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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Entrepreneurship and the plant-based protein transition : A discourse analysis of packaging of Swedish plant-based brands

Vandenbroeck, Emma January 2021 (has links)
A protein transition from more animal-based to more plant-based proteins in human diets isessential for the health of the planet and its human population. This thesis focusses onentrepreneurship, one of the many angles of this transition. Through a discourse analysis differentmeanings are revealed displayed on the packaging of Swedish plant-based brands. This is doneon the backdrop of transition theory and specifically the multi-level perspective on transitions. TheSwedish context is described through the lens of this perspective using the three levels: niche,regima and landscape, and the processes societal embedding in four environments: user,business, policy and cultural environment. A discourse analysis of packaging reveals threegeneral discourses around plant-based foods, namely that plant-based foods are environmentallyfriendly, they are part of the everyday and for everyone and plant-based alternative are local and Swedish. Further analysis on how different brands view their role as entrepreneurs showed theysee themselves as innovators, facilitators and change-makers through the language used on theirpackaging.

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