Sökning: "Change resistance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 491 avhandlingar innehållade orden Change resistance.
1. Organizing for Social Change : Worker Cooperatives as Resistance to Capitalism
Sammanfattning : When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic inequalities and declining democratization, often associated with the spread of globalized capitalism, it becomes difficult to defend a position of business as usual. Worker co-ops are economic associations equally owned and democratically governed by workers with the potential to contribute to economic democracy and social change. LÄS MER
2. Adaptive Resistance : Power Struggles over Gender Quotas in Uruguay
Sammanfattning : Why and how do progressive social policies aimed at creating a more just and equal society fail? In seeking to increase our understanding of gendered institutional change in general, and gender equality policy failure in particular, this book explores the role of resistance among privileged political elites in accounting for such failures. To shed light on the adaptive nature of resistance and how resisting actors – status quo defenders – are both empowered and circumscribed by their ideational and institutional environment, a resistance stage model is developed. LÄS MER
3. Ideological roots of climate change denial : Resistance to change, acceptance of inequality, or both?
Sammanfattning : Climate change denial has been found to correlate with sociopolitical ideology. The general aim of the present thesis was to investigate this relation, and more specifically to 1) test the unique effects of intercorrelated ideological variables on denial, and 2) investigate the psychological underpinnings of the ideology-denial relation. LÄS MER
4. Gender (in)equality within the Swedish Armed Forces : Resistance and Functional Disinclination
Sammanfattning : Historically and traditionally, military work has been closely associated with men. However, the post-Cold War normalization process has brought about a transformation in both the Swedish Armed Forces themselves and the perception of the organization. LÄS MER
5. Förändringsförsök och identitetsdramatisering. En studie bland nördar och slipsbärare
Sammanfattning : There is a vast amount of normative literature on change, which primarily focuses on how to manage change in an efficient and successful manner. What actually happens when management attempt to put their plans into practice is more seldomly investigated. Moreover, the prevailing literature on change primarily takes a management perspective. LÄS MER
