Search for dissertations about: "digital practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 432 swedish dissertations containing the words digital practice.

2. 1. Digital Capability : Investigating Coevolution of IT and Business Strategies

   Author : Johan Sandberg; Holmström Jonny; Ola Henfridsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Digital capability; IT strategy; coevolution; IT innovation; digital innovation; organizational evolution; practice research; strategy-as-practice; evolutionary theory;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role of information technology (IT) in organizational strategy. Specifically, it examines how organizations can persist in turbulent competitive landscapes characterized by IT innovations. READ MORE

4. 2. Disentangling digital transformation : mechanisms of change in institutional logics

   Author : Hugo Hedlund; Katrin Jonsson; Johan Sandberg; Tina Blegind Jensen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Digital transformation; Digital innovation; Institutional logics; Critical realism; Mechanisms; Public sector;

   Abstract : Digital transformation (DT) is en vogue, but vague: while consultants, policymakers and researchers stress that it is a major challenge to organizations of all kinds and sizes, how DT unfolds, or even what it entails, remains elusive. Previous research on DT frames it as a problem of strategic technology adoption or information technology (IT)-related change associated with business models and processes. READ MORE

5. 3. Digital play in preschools : understandings from educational use and professional learning

   Author : Leif Marklund; Elza Dunkels; Kenneth Ekström; Åsa Bartholdsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; digital play; preschool; digitalisation; tablets; professional learning; professional development; early years; digital competence; literacy; workplace learning; preschool teachers; early childhood education; technology integration; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to improve knowledge on preschool teachers’ educational use of digital play and their professional learning about it. The thesis is focused on three questions; How can preschool teacher educational use of digital play be understood? How can the professional learning context of preschool teachers using digital play for educational purposes be understood? And, How can preschool teacher knowledge needs concerning educational use of digital play be understood?  The participants were preschool teachers who had started to introduce tablets and digital play in educational practice. READ MORE

6. 4. Radiographers’ professional practice : a Swedish perspective

   Author : Lise-Lott Lundvall; Staffan Wirell; Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Radiographer; radiography; practice; technical development; phenomenology; practice theory; patient safety;

   Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to empirically describe the radiographers’ professional scope in diagnostic imaging from the viewpoint of the practitioners and investigate how technical development affects the relations and actions in this practice.Data was collected by interviews and observations to both studies at the same time with two different aims. READ MORE

7. 5. Use of Digital Technologies in Education : The Complexity of Teachers' Everyday Practice

   Author : Sadaf Salavati; Anita Mirijamdotter; Christina Mörtberg; Jeremy Rose; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Cognitive Mapping; compulsory school education; digital technologies; focused ethnography; teachers; Soft Systems Methodology; Systems Thinking; Informatik; Information Systems;

   Abstract : In this dissertation the complex, dynamic, contextual and multi-dimensional practice of teachers’ use of digital technologies in their everyday work has been illustrated and presented. The research draws upon the experience of teachers and school leaders from two compulsory schools as well as representatives from the municipal Department of Education and IT-unit within a municipality in the south of Sweden. READ MORE