Essays about: "Ontological assumption"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the words Ontological assumption.

  1. 6. Motivational Factors and their Prioritization for GMP in Nordic SMEs

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Filip Simonsson; Eduardo Cuadra Azucar; Johan Roos; [2018]
    Keywords : Green Management; SME; CSR; Green Score;

    Abstract : Purpose - The subject of green management and its connection to motivational factors is relatively unexplored in existing literature, especially regarding SMEs in the Nordic Countries. The paper aims to investigate frequencies of motivational factors as SMEs present them, suggest the theoretical prioritization of motivational factors for green management practices, and factors impact on different levels of green management. READ MORE

  3. 7. Project Manager Competencies in managing International Development Projects : The Project Managers' Perspective

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Brent Michael Adams; Thi Bich Van Tran; [2017]
    Keywords : International Development projects; project manager competencies; project success; critical success factors; International Development project challenges; development management;

    Abstract : This research studies the competencies of International Development (ID) project managers from their perspectives, taking into consideration the contextual factors and the challenges that they face when managing ID projects. The study adopts a constructionist ontological viewpoint and an interpretivist epistemological philosophical assumption. READ MORE

  4. 8. The absolutist criteria of Roderick Firth's ideal observer theory

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Mikael Barclay; [2016]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Meta-ethical theories take a number of different ontological, epistemic and semantic positions. In 1952 Roderick Firth published the article “Ethical absolutism and the ideal observer”, in which he defends and shares his own version of a theory on the meaning of ethical expressions, referred to as the ideal observer theory (IOT). READ MORE

  5. 9. Synthesizing Time Geography and Actor-Network Theory - An ontological discussion combining Time Geography and Actor-Network Theory concepts with regard to telepresence

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : René Brauer; [2012-09-21]
    Keywords : Time Geography; Actor-Network Theory; ANT; ; telepresence; Information and Communication Technologies; ICT;

    Abstract : Geography of the 21th century requires a conceptual understanding of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their impact on society. Some geographers previously treated them as anomalies or succumbing to techno-deterministic predictions and undermining the raison d'être of geography, the importance of distance. READ MORE

  6. 10. How do Companies Reward their Employees

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Avd.)

    Author : Samuel Cudjoe; [2012]
    Keywords : Axiological; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Methodology; Methodological assumption; Methodological triangulation; Ontological assumption; Paradigm; Positivism; Qualitative; Quantitative; Research design; Sampling frame; Sample size; Unit of analysis;

    Abstract : This study is unique considering the location (Africa) and the industrial setting (Gold Mining) from which the research was studied as reward systems had mostly been studied in the North-American and European settings. Thus, the study  considered  rewards from the perspective of the African and its natural resource industries such as the gold mining industry. READ MORE