Search for dissertations about: "crisis"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 477 swedish dissertations containing the word crisis.

  2. 6. Digital Transformation for Crisis Volunteerism : A study in the aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018

    Author : Maria Murphy; Sofie Pilemalm; Tobias Andersson Granberg; Lena-Maria Öberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Digital transformation; Digitalisation; Crisis; Volunteerism; IS design; Practice; Process; Environment; Events stakeholders; ICT; Coordination; Digital transformation; Digitalisering; Kris; Frivillighet; IS design; Praktik; Process; Omgivning; Händelser; Intressenter; IKT; Koordinering;

    Abstract : In the summer of 2018, Sweden was taken by surprise and engulfed by forest fires on an unprecedented scale. Various forms of crisis volunteerism (CV) proved essential in the large scale response that ensued. READ MORE

  4. 7. Unwrapping Cobol : Lessons in Crisis Computing

    Author : Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter; Susan Kozel; Maria Hellström Reimer; Florian Cramer; Nishant Shah; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : Crisis; Execution; Maintenance; Cobol; Automation; Global Flows; Y2K; Human Factor; Outsourcing; Development; Legacy Systems; Programming Languages; History of Computing; HCI; Software Wrapping; Postcolonial Studies; Diffraction; Broken world thinking; Grace Hopper; Media Archaeology; Debugging; Zombie Media; Obsolescence; Technological Development; Unsettling Ontologies; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Artificial Intelligence; Interaktionsdesign; Interaktionsdesign;

    Abstract : By engaging with COBOL, a detested and would-be obsolete programming language, the dark sides of automation are examined in this thesis: hidden workforces and computational infrastructures that are, in reality, central to the execution and maintenance of global economic and informational flows. Frictions within these flows are made more visible in moments of crisis when asymmetrical power structures are surfaced, as demonstrated in an analysis of the infamous Y2K Bug, its connection to the outsourcing boom in India and the legacy of COBOL. READ MORE

  5. 8. The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture : entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

    Author : Calle Håkansson; Astrid Hedin; Mark Rhinard; Ana Juncos; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU security and defence policy; European Commission; European integration; integration theory; Crisis; Geopolitical Commission; Global politik; Global politics;

    Abstract : In recent years, the European Union (EU) has strengthened its foreign, security and defence policy in a remarkable way. Several new supranational security and defence initiatives have been launched and implemented, which have given the European Commission a new and central role in European security and defence policy. READ MORE

  6. 9. Time of Crisis : Order, Politics, Temporality

    Author : Petter Narby; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Crisis; Exception; Order; Politics; Time; Temporality; Derrida; Deconstruction; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Abstract : Crises are common and problematic features of contemporary politics. Thought as moments in time when order is undermined by flux and disorder, they entail a normative dislocation allowing for exceptional measures and for the bracketing off of crisis from normality, removing contingency from normality, and confining that done in crisis to crisis. READ MORE

  7. 10. Crisis-induced learning in public sector organizations

    Author : Edward Deverell; Paul ´t Hart; Försvarshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; crisis-induced learning; crisis management; organizational learning; public organizations; case studies; flexibility; centralization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Abstract : How do public organizations manage crises? How do public organizations learnfrom crises? These seemingly basic questions still pose virtual puzzles for crisismanagement researchers. Yet, the interest of the academic and practitionerrealms in crisis management has grown in recent years. READ MORE