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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"agency-structure"”.
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Organising for Advertising Creativity: Differential Effects of Agency Structure, Absorptive Capacity, and Abrasion on Originality and Appropriateness
… Clients Really Get the Advertising They Deserve: Agency Views of How Clients Influence Creativity.” The article extends the findings from this seminal work in a different country context. The next article looks into a number of structural elements driving creativity in the agency-client …
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Construction of Hong-dae cultural district : cultural place, cultural policy and cultural politics
… to simultaneously take account of the issues of agency, structure and culture by explicating the relationship between cultural policy and social change.
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Exploring information systems development in English local government : a morphogenetic approach
… examines the complex relationships between agency (Le. populations, organised groups,individual actors and collectivities), structure (Le. systems, institutions, roles, positions), and culture(ideas, theories, beliefs and values) in the specific context of cycles of information systems …
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AN AGENCY’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE: HOW TO GAIN ADMINISTRATIVE AUTONOMY AS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
… autonomy. It also examines the impact of formal agency structure on agency autonomy for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—an independent agency—and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—executive agencies. It further outlines three informal factors …
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Protected areas and management agencies in arid landscapes.
… related to policy making and implementation, agency organization, and landscape characteristics. A framework for analysis of the commons is adapted for the analysis of each agency. Literature review and information obtained by surveys are used for the analysis of the agencies to fit the …
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Postcolonial and Constructivist Theoretical Explanations of Women'S Traditional Agency In Sociopolitical Participation and Reproductive Rights In Present Day Mali and the Pilipinas
… how women's traditional sociopolitical agency in Mali and the Pilipinas has been impacted by colonization. The effects of colonization on women are something that traditional International Relations theories have not examined. Both postcolonial theory and constructivism have an …
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The Public Land Manager in Collaborative Conservation Planing: A Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies in Montana
… PLMs provide to collaborative initiative, agency structure, and the influence these three factors have on collaborative processes and outcomes.
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The Public Land Manager in Collaborative Conservation Planing: A Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies in Montana
… PLMs provide to collaborative initiative, agency structure, and the influence these three factors have on collaborative processes and outcomes.
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Student experiences of full-time education courses in Higher Education: an empirical and theoretical investigation
… factors, and attempted to develop the agency-structure debate. The research found age and associated responsibilities to have a significant influence on students' choices and decisioý-making processes whilst in higher education. Cultural capital and social capital were found to be …
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Entrepreneurship-based factors to foster climate adaptation among Indigenous communities
… case study analysis involved 90 in-depth semi-structured interviews with nine Indigenous communities in Sri Lanka. I found 15 entrepreneurship-based factors that shape the emergence of entrepreneurship to foster climate adaptation. I categorized those 15 factors under five key themes. They are …
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Reconsidering Academic Dishonesty: A Critical Examination of a Complex Organizational Problem
… traditionally framed as a problem of student agency, plagues higher education institutions. In order to facilitate leadership toward the resolution of the problem, this study reconsiders academic dishonesty as a symptom of the complex interplay among agency, structure, and culture. The …
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The Role of Identifications in Higher Education Decisions
… drawing on the socio-ecological model of agency, plus Boudon’s conceptualisation of primary and secondary effects. Results from a multinomial logistic regression model showed that agency, structure and academic performance play varying roles in predicting different identifications with …
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Enhancing participation through rural self-help structures in KwaZulu - the case of a bureaucratic public institution
… in rural KwaZulu for their potential role as structures for enhancing people participation. The objective was to generate policy guidelines for agencies involved in participative development programmes in rural Third World environments - particularly the large public institutions. It selects …
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A Qualitative Analysis of the Narratives of Women Imprisoned for Killing in a Prison in Lahore, Pakistan
… The results show complex interactions between agency and structural forces that shape women’s pathways to prison and violence. In particular, this study demonstrates the ‘situatedness’ of individual choices in an individual’s structural context. The results have important implications for …
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Peter L. Berger's Early Conception of Agency: Exposition and Evaluation.
<p>Peter L. Berger's conception of agency in his earliest writings (c.1954-1960) is logically and empirically inadequate. At the root of this inadequacy is an idealism that prevents him from providing a compelling account of actual empirical agency. Chapter 1 asserts that Berger's earlier works …
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Menstrual Health and Hygiene and Adolescent Pregnancy in the Rorya District: A Case Study of Two Health Education Interventions in Rural Tanzania
… capabilities correlates to the interplay between structure and agency. Structure is understood in terms of the social characteristics of the living environment of the adolescent girls. For my study, agency refers to the perceptions held by adolescent girls with respect to their ability to make …
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Pathways, through opportunity, towards social inclusion: a multiple case study of young womxn in marginalising contexts in post-apartheid South Africa
… and in marginalising contexts are capable of agency, demonstrating a responsiveness to social conditions that defies a victory of structure in 1 conclusively predetermining their experiences of everyday life. Examples exist of young womxn who have opened and walked their own pathways towards …
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A libertarian approach to teaching reading
… way by proposing that we think of freedom as agency-within-structure. This modified conception of freedom helps us recognize that freedom is not the mere absence of constraints, and in fact certain constraints are actually necessary to promote freedom. I argue that requiring all children to …
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Young Moroccans Navigating Family, School and Work: Exploring Agency in contexts of Neoliberalism and Coloniality
… neighborhoods in Morocco exercised their agency in their everyday lives. Addressing their family, education and work, this study draws on the findings from 30 semi- structured interviews focusing on the challenges and agential potentials of young individuals from underprivileged …