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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1960, et al.
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Genres in Action: Negotiating Genres in Practice
- 1999
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). - Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society. - 0769500013 ; 5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we present the initial findings of a genre based case study at a large Swedish company, with a record of early use of internal email (1982). The design of the particular email system was closely mapped to the organizational hierarchy. One of our informants kept one week of incoming email messages. We then asked questions about each message and how it related to the work of the informant, and to the organization. Based on the messages and the interviews we clustered the messages in different genres. Most literature of genres of organizational communication has focused on the genres themselves, e.g. email messages constituting different instances of genres. We found however that many messages, rather than being instances of genres, were part of informal conversations. In these conversations, however, it was common to discuss and negotiate which genres where appropriate to use in different situations.
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- Ottosson, S.
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Dynamic product development : Findings from participating action research in a fast new product development process
- 1996
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Ingår i: Journal of engineering design (Print). - Abingdon : Carfax Publishing. - 0954-4828 .- 1466-1837. ; 7:2, s. 151-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article brings hands-on knowledge from the integrated development process of a new advanced product that had to be launched on to the market in an extremely short time. Quick, effective development was accomplished through product reviewing or benchmarking, user and subcontractor involvement, dynamic and parallel activities, active, motivating leadership and consensus among those involved. The development process proved to be a winding journey with many problems to be overcome in a flexible and innovative way. No breaks were allowed and formal board meetings, stage-gate and other bureaucratic systems were avoided. Thorough cash-flow analyses were continuously carried out. The hectic pace created problems for and tension in the company seen from both short and long perspectives. Theoretical models of integrated product development did not match well to reality which is why the new concept, dynamic product development, is launched here. The article is based on participating action research.
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- Lindgren, Eva-Carin, 1962-, et al.
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Influencing Exercise Adherence in Physically Non-active Young Women : Suggestion for a Model
- 1999
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Ingår i: Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal. - Reston, United States : National Association for Girls and Women in Sport. - 1063-6161 .- 1938-1581. ; 8:2, s. 17-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical understanding of what could influence exercise adherence in physically non-active young women. Interviews with twelve physically non-active young women werw strategically selected and analyzed by grounded theory. The results were that several factors could influence exercise adherence in physically non-active young women, and that these factors can be regarded as a number of interrelated dimensions. The influence was coming either from the exercise or from the environment connected to the exercise. The participants wanted to feel enjoyment and to learn something during the exercise (recreation/learning influence). They also wanted to feel belongingness during the exercise (social influence). An influence that promotes health or builds skills (investment influence) could be a trigger to start exercising among the participants, but not to maintain exercise adherence. Influence coming from the environment (enabling influence) was both important and stimulating for physically non-active young women in establishing regular exercise. It is important to present the model developed in this study to communities, sport federations and other authorities working with health promotion activities so that they can explore innovative ways to promote exercise adherence among physically non-active young women. Good examples could be to offer non-cometitive sports as well as to develop well-designed exercise programs for physically non-active young women.
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-
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Making sense of TV-narratives : Children's readings of a fairy tale
- 1996
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present study deals with young children's' reading and reception of television fiction. Theoretically, the study is inter-disciplinary, combining text-reader oriented approaches within literature theory and sociocultural approaches within psychology and sociology. A television program within the genre of fairy tales is analyzed by using both narratological andpsychological theoretical frameworks. Issues of intertextuality, dialogism, narrative codes, cinematic and literary conventions are considered in the analysis.Empirically, the study takes a qualitative approach and the process of reception is studied by in-depth interviews of 86 six and eight years old children. The interview is regarded as a social practice or meeting-place between interviewer and informant. This approach has roots in Piaget's early work, in which he employed and developed the methode clinique as well as in Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology. Sociocultural variation is primarily studied by focus on gender and age.One analysis concerns narrative coherence and how the children "hatched the plot". It appeared as if many of the younger children had difficulties in producing a coherent narrative of the program, whereas most of the older children did. The younger children often focused a particular scene or episode. Apart from age, schooling experience is assumed to explain these differences. Another analysis focuses on how children master the narrative codes of the story and the process of identification. The girls seemed to be more emotionally involved in the story and believed it was "real" to a greater degree than the boys. The analysis shows how emotional involvement and identification play a role in the interpretative processes, i.e. how emotion and cognition are interrelated in media reception.Methodological issues are addressed, for example, how drawings can be used in the study of media reception. The children were asked to make drawings in relation to the program, which can be seen as a "different" reading, in which children project what is of subjective importance to them.Cultural dispositions represent another type of sociocultural variation. The older children's literary repertoires and other cultural dispositions were studied in relation to their reconstructions of the television narrative.The dissertation challenges such notions as "children's understanding of television" as a unitary concept and poin,ts to a variety of readings. Finally, the dissertation has implications for media literacy and media education.
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- Sandberg, Mikael
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Green post-communism? : Environmental aid, Polish innovation and evolutionary political economics
- 1999
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation systems, then looks at opportunities for greener innovations in post-communist Poland, considering: * institutional transformation and environmental investment incentives* the persistence and spread of the first environmental aid projects* the adoption of national environment policies and the role of aid in their implementation* evidence of changing innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe
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- Wiberg, Per-Arne, 1953-
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Graphical programming of time-deterministic real-time systems
- 1996
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Ingår i: Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems. - Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society. - 0818676140 ; , s. 173-180
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper we present the Picasso programming language and the underlying design philosophy. Our goal is to provide programmers working with distributed embedded real-time systems with a tool to manage the complexity of this class of systems. The proposed tool allows easy and safe changes of the system software and hardware at any time during the lifetime of the system. This means that even during operation the system can be changed safely. This is not only important for enhancing the design process but is also necessary for a class of systems that need to be in service at all times. We have chosen to call this approach Change-Orientation. The most characteristic properties of the language are that it is graphical and that it shows time explicitly. All processing is described as functional transformations. These transformations are called processes. A very direct way of implementing a process is possible because the semantics of the description maps directly on the computation model of the processor.
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