Search for dissertations about: "Competencies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 172 swedish dissertations containing the word Competencies.
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1. Developing and Assessing Professional Competencies: a Pipe Dream? : Experiences from an Open-Ended Group Project Learning Environment
Abstract : Professional competencies are explicitly identified in the primary learning outcomes for science and engineering degrees at many tertiary institutions. Fulfillment of the requirements to equip our students with these skills, while formally acknowledged as important by all stakeholders, can be hard to demonstrate in practice. READ MORE
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2. Educational contexts and designs for cultivating leaders capable of addressing the wicked issues of sustainability transitions
Abstract : The ongoing sustainability crisis offer numerous, multifaced societal challenges as a result of the ongoing degradation of socio-ecological systems by human activity causing massive ecological damage and human suffering. Overcoming these difficulties begs for the rapid transition of society towards sustainability. READ MORE
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3. Quality Management Competencies-in-use : exploring competence and practice perspectives on quality management work
Abstract : Quality management is an established, widespread and well-researched management concept. Yet, surprisingly little research can be found on understanding the potential for action that is required in order to perform quality management work. READ MORE
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4. Managing Value Creation and Appropriation
Abstract : This thesis investigates how large Swedish manufacturing companies try to create value and appropriate financial returns by renewing their product offerings through the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their established product categories, and the related challenges and opportunities this produces.While much attention has been given to the technology dimension of diversification, the economic and commercial domains have been rather ignored in the literature. READ MORE
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5. Related Diversification - On Business Creating Processes in Large Technology-Based Firms
Abstract : This thesis deals with related diversification in large technology-based firms by investigating business creating processes. The purpose is to increase our understanding of how related diversification processes influence outcomes of diversification, and to propose concepts that help identify and explain challenges of managing related diversification with focus on resource utilization and creation. READ MORE