Scrum är en Agile systemutvecklingsmetod som funnits sedan 90-talet. Eftersom metoder sällan används som det är tänkt att de ska användas finns det stor risk att även Scrum-metoden modifieras och används på olika sätt i olika företag. Denna uppsats berör huruvida Scrum modifierats jämfört med de ursprungliga riktlinjerna kring metodens olika moment. Uppsatsen tar också upp på vilka sätt metoden fö

Strategiimplementering är en avgörande process i alla företag, mellanchefer spelar en nyckelroll i strategiimplementering, och känslor ger konkreta följder relaterade till arbete och organisationer. Sambandet mellan dessa tre element har dock aldrig undersökts, varför uppsatsens syfte är att bidra till förståelse för hur mellanchefers känslor påverkar strategiimplementeringens praktiska genomföran

In a social environment, web 2.0 technologies offer significant benefits to enterprises willing to integrate the technology into their business. The most socio-technological systems which have gained much more attention and generated most interest from companies in recent years are blogs, social networking and wikis. However, web 2.0 technologies provide opportunities for companies that are able t

In a democracy the people should be able to communicate with the politicians and express their opinions. Social movements, being part of the civil society, have their own ways of influencing and making their voices heard. Theories about institutionalisation state that social movements are radical in the beginning, but become more and more professional and less radical the more they grow. They have

För att konkurrensreglerna skall vara effektiva och uppnå sitt syfte att bekämpa överträdelser krävs fungerande sanktionssystem. Inom konkurrensrätten finns det både offentliga och civila sanktioner där böter, näringsförbud och kriminalisering hör till de offentliga och skadestånd hör till de civila. Under de senaste åren har konkurrensmyndigheternas arbete för att bekämpa överträdelser, i synnerh

Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka konsekvenserna som IFRS 3 har medfört för företag, fyra år efter införandet, när det kommer till goodwill. Har det blivit lättare för företag att redovisa goodwill? Har redovisningen av goodwill blivit bättre fyra år efter införandet? Vi har använt oss av både en kvantitativ och kvalitativ forskningsstrategi. Primärdata har tagits fram med genom intervjuer m

PURPOSE The purpose of this thesis is to investigate why companies currently are not using social media for IR in Sweden. More specific, we are studying driving and inhibiting factors that are influencing Swedish companies to use, or not to use, this communication technology for IR. METHOD Our thesis addresses the attitudes towards using social media for IR among Swedish companies listed on the OM

Globaliseringen som knyter samman världen gör det allt svårare för företag att överleva den hårda, internationella konkurrensen. Samtidigt möjliggör det även tillväxt eftersom komponenter, produkter och lösningar kan fås från alla världens hörn. Ett sätt att överleva för företag, är att skapa konkurrensfördelar genom lyckade relationer med sina leverantörer. För att uppnå ett framgångsrikt samarbe

In the lights of the reopening of formal negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, this thesis investigates the image of the EU in Argentina. How others’ view the EU is important for the union’s possibility to succeed with its foreign policy goals. Mutual understanding is crucial in order to make the cooperation run smoothly. The EU seems to expect that the cooperation automatically would benefit

In recent years several policies concerning Aid effectiveness has emerged for Swedish civil society organizations. This thesis investigates what facilitates and complicates implementation of these policies. The theoretical framework is constituted by a top-down perspective of implementation and three essential actor properties; understand, can and will, developed by Lennart Lundquist. The empirica

NILS on Android – The Wonderful Journey Android is the fastest growing operating system for mobile phones. The development of applications for Android is increasing exponentially, about 2000 new applications per week for the first quarter 2010. [17] And the reason for this trend is particularly Google's openness to everything. Android is open source, and in principle, anyone can freely make th

The presidency of the European Union (EU) is one of the main institutional players in the field of negotiation. The role performance of the presidency varies a great deal between the member states. But does roles performance shift when a member state enters its second term in office? This paper visualizes the Swedish roles performance during its presidencies in both 2001 and 2009. Has the Swedish

The Constitution of Kenya has since the day it was created been a subject for discussion, debating about which political system the Kenyans should run. The thesis aims to investigate what problems the current constitution been dealing with and how these problems have lead to the demand for a new constitution and in what way this new constitution differs from the old. Since independence the constit

The Fascist movement in Sweden is a field that hasn’t attracted a great deal of research. This paper attempts to create a working theory as to why the Swedish Fascist movement is marginalized in the municipality of Lund while the Fascist presence is strong in the neighboring city of Helsingborg using qualitative methods. This paper proposes four factors for understanding this difference: the mater

Dam projects are initiated in large scale on rivers all over the world, inevitably resulting in social and cultural consequences. While the causes of states’ dam constructions conventionally are understood in economic and geostrategic terms, this thesis aims to understand why dams are constructed in terms of states’ ambitions to strengthen and maintain identities. The concept of the idea of the st

This thesis examines cluster and innovation system theory’s answer to why some firms, and not others, based in particular nations achieve international success in distinct segments, and the European Union’s recent policy efforts based on such theories. On this background a discussion on the changes needed in national economic policymaking among EU Member States when the EU starts taking a cluster

The aim of this study was to investigate whether dysfunctions could be seen in the brainstem of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and if these could be associated with specific brain structures. Further, the purpose was to study the connection between proposed dysfunctions in the brainstem and self-rated symptoms. The study included 15 people with an AD/HD diagnosis and a contro

The aim of this study is to look at the co-operational problems with civil-military cooperation through the eyes of organization theories. I aim to see if the problems found within civil-military cooperation can be explained with organizational theories, and what can be done in order to both solve and avoid these problems in the future. I will try to see if I can match the problems found, with the

This paper examines the hydropolitical vulnerabilities and resiliencies in the San Juan River Basin located on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This examination is possible by studying the characteristics of vulnerable and resilient international river basins presented in a UNEP report from 2007. Further, this paper will assess the risks of escalating conflict and the possibilities of