Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Exploitative"”.
-
Exploitative friendships : manipulating asymmetric alliances
This dissertation is the first systematic analysis of variation in alliance behavior in the context of asymmetric international security alliances. When weak states ally with stronger states - i.e. states with significantly greater military capabilities - what explains differences in the junior …
-
DOD Mission Engineering and Integration Explorative-Exploitative Architecture for Technology Innovation
… <p>The Mission Engineering Explorative-Exploitative Architecture for Innovation expands Bennan & Tushman’s (2003) and O’Reilly & Tushman (1996) explorative-exploitative theory from a process management, innovation behavior, and private firm’s performance within the context of …
-
Situational Affordances and Psychopathy: Examining Contextual Influences on Exploitative Behavior in Economic Games
… using economic games as a method to measure exploitative behavior. Specifically, the research investigated the interplay between psychopathy and environmental factors in shaping decision-making and social interactions. In Study 1, a meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative …
-
Poverty, porn, and the picture : exploring representation of exploitative media through the case of Oxfam
… of “poverty porn” has continued to define exploitative media used in humanitarian work in an effort to gain sympathy or support. Although the nature of “poverty porn” has changed, understand the semantic limitations as well as the visual repercussions helps structure how exploitative media …
-
Exploratory and Exploitative Alliances for New Product Innovations: The Alignment of Resource Integration and Governance Structures
… innovations resulting from exploratory and exploitative alliances. For exploratory alliances, the alignment of contact terms in a way that provides a compromise between the need for coordination and the need for search flexibility better facilitates radical innovations. In contrast, for …
-
Setting the Stage for Individual Ambidexterity in Organizations: The Effects of Context and Individual Regulatory Mode on Explorative and Exploitative Behavior
… on their attitudes towards explorative and exploitative activities. Drawing from the ambidexterity, the empowerment, and the ownership literatures, I propose that work environments that help develop individuals’ feeling of empowerment and ownership will tend to motivate ambidextrous …
-
Asleep in the Arms of God
… history, which echo the larger concern with exploitative practices including racism, patriarchy, overplanting and overgrazing, and pollution, which contribute to and climax in the postmodern fragmentation. The novel attempts to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization.
-
The emergence of the network supply-chain: a study of co-operation and performance in supply-chain relationships in the UK fibre-optics industry
… supply relationships, respectively named the exploitative and the explorative model. These are ideal-types that take into account the connection between technology, governance mechanisms, and organisational performance, and can be found in more or less pure form in real contexts. The …
-
The Impact of Varied Knowledge on Innovation and the Fate of Organizations
… and selection. With a focus on explorative and exploitative innovation, I develop theory on the boundary conditions of stars' impact on firm level outcomes. I propose that individual level contingencies—i.e., stage of employment—and organizational level contingencies—explorative or exploitative …
-
Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
… of transnational corporate accountability and exploitative labour in its legislative response to modern slavery in global supply chains. With a primary focus on the government's recently proposed Bill S-216: Modern Slavery Act - which would mandate companies to report on their activities to …
-
Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… backgrounds, sought to overcome a heritage of exploitative social relations and to redraw the field for the negotiation of dependency to their advantage. However, as this thesis shows, the mission also contributed to new sets of exploitative social relations in a hierarchy of work and education.
-
Fear of the Colonized Other in Richard Marsh's The Beetle
… by British characters in the novel. Intrusive, exploitative actions perpetrated by the British subjects in the novel invite reciprocal mental and physical invasions from the female colonized subject. These encounters serve as metaphors for British imperialism, and the fear and loathing for the …
-
Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… research methods relies on neo-colonial and exploitative practices to create knowledge and data. This thesis reinserts the work of many researchers of color identifying that the discipline’s antecedents practiced anti-racist, anti-colonial research methods. Through critical literature …
-
Dirt Road Magic
… as they have run-ins with ditch wizards, rich exploitative magicians, and other supernatural phenomena. This book is based on and includes my short story, "Dirt Road Magic," which won the Writers of the Future award in 2019. That story was about a boy from the trailer park who finds out that …
-
Forest resource management in Ghana : an analysis of policy and institutions
… forest policy in Ghana has historically been exploitative. In response to international pressures, a new Forest Policy, with sustainable and participatory goals, was formulated in 1994. However, this has been poorly implemented, due to complex interdependencies and informal networks between …
-
The importance of density-dependent mechanisms in determining cohort survival in largemouth bass
… survival of later cohorts through asymmetrical exploitative competition. Although this study is the first to confirm that early arriving individuals have a competitive advantage in largemouth bass, the phenomenon, priority effects, has been observed in many other kinds of organisms. Unlike …
-
Politics, Education and the Imagination in South African and Brazilian student-led mobilisations (2015-16)
… the purpose of schooling in an unequal, exploitative society. In South Africa, it focuses on university students in Johannesburg and Cape Town during *#FeesMustFall* and affiliated campaigns. These students exposed problems of university access and funding, decolonising education, and …
-
Human recreational activity and its impact on a metropolitan coastline
… of visitors to the beach (94%) engage in non-exploitative activities, such as sunbathing and swimming. Most visitors occur on the beaches between 12h00 and 16h00, week-ends being most popular during out-of-season periods, but in-season week day attendances exceed those of weekends. Only 6% of …
-
Reinforcing stereotypes and normative ideologies through animated subservience: "How does grand theft auto V perpetuate the dominant ideology of patriarchy through male protagonist game play?"
… and patriarchy as they both execute a form of exploitative politics. The difference between fantasy and reality is explored, as moral boundaries are often crossed in Grand Theft Auto V together with aggressive behaviour and sexual imagery as it represents destructive attitudes towards women.
-
Waging a Living in Casual Dining Restaurant Chains
… possible ways to combat the effects of this exploitative industry on servers.</p>
Page 1 of 9