Sökning: "calculative practices"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden calculative practices.

1. 1. Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations

   Författare :Cemil Eren Firtin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountingisation; professionalisation; calculative practices; performativity; accounting;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the practice of calculations and their consequences in different professional contexts. Specifically, it aims to extend the discussion on the relationship between accounting and public sector professionals by elaborating on the concept of accountingisation using a performative approach. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Profit of Prevention. A study of Social Investments in a Swedish Region

   Författare :Cristian Lagström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social investments; calculative practices; accounting; hybridity;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to deepen the understanding of the use and implications of accounting technologies in the governing of public services. It explores social investments, a proliferating public sector management technology based broadly on the idea to govern long-term public goals “by numbers”. LÄS MER

4. 3. Translating Neoliberalism : The European Social Fund and the Governing of Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Malmö, Sweden

   Författare :Malin Mc Glinn; Malin Rönnblom; Malmö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :The European Social Fund; Malmö; Sweden; Neoliberalism; Translation; Governmentality;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with how the governing of unemployment and social exclusion is accomplished through labor market projects that are initiated, tailored, and co- financed by the European Social Fund. The aim is to map and problematize how such projects, as examples of neoliberal programs of government that promote social cohesion and combat unemployment amongst identified “ethnic others,” become operational and legitimized in the Swedish context through multiple acts of translation. LÄS MER

5. 4. Bridging the GAAP? : IFRS in accounting practice

   Författare :Berit Hartmann; Jan Mouritsen; Robert Picard; Andrea Mennicken; Jönköping University; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) come to act within an organizational context. In particular, the thesis explores how the requirements for goodwill accounting and leasing influence organizational calculative practices, transforming and shaping operations management. LÄS MER

7. 5. Mitt hem och min ekonomi : en studie av hur bostadsrättsköpare kalkylerar

   Författare :Birgitta Vitestam; Göteborgs universitet. Handelshögskolan; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Home prices; Calculation; Cooperative apartment; Interviews; Lifestyle; Capital; Middle class; Bostadsköp; Bostadsrätt; Privatekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : My home and my economy - A study of how purchasers of a cooperative apartment calculate To purchase a dwelling is one of the biggest investments in a person’s life and probably the financial decision that affects the private economy most of all. To purchase a cooperative apartment, as this study is about, also requires a membership in a coop housing association and involvement in its economy. LÄS MER