Sökning: "cross-national case study"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden cross-national case study.

1. 1. Industrial buying behavior in the Middle East : a cross national study

   Författare :Hossein Dadfar; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Industrial buying behavior; purchasing process for industrial capital goods; decision making; implementation; dimensions of buying behavior negotiation behavior; consulting marketing; Middle Eastern socio-cultural characteristics; tribalism; Islam; westernization; Iran; Syria; the United Arab Emirates; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : This study tackles industrial buying behavior in a socio-cultural context. The main purpose is to explore the influence of socio-cultural forces on industrial buying behavior in the Middle Eastern selected countries: Iran, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. LÄS MER

3. 2. Protecting Our Children : A comparative study of the dynamics of structure, intervention and their interplay in Swedish child welfare and Canadian child protection

   Författare :Evelyn Grace Khoo; Lennart Nygren; Ulf Hyvönen; Gudrun Kristinsdottir; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; child welfare; child protection; social services; comparative; cross-national; social work; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a case study of how two agencies in Umeå, Sweden and Barrie, Canada protect children found in need of child welfare services. The project's purposes are to describe how children are protected from harm in these two contexts, to illuminate the similarities and differences in the child welfare systems reflected at the local level, and explicate the significance of uncovered similarities and differences. LÄS MER

4. 3. To Blend in or Stand out? - Hospital Social Workers' Jurisdictional Work in Sweden and Germany

   Författare :Manuela Sjöström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cross-national case study; health care; hospital social work; jurisdiction; profession; professional association; professional subgroup; subordination;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes, analyses, and compares the means by which hospital social work associations in Sweden and Germany pursue their members’ professionalization through ‘jurisdictional work’. The time period covered by the research is 1989 through 2008. LÄS MER

5. 4. Risk policy : trust, risk perception, and attitudes

   Författare :Mattias Viklund; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The role of trust in social, economic, political, and organizational relations is a research topic that has received much attention during the last decade. Trust has been considered a key variable in various contexts, although it should be noted that many theorists pay little attention to empirically testing their arguments about the importance of trust. LÄS MER

7. 5. Why Work? : Comparative Studies on Welfare Regimes and Individuals' Work Orientations

   Författare :Ingrid Esser; Joakim Palme; Stefan Svallfors; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state; production regime; work values; attitudes to work; employment commitment; retirement preferences; multi-level analysis; comparative; institutions; work motivation; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how different welfare and production regimes may have structured individuals’ work orientations into cross-national patterns by the late 1990s and early 2000s. Three different aspects of work orientations are considered in the three studies. LÄS MER