Search for dissertations about: "project making"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 480 swedish dissertations containing the words project making.
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1. Project Becoming and Knowing Trajectories. : An Epistemological Perspective on Human and Nonhuman Project Making
Abstract : In our ‘projectified’ and ‘knowledge-intensive’ society, industrial projects have been proposed as important “journeys of knowledge creation” or “places for knowledge integration”. To date, such perspectives have mainly used traditional cognitive and contextual theories of knowledge and have thus mostly been focused on human actors and their interaction. READ MORE
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2. Decision making in innovation : understanding selection and prioritizaiton of development projects
Abstract : This thesis has its origin in empirical evidence. Some Swedish companies claimed that despite having plenty of proposals for developing new products, they experienced problems when choosing from all those alternatives. READ MORE
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3. Making Reindeer : The Negotiation of an Arctic Animal in Modern Swedish Sápmi, 1920-2020
Abstract : The Arctic has long been perceived as a static, timeless place of shielded wilderness. This perception extended to the reindeer as both part of the Arctic environment and of traditional Indigenous livelihoods. READ MORE
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4. Decision making in construction projects
Abstract : The thesis draws the focus to the construction project organization and the decisions that are taken to advance the project towards its purpose. Decisions are seen as thrusts towards the purpose, the client's peak in the fitness landscape, and they are taken to cross the chasm between the current and the goal state. READ MORE
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5. Organizing project-based operations : The interplay of content, context and social processes
Abstract : Project-based organizations (PBOs) are becoming increasingly widespread and important for the modern economy and society. Thus, they attact significant scholarly attention to their distinctive features. The unit of analysis employed by the majority of the studies is the project-based organization as a whole. READ MORE