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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"case-in- point"”.
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
… Citizenship as a social phenomena spans a growing body of corporate initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of scholarly and …
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Do Undergraduate Business Schools Cultivate Creative Thinking: The Wharton Curriculum As A Case In Point
… describes a research study conducted to ascertain whether undergraduate business schools cultivate creative thinking, using the Wharton undergraduate education as a case in point. To determine this, past course syllabi were analyzed for objective(s) of cultivating creative thinking. This was …
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A Leadership Laboratory: Exploring the Use of Case-in-Point Pedagogy to Develop Complex Thinking in Leaders
<p>Leadership scholars have identified a growing gap between the complexity of 21<sup>st</sup> century organizations and the capabilities of individuals in positions of leadership to adequately address these challenges. This gap has contributed to a so-called <em>complexity crisis</em>—a situation …
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Case in point: understanding how macro and micro cases impact students' ability to identify ethical issues in computer science
… researchers have long touted the benefits of case-based learning in engineering and computer science ethics instruction, there is little empirical evidence supporting the approach's effectiveness in helping students to achieve key learning outcomes. This issue is further augmented by the lack …
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Developing an Instrument to Measure Group Dynamics Awareness: A Mixed Methods Study
<p>In a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, adaptive leaders are needed more than ever. Based on group relations programs developed by the Tavistock Institute, a pedagogy known as case-in-point has recently been brought to prominence and incorporated into …
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The cross-cultural camera of Akira Kurosawa
This minor dissertation is undertaken to examine the cross-cultural similarities that are revealed by motion pictures through analyzing the work of Akira Kurosawa and contrasting it with selective mainstream cinema texts. Kurosawa is a critical case in point due to his welding of Occidental and …
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Small scale, community based economic development in the Canadian Arctic
The term "northern development" in the Canadian Arctic is often associated only with large, non-renewable resource extraction projects. Other alternative development projects such as the co-operatives provide development on a scale that a community itself can manage and control. The "boom and bust" …
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Contractual Coloniality: Strategic State Intervention in Aboriginal Governance
This thesis argues that certain strategic interventions in the delivery of services to Indigenous Australians employ rationalities congruent with colonial-settler governance. The Koori Services Improvement Strategy in the Australian State of Victoria is a case in point. Detailed examination of this …
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Globally dispersed startups
Managing a hi-tech startup in the USA is a difficult challenge. Managing a startup based in a peripheral country is next to impossible. It requires setting up a strategic operations office in a different country and managing a startup that is globally dispersed. This thesis analyzes Israeli …
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Maa-Bara : catalyzing change in Nigeria's Niger delta
… serves as a design contribution to the war against poverty by proving that small-scale architectural interventions can propagate large-scale economic growth. It demonstrates how by 'rethinking relationships'- which is the essence of design thinking- synergistic innovations are created, capable …
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An Effective Communication Framework For Inter-Agent Communication In a Complex Adaptive System With Application To Biology
Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) and Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations (PDEs and ODEs respectively) have often been employed by researchers to effectively model and simulate Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs). PDEs and ODEs are reduction based approaches which view the system globally and ignore …
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Management requirements for coordinating the Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Program (SKEP)
… from the need to add to the debate issues of institutional arrangements when evaluating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation programs. The particular case in point is the Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Program (SKEP), which was initially set up by a NGO, Conservation International (CI), …
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A strategic assessment of CITIC Indistrial Bank
Important progress was made since Asia financial crisis in reforming China's stateowned banks. CIB is an example of Chinese banks taking decisive steps to address their respective problems. This thesis concludes that banking reform in China can not rely solely on macroeconomics measures. A great …
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Measurement of longitudinal double spin asymmetries of [pi]+/- production in p[over-arrow] + p[over-arrow] collisions at [sqrt]s = 200 GeV at RHIC
Spin dependent measurements provide incisive tests for modern theories of particle physics. The discovery that the integral of the quark helicity distribution is much too small to account for the spin of the proton is an excellent case in point. It inspired an intense period of theoretical scrutiny …
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Intermediary liability: evaluating the liability sections of section 53 (7) and (8) of Namibia's draft copyright and related rights bill 2021
Internet intermediaries have enabled the general public to access information easier, including copyrighted work. This however led to right to right holders targeting intermediaries for copyright infringement instead identifying and suing every individual user of internet intermediaries. In order …
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Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Controversies
There have been many breakthroughs in birth control technologies, many of which have been beneficial for women. However, many feminists who advocate reproductive freedom also warn that freedom for some might lead to further oppression for others. The case in point is the practice of tubal ligation …
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The Practice and Benefit of Applying Digital Markup in Preserving Texts and Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis of a Blank-Verse Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
… of the "digital scholarly edition" exist online, and the genre is thriving in terms of interdisciplinary interest as well as support granted by funding agencies. Some editions are dedicated to the collection and representation of the life's work of a single author, others to mass digitization …
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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap
… paper analyses the culture and community in Bo-Kaap, which is battling to preserve its heritage amid growing gentrification. Gentrification in this area is analysed as a special case in point, as although gentrification is happening in other neighbourhoods in Cape Town, Bo-Kaap is the home …
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Monolithic RF frontends for ubiquitous wireless connectivity
The desire for ubiquitous connectivity is pushing radios towards highly-integrated, multi-standard and multi-band implementations. This thesis explores architectures for next-generation RF frontends, which form the interface between the RF transceiver and antenna. RF frontend performance has …
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The management of construction processes in developing countries : a case study of the Ethiopian Roads Authority
The delivery of construction projects in Ethiopian is accused of non-optimum performance. With this poor performance of the delivery of projects as the instigator, this study set major objectives of exploring the current practices of the management of the construction processes in Ethiopia and …
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