Sökning: "sociology of enterprise"
Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden sociology of enterprise.
31. Utanförskap på entreprenad. Diskurser om sociala företag i Sverige
Sammanfattning : Over the last decade the social enterprise has gained recognition, as a social innovation aiming to address diverse societal needs in the post-industrial world. In the contemporary Swedish political discourse, social enterprises are mainly viewed as initiatives operating within the third sector, and adopting a legal organizational form with limited access to profit-distribution. LÄS MER
32. The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden
Sammanfattning : According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access to what I conceptualize as ‘proprietary revenue’—including profits from landownership, natural resource extraction, state-owned enterprise, and colonial plunder—could use such revenue to concentrate political authority in their own hands and rule as autocrats. LÄS MER
33. Elsa Fougt, Kungl. boktryckare : Aktör i det litterära systemet ca 1780-1810
Sammanfattning : Elsa Fougt (1744–1826), a woman entrepreneur, was one of the leading figures in the late eighteenth-century Swedish book trade. Her main enterprise was the printing house Kongl. Tryckeriet (the Royal Printing House), which was responsible for printing and publishing the official documents of the Swedish realm. LÄS MER
34. Organising distribution : Hakonbolaget and the efforts to rationalise food distribution, 1940-1960
Sammanfattning : Organising is the general process by which we structure our world. It is a process that goes beyond social ordering by involving also the technical and the natural realms. Further, it is a process which involves us all. All the time. LÄS MER
35. The Communicative State : Political Public Relations and the Rise of the Innovation Hype in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Government agencies in Sweden are experiencing a communicative turn where notions concerning branding, image and identity have become standardized tools and concerns. Public relations, with its focus on persuasion and creating relations with external actors, is part of this communicative turn. LÄS MER
