Sökning: "Knowledge areas"

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  1. 1. Teknik - genomskinlig eller svart låda? : Att bruka, se och förstå teknik - en fråga om kunskap

    Författare :Jan Sjögren; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Artifacts; assertive knowledge; categories of knowledge; concept of technology; critical knowledge; everyday technology; inimate knowledge; mentality; practical skills; proficiency knowledge; subject of technology; understanding of technology; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Human history is to a great extent the history of people's relationship to artifacts and thereby to technology. This study is mainly concerned with the present-day situation of this interaction between people and technology, in a broad sense of the word. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Innovation and Efficiency : a Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizing Industrial Firms

    Författare :Mats Magnusson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; innovation; efficiency; knowledge; organizing; knowledge creation; knowledge exploitation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the organizing of industrial firms that face the challenge of achieving high levels of both innovation and efficiency, taking a knowledge-based approach to this classical trade-off. With a constructionist perspective as a point of departure, knowledge, which contains tacit and explicit components, is seen to exist at both the individual and the organizational level. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Common Knowledge : lowland Maya urban farming at Xuch

    Författare :Christian Isendahl; Luis Alberto Barba Pingarrón; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Ecological settlement archaeology; Maya; urbanism; agriculture; architecture; ceramics; geochemistry; vegetation; soils; archaeoclimatic modelling; Preclassic; Classic; Postclassic; Colonial; Xuch; Puuc; Campeche; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : During the second half of the first millennium AD, several large urban communities developed in the Puuc region of the northwest Yucatán Peninsula. Investigations of architecture and ceramics at Xuch provide a spatio-chronological framework demonstrating the rapid growth of an urban settlement culminating in the Terminal Classic, and its subsequent decline. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Everyday Knowledge in Elder Care : An Ethnographic Study of Care Work

    Författare :Ulrika Börjesson; Elisabet Cedersund; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; ethnography; knowledge; care work; elder care;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about how knowledge is constructed in interactions and what knowledge entails in practical social work. It is about how a collective can provide a foundation for the construction and development of knowledge through the interactions contextualized in this study on Swedish elder care, organized by the municipality. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Perspectives on Knowledge and Growth

    Författare :Ola Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Growth theory; knowledge; human capital; technology; university policy; biogeography; epistemology; long-run development;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with various aspects of the relationship between knowledge and economic growth. It contains a general introduction and five separate essays. Essay I is a literature overview on the appearance of knowledge in modern growth theory. LÄS MER