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Kekwaletswe, Raymond M. "Knowledge transformation in a mobile learning environment : an interpretive inquiry of ubiquitous context and social presence awareness." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5647.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-299).One of the most fundamental facets of knowledge is that it transforms as an outcome of individuals sharing experiences through interaction. Knowledge transformation is when there is a shift in view, perspective and the thought process consequent to a social activity. The problem for a contact university is that mobile learners do not have access to consistent social resources for academic support as they drift from formal to informal learning contexts. The alternative for these learners is to engage in a learning activity though social interaction with knowledgeable peers who share a background. Learning actions are influenced gy changes in the environment and social awareness. Social awareness is synonymous with awareness of context and social presence. This research was a learning expedition towards understanding the phenomenon of ubiquitous mobile learning where knowledge transformation is a result of social awareness activities of mobile learners as they traverse varied learning contexts. Mobile learning is signified by mobility of learners regardless of mobile technology.
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Bluck, Emily C. "Mapping Community Mindscapes: Visualizing Social Autobiography as Political Transformation and Mobilization." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/56.
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Historically, autobiography has been used to perpetuate neo-liberal ideologies. Yet, when autobiography becomes social and is used to engage political communities of color, political transformation is possible. This project, through the collaborative visualization of Asian American social biography using pedagogical and relational methods as a means for engagement, seeks to destabilize dominant notions of time and space, and provide a mechanism for the retention of and documentation of institutional, and social histories using the Asian American Student Union at Scripps College as the site for political praxis.
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Haghshenas, Nima. "Agile transformation, from classical- to agile project management in a multidisciplinary production environment, a case study." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84665.
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The increase for project efficiency has led to some businesses adopting the agile project management model. This research project has studied how a project-oriented manufacturing company has introduced the agile model in its Research & Development organization. The report here is based on qualitative analysis of 9 interviews with respondents and intends to evaluate how far the agile transformation in the Research & Development organization has progressed. The report further aims to describe how the respondents have perceived and have been affected by the agile transformation. The respondents in this study have been working as developers and have experienced the agile transformation in the organization from day one. The respondents´ experiences have been analyzed using Self-Determination Theory and the mediating role of psychological safety. Furthermore, previous studies on project transition and agile transformation have been used in the analysis. This research study has also sought to learn how the temporary organization has introduced internal improvements in its organization through the introduction of the agile model.
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Washbourne, Neil J. "Beyond iron laws : information technology and social transformation in the global environmental movement." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298929.
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Altamirano, Pamela, and Ewa Kowalska. "Let’s talk about well-being : The power of creating well-being narratives as a tool for driving sustainable transformation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448306.
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Reflecting on the concept of well-being has been proven to be a crucial activity in sustainability endeavours. In the present society, well-being has been defined and promoted through an economic perspective. Measurements such as GDP and economic growth have been perceived as a determinant of welfare. This has led people to believe that having money and material goods are key to achieve well-being. This consumerist lifestyle has caused people to disconnect from nature and stop considering it as essential in order to have a happy and healthy life with high levels of well-being. By analysing this problem, we realized that if we want to live a sustainable life, we cannot continue viewing well-being through this lens. This problem is shown in the tension between the predominant capitalistic vision of well-being and alternative sustainable well-being theories, such as the well-established Māori framework. As researchers, we were wondering how we can redirect this discourse by placing future sustainability managers within this tension. To explore this, we engage in co-creating well-being narratives with 11 sustainability master students at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. How can the conversations with them around well-being drive a sustainable transformation? We discuss the participants’ thoughts and feelings during the interview process to investigate the influence of well-being conversation on generating a sustainable discourse. We found that joining the two concepts of well-being and sustainability through a narrative approach creates a powerful tool in driving change towards putting the priority back on nature.
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Picková, Iva. "Transformation of identities in international educational milieu of university in Sweden." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83459.
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This thesis focuses on the transformation of identities of international master students attending Örebro University along with their perception of how this experience will affect their future. A qualitative content analysis of 10 semi-structured interviews was employed to explore the topic and answer the research questions. The thesis is guided by the theoretical background that stands on the synthesis of Jenkins’ perception of identity and the identity theory, supplemented by the understanding of international students as ‘student travellers’. The analysis of respondents’ narratives revealed that all aspects of their identity were affected. International students, throughout their stay abroad, live in a certain bubble as they distance themselves from the society on one hand and identify with the international students’ group on the other, affecting their social identity. However, before a new identity is formed and while the old one is being changed, the students experience a state of limbo during which uncertainty of roles emerges. Their person identity is influenced as well due to the international experience providing an opportunity to consciously alter some aspects of personality and, furthermore, to promote their independence, open-mindedness, and awareness of other cultures. Additionally, through contact with these other cultures, the international student develops into a person of two minds – international and of the country of their origin. In regards to the students’ perception of the future, the desire to stay international, to travel and live abroad is essential in creating something of a nomad life. Moreover, the respondents considered the international experience to have a positive impact on their career through an advantageous position over others along with the acquisition of an international network.
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Chilik, Inna, Kim L. Edens, Kurt Klusch, and Peter Ralph. "Assessment of Sustainability Maturity Models for Business Transformation." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18278.
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Business organisations, given their size, influence, and global impact on finite planetary resources, are the key economic drivers contributing to unsustainable growth. Sustainability Maturity Models (SMMs) were developed as a tool to assist organisations to recognise and incorporate practices identified as pivotal to achieving business transformation. The Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD) approach was used to develop an analytical tool to assess the robustness of two of the aspects of SMMs, specifically structure and process. Interviews with model designers were also conducted. The research team identified key strengths limitations of SMMs. The analysis revealed that SMMs have strength in starting the conversation with leadership and charting the way ahead for organizations by clearly defining the maturity level success criteria. These findings confirm the significant potential of SMMs infused by supporting process tools, to be a strong foundation for organisations on their sustainability journeys, aiding overall transformation of businesses. This in turn has the potential to shift the role of businesses in the larger socio-ecological system from being contributors to the sustainability challenge, to becoming active providers of solutions.
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Rozhenko, Maria, and Inna Afanasieva. "Directions of accounting transformation in the context of sustainable development." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/54687.
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1. Афанас’єва І.І., Розмислов О.М. Сучасні тенденції трансформації
управлінського обліку. Збірник наукових праць Державного університету
інфраструктури та технологій: Серія «Економіка і управління». Вип. 48. К.:
ДУІТ, 2020. С. 77-86. DOI: 10.32703/2664-2964-2020-48. URL:
https://files.duit.edu.ua/uploads/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82.
2. Сокіл О.Г. Концептуальні основи методології трансформації
традиційної системи обліку у бухгалтерський облік сталого розвитку.
Економічна статистика. Бухгалтерський облік та аудит, 2017. URL:
file:///C:/Users/Vadim/Downloads/Pekon_2017_1_56.pdf.
3. Рета М.В. Перспективи впровадження концепції бухгалтерського
обліку сталого розвитку, 2018. URL:
http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/bitstream/KhPI-
Press/36329/1/Reta_Perspektyvy_vprovadzhennia_2018.pdf.
4. О.В. Будько. Облік соціальної відповідальної діяльності як
інформаційна основа управління сталим розвитком підприємства. URL:
http://www.investplan.com.ua/pdf/20_2016/9.pdf.Modern requirements to the format of organization of accounting and the content of financial reporting are considered. The importance of sustainable accounting to support the economic, social and environmental development of the country is proved. The directions of transformation of accounting and financial reporting, provides a reliable reflection of environmental and social costs are determined.
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Reiprich, Barbara. "Feeling activism: Emotionalized and visual-based strategic communication within environmental small-scale activism on social media." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364217.
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This master thesis aims to understand whether the connection of visuals and emotions on social media can be utilized by activists to increase awareness of environmental issues. In particular, this thesis discussed if emotional visual content about environmental activism on social media increases recipients' emotional awareness and small-scale activism when embedded in visual framing communication. The work is based on theories like affective visual framing, affective intensity, stickiness and grab, which define the dynamics of emotions online and the merits that come with it, when used for strategic communication. In combination with visual communication on social media and the emotional impact of visuals, environmental imagery develops power for social transformation. Analyzing the organization Greenpeace and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for their emotional strategic communication on Instagram, the research uses mixed-methods to gather data about the reception of emotional visuals. A questionnaire collects data about broad responses to images and seven in-depth interviews focus on deeper motivations and opinions behind the emotional reaction. The research reveals that first of all emotions are generated by emotionally framed visual contents. These emotions also lead to an emotional awareness of environmental issues. Nevertheless, small-scale activism was neither increased by emotional content nor by general emotional awareness. Solely short-term interest in activism could be identified.
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Altay, Deniz. "The Transformation Of The Urban Environment Under The Impacts Of Global Processes: The Development Of Levent-maslak Axis In Istanbul And It'." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613792/index.pdf.
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This thesis investigates the transformation of cities under the influence of globalization and the socio-spatial impacts of the process. The thesis asserts that global processes, with their neo-liberal agenda, influence the creation of new urban environments and new conditions of living and working in cities by triggering new dynamics in the functioning of certain urban mechanisms such as labour and land markets, which are conceptualized in the study as &lsquourban interface mechanisms&rsquo
. The thesis also asserts that as well as the ongoing functioning of urban interface mechanisms, the resilience of urban inhabitants is also an important determinant of the socio-spatial outcomes of the experienced urban transformation. The influence of new dynamics in labour and land markets are discussed for understanding how the changes in the conditions of living and working for urban inhabitants are created, how the different types of vulnerabilities and opportunities for urban inhabitants are created within this process and what is the role of social resilience, measured by the adaptive capacity of the inhabitants, in the determination of the socio-spatial effects of the urban transformation process. In order to answer these questions a research study had been conducted in a growing business centre in Istanbul, the Levent &ndash
Maslak axis, and in the surrounding neighbourhoods, which have different physical, functional and socio-economic patterns. The experience of different inhabitant groups had been investigated and compared in order to understand the parts played by neo-liberal policies, functioning of interface mechanisms and social resilience in the experienced outcomes of urban transformation.
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Saulnier, Emmanuel. "Petits arrangements entre soi et grandes manœuvres générales : le travail social en transformation : exploration d’un îlotage institutionnel d’intervention socio-éducative." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20095.
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Entre les pratiques orientées principalement vers les destinataires de l’action sociale et les logiques gestionnaires qui tendent à rationaliser le ‘’travail social’’, cette thèse explore la diversité des configurations intermédiaires. A partir des accompagnements éducatifs menés par un service dit de ‘’milieu ouvert’’, nous analysons la multiplicité des arrangements entre les professionnels chargés de ces mesures de ‘’protection de l’enfance’’. Sans réduire notre champ d’observation aux seules interactions individuelles, nous étudions plus largement le rapport de cet ‘’îlotage d’intervention socio-éducative’’ avec son environnement institutionnel.Ceci nous amène à interroger le fonctionnement d’autres services ou dispositifs connexes et leurs rattachements organisationnels aux instances de tutelles. En nous appuyant sur diverses recherches produites sur cet objet, nous questionnons également les transformations en œuvre dans le ‘’travail social’’ contemporain. L’ensemble de cette démarche nous permet de considérer conjointement les modifications profondes des cadres d’actions des politiques sociales et leurs retentissements singuliers sur les pratiques professionnelles des travailleurs sociaux. Notre recherche contribue ainsi à situer plus précisément les endroits où se logent ces régulations, comment elles s’ancrent et ce qu’elles induisent. Cette exploration nous ouvre sur la compréhension de la complexité des intrications des dimensions individuelles et collectives en prises avec le traitement de la cohésion socialeIn contrast to practices primarily oriented towards recipients of social action and management policies which tend to streamline “social work”, the present thesis investigates the diversity of intermediate configurations. Based on educational support delivered by an “open-environment” service, we assess the wide range of agreements between professionals entrusted with “child care” assignments. Beyond the observation of mere human interaction, we delve into the relationships between such a “socioeducational policing scheme” and its institutional background.This leads us to examine how other services or related schemes operate, and how they interlink with parent organizations. With the help of extensive research published on the subject, we also question the transformations currently at play in “social work”. As a result we survey deeply changing instances of social policy framework and how uniquely they affect social workers’ professional practices. Thereby we highlight where these regulations apply along with their generalization and inferences. This exploratory work paves the way for a better understanding of intricately linked individual and collective dimensions confronted with social cohesion management
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Mallik, Bidisha. "The Contribution of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn to Social and Environmental Transformation in the Indian State of Uttarakhand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc499983/.
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The influence of Mohandas K. Gandhi on social and environmental movements in post-colonial India has been widely acknowledged. Yet, the contributions of two European associates of Gandhi, Madeleine Slade and Catherine Mary Heilemann, better known in India as Mira Behn and Sarala Behn, have not received the due attention of the academic community. This dissertation is an examination of the philosophy and social activism of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn and their roles in the evolution of Gandhian philosophy of socioeconomic reconstruction and environmental conservation in the present Indian state of Uttarakhand. Instead of just being acolytes of Gandhi, I argue that these women developed ideas and practices that drew upon from an extensive intellectual terrain that cannot be limited to Gandhi’s work. I delineate the directions in which Gandhian thought and experiments in rural development work evolved through the lives, activism, and written contributions of these two women. Particularly, I examine their influence on social and environmental movements, such as the Chipko and the Anti-Tehri Dam movements, and their roles in promoting grassroots social development and environmental sustainability in the mountain communities of Uttarakhand. Mira Behn and Sarala Behn’s integrative philosophical worldviews present epistemological, sociopolitical, ethical, and metaphysical principles and practices that have local and global significance for understanding interfaith dialog, social justice, and environmental sustainability and thus constitute a useful contribution to the theory and practice of human emancipation in our times.
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Gottwald, Kathleen. "Exploration d'un geste critique et réflexif au service de l'expérimentation sociale : redynamisation d'un processus de recrutement et de formation d'apprentis (France)." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CNAM1209.
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Dans son rapport rédigé en 2014, le Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie (France) ouvrait une interrogation d’enjeu majeur : alors même que les connaissances ne cessent de progresser nous sommes de plus en plus confrontés à des crises et des retours de réalité. La diversité et la persistance de leurs manifestations interrogent le monde de la recherche et la société dans son ensemble. Ce questionnement, partagé avec le partenaire industriel avec lequel nous avons engagé cette recherche, nous a conduits à retenir que l’Entreprise était un lieu particulièrement fécond pour aborder cette problématique. Dans ce cadre de recherche partenarial, nous avons retenu d’y contribuer en investiguant la tension entre les espaces saturés de réponses (exigence apocritique) dans lesquels nous opérons, et les retours de réalité auxquels le monde que nous constituons se cogne (exigence problématologique).Notre thèse vise à rendre compte de l’exploration d’un geste critique et réflexif que nous avons mobilisé au service de l’expérimentation sociale. Elle défend une perspective qui peut permettre d’articuler et de travailler le rapport entre « critique » et « possible », en vue de soutenir, le cas échéant, l’émergence de modalités alternatives ou de nouveaux arrangements sociaux auparavant ignorés et qui deviendraient dès lors perceptibles. Cette recherche a été conduite :- avec comme terrain un domaine de gestion emblématique de la GRH à savoir celui du recrutement de nouveaux collaborateurs,- et en lieu et place des acteurs en charge de la direction de celui-ci.En quoi et comment cette typologie d’acteurs, dans ce type de contexte, peuvent-ils soutenir un geste critique et réflexif en vue de permettre des sauts qualitatifs conséquents en matière de relevance sociétale ? S’il pouvait se déployer, ne se traduirait-il pas par des transformations sociales ? Telles sont les questions qui ont guidé notre travail. La recherche présentée a comporté 2 phases : - la première qui a consisté à interroger dans quelle mesure ces « travailleurs du savoir » peuvent ou non déployer un geste critique et réflexif à même de faire émerger de la ressource pour proposer des alternatives.- la seconde qui a pris la forme d’une proposition de reconceptualisation du territoire de la situation de recrutement que nous avons ensuite mise à l’épreuve sur un terrain spécifique, à savoir celui portant sur la famille des « techniciens gaziers ». Elle dégage trois ensembles de résultats :- un premier d’ordre méthodologique dès lors que tout à la fois nous avons retenu une démarche visant à explorer par les possibles et que nous avons opéré en terrain sensible,- un second qui résulte de la mise à l’épreuve de la plasticité des frontières du système des relations industrielles et qui a conduit au déploiement d’une expérimentation sociale d’envergure,- un troisième qui rend compte de l’étude quasi-expérimentale que nous avons réalisée en vue d’expérimenter dans quelle mesure le déploiement d’un environnement capacitant était en mesure d’améliorer la santé psychologique des candidatsIn its report written in 2014, the Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie (France) faced a major problem: even as knowledge continues to grow, we are increasingly confronted with crises and returns of reality. The diversity and persistence of their manifestations challenge the world of research and society as a whole. This questioning has been shared with the industrial partner with whom we engaged this research. We conclude that the company was a particularly fertile place to address this issue. In this kind of research partnership, we hold on to contribute to the tension between the aeras saturated with responses (apocritical requirement) in which we operate and the returns of reality to which the world encounter (problematic requirement). Our thesis aims the exploration of a critical and reflexive gesture that we have mobilized in the service of social experimentation. It advocates a perspective that allows to work on the relationship between the "critical" and "possible", in order to support the emergence of alternative conditions or new social arrangements that were previously ignored or unseen and would therefore become perceptible. This research has been conducted by using as field an emblematic management situation, namely the recruitment of new collaborators and the actors in charge of it. In which way and how can this typology of actors « knowleadge workers » support a critical and reflexive gesture in order to allow more significant qualitative leaps in terms of societal relevance? If it could be deployed, would it not result in social transformations ? These are the questions that have guided our work. The research we undertook involved two main phases:- The first was to question the extent to which these "knowledge workers" may or may not deploy a critical and reflexive gesture capable of coming up with the resources to propose alternatives.- The second, which proposes to reconceptualize the territory of the recruitment situation, which we then tested on a specific field, namely that of the "gas technicians". Three groups of results have been identified:- a first of a methodological nature since we have both adopted an approach aimed at exploring through the possible and operating in sensitive areas,- a second which results from testing the plasticity of the borders of the industrial relations systems and which has led to the deployment of a large-scale social experimentation,- a third that t reports on a quasi-experimental study conducted to test the extent to which the use of an enabling environment was able to improve the psychological health of candidates
In seinem Bericht aus dem Jahr 2014 stand der Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie (CSRT in Frankreich) vor einer großen Herausforderung: Auch wenn das Wissen und die Kenntnisse der Forschug weiter wachsen, sind wir zunehmend mit Krisen und Rückflüssen aus der Realität (retours de realité) konfrontiert. Die Vielfalt und Beständigkeit ihrer Erscheinungsformen wirft Fragen für die Forschungsgemeinschaft und die Gesellschaft als Ganzes auf. Diese Problematik stiess bei dem Industriepartner, mit dem wir diese Forschung durchgeführt haben, ebenfalls auf Gehör. Wir kommen zu dem Schluss, dass das Unternehmen ein optimaler Ort ist, um das Thema anzugehen. In dieser Art von Forschungskooperation möchten wir dazu beizutragen, die Kontroverse, den "Response Mode" (apokritische Anforderung) zu verwenden und die Tatsache mit Rückflüssen aus der Realität konfrontiert zu werden, untersuchen. Unsere Doktorarbeit zielt auf die Erforschung einer kritischen und reflexiven Handlung ab, welche wir zugunsten des sozialen Experimentierens mobilisiert haben. Dieser Blickwinkel ermöglicht es, das Verhältnis zwischen "kritisch" und "möglich" zu artikulieren, um im Anschluss das Entstehen alternativer Vorgehensweisen oder neuer sozialer Agreements zu unterstützen, die bisher ignoriert oder nicht wahrgenommen wurden. Diese Forschung wurde durchgeführt : - durch die Verwendung eines emblematischen Bereichs des Managements (HRM), nämlich der Einstellung neuer Mitarbeiter, - mit den dafür verantwortlichen Schlüsselfiguren. In welcher Weise und wie kann diese Typologie der Akteure (in diesem Kontext) eine kritische und reflexive Geste unterstützen, um bedeutendere qualitative Optimierungen in Bezug auf die gesellschaftliche Relevanz zu ermöglichen? Wenn dies möglich wäre, würde es dann zu sozialen Veränderungen führen? Diese Fragen haben unsere Arbeit begleitet. Die von uns durchgeführte Forschung umfasste zwei Hauptphasen : - die erste bestand darin, das Ausmaß in Frage zu stellen, in dem diese "Wissensarbeiter" eine kritische und reflexive Handlung entfalten können oder auch nicht, um dann in der Lage zu sein, Ressourcen zu entwickeln, die Alternativen hervorbringen können, - die zweite, schlägt eine Rekonstruktion im Bereich der Personaleinstellung vor, die wir dann im bestimmten Berufszweig des "Gastechniker", getestet haben. Drei Typen von Ergebnissen wurden identifiziert : - ein erster methodischer Ansatz, der darauf abzielt, das Mögliche zu erforschen und auf sensiblen "Terrain" tätig zu sein, - ein zweiter, der sich aus der Prüfung der Plastizität der Grenzen des Systems der Arbeitsbeziehungen ergibt und zur Durchführung eines großen sozialen Experiments geführt hat, - ein dritter, der über die von uns durchgeführte quasi-experimentelle Studie berichtet, mit dem Ziel zu testen, inwieweit der Einsatz eines "kapazitätzreichen Umfelds" (enabling environment) die psychische Gesundheit der Kandidaten verbessert und stabilisiert
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Murphy, Maria. "Digital Transformation for Crisis Volunteerism : A study in the aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Informationssystem och digitalisering, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176915.
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In the summer of 2018, Sweden was taken by surprise and engulfed by forest fires on an unprecedented scale. Various forms of crisis volunteerism (CV) proved essential in the large scale response that ensued. Previous information systems (IS) research gives insights, both theoretically and practically, on the potential of IS and digitalisation to enhance and support crisis response. However, the forest fires demonstrated that CV practices and practitioners in Sweden have practically no such support. CV is, in other words, an essential part of the crisis response system, but unsupported by dedicated digitalisation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to understand what is required to enable a digital transformation (DT) that will significantly improve CV practice and the overall crisis response system. Sweden is not unique in this respect. From an international perspective, IS research devotes much attention to the area of crisis response. However, this is most commonly done using the perspective and needs of crisis management stakeholders as a departing point. Also, despite research on and the availability of IS solutions, the degree of practical implementation would appear to be low. This thesis is therefore also based on the perceived knowledge gap that the lack of IS and digitalisation supporting CV is, in part, a result of the lack of research focus on volunteer stakeholders and the CV practice itself. Another gap noted is the lack of knowledge regarding the real-world practice of CV which contributes to undermining the development and use of IS solutions for CV. This thesis, therefore, provides a much needed holistic understanding of real-world CV. This understanding moves the perspective of volunteer stakeholders to the forefront without losing the perspective of crisis management. This has been done via an empirical study in the aftermath of the Swedish forest fires crisis as well as via studies of international IS literature on crisis response and CV. This has resulted in a unique holistic and comprehensive model that relates to the complexity, dynamics and emergence involved in CV practice. Via this model it is possible to relate specific parts or aspects of CV practice, to the whole practice area and continue modelling attributes in greater detail, as required, depending on DT or IS design needs. Underlying the focus in this thesis lies a mild critique of previous IS research with more reductionist approaches, whereby the relevance of broader contextual understandings has been downplayed. The thesis aligns with perspectives on digitalisation and IS design, proposing the relevance of developing broader holistic understandings of research topics. That is, understandings that have greater potential to reveal how phenomena come into being and are adapted in environmental contexts. DT is understood in terms of a process whereby broader understandings of phenomena are used to identify needs (triggers), strategies and capabilities that will inform IS design initiatives. An analytical framework depicting this process and its main components and relationships has been designed in this thesis to contribute to an understanding of what is required to digitally transform CV practice. In summary, the thesis provides a new holistic approach and understanding for the CV practice area and how it may be digitally transformed. The thesis also contributes to a new perspective on DT, applied to a complex and non-organisation based setting. This knowledge is of relevance to both practitioners and IS researchers in crisis response and CV. The CV practice meta-model and the analytical framework for digital transformation can be used to enable and inform future digital transformation strategies and policy in Sweden and internationally. They can also contribute to guiding the initiation of practical IS design initiatives, with greater potential to enhance and improve both CV and overall crisis response. The research was performed within the information systems (IS) discipline.
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Sant'ana, Flávia Maria Gonçalves de. "Contribuições da aprendizagem dialógica para a educação ambiental e suas possíveis convergências." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2011. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/2583.
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The Brazilian environmental education is multifaceted, consisting of various politicalpedagogical conceptions. According to this background, the environmental educator chooses what ideas are best suited to his or her ideals of society and environment. This research is based in ideals of an egalitarian society, in which the social relations are marked by respect to all forms of life and by equal rights and opportunities for all the people. In this sense, the research had as it purpose to offer more possibilities to actions in the area of environmental education to suggest the concept of dialogic learning in order to increase the use of critical environmental education. At last, it discusses theoretically the possible contributions of dialogic learning for environmental education using the methodology of bibliographical research. The study included surveys of the main references in the Brazilian environmental education and learning dialogic and analyzed them in order to present their similarities and potential contributions of dialogic learning for environmental education. At the end of the analysis, we conclude that many of the assumptions of the dialogic learning are present, even though they are scattered, in different conceptions of environmental education, which is based on the principles of dialogic learning and may have its horizon expanded and make their criticality and the search for social transformation and environmental preservation stronger, suggesting concrete directions so it can be socially built.
A educação ambiental brasileira é múltipla, composta por diferentes concepções políticopedagógicas. Assim, cabe à/ao educadora/or ambiental escolher quais concepções se adequam melhor aos seus ideais de sociedade e de ambiente. Esta pesquisa está pautada nos ideais igualitários de sociedade, em que as relações sociais sejam marcadas pelo respeito a todas as formas de vida e pela igualdade de direitos e oportunidades a todas as pessoas. Neste sentido, teve como objetivo oferecer mais possibilidades de ação dentro do campo da educação ambiental ao apresentar a concepção dialógica de aprendizagem como potencializadora da prática da educação ambiental que se diz crítica. Para tanto, discutiram-se teoricamente as possíveis contribuições da aprendizagem dialógica para a educação ambiental, através da metodologia bibliográfica de pesquisa. O estudo inclui levantamento das principais referências da educação ambiental brasileira e da aprendizagem dialógica e, ao analisá-las, apresenta suas convergências e estrutura possibilidades de contribuição da aprendizagem dialógica para a educação ambiental. Ao final das análises, conclui que muitos dos pressupostos da aprendizagem dialógica já se encontram em diferentes concepções de educação ambiental de forma dispersa e que a educação ambiental, ao se pautar nos princípios da aprendizagem dialógica, poderá ter seus horizontes de atuação ampliados e o fortalecimento de sua criticidade e da busca pela transformação social com preservação ambiental, indicando caminhos concretos para que esta possa ser construída socialmente.
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Nikkanen, Hanna. "A wealth of soil : Social-ecological traps, economy and agency on Finnish farms." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194321.
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Food systems are facing increasing pressure to adapt to the local, regional and global implications of the climate crisis while reducing the environmental impacts of food production and retaining their competitiveness on increasingly connected agri-food markets. Many suggested aspects of a more resilient, sustainable model of food production are directly linked to decisions made on individual farms. However, there are known social-ecological traps that limit farmers’ capacity to break away from unsustainable paths. This thesis investigates the impact of trap dynamics on the incidence of sustainability transitions on Finnish farms – for example, transitions from animal to plant agriculture, or from monoculture to crop diversity. I use national tax records and interviews with regenerative farmers to identify patterns and circumstances that preclude farmers’ ability to carry out sustainability transitions, and to describe strategies used by regenerative farmers to enhance their agency and avert traps. My findings indicate that rigid governance and market structures, an increasing burden of debt and intensifying ecological pressures converge to create, sustain and exacerbate social-ecological traps. Finally, this thesis suggests that the existence of farm-level traps may hamper attempts to address food system lock- ins across scales, diminishing the system’s capacity to respond to shocks and changing circumstances.
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Lundström, Ludvig, and Linn Jensen. "NAVIGATING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE CLOUDS : A qualitative study on the transition to cloud services within Swedish municipalities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184620.
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In the wake of a digitally transforming environment, public sector organizations are realizingthe necessity to adopt new ways of managing their operations. The changing expectations anddemands of citizens and stakeholders are triggering such organizations to develop their deliveryof services, as well as digitally transforming their internal processes. As the public sector valuesservice delivery and cost-effectiveness, cloud services have become an attractive option to transition to, due to their flexible and economical characteristics. This qualitative study examines two Swedish municipalities in their transition to cloud services, studying the reasons behind said transition, and how those affect their adoption. The Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework was utilized to evaluate the factors affecting the two organizations’ transitions and adoptions of cloud services, showcasing a connection between the framework’s elements and the analyzed results. The findings show pressure coming from both external and internal sources, restrictions involving governmental regulations and lack ofavailability, as well as how they manage these challenges, by finding new ways to innovate and preparing their organizations for future transitions.
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Fritz, Minanda. "Stressprevention & Agil transformation : Prevention av organisatoriska rotorsaker till stress genom införandet av det Agila arbetssättet inom en högteknologisk multinationell svensk koncern." Thesis, KTH, Ergonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224666.
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Background: The Swedish Royal School of Technology (KTH) was hired to conduct a pilot study project on stress prevention, "Stress Prevention Project" in a Swedish high-tech global manufacturing company with headquarters in Sweden. The aim was to identify the root causes of stress among employees at the organizational level and to offer a way to prevent the root causes. The initiative to implement the project came from the HR department in the company. The occupational health department had not been able to lower the costs of sickness and rehabilitation. One of nine divisions was included in this evaluation study. The project was carried out during the years of 2012-2014, and three quantitative stress measurements were carried out using the modern working environment form “Modern Work Life” based of knowledge from KTH and designed by Metodicum. The present study has evaluated the root causes of the division's stress. In the division, it was stated that the risk areas that the division had to work with were: resources, demands, control, support but also leadership and reorganization with implementing the Agile methods (autonomous work) in the form of. The aim was to improve the psychosocial occupational health and to make the production work more efficient. Aim: The aim was to evaluate the effect of stress preventive measures in one of the nine divisions (that were included in the overall project) and the effect of implementing the Agile methods (autonomous work) in the organization. Limitations: The evaluation is restricted to one of the nine divisions. Method: The method is a quantitative and qualitative case study, with a narrative approach. The study includes a division with 200 employees of which data was collected from 18 of these employees in two focus groups interviews. Materials have also been collected from interviews with the division's HR director, section leader, head of unit and head of the organization's business health. The evaluation is based on qualitative data, which were obtained through 3 single interviews and 4 focus group interviews and participant observation. Quantitative data were obtained through three different measurements (between 2012-14). The quantitative data were compared and analyzed with the qualitative data in order to understand the results up to the final measurement 3 (2014). Results: The evaluation of the stress prevention – where the focus was to prevent risk areas including demands, develop resources, control, support and also leadership – showed that introducing and using the Agile working principles had had a significant positive effect on all the risk areas. Additionally, this change in the organization contributed to positive results regarding the efficiency of the production process; a reduction of working hours from 12 months to 2 weeks of action at the same result. The absence due to illness and rehabilitation has been decreasing from 4 % to 0,5-1% right after introducing the Agile methods in the division. However, the results also showed no improvement regarding some other working environment; as conflicts and bullying persisted. This may be due to how the reorganization of the groups was done. It should be clarified that the outcomes may be influenced by the extensive reorganization that took place in connection with the stress prevention project and the introduction of the agile approach. Conclusions - The stress prevention could not have been done efficiently due to other on-going reorganizations in the company and the staff has not been able to follow the recommendation for efficient stress-prevention due to lack of support from the headquarter. That created a crisis in the stress prevention-project group. The agile methods seem to have had a significant good result in all risk areas as resources, demands, control, support and also leadership and the absence has decreased from 4 to 0,5 %. Due to the agile methods have the productions process been shorter from 12 months to 2 weeks.
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Jerome, Kristine P. "Social and spatial relations in the production of social order: A case of the women's refuge." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36762/1/36762_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explores the way social and spatial relations produce social order. It does this through an examination of the women's refuge. The women's refuge is a particularly appropriate case to examine this relationship. While many other social institutions share the purpose of transforming populations, the refuge intensifies this process. This is because the refuge is about producing 'independent women' in a setting that is not purpose built, within a period of three months. Thus, the process of transformation is intensified socially, because it is compressed temporally and spatially. This thesis proposes a conceptual framework that is informed by Bourdieu and the theorists of 'the interaction order' - Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks - and a case study using a number of qualitative methods to investigate this process. It does this by comparing the way the notions of 'independence', 'empowerment' and 'home' are embedded in daily practices of three examples of the refuge, in operation in urban Southeast Queensland. This provides a means to formulate a comprehensive picture about the production of the 'refuge culture', and the social and spatial relations that construct social order in this kind of social organisation.
There are two reasons why this kind of investigation is important. Firstly, this investigation makes a substantive contribution to the study of the women's refuge. Existing literature about the women's refuge does not clearly describe the way this social world is produced and the way 'independent women' are constructed. This study does this by examining the social and spatial relations of this setting and the rhetoric that accompanies it. Furthermore, this case study examines three different refuge models in order to understand the way social order is produced and how social and spatial relations contribute to this process. This provides an opportunity to explore different versions of 'independence' and explain why one refuge model is more likely to produce 'independent women' in keeping with feminist rationale.
Secondly, conceptually and methodologically, the contribution of this thesis is made possible by exploring the relevance of concepts proposed by Bourdieu to the issues of social and spatial relations and the way they construct social order. These concepts are operationalised and applied to theories of 'the interaction order' - proposed by Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks - in order to understand the women's refuge. This research approach offers a framework to capture the everyday experience of the refuge by focusing on the way social actors sustain daily action. The methods used to do this are participant observation, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The application of this method of social inquiry means that it is possible to comprehend the process of transformation, the way this is operationalised on a daily basis, and the set of relations that produce the ordered social world of the refuge. Furthermore, the application of this method of social inquiry provides a way to further comprehend the mechanisms that produce social order in social institutions intent on transforming populations in transition.
This investigation makes substantive theoretical and methodological contributions to the disciplines of sociology and design. In relation to the sociological study of social organisations, this study demonstrates the importance of using a particular method of social inquiry to uncover the relationship between social and spatial orders in the construction of social order. In relation to design, this investigation demonstrates the way spatial organisation is intertwined with aspects of social and cultural organisation. Collectively, the findings presented in this study demonstrate the reflexive relationship between social and spatial orders and the construction of social institutions. This is managed by describing the relationships that produce the social institution of the women's refuge and the way these facilitate the transformation of a population in transition. This study concludes by discussing the significance of these findings in relation to theories and policies about the refuge, and the benefit of future research of this kind in the investigation of social organisations intent on producing transformation.
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Jacobson, Lisa. "Transforming air travel behavior in the face of climate change : Incentives and barriers in a Swedish setting." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157489.
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Air travel accounts for a major share of individual greenhouse gas emissions in high-income countries. Technical development alone will not be sufficient to meet international climate goals if air travel continues to increase as predicted. Behavioral change is thus essential. Earlier research has shown that the gap between environmental attitudes and behavior is large when it comes to air travel; few reduce flying because of climate concerns. However, some people do, and there is a rising debate about individual responsibility and travel habits. This study, based on semi-structured interviews with Swedish residents who quit, reduce or continue flying, describes how such behavioral change comes about. Important incentives and barriers for this process are highlighted. A framework of societal transformation is applied to show where these incentives and barriers are located – in personal and political spheres. This thesis suggests that internalized knowledge about the impacts of global warming is crucial to spark the process of reducing air travel. This awareness evokes negative emotions, often anxiety, guilt or frustration, which may lead to a personal tipping point where a decision to reduce flying is made. For many, such behavioral change is counteracted by both personal values and societal structures promoting air travel. Also individuals with a strong personal drive to reduce flying may feel trapped in social and professional practices, and even counteracted and ridiculed by society. The study shows a lack of incentives from societal levels, pointing to the need for political action aiming to create economic incentives and more attractive alternatives to air travel, as well as deepened climate knowledge and change of social norms. The findings are valuable for policy makers who want to contribute to a transformation towards a more sustainable travel system.
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Andersson, Malin. "Stories of Climate Change : Circular Transformation or Business as Usual? A Discourse Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Policy in Three Swedish Municipalities." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176669.
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This thesis identified dominant discourses in climate change mitigation policy in three Swedish municipalities using argumentative discourse analysis. It was explored how these discourses influence the potential for success in mitigating climate change. Other studies have identified several factors that are important when working with climate change mitigation in municipalities, for example, political leadership and organizational structure. However, studies have shown that discourse is also an influential factor since it sets the frame for what can be thought of, consequently influencing policies and actions, but this has not been studied as much at the municipal level in Sweden. Previous studies of environmental policy have shown the dominance of an ecological modernization discourse, where economic growth and environmental issues are combined to create a win-win. The results in this thesis show the dominance of a strong ecological modernization where the decoupling between economic growth and environmental problems, renewable energy and technology, a global justice perspective, and a focus on collaboration between stakeholders is central. A main conclusion is that the ecological modernization discourse risks obscuring potential solutions that are not related to the market or technological innovation. However, the inclusion of a diversity of actors and a focus on justice could potentially minimize this risk. Finally, emerging discourses around transformation and circular economy could be ways to problematize the taken-for-granted ecological modernization discourse. However, their potential depends on how these concepts are framed and what is included in them.Presentation was done online due to COVID-19
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Chapagain, B. (Bimala). "Retail business model transformation in multichannel environment." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201510152075.
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With the advent of internet and e-commerce, the way of carrying out business and transactions has changed to a great extent. Consumers are continuously changing the way they do shopping and this has forced retail business to transform their traditional brick and mortar into adopting multi-channel business models. Retailing is one of the most dynamic and competitive areas of business organization. Effective marketing, customer relationship management is the central dimension of successful retailing and the key to successful retailing is to be aware of the emerging opportunities and threats caused by environmental changes now and in the future.
This thesis paper investigates current conceptualization of ‘brick and mortar’ business models and electronic commerce business models and also tries to identify a unified conceptual model that helps retail business to effectively integrate the two channels and deliver a unique value to the consumers. This is achieved by reviewing the attributes of both the models and finally channeling the reviewed theories to adopting a multi-channel business model. The thesis paper first identifies the concepts of business model, as it is the business model of any organization, that helps to understand what kind of activities are carried out by certain organizations and how and why are those activities carried out. The business model is used to define unique value propositions for the customers of a company, and it is these business models that need transformation, in order for a company to adapt to changing competition and recognizing opportunities in certain scenarios.
The Brick and Mortar model is the oldest model that retailers have been using since centuries, however with the advent of internet; there was a threat of survival as the changing retail environment required retailers to change their traditional business models to adapt to the e-commerce environment. It is however true that, no single model is extremely superior to the other, but they do have relative advantages over the other. It is these differences and pros and cons, that influences a retailer to adapt to a multi-channel or hybrid business model.
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Sueca, Ngakan Putu. "Housing transformation : improving environment and developing culture in Bali." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275511.
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Jarmoszko, Andrzej Tomasz. "Transformation of the telecommunication environment in Poland, 1989-1991." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186028.
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In the two years 1989-1991 the environment of Poland's telecommunications was fundamentally transformed. This dissertation is an exploratory case study addressing four principal aspects of that country's changing telecommunications: (1) telecommunication regime or the structure of rules in which telecommunication systems function; (2) telecommunication services, defined as the means and methods of communicating from a distance by processing and relaying an electro-magnetic signal (categorized into telephone, mobile, data-messaging, information, data-carrier, and entertainment); (3) telecommunication equipment, or markets for switching, transmission and terminal equipment; and (4) telecommunication subscribers, or principal characteristics of the customer-base in the residential, professional, rural and urban market segments. Each aspect is examined for the purpose of capturing the on-going change. The dissertation identifies the principal agents of change and maps the new conditions onto the models developed by Cowhey and Aronson. Institutional pluralism, market competition, shortage alleviation and market restructuring have transformed Poland's telecommunication environment from the scarcity model to a version of the boutique model.
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CABRAL, ELEN MARIA GOMES. "PIRAÍ RIVER: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND SOCIAL-CULTURE TRANSFORMATIONS. STREAM, ROUTE AND COURSE OF A WATER BODY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9551@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEsta dissertação se propõe a constituir uma práxis científico-acadêmica comprometida com a transformação geo-histórico-social de um corpo d´águaobjeto num corpo-d´água-sujeito, ou seja, no reconhecimento de um corpo d´água constituído pelas ações humanas em recortes culturais. Decidiu-se também pela visão biorregional com o objetivo de resgatar uma conexão entre as comunidades humanas (recuperação histórica, simbólica e cultural) e, uma comunidade biótica, pois é imprescindível a obtenção desse tipo de conhecimento para essa pesquisa. Evoca-se o rio Piraí enquanto ícone de pertencimento na construção das identidades socioambientais da população do município de Piraí-RJ, com o propósito de apontarmos elementos para ações afirmativas de cidadania. O curso do rio Piraí sofreu por duas ocasiões modificações significativas provocando grandes mudanças ambientais e conseqüentemente profundas alterações socioculturais. Buscou-se o resgate de sua história pela memória de seus sujeitos, socioambientais, sua sacralização velada e desvelada pelas representações identitárias dos mesmos, e fundamentalmente, sua profanação ambiental. Faz-se necessário a ressignificação dos conceitos de corpo e água, para enfocarmos o corpo-d´água em seu devir sócio-cultural, em seus cursos, percursos e transcursos de territorialidade e (des) territorialidade objetivando a construção de uma nova realidade tendo em vista a qualidade de vida de sua população.
The purpose of this text is to be academic-scientific praxis commited with a geo-history-social transformation of a object body of water in a subject body of water, in other words, recognize the body of water as formed by human cultural scraps. It was decided for a bioregional vision with the purpose of rescue human community (simbolism, history and culture) and biotic community connection, since it is essential to get this kind of knowledge to this research. It´s necessary evoke the Piraí river as a icon of pertinence in the contruction of the social-environmental identity of the Piraí cintizens, to indicate elements for positive actions of citizenship. The Piraí river was subject of two major changes that resulte in large environmental changes and consequently, deep social-culture transformations. That is of acept rescue the river as body of water, its history redeemed by the memory of its enviromental subjects, its sacredness, veiled and unveiled by its representations of identities, and profanity. It´s necessary to remake the meaning of water and body concepts, to evoke the body of water in its social culture devir, in its streams, route and course of territoriality and (not) territoriality, with the purpose of constructing a new reality aiming at the quality of life of its population.
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Delport, Aletta Catherine. "Emotions, social transformation and education." Thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/318.
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This thesis addresses the topic of the education of the emotions in the context of a rapidly transforming South African society. It attempts to reconfigure the conceptual landscape in terms of which we think about rationality, social transformation and education, and contests the intellectual and instrumental prejudice in the currently dominant ways of thinking about education. It reclaims a sense of what it would be to think of education in terms of cultivating humanity, as a key to the profound transformation of the South African society. It argues that the emotions should be relocated in our conception of transformation and education, because without it, education will fail to assist South African society to transform into a society where most people are able to live improved quality lives. The thesis comprises three distinct parts. The first part consists of an account of a particular cognitive theory of the emotions, as developed by Martha Nussbaum in her book, Upheavals of thought. The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). This theory is then applied in Part 2 to examine the complexities of social transformation in South Africa at the more profound, personal level. This investigation is presented as a narrative and comprises the perspectives of the author, who is a white Afrikaner female, who grew up in South Africa in the heyday of Apartheid. In the final part, the concept of ‘education for transformation’ is discussed. It is argued that, in order for education to enhance the social transformation of South Africa, social transformation should be conceived according to a fundamental aspect of Rousseau’s political philosophy, namely that the ideal society comprises two reciprocally related spheres, the political and the personal sphere. Part 3 argues that ‘education for transformation’ should be conceived according to a conception of transformation, which acknowledges this double-layered texture. It further argues that ‘education for transformation’ should primarily be concerned with transformation at the personal level, since, according to Rousseau’s philosophy, this dimension is fundamental to ensuring the stability and legitimacy of the political order. However, built on the main insights of Part 2, this thesis also argues that personal transformation is only possible within a framework of rationality, which acknowledges the emotions as constitutive elements of rationality itself. Essentially, this thesis is about the conception of human being, which should be esteemed as the most fundamental and crucial element of successful social transformation.
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Elias, Dean Garlock. "Educating leaders for social transformation /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1993. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1135415x.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Elizabeth Kasl. Dissertation Committee: Jack Mczirow. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 427-438).
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Yardimci, Sinem. "Transformation Of Urban Sphere: Hacibayram Square And Its Environment, Ankara." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609758/index.pdf.
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The aim of this thesis is put forward a critical inquiry into the new advent neoliberal publicity and the spatiality which brought forth by this emergent publicity in Ankara thereby interrogating some key concepts such as neoliberalism, neoliberal urbanization, public space and publicity. &ldquoThe Renovation Project of Ankara Historical City Center&rdquo
will be assessed owing to constitute a model for understanding the tendencies in the planning of public spaces of Ankara for the last two decades. Considering the vast area which will be subjected to the renovation project, the borders of the study area is confined to &ldquo
Special Project Area: Hacibayram Mosque and Its Environs&rdquo
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Wilks, Mark L. "Postrural ministry leading church transformation in the changing rural environment /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p002-0835.
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Brittle, Seth William. "Bioavailability and Transformation of Silver Nanoparticles in the Freshwater Environment." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1484594585990252.
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Rodrigo, Martinez Peña. "The role of researchers in deliberate social-ecological transformations: a structure-culture-agency approach." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144881.
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Awareness of profound ecological, economical and social crises interacting globally at various scales has brought up the notion of the necessity of a fundamental change, which has driven studies on sustainable change in diverse fields of knowledge. Resilience scholars have approached the issue through a systemic lens that integrates social and ecological phenomena, but scientists from the social “wing” have pointed out the need of adopting a structure agency approach. This study present an analysis of the contribution of researchers to the process of deliberate social-ecological transformation through the analytical lens provided by Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach, which was operationalized by means of the Social-Ecological Action Situation tool, whose purpose is tracking processes of emergence. This study revisited a well-established case of social-ecological transformation, the benthic fisheries governance change in Chile between 1980 and 1997. I found that researcher’s basic transformatory strategic agency was finding the way to personal and vested interests, otherwise engaging in activities such as dissemination of knowledge and advising policy processes carries costs. Researchers main contributions were producing knowledge relevant to different cultural systems as it enabled further structural change, disseminating and endorsing ideas and conducting policy pilots. The Morhogenetic Approach depicted the process of transformation as a sequence of short-life emergent outcomes driven by agency that resulted into a long-life emergent outcome that modified a structural re-arrangement. The combined theoretical-methodological approach is a promising frame to study social-ecological transformations as it managed to explain emergence of phenomena such as policy innovation, interaction between ideational and structural change, relation of interest and power, and it grasped interaction between simultaneous processes.
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Wu, Zhen. "Les changements de l'éducation familiale dans la société chinoise contemporaine : l'adolescence à Jinan." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20031.
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Depuis des années, les mutations de la société chinoise sont un sujet fréquemment mentionné dans les médias et les travaux scientifiques. Outre l’essor économique, cette transformation est parallèlement accompagnée par des problèmes sociaux : les écarts élargis et les conflits intensifiés entre les classes sociales ; les discriminations envers les groupes marginaux, etc. Pourtant, très peu d’attention se focalise sur une de leurs origines ou de leurs conséquences : l’ignorance et les incompréhensions concernant l’éducation. En Chine, la famille joue souvent un rôle très important, par rapport à d’autres institutions éducatives, car la société chinoise est fondée, jusqu’à nos jours, sur les relations familiales et les valeurs familialistes. Dans une certaine mesure, si nous ne l’étudions pas, nous ne pouvons pas comprendre cette société et analyser ses risques. C’est pour cette raison que nous avons entrepris cette recherche sur les changements dans l’éducation familiale en Chine et ses dimensions socio-culturelles. Pour mettre en avant le lien entre l’éducation familiale et son environnement, nous nous intéressons uniquement à l’adolescence, car c’est à partir de cette phase de la vie que les influences de l’environnement deviennent de plus en plus puissantes et concurrencent celle de la famille. Par une enquête auprès des familles d’adolescents dans une ville chinoise, nous explorons des corrélations fortes entre les univers intrafamilial et extrafamilial et de nouveaux défis pour l’éducation familiale d’aujourd’hui, tels que le rejet des vertus traditionnelles dans l’éducation morale, la différenciation des perceptions éducatives entre les classes sociales, etcSince years, the transformation of Chinese society has been frequently mentioned in media and scientific works. Except the economic boom and further progress, this transformation is simultaneously accompanied by social problems, such as widened gaps and intensified conflicts between social classes; the discriminations against marginalized groups… However, very little attention focuses on one of their origins or their consequences: the ignorance and the misunderstandings about educational issues. Speaking of this theme, comparing with other educational institutions, family in Chinese society often plays the most significant role, because family relationships and values built the whole society until today. To a certain extent, if we don’t study this theme, then we couldn’t understand Chinese society and analyze its risks. For this reason, we undertake this research on the transformations of family education in China and its sociocultural dimensions. In order to highlight the link between family education and its environment, we choose to focus only on the adolescence, because from this step of life, the influences of environments become more and more powerful and compete with those of the family. By a survey with teenagers’ families in a Chinese city, we thus explore some strong correlations between the domestic world and exterior space and the challenges for today’s Chinese family education, such as the rejection of traditional virtues in the moral education, the differentiation in educational perceptions between social classes, etc
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Stegemeier, John Peter. "Effects of Transformations of Ag and CuO Nanoparticles on Their Fate in Freshwater Wetland Sediments and Plants." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2016. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/714.
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Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are increasing becoming incorporated into consumer products to imbue remarkable physical and chemical properties. The increased use of these ENMs leads to a growing need to understand the environmental fate of ENMs after release. Many ENMs, including Ag and Cu ENMs, have the potential to undergo complex physical and chemical transformations which impact their toxicity, solubility and fate in the environment. There is a lack of research characterizing the transformation rate and understanding how these transformations affect interactions with organisms and the ultimate environmental fate. The first objective of this thesis was to understand how transformations of Ag ENMs affect the uptake, distribution and speciation of these materials in plants. Terrestrial (alfalfa, Medicago sativa) and an aquatic (duckweed, Landoltia punctate) plant species were exposed hydroponically to as manufactured (“pristine”) Ag0-NPs and more environmentally relevant (“transformed”) Ag2S NPs. The uptake, spatial distribution and speciation of Ag were analyzed using synchrotron based X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) techniques to provide mechanistic insights into the uptake of these ENMs. The reduced solubility and reactivity of Ag2S ENMs was expected to prevent plants from solubilizing these particles and only allow for direct uptake of particles. For the more soluble Ag species, the absorption of Ag+ ions was expected to be primarily the mechanism of Ag uptake. Although the total Ag associated with the plants was similar, the Ag distribution in the roots was dramatically different. The transformed ENMs (Ag2S) appeared to be taken into the plant tissue as sulfidized ENMs. The pristine Ag0 ENMs were found to partially dissolve and incorporate into the plant tissue as both dissolved Ag and Ag0-NPs. The fact that ENMs readily attach onto plant tissue regardless of speciation and solubility suggests that exposure to ENMs may be controlled by factors affecting attachment to root surfaces. However, internalization of Ag appears to be affected by solubility. The second objective was to characterize the impact of transformations of Ag and Cu-based ENMs on the distribution, speciation and fate of these materials in subaquatic sediments and the aquatic plant, E. Densa in a simulated emergent freshwater wetland using large-scale mesocosms. The exposure of pristine (Ag0 and CuO) ENMs and their transformed analogues (Ag2S and CuS) was compared to an ionic control (Cu(NO3)2) to determine if nanoparticulate species of metals were distributed differently than their dissolved counterparts. The metal speciation was determined using XAS to elucidate relative timescales of transformations. The pristine ENMs were expected to rapidly transform into their more stable sulfidized species and the uptake of Ag and Cu were expected to depend on the solubility of the ENMs. Transformations of the pristine ENMs were found to be rapid (weeks) in the surficial sediment, but slower (months) in the aquatic plant tissue. The uptake of ENMs coupled with the slow transformation in the aquatic plant tissue suggests ENMs persist longer than the timescales measured in sediments. This knowledge enables better risk forecasting for ENMs exposed to aquatic organisms and informs toxicity testing to ensure correct forms of ENMs are examined. This thesis provided several novel contributions to the understanding of how transformations of ENMs affect their interactions with plants and their fate in real complex environments. Mechanistic insights into the attachment and uptake of ENMs into plant tissues were identified suggesting two predominant uptake pathways. Relative timescales of ENM transformations in freshwater wetland sediments and plant tissue provided suggests plants can slow transformations and allow labile ENMs to persist longer than assumed.
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Wilkinson, James E. "An interactive X Window system environment for demonstrating three-dimensional transformation techniques." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/958789.
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The purpose of the X-Form package is for use in the classroom as an instructional aid for teaching the algorithms and data used to represent, transform, and display objects in three-dimensional space. The program provides various areas containing graphic and textual representations of the data structures used in the creation and transformation of a three-dimensional object. Another area, containing the menu items, serves as an interface to the available demonstration items. These items include various object and viewing parameters which can be input by the user. The user then sees the result of the entered data, including animated graphics and changes in data structures. The graphic areas show the object at various stages of development, so that the user can understand the progression of the required manipulations. The textual representations are also designed to assist the user in understanding how useful information is derived from entered data. Through testing and statistical analysis, XForm has proven to be an effective tool for instruction of three-dimensional graphics.Department of Computer Science
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Soder, Michael, Kathrin Niedermoser, and Hendrik Theine. "Beyond growth: new alliances for socio-ecological transformation in Austria." Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1454680.
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Trade unions and environmental movements are often seen as political opponents most prominently discussed in the form of the "jobs vs. environment dilemma". Based on historical examples of the conflict relations between trade unions and environmental groups in the Austrian energy sector, this paper showcases how the relationship between the two groups has changed from enmity to first attempts at alliance building. Drawing from analysis of union documents and problem-centred interviews conducted with Austrian unionists, it shows that newly emerging alliances between unions and environmental movements contain the seeds for a broad societal movement that can help overcome the paradigm of growth and actively engage in the creation of policies that support a social-ecological transformation.
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Sessoms, Todd Kristian. "Drama in education experiencing for social transformation /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Sessoms_T%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.
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Kiess, Kolter. "Rhizomatic Resistance: A Pedagogy for Social Transformation." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1248147584.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 26, 2010). Advisor: Masood Raja. Keywords: Rhizomatic; resistance; social transformation; pedagogy; radical; education; literature. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161).
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Starrett, C. "The role of residents in the production and transformation of their residential environment." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380681.
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Dimitriadou, Sylvia. "Cooperation in a dynamic social environment." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33704.
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Cooperative behaviour among unrelated individuals is an evolutionary paradox. Research suggests that an individual’s propensity to cooperate and its response to experiencing cooperation or defection from its social environment consistently varies among individuals and as a function of external factors. The biological and psychological underpinnings of such behavioural variation remain unknown; they can, however, provide more insight into the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among non-kin. This thesis explores the proximate effects of experiences of cooperation or defection from the social environment, as well as possible proximate drivers of cooperative behaviour, using the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) as a study system. Firstly, the behavioural rules underpinning an individual’s decision to cooperate or not with unfamiliar individuals in the presence of specific or non-specific information were explored. When fish had information about their social partner’s cooperativeness, they behaved in a manner consistent with direct reciprocity, copying their partner’s last move. When paired with an ostensibly novel partner, a different, or at least additional, behavioural rule seemed to be employed. In order to help understand the drivers of individual variation in cooperative behaviour, phenotypic selection on cooperativeness was carried out over three filial generations, resulting in fish of high cooperativeness (HC) and low cooperativeness (LC). The divergence of individual cooperativeness observed between the two phenotypic selection lines suggests that cooperative behaviour in the context of predator inspection is at least in part heritable. Cooperative behaviour of F3 fish was found not to correlate with boldness or exploratory behaviour; HC and LC fish did, however, differ in some aspects of sociability and agonistic behaviour. Possible proximate neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying these differences in cooperativeness were also explored, focusing on brain expression patterns for the isotocin receptor (itr) gene in F3 females. HC females were found to have higher mid-section itr expression levels than LC females. Finally, I explored the effects of experiencing cooperation or defection on monoaminergic neurotransmission, which is thought to instantiate the effects of such experiences on the individual’s internal state. My findings suggest that experiencing cooperation or defection from the social environment affects internal state; this phenomenon may be crucial for the appropriate adjustment of the behavioural response to such experiences, and for the emergence of behavioural rules such as generalised reciprocity. Taken together these results suggest that neuromodulatory mechanisms are pivotal for the perception of stimuli from the social environment in the tested cooperative context and that variation in cooperative behaviour may be underpinned by individual differences in the structural properties of such systems. They also provide insight into how behavioural input may affect the behavioural response to such experiences, and ultimately how such mechanisms may lead to the evolution and maintenance of cooperation.
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Dennis, Nicola Louise. "Health, pain and the social environment." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3025/.
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Since the 1970s the number of people suffering from functional somatic syndromes such as fibromyalgia has increased dramatically. These syndromes are characterised by higher levels of incapacity and disability than can be accounted for by objective medical testing. Here the possibility that socially derived labels and health information are contributing to the incapacity experienced by these patients was investigated. Investigations conducted with healthy people found that the way people perceive themselves as behaving, and whether that behaviour is labelled as healthy, influences how satisfied people are with their own health, and their health in comparison to others. It was also found that people who are labelled as unhealthy are evaluated as having less moral worth than those who are not. Further investigations found that the labels used to understand a painful sensation alter the way people respond to that sensation. Investigations with fibromyalgia patients found that the diagnostic label of fibromyalgia changes the information patients have access to, and therefore the information available to interpret their experiences. It was concluded that incapacity in functional syndromes may be partly driven by people being encouraged by to interpret their experiences in a particularly anxiety-provoking way through information in the environment.
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Ravuri, Evelyn. "Gentrification and Racial Transformation in Cincinnati, 2000-2016." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563872625077935.
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Paleri, Vineeth Kumar. "An Environment for Automatic Generation of Code Optimizers." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/82.
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Code optimization or code transformation is a complex function of a compiler involving analyses and modifications with the entire program as its scope. In spite of its complexity, hardly any tools exist to support this function of the
compiler. This thesis presents the development of a code transformation system, specifically for scalar transformations, which can be used either as a tool to assist the generation of code transformers or as an environment for experimentation with code transformations.
The development of the code transformation system involves the formal specification of code transformations using dependence relations. We have written formal specifications for the whole class of traditional scalar transformations, including induction variable elimination - a complex transformation - for which no formal specifications are available in the literature. All transformations considered in this thesis are global.
Most of the specifications given here, for
which specifications are already available in the literature, are improved versions, in terms of conservativeness.The study of algorithms for code transformations, in the context of their
formal specification, lead us to the development of a new algorithm for partial redundancy elimination. The basic idea behind the algorithm is the new concepts of safe partial availability and safe partial anticipability. Our algorithm is computationally and lifetime optimal. It
works on flow graphs whose nodes are basic blocks, which makes it practical.In comparison with existing algorithms the new algorithm also requires four unidirectional analyses, but saves some preprocessing time. The main advantage of the algorithm is its conceptual simplicity.
The code transformation system provides an environment in which one can specify a transformation using dependence relations (in
the specification language we have designed), generate code for a transformer from its specification,and experiment with the generated transformers on real-world programs.
The system takes a program to be transformed, in C or FORTRAN, as input,translates it into intermediate code, interacts with the user to decide the transformation to be performed, computes the necessary dependence relations
using the dependence analyzer, applies the specified transformer on the intermediate code, and converts the transformed intermediate code back to high-level. The system is unique of its kind,providing a complete environment for the generation of code transformers, and allowing experimentations with them using real-world programs.
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Chesnais, François. "Technologie, économie et transformation sociale." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100297.
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Martens, Gloria Grace. "Family and social transformation in Nadine Gordimer's novels /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18292.pdf.
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Heille, Gregory. "A paradigm for preaching personal and social transformation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Uhalde, Marc. "Crise sociale et transformation des entreprises." Paris 9, 2004. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2004PAO90066.
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Cette recherche porte sur les processus de dérégulation sociale des entreprises générés par des modernisations gestionnaires. A partir de quatre études de cas, elle montre l¹instauration d¹une " régulation de crise " reproductrice, struturée par des relations d¹évitement entre acteurs et par des stratégies préservation identitaire. La recherche montre aussi que la crise sociale s¹inscrit dans une trajectoire sociale d¹entreprise, liée à un certain mode de gestion du changement et à la culture traditionnelle de ces entreprisesThe research in "Social Crisis and Enterprise Transformation" focuses on organizational crisis that arises when companies modernize their internal management mechanisms. Built around four specific case studies, this research indicates that this "organizational crisis" can become endemic and long-term as individuals struggle to maintain their organizational identity throughout the change process. In addition, "Social Crisis and Enterprise Transformation" shows that the degree of an "organizational crisis" has a direct relation to current company work mechanisms, particular styles of Change Management, and an organization's unique tradition and culture
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Warnaars, Ximena. "Territorial transformation in El Pangui, Ecuador." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/territorial-transformation-in-el-pangui-ecuador(61307233-6f61-461a-891c-d43366071b63).html.
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This research is about territory, mining conflicts and social movements in South East Ecuador. The Andean country with no large scale mining history is experiencing a recent expansion of large scale mining with growing levels of social conflict. Social movements have been questioning and contesting the forms being taken by the extractive economy as well as proposing an alternative pathway to development through the indigenous concept of sumak kawsay. The Socialist Government is pushing the nation’s extractive model forward to include large scale mining, motivated by the much needed revenues to diversify Ecuador’s oil based economy. El Pangui, my field site, is located on the foothills of the Cordillera del Cóndor, where a large copper deposit is proposed to be developed by a Chinese mining corporation. The Cordillera is an area of great biological diversity and home to the traditional territories of the Shuar, one of the largest indigenous ethnic groups in Ecuador. The years of colonization of ancestral lands and of border war with Peru, the establishment of parks-for-peace, small scale gold mining activity and an expanding agricultural frontier, together have formed a complex territorial mosaic that contribute in shaping the social and physical landscapes. Since 2005 a mining conflict has been unfolding and that can be considered yet another layer of territorial disputes and symbolic contestation in the regions´ history. My fieldwork was carried out from an engaged research and activist scholarship position. I used an ethnographic methodology to explore the bidirectional influences of territorial dynamics and the anti-mining struggle by looking at multi scalar impacts these have on people’s daily life, corporate social responsibility and environmental development debates. I also looked at the ways in which memories and meanings associated with past conflicts resonate in subsequent resource struggles to form a layering of conflicts. I was particularly interested in the less visible dimensions of environmental mobilisation embedded in the routines of daily life, as well as in the ways in which the memory and history of territorialisation and settlement influence social movement organizing. Theoretically, I propose a territorial approach to studying natural resource struggles and social movements that contest mining. This concept allowed me to examine the effects of the extractive projects on pre-existing territorial dynamics and the influence of these dynamics on the ways in which mining investments are contested.
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Wu, Mu-Chun. "The spatial construct of social relations : social transformation in early Kaushi, Taiwan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:88dc5768-3800-46c4-960f-2266c9da3b5a.
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This research attempts to extend the application of spatial analysis to the investigation of human agency in social relations. Marcos Llobera's research framework on modelling daily experience and social space showcases great potentials of utilising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to explore the perception and behaviour of individual agents. By expanding Llobera's work and incorporating Tim Ingold's wayfaring theory to explore the human agency in the context of social relations, this research proposes a new analytical method to investigate social relations through the accumulation of intimate interactions. Exemplified with detailed analysis on two settlements of Kaushi people in Taiwan, the proposed analytical method demonstrates great strength and yields fruitful insights into their social structure and transformation. In addition, this method is particularly instrumental in unravelling specific relations between individuals, as well as between social groups. The application of this method on Kaushi settlements yielded fruitful insights of their social structure and transformation. On the other hand, the side products of this approach can be further employed to investigate the visual structure and movement intensity of a site, as well as to experiment alternative 'what if' scenarios relating to visibility, movement, and interaction. In sum, this research augments the potential of spatial analysis to explore human agency in a social context and lays out a further platform for the investigation of social relations at a settlement scale.
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Poupart-Lafarge, Henri. "Reaction and transformation of airlines in a deregulated environment : a strategy for Air France." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34085.
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Reckwitz, Andreas. "Die Transformation der Kulturtheorien : zur Entwicklung eines Theorieprogramms /." Weilerswist : Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b7w9-aa.
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