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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Giddens' Structuration Theory"”.
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The myth of spontaneous connection : an ethnographic study of the situated nature of virtual teamwork
… responding to local events and conditions. Using Giddens' structuration theory, I show how the members' consistent application of these local world management strategies under changing local circumstances accounts for contrasting participation patterns observed at the team level between the first …
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The British Labour Party in Opposition, 1979-1997: Structures, Agency, and Party Change
… a theoretical framework informed by Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Based on a dialectical notion of the structure and agency linkage, a two-tiered framework is constructed which at one level views a political party as consisting of a set of structures which can constrain and enable …
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Group dynamics among physical educators and principals in Blue Ribbon Schools
… (Castelli & Rink, 2003; Keay, 2005). Guided by Giddens’ Structuration Theory (1984) this investigation sought to explore group dynamics that occur within and around middle school physical education departments. The purposes of this study were (a) to understand the role of group dynamics in …
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Societal perceptions of wrongful convictions
… literature has been criticized for its lack of theory integration. Therefore, the results of this study have been interpreted in the context of Giddens‘ Structuration Theory. Indeed, public perception and support are important as they may influence policy changes and encourage the government to …
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Appalachia on Repeat: A Critical Investigation of the Photographic Representation of an American Region
… and how it has evolved over time. Subsequently, Giddens’ structuration theory and Deleuze’s conceptualisation of repetition and difference are used to investigate why so many photographers are compelled to work in Appalachia, and whether, how and why they are unwilling or unable to deviate from …
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Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective
… by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to explore whether more effective approaches to delivering benefits from business change in organisations could be developed by taking a social practice perspective - focusing on the dynamic and complex …
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Reframing Construction Labour Productivity in a Colonisation Context: The West Bank as an Example
… The theoretical framework is developed based on Giddens' Structuration Theory, mainly the reconciliation of the multi-layers structure and agency determinants impacting construction labour productivity in the context of colonisation. The study's philosophy validates the use of mixed methods …
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From managerial career to portfolio career: making sense of the transition
… career in the structuring process which draws on Giddens' structuration theory is used as the theoretical base for the study. Hence the particular contribution of the study is in providing a contextualised account of sense making about a personal career transition thought to mirror wider change in …
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Social agency in alpine communal forests : local actors' interactions with communal forests and participation in communal forestry in the French and Swiss Alps
… of the concept of "participation" in democratic theory and in natural resources and forest policy making, we focus on micro-level social interactions and collective agency in communal forests. While taking a Grounded Theory approach for generating propositions based on a systematic qualitative …
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Leveraging Open-Source and Crowdsourced Data to Evaluate Spatial Justice in Cultural Planning
… Henri Lefebvre's (1991) Spatial Triad Theory and Anthony Giddens' (1986) Structuration Theory for evaluating justice in planning contexts. This framework identified three different dimensions and three types of justice. (1) The institutional dimension, conceptualized as the conceived, …