Search for dissertations about: "institutionell teori"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words institutionell teori.

  2. 11. Contextualising Constructions of Corporate Social Responsibility : Social Embeddedness in Discourse and Institutional Contexts

    Author : Brita Backlund Rambaree; Barbara Hobson; Charlotta Stern; Dima Jamali; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; corporate social responsibility; CSR; institutional theory; Foucault; context; embeddedness; institutions; new institutionalism; institutional complementarity; discursive institutionalism; institutional work; responsible investment; SRI; social constructionism; discourse; power; qualitative content analysis; self-reporting; abductive approach; interpretative repertoires; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : ‘Corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) and ‘socially responsible investment’ (SRI) have become predominant frameworks connecting business to society that have spread across the globe. They comprise a shared set of ideas and practices, such as those promoted in global reporting standards and by international organisations such as the UN Global Compact. READ MORE

  4. 12. Controller Work in Strategic Capital Investment Projects : Case Studies in a Swedish Mining Company

    Author : Bo Karlsson; Anders Hersinger; Monika Kurkkio; Elin Funck; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting and Control; Redovisning och styrning;

    Abstract : There is a tendency in the management accounting literature to emphasize systems, procedures, models and techniques, designed to improve planning, and control of business activities. This tendency is also visible in the more specific stream of literature that concerns capital investment decision making. READ MORE

  5. 13. Patterns of corporate visual selfrepresentation in accounting narratives

    Author : Emelie Eriksson; Alf Westelius; Carl-Johan Petri; Bino Catasus; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; visual research; self-representation; diagrams; accounting narrative; corporate reporting; public disclosure; business models; semiotics; annual report; Ericsson; visuell forskning; visuella metoder; självrepresentation; diagram; externredovisning; affärsmodell; semiotik; årsredovisning; Ericsson; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with firms’ visual and pre-visual self-representations in accounting narratives. Self-representations are those descriptions about the company that firms include in accounting narratives to convey the current standings and their identity. READ MORE

  6. 14. The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany

    Author : Astrid Hedin; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; East Germany; PDS; SED; feminism; gender; political party; communicative action; logic of appropriateness; garbage-can decision-making; interpersonal trust; institutional change; social network; new institutionalism; structuration; Giddens; path-dependence; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : New institutionalist approaches are inherently weak at accounting for institutional change. In this book, social network analysis is proposed as a key to institutional change. The social network perspective focuses emergent patterns of interpersonal interaction and the resulting ties of interpersonal trust. READ MORE

  7. 15. To Have and to Hold: Continuity and change in property rights institutions governing water resources among the Meru of Tanzania and the BaKgatla in Botswana; 1925-2000

    Author : Ellen Hillbom; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutional change; Botswana; institutions; Kgatleng; Meru; natural resources; property rights; Tanzania; Sub-Saharan Africa; water; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : Allocation, control, and management of natural resources are issues that absorb researchers within both the social and natural sciences. This study deals with such research questions as well as with one of the most fundamental issues in Economic History – namely institutional change. READ MORE