieve the proper balance. These synergies are the result of the company strategy to focus on innovation rather than on know-how protection while the PSS structure and network provide great opportunities for time to market reduction and risk decreasing with optimized communication between stakeholders.

The private equity industry has had a fluctuating history. In the years between 2003 and  2007 the private equity industry expanded tremendously, yet in 2008 a financial turmoil  caused significant deviation in the activity of the industry. During the credit crunch the  liquidity in the market decreased affecting the sources of capital available. When several  firms compete about the capital available, fundraising becomes increasingly difficult and  competition intensifies. Sweden is one of the largest private equity markets in Europe and  has among the Nordic countries been able to raise the largest amount of funds. The  purpose of this study is to examine the fundraising process implemented by private equity  firms, nevertheless the relationship that emerges between the fund manager and the  investor. The authors’ objective is to provide an adequate interpretation of the private  equity industry in Sweden.   The authors have implemented a qualitative method, as the objective has been to obtain a  profound picture of how private equity firms manage their fundraising. The abductive  approach has been used in order to collect empirical data and semi-structured interviews  have been carried out with representatives from four private equity firms. In addition, a  smaller survey has been performed with two institutional investors to add to the objectivity.  Subsequently, the empirical data has been analysed in regards to theory and compared in  relation to the sources to end up in a conclusion.  The authors have through the study concluded that private equity firms in Sweden with a  focus in buyouts not have a common fundraising model. Private equity funds are selective  in their choice of investors and prefer professional, loyal investors with a long-term  perspective and strong capital base. It has from the analysis emerged that good reputation,  history, team and experience is valuable in fundraising. Firms that are successful in their  operations and management appeal to investors. The investors are typically institutionalised  and invest in different asset classes, hence the diversification is mainly in the hands of the  investor.

Titel: Låt oss underhålla kunderna tillsammans! – Hur företag kan utnyttja partnerships i sittarbete med experience marketing Författare: Axel Bergström och Johan Malmsten Handledare: Christine Tidåsen Nivå: Kandidatuppsats, Marknadsföring 15 hp. VT 2011 Nyckelord: Experience marketing, partnership, upplevelsemarknadsföring, brand advocate Problemformulering: Hur kan företag utnyttja partnership för att få ut mer av sitt arbete medexperience marketing? Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen var att förtydliga hur partnership kan utnyttjas i företags arbetemed experience marketing. Analysen kom fram till hur experience marketing kan utnyttjas påett mer fördelaktigt sätt med hjälp av partnership. Vi belyste vad som krävs för att lyckas medexperience marketing och vilka krav som ställs för att skapa ett framgångsrikt partnership. Metod: En kvalitativ forskningsansats med ett deduktivt tillvägagångssätt användes. Sexintervjuer gjordes med personer med erfarenhet ifrån arbete inom experience marketing ochpartnership. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Tidigare forskning inom experience marketing och partnershippresenterades. Efter detta redogjordes det sedan för hur de här två ämnena samverkar. Empiriskt perspektiv: Den insamlade primärdatan ifrån de sex intervjupersonernapresterades. Slutsats: Studien visade att ett företag med hjälp av partnership kan förstärka sitt arbete inomexperience marketing. Genom tydliga emotionella kopplingar till sina kunder i samverkanmed skapandet av unika kunderbjudanden blir kunderna mer än bara konsumenter, de blirbrand advocates. Oberoende av bransch eller storlek kan företag förbättra sitt arbete medexperience marketing genom att tillämpa partnerships.

Our interest about interdisciplinary teaching has grown during our time at Högskolan Dalarna and especially during the subject physical education. It became clear that people learn in different ways. The theoretical education in school benefits the visual and auditory strong learners but the kinesthetic strong learners find it more difficult to absorb the information. We argue that integrating subjects is a good way to mix theory and practice and thus gives more students an opportunity to learn the content of the subject. The intention of this examination paper is to investigate the relationship between the attitudes of the teachers regarding interdisciplinary teaching, the practical restrains, possibilities and the presence of interdisciplinary teaching at three different schools. Semi-structured interviews with six physical educators and three principals have been performed. An ad-hoc method has been used, with categorizing (teachers), and narrative (principals). Teachers and principal’s definitions of, the pros and cons for, and the actual presence of interdisciplinary teaching have been investigated. The main results of our studies are: 1) That teachers and principals define interdisciplinary teaching as thematic work. 2) Teachers experience lack of time for collective planning due to others duties. 3) Teachers and principals understanding of physical education makes it difficult to integrate physical education with other subjects. Some of the conclusions from this study are that interdisciplinary teaching must be voluntary. Conditions to practice interdisciplinary teaching must be sufficient, e.g regarding collective planning time. An increased presence of interdisciplinary teaching that includes physical education requires a new understanding of physical education.

Abstract When the enterprise competition is no longer the individual show that will play singles fights alone, but is the supply chain or the network team war. The partnership importance grows day by day. In transforming process from ¡§you, I¡¨ to ¡§us¡¨, the reciprocal benefit and mutual trust are playing tug-of-war with the self-interest and selfishness, that will cause the synthesis effect by the cooperation or perhaps will make loss because of noncooperation. This research origin is created by a new born venture case of an international merger & acquisition. As a result of product characteristic is combined by the electronic and textile industry, collected on the modern science and technology and traditional process in a body. It faced the defeat and crisis because of the careless and indiscreet on the partnership management. After redesigning the transnational organization and establishing the unique supply chain, actually the cooperation synthesis effect causes the new venture to develop turns defeat into victory. The market share and the profit rate large are getting better. It also integrates the resources to get fine solid market competitive power. However, after we get the factors of the goal, the benefit, the risk, the specialty and the share, the communication and the culture, promise and crisis, how to carry on the management to obtain the high quality partner cooperation? This research utilized the qualitative case study technique, reconstructed the experience to narrated three sections of stories, the dialectical analysis will inquire into the enterprise merger & acquisition, the transnational associates and the core supplier partnership management to get the conclusion and the principle as below. 1. The partnership of the enterprise merger & acquisition started from¡§the common interest¡¨, but is terminated easy by¡§the crisis¡¨. 2. The partnership of the transnational associates was established on¡§specialty¡¨and facilitated the cooperation with¡§communication¡¨. simultaneously we must paid attention to the difference of¡§the culture¡¨extremely, and established ¡§the share¡¨ interaction, but can avoid both sides did not cooperate or is perfunctory to develop partnership because of the inter-competition point of view. 3. The core supplier's partnership, must be established above the long-term strategy, both sides were working by the supplementary operation pattern,set up¡§the common goal¡¨as the cooperation principle, and do the management and the execution to solid ¡§promise¡¨, and must positively manage the conflict of ¡§the culture¡¨ difference.

In order to pursue the better service quality and the more long term customer relations, more and more many enterprises considered establishes the guest to take the center to respond the customer as necessary the demand; But because voluntarily establishes the guest to take central the cost too to be huge, as well as the specialized technology obtains with difficulty, the most enterprises choice and outside the specialized committee the company cooperated after the careful appraisal, cause the guest to take outside the committee the demand in recent years the large increase. Because the modern enterprise's competition is intense, how will sell, stratification plane union and so on the marketing, customer service will be one, will be the modern enterprise strives for the time the important topic, therefore the guest will take outside the committee the tenderer whether will be able to respond the enterprise customer immediately the demand, and if will establish long-time and the stable partnership, then will become the guest to take the key aspect which whether outside the committee will succeed. In addition, the guest takes outside the committee the tenderer to have to assist the customer to solve the multiplex talented person demand problem in the shortest time, therefore elastic human resources management, is the guest takes the biggest challenge which outside the committee the industry faces. This research utilizes half structural formula interview, carries on depth interview to the document company participant, and interview of manuscript, the electronic files and the written material the penetration document company, auxiliary by the home, outside are connected the literature, analyzes the guest to take outside the committee the tenderer and the customer establishment partnership various stages interaction key, and its the human resources management design and the operation, finally infers goes visiting outside the clothing committee the industry if the customer establishment partnership model. This research discovery, the enterprise chooses the guest takes outside the central committee the main reason to develop for the dedicated occupation, suddenly to reveal the cost benefit and obtains the specialized knowledge. The enterprise chooses when the guest takes outside the committee the supplier, pays great attention to the specialized ability does not have the question, the cooperation experience for the communication in is rich, the systematic surface specialized and the specialized organization approval. Outside the committee both sides establish the partnership the process to be possible to divide are three stages: Service development, special case management and transport business management. But human resources management penetrates recruits the assign, the training development, the salary system and the achievements appraisal and so on the daily operation, has the quite tremendous influence to the special case management and transport business management stage partnership.

The globalization era has brought along fierce competition and fast connection and contact. To ensure national competitiveness, countries all over the world have conducted various reforms on internal operation and the formulation and implementation of policies. Since the 1980¡¦s, the U.K. and the U.S., by adopting new public management theories on the creation of an efficient government, have promoted the privatization of the public sector, the outsourcing of government¡¦s non-core services and the diversification of public facility management. This paper focus on four park and green land in Kaohsiung as to study the object, addressed the outsourcing performance and matching the depth interview method, entrusting the organization, operator, government, carry on concerning the interview of the dilemma and fruit that meets in the privately owned management process of an area run by private capital. Hope by the sorting review of the related cultural heritage, and "the outsourcing business model of partner's direction" of this research development, has the more thorough understanding to an area in Kaohsiung City, provide the actual situation and the suggestion on the policy. Through the review and study of policy implementation of local governments, the author suggests that local governments should create and supports at the partner up, contain the imperfection that the knowledge management, experience spreads to accept. The passive old bureaucrat mindset of the information, don't understand for the job, also cause three harassment of the manufacturer, government, people in contract. This paper basis "the outsourcing business model of partner's direction" to do the policy and the suggestion on the actual situation, providing the manufacturer, government, people with three aspect the outsourcing management model of join force operate.

In recent years, people have paid much attention to IS functions outsourcing in organizations. Outsourcing of information system (IS) functions is growing rapidly. Most of the researchers draw on the resource-dependence theory, transaction-cost theory, and agent cost theory to conduct their studies from the economic viewpoint. Economic theories aim at explaining the characteristics of governance or contract. However, explaining the relationship between organizations from a purely economic point of view is unjustifiable because inter-organizational relationships also involve the social learning experiences based on specific sequential interactions. While IS outsourcing can generally be divided into three stages, such as evaluation stage before outsourcing, outsourcing on-going stage, and outsourcing ending stage. The purpose of this study, departing from the social viewpoint, intends to use the social theories to investigate the affecting factors of outsourcing partnerships between firm and the IS functions outsourcing service providers in the outsourcing on-going stage. This study employs social exchange theory to establish the research model. In addition, the triangulation research method is also adopted to verify the research model. First of all, the research model derived from social exchange theory has been revised according to the result of multiple-case deeply interview. Then, the survey research is included to verify the revised research model and test the 12 hypotheses. Finally, among these 12 hypotheses, 11 of them are supported statistically significant and one hypothesis was rejected. The main contribution of this study to academia is to provide a research model of the IS functions outsourcing partnerships to the future researchers who are interested in this domain. Besides, practically speaking, the firm can also adopt the study outcome to ensure the success of the IS functions outsourcing.

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Nowadays, given the high pressure caused by severe competition, establishing a more efficient supply-chain management has become an essential competitive strategy for many manufacturing firms. The inter-organizational systems (IOS) are considered to be the most important instrument that can link manufacturers and suppliers in the supply chain. Thus, supply chain management has become more valuable as more and more people realize that it is the supply chain that is critical when analyzing a company¡¦s advantage competence. Nowadays, business to business (B2B) commerce is the new subject in e-commerce: IOS are the systems that link several different organizations. In the past, the researchers not only discuss IOS adoption and use from the perspectives of technology, organization and environment. Now, however, they also evaluate factors which impact on the adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems. Because the Internet expands, the role of IOS moves from being merely an operational tool to becoming a collaborative commercial instrument. Thus, integration has become a critical issue. On the other hand, firms have to address the variable environment more than ever, because they not only maintain the fixed supply chain components but also link up with the global market. The role of IOS has progressed from being concerned only with operational efficiency to becoming a collaborative tactical tool. This study emphasizes two major dimensions: transaction and partnership, as the main factors which affect IOS integration in manufacturer-supplier dyads. Based on a survey of Taiwanese electronics firms, our results show that based on the context of transactions and partnerships, there are five critical factors that have a positive significant effect on IOS integration, that is, the complexity of components, component criticality, trust, supplier dependence and supplier investments. Market variables have negative significant effects on IOS integration. The uncertainty of demand is the only factor that has an insignificant effect on IOS integration. In this study, partnership characteristics are more important than transaction ones. Keeping collaborative relationship will improve the depth of IOS integration.