Sökning: "Mark Elam"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mark Elam.
1. Innovation as the craft of combination : Perspectives on technology and economy in the spirit of Schumpeter
Sammanfattning : Through a multi-faceted engagement with the work of Joseph A. Schumpeter, the famous Austrian economist, this thesis explores the nature of innovation in processes of techno-economic change. The spirit of Schumpeter inhabits this book in three ways. LÄS MER
2. The importance of trust. : a study of knowledge production of biodiversity
Sammanfattning : The loss of biological diversity is one of today’s greatest environmental problems. Scientific knowledge is typically presented as the premise to solve this problem. However, science alone is not sufficient to produce knowledge of biodiversity. Other actors are also involved in knowledge production. LÄS MER
3. Vetenskap på gränsen
Sammanfattning : With behavioural genetic twin- and animal-studies as a point of departure, this thesis investigates how the polyphonic talk about genes creates certain conditions for how “human behaviour” can be constructed, how the politics of boundary fixing contributes to and undermines respectively, credible narratives about human behaviour and, in the extension, about what constitutes human-ness. Furthermore, sociology is used as a sounding board in order to investigate what behavioural genetic knowledge can promote in terms of sociological insights and vice versa. LÄS MER
4. Safety in the making : studies on the discursive construction of risk and safety in the chemical industry
Sammanfattning : This compilation thesis aims to analyse how risk and safety are constructed, reproduced, and negotiated by communicative means in safety-critical workplaces. It conceptualizes these communicative moments of shaping and reshaping risk and safety as enmeshed in multiple forms of governing. LÄS MER