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Showing 1 to 20 of 425 for “"Discretion"”.
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Discretion in Decision Making: The Fonterra Case
Management literature adopt the definition of discretion as “latitude of action” and it is typically researched as freedom of decision making associated with positions in the upper echelons of organisations. This is a narrow view of discretion which underestimates the exercise of discretion …
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Advanced information processing technologies and police discretion
1 PDF file (iv, 56 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Uncertainty and individual discretion in allocating research funds
… may overcome this bias: the use of individual discretion. Here, we conduct the first quantitative study of how individual discretion affects a research funding portfolio. Using internal project selection data from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), we describe how a …
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Between Bureaucracy and Democracy: Regulating Administrative Discretion in Japan
… drift (dependent variable). Variation in agent discretion is the critical effect of the independent variable (i.e., number of principals) on the dependent variable (bureaucratic drift). “Discretion” is “administrative decision-making absent directives from political principals.” …
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Essays on the Discretion of Prosecutors in the Legal Realm
… contains three chapters that describe the discretion of prosecutors in different ways. The first is a quantitative study that measures how many different interpretations a statute has and how that affects conviction rate. The second is an experiment that has mock prosecutors act out a …
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Exploring the Belief Systems of Senior Managers: Antecedents of Managerial Discretion
… of opposition and a theory of managerial discretion has been proposed to bridge the divide. This thesis builds and extends the concept of managerial discretion as an alternative framework to explain the black-box processes of upper-echelons theory. The theoretical model developed, proposes …
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The effects of goal setting procedures and personal discretion on individuals' creativity
… (i.e., a goal to be creative), and personal discretion in work procedures. These factors were chosen because of the relevance to creativity and their use in organizations. A laboratory study was conducted with a 3 x 3 x 2 experimental design. Subjects worked on an in-basket exercise. …
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States of discretion: Black migrating bodies and citizenship in the United States
… how U.S. immigration is governed, States of Discretion examines how the operationalization and discretionary application of U.S. immigration law and policy since 1965 impacts the lives of highly educated, documented African immigrants. I contend that as immigration policy has been politically …
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The Act of Judging in Nigeria: A Matter of Interpretation and Judicial Discretion
… precedent somewhat impacts the use of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutes. Judging is not static and does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, judging should change over time and respond to context as strict adherence to precedent alone may interfere with the advancement of justice. …
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Inspector Discretion and Industry Compliance in the Street-Level Implementation of Building Codes
This dissertation examines inspector discretion and industry compliance in the street-level implementation of building codes. In particular, this study examines the effects that agency-level, individual-level, and environmental variables have on the choice of inspectors to exercise discretion. …
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Gender, crime and discretion in the English criminal justice system, 1780s to 1830s
Historians of English crime and criminal justice agree that females are more leniently treated by the criminal justice system. Fewer females are prosecuted for unlawful activities, and, when they are, they are more readily acquitted, or receive lighter sentences than males. However, reasons for …
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The exercise of prosecutorial discretion during preliminary examinations at the International Criminal Court
This study explores the exercise of prosecutorial discretion during preliminary examinations at the International Criminal Court. The key questions it investigates are whether there is a secure legal and theoretical basis upon which such discretion can and should be exercised and whether the …
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Pollution control, administrative discretion and science: a journey through the maze of environmental law
… the interface between environmental regulatory discretion and scientific complexities. Two key observations about the nature of scientific information are made which lead to the argument in this thesis that science must be made more explicit in environmental decision making processes. First, …
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Student Perceptions of Discretion in Discipline: Seeking Resolution and Restoration in a Punitive Culture
… examined high school student perceptions of discretion utilized by educators in high school disciplinary proceedings. Using a sample of 6 high school students who had experienced differing levels of formal discipline, the study investigated the discretionary factors that influence an …
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Judicial discretion in sentencing: contrasting reform in foreign jurisdictions with the South African system
… that the one such area is the unfettered discretion exhibited by judges in sentencing practice. This problem is not inherent to South Africa. It plagues the criminal justice systems of numerous other countries.
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Flexible bureaucracies : discretion, creativity, and accountability in labor market regulation and public sector management
… solve problems? Why in some cases they use their discretion to serve rather than, as previous literatures have asserted, to thwart the public interest? The research involved extensive data collection through on-site fieldwork on the Brazilian Labor Inspection Department, as well as detailed …
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Experience of World Vision India fieldworkers – role and discretion at the interface of organisation and communities
… the tensions experienced by NGO fieldworkers, discretion they exercised and the coping mechanisms they put in place in responding to such tensions in their work. The overall research methodology is qualitative, with the use of in-depth qualitative interviews for data collection from …
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The effects of inter- and intra-cultural variations on managerial discretion and the implications for national competitiveness
… cross-cultural differences in managerial discretion and the extent to which variations in inter- and intra-cultural practices affect the degree of freedom in decision-making that is afforded to executives. Research into the degree of discretion, or ‘latitude’ of executive action, has …
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