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<p>The present dissertation examines various aspects of church organization in Sweden during the 17th and 18th centuries. In Sweden, as in many other European countries, the Christian religion and the organization of the Church comprised the dominant ideological power structure. Through the process of state-building and the Protestant Reformation, these structures were charged with new energy. In the present dissertation, the fact that nations were dependent on and exploited ideological power structures in order to control their respective populations and survive the international struggle of the state system has grown to become a central theme.</p><p>The fundamental questions of this dissertation concerning how and why social institutions were reproduced, and the theoretical context of these questions, has been based in the fact that both church and state are social institutions whose construction must include structures for a constant recreation of their forms and functions. The contribution of the present author has been to construct and apply a general model for understanding the organization and reproduction of institutional structures from a materialistic and structural basis. From a discussion of Louis Althusser's theory of the oppressive state apparatus and the ideological state apparatus, I have developed fundamental concepts with the purpose of constructing a theoretical model of the reproduction of an ideological state apparatus. I have dubbed this model the "competitive system", designating a system of material and symbolic structures and processes which, through competition between individuals, produces and maintains the functionaries of said state apparatus.</p><p>In one subsidiary study, the involvement of the repressive state apparatus in the creation of new church dioceses (so-called "superintendant dioceses") in Sweden during the first half of the 17th century is studied. This study showed that the creation of superintendant dioceses was a government-initiated project whose actual motive was the ambition of the repressive state to conquer and secure borders and central regions in the realm.</p><p>In another subsidiary study, some of the structures which reproduced the church and the educational system in Sweden during the 17th and 18th centuries are examined. This study indicated how the system of promotion constructed after the Reformation resulted in an overproduction of clerical labour during the 17th and 18th centuries. At the same time, through the agency of the crown the educational system expanded enormously during the 17th century and, by providing the opportunity for teachers to move into careers in the church, competition in the church apparatus became even keener.</p><p>In a final subsidiary study, the reproduction of diocesans (bishops and superintendents) in Sweden during the period 1580-1800 is analyzed. At the beginning of the period under investigation, careers in the normal competitive system of the church comprised the dominant form of qualification. The court and royal chaplain ministries available there were of great significance for recruitment. By the latter half of the 17th century, the role of the educational system in the reproduction of diocesans increased. In accordance with the Swedish central government´s increasing need to formalize its central competitive system, the educational system was expanded and reinforced, which had reprecussions on the competitive system of the ideological state apparatus of the church and its reproduction of diocesans.</p><p>Keywords: ideological state apparatus, repressive state apparatus, reproduction, church organization, educational system, competitive system, clergy, superintendent, bishop, superintendant dioceses, state building, 17th century, 18th century, Sweden.</p>

<p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of this study is to examine roma women´s experiences of health professionals’ attitudes towards them in Swedish health care. <strong>Method:</strong> Exploratory qualitative study with individual interviews was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women of Roma origin. Data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. <strong>Results:</strong> Many of the Roma women have experienced a good response when they were in contact with the Swedish health care. A good response involves commitment and respect for the individual and the cultural group. However, half of respondents have experienced prejudiced behavior from health professionals. These women associate this behavior by health professionals with their traditional clothes. When health professionals do not possess enough knowledge it is esay to experiance irritation and misunderstanding say several of the women. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Half of the Roma women have experienced a good response from professionals in the Swedish health care. Women dressed in traditional clothes felt that they been treated worse and more discriminated against than women without these clothes.</p>

<p>Uppsatsen handlar om den historiska debatten hur Göteborgs stadsteater kom till. Med stadsteaterns placering vid Götaplatsen med konstmuseum, konsthall och konserthus innebär det en mycket central och betydelsefull plats i Göteborg. Uppsatsen behandlar svårigheten att anpassa teatern till denna kulturella plats. Därför ingår en kort historik om Götaplatsen. Undersökningen tar upp arkitekten Carl Bergsten som ritade teatern i samarbete med regissören och scenteknikern Knut Ström. En kort beskrivning av teaterns exteriör och interiör samt scenteknik tas upp för att belysa avsikterna med teatern och dess samspel med omkringliggande byggnader. Uppsatsen behandlar vidare debatten mellan Göteborgs teaterförening, donatorer, Lorensbergsteaterns ledning och Göteborgs stadsfullmäktige samt dagspress och fackpress. Slutligen har en mindre enkät och personliga intervjuer gjorts med olika personer som berörs av teatern.</p>

The present dissertation examines various aspects of church organization in Sweden during the 17th and 18th centuries. In Sweden, as in many other European countries, the Christian religion and the organization of the Church comprised the dominant ideological power structure. Through the process of state-building and the Protestant Reformation, these structures were charged with new energy. In the present dissertation, the fact that nations were dependent on and exploited ideological power structures in order to control their respective populations and survive the international struggle of the state system has grown to become a central theme. The fundamental questions of this dissertation concerning how and why social institutions were reproduced, and the theoretical context of these questions, has been based in the fact that both church and state are social institutions whose construction must include structures for a constant recreation of their forms and functions. The contribution of the present author has been to construct and apply a general model for understanding the organization and reproduction of institutional structures from a materialistic and structural basis. From a discussion of Louis Althusser's theory of the oppressive state apparatus and the ideological state apparatus, I have developed fundamental concepts with the purpose of constructing a theoretical model of the reproduction of an ideological state apparatus. I have dubbed this model the "competitive system", designating a system of material and symbolic structures and processes which, through competition between individuals, produces and maintains the functionaries of said state apparatus. In one subsidiary study, the involvement of the repressive state apparatus in the creation of new church dioceses (so-called "superintendant dioceses") in Sweden during the first half of the 17th century is studied. This study showed that the creation of superintendant dioceses was a government-initiated project whose actual motive was the ambition of the repressive state to conquer and secure borders and central regions in the realm. In another subsidiary study, some of the structures which reproduced the church and the educational system in Sweden during the 17th and 18th centuries are examined. This study indicated how the system of promotion constructed after the Reformation resulted in an overproduction of clerical labour during the 17th and 18th centuries. At the same time, through the agency of the crown the educational system expanded enormously during the 17th century and, by providing the opportunity for teachers to move into careers in the church, competition in the church apparatus became even keener. In a final subsidiary study, the reproduction of diocesans (bishops and superintendents) in Sweden during the period 1580-1800 is analyzed. At the beginning of the period under investigation, careers in the normal competitive system of the church comprised the dominant form of qualification. The court and royal chaplain ministries available there were of great significance for recruitment. By the latter half of the 17th century, the role of the educational system in the reproduction of diocesans increased. In accordance with the Swedish central government´s increasing need to formalize its central competitive system, the educational system was expanded and reinforced, which had reprecussions on the competitive system of the ideological state apparatus of the church and its reproduction of diocesans. Keywords: ideological state apparatus, repressive state apparatus, reproduction, church organization, educational system, competitive system, clergy, superintendent, bishop, superintendant dioceses, state building, 17th century, 18th century, Sweden.

Abstract Date:                                  2009-06-03 Level:                                 Master thesis in Business Administration, 15 points Authors:                            Branka Milencovici            Deniz Solmaz Tutor:                                Ulla Pettersson Title:                                  The Swedish code of Corporate Governance - How the code administers in larger stock firms. Problem:                           The Swedish code follows the value of "comply or explain" when firms depart one or several rules, the reasons should be explained in the corporate report. The code does not include reasons for differences, it's up to the management themselves to take action. Is it possible to see if the code has been administered? Do differences prevent? Which are the most common? Is there any motivation?   Purpose:                           The main purpose with this essay is to study how Swedish firms administer the rules of the code in their corporate reports. Method:                            The method for this study is a deductive and qualitative approach. First we studied theory to understand the subject. Material that has been used is primary and secondary data that we later on finish with some criticism at the source. Result:          By looking at the guiding principles in the Swedish code you can see the differences in the corporate report. The most common ones are when the firms do not explain why they didn't include some information. When the firms do not give a cause of the difference you diverge from the code. In distinction can conduct in neglecting information and this is the main reason for introducing the code as a law, and it concerns all large stock firms

I och med det ökade intresset för aktiemarknaden har bolagsstyrning kommit att växa i betydelse. Bolagsstyrningens aktualitet under de senaste åren har lett till att principer och regler vuxit fram inom området. Den svenska koden för bolagsstyrning publicerades år 2005 i förhoppning om att förbättra det svenska näringslivet och göra det mer attraktivt för såväl nationella som internationella investerare. De regler som koden innehåller behöver dock inte alltid följas då det finns möjlighet att avvika genom en bra och konkret motivering. Avvikelserna som uppkommer ligger till grund för syftet i denna uppsats och målet är att ta reda på vilka företag det är som vanligen avviker och vad som kännetecknar dessa samt i vilken grad avvikelserna sker. Tidigare forskning som gjorts inom området har fokuserats på de fördelar som koden föranlett för de båda parterna samt vilka avvikelser som är vanligast förekommande. I denna uppsats kommer vi således att försöka finna samband som kan ge en förklaring till de avvikelser som sker genom att definiera olika kännetecken som utmärker de aktuella företagen. I uppsatsen har en totalundersökning gjort av alla de berörda företagen på OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm och NGM Equity. Insamlingen av data har enbart bestått av studier i form av sekundärdata då denna ansetts mest lämplig och trovärdig. Genom analys har samband kunnat knytas mellan avvikelser och vissa av de förklarande variabler som analyserats. Genom analysen kunde vi sedan dra slutsatsen att spridningen bland aktieägarnas procentuella röstandel, val av revisionsbyrå, typ av ägande och bransch är signifikanta för huruvida avvikelse från den svenska koden för bolagsstyrning förekommer eller ej.

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Telemarknaden i Sverige har under de senaste åren ställts inför nya utmaningar som inte bara är ett resultat av avregleringen utan även av kundernas ökade krav på produkter och tjänster. Överlevnaden för den före detta monopolisten beror på hur väl de kan tillgodose kundernas krav och aktivt bemöta de övriga aktörerna i branschen. Därmed blev frågeställningen att undersöka vilka faktorer som är väsentliga för att de före detta monopolistiska företagen ska kunna överleva på dagens marknad och syftet med arbetet blev att utvärdera och analysera denna strategiska process. Vi har valt att göra en kundundersökning med syfte att kunna besvara vår problemställning och därmed valdes kundperspektivet. Med tanke på att Sverige bara har ett teleföretag som har blivit avreglerat, nämligen TeliaSonera, blev det naturligt att vi utgick ifrån just detta företag. Kundundersökningen gjordes med privatkunder i åldern 20 – 50 år. För att kunna ställa relevanta frågor i enkäten gjorde vi en omfattande förstudie som inkluderade artiklar i dagspress, offentliga rapporter och tidigare undersökningar, samt ett samtal med TeliaSoneras marknadsanalytiker. Det som vi kom fram till i vårt arbete är att om ett företag ska kunna överleva på en konkurrensutsatt marknad borde det ha både hög marknadsfokus och hög kundfokus. För att uppnå denna kombination krävs det att företaget är medveten och uppmärksam på vad som händer på marknader, hur konkurrenterna agerar, teknologiska utvecklingen och samtidigt ha kunden och dess önskningar och krav i centrum.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur man inom affärslivet i Norge och Sverige hanterar och uppfattar tidsdimensionen och försöka belysa om detta har effekt på det subjektivt upplevda samarbetet. Ett antal människor på ledningsnivå inom norsk-svenska bolag har deltagit i studien, som har omfattat enkäter, ”Cottle-tester” och intervjuer. Respondenterna har först fått ge uttryck för sin bild på sig själva och därefter hur de uppfattar ”motparten” med hänsyn till tidsaspekten. Sedan mättes den beroende variabeln, det upplevda samarbetet, med en enkät. Resultaten visade att den bild man har av sig själv inte alltid stämmer överens med den bild motparten har, dessutom verkar norrmän vara något mer positiva i sin syn på samarbetet med svenskar än tvärtom. Både N och S visade att de var mer inriktade på framtid och nutid än förtid, men det fanns en skillnad mellan grupperna när det gällde förtid. Det fanns också en skillnad mellan grupperna när det gällde inställningen till att vara punktlig, och hålla sig till fastlagda planer, där den svenska gruppens poäng var högre än den norska gruppens poäng. Intervjuerna visade att det finns en önskan om att vara bättre förberedd inför mötet med ”grannarna”, något som gällde särskilt de svenska respondenterna. Många respondenter var engagerade och delade med sig av sina erfarenheter, vilket tyder på att ämnet upplevs som angeläget.