Search for dissertations about: "Discursive practices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 131 swedish dissertations containing the words Discursive practices.

  2. 1. Discursive practices in strategic entrepeneurship : discourses and the use of repertoires in two firms

    Author : Linda Höglund; Claes Hultman; Maria Mårtensson; Björn Bjerke; Bengt Johannisson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Strategic entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in established firms; organisational entrepreneurship; opportunity; advantage; discursive psychology; discursive practices; interpretative repertoires; positioning; discursive devices; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This is a thesis in marketing concerned with entrepreneurship in established firms and the discursive practices that take place within a perspective of strategic entrepreneurship. The study of discursive practices in this context assumes a concern with how different aspects of entrepreneurship are produced and consumed by people in text and talk. READ MORE

  4. 2. Organising as discursive practices : the example of information technology outsourcing

    Author : Ali Yakhlef; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Informationsteknologi; ADB-tjänster; Entreprenad; Informationsteknik; Köp; Organisationsteori;

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  5. 3. Party or patient? : Discursive practices relating to coercion in psychiatric and legal settings

    Author : Stefan Sjöström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychiatry; Compulsory Care; Civil Commitment; Court Hearings; Discursive Practices; Discourse Analysis; Institutional Discourse; Re-contextualisation; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The subject matter of this study is professional discourse concerning psychiatric assessments, particularly those relating to compulsory care. Discursive practices in two institutional settings are compared, namely a psychiatric clinic and an administrative court. READ MORE

  6. 4. Safety in the making : studies on the discursive construction of risk and safety in the chemical industry

    Author : Joel Rasmussen; Birgitta Höijer; Åsa Kroon Lundell; Mark Elam; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; safety; risk; occupational health and safety; organizations; chemical industry; discourse; discursive practices; discursive strategies; power; governmentality; responsibilization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis aims to analyse how risk and safety are constructed, reproduced, and negotiated by communicative means in safety-critical workplaces. It conceptualizes these communicative moments of shaping and reshaping risk and safety as enmeshed in multiple forms of governing. READ MORE

  7. 5. Human development and institutional practices : Women, child care and the Mobile Creches

    Author : Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child care; Communication; Construction workers; Development; Everyday learning; India; Institutional practices; Literacies; Migration; Mobile Creches; Nongovernmental Organizations; Participant observation; Urbanization; Women; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This study presents an analysis of the everyday activities of an Indian Nongovernmental Organization (NGO), the Mobile Creches (MC). NGO' s - societal institutions which have grown in prominence in the post-World War II era - are primarily involved in providing services for marginalized sections of different southern nations. READ MORE