Essays about: "organizational fashion"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 49 essays containing the words organizational fashion.

  1. 21. “Paris Measurements” : The Inertia of the Thin Ideal on the Runways of Paris Fashion Week

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Sara Swahnström; Agnes Hultén; [2019]
    Keywords : Thin Ideal; Visual Representation; Idealization; Organizational Ecology; Inertia; Aesthetics; Fashion Week; Paris Fashion Week;

    Abstract : Background - Welcome to the 2010’s and its visual information culture informing about the century-old ideal of thinness, by sending (almost) exclusively thin bodies down the runway of Paris Fashion Week (PFW). This, while at the same time the academia and mass media are repeatedly articulating the necessity of a more ethical aesthetic within the fashion industry, while the argument that “thinness sells” lack empirical support, while measures are taken around Europe to discourage media bias and encourage healthy bodies walking the, and while the body positivity movement – applauding the diversity of body types – is on the rise in the Western society. READ MORE

  3. 22. 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. 23. Translating the Ambiguous: A comparative study of Agile Organizations

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Emilia Djerv; Louise Wendel; [2018-07-03]
    Keywords : Agile; Circulation of ideas; Context; Imitation; Isonymism; Management fashion; Translation theory;

    Abstract : Agile is a management concept currently gaining momentum in a variety of industries, presented as a solution to the rate of change in the organizational climate. Like other management concepts, it has not received consistent treatment neither in the academic literature nor among practitioners. READ MORE

  5. 24. To lead or to follow: Translating innovative technologies as a result of industrial fashion

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Patrik Kindmark; Emil Thunberg; [2018-07-03]
    Keywords : Actor network theory; translation; innovation; organizational fashion; problematization; Industry 4.0;

    Abstract : As the technologies included in the concept of ‘Industry 4.0’ have been hailed as to be ushering in a fourth industrial revolution, corporations within the industrial sector strive to adopt innovative information technology (IT) systems in order to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage – or to avoid redundancy. READ MORE

  6. 25. Reuniting IT Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops): A study on the merger of two opposite organizational logics in the self-organizing era, from an identity perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Annemoon Borst; Henriette Seeck; [2018]
    Keywords : Organizational Change; Identity; Group Identity; Organizational Identity; Employee Identity; Identity Regulation; Merging Teams; Team Transition; Organizational Control; Agile; DevOps; Management Fashion; Business and Economics; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Agile working methods gain in popularity among practitioners within the IT (Information Technology) industry and beyond, as a result of the revival of the self-organizing team as a mode for organizing work in contemporary organizations. The talk of DevOps, as an agile method which merges opposite organizational logics, IT Development (Dev) and IT Operations (Ops), into a self-organizing team, has arisen as a management fashion. READ MORE