Search for dissertations about: "possibilities for action"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 145 swedish dissertations containing the words possibilities for action.

2. 1. Clearing for Action : Leadership as a Relational Phenomenon

   Author : Lucia Crevani; Monica Lindgren; Johann Packendorff; Janne Tienari; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

   Abstract : Although leadership is deemed to matter, scholars seldom pay attention to the phenomenon itself, as it is happening. Hence definitions abound, but there is a lack of vocabulary for expressing what leadership is about without ending up talking of individual leaders and/or descriptions of abstract “goodness”. READ MORE

4. 2. Knowledge demanded for action : studies of knowledge mediation in organisations

   Author : Ewa Braf; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : Knowledge enables action and is used in action, but organisations per se do not possess knowledge or perform actions. Organisations act through their members - human actors - who demand actionable knowledge to enable knowledgeable actions. READ MORE

5. 3. Voices for Change : Hopes and costs for empowerment - a study on women's claims in the Egyptian revolution

   Author : Christine Bendixen; Klas Roth; Margareta Aspan; Mina O'Dowd; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women; empowerment; agency; structure; functionings; capability; social conversion factors; narrative imagination; opportunity costs; societal change; Egypt; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : This study investigates women’s possibilities to actively participate in societal change in Egypt. It aims at enhancing the understanding of structural conditions for women’s agency and how these enables and/or restrains women’s participation in the aspiration for societal change as well as their aspiration to live a ‘full life’. READ MORE

6. 4. Child sexual abuse in urban Tanzania : possibilities and barriers for prevention

   Author : Felix Kisanga; Lennarth Nyström; Maria Emmelin; Margret Nora Hogan; Frank Lindblad; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; child sexual abuse; gender; socio-legal system; survivor experiences; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; folkhälsa; Public health;

   Abstract : Background: Child sexual abuse is a global public health and human rights concern. Despite beinga crime in most countries, and with well-known physical and mental health consequences, the majority of sexual offences are not reported. READ MORE

7. 5. Enhancing intercultural communication in teaching chinese as a foreign language : An action research study

   Author : Wei Hing Ip; Shui Duen Chan; Xu Shi; Yuet Hung Cecilia Chan; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intercultural communication; Chinese as a foreign language education; language acquisition; action research; flipped classroom approach; culture in language learning; Intercultural Studies; Interkulturella studier;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades, the rapid development of information communication technology, internationalization and globalization worldwide have required a shift in the focus of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) towards competence in intercultural communication in which the role of culture in the acquisition of CFL and in the pragmatic use of the language is emphasized and promoted. However, most of the current research in this academic area remains only on a theoretical level. READ MORE