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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Qualitative comparative analysis"”.
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Expanding the Network Evaluation Toolkit: Combining Social Network Analysis & Qualitative Comparative Analysis
… 2011). Researchers have used social network analysis (SNA) to examine the relationship structures and characteristics of collective action networks. However, determining whether collective action networking produces outcomes has been challenging because networks are complex, affected by …
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A phrase mining and qualitative comparative analysis incorporating stakeholder perspectives in international engineering projects
The student, Kelsey Schreiber, accepted the attached license on 2019-12-11 at 07:15.
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Understanding ethnic entrepreneurship in agricultural settings : qualitative comparative analysis of ethnic groups in New Zealand agriculture
… mobilisation within agricultural settings using Qualitative Comparative Analysis of ethnic groups in New Zealand agriculture. The thesis addresses ethnic solidarity through the application of the concept of ethnic entrepreneurship. Major theoretical perspectives on ethnic entrepreneurship have …
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Of butter knives, juice boxes, and turning points : accounts of domestic violence on two sides of the Atlantic
This qualitative comparative analysis examines the experience of being in an abusive relationship as well as of leaving it from the perspective of domestic violence survivors and their service providers. This work demonstrates the inadequacies of analysing domestic violence as solely an individual …
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Intellectual property and architecture : how architecture influences intellectual property lock-in
… and lock-in, an intermediate-N fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis research approach was formulated and executed using 14 DoD software cases representing over 34 million lines of code. The model used three input conditions: high quality technical architecture, accessible …
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Predicting the Results of School Finance Adequacy Lawsuits
… in which states experienced an adequacy lawsuit. Qualitative Comparative Analysis, a method deisgned to allow for structured comparison in small- and medium-n studies by identifying necessary conditions, was employed to test political and institutional hypotheses. Analysis revealed that there were …
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FFA membership growth compared to a changing and growing student population
… (NCES). Using Ragin’s (1987) method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), student population growth and demographic changes in student race/ethnicity, locale, and free and reduced-price lunch were compared to FFA membership growth by state and region. The QCA method was also used to …
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Organizational Collaborative Motivations and Purpose-oriented Networks: Linking Organizational Theories with Network Characteristics
… working in networks. The first phase is a qualitative exploration of the conceptual framework using interview data, and the second phase draws on survey data and crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (cs-QCA) to refine the theoretical framework. The two-phase study indicates that …
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Barriers to Trust Between Police and Disadvantaged Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Officers' and Residents' Perspectives in San Antonio, Texas
… and residents in San Antonio, Texas, using a qualitative comparative analysis of semi-structured interviews with 18 participants, including eight law enforcement officers and 10 residents from disadvantaged communities. The findings indicate that officers perceive public distrust as driven …
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Essays on Stakeholder Activism and Firm Practices
… of employee activism campaigns and use Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative analysis to identify and explain the interaction among movement tactics and organizational factors. The findings highlight the different configurations of successful and failed employee activism campaigns and add to the …
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Establishing a new guideline for South Korea's Renewable Portfolio Standard
… by the policy change. In the current study, a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) approach was used to compare RPS policy frameworks as implemented in the US, China, Australia, EU, and the UK in order to highlight best practices and provide benchmarks for the design of an effective RPS …
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Conditional and Differential? Locating the Role of Civil Society in Anti-corruption Policy Outcomes
Quantitative, and to a much lesser degree qualitative, research is the dominant approach to corruption. However, the call to investigate the contextual dependencies of corruption is brought about by the failure of anti-corruption approaches that do not tackle other actors or institutions and issues …
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COLLECTIVE ACTION IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE EU AND THE US AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SCALING UP TO IMPACT THE ENERGY TRANSITION
… This doctorate research is a quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis, complemented by an in-depth data mining and analysis to explore the socioeconomic phenomena of these initiatives. This includes investigating how they are already influencing the EU and US energy systems, and their …
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Aligning Public-Private Partnership Contracts with Public Objectives for Transportation Infrastructure
… strategies which support these outcomes? Through qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a recently-developed method for evaluating qualitative data quantitatively, patterns of PPP contract strategies which correspond to three common policy objectives--achieving a specific toll rate, managing …
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… to the 2013 Turkish Gezi protests, a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 44 different historical massacres is presented in which repression backfired and increased protest in some cases, but not others. Repression backfire is a highly asymmetrical and nonlinear causal phenomenon. I …
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Are There Sex Differences in Behavioral Predictors of Successful Weight Loss Maintenance?
… lifestyle and preferences. The purpose of this analysis was to examine sex differences in WTLM outcomes and to identify potential behaviors related to WTLM success. In a 12-month study targeting WTLM, weight-reduced middle-aged and older men and women (n=39) were assigned behavioral goals for …
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Using Theory of Change to design and evaluate complex mental health interventions in low and middle income countries: the case of PRIME
… on the value of ToC workshops using a framework analysis of workshop documentation and interviews with facilitators. Thirdly, I explored the development of the ToCs within the programme as a whole and the implications for the development of the intervention and the choice of evaluation methods. …
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Our Identities Are Different: Unpacking the Presence and Absence of Organizational Identity in Corporate Apologies
… of any precedent, I conduct an exploratory qualitative comparative analysis including constructs from both literatures, on a sample of N = 31 selected from a comprehensive dataset containing newswire reports on corporate apologies from 2008 to 2016. I use "references to organizational …
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Unpacking the relationship between political institutions and conflict recurrence
… to promote peace after civil war and uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), rather than quantitative analyses as in the first two chapters, to identify successful strategies of international peacebuilding. Overall, this thesis expands the current literature by disaggregating the …
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