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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Organisational boundaries"”.
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The design and management of diverse affiliations : an exploration of international hotel chains
… organisations that operate within and across organisational boundaries. These organisations face variable risks related to control, resource commitment, flexibility and dissemination across their diversely affiliated portfolios. This research seeks to explore how these risks are managed within …
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Modelling intermediate care services as part of an integrated care pathway
… care system, especially when care pathways cross organisational boundaries. The main managerial learning was around the existence and nature of organisational boundaries that require joint working and sharing of information. We conclude from the simulation results for the alternative scenarios …
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Building reputation equity through stakeholder centred communication management : an exploratory study in the Australian oil & gas industry
… corporate reputation in broader terms and beyond organisational boundaries. The goal of this research is to develop an understanding of the building blocks and communications processes by which industry reputation/s forms.
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The Impact of Risk Propensity on Corporate Entrepreneurship
… variable analysis highlight the importance of Organisational Boundaries as a factor of CE. A framework is then proposed synthesising the results of the analysis before concluding with recommendations for future research.
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Semantically-enriched and semi-Autonomous collaboration framework for the Web of Things. Design, implementation and evaluation of a multi-party collaboration framework with semantic annotation and representation of sensors in the Web of Things and a case study on disaster management
… of critical information dissemination. Organisational boundaries of participants as well as their IT capability and trust issues hinders the deployment of a multi-party collaboration framework, thereby preventing timely dissemination of critical data. In order to tackle some of these …
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The paradox of English sport development policy and practice: Examining the mass participation agenda during an era of austerity and continued change.
… The PhD offers a rare analytical insight across organisational boundaries, industry sub-fields (teaching, local government, County Sport Partnerships, National Governing Bodies) and professional-community binary oppositions. Findings from this study highlight key drivers limiting the mass …
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End-to-End (E2E) solutions: an exploration of value conversion contingencies in a developing country
… due to the extension of business process across organisational boundaries and the emergence of breakthrough technologies. However, extant literature on E2E Solutions focuses solely on the conceptual and implementation issues. The objective of this research is to investigate the derivation of …
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Spanning organisational and geographical boundaries: Understanding Supply Chain Risk Management in Hidden Champions
… cooperative Supply Chain Risk Management. Interorganisational training increases awareness of Supply Chain Risk Management processes; and generates common values and standards between Hidden Champions' employees and their supply chain partners, enabling agile communication and cooperation …
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Constituting Modern Matron: exploring role, identity and action in an English NHS Trust
… National Health Service (NHS) is a contested organisational terrain where what it means to be ‘professional’ is under threat from a dominant ‘new managerialism’ discourse. Sustained organisational change and reform during the past thirty years has impacted on the nature of professional work …
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Federating EU Development Cooperation? Europe’s Contributions to International Development Effectiveness
… decision-making centres, transcend the organisational boundaries of member state bureaucracies, EU institutions and civil society organisations. These findings fill a gap in our understanding of how EU norms governing collective external action are advocated as existing research has …
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Team approaches to developing innovative products and processes
… Research findings emphasised the diversity of organisational team approaches which were more complex when several departments, teams or companies were involved. Team approaches were broadly classified - 'single-disciplinary', 'multi-disciplinary' or 'multi-functional' - according to members' …
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Regulating contracts in the independent television production industry
… and legal rules are having an effect on the boundaries of firms and markets, but the norms that sustain contracts in television production are also influencing the way in which legal rules and terms of trade are being redesigned and interpreted. The dissertation demonstrates the role played …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
… Health Service (NHS), contextualised with its organisational boundaries as a ‘mesosystem’, with individual ‘actors’ embedded within, identified as working within ‘microsystems’. In many ways the case can be seen as typical, yet as a case, also unique, both in terms of the temporal component …
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SNACH a new framework to support business process improvement.
… systems and constraints within and across organisational boundaries to achieve predefined business goals. The demand for dynamic business environments, customer satisfaction, global competition, system integration, operational efficiency, innovation and adaptation to market changes …
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Extending knowledge management beyond organisational borders – barriers for South African construction organisations
… Knowledge Management (KM) practices beyond their organisational borders. Therefore, there is a need to examine the barriers faced by construction organisations when trying to extend KM activities beyond organisational borders towards encouraging the South African construction sector to improve …
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Oganisational boundaries and determinants of behaviour in organisations: A situational analysis. A conceptual and empirical inquiry into the determinants of behaviour of organisational members having direct contact with an organisation's exterior, emphasising the perception of situations which occur in work routines.
… furthering an understanding of the behaviour of organisational boundary personnel, or more exactly, with how boundaries act as psychological environments. The study has two complementary aims: to describe the psychological environment encountered by boundary personnel and to offer a theoretical …
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Oganisational boundaries and determinants of behaviour in organisations: A situational analysis. A conceptual and empirical inquiry into the determinants of behaviour of organisational members having direct contact with an organisation's exterior, emphasising the perception of situations which occur in work routines.
… furthering an understanding of the behaviour of organisational boundary personnel, or more exactly, with how boundaries act as psychological environments. The study has two complementary aims: to describe the psychological environment encountered by boundary personnel and to offer a theoretical …