Essays about: "Institutional complexity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 107 essays containing the words Institutional complexity.

  1. 21. Secret sustainability: A case study of why a company might go silent with its green achievements

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Antonia Alan; Jenny Trolläng; [2022]
    Keywords : Greenhushing; Green Blushing; Green Communication; Green Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility;

    Abstract : Greenhushing is acknowledged as a growing concerning behavior referring to when companies deliberately avoid communicating their green achievements. Thus, while companies do substantial work within sustainability, these efforts are strategically or involuntarily not communicated, but why? The research field on greenhushing remains nascent, and scholars have inadequately explained why greenhushing occurs, particularly has previous literature overlooked the strategic perspective and company- specific circumstances. READ MORE

  3. 22. Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions - The Impact of Societal Dynamics on Risk and Adaptation Perspectives of Pluvial Floods in Malmö

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Minja Sillanpää; Sofia Ritthammer; [2022]
    Keywords : Nature-based Solutions; Blue-Green Solutions; Mainstreaming Adaptation; Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management; Pluvial Flood-Risk; Climate Change Adaptation; Private Stakeholder Engagement; Capacity Development; Grounded Theory; Social Sciences; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Cities around the world are not only facing the impacts of climate change but are also increasingly charged with the responsibility to adapt. The city of Malmö in Sweden, facing the consequences of ever-so-present pluvial floods, has set an objective to increase the use of multifunctional Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in its urban stormwater planning. READ MORE

  4. 23. Just Sustainability Transitions in the Blue Economy: Towards Blue Justice in Small-Scale Artisanal Fisheries in the Pacific of Costa Rica

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2022]
    Keywords : blue economy; small-scale artisanal fisheries; just transitions; blue justice; Costa Rica; fieldwork; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The blue economy emerged as sustainable, inclusive and equitable alternative to traditional oceans economy. However, the current paradigm of oceans as development spaces has led to an acceleration of competing uses of marine resources causing ecosystem deterioration and human rights abuses that disproportionately affect vulnerable small-scale fisheries. READ MORE

  5. 24. PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Liliana Farcas; [2021-10-21]
    Keywords : governmental precarization; freedom; non-institutional performing arts groups; public funding system; cultural policy; interdependency; power;

    Abstract : In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field expanded due to the non-institutional performing arts groups, known as the “free groups”, which started to perform in new places, to experiment artistically, to meet new audiences and to raise social questions. READ MORE

  6. 25. Balancing relationship between academia and business community in terms of soft skills supply and demand in the labour market

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Anastasiia Reznikova; [2021-06-29]
    Keywords : Labour market; Academia; Actors; Institutional logics; Institutional complexity; Multiple institutional logics; Market logic; Professional logic; Soft skills;

    Abstract : The interplay between the different logics and possibility of their balancing is of great interest and these issues have been extensively studied. Such actors as academia and the business community follow different institutional logics in the labour market. READ MORE