Search for dissertations about: "NON profit"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 83 swedish dissertations containing the words NON profit.

  2. 1. Information Technology for Non-Profit Organisations : Extended Participatory Design of an Information System for Trade Union Shop Stewards

    Author : Sofie Pilemalm; Toomas Timpka; Henrik Eriksson; Yrjö Engeström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Informations system; trade unions; Non-profit organisations; information technology; Participatory Design; Informatics; computer and systems science; Informatik; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : The conditions for the third, non-profit sector, such as grassroots organisations and trade unions, have changed dramatically in recent years, due to prevailing social trends. Non-profit organisations have been seen as early adopters of information technology, but the area is, at the same time, largely unattended by scientific research. READ MORE

  4. 2. Public and Non-Profit Interaction : U.S. Assistance to Eastern European Media 1989-1995

    Author : Annika Thunborg; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; United States; Eastern Europe; news media; post-Cold War era; conservatism; liberalism; national interest; realism; idealism; First Amendment; network analysis; quaNGO; NGO; foreign aid; foundation; USAID; International Media Fund; USIA; public; non-profit; Soros Foundation; Freedom Forum; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : This study explores the relationships among U.S. public and non-profit organizations against the backdrop of the assistance they rendered to news media in Eastern European countries between 1989 and 1995. READ MORE

  5. 3. Building Physics Tools: Needs, Use and the Lack of Use in the Building Process. Modelling Non-Isothermal Moisture Flow and Frost Penetration

    Author : Stephen Burke; Avdelningen för Byggnadsfysik; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; isothermal; costs; building physics tools; moisture damages; learning loop; experience; causal loop diagrams; non-isothermal; moisture transport;

    Abstract : Despite advances in material science, computers and building technology, building failures related to building physics continue to occur. These failures range from a building not meeting its energy use target to a building causing people to become ill from exposure to various chemicals or biological organisms. READ MORE

  6. 4. Activist Entrepreneurship : Attac'ing Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories

    Author : Malin Gawell; Björn Bjerke; Chris Steyaert; Gemma Donnelly Cox; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial process; activist entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; organization creation; organizing; non-profit organizations; voluntary organizations; activism; social movements; civil society; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to extend entrepreneurship theory to also comprise entrepreneurship in non-profit organizations in civil society. Entrepreneurship is claimed to be highly relevant also to this non-profit setting. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Probabilistic Approach to Non-Markovian Impulse Control

    Author : Johan Jönsson; Magnus Perninge; Säid Hamadène; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Stochastic optimal control; optimal stopping; optimal switching; impulse control; Snell envelope; obstacle problems; partial differential equation; Matematik; Mathematics;

    Abstract : This thesis treats mathematical considerations that arise in relation to certain stochastic optimal control problems, in particular of switching and impulse type. Both of these problems are extensions of the well-known optimal stopping problem. READ MORE