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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Theory Building"”.
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Critical success factors for data governance: a theory building approach
… governance programme. The research follows the building theory from case studies approach by conducting two in-depth case studies in Saudi Arabia. To gather the data, a CSF approach is employed in order to conduct the interviews. The data are then analysed using open, axial, and selective coding …
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Understanding Violence and Conflict: Greenland as a Theory-Building Case Study
Greenland is a land where unresolved conundrums and fast-paced emerging threats intersect. If not properly addressed, these could worsen the critical rates of suicide (one of the highest in the world and 6-7 times higher than the other Nordic countries), multigenerational trauma, and other forms of …
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Pionless Effective Field Theory: Building the Bridge Between Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics and Nuclear Physics
… using \eftnopi (Pionless Effective Field Theory) at \ac{LO}. This is the first time the theory is extended to many-body nuclear systems. The free constants of the interaction are fitted using both experimental data and \ac{LQCD} results. The nuclear many-body Schr\"odinger equation is …
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A Gestalt model of domains in couple’s work: a qualitative, theory-building case study
This is a theory-building, qualitative case study in the field of couple therapy, based on a Gestalt phenomenological and relational methodology. I propose a new Gestalt Model of Domains in Couple’s Work (GMoD) to develop and improve clinical practice. The research explores the co-created …
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Theory Building Through Praxis Discourse: A Theory- And Practice-Informed Model of Transformative Participatory Evaluation
… T-PE is an underdeveloped evaluation theory with relatively low operational specificity. Case examples provide some understanding of it in practice, but comprehensive empirical support is still forthcoming. This study aims to develop a greater understanding of the participatory …
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Coalitional Congruence and Presidential Influence
… presidency. This study purports to add to the theory building efforts by constructing two illustrative models of presidential influence: the coalition model and the elite model.
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Toward a Theory of Information System Development Success: Perceptions of Software Development Team Members
… dissertation was conducted in two phases: 1) theory building and 2) theory testing. The theory building phase began with a thorough literature review. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and the data analyzed to add emergent concepts to the model. The result of the theory building phase …
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Towards building a theory of Lean implementation in healthcare
… Furthermore, there is an absence of critical and theory building research of Lean implementation. This study specifically addressed these gaps by identifying some of the enablers and inhibitors of Lean implementation, using empirical methods.
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Systems Theory Based Framework for Competency Models
… development models. The literature of systems theory is applied to the concept of competency models via inductive theory building using Whewell's Discoverer's Induction supported by the structure of grounded theory. A competency model framework was developed that represents a distillation and …
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Informing the theory of collective entrepreneurship: investment choice
… collection of primary data while engaging in theory building. The empirical results indicate that risk mitigation, investor networks, exit options, voice processes, and previous experience are the most significant factors catalyzing the emergence of collective entrepreneurship.
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Towards a theory of the configuration and management of export-dependent land-based value systems: The case of New Zealand
… The objective of the study was to develop a theory of the configuration and management of export-dependent land-based value systems, supported by case study material drawn from select New Zealand industries. The Z-form Model constituted a framework from which both relevant contributions and …
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Setting the Standard: Media Literacy Education in Virginia's Public School
… purpose of this thesis is to contribute to theory building efforts so that media literacy education is better understood in academic literature, in higher education, and in K-12 curriculum.
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An Exploratory Study to Understand the Marwari Business Community's Approach to Entrepreneurship
… study adopts an ‘interpretivist’ paradigm to aid theory building within the subject domain of Entrepreneurship. The study leverages responsive interviewing and observation with an adaptation of ‘inquiry from inside’ approach to gain in-depth insights into the Marwari Entrepreneurship and …
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Deconstructing Negative Stereotypes, Myths And Microaggressions About Black Women: Reconstructing Black Women’s Narrative, Identity And The Empowering Nature Of Ethnic Identity
… black women empowerment and attempts to further theory building through narratives of black women participants and their narratives and views on a variety of issues.</p>
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Henry Miller and The Philosophy of The Inhuman Artist
… possible to reconstruct a coherent philosophical theory from the works of the American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980) and I develop an original and well-integrated version of that theory. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his …
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Considering distributed leadership and its effects on teacher leadership practices and student achievement
… in schools. This work presents the results of a theory building study investigating the following research questions: (a) In schools, is there a relationship between distributed leadership practices and increased student achievement? (b) How does distributed leadership shape and inform the …
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A complex ecosystem: a grounded theory approach to understanding student lending in tertiary education
… student lending ecosystem. Applying the grounded theory approach, core categories were identified by a process of abstraction from a representative sample of documentary sources accessed electronically. The conceptual model developed from the core categories, and the insights gained from the …
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Theorizing Network-Centric Activity In Education
… network activity in educational settings. This theory-building dissertation synthesizes research about networks in a variety of organizational settings in order to develop education-specific network theories. The methodology utilizes literature reviews that cover seminal works in general network …
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