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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Explanatory case study"”.
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The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Engagement in a Higher Education Setting: An Explanatory Case Study
… billion annually (Osborne & Hammoud, 2017). This explanatory case study examined how leadership practices at a Midwest online university were able to increase employee engagement for two consecutive years, during a time of uncertainty and upheaval. The purposeful sample consisted of twenty faculty …
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"Sometimes it's exactly as it seems": A mixed methods explanatory case study of two Black women's academic classrooms'
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Intelligent mapping : a competing values explanatory case study to optimize mapping operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
… topographic maps for the DoD. The purpose of the explanatory case study was to understand change to the current mapping process used by one cartographic team under NGA's Theater Geospatial Database (TGD) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. A competing values framework analyzed data collected …
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Intelligent mapping : a competing values explanatory case study to optimize mapping operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
… topographic maps for the DoD. The purpose of the explanatory case study was to understand change to the current mapping process used by one cartographic team under NGA's Theater Geospatial Database (TGD) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. A competing values framework analyzed data collected …
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Department chairs' research-related roles and responsibilities at a public research university
The purpose of this qualitative explanatory case study is to explain how academic department chairs enact research-related roles and responsibilities at one public research university to support faculty research productivity. For this study, I interviewed 22 department chairs at one public research …
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Differentiation in higher education : a case study of Lesotho
… of their national development strategies. This study investigates the case of Lesotho, a relatively small African country with a colonial past that has left a lasting imprint, both enabling and constraining, on many aspects of its education system. The aim of this explanatory case study was to …
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Open source software as applied in higher education: at one four-year university
The purpose of my study was to explain the implementation process of open source software (OSS) in a higher education setting, including any challenges that the faculty encountered during professional development, and implementation during instruction. This study was conducted at a four-year …
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Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study
<p>This thesis is an explanatory case study that applies geographic information systems (GIS) data, biographical data, and other secondary data. It includes mainly qualitative data collection and analysis; furthermore, the study examines quantitative data on the cultural events offered within each …
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An Exploration into Consumer Motives on Buying Mobile Phone: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam
This study examined consumer motives on purchasing mobile phones in Kinondoni municipality. Based on theoretical and empirical literature review various motive where identified which includes: properties referred to core function of mobile phone, Condition which basically covered events i.e. theft …
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A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response
… uses a mixed methods approach - an exploratory case study and system dynamics model - to bridge the gap between these two fields. It provides one approach for connecting epidemiology and supply chain research. An explanatory case study of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak is used to analyze …
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Democratically Engaged Community-University Partnerships: Reciprocal Determinants of Democratically Oriented Roles and Processes
… addresses this gap. This dissertation study purposefully selected a case of community-university partnership that has a high degree of democratic engagement. Through interviews, observation, and document review, qualitative evidence was collected of the ways in which the roles and …
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Investigating the effects of power relations on the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning through the lens of Actor Network Theory : the case of MESAIR
… interpretive research perspective using a single explanatory case study paradigm, which was generalised to a concept. As one of the objectives of this research was to analyse the case study by using Foucault’s analysis of power embedded within Actor Network Theory (ANT), the concept of …
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Understanding Faculty and Non-Traditional Student Perceptions of Self-Directed Learning in a Practical Nursing Program
<p>This study was designed to identify and investigate nursing faculty and student perspectives of self-directed learning in a practical nursing program. It also explored the degree to which student's perceptions of self-directed learning exhibited factors consistent with that of critical thinking. …
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Healthy by Design: Development of a Biophilia Design Decision Support Framework
… knowledge domains may be deficient. This study explores questions such as: Does the architect's lack of biophilic knowledge and/or structured wellness design decision support framework affect the decision? Would the existence of a wellness design tool better support the design decision? An …
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Can Water Professionals Transform Pharmaceutical Disposal Practices of Hospice Nurses?
<p> <p>This project is an explanatory case study that illustrates the problems associated with pharmaceutical disposal in regard to water quality. The purpose of the study is to investigate the current pharmaceutical disposal practices of hospice nurses, the attitudes of hospice nurses regarding …
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Visual corporate identity and internal customer perceptions : Employee response to corporate colours and symbols in an education environment.
… Methodology A mixed methods, sequential, explanatory case study into a UK independent school was undertaken. Quantitative data was obtained from questionnaires, distributed to the schools¿ employees and qualitative data from interviews; analysis reveals convergent and divergent …
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An Exploration of Digital Literacy Enhancement for Translation Students in China: A Case Study at a Chinese University
… Grounded in a constructivist paradigm, the study adopts a mixed-methods explanatory case-study design at a Chinese university. Quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire completed by translation students (n=63), and qualitative insights were obtained through semi-structured …
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Infusing critical thinking into an employability skills program: The effectiveness of an immersion approach
… to develop a matrix of interrelated skills. This study investigates an immersion approach to developing employability skills with emphasis on the infusion of critical thinking skills in an undergraduate business degree. The research is situated within the pragmatic paradigm and comprises a mixed …
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Kleptocracy in Kazakhstan : Understanding Kleptocratic Activity of President Nazarbayev’s Inner Circle
… Kingdom. This thesis takes on a narrative and explanatory case-study approach. The literature review notes that kleptocracy is an emerging area of research. While a lot has been written about kleptocracy in Russia, Central Asia is not a frequent topic. This thesis attempts to fill in that gap. …
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A study on the choice to accept a faculty position at a four-year, non-tenure granting university
… to work at a non-tenured institution. The study uses qualitative methods to answer the research question, why do credentialed faculty choose to take a position at a four-year, non-tenure granting, state university? The qualitative research is designed as an explanatory case study and uses …
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