Search for dissertations about: "Shepherd"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word Shepherd.

2. 1. Making Room for Peace : Challenging Intractable Conflict Through Tourism

   Author : Jack Shepherd; Daniel Laven; Sandra Wall-Reinius; Dorina-Maria Buda; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Grounded in an understanding of tourism as a political phenomenon that has consequential impacts on how we understand people and space, and in an understanding of peacebuilding as a participatory process that must involve ordinary citizens, this thesis explores the relationship between tourism and peace. Taking inspiration from the confidence of global organisations and tourism scholars that tourism has a role in peacebuilding, I explore how tourism could serve to challenge conflicts that are deemed intractable - conflicts that are particularly hard to solve. READ MORE

4. 2. Who receives bank loans? A study of lending officers' assessments of loans to growing small and medium-sized enterprises

   Author : Volker Bruns; Johan Wiklund; Hans Landström; Dean Shepherd; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This thesis explores factors that influence lending officers' assessments of credit requests from growing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Building on asymmetric information theory, factors identified in previous research are grouped into the theoretical categories of risk-assessment, risk-alignment, and risk-shifting. READ MORE

5. 3. 'The Emperor's New Clothes' Recordkeeping in a New Context

   Author : Maria Kallberg; Karen Anderson; Göran Samuelsson; Elizabeth Shepherd; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; recordkeeping; e-government; recordkeeping awareness; information management; continuum; public archive; archivists; registrars; local government; Sweden;

   Abstract : This thesis examines if and how information capture and documentation practices and the function of the public archive are changing in relation to archival concepts in contemporary administrative settings, as a result of e-government strategic development. The study aims for a holistic approach from the beginning of the life of the records to their long-term preservation. READ MORE

6. 4. Business Plans in New Ventures : An Institutional Perspective

   Author : Tomas Karlsson; Dean A. Shepherd; Jönköping University; []
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   Abstract : This thesis is about business plans in new ventures. It takes an institutional perspective with a particular focus on how external actors influence ventures through norms, regulations and way of thinking. READ MORE

7. 5. Immunity, microbiota & immune-related disorders in German shepherd dogs

   Author : Åsa Vilson; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : In an epidemiological study based on insurance data we described a breed-specific pattern of diseases in German Shepherd dogs (GSD) and confirmed that this breed is predisposed to immune-related disorders. A prospective study was performed in order to further investigate immunological changes in the GSD using a large number of dogs, 30 bitches and their litters, from the same kennel under well controlled natural conditions. READ MORE