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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Postindustrial"”.
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Strategies for reclaiming urban postindustrial landscapes
… and, through a broader perspective, postindustrial landscape reclamation. Key issues and ingredients for success in the brownfield redevelopment process are distilled from the investigation of two case studies, one of which is Nine Mile Run in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The process …
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Testing One Framework for Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age
… Corporation. Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age is a book by Ashley J. Tellis, Janice Bially, Christopher Layne, and Melissa McPherson written with the specific goal of providing a detailed framework that would be useful to the United States' intelligence agencies as they …
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New Organization Forms: An Examination of Alienation and Ideology in the Postindustrial Workplace
… ideological dispositions can both prosper in the postindustrial workplace as long as elements of the traditional economic compact are in place.
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Affecting Change Synergistically: An Interpretative Case Study of Leadership Relationships at Southwest Airlines
… Instead, what organizations are in need of is a postindustrial model of leadership. Rost defined 21st century leadership as "an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes" (p. 102). This study sought to operationalize 21st century …
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Leadership Relationships and the Superintendency
… of leadership is making way for the emerging postindustrial view--a view that regards leadership as an inter-relational process among people who intend real, substantive changes berthed from a mutuality of purpose. This research focused on the leadership relationships forged in the Vista …
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Poland after 1989: a shift to postmaterialism or a rise of the underclass?
… from materialist to postmaterialist values in postindustrial societies. The other one is Ralf Dahrendorf's theory of the modern social conflict and the emergence of the underclass in postindustrial societies. The operationalization of Inglehart's theory has been based on the support given to …
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"They Don't Make'em Like They Used To": Cultural Hegemony and the Representation of White Masculinity in Recent U.S. Cinema
… to maintain power for the ever changing modes of postindustrial masculinity. Through the process of crisis and recuperation the central male characters in these films forge new, more acceptable attributes of masculinity that allow them to retain their centrality in the narrative.
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Leadership: Personal Narratives of Practitioners
… of leadership with management. However postindustrial leadership values do arise within some stories indicating a shift in consciousness and transition from the industrial to postindustrial paradigm. The study uses the metaphors of journey and conversation, along with 22 personal …
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Exploring the Impact of an Online Leadership Course on Japanese Undergraduates' Conceptions of Leadership
… (1991) characterized this new approach as the postindustrial paradigm of leadership. Unfortunately, changing the existing conception of leadership is not easy. Furthermore, assessing people’s leadership perceptions is challenging because leadership is often a tacit and latent construct. Because …
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Cuantificación e impacto de microplásticos en especies marinas
… industrial y en el proceso de gestión postindustrial de los residuos generados.
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Making meaning in a modern world: place and identity in Leadville, Colorado
… founded, mining towns like Leadville provide a postindustrial landscape through which to study the ways in which individuals and communities rely on their history and memory to maintain a stable identity in a modem world that no longer accommodates the kind of economic structure that they most …
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Adaptable structural surfaces
… can be applied in a topical way in today's postindustrial situation, and how architects can deal with a special field within architecture and how their way of working can be complimentary to engineers' and scientists' way of working.
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Real to reel : a center for inter-related media, Boston
… of given boundaries. In the city of pastiche, a postindustrial condition has revealed a reading of the city that begins to question our temporal existence ... that we attempt to make a place of discourse, a place to create, contemplate and learn. This thesis proposes that this place be an …
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A North Wind: The New Realism of the French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
… the transition from an industrial economy to a postindustrial economy in which existence has become precarious for many. I argue that films such as Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1999) and L'humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999) have emerged from the endeavor of Wallonia and the French North to …
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Rethinking homeownership : why alternative tenure strategies are needed to stabilize neighborhoods in Lawrence, MA
… and physical characteristics of smaller, postindustrial cities, I rely on Lawrence, MA as a case study to examine housing tenure and homeownership strategies-particularly within the current economic climate and foreclosure crisis. The primary goal of this thesis is to combine first-hand …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
… Detroit is a site of critical learning within a postindustrial/postcolonial context. This intersectionalist approach to service-learning is likened to bell hooks's concept of homeplace, a site of resistance created by Black women for the purposes of conducting anti-oppression work. Integrating …
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Consolidated periphery : commercial and highway interchange
… the service and information based economy of postindustrial development, have allowed for the dispersion of traditionally urban functions into continuously less urbanized peripheries. As the ambiguous zone between city and country is inhabited, suburbia emerges. Commercial, industrial and …
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The engineers and the urban system, 1968-1974/
… engineering of complex social systems in a postindustrial society. This project of the production of expertise at the USL struggled to secure legitimacy in the early 1970s as the attempt to treat the problems of urban America as phenomena to be handled by a new class of experts was …
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Training civic bridge builders: Outcomes of community leadership development programs
… knowledge, skills, and attitudes. However, postindustrial leadership theories suggest that leadership in the community relies not on individuals but on social relationships that develop across groups akin to social bridging. The purpose of this study is to extend and strengthen prior …
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