Sökning: "universal values"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 74 avhandlingar innehållade orden universal values.
1. Tourists' vacation choice structure : Influence of values and implications for green tourism
Sammanfattning : In the vacation choice structure, denoting how vacation choices such as choice of destination, travel mode, and accommodation, are related and prioritized by tourists, every choice plays an important and unique role. Although it has been recognized that vacation choices inter-relate in several different aspects, previous research has primarily studied the primacy aspect. LÄS MER
2. Nationalising Culture : The Reorganisation of National Culture in Swedish Cultural Policy 1970–2002
Sammanfattning : By comparative analysis of Swedish cultural policy (including art policy, heritage policy and Church policy) during the Riksdag periods of 1970-73, 1991-94, 1994-98 and 1998-2002 the relationship between cultural policy and the concept of the nation as a homogenous cultural community (defined by either an ethnic or a state-framed concept) is explored. Neoinstitutional analysis of cultural policy as an organisational field is combined with analysis of how the nation is conceived as an imagined community, and what values it strives to uphold to show how these values and concepts are institutionalised in its cultural policy and how this supports the legitimacy of the State as a nation-state. LÄS MER
3. A Universal Source Coding Perspective on PPM
Sammanfattning : The PPM (Prediction by Partial Matching) family of text compression algorithms has several members that have shown to be very efficient in practice. This thesis treats PPM algorithms from an information-theoretical point of view, based on results and methods from universal source coding theory. LÄS MER
4. Leadership for Quality, Effectiveness and Health
Sammanfattning : Leadership, quality, effectiveness and health are important factors in the achievement of organisational success. Three questions are addressed to study these elements: 1. How do leadership values relate to leadership behaviours, quality methodologies and health in organisations? 2. LÄS MER
5. We are all the same, but... : Kenyan and Swedish school children's views on children's rights
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study on how school children in Kenya and Sweden express their views on children’s rights, in particular rights related to participation, non-discrimination, and education. The overall purpose was to explore the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its claim to be universal and its relevance for children in various school and life contexts. LÄS MER