Sökning: "Valuation practice"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 39 avhandlingar innehållade orden Valuation practice.
1. Valuation in Welfare Markets : The Rule Books, Whiteboards and Swivel Chairs of Care Choice Reform
Sammanfattning : This thesis takes an interest in how values attain a specific meaning in market reforms of welfare provision. The study builds on exploring how values are enacted rather than treating them as universal and stable. LÄS MER
2. Production in a State of Abundance : Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. LÄS MER
3. Negotiating the value(s) of design(ing): An organisational inquiry
Sammanfattning : Organisations are increasingly calling upon design as a strategic asset to generate innovation as part of a wider fascination with ‘design thinking’ in business. Recent scholarship has tended to emphasise design’s many contributions to business and society, playing a part in the growing recognition and expansion of design as an idea. LÄS MER
4. Expropriation, Valuation and Compensation in Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : This study examines how the expropriation, valuation and compensation process are carried out in Ethiopia when privately held land and attached real properties are taken for public and private investment purposes. The study examines three case studies, inquiring whether the process of expropriation and valuation are transparent and justified or not and the compensation paid is fair and reasonable from an international perspective. LÄS MER
5. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens
Sammanfattning : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. LÄS MER