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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Organization Studies"”.
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Innovation and entrepreneurship in organization studies
This work, following the conceptual recombination theory, by which ideas and concepts are mentally merged to transform and extend knowledge, explores and summarizes the current sources of academic literature, simultaneously engaging research in the fields of entrepreneurship and creativity. A …
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Rotational motion and organization studies of cell membrane proteins
… membranes are dynamic structures with complex organization. The complexity of the cell membrane arises from intrinsic membrane structure, membrane microdomains within the plasma membrane and the membrane cytoskeleton. Plasma membrane receptors are integral membrane proteins with diverse …
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In Daedalus' workshop : technique and the dynamics of invention in organization studies
This study proposes an alternative vision of organizational creativity by examining the hidden nature of technique and its role within the production of new things. Taking the figure of Daedalus as an eponym for technical activity, this study asks how technique can be understood as contributing …
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An Analysis of Employee Turnover in a Selected Multi-unit Retail Institution
… voluntary employee turnover of a major retailing organization. Studies related to employee turnover in manufacturing organizations dominate the literature. </p>
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The Once and future pioneers? : the role of voluntary organizations in innovation in the personal social services
… explores the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations in the field of the personal social services. It commences with a full literature review, which concludes that the wealth of research upon innovation in the organization studies field has not addressed this topic, whilst the specialist …
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Understanding Gender in an Australian Trade Union. An Analysis Using Joan Ackers Theory of Gendered Organizations
… most influential and highly cited in feminist organization studies. Nonetheless, it has been rarely applied, only partially so in the majority of cases and never operationalised fully in a union. This thesis applies the framework, operating through all five dimensions, to one atypical …
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Projects, management, and protean times : engineering enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960
… recovering a thread obscured by emphasis on the organization of integrated, divisional companies and operative labor within them. Applying ideas from recent work in organization studies to distill common aspects of the management problems and labor processes individuals have confronted and …
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Implementing a Digital Common Application for Affordable Housing in Massachusetts
… around three topics as requested by EOHLC: (1) organizational design considerations as the Common App scales, including internal staffing models, external vendor relationship management, and budget planning; (2) long-term technical integration opportunities, including identifying relevant data …
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Punishment and Violence in Organisation Studies
… theme of violence and punishment within organization studies. It takes the form of three journal style papers that draw on ethnographic data from two different settings. The first paper explores the use of extreme practices by vigilantes through an empirical case of a British pedophile …
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Material Objects, Meaning and Workplace Identity
… work than in other disciplines such as consumer studies. My research questions are: to consider how people conceptualise objects at work, to ask how objects and people are mutually implicated at work and to identify how this interactivity impacts on people’s identity at work. I review studies on …
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Struggles for refugee and migrant inclusion - An ethnographic study into the practices and politics of ‘doing’ inclusion in civil society organizations
… of inclusion in the context of civil society organizations (CSOs) promoting the social inclusion of refugees and migrants. Extending knowledge of how practices of inclusion can foster social change is ever more pressing, yet existing studies show how organizational inclusion efforts risk …
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Investigating the Impact of Organizational Resilience and Turnover in U.S. Local Governments: the Mediating Effect of Strategic Human Resources Management Practices
… has emerged into management research and organization studies, with scholars examining how organizations can prepare for the daily challenges that come with an ever changing and complex environment, thrive and capitalize on change, and uncertainty. Against the challenges that come with …
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Pioneering genomics innovation : using dynamic work design to implement a system of organizational boundary objects
… Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies and Associate Dean of Leadership. This method offers a new approach to designing work that is both effective and engaging, while ensuring daily operational work is directly linked to the high-level strategic goals of the Broad …
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4 Essays on Sustainable Development and Organizations’ Response to Stakeholder’s Expectations
… of the society, environment, and economy, the organization’s survival and growth depend on legitimacy which reflects the social support and acceptance of its stakeholders, the institutions and individuals it interacts with. Organizations interact with internal and external stakeholder groups …
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Self-Organizing Mechanisms for Task Allocation in a Knowledge-Based Economy
… or service. In this kind of environment economic organization is undergoing several changes. For example authority relations are less important, legal and ownership-based definitions of the boundaries of the firm are becoming irrelevant and there are only few constraints on the set of coordination …
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Civil society organisations and the production of socio-geographic space : the organisation of space in Brazilian favelas
… 1991). Lefebvre has been very influential in organization studies, although the more politically engaged aspects of his theory remain largely under-theorised in the field. This thesis analyses the organization of space beyond the limits of CSOs as workplaces, and explores the historical and …
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Sensemaking in Investor Networks: The Interactions between Financial Market Participants and the European Central Bank
… in and aims to contribute to organisation studies, the social studies of finance and economic sociology, particularly with reference to networks. It shows the ways in which both monetary policy and investment decision-making is shaped by social processes of sensemaking in expert networks, …
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Las causas de los conflictos intergrupales en las organizaciones : caso de estudio en una organización del sector financiero en Colombia
En la literatura es posible encontrar diversos tipos de trabajos que versan sobre las tipologías y causas de los conflictos organizacionales. No obstante, hay una carencia de investigaciones empíricas sobre las causas de los conflictos intergrupales en las organizaciones colombianas. Por esta …
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Sensemaking y sensegiving en un contexto intercultural : el encuentro entre Japón y Colombia
El presente trabajo se propone identificar la manera en la que el proceso de construcción (sensemaking) y transmisión (sensegiving) de sentido se genera en un contexto administrativo intercultural, particularmente, al interior de una multinacional nipona que opera en Colombia. Para hacerlo, se …