Search for dissertations about: "creative accounting"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words creative accounting.

  1. 1. (re)Forming Accounts of Ethics in Design: Anecdote as a Way to Express the Experience of Designing Together

    Author : Andrew Whitcomb; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Design research; ethics; pragmatism; artistic communication; participatory design;

    Abstract : Designers and design researchers routinely engage other people in shaping preferred futures. Despite a growing recognition of designing as a social practice, however, the ethics of engagement often only appear ‘between the lines’ of the accounts design researchers provide about their experiences designing together. READ MORE

  2. 2. Waves of fashion : The consuming production of management control

    Author : Andreas Backlund Björke; Ulf Johanson; Stefan Tengblad; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; SMEs; fashion; happiness; rhetoric; aesthetics; theorization; innovation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

    Abstract : The responsiveness of organizational leaders regarding suggestions related to various managerial techniques has led to the coinage of the ‘management fashion’ idiom. It has been convincingly argued that phenomena like management control systems are prone to trends, and that such trends permeate into the daily life of managers through the use of persuasive rhetoric. READ MORE

  3. 3. Large-Scale Land Acquisitions as a Driver of Socio-Environmental Change : From the Pixel to the Globe

    Author : Emma Johansson; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Land system sience; socio-environmental change; telecoupling; scale; co-production of knowledge; participatory art project; network science; blue and green water; Africa; Land grabbing; Remote sensing;

    Abstract : A major challenge of our time is to sustainably produce food and other goods for a growing global population, without putting additional pressures on land and water resources and local people’s quality of life. Large-scale agriculture has brought many benefits to humanity in terms of food production but has also caused multiple sustainability challenges, including land and water degradation, deforestation, and biodiversity loss in areas of production. READ MORE