Sökning: "culture clash"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden culture clash.

  1. 1. The cultural context of business : A study of firms in a northern Nigerian society

    Författare :Yakubu Zakaria; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Culture; Values; Norms; Behaviour; Rationality; Cross-cultural; Islam; Modernization; Entrepreneur; Manager; Trust; Risk; Organization; Control; Strategy; Perception; Business; Profit; Success; Development; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about entrepreneurial adaptations to modem manufacturing activities in a semi-industrial society of Northern Nigeria. It embodies both general and micro-institutional perspectives of business behaviour and seeks to examine the multidimensional influences ofcultural values on business patterns. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The (re)construction of home : Unaccompanied children’s and youth’s transition out of care

    Författare :Åsa Söderqvist; Yvonne Sjöblom; Pia Bülow; Carin Björngren Cuadra; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unacccompanied; children; youth; culture; ethnicty; transitions; out-of-home care; home;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on how perceptions of ethnicity and culture become meaningful in relation to the transition from care into independent living, studied from unaccompanied youths’, professionals’, and a methodological perspective. The findings from interviews with unaccompanied youth with experience of leaving care showed that thoughts about their ethnic minority background are constantly present in the young men’s lives. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Professional Pride and Prejudice : Negotiating leadership in an era of interprofession-based organizing

    Författare :Erika Lokatt; Charlotte Holgersson; Monica Lindgren; Johann Packendorff; Ewa Wikström; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; leadership; profession; interprofession-based organizing; negotiated order; discourse; power base; subject position; space of action; organizational humor; leadership culture; healthcare; ledarskap; profession; interprofessionsbaserad organisering; förhandlad ordning; diskurs; maktbas; subjektsposition; handlingsutrymme; organisatorisk humor; ledarskapskultur; sjukvård; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

    Sammanfattning : Leadership has always played a peculiar role in the context of profession-based operations. Within bureaucratic yet decentralized organizational configurations – where conventional notions of labor management fall short in explaining executive functions – distributions of authority and influence have historically been inherent in strong hierarchies and meritocracies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Jesus and Purity Halakhah : Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity?

    Författare :Thomas Kazen; James D. G. Dunn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Bible; New Testament; Jesus; Judaism; Second Temple; purity; impurity; purification; ritual; halakhah; historical reconstruction; quest; authenticity; criteria; gospels; narrative traditions; redaction; law; Torah; conflict stories; Pharisees; expansionist current; miqveh; immersion; stone vessels; food; leper; leprosy; discharge; corpse; rabbinic texts; Tannaim; Dead Sea Scrolls; moral trajectory; John the Baptizer; diversity; am ha-arets; great tradition; little tradition; Galilee; demonology; exorcism; eschatology; kingdom.; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; New Testament Exegesis; nya testamentets exegetik;

    Sammanfattning : At the end of the Second Temple period, ritual purity came to play an increasing role in Jewish society. Purity laws were interpreted and expanded, and sources of impurity were generally avoided by many. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Asymmetrier och samförstånd i rekryteringssamtal med andraspråkstalare

    Författare :Gunlög Sundberg; Britt-Louise Gunnarsson; Jarmo Lainio; Jan Svennevig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; self-presentation; employment interview; co-construction of meaning; second language speaker; asymmetry; reformulation; Swedish; institutional interaction; discourse analysis; Swedish language; Svenska språket;

    Sammanfattning : In many institutional settings in today’s globalized job market, people have to deal with different role asymmetries in the co-construction of meaning. In this study, institutional, cultural and linguistic asymmetries are focused on in interviews at an employment agency in Sweden. LÄS MER