Search for dissertations about: "Market practice"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 262 swedish dissertations containing the words Market practice.

  2. 11. Buyers and Sellers on the Stockholm Housing Market

    Author : Petter Bengtsson; Patrik Aspers; Magnus Bygren; Bengt Larsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; buyers of housing; sellers of housing; market practices; homes; housing markets; Stockholm County; switch-role markets; theory of modes; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Buying and selling housing is for most a very important event that can strongly affect their financial situation. At the same time homes are recognized as places with great importance above and beyond financial matters and in everyday talk and in the previous literature homes are described as safe-havens, status symbols, influencing networks of friends and acquaintances, canvasses for projecting identity, tied to gentrification, segregation and much more. READ MORE

  4. 12. Production in a State of Abundance : Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain

    Author : Jonas Bååth; Patrik Aspers; Tora Holmberg; Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; abundance; production; valuation; Swedish meat industry; supply chain; post-scarcity society; economic sociology; food studies; agriculture; grocery retail; pragmatism; practice theory; ethnography; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. READ MORE

  5. 13. Work, welfare & social work practice

    Author : Kathleen Ann Meiss; Stockholms universitet; []
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    Abstract : This is a study of the search for the essential nature of social work practice. The text is divided into two parts. The first part presents a theoretical analysis of the intraprofessional discourse in search of a generic study-object for social work practice. READ MORE

  6. 14. Essays on credit markets and banking

    Author : Ulf Holmberg; Kurt Brännäs; Jörgen Hellström; Peter Englund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; financial stability; credit market; banking; agent based model; simulations; disequilibrium; clearing market; business cycle; risk; organization; ekonometri; Econometrics; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers related to banking, credit markets and financial stability.    Paper [I] presents a credit market model and finds, using an agent based modeling approach, that credit crunches have a tendency to occur; even when credit markets are almost entirely transparent in the absence of external shocks. READ MORE

  7. 15. Sociotechnical Knowledge. An Operationalised Approach to Localised Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Urban Development

    Author : Jaan-Henrik Kain; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; process; critical realism; sociotechnical; strategic choice approach; sustainable development; practice; action; social construction; decision-making; capital; implementation; infrastructure; urban; actor network theory; local; systems theory; design; partnerships; planning;

    Abstract : In processes of urban infrastructural reconfiguration, there is a counterproductive tension between tendencies of de-monopolisation and market liberalisation, on the one hand, and ambitions for sustainable urban development, drawing on Keynesian reformism and ecological modernisation, on the other. In this thesis, the aim is to overcome this tension and to facilitate a concrete operationalisation of the notion &'sustainable urban development' within concrete and localised processes of planning, design, decision-making and implementation. READ MORE