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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 179 avhandlingar innehållade orden power and knowledge relations.
21. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the innovator after all? : An explorative study of a management-initiated employee innovation process
Sammanfattning : Today, the innovation arena is open to a wider range of participants than previously acknowledged. One specifically neglected group of innovators in traditional innovation studies is non-R&D and non-managerial employees, also referred to as ‘ordinary’ employees by the existing body of literature on employee-driven innovation (EDI). LÄS MER
22. Shaped for beauty : Vocational and gendered subjectivities in private education for the beauty industry
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to answer the question: How are vocational, gendered subjectivities produced in vocational education for the beauty industry? Drawing on Foucault and poststructural feminist theory, this question is answered in four papers, in which the material consists of beauty-school recruitment and marketing material, interviews with skin and spa therapy students and observations of practical skin and spa therapy training. These are educational arrangements that are closely bound to the economic sector of the beauty industry, and they have remained remarkably unexplored. LÄS MER
23. Social interaction and identification among adolescents in multilingual suburban Sweden : A study of institutional order and sociocultural change
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on an ethnographic fieldwork among a group of adolescents in and out of school in suburban Sweden. The adolescents share the diasporic experience of living outside of the countries or nations of origin, experiencing marginalization in relation to majority society and concurrently being part of global, national and local transformations and changes. LÄS MER
24. The Imperative of Crisis : Power, Knowledge and Action in the Swedish Crisis Management System
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates Swedish crisis management. This thesis aims to contribute to crisis research by providing critical perspectives on the role of knowledge in crisis management settings. LÄS MER
25. Maktutövning ur ett organisations- och genusperspektiv. En studie vid tre vårdavdelningar
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of the present thesis is to increase understandig of the relationship between organisational structure, gender and power. Understanding of this relationship requires a closeness to the individual being studied as well to the content and consequences of that individuals´actions. LÄS MER