Sökning: "discursive management"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 61 avhandlingar innehållade orden discursive management.
1. The Pleasure of Management Ideas: The Discursive Formation on Kaizen
Sammanfattning : The administration and management of organizations and companies is based upon the belief in the rationality of certain ideas Ð here referred to as management ideas Ð that is, the belief in these ideas1 ability to solve problems and provide opportunities for betterment. The talk of and writings on management ideas (lexis) constitute discursive formations that precede and shapes practices (praxis), i. LÄS MER
2. 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
3. Sustainability Solutions : Lessons on Assessment and Facilitation
Sammanfattning : Sustainable development is one of the most influential visions guiding future societies. Encompassed within its vision are various domains where improvements are desirable such as, social equity, environmental degradation, climate change. LÄS MER
4. Governance of Career Guidance : an enquiry into European policy
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to enquire into and problematize the governance of career guidance and how individuals’ career management is constructed within EU policy. The empirical material consists of European policy documents produced during 2000-2015. LÄS MER
5. Making sense of contested illness : Talk and narratives about chronic fatigue
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of this thesis is to study how people suffering from chronic fatigue (usually Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFS) make sense of their medically unexplained and invisible illness. Due to the vagueness and indefinable character of this illness, it becomes disputed and doubted in many contexts. Thus, I call it a contested illness. LÄS MER