Search for dissertations about: "modernizing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word modernizing.

  2. 1. Russia on the Move-The Railroads and the Exodus From Compulsory Collectivism 1861-1914

    Author : Sylvia Sztern; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutions; technology; village commune-obshchina; insurance; famines; calamities; railroads; rationality; collectivism; individualism;

    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

  4. 2. Beyond the bamboo network : the internationalization process of Thai family business groups

    Author : Maetinee Hemrit; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : International Business research overwhelmingly tends to focus on firms that are perceived as rising international stars. This study, on the other hand, is motivated by the desire to examine other types of business organizations as they navigate the globalization process. READ MORE

  5. 3. In Search of the Via Media between Christ and Marx: A Study of Bishop Ding Guangxun's Contextual Theology

    Author : Jieren Li; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Communist state; via media; Socialist society; state-church relationship; inculturation; indigization; accommodation; Anglicanism; Chinese church; Bishop Ding; Fundamentalist-Evangelical; contextual theology; Lux Mundi;

    Abstract : This dissertation is the first academic treatment and systematic analysis on the theology of Bishop Ding Guangxun (K.H. Ding) who is an internationally- renowned Christian leader of the Chinese Protestant Church in contemporary China. READ MORE

  6. 4. Restructuring the agri-food value chains in post-socialistic Balkans : the dairy value chain in FYR Macedonia

    Author : Emelj Tuna; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Like most of the Western-Balkan countries, the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia experienced significant difficulties in adapting and modernizing its agricultural production in accordance to the highly competitive regional and EU markets. By examining the dairy value chain of the FYR Macedonia, this thesis presents the challenges and changes in the organizational and institutional setting of the agri-food value chains in post-socialist Balkan countries. READ MORE

  7. 5. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates

    Author : Pernilla Ouis; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecological modernization; environmentalism; phenomenology; Bedouin identity; camel pastoralism; dependency; theories of value; unequal exchange; extractive economy; oil; pearls; social constructionism; Islam; modernization; United Arab Emirates; Human Ecology; glocalization; reflexivity.; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. READ MORE