Essays about: "Micro actors"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 86 essays containing the words Micro actors.

  1. 26. Making Room for the Holocaust? : Entangled Memory Regimes and Polarized Contestation about the Greek 1940s in Thessaloniki

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Dimitrios Tziogkas; [2021]
    Keywords : Holocaust in Salonika; Greek 1940s; National Resistance; Greek Civil War; Collaboration; Second World War; Collective memory; Memory regime; Mnemonic field; Holocaust distortion;

    Abstract : The present thesis offers a new perspective on Holocaust memory in Greece by examining the ways in which divergent mnemonic representations about the Greek 1940s, as evidenced in polarized public contestation, influence the position of Holocaust in contemporary Greek collective memory. Adopting a micro-level case-study approach, the thesis focuses on the process of renaming a street in Salonika (or Thessaloniki), by examining public discourses around the issue. READ MORE

  3. 27. Ecosystem Goal Alignment and Institutional Change : Increasing Resilience and Competitiveness in Värmland

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Author : Eric Kjellberg; Daniel Oldenmark; [2021]
    Keywords : Service ecosystem; Service dominant logic; value co-creation; goal alignment; institutional change; resilience; rural regions;

    Abstract : Economy professor Kjell Nordström argued at the Nordic Business forum Sweden, that regions such as Värmland would turn into wastelands in the aftermath of digitalization and urbanization. Digitalization has rapidly changed service provision effecting the provider-user interaction and service options available. READ MORE

  4. 28. Maintaining Values: Institutional Work in the Social Services

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Borin Borin; Emma Carlberg; [2020-06-22]
    Keywords : Values; Institutional work; Values work; Maintaining values; Less resourceful actors; Front-line employees;

    Abstract : This study investigates how front-line employees engage in institutional work to maintain their ‘client-focused’ value. By conducting a single-case study of a Social Service department within a Swedish middle-sized municipality, we find both individual and collective efforts to be successful in maintaining the value. READ MORE

  5. 29. Managing mergers - A micro-perspective on the role of emotions

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Susanna Hansson; Sarah Källvik; [2020-06-16]
    Keywords : Merger; Emotions; Institutional Work; Micro-Perspective; Discourse;

    Abstract : This article examines the role of actors’ emotions on the shaping of an institution within a merger process. Based on an empirical study of a case where four public organizations were merged into one, actors’ emotional arguments concerning the merger has been analyzed and related to the theoretical perspective of institutional work. READ MORE

  6. 30. Why Public Officials Complicit in Corruption? : An Exploratory Study of Doers' Personal Views and Experiences in Central Java, Indoniesia

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Agung Widhianto; [2020]
    Keywords : Corruption; Administrative Corruption; Political Corruption; Public Leadership; Elective Public Officials; Formal Norms; Informal Norms; Public Sector;

    Abstract : Why public officials complicit in corruption? It is absolutely a nagging and antiquated question. This thesis examines the corruption on a micro-scale from those convicted in corruption cases in Central Java Province, Indonesia, more specifically by taking the personal views and experiences of the imprisoned actors into account. READ MORE