Sökning: "institutional theory"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 487 avhandlingar innehållade orden institutional theory.

  1. 1. Normer och praxis : tre ideella föreningar och deras redovisning

    Författare :Agneta Gustafson; Thomas Polesie; Jonas Gerdin; Filip Wijkström; Örebro universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Financial accounting; non-profit sector; Institutional theory; Resource Dependence Theory; Extern redovisning; ideell sektor; Institutionell teori; Resource Dependence theory; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; Private; noon-profit organizations; accounting; accounting theory; accounting norms; accounting practices; institutional theory; isomorphism; resources; resource dependence theory.;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the accounting of private non-profit organizations. Accounting is understood as a situated practice under specific conditions prevailing in different types of private non-profits. First, a pilot study of the financial reports of 39 Swedish non-profit organizations was undertaken. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Contextualising Constructions of Corporate Social Responsibility : Social Embeddedness in Discourse and Institutional Contexts

    Författare :Brita Backlund Rambaree; Barbara Hobson; Charlotta Stern; Dima Jamali; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; corporate social responsibility; CSR; institutional theory; Foucault; context; embeddedness; institutions; new institutionalism; institutional complementarity; discursive institutionalism; institutional work; responsible investment; SRI; social constructionism; discourse; power; qualitative content analysis; self-reporting; abductive approach; interpretative repertoires; Sociology; sociologi; corporate social responsibility; CSR; institutional theory; Foucault; context; embeddedness; institutions; new institutionalism; institutional complementarity; discursive institutionalism; institutional work; responsible investment; SRI; social constructionism; discourse; power; qualitative content analysis; self-reporting; abductive approach; interpretative repertoires;

    Sammanfattning : ‘Corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) and ‘socially responsible investment’ (SRI) have become predominant frameworks connecting business to society that have spread across the globe. They comprise a shared set of ideas and practices, such as those promoted in global reporting standards and by international organisations such as the UN Global Compact. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Om reformer : En studie av Kvalitetsreformen, Politireform 2000 og Kunnskapsløftet

    Författare :Jan Moren; Birgitta Eriksson; Mats Lindberg; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reforms; organisation theory; political theory; democracy; public policy; public administration; new public management; institutional complexity; individual autonomy; political authority; instrumental tools; institutional adaptations; myths and ymbols; standardization; flexibility; effectiveness; formal structures; informal structures; decoupling; institutional environments; Working Life Science; Arbetsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies three major reforms in the public sector of Norway. The sectors studied are the police, higher education, and primary schools. The main motive for studying these reforms are of a theoretical nature, the reason to study them is to produce general knowledge about reforms. The study aims to answer two main questions. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Portraying Unease : the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments

    Författare :Ellen Suneson; The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; emotional responses; contemporary art; performance art; affect theory; feminist theory; queer feminist theory; visual methodology; embarrassment; attachment; hope; subversion; repair; self-doubt; institutional attachment; institutional promises;

    Sammanfattning : Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law

    Författare :Saki Bailey; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; commons; common goods; shareable goods; legal theory; social theory; socio-legal theory; property theory; critical legal theory; critical approaches to law; post-capitalist approaches to law; post-marxist approaches to law; post-liberal approaches to law; legal foundations of the market; embedding the market; strategic decommodification; decommodification; democratization of the economy; equitable access to resources; social property relations; housing policy; housing law; third-sector housing; shared limited equity; community land trusts; housing cooperatives; baugruppen; bostadsrätt; resource specific analysis; economic analysis of resources; neoliberalism.;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. LÄS MER