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Hittade 4 avhandlingar som matchar ovanstående sökkriterier.

  1. 1. Innovation as the craft of combination : Perspectives on technology and economy in the spirit of Schumpeter

    Författare :Mark Elam; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics of Innovation; Entrepreneurship; New Combinations; Productive Uncertainty; Technological Change; Collective Action; Moral Regulation; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    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

  3. 2. The importance of trust. : a study of knowledge production of biodiversity

    Författare :Karin M Gustafsson; Rolf Lidskog; Christine Roman; Mark Elam; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; trust; knowledge; biological diversity; biodiversity; environmental problems; discourse analysis; Mode-1 Mode-2; SSK; STS; Sociologi; Sociology;

    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

  4. 3. Vetenskap på gränsen

    Författare :Tora Holmberg; Kaj Håkanson; Mark Elam; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; discourse analysis; sociology of science; cultural studies; Donna Haraway; boundary politics; figure; behavioural genetics; genomics; behaviour; human animal; twin; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    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

  5. 4. Safety in the making : studies on the discursive construction of risk and safety in the chemical industry

    Författare :Joel Rasmussen; Birgitta Höijer; Åsa Kroon Lundell; Mark Elam; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; safety; risk; occupational health and safety; organizations; chemical industry; discourse; discursive practices; discursive strategies; power; governmentality; responsibilization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    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