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Assembling a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Campus Landscape Analysis of a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… seen as neutral sites; however, higher education institutions are sites of ideological production and therefore, fundamental exercises of power (Ford, 2017). The study of campus landscapes is relevant to uncovering and illuminating larger social issues of (in)equality in higher education. …
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Essays on Institution and Innovation
… explores the complex interplay between institutions and innovation across three distinct contexts: digital protectionism, academic governance, and language policy. The first essay examines whether protectionist policies can foster domestic innovation in the digital economy, focusing on …
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Institution-Based Resource: Concept and Cases
… we draw insights from resource-based theory, institutional theory, and Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural consecration and symbolic capital to propose a concept of Institution-Based Resource (IBR) as a novel source of sustainable competitive advantage. We define an IBR as a valuable and symbolic …
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Two essays on depository institution deregulation
… two sets of linear models of a depository institution under various competitive assumptions about deposit and loan markets. To evade an explicit interest rate ceiling, intermediaries pay implicit interest on deposits. The models show that the total rate under ceilings will be greater (less) …
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Modeling Organizational Culture in a Financial Institution
Ideal versus current organizational culture perceptions, differences in perceptions of culture between hierarchal levels and departments, and the strength of organizational culture were investigated in the current study. Organizational culture was measured by Cooke and Lafferty's (1987) …
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Homeland Security: Institution Building and Agency Cooperation
… concepts of police culture, bureaucracy, and neoinstitutional theory this research seeks to determine whether police are willingly cooperating and participating in the formation of the homeland security societal sector. Of particular interest is how successfully the DHS is in having its goals …
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The Psychological Environment of an Educational Institution
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The Food Broker as a Marketing Institution
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An American institution: the Smithsonian, 1846-1878
In 1846, Congress created the Smithsonian Institution. Congressmen expected the Institution to advance the cause of American science as did Joseph Henry, the organization's first secretary. The Institution fulfilled that role in a manner consistent with its congressional mandate. Henry, however, …
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The Mosque as an institution of Islamic Da'Wah
… is a modest enquiry into 'The Mosque as an Institution of Islamic Da'wah'. The main study involves the elaboration of the terms, 'Mosque', 'Institution', 'Islam' and 'Da'wah'. The Mosque, being an institution reflecting the dissemination of information suitable to prepare its community for …
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Reflections on a Single Institution Cochlear Implant Experience
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Youths as behavior change agents in an institution
… five 15 to 18 year old male youths in a closed institutional setting as behavior change agents for five male Youth Counselors. Youths specified staff behaviors they wanted to change, collected frequency data on each specified staff behavior, and suggested and implemented treatments to change …
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SINGLE WOMEN'S VIEWS TOWARD THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
… was to explore single women’s views towards the institution of marriage. This study utilized a qualitative design. In-depth face-to-face interviews with ten unmarried women living in San Bernardino County were conducted to collect the data. Participants were asked in a structured interview to …
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Producing an Islamic institution: a London case study
… constitutes a case study of how an Islamic institution in London is produced as an object of knowledge. It develops an argument by Maussen about mosques in Western Europe, which suggests that they ‘do not have a self-evident, clear and constant meaning’. On the basis of a literature review, …
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Merit pay at an institution of higher education
… for this study consisted of one state-supported institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia that has a merit pay system. Nine department chairmen and six faculty members (two per academic rank--assistant, associate, and full professors) from the nine departments were randomly …
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Die ‹Internationale Komponistinnenbibliothek Unna› als Institution eines musikkulturellen Gedächtnisses
… in den Musikwissenschaften einer derartigen Institution zufällt. Ausgehend vom Gedächtnisbegriff nach Aleida Assmann und Jan Assmann soll gezeigt werden, ob die Komponistinnenbibliothek einer Bibliothek im Sinne des kulturellen Gedächtnis entspricht, in welcher Beziehung sie zur …
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