Essays about: "normative identity"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 85 essays containing the words normative identity.
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31. "Words Hide Truth": National belonging in Marian Engel’s Bear and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. Alexander Beecroft suggests that a national literature, through its attempts to locate and articulate a communal identity and a notion of fellow-feeling, curates characteristics among members of previously numerous groups which can function to denote nationalistic identity. READ MORE
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32. Organizational Values in a Family-Owned Aquatic Center A Case Study : A Neo-Institutionalist view on the influence of meaning systems, as manifested by organizational values, in a Family-Owned Aquatic Center
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : The main objective of this case study is to understand how organizational values of a family business are influenced – or are the outcome of – the interactions between the controlling family, their employees, and the social context by which they are surrounded. To investigate this topic a case study research design was applied and a family-owned and -managed Aquatic Center was selected as the company in focus. READ MORE
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33. Bracing for the inevitable: An exploratory multi-case study of local climate change adaptation plans
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Vulnerability to climate change and the capacity to adapt to it are the result of intersecting power structures, system dynamics, and social identity markers otherwise known as intersectionality; and thus, differ greatly between contexts. However, despite the stark contextual differences between small and metropolitan cities, and lower and higher income countries, the policy and study of climate change adaptive planning has often focused on capital cities and technocratic solutions as a default blueprint for adaptation processes. READ MORE
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34. Situational brand ambassadorship - a study of how part-time employees make sense of themselves as brand ambassadors
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : The aim of this research is to understand and unpack the phenomenon of brand ambassadorship by examining the sensemaking and actualization as well as the consequences of it. The study adopts an employee-perspective on brand ambassadorship to scrutinize the phenomenon in terms of what is here referred to as ’situational’ brand ambassadorship. READ MORE
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35. What the heck? Who the hell am I? Multiple logics and organizational members’ identity in social enterprises: A case in the retail ind
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Social enterprises are hybrid organizations with two institutional logics, one focusing on social goals and the other one focusing on economic profitability. Both logics set the attributes for an organization. These attributes are, for instance, goals, values, or beliefs. READ MORE
