Sökning: "abductive approach"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 78 avhandlingar innehållade orden abductive approach.

  1. 1. Logic Salience : Navigating in institutional landscape of funding volatility and ideological disputes in nonprofit hybrid organizing

    Författare :Jayne Jönsson; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; logic salience; hybridity; institutional logics; market–mission logics; marketization; nonprofit; ideological disputes; individual agency; funding scarcity; self-sustainability; abductive approach;

    Sammanfattning : The concept of institutional logics is key to those who investigate organizational change, especially those who seek to understand the tension and impact of combining the logics of market and mission. Such a combination of logics, being an espoused financial sustainability solution for the funding-scarce nonprofit sector, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Contextualising Constructions of Corporate Social Responsibility : Social Embeddedness in Discourse and Institutional Contexts

    Författare :Brita Backlund Rambaree; Barbara Hobson; Charlotta Stern; Dima Jamali; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; corporate social responsibility; CSR; institutional theory; Foucault; context; embeddedness; institutions; new institutionalism; institutional complementarity; discursive institutionalism; institutional work; responsible investment; SRI; social constructionism; discourse; power; qualitative content analysis; self-reporting; abductive approach; interpretative repertoires; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : ‘Corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) and ‘socially responsible investment’ (SRI) have become predominant frameworks connecting business to society that have spread across the globe. They comprise a shared set of ideas and practices, such as those promoted in global reporting standards and by international organisations such as the UN Global Compact. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Urban Chisels: A socioform approach to urban design

    Författare :Joanna Gregorowicz-Kipszak; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Sammanfattning : Urban designs are not explicit about the interdependencies between the development of society and urban form. Yet there is a need to assess these with that in focus. Procedures currently applied are not effective and are often perceived as problematic both for urban planning and design activity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Beyond an instrumental approach to religion and development : Challenges for church-based healthcare in Tanzania

    Författare :Josephine Sundqvist; Per Pettersson; Lennart Wohlgemuth; Anders Sjöborg; Ignatius Swart; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; development; church organisations; public private partnerships; healthcare; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation serves as a contribution to the larger ongoing debate on the role of religion in development in an effort to move beyond an instrumental approach. The aim is to study the role of religious agents in development through the prism of contractual partnerships between church organisations and the Tanzanian state in healthcare delivery. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Byggeriets produktion af svigt i et strukturationssperspektiv - et studie af reaktive og proaktive problemlosningspraksisser

    Författare :Casper Siebken Schultz; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; building defects; problem solving; structuration; unintended consequences; Abductive method; social practices; quality; construction management; reflexive qualitative methodology;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is the result of an Industrial PhD project conducted in NCC Construction Denmark addressing quality issues. The study examines how failures and defects are produced in the social practices of construction projects and the role of problem solving. The approach to failures and defects is open-minded and empirically oriented. LÄS MER