Search for dissertations about: "individualism and collectivism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words individualism and collectivism.
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1. Confronting Value Strain : Press Coverage of Health Care Reform in Sweden and the United States
Abstract : This dissertation examines the journalistic discourse surrounding health care reform debates in Sweden and the US in the early 1990's. It found that in both countries, the challenging value (i.e. READ MORE
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2. Russia on the Move-The Railroads and the Exodus From Compulsory Collectivism 1861-1914
Abstract : Western scholars of Tsarist Russia emphasize the continuity of collectivism on the Russian plain. Numerous endogenous factors explain the human clustering that occurred as kinship structures evolved into territorial agrarian communal patterns. READ MORE
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3. Leadership for co-worker commitment : a TQM approach
Abstract : A trend in modern working life is related to adjustments to the rapidly changing requirements of the market. The increased pace of and demands for flexibility from globalization cause changes of the organizational conditions. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
Abstract : Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and the relationship between private property rights and economic development. READ MORE
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5. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden, c.1770-1865
Abstract : Sweden of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was visited and toured by a number of British author-travellers, whose subsequently published views of and on the country and its people are examined and presented in this thesis. Using as primary sources British-published monographs deriving, wholly or in part, from an experienced Sweden of c. READ MORE