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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 uppsatser innehållade ordet Chiang.

  1. 1. Beyond the Bonus Check: A qualitative study unraveling the complexities of employee motivation in a PFP environment

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Författare :Olivia Thomsson; Tindra Sturk; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Performance management; Pay-for-Performance; Bonus systems; Motivation; Expectancy Theory;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a qualitative single-case study of employee motivation in a PFP environment within a Swedish business unit of one of the world's largest project development- and construction companies. The aim is to investigate how employees perceive and experience the impact of a PFP bonus system on their motivation. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Nyckelord :novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Sammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Extinction, or the Extension of Life : Biology and History as Representation and Metaphor in Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters"

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Sofia Jonsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Ted Chiang; Speculative Fiction; History of Ideas; Michel Foucault; Gillian Beer; Biology; History; Evolutionary Theory; Preformation; Literature; Metaphor; Representation; Darwin; Nineteenth Century;

    Sammanfattning : This paper explores Ted Chiang's novella "Seventy-Two Letters" and the way in which it combines genres, scientific and historical ideas in an effort to examine topics about life and creation. The combinations result in an intriguing representation of a history which is then made different and where Chiang can creatively challenge past ideas. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Research on Herding Effect in Emergencies

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Minrui Song; Can Cui; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Behavioral finance; Herding effect; Cross-sectional absolute deviation; quantile regression; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, herding effect among pandemic emergencies, natural disaster emergencies and terrorist attacks emergencies is studied. This paper uses quantile regression with the approach proposed by Chiang and Zheng (2010) to detect herding during the time period 2001-2020. In terms of event types, herding is captured in every event group. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Articulating the Shan migrant community in Thai society through community radio: A case study of the Map radio FM 99 in the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Hyeon-Soo Jeon; [2016]
    Nyckelord :community radio; ethnic migrants; minorities; social participation; Thailand; alternative public sphere; community cohesion; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Community radio as an alternative public sphere for minorities has emerged apart from mainstream media and formal public spheres. In particular, its ethos of understanding community participation as a key component of operating a station highlights its potential to empower community members as active social agents. LÄS MER