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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"HD58.7 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture"”.
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The Logic of Evaluation in the Arts: Exploring artists’ responses to measurement within a publicly funded arts organisation
Measurement and evaluation in the publicly funded arts sector is a contested area. On the one hand measurement is constantly demanded by funders to justify the value of art projects, on the other hand, there is a lack of consensus on how it should be done and whether effective evaluation is even …
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Exploring academics’ lived experience of managing academic and commercially-oriented activities in a UK university
… the third mission, establishing rich understanding of how the key actors, academics, manage the two conflicting demands of commercialisation and science requires deeper investigation of their contributing to this shift. Drawing on theories of ambidexterity, role identity, the boundary work, …
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Two Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Firms’ Performance: Foreign Capital Inflow and Chinese Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
… uses Chinese firm level data from 2001 to 2007 and applies a propensity score matching method combined with a difference-in-differences approach to examine the direct causal link between Inward Foreign Direct Investment and various aspects of Chinese firms’ performance. I divide China into four …
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"Dashed hopes, bruised egos": Professional identity in investment banking in the context of the 2008 financial crisis
The financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent economic collapse has helped bring scholarly attention on a sociological dimension of financial markets (Mackenzie 2009, Stark 2009, Knorr Cetina and Preda 2012). Despite recent research advancements in this area, however, the understanding of how …
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Resource mobilisation and social entrepreneurship: social bricolage as antecedent and outcome
… in academia. SE aims to solve social problems and/or meet social needs using a business approach and is recognised as a crucial player in the modern world. SE faces serious resource challenges, however, in terms of surviving in a market, generating innovation, and achieving established …
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Exploring the crux of social entrepreneurship: The pursuit of blended value creation
How can social enterprises harmonise social and commercial value logics? This thesis examines the challenge that social enterprises face to create social and commercial value in an integrated, complementary and harmonious manner. Preliminary research has highlighted that efforts to harmonise these …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… focus on illuminating their marketing processes and self-understanding when undertaking online marketing work, a practice I describe as bringing the organisation into being online. My research questions examine what the online marketing work processes the DOS undertake tell us about identity at …
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Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Fraud in Indonesian BMT Islamic Cooperatives
… rapid growth (i.e. numbers, assets, members) and spread across the nation. BMTs are seen as organisations that fill a gap in the market by catering for small-micro-sized enterprises (SMEs) by which because of their size find it difficult to obtain access to the usual financial intermediaries …
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Disclosing new worlds? : Strategic management, styles and meaning
… at risk of being lost in Western technological culture in the name of increasing control, efficiency, and agility. As the risk is actualised, so the human essence as truth maker is obscured and life itself feels poorer. This thesis draws on Heideggerian philosophy to demonstrate the loss in two …
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Public Servant identity at work in Chilean State bureaucracy: a Lacanian interpretation
… the implementation of neoliberal policies is commanded by policy-makers. In particular, drawing from a Lacanian theoretical framework, this study analyses the inconsistent fashion in which identification unfolds discursively. On the one hand, public servant subjectivity is viewed as articulating …
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Reframing Strategic Inertia: The Politics of Innovation and the Case of GM Biotechnology
… a broad sense this thesis concerns the politics (and ethics) of strategic management, organisational psychology, organisational narratives, knowledge management and conditions of innovation. More specifically, this is research into the dimension of politics and the legitimacy of power relations …
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An Exploration of Culture in the UK Financial Services
This thesis explores dimensions of culture in the UK financial services. Through narrative interviews, it considers the experience of the industry and examines how culture can be formed through influences stemming both from the industry’s internal dynamics and wider societal contexts. The study …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… decision on the provision of foreign aid, and the firm’s strategic decision to engage in Corporate Social Respon- sibility (CSR). The first essay presents an analysis on the effect of income taxes and its effect on worker’s transitions towards informality. We find that an increase in …
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From indigenous to colonised: the recruitment practice of the British colonial administration in Hong Kong, 1845 – 1932
… its corresponding influencing factors. By understanding the HK Government’s dynamic attitude towards different nationalities, the work discusses the national hierarchy within the government. Mixed research method is applied in this work: benefited from a unique record known as the Blue Book which …
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Social Movements and Corporate Social Disclosure: Evidence from Jordan
… study is to investigate the extent, trends, and practices of employee and community disclosure, important but yet largely ignored areas of CSR disclosure, in the context of emerging countries. The study also examined the impact of social movements on employee and community disclosure. The …
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An ethnographic investigation into Mongolian management in the context of cultural and institutional changes
This thesis investigates the understanding and practices of contemporary Mongolian management since the 1990s. In particular, it focusses on the shared experiences of local managing practitioners in Mongolia by exploring the conceptions of a manager, management, and managerial roles from the …