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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Organisation Theory"”.
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The viable system model (VSM) and organisation theory : a complementary approach to the case of a pharmaceutical manufacturer
… system model (VSM) and mainstream functionalist organisation theory.The latter is taken to include the classical, behavioural and systems models of organisation. For completeness, we also consider organisation theory situated in the interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist …
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Employee reactions to management communication: a study of operations personnel in the oil industry.
… from the management team were analysed as the organisational story unfolds from the other side (i.e. employee perspective) instead of the rather usual/dominant one (i.e. managerial perspective). Behaviour was observed from an interactionist, interpretive and critical perspective and analysed in …
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A comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolving relationship between the environment and the strategy, structure and performance of selected organisations in the British carpet industry 1959-1986:a firms in sector perspective of organisational adaptation
Orthodox contingency theory links effective organisational performance to compatible relationships between the environment and organisation strategy and structure and assumes that organisations have the capacity to adapt as the environment changes. Recent contributions to the literature on …
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A Strategy for Culture: Five Nation Study of Arts Support Systems
… from predominantly post 1960 research in organisational behaviour to the study of the Arts Council as reflected through its policies, in the belief that few, if any, real attempts have thus far been made by academics to relate some of the profound difficulties of the public administration …
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A strategy for culture: Five nation study of arts support systems
… from predominantly post 1960 research in organisational behaviour to the study of the Arts C ouncil as reflected through its policies , in the belief that few , if any , real attempts have thus far been made by academics to relate some of the profound difficulties of the public …
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Analysing organisational culture : a critical ethnography of public relations and personnel specialists in a state bureaucracy
… which have differentiated the literature on organisational culture and symbolism (Chapter 2), (ii) the contribution of organisation theory to organisation culture (Chapter 3), and (iii) recent literature on organisational culture and symbolism (Chapter 4). Within these chapters, I adopt …
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The politics of the office: space, power, and photography
… informed by a study of power and space within organisation theory, organisation psychology and architecture and office design. The research produced a visual work titled The Politics of the Office comprising 128 photographs that give visibility to spatial power relations of hierarchy and …
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The viable governance model (VGM) : a theoretical model of IT governance with a corporate setting
… mechanisms and practices used by contemporary organisations to govern their current and future use of IT. However, despite the progress made in identifying the various elements employed by contemporary IT governance arrangements, there has been relatively little research into the formulation of …
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Corporate long-range planning in South Africa: its extent and nature
… alike assume that a comprehensive and general theory on planning exists, complete with methodologies, models, frameworks and so forth. But anyone examining the vast amount of literature on planning and related subjects published during the past twenty years would find this to be a fallacy, and …
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A critical evaluation of the role of human resources in the transition towards sustainable business practices in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Heightened pressure on those organisations that are to be held accountable for the impact of their processes on the societies and the environment in which they operate has resulted in sustainable business practices (SBPs) becoming a major area of focus in sustainability debates. Amidst growing …
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Interface of insurance and banking in European countries
… respectively). Based on industrial economic theory, organisation theory, the strategy & international business theory, and the regulation theory, a historical analysis is employed for the examination of these various interfaces. The thesis also examines the traditional relationships and …
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Tertiary colleges: a study of perspectives on organizational innovation
The purpose of this research study was to explore organisational innovation in education with reference to one particular type of organisation - the tertiary college. The research sought to examine the extent to which the intended objectives for new educational organisations are realised in …
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A new approach to performance measurement using data envelopment analysis: implications for organisation behaviour, corporate governance and supply chain management
… measured in terms of corporate governance (CG), organisation behaviour (OB) and supply chain management (SCM) because these factors determine the performance of enterprises in the broader socio-economic perspective generally, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) specifically. An integrated …
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Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises
This dissertation examines the challenges of organizing in times of global displacement in three different studies. The papers are based on an ethnographic case study of an international aid organization and its operations in Rwanda. Each paper investigates a distinct aspect of responding to one of …