Search for dissertations about: "resource crisis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words resource crisis.
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1. Organizational resilience through crisis strategic planning
Abstract : Resilience, in an organizational sense meaning the ability to withstand crises and disturbances, has become a keyword during the last ten years. It is associated with established activities like risk and crisis management and business continuity planning or with strategic management, but it allows for new perspectives and insights into the conditions for doing business. READ MORE
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2. The world household : Georg Borgström and the postwar population-resource crisis
Abstract : This dissertation deals with how the agenda of environmental issues was set in the early postwar years. Natural resources were placed high on the agenda of international politics, the scientific community and the media. READ MORE
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3. Social capital and well-being in the transitional setting of Ukraine
Abstract : Background: The military conflict in Ukraine that started in 2014 was accompanied with many changes in the political, economic and social spheres. It brought informal volunteering activities (i.e. one form of social capital) to emerge, function and later to be formalized, in order to support soldiers and their families. READ MORE
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4. The Specter of Scarcity : Experiencing and Coping with Metal Shortages, 1870-2015
Abstract : In spite of an ever-growing supply of metals, actors have long feared metal shortages. This thesis – departing from an understanding that metals scarcity is not an objective geological fact, but an experience, a fear of a shortage – explores why business and state actors have experienced metals as scarce and how they coped with scarcity from 1870 to 2015. READ MORE
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5. Written news at the crossroads : Entrepreneurial processes of reproduction and novelty in an institutional field in crisis
Abstract : This dissertation explores entrepreneurial processes in an institutional field incrisis. It is based on the inductive reinterpretation of four original papers that, combined, study activities of individuals searching for solutions to organizational problems in incumbent and startup newspapers. READ MORE