Sökning: "Business Rhetoric"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Business Rhetoric.

  1. 11. Marknadsorientering inom folkbildningen : fritt och frivilligt i ett nytt ljus

    Författare :Ann-Louise Petersen; Högskolan Väst; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; market orientation; voluntary organization; the liberal adulteducation; rhetoric analysis; discursive practice; strategic communication; Education; Pedagogik; Pedagogik; Pedagogics;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about how the study associations belonging to the liberal adult education deal with their role under New Public Management (NPM). Since the beginning of the ’90’s the study associations have been engaged in the state program for education of the unemployed. LÄS MER

  2. 12. Patterns of corporate visual selfrepresentation in accounting narratives

    Författare :Emelie Eriksson; Alf Westelius; Carl-Johan Petri; Bino Catasus; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; visual research; self-representation; diagrams; accounting narrative; corporate reporting; public disclosure; business models; semiotics; annual report; Ericsson; visuell forskning; visuella metoder; självrepresentation; diagram; externredovisning; affärsmodell; semiotik; årsredovisning; Ericsson; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with firms’ visual and pre-visual self-representations in accounting narratives. Self-representations are those descriptions about the company that firms include in accounting narratives to convey the current standings and their identity. LÄS MER

  3. 13. (Investigating) MNCs' CSR-related behaviour and impacts in institutionally and culturally distant markets : African developing-countries in focus

    Författare :Gideon Jojo Amos; Gabriel Baffour Awuah; Ulf Aagerup; Niklas Egels-Zandén; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multinational enterprises MNEs ; corporate social responsibility CSR ; corporate social responsibility reporting CSRR ; African developing-countries; legitimacy; stakeholders; institutional theories; organizational learning;

    Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis is to explore why and how institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing-countries. In order to achieve the purpose stated above, the thesis seeks to answer the overarching research question: How do institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing countries? To answer the research question this thesis employed an interpretive methodological approach in order to increase my understanding of the CSR phenomenon in a specific contextual environment characterized by different institutional distance through different theoretical and empirical perspectives (Guba and Lincoln, 1994; Lincoln and Guba, 2000). LÄS MER

  4. 14. Organizational approaches to greening : technocentrism and beyond

    Författare :Johan Sandström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organizational greening; organizational approach; technocentrism; ecocentrism; anthropocentrism; reflexivity; postmodernism; environmental management; sustainable development; symbolic agora satisfiers;

    Sammanfattning : How and why do organizations approach greening? How can we conceptualize approaches and how can we encourage reflexive dialogues on them? These are the main questions addressed in this qualitative study on organizational greening. The study sets off by discussing matters of research philosophy, arguing that our trust in science ought to be revised and that a more postmodern and constructionist philosophy might be a way to go. LÄS MER

  5. 15. Entreprenörskapets Vidunderliga Resa - En Dramaberättelse om Skapandet av Två Webbplattformar : The Winding Road of Entrepreneurship - A Narrative Drama on the Becoming of Two Web platforms

    Författare :Björn Remneland; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; entreprenörskap; entreprenör; drama; Kenneth Burke; narrativ; Internet; webbplattformar; web 2.0;

    Sammanfattning : Innovations are all around us, often taken for granted. But before they come to life they must first be created and these entrepreneurial processes happen in fragmented, non-linear paths of activities. While the end product is many times visible for the eye, the journey from idea to realization needs to be emploted into a story. LÄS MER