Search for dissertations about: "freedom of contract"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words freedom of contract.
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1. The An-Archical State : Logics of Legitimacy in the Social Contract Tradition
Abstract : The modern state is today under great pressure. In the face of globalization, many theorists seek to rethink the boundaries of the state. They call for a transformation of the state from the national to the global level. But there is a deeper theoretical question at stake. READ MORE
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2. Logics and politics of professionalism : the case of university English language teachers in Vietnam
Abstract : Set against a changing backdrop of reforms in higher education and English language teaching (ELT), the thesis explores the notion of professionalism for university English teachers in Vietnam: What is defined as professionalism in this particular period of time? How is professionalism constructed in this context?The research approaches professionalism as a critical concept: A list of aspired traits and features are always value-laden and concern the question of power. From this premise, the thesis discusses a “kaleidoscope” relationship between different actors in the making of professionalism. READ MORE
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3. Challenges of Commercial Real Estate Management : An analysis of the Swedish commercial real estate industry
Abstract : Avhandlingen består av fem artiklar som var och en adresserar ett specifikt område inom förvaltning av kommersiella fastigheter. Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen är att se till de utmaningar förvaltning av kommersiella fastigheter innebär. READ MORE
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4. Vägval : lastbilsförare i fjärrtrafik - perspektiv på yrkeskultur och genus
Abstract : This thesis is an ethnological study of the truck-driver profession and an examination of the prerequisites for sexual equality and diversity in the haulage branch. The aim is to: from a cultural perspective, with a special focus on gender and masculinity, study truck-drivers as an occupational group. READ MORE
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5. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems
Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: first, to analyse some practical ethical problems that stem from the workplace and the working environment and to offer guidelines concerning how such problems can be solved; second, to illuminate how the specific nature of work and the working environment is intimately connected to the relation between the employee and the employing entity, as set forth in an employment contract, and how the form and content of such contracts are, among other things, determined by culturally and socially established ideas. The normative question to be addressed is thus: which of these ideas should be maintained? This can be seen as a second-order, or more fundamental, ethical question whose answer depends on determining which normative principles are right. READ MORE