Search for dissertations about: "self organizing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 71 swedish dissertations containing the words self organizing.

  2. 1. Organizing normality : Essays on organizing day activities for people with severe mental disturbances

    Author : Jan-Håkan Hansson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; social psychiatry; community psychiatry; day care centres; deinstitutionalization; professionalization; claims-making activities; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN; Psychiatry;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the organizing of day activities, outside hospital care, for people with severe mental disturbances in Sweden. The purpose of the study is threefold: to describe the material and structural conditions of day activity settings on a national scale; to analyse some of the ideological claims made in the field; and to discuss problems and possibilities arising when more than one organizational sector is involved in the work. READ MORE

  4. 2. Organizing for Social Change : Worker Cooperatives as Resistance to Capitalism

    Author : Kristin Wiksell; Satu Heikkinen; Andreas Henriksson; Åsa Wettergren; Roland Paulsen; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worker cooperatives; Capitalism; Resistance; Constructive resistance; Power; Social change; Organizing; Timebanks; Work relations; Temporality; Knowledge; Discourse; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic inequalities and declining democratization, often associated with the spread of globalized capitalism, it becomes difficult to defend a position of business as usual. Worker co-ops are economic associations equally owned and democratically governed by workers with the potential to contribute to economic democracy and social change. READ MORE

  5. 3. Organizing Language Interpreting Services in Elderly and Emergency Healthcare

    Author : Christina Lundin; Katarina Hjelm; Emina Hadziabdic; Ali M. Ahmed; Maria Jirwe; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Communication; Emergency healthcare; Elderly healthcare; Interpreting practices; Organizing; Qualitative methods; Transcultural nursing.;

    Abstract : With an increasing migrant population there is a growing need to organize interpreting practices in healthcare in order to deliver equitable high-quality care.This thesis focuses on healthcare institutions’ organization of interpreting services. READ MORE

  6. 4. Scalable Self-Organizing Server Clusters with Quality of Service Objectives

    Author : Constantin Adam; Rolf Stadler; Giovanni Pacifici; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Telekommunikation; Autonomic computing; self-organization; decentralized control; web services; quality of service; Telekommunikation; Telecommunication; Telekommunikation;

    Abstract : Advanced architectures for cluster-based services that have been recently proposed allow for service differentiation, server overload control and high utilization of resources. These systems, however, rely on centralized functions, which limit their ability to scale and to tolerate faults. READ MORE

  7. 5. Organizing the Labor Market : power, ideas, and institutions in wage formation, digital automation, and migration

    Author : German Bender; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation focuses on power, organization, institutions, and ideas in Swedish labor relations. Composed of four self-contained research papers and an extensive summary chapter, it makes contributions to the fields of industrial relations, organization studies, and political economy. READ MORE