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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 375 avhandlingar innehållade ordet profit.
11. Public and Non-Profit Interaction : U.S. Assistance to Eastern European Media 1989-1995
Sammanfattning : This study explores the relationships among U.S. public and non-profit organizations against the backdrop of the assistance they rendered to news media in Eastern European countries between 1989 and 1995. LÄS MER
12. Profit-Orientation and Post-Growth Economies : Building Theory for Social-Ecological Resilience
Sammanfattning : This thesis takes a post-growth perspective in order to answer the overarching research question: How does business profit-orientation affect social-ecological sustainability? It is the result of putting different pieces of the puzzle together - across the microeconomic and macroeconomic scales - in order to build a stronger conceptual and theoretical basis for sustainable post-growth economies.In Part 1, I describe what a post-growth perspective entails, as an inherently social-ecological systems approach. LÄS MER
13. Paragrafer och Profit. Om kunskapsarbetets oklarhet
Sammanfattning : Knowledge work is often portrayed as hidden or ambiguous: an ambiguous product is sold, ambiguous results are delivered, and work processes are ambiguous. This in turn affects the type of management expected in knowledge-intensive organisations, where emphasis is on managing people rather than work. LÄS MER
14. Land rent, capital, rate of profit : A critique of Harvey’s model of urban land rent
Sammanfattning : This study critically evaluates David Harvey’s model of urban land rent and its centrality in his explanation of the material forces that underlie and limit urban land policies, strategies, planning decisions, and investment choices. Harvey emphasizes structural forces of capital in relating economic urbanization processes to uneven patterns of capitalist development, recurrent economic crises of overaccumulation, and the need to produce spaces of accumulation to absorb surplus capital that creates crises. LÄS MER
15. On design of complex safety critical automotive systems : a semi-automated approach for balancing profit and safety
Sammanfattning : Design processes for complex safety-critical systems in the automotive industry need to evolve in order to address increasing demands for integration of car functions over common networked infrastructures. New processes must address cost and safety concerns, and at the same time maximize profit. LÄS MER
