Search for dissertations about: "Cross-cultural"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 84 swedish dissertations containing the word Cross-cultural.

  2. 21. Relating to the other : paradigm interplay for cross-cultural management research

    Author : Laurence Romani; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  4. 22. Migration, mental health and suicide : an epidemiological, psychiatric and cross-cultural study

    Author : Leena Maria Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ethnicity suicide Finns psychiatric admissions self-reportedhealth meaning making systems.;

    Abstract : Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy during the 1990s, the foreign-born population (10.7% in 1996) is steadily increasing because of immigration of relatives of refugees and labor migrants. READ MORE

  5. 23. Towards the mitigation of cultural barriers to communication and cooperation

    Author : Ida Lindgren; Kip Smith; Ann Enander; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; multinational cooperation; cultural differences; cross-cultural psychology; emergency management; teamwork; microworlds; group faultlines; Work sciences and ergonomics; Arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis combines theories from cross-cultural psychology with literature on group faultlines to understand cultural barriers to communication and cooperation experienced in multinational emergency management teams. The aim is to investigate whether the faultline concept is a viable theoretical vocabulary for addressing cultural differences in communication and cooperation (in the domain of emergency management). READ MORE

  6. 24. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context

    Author : Petter Tinghög; Lennart Nordenfelt; John Carstensen; Thomas Hemmingsson; Matti Similä; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cross-cultural equivalence; foreign-born; Hopkins Symptom Checklist HSCL-25 ; Living conditions; mental ill health; migration; phenomenology; population-based; Risk factors; Stress; WHO Wellbeing Index; Cross-cultural equivalence; foreign-born; Hopkins Symptom Checklist HSCL-25 ; Living conditions; mental ill health; migration; phenomenology; population-based; risk factors; stress; WHO Wellbeing Index; invandrare; psykisk hälsa; migration; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. READ MORE

  7. 25. A paradigm questioned : a study of how the cultural relativity of modern management knowledge confines

    Author : Olof Wahlberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business and economics; management knowledge; cross-cultural management; development aid; technical assistance; Ekonomi; Business and economics; Ekonomi; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

    Abstract : This study is based upon the double proposition that a transfer of modern management knowledge is an important component of the development assistance given to Third World countries and that this knowledge has a cultural basis thatrestricts its transferability. The very essence of the cultural basis is thought to consist of culture contingent implicit assumptions about phenomena in the reality. READ MORE