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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Institutionalisation"”.
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The institutionalisation of environmental management at Hewlett-Packard Ltd.
… four different levels of change required for the institutionalisation of environmental management in a comprehensive study Identifying factors affecting the institutionalisation of environmental management in an industrial setting Demonstrating the usefulness and validity of insider-based …
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Corporate Governance Reforms in Pakistan: Institutionalisation, contradictions, and unintended consequences
This study examines the process of institutionalisation, contradictions and unintended consequences of Corporate Governance (CG) regulations in Pakistan. Prior studies have mostly focused on outcomes of CG regulations. The ‘process’ centred approach adopted in this study contributes to the CG …
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Ruling the unruled? The institutionalisation of social innovation in urban governance
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The institutionalisation of urban upgrading processes and community participation in Egypt
A conceptual framework, 'accountable bureaucratic capacity' is utilised to investigate the ability of local government to institutionalise collaborative urban upgrading measures in partnership with civil society organisations. The main argument is that the latter cannot contribute to sustainable …
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Causal mechanisms that enable institutionalisation of open government data in Kenya
Open Government Data (OGD) has become a topic of prominence during the last decade. However, most governments have not realized the desired outcomes from OGD, which implies that the envisaged value streams have not been realized. This study defines three objectives that will help address this …
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The Dynamics and Institutionalisation of the Japan – US Naval Relationship (1976-2001)
… in some cases constrained the development and institutionalisation of the Japan-US naval relationship over a 25-year period, between 1976 and 2001. Second, it examines the relationship between naval cooperation and institutionalisation in this particular naval relationship.<br/>A variety of …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
Through a re-examination of the issue of moral panics, with particular reference to sociological work around ideas of ‘risk’ and a ‘culture of fear’, this thesis attempts to examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain …
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The development and institutionalisation of an integrated health care waste information system
… data to understand how the development and institutionalisation of an IHCWIS contributes to effective HCWM.
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Academic Women and the Institutionalisation of English at the University of Cambridge, 1898-1938
The development of ‘Cambridge English’ has become a fundamental part of the semi- mythologised origin story of modern literary study. However, existing narratives of the ‘Rise of English’ rarely incorporate any substantial discussion of women who taught, researched and studied at Cambridge in the …
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Institutionalisation of integrated urban stormwater management: multiple-case analysis of local management reform across metropolitan Sydney
This dissertation contributes to advancing the institutionalisation of integrated urban stormwater management in pursuit of sustainable urban water environments. It is now accepted that traditional approaches to managing urban stormwater environments are unsustainable and that integrated approaches …
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Custody, care and criminality: clinical aspects of forensic psychiatric institutionalisation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
… of the 1800s. Other contributors to institutionalisation include the emergence of the insanity defence in Irish courts in the late 1800s and high levels of medical, psychiatric and social need outside Ireland’s system of asylum care (e.g. in workhouses), especially during the Great …
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Constitutionalisation and Institutionalisation Applied to the International Investment Regime : Toward a Uniform, Consistent and Coherent International Investment Law
… law regime, this thesis aims to study the institutionalisation and constitutionalisation processes of the international investment law regime. Moreover, the thesis attempts to ascertain consistent means by examining the nature of the international investment law regime and its …
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Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : a case study of 'deviant' women and semi-penal institutionalisation on Merseyside, 1823-1994.
… and discontinuity in the history of semi-penal institutionalisation, and thus contributes significantly to the feminist theoretical literature by establishing this oft forgotten arena as a significant site of social control for 'deviant' women, placed somewhere between the formal control of the …
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Outdoor education : its origins and institutionalisation in schools with particular reference to the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1945
This thesis offers an account of the origins and institutionalisation of outdoor education with particular reference to the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1945. It begins by describing what was understood by the term 'outdoor education' in the period from about 1890 to 1944 and relates this to its …
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Corporate political activity in sub-Saharan Africa : the influence of multinational enterprises in the institutionalisation of Uganda's electricity industry
… and how this in turn influences regulatory institutionalisation. It deploys an exploratory, qualitative multi-case study approach drawing on semi-structured interviews, archival materials, media reports and fieldwork notes for data collection. Data analysis is informed by an NVivo-supported …
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Public participation and environmental impact assessment in Romania: The case of Ro¿ia Montan¿. A call for the institutionalisation of public participation.
In this thesis I develop a critical theory of public participation and deliberation in post-communist Romania. Primarily, this theory is developed from a critical assessment of two intermediate-level Romanian institutions: the deliberative system that has formed to debate the authorisation of a …
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Institutionalisation and destabilisation of the public research governance paradigm: What can we learn about the next social contract for science from small industrialised democratic states?
National Research, Science and Innovation (RSI) systems are marked by inherent tensions and competing expectations that drive their policy dynamics. Domestic governments expect to see impact from their investment, but the nature of that impact is often left implicit and open to contestation. At the …
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The Least Developed Countries, the World Trade Organisation and the Norm of Special Treatment
… including the WTO. Evidence of the institutionalisation of the norm within the WTO can be found in its founding documents and agreements, as well as in the Doha Development Agenda. This institutionalisation of the norm has meant that LDCs have been provided with special treatment in …
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