Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.
The dissertation examines the contemporary environmental governance complex covering the transboundary area of the Carpathians and Danube with a focus on ecoregional approach. The strategic importance of these two geographical objects accounts for an intertwined system of varied institutions and initiatives contributing to addressing ecological challenges in the area through international...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM005.
Dispute mediation is a dialogical and communicative process in which a neutral third party, a mediator, helps conflicting parties modifying the way in which they interact with each other so that they become able to co-construct a solution to their conflict that is mutually satisfactory. Mediators cannot impose solutions to the parties, yet they play a fundamental role in conflict resolutions...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM004.
There have been growing calls in the field of management for pluralistic research, primarily because it allows for scientific discovery and advancement. However, despite these calls, the field of management is still homogenous in its research approaches and practices. This motivates the aim of this thesis, which is to explore, understand and promote pluralistic (qualitative) research. The...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2015.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.
This dissertation examines the reception of the Andalusian Sufi Ibn ‘Arabī (1165- 1240) by major Francophone Perennialist intellectuals of the twentieth century through an analysis of how they have integrated his teachings into their theopolitical views. The works of René Guénon (1888- 1951), Michel Valsan (1911-1974) and Henry Corbin (1903-1978) are here discussed in light of their...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM005.
Both in the field of argumentation and in studies on conflict mediation, sufficient common ground between parties in conflict is considered a prerequisite for reasonable and sustainable resolutions. Using a two-part structure, this doctoral dissertation focuses on how workplace mediators can broaden and strengthen the common ground between the parties through their communicative interventions....
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2019.
Cette thèse porte sur la question du renouvellement des relations entre les acteurs médiatiques et les publics, dans le contexte de transformation numérique du journalisme et de l’arrivée des médias sociaux. Les changements organisationnels et structurels dans les médias, notamment dans la production et la diffusion des contenus informationnels, qui ont lieu en parallèle avec les...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2018.
Changing workplace or society? Hackers between compliance with the social order and the will to innovate. This thesis looks at hacking as source of social change, or even subversion of the social order. Hacking involves self-directed learning and remove social barriers between hobbyists, professionals and activists. Therefore, it raises the hope to renew the access to knowledge and the role of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM010.
This study has examined how the ‘Ageing Society’ -a society with a rapidly ageing population, a growing share of older persons and a decreasing share of younger persons- and its implications for the Belgian population are represented in the Belgian quality newspaper De Standaard (2011-2013). As such, the study delivered first-time Belgian empirical findings about the coverage of the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2016.
This thesis analyses language ideological debates at the German-Romansh language border of Grisons, where tensions between language groups, power and territoriality are at stake. Its theoretical framework is based on critical sociolinguistic approaches. First, a genealogic analysis of the cantonal language legislation shows, how language territory is regulated by means of statistics. After the...
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