Sökning: "institutional and organizational change"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 79 avhandlingar innehållade orden institutional and organizational change.
1. Amnesty in Translation : Ideas, Interests and Organizational Change
Sammanfattning : Swedish Amnesty was founded in 1964 for the purpose of working for the release of prisoners of conscience. Forty years later the organization has expanded its realm of activity to include ideas such as women’s rights, homosexuals’ rights and corporate responsibility for human rights. LÄS MER
2. Corporate Social Responsibility under Construction : Ideas, Translations, and Institutional Change
Sammanfattning : Although ideas about the social responsibility of business have a long history, the debate over corporate social responsibility (CSR) has escalated worldwide during the past decade under the label of CSR. This thesis contributes to new-institutional organizational approaches by exploring how and why CSR has been constructed into a widespread idea and by introducing a discussion on the interrelationship between ideas and institutional change. LÄS MER
3. The drive for change : putting the means and ends of sport at stake in the organizing of Swedish voluntary sport
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to create knowledge on processes of change in the contemporary organizing of Swedish voluntary sport and the systems of meaning at work in these processes. The thesis proceeds from the assumption that the contemporary public sport policy climate is characterized by a pressure on organized sport to change in order for sport to better serve as an implementer of non-sport goals. LÄS MER
4. Forhåbninger og skuffelser i kvindeerhvervene : kvinders møde med ny teknologi og organisatorisk forandring
Sammanfattning : In the meeting between women from office- and library work and the computer technology and organizational changes, different actions were found. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse this meeting to consider the situation of the employed when computer technology and new organization are implemented, to discuss the importance of prior social and working life with regard to the understanding of the meeting and to address the working conditions in the 1980s with special attention to women. LÄS MER
5. Challenges and constraints encountered by women and midwives during childbirth in low-income countries : experiences from Angola and Mozambique
Sammanfattning : This thesis aimed to study the actual and perceived quality of midwifery practices during childbirth at peripheral and central health care levels in two low-income countries, Angola (I-III) and Mozambique (IV-V). Theoretical models interpreting women's and midwives' views have been developed. LÄS MER
