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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Organizational Sociology"”.
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Explaining the behavior of state-owned enterprises : Mexico's Pemex in comparative perspective
… fields: political science, economics, and organizational sociology. State-owned enterprise behavior is conceptualized as having two elements, business efficiency and policy utilization, and it can largely be explained with only three variables: the ideology of the government's ruling …
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Educational Facilities Planning: A Systems Model
… educational administration, architecture, and organizational sociology, a systems model of public educational facilities planning was developed. The model represents a theoretical construct from which design professionals and educators can better organize, understand, analyze, communicate, and …
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Firm Participation in Morally Contested Markets
Organizational participation in morally contested markets, that is, markets surrounded by controversy reflecting values-led beliefs, is an understudied topic (Zelizer, 1978, 1979; Healy, 2006; Quinn, 2008; Anteby, 2010). The extant research has tended to focus on the genesis and evolution of …
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Rethinking Organizational Leader Identity Development: A Social Network and Ethnographic Approach
… and mixed-media interaction to enhance organizational leader identity construction. A gap exists in management literature pertaining to the creation and use of social network technologies for this purpose.
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Controlling and Organizing the Network Structure of Korean Business Groups, 1997-2003
This thesis examines organizing and controlling mechanisms within the network structure of Korean business groups, chaebols, for the family-based corporate ownership and control under environmental uncertainty. Research focuses on the groups' changing patterns of inter-firm network structures, the …
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An evaluation of the onboarding ambassador program, how sense of belonging impacts quit intentions
… The problem to be investigated was the rate of organizational members quitting within the first year of employment. The goal of learning from the program evaluation was to understand how the onboarding ambassador program and sense of belonging affected quit intentions among newcomers. …
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Essays on Intellectual Property
This dissertation consists of three essays on regulation. In the first essay, "Firm Reputation and Screening at the Patent Office", we assert that the patent office is an important regulator, exerting influence on firm outcomes. Prior research argues that powerful groups such as top innovators are …
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An Examination of Online Volunteers' Organizational and Work-Group Identification and Intent to Leave: A Case Study of OCEF
<p>This study examined the relationships among organizational identification,work-group identification and intent to leave of online volunteers in a nonprofit organization—OCEF. A total of 245 participants completed the online questionnaire. Consonant with previous research findings, organizational …
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A Case Study of NASA's Columbia Tragedy: An Organizational Learning and Sensemaking Approach to Organizational Crisis.
… This thesis takes a case study approach using organizational learning and sensemaking theories to investigate crisis communication within NASA's 2003 Columbia tragedy. Eight participants, who in some capacity had worked for NASA during the Columbia tragedy in a communication centered position, …