Sökning: "instrumental rationality"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden instrumental rationality.

1. 16.

   Författare :Mats Sundgren; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; R D organization; organizational creativity; innovation; pharmaceutical industry; management practices;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with aspects of how to manage the precursor of innovation in organizations, namely, organizational creativity. Literature on innovation is prolific but is under-theorized in terms of organizational creativity, which is an emerging research area. At the same time, few empirical studies are grounded in an organizational context. LÄS MER

3. 17. Walking as a transport mode : Examining the role of preconditions, planning aspects and personal traits for the urban pedestrian

   Författare :David Lindelöw; Trafik och väg; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Walking; walkability; built environment; everyday life; transport planning; pedestrian;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to examine how walking as a transport mode is constructed in the planning realm, affected by the built environment and perceived by the individual. This aim is related to the following research questions: (1) How are pedestrians and walking understood, constructed and perceived in the planning context? (2) How does individual traits and the built environment affect the propensity of walking?The thesis starts off by arguing for the need of a holistic take on walking as a mode of transport (Study A). LÄS MER

4. 18. I mötet mellan projekt och process. Om samverkan

   Författare :Katja Ketola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Navestad; kommunikativ planering; governance; samverkan;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis for the degree of Licentiate of Architecture is an inquiry into the possibilities and obstacles for a communicative planning practice in the regeneration of neighbourhoods. Focusing on the planning process it discusses the commonly used concept of collaboration and trust as a prerequisite of collaboration. LÄS MER

5. 19. Deliberations on nature : Swedish cases of communication and democracy within nature conservation

   Författare :Elvira Caselunghe; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the deliberative potential in two communicative initiatives resulting from the 2001 government policy in Swedish nature conservation, A coherent nature conservation policy. The two initiatives, which constitute the empirical material in the thesis are, (1) a national competence development programme that the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency ran 2008-2011, Dialogue for nature conservation, and (2) the nature interpretation at naturum, visitor centres at national parks and nature reserves. LÄS MER

7. 20. Systemmänniskan : En studie om människan, automationen och det senmoderna förnuftet

   Författare :Daniel Bodén; Ella Johansson; Hansen Kjell; Fredrik Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; automation; culture; technology; social consciousness; reification; material-ity; modernity; late modernity; labour; production; consumption; service; division of labour; automation; kultur; teknik; socialt medvetande; reifikation; materialitet; modernitet; senmodernitet; arbete; service; arbetsdelning; Etnologi; Ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : How did the conformist “organization man” of modern welfare society turn into the restless and flexible market-rational individualist of late-modernity? And what role did technology play in this transformation? Drawing from inquiries like these, this doctoral thesis deals with topics such as technology, culture, and the production of social consciousness. The aim of the study is to elucidate the historical emergence of late-modern reason, visible in the socio-material process of automation. LÄS MER