Sökning: "institutional pressures"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden institutional pressures.

1. 21. Bridging the floods - The role of social learning for resilience building in urban water services

   Författare :Åse Johannessen; Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; urban water services; climate change; adaptation; urban transformation; transition; flood risk management; water resources management; disaster risk reduction; resilience; resilient cities;

   Sammanfattning : The development of cities is increasingly threatened by a worldwide water crisis. Urban water services (including drinking water, sanitation and drainage) are facing complex and multiple pressures, which are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. LÄS MER

3. 22. Non-state actors and global fisheries governance

   Författare :Matilda Petersson; Henrik Österblom; Dellmuth Lisa; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Non-state actors; participation; effectiveness; strategies; regional fisheries management organizations; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Sammanfattning : Transboundary policy problems such as overfishing of shared fish stocks, or illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing represent significant governance challenges. States have established international legal frameworks and engage in international organizations (e.g. LÄS MER

4. 23. Privatisation of the IT Sector in Sweden

   Författare :Kent Springdal; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk teori; ekonometri; organisational change; Privatisation; property rights; transformation; Economics; public choice; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; Nationalekonomi; economic policy; management; Företagsledning; Management of enterprises; ekonomisk politik;

   Sammanfattning : The majority of research on privatisation has been driven by, inter alia, economics. Some economists have argued that private ownership introduces capital market pressures into inefficient state bureaucracies. Private property rights are expected to maximise the incentives for management to achieve a high level of production efficiency. LÄS MER

5. 24. Structures of District Nurse : Patient Interaction

   Författare :Vesa Leppänen; Sociologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; primary care; patient; social interaction; conversation analysis; ethnomethodology; ethnographic method; district nurse; Care and help to handicapped; video analysis; Handikappade; vård och rehabilitering;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about social interaction between Swedish district nurses and patients when they meet to perform such routine things as to measure blood pressures or give injections. Conversation analytic methodology is used to explicate interactional structures and to understand how they come about; (i) how tests and treatments are achieved; (ii) how concerns are introduced; (iii) how test results are talked about; and (iv) how advice is given and responded to. LÄS MER

7. 25. Determinants of the use of accounting information in the public sector budgetary decision-making processes : the case of Tanzanian Local Government Authorities (LGAs)

   Författare :Latifa Mbelwa; Karl-Johan Bonnedahl; Håkan Bohman; Henrik Höglund; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; The use of accounting information; Determinants; Budget Decision Making processes; Public Sector; Financial Legitimacy and organization Efficiency as well as Developing Country.; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

   Sammanfattning : Since the 1980s, public sector entities have been exposed to accounting reforms under an umbrella of New Public Management (NPM). The main purpose of adoption of accounting reforms is to increase efficiency in decision-making by producing useful accounting information. LÄS MER