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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Resource Dependence"”.
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Does mineral resource dependence foster corruption?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36).
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The Determinants of Hospital Adoption and Expansion of Bariatric Procedures: A Resource Dependence Perspective
<p>New medical technologies have been viewed as the primary cause of rising health are expenditures by health policy researchers in the United States. Since the mid 1990s, with the prevalence of obesity among Americans, the utilization of bariatric surgery, a medical innovation, has increased …
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Work-family responsiveness in organizations: The influence of resource dependence and institutionalization on program adaptation
… is relatively small. The frameworks of resource dependence theory and institutional theory were used to develop a model to explain differences in work-family responsiveness among for-profit companies. The theoretical models were tested on survey data collected through a stratified random …
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Reducing resource dependence on government funding : the case of public universities in Kenya and South Africa
… universities seek to reduce their financial dependence on government fundig. Globally, the neo-liberal economic order, among other factors, has privileged the reduction of state funding of public higher education. Given the obvious instability conequent upon the (drastic) reducation of …
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Influence of Organizational, Operational, Financial AndEnvironmental Factors on Hospitals' Adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems for Improving Patient Safety: A Resource Dependence Approach
… six rollout regions of the Leapfrog initiatives.Resource dependence theory provides theoretical basis for the study. The study is retrospective observational in design. Individual hospitals are the unit of analysis. The Leapfrog Group's 2002-survey collection serves the primary data source. …
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Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain Ngo Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities
… <p>Furthermore, the dissertation integrates resource dependence theory (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978) and the theory of weak ties (Granovetter 1973, 1983) to construct a more parsimonious theory to predict organizational responses to changes in the surrounding environment. Each of the two …
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The Influence of Board Diversity: An Investigation of Management Fraud
… existence of fraud perpetrated by managers. The Resource Dependence Theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) suggests that organizations exert control of their environments by co-opting the necessary resources for survival by choosing board members that bring different perspectives, experiences, values, …
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Directing rural cooperatives in uncertain environments
… boundary spanning units. The decision making and resource dependence perspectives were the source of most hypotheses. A third perspective, population ecology, was introduced as a means of interpreting cooperative literature and improving future theory and empirical research on cooperatives;Two …
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Civil Society Organisations and Food Poverty in the UK: A Case Study of the London Borough of Islington
… in this field. This thesis draws on resource dependence theory (RDT) to conduct a critical case study of a cross-section of this sector in one locality in order to draw out the details of how the organisations in this sector act and interact. This case study focuses on CSFPOs in the …
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EXAMINING HOW TENNESSEE STATE MERIT AID INFLUENCES INSTITUTIONAL GRANT AID: A DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES APPROACH
… institutional grant aid. Principal agent and resource dependence theories together establish state and institutional context as well as inform potential institutional responses to the TELS program. Data are primarily observed at the institution-level from 2000 to 2009 and come from the …
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Power, conflict, norms, and transaction costs: A synthetic transaction cost analysis of discrete and relational exchange behavior between channel members
… conflict, and contracting behavior are explored. Resource dependence theory constructs are recast within an economic transaction cost paradigm in order to synthesize the two streams of literature.
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Third Sector Campaigning Strategies: A study of Third Sector Organisations campaigning for the reform of UK child poverty policy
… inquiry into child poverty. Analysis applies a resource dependence perspective combined with a social fields approach, to show how the values of key resources TSOs possess and require for their work vary depending on whether they use an ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ campaign strategy. The research …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… innovation, knowledge capital, governance and resource sustainability for knowledge synthesis in the domain of responsible management. This study synthesises 11 interrelated studies, utilising rich cross-country and firm-level econometric investigations to examine how financial development, …
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Enterprise Risk Management: The Transformation of Board-level Engagement as Evidenced by Disclosure
… value strategic use of ERM, consistent with resource dependence theory, but do not value additional ERM governance, consistent with the cost/benefit rationale of agency theory. Finally, the study finds that the association of BODERMX and current year audit fees is not significant., suggesting …
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The Influence of Director Human Social Capital and Firms' Entrepreneurial Orientation on Corporate Entrepreneurship
… address this gap, the current study develops a resource dependence theoretical framework to investigate how corporations leverage directors’ experience and networks to enhance organizational rejuvenation efforts. Entrepreneurial orientation also is examined as a contextual factor in the director …
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An Assessment of Corporate Governance Practices: A Case Study of Kuwait's State-Owned Enterprise
… including political influence, limited board independence, insufficient diversity, and weak oversight mechanisms. To address these issues, the thesis contributes on three levels. First, it highlights a contextual gap by providing rare empirical insights into SOE governance in the GCC region. …
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Governance and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… interrelationship between governance, democracy, resource dependency, and human development in Africa. Specifically, the Human Development Index (HDI) and six governance indicators from the WGI database are employed to estimate a dynamic panel model on forty-eight sub-Sahara African countries …
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MODERATING EFFECT OF SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS STRATEGIES: THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN SUPPLY CHAIN RELATIONSHIP AND PERFORMANCE
… supply chain management and organization theory (resource dependence theory). This interdisciplinary approach provides a broader perspective in operations management research. Third, through this research, guidelines are provided for not only powerful firms but also the weak ones on how to improve …
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Resource Control and Political Development in Africa: The Cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Botswana
… it appears that the countries with the greatest resource wealth have often had the hardest time achieving political and economic stability. Is there a direct correlation between the way in which natural resources are controlled within a country and its democratic process? How do other factors …
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Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University
… of organizational knowledge creation and resource dependence theories to analyze the emergence of academic entrepreneurialism. This study also assesses LSU’s capitalistic effectiveness against models of entrepreneurial development used by other U.S. colleges and frames entrepreneurial …
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