Search for dissertations about: "structuration"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word structuration.
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1. Communication as structuration : Viewing learning through the lens of communication
Abstract : This dissertation is about enlightening the relationship between organizational communication and learning. In doing so, I explore and build upon existing theories that address the relationship from a structuration perspective. Specifically, I turn to discursive communication theory and sociocultural learning theory. READ MORE
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2. Structural change of business networks : developing a structuration technique
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3. Design and use of mobile technology in distance language education : Matching learning practices with technologies-in-practice
Abstract : This thesis focuses on the adaptation of formal education to people’s technology- use patterns, theirtechnology-in-practice, where the ubiquitous use of mobile technologies is central. The research question is: How can language learning practices occuring in informal learning environments be effectively integrated with formal education through the use of mobile technology? The study investigates the technical, pedagogical, social and cultural challenges involved in a design science approach. READ MORE
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4. The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
Abstract : New institutionalist approaches are inherently weak at accounting for institutional change. In this book, social network analysis is proposed as a key to institutional change. The social network perspective focuses emergent patterns of interpersonal interaction and the resulting ties of interpersonal trust. READ MORE
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5. Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
Abstract : This thesis is about fixedness, or the process whereby orthographic words group together and congeal into fixed expressions that might subsequently reduce and become single words. The discussion focuses on three levels: realization, conceptualization, and discourse. READ MORE