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- Gu, Limin
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Chinese Daycare in Cultural Change
- 1996
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In: Tidskrift för lärarutbildning och forskning. - Umeå : Dept. of Education, Umeå Univ.. - 1404-7659. ; 3:4, s. 17-44
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)
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- Silver, Lars, et al.
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Uncertainty in cooperation between service buyers and sellers
- 1998
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In: <em>Working paper series, Uppsala university</em>. - Uppsala : Företagsekonomiska institutionen.
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The realization of relationship marketing requires cooperative exchangebetween buyers and sellers. A key determinant of cooperative exchange isuncertainty perceived by the cooperating parties. This study investigates howcooperation is affected by decision makers’ perception of uncertainties in theenvironmental context, in relationships, and in decision-making routines. Asample of 135 branch managers from banks is used in a LISREL model. Theresults show that uncertainty regarding relationship and decision-making havestrong direct effects on relationship cooperation. An important finding is thatcontextual uncertainty causes relationship cooperation indirectly. The resultshighlight the importance of organization in firms that aim to facilitatecooperation between buyer and seller. In addition, they set an agenda forfuture research.
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- Westum, Asbjörg, 1960-
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Ris, skäver och skärva : Folklig kategorisering av några barnsjukdomar ur ett kognitivt semantiskt perspektiv
- 1999
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In Swedish dialects we find the terms ris,skäver and skärva referring to illnesses in children. The words are also parts of various compounds which refer to variants of the illnesses. The terms are linguistic expressions denoting two folk categories of illnesses, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA. These categories are investigated from a cognitive semantic perspective. The cognitive perspective argues that we organize our understanding of reality by using Idealized Cognitive Models (ICM) based on our physical, mental and emotional experiences of the world. The aim is twofold: to demonstrate the bases on which an experienced illness is placed in a certain category, and to show how a folk conception of illness is reflected in the word formation strategies. The word formation strategies emanate from notions of characteristic symptoms, and from notions of causes of illnesses. Both categories, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA, are based on a number of ICM's. The category RIS is a radial structure, which means that the category is held together although its members have no structural criteria in common. The category SKÄVER/SKÄRVA is a concentrating structure, meaning that all members share all structural criteria. There is a strong connection between word formation strategies and the structures of the categories. Terms related to symptoms refer to members of a category which are part of a radial structure, while terms related to causes refer to members of a category which are part of a concentrating structure. This can be explained by two of the basic assumptions of cognitive semantics: semantic content is structred and symbolized overtly on the surface form of a language and categories are conventional, based on cultural assumptions about the world.
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- Blomquist, Tomas, 1963-, et al.
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Ekonomisk styrning för förändring : en studie av ekonomiska styrinitiativ i hälso- och sjukvården
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Since the end of the 1980’s Swedish county council managers has been preoccupied with planning and implementing organisational change in order to alleviate the financial problems and to create more efficient production systems. Many of these efforts to change have implied changing the systems for management accounting and control, changes that have been inspired both by market-oriented ideologies and by the governance principles of large corporations in the private sector. Literature on management accounting and control indicates however, that management is unintentionally contributing to the creation of organisational inertia and conservatism. This contradiction is formulated as a change dilemma; ”How can managerial principles that make organizations subject to bureaucratization and inertia be used as important strategies for organizational change?” The purpose of the study is thus to analyze the use of management control systems as organizational change strategies in health care, employing a change perspective on management control.When used as a change strategy, management accounting and control becomes manifest as management control initiatives. Actors handle these control inititatives by organising themselves around the issue at hand. This organising process ends or fades away when there are no need for further attention to the control initiative.Empirical studies were made in the councils of Västerbotten, Sörmland and Uppsala counties. Management control initiatives investigated were performance-related pay, quality improvement work, systematic planning procedures, provider/purchaser-models, downsizing projects and profit center systems.The systems for management accounting and control appeared to structure health care organisations in terms of spatial structuring temporal structuring and actor categorization. The management control initiatives introduced were structured as extraordinary organising processes delimited in terms of space, time and involved actors. Actors in the administrative norm system participated with the intention to change the organisation, while those in the medical norm system aimed at just handling the initiative.Management control initiatives can therefore be seen as passing opportunities to change, passing in the sense that the organising processes are temporary by nature, opportunities in the sense that temporary re-coupling can be used to achieve long-term change. One such opportunity is the formulation of control initiatives; the possibility of using simple and standardized change strategies can be useful, but only if they are also linked to the medical norm system. A second opportunity is the temporary organising processes; if the project form of organising change can also be conveyed to the medical norm system, management control initiatives could result in short, intense courses of events that actually change things. The third opportunity s the recurrent cyc ica pro perties of management accounting and control systems, enabling recurrent activities around the same themes, thereby keeping them alive.
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Hall20 : Der Biß ins Wasser
- 1996
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Es ist stets notwendig, nach den Wurzeln zu suchen, wo Bildflüsse sich beschleunigen und immer weniger festzumachen sind (...) Es gibt Sinngestalten eines sozialen Raumes, die innerhalb von uns selbst implodieren (...) das führt zu einer Krise der Identität. Wer sind wir und zu welchen Räumen/Orten gehören wir? David HarveyDiese supermoderne Welt deckt sich nicht mit der Welt, in der wir zu leben glauben. Denn wir leben in einer Welt, die wir keineswegs noch zu betrachten gelernt haben. Wir müssen ein neues Denken über den Raum erlernen. Marc AugéIn einer Stromschnelle leben ohne etwas sehen zu könnenAm Ende des Jahrtausends sind wir erstmals mit einer Welt konfrontiert, für die Vergangenheit, auch die Vergangenheit des Jetzt, an Bedeutung verloren hat. Es scheint alles keine große Rolle mehr zu spielen. Eine endlose Zahl an kreativen Bildern folgen einander in raschem Ablauf, ohne deswegen einen tieferen Sinn zu vermitteln. Verschiedene ästhetische Qualitäten lösen sich in einer aus Reklame- Wahrheiten bestehenden Welt auf. Wir leben in einer Welt, in der wir aufgehört haben zu lernen. Diese Hypermodernität entspricht nicht mehr der Zeit, in der wir zu leben glauben. Die alten Pläne und Landkarten, nach welchen sich die Menschen, einzeln und kollektiv, orientiert haben, stimmen nicht mehr mit der Landschaft überein, durch die wir uns bewegen. Wir wissen nicht mehr, wo uns die Reise hinführen soll. Es gibt eine Inflation der Bilder. Alles wird bildlich dargestellt. Jedes Bild hat oder erlangt eine Bedeutung. Formgebung und Informationsindustrie im Zusammenwirken mit dem Bereich der Kunst, haben noch nie ein derartiges Ausmaß angenommen und sich so gut verkauft wir jetzt. Das muß im Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung des exzessiven Egos gesehen werden, getrieben durch das ökonomische Motiv der individuellen (monographischen) Entfaltung. Dabei handelt es sich um selbstsüchtigen Individualismus und Professionalismus, der nur auf seine eigene Entwicklung Bedacht nimmt und dem Gewinn und Vergnügen nachjagt. Eine populistische Mittelklasse Kultur zeichnet sich ab, die sich in Hinkunft nicht mehr um ein aktives kollektives Bewußtsein kümmert. Der Massenmarkt "befriedigt" die geistigen und auch die materiellen Bedrüfnisse. So werden verschiedene1Introduction by PRINZGAU/podgorscheck, Roemer van Toornästhetische Formen völlig durcheinander verwendet, ohne jegliche Relativierung, Geschichtskenntnis oder Einsicht in deren kulturelle Bedeutung. In dieser Situation befindet sich der Mensch bereits vor dem Ende des Jahrhunderts und ganz gewiß im kommenden Jahrtausend. Es wird Zeit, daß wir erkennen, in welcher Leere wir uns bewegen. "Wir sind freier als je zuvor" merkt Nietzsche an, "um in alle Richtungen zu schauen. Nirgendwo nehmen wir Grenzen wahr. Wir vermögen einen unermeßlichen Raum um uns zu erfahren - aber auch eine unermeßliche Leere."
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- Johansson, Gunilla, et al.
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Samarbete mellan hem och skola : Erfarenheter av elevers, föräldrars och lärares arbete
- 1993
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The main purpose of this study was to shed light upon several questions regarding co -operation between the home and school, based upon earlier research and empirical studies. The study focused on the opportunities and drawbacks as well as on the motives for home and school cooperation. The first section deals with the questions at issues, and the bases the dissertation was dealt with. The second part covers the empirical studies which were carried out within the first three years of the primary school, and in the third part the limitations, most important results, and future research were discussed. The aim of the first section was to identify the starting points for the study, based on earlier research, and to review, via the main body of the study, how co-operation between the home and the school developed. An analysis of the review suggested that the goal formulations of the main body of the paper allowed for opportunities for home and school collaboration. Not only had interesting possibilities come to light, throughout the earlier research, but so too, a number of problems concerning the concrete collaboration between home and school. An very important conclusion, as a result of this review focused on the importance of proceeding from the unit that a class of pupils, parents and teachers represents. The purpose of the empirical studies was to describe and to try to understand why co-operation between home and school developed as it did. A longitudinal study was carried out by means of on-site research in the primary school itself, among pupils in years 1-3. This was proceeded by questionnaires and prestudies of selected classes. The data was collected mainly by means of questionnaires, interviews and written documents. The results showed that parents could function as a valuable resource within the work of the school and that it was relatively easy to take advantage of them, as such. It became clear that pupils, parents and teachers were extremely inventive and resourceful with regard to ideas on cooperation, and indeed on carrying through those ideas. Parents saw themselves and other parents as an important resource for the work of the school. The teacher emerged as a key figure for intensified collaboration. In the concluding discussion the results from the microlevel formed the starting point for the discussion concerning the context of cooperation between home and school at the macrolevel. As a conclusion, the discussion was about collaboration between home and school in terms of some of the effects of cooperation opportunities and obstacles, the interest shown by parents together with the content and forms of collaboration. Here it was pointed out that an important condition for achieving society's objectives was that pupils, parents and teachers together should interpret this in order to connect them to the cultural economic and social reality that was relevant to that particular class.
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- Westum, Asbjörg, 1960-
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Fransos och finnskott : Något om språklig projicering inom det folkmedicinska ordförrådet
- 1992. - 1
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In: Language - the Time Machine. - Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell. - 9171746838 ; , s. 191-202
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The starting-point of this study is our need for satisfactory explanations when we suffer from illness. Often, justly or not, we identify an individual or a group as disease carriers. This phenomenon can be regarded as an act of projection, and in Scandinavian ethnomedicine it shows itself in the terminology when a disease is named after an ethnic group. The present study, which shows just a few examples of this kind of linguistic projection, deals mainly with the words fransos ('Frenchman') and finnskott ('Lapp shot'), but words such as utländska elden ('the foreign fire') and tyskeldsår ('sore from German fire') are also mentioned.
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- Westum, Asbjörg, 1960-
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Isterminologin i säljägarsamhället
- 1992. - 1
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In: Tabu, verklighet, språk. - Stockholm : Carlsson Bokförlag. - 9177985842 ; , s. 188-203
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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