Search for dissertations about: "private security companies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words private security companies.

2. 1. Smartphone security : The smartphone as a security device and the public/private production of security

   Author : Håvard Rustad Markussen; Charlotte Wagnsson; Stefan Borg; Niklas Bremberg; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Smartphone; security devices; appropriation; public private security; Critical Security Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Political Science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the smartphone as a security device through a comprehensive summary and four independent papers. The thesis starts from the observation that a central and yet underexplored characteristic of contemporary security politics is that the smartphone, as one especially important piece of consumer technology, is increasingly being transformed into a security device. READ MORE

4. 2. Private security companies and political order in Congo: a history of extraversion

   Author : Peer Schouten; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Relations; Peace Development Research; private security companies; Congo Democratic Republic of ; political order; infrastructure development; Belgian colonialism;

   Abstract : This PhD dissertation explores how private security companies co-constitute political order in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a case through which broader questions regarding the relationship between security governance and political order can be investigated. The thesis explores the spatial distribution of private security companies in Congo, and investigates their predominant entanglement with internationalized governance processes. READ MORE

5. 3. Information Technology Outsourcing in Large Companies in Sweden : A Perspective on Risks, Relationships and Success Factors

   Author : Georg Hodosi; Lazar Rusu; Björn Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; IT outsourcing; risk factors; important factors; ITO relationships; success factors; transaction cost theory; IT outsourcing decision makers; design science research; survey research; large companies; private companies; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates large private companies in Sweden that have outsourced their information technology (IT). A considerable proportion of IT outsourcing (ITO) is unsuccessful. READ MORE

6. 4. CryptoNET : Generic Security Framework for Cloud Computing Environments

   Author : Abdul Ghafoor Abbasi; Sead Muftic; Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Generic Security Object; CryptoNET; Security; Framework; Information technology; Informationsteknologi; SRA - ICT; SRA - Informations- och kommunikationsteknik;

   Abstract : The area of this research is security in distributed environment such as cloud computing and network applications. Specific focus was design and implementation of high assurance network environment, comprising various secure and security-enhanced applications. READ MORE

7. 5. The Privatisation of Security and State Control of Force: Changes, Challenges and the Case of Iraq

   Author : Joakim Berndtsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; peace and development research; privatisation of security; private security companies; civil-military relations; state control of force; state monopoly of violence; Iraq;

   Abstract : The thematic focus of this dissertation is the privatisation of security, that is, the increasing use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform security- and military-related tasks traditionally associated with the state and institutions such as the police or the military. More concretely, the study investigates security privatisation in the context of violent conflict and in relation to the problem of state control of force. READ MORE