Search for dissertations about: "ideas"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 1377 swedish dissertations containing the word ideas.

2. 6. Making ideas matter : gender, technology and women's invention

   Author : Ann-Christin Nyberg; Magnus Lagnevik; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Man Machine Relation Focusing Gender; Människa-maskin med inriktning mot genusforskning;

   Abstract : Denna avhandling baseras på empiriska data om kvinnors uppfinnande och relaterar huvudsakligen till teorier från den teknofeministiska skärningspunkten mellan feministiska studier och teknik- och vetenskapsstudier, där såväl genus som teknik ses som skapade av människor i interaktion med vår förståelse av verkligheten och med verkliga aktörer. Data om kvinnors uppfinnande insamlade från patentregister och via intervjuer utgör den empiriska grund från vilken en alternativ bild av uppfinnandet begreppsliggörs, sätts samman och diskuteras. READ MORE

4. 7. Corporate Social Responsibility under Construction: Ideas, Translations, and   Institutional Change

   Author : Karolina Windell; Kerstin Sahlin; Bengt Jacobsson; Quack Sigird; Uppsala universitet Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; CSR; institutional change; translation; institutional ideas; management ideas; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

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5. 8. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism : Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi

   Author : Tobias Dahlkvist; Thomas Brobjer; Mats Persson; Andreas Urs Sommer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and ideas; Pessimism; Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Eduard von Hartmann; Giacomo Leopardi; Philipp Mainländer; Julius Bahnsen; Agnes Taubert; Eugen Dühring; Nihilism; Melancholy; Eternal Recurrence; Hamlet; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the predominantly German pessimistic tradition in the philosophy of the late nineteenth century, and of Nietzsche’s complex relation to that tradition. The aim of the dissertation is firstly to analyse how pessimism came to be established as a philosophical concept by Schopenhauer and a later generation of pessimistic thinkers, and secondly to investigate how Nietzsche understood pessimism. READ MORE

6. 9. Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)

   Author : Jenny Ingemarsdotter; Magnus Nyman; Hanna Östholm; Erland Sellberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johan Skytte; history of education; Ramism; Petrus Ramus; utility; merit; humanism; Late Renaissance; Sweden; Age of Greatness; patriotism; Hesse-Kassel; the University of Marburg; Uppsala University; Charles IX; Gustav II Adolf; Vasa; Neo-Latin; dissertation; oration; rhetoric; reform; the mathematical arts; eloquence; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Swedish statesman Johan Skytte (1577–1645), focusing on his educational ideals and his contributions to educational reform in the early Swedish Age of Greatness. Although born a commoner, Skytte rose to be one of the most powerful men in Sweden in the first half of the seventeenth century, serving three generations of regents. READ MORE

7. 10. The Mobility of People, Ideas and Knowledge in the Entrepreneurial Society

   Author : Erik Lundmark; Magnus Klofsten; Alf Westelius; Peter Bryant; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Absorptive capacity; entrepreneurial society; entrepreneurship; ideas; innovation; knowledge; labour mobility; mutagen; routine; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : As radical innovations facilitate communication, create new industries and make others obsolete, the established ways of organising society are being questioned. Over the last few decades, a theoretical framework and a worldview labelled the entrepreneurial society, has emerged. READ MORE