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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Meso-level Analysis"”.
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Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
… sustainability dynamics by applying a macro-, meso-, and micro-level analysis to investigate the actors and elements involved in constituting the field. On a macro-level, the first study examines the social, political, and economic context that shapes (non-)sustainable sharing entrepreneurs’ …
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Peering Into The Future: Three Essays on the Nascent Phenomenon of Collaborative Consumption
… this goal, a research approach at three levels of analysis is used to explore how market institutions and consumer practices negotiate a social order that combines the social domain of peers with the economic domain of market exchange. The first essay of the dissertation approaches this …
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Bringing in the Garbage: Opening a Critical Space for Vehicle Disposal Practices
This dissertation examines the relationship among practices and policies of waste/ing and economic structures to make visible the implications of vehicle disposal policies for environmental policy and theory. Consequently, I attempt to build upon the small body of literature that is now critically …
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A unified computational framework for modeling health policy adoption in complex real-world environments
… studies. First, we use the framework for a micro-meso level analysis of physician adoption of Type 2 Diabetes guidelines. Here, our behavior-infused model not only significantly outperforms baseline models in predicting adoption rates across various physician demographics but also provides richer …
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Governance, marketplaces and social capital: the role of Batkhela bazaar in the evolving governance of the Malakand region of Pakistan
… the thesis develops and applies an original meso-level analysis grounded in the Bourdieusian tradition, to improve understanding of the continuities and changes in the generation, operation and outcomes of social capital within marketplaces, and the relationship between social capital and …
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Theorizing and quantifying organizational and social factors in probabilistic risk assessment of complex systems
… For NPPs, PRA can be used to generate three levels of risk information, including risk from reactor core damage (Level 1 PRA), the risk from loss of containment integrity (Level 2 PRA), and risk to the population and environment (Level 3 PRA). This dissertation is the product of …