Search for dissertations about: "new professionals"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 296 swedish dissertations containing the words new professionals.
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1. New professionals and new technologies in new higher education? : Conceptualising struggles in the field
Abstract : This thesis explores the practices and positionings of two groupings of professionals in UK higher education, ‘educational developers’ and ‘learning technologists’. It investigates the emergence of the groupings, and their professional paths and respective approaches to supporting teaching and learning. READ MORE
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2. Institutional Logics and Accounting Professionals : The case of K2 and K3
Abstract : Accounting firms have long been considered a ‘black box’ in the literature, but over the last two decades or so, a growing body of literature has emerged which points to how the accounting profession may be seen as a profession in transformation, one in which the underlying logic of their work has gone from emphasizing professional values to one in which commercial values constitute the main rules of the game.This thesis draws upon and add to this literature as it directs attention to how co-existing and potentially conflicting institutional logics enable and constrain accounting professionals, in practice and over time. READ MORE
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3. Policy professionals in civil society organizations : Struggling for influence
Abstract : The professionalization of civil society organizations coupled with an elite-driven policy process has fostered the rise of policy professionals in civil society organizations (CSOs). This dissertation explores the role and functioning of policy professionals in CSOs, describing and analyzing how CSOs’ hiring of such expertise contributes to processes of professionalization within civil society, including what that entails from a normative perspective. READ MORE
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4. A Hybrid Operating Room in the Making - Coordinating the lntroduction and Use of New Technology
Abstract : New technologies are often introduced hoping to achieve cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and product/service quality increases. Early researchers have often focused on these hopes and how existing organizational design and function are shaped. READ MORE
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5. Controlled by Knowledge : A Study of two Clinical pathways in Mental Healthcare
Abstract : Standardisation of professional work is a major policy concern to ensure quality and efficiency of services and a number of hospitals are now focusing on the use of clinical pathways as an important tool to standardise their work. This study sheds light on the processes set in motion when notions of standardisation meet local practice. READ MORE