Sökning: "institutional change"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 476 avhandlingar innehållade orden institutional change.

  1. 1. Inertia and practice change related to greenhouse gas reduction : Essays on institutional entrepreneurship and translation in Swedish agri-food

    Författare :Herman Stål; Karl Johan Bonnedahl; Jessica Eriksson; Peter Dobers; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inertia; climate change; sustainability; agriculture; institutional entrepreneurship; institutional logics; convergent change; divergent change; practice; translation; Tröghet; klimatförändring; hållbarhet; jordbruk; institutionellt entreprenörskap; institutionella logiker; konvergent förändring; divergent förändring; praktik; översättning; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

    Sammanfattning : To avoid dangerous climate change a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is required in a relative short time span. However, as development is moving in the wrong direction, there appears to be great inertia in changing activities. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel

    Författare :Anna Isaksson; Johanna Esseveld; Lena Abrahamsson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transformative work; Change; Partnership; Equal Programme; Doing gender; Leadership; Growth; Discrimination; Institutional ethnography; Social relations; Ruling relations; Governance; Inequality; Equality; Diversity; Förändringsarbete; Förändring; Partnerskap; Equal-programmet; Att göra kön; Ledarskap; Tillväxt; Diskriminering; Institutionell etnografi; Sociala relationer; Styrningsrelationer; Governance; Ojämlikhet; Jämställdhet; Mångfald; Sociology; Sociologi; inequality; governance; Change; transformative work; partnership; Equal Programme; doing gender; leadership; growth; discrimination; institutional ethnography; ruling relations; social relations; equality; diversity; working life;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis the overall aim is to analyse conceptions of change with the point of departure being texts developed within the framework of three development partnerships financed by the European Social Fund's Equal Programme 2001-2007. The development partnerships, consisting of collaborating parties from both the public and private sector, aimed at developing new methods and ideas in order to counteract discrimination and all kinds of inequality in working life. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Corporate Social Responsibility under Construction : Ideas, Translations, and Institutional Change

    Författare :Karolina Windell; Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson; Bengt Jacobsson; Sigrid Quack; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; CSR; Corporate Social Responsibility; Ideas; Institutional Change; Translation; Issue-Field; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    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

  5. 4. Mot en digital demokrati? : Teknik, politik och institutionell förändring

    Författare :Joachim Åström; Ingemar Elander; Stig Montin; Harald Baldersheim; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Statsvetenskap; Democracy; political participation; institutional change; local government; Internet; digital democracy; electronic democracy; electronic government; information society; statskunskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; Statskunskap;

    Sammanfattning : New information and communication technologies are today put forward as one possible solution to the perceived problems of democracy. Seeing that the Internet enables new forms of communication and eases information gathering, one view says that the Internet will open up new participatory avenues and radically transform patterns of political participation. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Change in the cage : Exploring an organisaitonal field: Sweden's biofuel region

    Författare :Christopher Nicol; Tommy Jensen; Kiflemariam Hamde; Stefan Jonsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Institutional theory; organisational field change; institutional forces; structuration processes; triggers for change; Institutionell teori; organisatorisk fält förändring; institutionella krafter; struktureringsteori; processer; utlösare av förändring; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis seeks to better understand how change occurs within a group of organisations. Aiming to make a contribution to institutional theory, it brings together three main schools, namely: old, new and neoinstitutionalism, in an integrative approach for understanding organisational field change. LÄS MER