Essays about: "Informal cultural systems"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Informal cultural systems.
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1. The Sounds of Our World: Navigating Live Music and Artist Growth in Harare
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Increasingly connected to urban development and vitality in modern discourses of urban sociology, live music is a social and cultural phenomenon with great potential for improving people’s, including artists, well-being. Still, the systems and networks which shape live music are specific to their local social, cultural and institutional contexts, leading to a range of perceptions. READ MORE
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2. Creating a better Climate through Cultural Control - A case study on how a sustainability-oriented SME implements sustainability control through informal and formal management control systems
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : SMEs make up a significant portion of the emissions in the EU, and given the deepening climate crisis, it is vital to investigate how these firms manage sustainability. Therefore, we have conducted an in-depth case study of how a sustainability-oriented SME in the clothing industry implements sustainability activities using formal and informal management control systems (MCS). READ MORE
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3. Salvaging Death Worlds : Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Biogas and Biofertilizer Production Systems on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : Utilizing an interdisciplinary, multi-level perspective analysis this thesis reviews niche- regime-landscape interactions (analogous to the clusters of actors working at the local level of Gotland representing niche; the regime being national governance goals; and the landscape incorporating global level affairs and institutions such as the European Union (EU)) and their (mis)alignments within the biogas/biofertilizer production system of Gotland, Sweden, a small-island case study for energy-food-transportation transition and sustainable destination development. The study analyzes the heterarchical and polycentric development of biogas on Gotland—a socio-technical niche, nested within a larger energy regime and global landscape for transition—developing an understanding of (mis)alignments of pressures interacting on, at, and between the niche-regime- landscape as they combine with the peculiar competencies, as Loorbach describes, “creative minds, strategists, and visionaries” of a cluster of actors working in the food- energy-transport nexus on the island (2010, p. READ MORE
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4. Incentivising Intra-Organisational Sustainability Development at GANNI
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomiAbstract : Background – Under the acceleration in globalising tendencies of monopoly capitalism aided by social hyper-connectivity and a supply of cheap international labour, fashion companies struggle to find sufficient agency to manoeuvre their way out of the unsustainable, self-inflicted problems. Since fashion companies' rhetoric on sustainability matters is often far ahead of corporate action, it requires further development and engagement by all actors. READ MORE
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5. Paratransit and Bus Rapid Transit Interaction Approaches and Corresponding Barriers
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : Public transport in many Sub-Saharan African cities consists of paratransit, mini-to-medium-sized buses, which provide public transport and operate demand-driven and unscheduled. This form of public transport is often seen as less safe, less dependable, and environmentally unfriendly. READ MORE
