Sökning: "setting the stage"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 175 avhandlingar innehållade orden setting the stage.

  1. 1. Early-stage finance : exploring the financial context of small and young knowledge-intensive firms

    Författare :Semir Nouira; Magnus Klofsten; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis essentially explores early-stage finaneing of small and young knowledge-intensive finns. The three studies underlying the thesis deal with the entrepreneurs' attitudes to financing and the creation of spin-affs in a corporate venture capital setting. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Quality of Care in the Psychiatric Setting : Perspectives of the Patient, Next of Kin and Care staff

    Författare :Agneta Schröder; Gerd Ahlström; Birgitta Engström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Care associates; Care staff; Instrument development; Next of kin; Patient; Phenomenography; Psychiatric care; Quality of care.; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe quality of care from different perspectives in the psychiatric setting, to develop an instrument for measuring quality of care from the in-patient perspective and to use this instrument empirically. A qualitative descriptive design involving a phenomenographic analysis was used in Studies I, III and IV, and a descriptive and comparative design with statistical analysis in Study II. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Dividing the Indivisible : Algorithms, Empirical Advances, and Complexity Results for Value-Maximizing Combinatorial Assignment Problems

    Författare :Fredrik Präntare; Fredrik Heintz; Patrick Doherty; Carles Sierra; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Allocating resources, goods, agents (e.g., humans), expertise, production, and assets is one of the most influential and enduring cornerstone challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence, operations research, politics, and economics. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Modern Perspectives on the Digital Economy : With Insights From the Health Care Sector

    Författare :Pontus Fryk; Birger Rapp; Bo Carlsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT; digitization; organization; organizational change; process; health care; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decades, extensive investments in IT have been made more or less within the majority of the existing industries. This development presents both opportunities and risks with regard to organization and change. LÄS MER

  5. 5. The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973

    Författare :Eva Zetterberg Pettersson; Elisabeth Herion-Sarafidis; Rolf Lundén; Fredrik Christian Brögger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Erica Jong; William Styron; Mary McCarthy; John A. Williams; Birds of America; Fear of Flying; Set This House on Fire; The Man Who Cried I Am; international novel; journey narrative; European journey; nationalism; national identity; Old World; Europe ; America ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : A commonly held assumption among literary critics is that the motif of the European journey is exhausted in American literature in the post-World-War-II period. Challenging this view, the present study claims that the Old World journey narrative lives on, but in new guises, and that it continues to be a forum for the discussion of American national identity. LÄS MER