Search for dissertations about: "technology in public sector"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 178 swedish dissertations containing the words technology in public sector.
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11. Angels in Unstable Sociomaterial Relations : Stories of Information Technology
Abstract : I have explored spaces, where negotiations of border transgressions take place and where issues of technology and politics mingle. We meet a diversity of actors in the world of information technology (IT): political texts, people and technology participating in numerous sociomaterial relations. READ MORE
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12. Public Procurement of Innovation
Abstract : Policy-makers in the European Union (EU) have increasingly emphasised public procurement as an instrument that can be used to stimulate innovation. These developments reflect and respond to a growing concern among EU member states and regions about how to maintain competitive advantage in an economic environment increasingly subject to global competition The Lisbon goals set for the EU in 2000 require it to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. READ MORE
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13. Industrialization of Services : Technology and Routinization in the 21st Century
Abstract : Sweden has a long tradition of process improvements, productivity increments, waste reduction in manufacturing, continuing a mode of industrialization that helped achieve prosperity. With growing urban centers, mechanization of agriculture, outsourcings by manufacturing and the public sector with subsequent acquisitions, large service firms have appeared in an ever-growing service sector. READ MORE
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14. Performance Management and Rationalityin Public Sector Organisations
Abstract : Abstract and Keywords The thesis concerns different conceptions of rationality and their implications for organisations, especially in the public sector. The focus is on performance management (as widely defined) within public sector organisations as a subject for exploring these issues. READ MORE
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15. The labour of infrastructuring : An inquiry into participatory design in the public sector
Abstract : Every organisation, cooperation, project or social movement is quintessentially a cluster of alignments between people, places and things. Through these alignments, networks are made, and through these networks action can be made possible or be constricted. READ MORE