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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Sociology, Organizational"”.
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Exploring the Relationship Between Dimensions of Organizational Learning and Firms' Financial and Knowledge Performance in the Korean Business Context
… Korean translated instrument has some utility as organizational learning measurement tool in the Korean context. The findings of this study support the limited existing empirical research which has suggested that there is a positive relationship between organizational learning and firms' …
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The HR Consulting Entrepreneur: Firm-Builder, Market-Maker and Diffuser of HR Management Knowledge in an Emergent Business System
The study makes three key contributions: First, in a departure from the standard institutional approaches to the study of management practices transfer, it uses the lenses of two entrepreneurial theories of decision-making in early markets---the effectuation and the nexus of …
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Health Care Institutions, Medical Organizing, and Physicians: A Multilevel Analysis
… it is not dissatisfying for physicians in all organizational settings. The institutional theory of organizational communication (ITOC) offers a multileveled explanation of physicians' reactions to managed care based on their institutional identifications and communication with managed care …
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The Role of Collaboration in Knowledge Production and Technology Transfer
… three major categories: collaborative forms, organizational learning, and knowledge and innovation. The results show that the formation of Centers of Excellence (COE) has been used by Global Diversified Healthcare Company (GDHC) to increase the quality of its commercialized products, while …
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Organizational Learning, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition, and Innovation Performance in High Technology Firms in Taiwan
The findings from this study have suggested many practical implications to assist HRD professionals, managers, entrepreneurs as well as governmental agencies with interventions designed to maximize learning, entrepreneurial processes, and innovation performance at the individual and firm-level. …
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Social Structure and the Dynamics of Interfirm Ties: The Audit Services Market, 1986 to 2002
These findings are consistent with two sociological observations. First, the dissolution and formation of market relations are affected by larger social structures of those relations. Second, market actors are not simply passive social entities, but rather their actions actively shape the social …
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Face -to -Face Interaction in the Multilingual Workplace: Social and Political Aspects of Language Use in Montreal
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
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Influences on Women's Perceptions of Climate for Sexual Harassment
Organizational tolerance of sexual harassment has been repeatedly touted as an important antecedent of sexual harassment. Yet, not much is known about the antecedents of perceptions of organizational tolerance. Based on theories from the sexual harassment, organizational justice, and psychological …
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Compromises in Career-Related Decisions: Hypothetical Choices, Individual Differences, and Actual Outcomes
This study examined the process, correlates, and outcomes of compromise in career-related decisions, as a test of Gottfredson's (2002) theory of circumscription and compromise. Sex-type, prestige, and work activities are important dimensions along which individuals consider occupational …
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Cross -Cultural Study of *American and Chinese Managers: Use of Information in Decision -Making
… additional cross-cultural empirical research and organizational attention is needed.
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Technologies of Intelligence and Their Relation to National Security Policy: A Case Study of the U.S. and the V-2 Rocket
… of social and material components. It involves organizational and procedural innovations as much as it does specialized hardware for obtaining, manipulating, and distributing information. The development and function of American intelligence is illustrated here through a case study of how the …
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Antecedents of job embeddedness: An examination of social exchange relationships and org. culture.
Antecedents of job embeddedness: An examination of social exchange relationships and org. culture.
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Supervisor Unforgiveness in the Workplace: A Risk Protection Framework
Although there is growing interest in forgiveness in the workplace as a positive outcome for repairing workplace relationships, little is known about unforgiveness in response to workplace transgressions. This dissertation explores the conditions in which unforgiveness may be a functional response …
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Banking on Meaningful Work: How Organizations and Recipients Shape the Meaning of Helping Others Through Work
Despite a growing interest in meaningful work, current models have largely ignored the role of helping others in the construction of meaningful work, tending to focus instead on the role of personal dispositions, relationships, and the characteristics of job tasks. This is an important oversight …
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Collaborative Policing: A Case Study of the Red Deer Domestic Violence Collaborative Court Program
… funding, and unintended impacts of independent organizational decision-making. This paper contributes to collaborative policing literature by suggesting practical recommendations for success for existing or new community partnerships.
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The Leadership Succession Process In Megachurches
The purpose of this study is to examine the succession processes and experiences of senior pastors in megachurches. The term succession is used in the study to refer to the transition in which one leader leaves an organization and another one takes her/his place. The term process speaks of the …
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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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The Role of Social Capital in Organizations: The Precursors and Effects of Social Capital among Certified Nurse Aides in Nursing Homes
The role of social capital in forming organizational commitment is the focus of this research. Organizational social capital is the idea that social relationships have value in the organization. The theoretical framework is based on Kanter's (1993) structure of organizational commitment. This …
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