Sökning: "Businessman"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Businessman.

  1. 1. Honourable Merchant or Efficient Businessman : The Transformation of Economic Culture and the Leading Economic Actors in Gävle 1765–1869

    Författare :Stefan Lundblad; Torkel Jansson; György Nováky; Leos Müller; Christine Bladh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :History; Economic Culture; Merchant; Businessman; Trade; Industrialization; Practice; Symbol; Institutions; History; Gävle; Sweden; Production; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how economic actors acted and related to economic institutions that were in a state of change. The question can be formulated as follows: How did the economic culture that Gävle's leading economic actors were a part of change during the period 1765–1869? The aim of the study is to provide new insight into Swedish economic development during this period. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Till ömsesidig nytta : Entreprenörer, framgång och sociala relationer i centrala Jämtland ca. 1810-1850

    Författare :Sven Olofsson; Jan Lindegren; Göran Rydén; Staffan Granér; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Peasant; entrepreneur; businessman; carreer; political elite; social position; social capital; social network; trust; distrust; social relation; family; kin; kinship; symbolic kinship; godparent; friendship; acquaintance; household; farming; peddling; trade; industrialisation; credit; 19th century; Sweden; Rödön court district; agrarian history; economic history; social history; social differentiation; micro perspective; qualitative method.; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyse the mutual impact which social relations and entrepreneurship had in relation to the success of four actors in a rural area in northern Sweden at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Many Swedish scholars have studied the process of social differentiation, before the industrial revolution. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Seasons of migrations to the North : a study of biographies and narrative identities in US-Mexican and Swedish-Chilean return movements

    Författare :Aina Tollefsen Altamirano; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Return migration; US-Mexican labour migration; Chilean exile in Sweden; desexilio; biographies; circulation; grounded theory; narrative identity;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to examine dynamics and consequences of geographical return movements in two North-South contexts based on migrants' biographies. The thesis examines the consequences of return migration in terms of social mobility, meanings of return and the shaping of identity-place relationships for the subjects of migration. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Jakten på entreprenøren : kan Joseph A. Schumpeters teori benyttes til å identifisere og differensiere entreprenører i det 21. århundre?

    Författare :Jan-U Sandal; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; innovations; Entrepreneurial theory; entrepreneurship; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia; entrepreneurial profit;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation, which is an analysis of the entrepreneur at the micro level, supplements and underpins the understanding and use of the entrepreneur as an agent of social change in the analysis of economic change at the macro level. The aim of the thesis is firstly to seek out and identify businessmen of our time who claim to be innovative, and secondly to un-dertake a qualitative study and analysis of their qualities, actions and production and con-sumption functions in the context of Joseph A. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Företagsekonomistudentens studieval. : Mannen, individualisten och altruisten

    Författare :Eva Lindell; Peter Dobers; Maria Mårtensson Hansson; Linda Höglund; Carin Holmquist; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

    Sammanfattning : Business administration is one of Sweden's largest educational subjects, even so we know little about who applies to these study programs and why they do it. Through language we build representations of reality and through language this reality gets meaning. LÄS MER