Search for dissertations about: "third industrial revolution"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words third industrial revolution.

2. 1. The Therapeutization of Work : The Psychological Toolbox as Rationalization Device during the Third Industrial Revolution in Sweden

   Author : Hans Tunestad; Christina Garsten; A. Jamie Saris; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-help; psychology; psychotherapy; rationalization; organization; work; third industrial revolution; Sweden; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : The organization of work in the Western welfare states has made use of psychological know-how since the early twentieth century, for instance by making the practices of ‘psychotechnics’ and ‘human relations’ a part of the production apparatus. The last decades, however, have seen the development of a new economy based on information and communication technologies and with a related shift in organizational ideals from large hierarchical structures to networks of self-governing units – a change sometimes labelled the third industrial revolution. READ MORE

4. 2. Innovation and transformation in the Swedish manufacturing sector, 1970-2007

   Author : Karolin Sjöö; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; innovation; industrial transformation; manufacturing; structural change; third industrial revolution; literature-based innovation output; innovation indicator; economic history; Sweden;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis investigates changes in the volume and character of Swedish manufacturing sector innovation output between 1970 and 2007, a time span composed of both extended periods of relative prosperity and decline. More specifically, it examines whether changes in the number of innovations, the character of the innovating firms, and the distribution of innovations across industries are generally associated with any such period. READ MORE

5. 3. Turning to Europe : A New Swedish Industrial Relations Regime in the 1990s

   Author : Sofia Murhem; Lars Magnusson; Niklas Bruun; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Industrial relations; service sector; small enterprises; telecommunications sector; metal industry; trade unions; employers’ associations; Europeanization; Sweden; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the transformation of the industrial relations regime in Sweden during the 1990s. Four areas are studied; industrial relations of the growing service sector, industrial relations of small enterprises, effects of re-regulation and introduction of competition on industrial relations in telecommunications service and internationalisation of industrial relations in the metal sector, showing that in the 1990s, the labour market regime of Sweden changed into a new regime, as a result of altered conditions caused by the third industrial revolution. READ MORE

6. 4. Value Creation and Structural Change during the Third industrial Revolution. The Swedish Economy from a Vertical Perspective

   Author : Daniel Lind; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural change; technology; inter-industry linkages; production processes; deindustrialization; service duality; business services; global value chains; productivity.;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses structural changes and the role of technology in the Swedish economy since the 1970s. With the attention directed towards interdependencies between sectors, a vertical perspective is applied on the economy. READ MORE

7. 5. Energy Transitions, Economic Growth and Structural Change: Portugal in a Long-run Comparative Perspective

   Author : Sofia Henriques; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; energy; natural resources; Environmental Kuznets Curve; Portugal; industrialization; service transition; structural change; electrification; XIX and XX centuries.;

   Abstract : This book analyses, in an international comparative context, Portugal´s energy transition from organic sources to fossil fuels in the period 1856-2006. It investigates the role that energy played in the industrialization of the country and how the relationship between energy and economic growth changed with the transition from an industrial to a service society. READ MORE