Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
This work investigates how argumentation, namely the communicative exchange aimed at founding ones position in a reasonable fashion, is an essential condition for the fulfilment of the pragmatic goals of mediation, conceived of as a conflict resolution practice. In mediation, the parties are competent and responsible for the decision on the conflict, while the mediator helps them assume an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
La discussione sull’introduzione del divieto di fumo in Ticino ha tutte le caratteristiche di un dibattito nel quale ogni partecipante prende la sua posizione. In questo contesto osservare il contenuto argomentativo significa ricostruire il cuore della discussione. Tuttavia poter cogliere nella sua interezza il contenuto argomentativo è difficile dal momento che l’argomentazione è...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.
This dissertation analyzes argumentative interactions in the context of corporate takeover bids, representing thus a first systematic study of financial communication from the perspective of argumentation theory. In general, the importance of financial communication is justified by the relevance of information for making sound investment decisions (cf. Healy Williams 2008)....
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2008.
This dissertation studies complex job shop scheduling problems. It consists of three coherent parts: (1) a study of practical features of job shop scheduling, (2) a study of a novel job shop extension problem that simultaneously addresses several practical features and its solution methods, and (3) a study of surgical case scheduling in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. A job shop...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM010.
Social norms as concepts of legitimate and appropriate action are basic elements of social coordination and essentially “communication phenomena” (Rimal & Lapinski, 2015, Lapinski & Rimal, 2005). They are negotiated, shaped, understood, learned, and maintained through communication, with mediated public discourses as central forums for the communication and negotiation of norms. Despite...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015COM006.
In globalized markets, norms for legitimate behavior are scattered and businesses must satisfy often conflicting demands of various stakeholders simultaneously. This is why communicating their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in a legitimate way is challenging. The present is also a high time for a debate of CSR issues and an era of public scrutiny and mistrust, catalyzed by real-time...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
Die vorliegende Dissertation geht hypothesengeleitet der Frage nach, wie die Deutschschweizer Presse über Übergewicht berichtet. Übergewicht ist ein Thema, das in den hiesigen Printmedien vor allem in den letzten Jahren steigende Beachtung fand. Aufgekommen ist das gesellschaftliche Bewusstsein für die Übergewichtsthematik in der Schweiz seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre. In der...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM002.
Working together benefits from colleagues, team members, or peers being at the same place. With collaborating teams being more and more dispersed in an increasingly networked world, people and organizations turn to the Internet as a medium to work and learn together. Collaborative virtual environments (CVE) in general attempt to provide settings in which the users or participants feel...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM004.
Context: Online public opinions using various forms of social media are generating challenges for the tourism industry, which is intrinsically a “reputation-dependent” domain. Electronic-word-of-mouth (eWOM) has forced destination managers to rethink branding strategies, suggesting a shift from an architecture brand perspective to a live context perspective where travel markets are...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019COM003.
This dissertation focuses on the online communication and representation of a digital city in Africa: Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon. In particular, it explores the evolution of the web-based reproduction (Couclelis, 2004) of Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon, from a chronological, spatial and representational perspective, with the purpose of...
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