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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"coercive pressures"”.
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Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument
… call an expert social scientist to assess the coercive pressures of an interrogation and risk factors for false confession. At present, there exists no standardized methods for performing this task, and each expert uses their own unstructured professional judgment. To address this lack of …
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Crisis Management in the Delivery of Women's Reproductive Health Care: Responding to Social Activism
… data indicate that rather than conforming to pressures by anti-abortion activists, facilities develop features that actively resist the pressures exerted by this stakeholder group. The work extends research in corporate social performance by pointing out that crisis management can be subsumed …
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Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors in Saudi-listed Companies
… questionnaire survey. The results indicate that coercive pressures has resulted in the diffusion of some governance practices, but normative isomorphic tendencies arising from sociocultural factors have prevented governance practices from being adopted effectively leading companies to decouple …
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Barriers to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Credit Scoring Systems: An Exploratory Study in Jordanian Banks
… and AI strategy; and (3) environmental (coercive pressures – government and AI governance, Central Bank and AI initiatives, cash culture, state-level big data centres, market dynamics and FinTech suppliers ;normative pressures – educational institutions; and memetic pressures – peer …
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An investigation of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Practices in Saudi Arabian Firms
… factors exemplified in normative and mimetic pressures are the main drivers for CSRR. There is no evidence of coercive pressures. In addition, it is confirmed that in some cases, organizations are not merely “black boxes” in which managers have no role other than complying with the external …
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The role of innovation and institutional pressures in sustainable packaging
… that enable adoption. It suggests that mimetic, coercive and normative pressures exist within manufacturing firms that can regulate and coordinate solutions. A level of understanding of perceived fidelity and perceived effort required were established to develop conditions where firms can create …
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Making sense of CSR practices: a case of companies operating in Nepal
… cannot always be assumed to give rise to the coercive pressures that normally drive companies to adopt CSR. CSR prevails even when political institutions are near absent. This research argues that there is a need to study CSR as a standalone topic in an emerging economy because different …
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Institutional pressures and decoupling in projects: The case of BIM level 2 and coercive isomorphism in the UK’s construction sector
… Institutional theorists would describe this as coercive isomorphism – encouraging firms across sectors to adopt the same practices. In the UK and many other countries, formal structures have been devised and imposed as part of these coercive efforts, including standardised processes for managing …
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Linking entrepreneurial motivation, attitude, behaviour and sustainable supply chain performance measurement in South African manufacturing small and medium enterprises
… are other forces around such as institutional pressures or resources that will directly affect their attitude towards SSCPM. The results reveal that institutional isomorphic patterns and resources impact in varying degrees on the SMEs' adoption and implementation of SSCPM. Government policies …