“Bring your own device” i svenska företag och organisationer

Sammanfattning: Most companies and organizations today depend on technology connected to the Internet. Schools and offices have therefore been providing computers, phones and other technology to the employees. The recent technological development and decline in prices for technology have contributed to making these products a part of everyday life for most people. This has made it very common for employees and students to bring their own devices into school and workplaces. The aim of this study is to define what "Bring your own device" means for Swedish companies and organizations and how it has been implemented in those. The aim is not mainly to generalize to all Swedish companies but create an understanding how the trend is used to provide a basis for continued research in this area. The questions this thesis aims to answer is: What does the term "Bring your own device" mean in the Swedish organizations and companies in which it is implemented? How is "Bring your own device" implemented in Swedish organizations and companies? What are the policies and guidelines for the Swedish organizations and companies that have implemented "Bring your own device", and how is compliance? A pragmatic approach has been used to incorporate previous studies while keeping the interview questions open to new approaches. The structure has been small-N studies that go deep into a number of cases, in order to more profoundly explain a phenomenon. Mail interviews have been used to collect data from the persons responsible for "Bring your own device" in the different organisations. The result shows that companies see "Bring your own device" as a trend where employees bring their own devices rather than firms providing employees with devices that they use privately. Respondents have not measured or examined how the introduction of BYOD has affected productivity. It seems, like in foreign studies, to be a lack of clear policies and guidelines regarding the phenomenon.