Essays about: "organizational change capacity"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 30 essays containing the words organizational change capacity.

  1. 11. Participatory climate research : impacts on the medium-sized city Kota, India

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Viktoria Karlsson; Emma Mörlin; [2019]
    Keywords : Participatory research; climate change; joint knowledge production; India;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at increasing knowledge about climate research in developing countries and how research can be constructed, implemented and evaluated to be useful for local capacity building and climate action. This has been achieved by studying a concrete research project in Kota, India. READ MORE

  3. 12. Powering Africa by Empowering its People : An Action Research study at a Zambian microgrid company building local capacity to reach large scale viability

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Jonatan Ala-Mutka; [2019]
    Keywords : Microgrids; Off-grid power system; Rural Electrification; Sub-Saharan Africa; solar power; local capacity building; commercial microgrid business; sustainable development; diffusion; training of rural populations; organizational change; Action Research; Mikronät; fristående energisystem; landsbygds elektrifiering; Sub-Saharan Afrika; Solkraft; Lokal kapacitets utveckling; kommersiellt mikronäts företag; hållbar utveckling; Utbildning av lokalbefolkning; organisatorisk förändring; Action Research;

    Abstract : Despite recent advances in the global electrification rates, increasing from 76% in 1990 to 85% in 2012, the United Nations goal of universal access to electricity by 2030 is still far from achieved, with an estimated 1.1 billion people still without access to electricity. READ MORE

  4. 13. A Field Study in Shipping: Near Miss, A Mantra With Dubious Effect on Safety

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Mikkel Andersen; [2018]
    Keywords : Shipping; ISM code; Near-miss; progressive safety; awareness; loss prevention; accident pyramid; KPI; learning; power relations; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Safety is intertwined with learning, without learning safety would be a static construct. To advance, safety concepts and theories all rely on the art of processing knowledge and though learning attaining a contributing effect. READ MORE

  5. 14. Theory of Change for Development: Understanding, Usage, and Influence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Irma Peta; [2018]
    Keywords : Theory of Change; International Development; Project Management; Evaluation; Social Change; Logic Models; Logic Interventions; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The Theory of Change (ToC) approach has become popular among the international development community, emerging as a need for organizations to carry out more effective initiatives in the context of an increasingly complex world. The levels at which a ToC process can be aimed are worldwide, organizational, thematic and program or project level. READ MORE

  6. 15. The creation of a management fashion - contextualization in practice: A case study of value-based health care's introduction at the Karolinska University Hospital, in Stockholm, Sweden

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

    Author : Oskar Kolmodin; [2017]
    Keywords : Translation; Institutionalization; Organizational change; Power; Sensemaking;

    Abstract : This study charts how "Value based health-care delivery", a management idea created by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, and promoted by the Boston Consulting Group, has been translated in a Swedish context, up until August 2017. It traces the travel of the concept, from its origins, to its meteoric rise within the Swedish healthcare system, culminating in its operationalization at the Karolinska University Hospital, as the cornerstone of a wide ranging reorganization. READ MORE