Essays about: "paradigmatic relations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words paradigmatic relations.
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1. Squaring the Circle: Norm Diffusion in Sustainable Development; The Case of Circular Economies.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change are critical issues currently facing modern society; in order to mitigate against further damage and in attempt to reverse human-induced effects, a paradigmatic shift is required. Sustainable development functions as the dominant discourse in guiding such mechanisms as the circular economy in achieving the conservation of the planet. READ MORE
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2. Behind the wheel : A closer look at influential relationships among internal factors driving a technological paradigm shift
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknikAbstract : Global sustainability awareness and governmental regulations are pushing the automotive industry into finding alternatives to carbon dioxide emitting products. Solutions utilizing electricity in the vehicle powertrain is overtaking market share from internal combustion engines (ICE). READ MORE
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3. The makings of a social entrepreneur: A study of the concept and the role, applied to the case of Stadsbruk
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : As an effect of the neoliberalist development, the public sector has outsourced the provision of some public services to the private and the third sector. This has led to the expansion of the latter, and a more central position of the actors related to it; among them the social entrepreneur. READ MORE
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4. The Reception of Mo Yan in the British and North American Literary Centers
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates the two major conflicting modes of interpretation applied to Mo Yan’s literary texts diachronically and synchronically in order to reveal both the aesthetic imperative and the liberating force of the British and North American literary centers in receiving literature from the periphery. After an introduction to the centers’ disparate responses to the paradigmatic shift of the local Chinese literary trend in the 1980s, the thesis continues with a theoretical discussion on reader-response theory and the uneven power relations between the literary center and the periphery. READ MORE
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5. The Potential Catalytic Role of Green Entrepreneurship – Technological Eco–Innovations and Ecopreneurs’ Acts – in the Structural Transformation to a Low–Carbon or Green Economy: A Foucauldian Discursive Approach
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Green entrepreneurship – technological eco–innovations and ecopreneurs’ acts – has recently received much attention from European policymakers as one promising response to the challenges of sustainable economic development due to its potential to catalyze and build a low–carbon or green economy. This topical relationship between green entrepreneurship and sustainable economy has also gained increasing interest among scholars. READ MORE
