Search for dissertations about: "organizational ethnography"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words organizational ethnography.

  2. 6. Making Methods Work in Software Engineering : Method Deployment - as a Social Achievement

    Author : Kari Rönkkö; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Software engineering; software development methods; social achievement; research methodology; action research; ethnography; ethnomethodology; industrial cooperation;

    Abstract : The software engineering community is concerned with improvements in existing methods and development of new and better methods. The research approaches applied to take on this challenge have hitherto focused heavily on the formal and specifying aspect of the method. READ MORE

  4. 7. A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and praxis

    Author : Vedran Omanović; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; diversity; ethnography; critical theory; dialectic view; social-historical process;

    Abstract : A history of two management concepts, valuing diversity and managing diversity, has its cultural and historic origins in the U.S., or, more exactly, in the management/organizational literature produced in the U.S. READ MORE

  5. 8. Corporate Environmental Management - Managing (in) a New Practice Area

    Author : Ralph Meima; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Commercial and industrial economics; greening; Green Squeeze; ISO 14001; EMS; ethnography; sensemaking; social construction; identity; organization theory; environmental management; Ericsson; Industriell ekonomi; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management;

    Abstract : Adopting a phenomenological, sensemaking-based approach, this dissertation reviews and critiques a variety of theories proposed as explanations of corporate “greening” and the evolution of corporate environmental management (CEM), and then presents and analyzes an organization study to explore in greater depth how sensemaking can be used for research in this context. As its object, the ethnographically inspired organization study focuses upon CEM as an area of managerial and organizational practice. READ MORE

  6. 9. Evidence-based practice behind the scenes : How evidence in social work is used and produced

    Author : Alexander Björk; Anders Bergmark; Lena Hübner; Morten Sager; Oscarsson Lars; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Evidence-based practice; Evidence-based medicine; Addiction severity index; Motivational interviewing; critical appraisal; ethnography; social work; substance abuse; science and technology studies; standardization; Social Work; socialt arbete;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to examine empirically what Evidence-based practice (EBP) and its standardized procedures become when put into practice in social work. EBP builds on the idea that professional practice should be based on systematic and reliable knowledge of the interventions and instruments used in this work. READ MORE

  7. 10. Achieving person-centred pain management for the patient with acute abdominal pain : Guided by the Fundamentals of Care framework

    Author : Therese Avallin; Eva Jangland; Åsa Muntlin; Martin Björck; Alison Kitson; Helle Wijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Acute abdominal pain; Case study; Communication; Culture; Ethnography; Fundamentals of Care framework; Nursing; Pain management; Person-centred care; Person-centred fundamental care; Surgical care; Systematic review; Pain Questionnaire; Qualitative synthesis; Caring Sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how to achieve and measure person-centred pain management (PCPM) for the patient with acute abdominal pain (AAP) in acute surgical care. The Fundamentals of Care (FoC) framework guides all studies. READ MORE