Search for dissertations about: "Cultural Diversity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 112 swedish dissertations containing the words Cultural Diversity.

2. 1. The bottom line of cultural diversity at the top : the top management team's cultural diversity and its influence on organisational outcomes

   Author : Timurs Umans; Sven-Olof Collin; Rikard Larsson; Håkan Pihl; Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organisational outcome; Top management team; cultural diversity; Företagsekonomi; Business administration; Top management team; organisational outcome; cultural diversity;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between cultural diversity in top management team (TMT) and organisational outcomes. The theoretical framework developed within this dissertation identifies three major concerns in this relationship. READ MORE

4. 2. Managing Competence Development Programs in a Cross-Cultural Organisation : What are the barriers and enablers?

   Author : Mi Sook Park; Birger Rapp; Ethel Brundin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Competence; Competence Development; Competence Development Programs; Culture; Cultural Diversity; Southeast Asia Case Study; Cross-Cultural Organisation; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

   Abstract : During the past decade, research on competence development and cross-cultural organisation has been acknowledged both in academic circles and by industrial organisations. Cross-cultural organisations that have emerged through globalisation are a manifestation of the growing economic interdependence among countries. READ MORE

5. 3. Solidarity in Diversity : Activism as a Pathway of Migrant Emplacement in Malmö

   Author : Christina Hansen; Bridget Anderson; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : Activism; Solidarity; Pro-asylum; Migrant emplacement; Gentrification; Malmö; Möllevången;

   Abstract : Written at the intersection of migration studies, urban studies, and research on activism, this thesis contributes to the exploration of solidarities born on the ground in an urban context marked by immigration and economic restructuring. Based on ethnographic material collected 2013­–2016 in Malmö, Sweden, it examines alliances and friendships generated across social, cultural, ethnic, and legal divides through a particular political practice—activism as carried out by the extra-parliamentarian left. READ MORE

6. 4. Understanding "successful aging" : Cultural and migratory perspectives

   Author : Sandra Torres; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; sociology. social gerontology; successful aging; value orientations; culture; cross-cultural gerontology; ethnogerontology; migration; Iranian immigrants; culturally-appropriate care; gerontological theory; vignettes; gerontological methods; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to the rectification of the atheoretization that characterizes the study of aging and diversity through the formulation and preliminary empirical testing of a culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful aging. Inspired by the Kluckhohnian approach to the study of cultural variation, the framework hereby proposed posits that there is congruence between the understandings of successful aging that people uphold and the value orientations that they prefer in regards to four topics: man-nature, time, activity and relational. READ MORE

7. 5. The Collective Dynamics of Organizational Learning: On Plurality and Multi-Social Structuring

   Author : Kristina Henriksson; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organizational science; Transmanche-Link; Channel Tunnel; project; diversity; multi-social structuring; negotiations of meaning; sensemaking; plurality; interorganizational; cross-cultural; knowledge; organizational learning; culture; Organisationsteori;

   Abstract : The notion of organizations as learning entities has gained considerably in popularity over the last decade, and is now regarded an important issue both theoretically and in practice. Many organizational activities and events have been referred to as learning phenomena, and learning theory is being applied to increasingly varied and complex settings of organizational life. READ MORE