Search for dissertations about: "shipbuilding"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the word shipbuilding.

  1. 1. Technology Carriers: The Role of Engineers in the Expanding Swedish Shipbuilding System

    Author : Lars O. Olsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociotechnical systems; shipbuilding; engineering education; 20-th century; user-producer interaction; professional associations; engineers; technological systems; technological knowledge; history of technology; systems of innovation; industrial research;

    Abstract : This study analyses the process which shaped the role or function of college-trained engineers within a technological system or innovation system during the period from the start of the 20th century until the 1950s and 1960s. With a conceptual framework of sociotechnical systems and of engineers as a social group of technology carriers this process is studied in one particular system, namely the Swedish shipbuilding system. READ MORE

  2. 2. Shipbuilding in South Korea : a comparative study

    Author : Gabriel Jonsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Varvsindustri; Sydkorea;

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  3. 3. Ships, clouds, and waves : understanding ecosystems in traditional industries

    Author : Peter Gustafsson; Zsuzsanna Vincze; Sujith Nair; Llewellyn D.W. Thomas; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ecosystems; Orchestration; Emergence; Traditional Industries; Shipbuilding; Resource Dependence Theory; Collective Action Theory; Corporate Political Activity;

    Abstract : This dissertation builds on a jointly phenomenological and theoretical approach to investigate how traditional industries face challenges related to ecosystem innovation. Phenomenologically, it investigates how innovation within the shipbuilding industry affects the activities performed by firms that have traditionally filled the role of suppliers to shipyards. READ MORE

  4. 4. Dutch experts in the early modern Swedish state : Employment strategies and knowledge building, 1560–1670

    Author : Håkan Jakobsson; Leif Runefelt; Mats Hallenberg; Peter Lindström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; administration; change agents; commerce; competence; diplomacy; Dutch; early modern state; expertise; fishing; institutional memory; knowledge; shipbuilding; the Dutch Republic; trade; History; historia;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role played by Dutch experts in various enterprises and organisations managed or administered by the early modern Swedish state. The work demonstrates how and why Dutch experts were introduced to Sweden, in what manner they were employed by the Swedish state and how their knowledge was utilised in state-controlled organisations. READ MORE

  5. 5. Ships, innovation and social change : aspects of carvel shipbuilding in northern Europe 1450-1850

    Author : Jonathan Adams; Stockholms universitet; []
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