Sökning: "Dominant designs"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Dominant designs.
1. Gaining influence in standard-setting processes : a discussion of underlying mechanisms in 3G mobile telephony technology development
Sammanfattning : The environment in which companies operate is such that standards become increasingly important due to the built-in rigidities resulting from previous technology investments and network externalities. The research question is: How can a market-leading company gain influence on the formation of standards perceived as vital for the company-s continued business? The purpose of the dissertation is to explore, describe, and characterise how such influence may be gained; it thus aims to reveal some of the mechanisms underlying a technology standard-setting process. LÄS MER
2. Cost-Efficient Designs for Assessing Work-Related Biomechanical Exposures
Sammanfattning : Work-related disorders due to biomechanical exposures have been subject to extensive research. Studies addressing these exposures have, however, paid limited attention to an efficient use of resources in exposure assessment. The present thesis investigates cost-efficient procedures for assessment of work-related biomechanical exposures, i.e. LÄS MER
3. Learning to be at a distance : structural and educational change in the digitalization of medical education
Sammanfattning : As an expression of current challenges faced by contemporary societies, past decades have witnessed heavy demands for higher education to change and transform. One key question here has been the increased digitalization of higher education. LÄS MER
4. Maternal Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings: Investigations of IT as a resource
Sammanfattning : Maternal mortality is a major problem especially in developing countries. Maternal deaths are partly attributed to the limited access to healthcare and a shortage of medically trained health professionals who can provide maternal healthcare service. Approaches have been adopted to improve access and quality of healthcare. LÄS MER
5. Harmonising value in a car’s interior using sensory marketing as a lens
Sammanfattning : The human senses have always influenced people’s perceptions of thesurrounding environment and objects. As a consequence of the evolvement ofthe experience economy, research on the human senses has increasedsubstantially and attracted scholars from various research domains, includingsensory marketing. LÄS MER