Sökning: "Consultants"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 115 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Consultants.

  1. 1. Managing Knowledge in Professional Service Organizations: Technical Consultants Serving the Construction Industry

    Författare :Per-Olof Sverlinger; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; consultants; knowledge management; construction;

    Sammanfattning : Professional service organizations refine, package and sell knowledge. The aim of the present investigation is to create an understanding of how technical consultancy firms serving the construction industry manage knowledge. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Three Faces of Diversity Rhetoric : Managerialization, marketing and ambiguity

    Författare :Alejandro Leiva; Jens Rydgren; Ellen Berrey; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Diversity; diversity rhetoric; consultants; law; managerialization; ambiguity; marketing; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Over the past decades, the language of diversity management has spread from the US to many parts of the world, including Sweden, where it emerged in the mid 1990’s. Consisting of three papers, this thesis contributes to the field of critical diversity studies by examining the multifaceted character of diversity rhetoric among Swedish diversity consultants. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Contract-theoretic analyses of consultants and trade unions

    Författare :Per Sonnerby; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Why can junior management consultants bill four-digit dollar amounts a day for working with corporations and industries where they have no experience? Why do blue-collar workers organise in industry-specific unions involved in collective wage bargaining, while white-collars organise according to educational or professional background, offering résumé proof-reading, or don’t unionise at all? The doctoral thesis Contract-Theoretic Analyses of Consultants and Trade Unions consists of three self-containing essays in Economics of Organisation. What Do Consultants Do? asks why firms pay large fees to outsiders in core activities like management. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Job characteristics, motivation and stress among information technology (IT) consultants

    Författare :Lars Göran Wallgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT consultants; motivation; job demand; job control; stress; structural equation; modeling.;

    Sammanfattning : The general aim of the present thesis was to examine the relationship between job characteristics and perceived stress with motivators as the mediating variable in the information technology (IT) sector. This thesis is based on two empirical studies. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Selecting Architectural and Engineering Consultants: Municipal Practices in Sweden

    Författare :Josefin Sporrong; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; public procurement; architectural and engineering services; construction; local government; professional services; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : ABSTRACTNew political ambitions, not least in the area of sustainability, have gradually generated a need for new and developed procurement practices. Internationally as well as in Sweden, traditional price-focused procurement strategies are often used in construction-related procurement although new political goals call for more flexible approaches. LÄS MER