Search for dissertations about: "marketisation"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word marketisation.

2. 6. Hooked on Markets : Revaluing Coastal Fisheries in Liberal Rural Capitalism

   Author : Alexander Dobeson; Patrik Aspers; Vessela Misheva; Koray Çalışkan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; marketisation; economisation; valuation; evaluation; practice theory; technology; quality; relational ethnography; natural resources; fisheries; rural capitalism;

   Abstract : Natural resource–based economies are typically embedded in rural networks of production. In recent years, however, the privatisation of access rights and the organisation of markets have substantially transformed some of these rural economies. READ MORE

4. 7. Development and 'The other within': the culturalisation of the political economy of poverty in the Northern Uplands of Viet Nam

   Author : Bent D. Jørgensen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; poverty; poverty alleviation; development; marginalisation; privatisation; modernisation; marketisation; democratisation; development studies; upland development; ethnic minorities; Hmong; Dao; Muong; Viet Nam Vietnam .;

   Abstract : The dissertation deals with the issue of poverty in eight villages in Northern Viet Nam during the current Doi Moi reforms. In all reforms, poverty alleviation has been a main concern for which market economy and economic growth have been seen as largely successful tools. However, in parallel to economic growth, the social inequality has increased. READ MORE

5. 8. Managing social work : Organisational conditions and everyday work for managers in the Swedish social services

   Author : Emelie Shanks; Tommy Lundström; Åke Bergmark; Staffan Höjer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social work; managers; social work management; social work administration; social work leadership; human service management; managerialism; marketisation; New Public Management; organisational conditions; social services; Social Work; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : The personal social services in Sweden have undergone major changes during recent decades, partly due to the reforms caused by the influence of New Public Management (NPM) and partly due to the trend towards greater specialisation. These changes have had consequences for both social work management and for social work practice. READ MORE

6. 9. Making a Market out of a Welfare State : Swedish Local Politicians’ Perspectives on Elderly Care Marketisation

   Author : Ming Guo; Sam Willner; Patrice Bourdelais; Maria Oskarsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Elderly care; Politicians; Preference; Welfare state; Marketisation; Privatisation; Sweden; Äldreomsorg; politiker; preferens; välfärdsstat; marknadsanpassning; privatisering; Sverige;

   Abstract : Market reforms have quite notably been used as a solution to increase the quality of public services and efficiency since the 1990s. Sweden has also introduced marketisation in the field of elderly care since 1992 to cope with increasing care needs while maintaining costs at a reasonable level. READ MORE

7. 10. Chinese rural enterprises between plan and market

   Author : Gang Zhang; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Chinese rural enterprises (REs) have continued to grow rapidly since the end of the 1970s, and today these enterprises account for half of China’s industrial output, up from nine per cent in 1978. As a market-oriented nonstate sector, the development of the REs has significantly contributed to both China’s impressive post-reform economic growth and its transition away from a centrally planned economy. READ MORE