Sökning: "shepherd"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade ordet shepherd.

  1. 1. Making Room for Peace : Challenging Intractable Conflict Through Tourism

    Författare :Jack Shepherd; Daniel Laven; Sandra Wall-Reinius; Dorina-Maria Buda; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Grounded in an understanding of tourism as a political phenomenon that has consequential impacts on how we understand people and space, and in an understanding of peacebuilding as a participatory process that must involve ordinary citizens, this thesis explores the relationship between tourism and peace. Taking inspiration from the confidence of global organisations and tourism scholars that tourism has a role in peacebuilding, I explore how tourism could serve to challenge conflicts that are deemed intractable - conflicts that are particularly hard to solve. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Who receives bank loans? A study of lending officers' assessments of loans to growing small and medium-sized enterprises

    Författare :Volker Bruns; Johan Wiklund; Hans Landström; Dean Shepherd; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores factors that influence lending officers' assessments of credit requests from growing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Building on asymmetric information theory, factors identified in previous research are grouped into the theoretical categories of risk-assessment, risk-alignment, and risk-shifting. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 'The Emperor's New Clothes' Recordkeeping in a New Context

    Författare :Maria Kallberg; Karen Anderson; Göran Samuelsson; Elizabeth Shepherd; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; recordkeeping; e-government; recordkeeping awareness; information management; continuum; public archive; archivists; registrars; local government; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines if and how information capture and documentation practices and the function of the public archive are changing in relation to archival concepts in contemporary administrative settings, as a result of e-government strategic development. The study aims for a holistic approach from the beginning of the life of the records to their long-term preservation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Business Plans in New Ventures : An Institutional Perspective

    Författare :Tomas Karlsson; Dean A. Shepherd; Jönköping University; []
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    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about business plans in new ventures. It takes an institutional perspective with a particular focus on how external actors influence ventures through norms, regulations and way of thinking. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Staten är vår herde god : Representationer av annorlundahet och ordning i fyra svenska trettiotalstidningar

    Författare :Merja Ellefson; Kristina Widestedt; Tom Moring; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; press history; Swedish press; inter-war period; ethnicity; social class; gender; otherness; media and communication studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; journalistik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim is to study representation of order and otherness in the late 1930’s Swedish press. That is, who are envisioned as "us" and who are the "Others"? The theoretical frame is based on Foucault’s concepts of pastoral power, the reason of state and biopolitics. LÄS MER