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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"complex organizations"”.
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Resistance from top to bottom : the dynamics of risk management in complex organizations
Organizations today devote substantial resources towards the development of governance systems to increase transparency and accountability in areas such as quality, safety, financial accounting, and environmental performance. In this dissertation, I combine ethnographic and simulation methods to …
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Constitutive Relations Among Conflict, Power, and Change in Complex Organizations: An Ethnographic Study of a Government Research and Development Laboratory
… interconnectedness with power and change in a complex hierarchical organization. Three kinds of data were collected: observation of groups involved with implementing a planned change effort, interviews with members of the organization, and archival documents such as memoranda and electronic …
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ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES
<p>Hospitals are the largest and most complex organizations where health care is provided. Safe and effective patient care services in hospitals depend on the efficient decisions made by hospital executives. The main task of hospital executives is to ensure the hospital can provide high quality …
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A Framework for Influencing Massive Virtual Organizations
… needing advanced knowledge of potentially complex organizations. In addition to their designated duties, agents in the proposed framework perform some method of determining optimal traits such as configurations, plans, knowledge bases and so forth. Traits follow survival of the fittest …
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Toward a theory of organizational elements
Businesses are complex organizations with seemingly limitless interconnectedness and functionality. Organizational Charts are the limit to which many organizations consider their internal structure, while others build workflow models to identify and codify every keystroke and communique. In order …
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EXPLORING UNIVERSITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRESENCE AS RELATED TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS
… facilitates the analysis of universities as complex organizations through a Higher Education administrator's point of view. Not only do the findings suggest a correlation of PM data to predict a university's graduation rate, but also--more foundationally--the study confirms that Project …
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Applying Problem-of-Practice Methods from the Discipline of Higher Education within the Justice System: Turning the Concept of Therapy Dogs for Child Victims into a Statewide Initiative.
… that provided a significant impact in the complex organizations of the justice system.
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… of multiple and competing expectations in complex organizations through the lens of identity theory. I begin with the premise that the challenge of managing multiple interests in organizations is essentially one of managing multiple identities. My main research question is: How does a …
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Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises: a theoretical perspective
… better understanding of the governance of these complex organizations that stand between the market and the government and, thereby, contributes to the development of a theoretical framework of contemporary SOEs. As in theories of business organizations, this thesis tackles two underlying …
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An analysis of culture in The Kirin Group
… and solving the challenges of managing complex organizations. The Kirin Group, too, has been working on changing its organization culture. Specifically, after Kirin began to implement its globalization strategy in 2006, the organization culture challenge became one of the keystones to …
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Enter the Water Carriers: Embracing Parenting Experience in Work Teams
… 1994; Jenner, 1994; Rodgers, 1993). The dynamic complexity of parenting and the concomitant necessity to make constant response shifts and navigate incessant uncertainty, is not acknowledged as collateral for the responsiveness required by complex organizations. Familial commitments are often …
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Efficient Automated Security Analysis of Complex Authorization Policies
… by authorization policies for increasingly complex and large applications. As a consequence, designers need to understand such policies and ensure that they meet the desired security constraints while administrators must also maintain them so as to comply with the evolving needs of systems …
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Change in co-operative organisations : the case of Greek pharmaceutical co-operatives
… trend seems ill-suited to explaining change in complex organizations of hybrid nature like co-operatives (i.e. a business firm and a civil association). Therefore, the aim of this study is to re-examine the prevailing patterns of change in the co-operative organizations by observing the change …
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Constructing Effectiveness: Culture, Legitimacy, and Strategic Planning in Zoos and Aquariums
<p>Zoos and aquariums are complex organizations operating with multiple mandates—saving species, providing exceptional care to animals, connecting communities with nature, and inspiring environmental action—making “effectiveness” difficult to define. What counts as success depends on who is asked …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… and districts to undergo change. Schools are complex organizations and there are a number of interrelated factors that contribute to the success or failure of change into a new model. In Alberta, organizational change was mandated in 2003 through government acceptance of a Commission’s …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… and districts to undergo change. Schools are complex organizations and there are a number of interrelated factors that contribute to the success or failure of change into a new model. In Alberta, organizational change was mandated in 2003 through government acceptance of a Commission’s …
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The evolving boundary role of the collegiate registrar
… in their development from simple institutions to complex organizations, required new areas of administration. Most institutions had managed, with a part-time registrar. But with the enlargement of functions and scope, registrar support service responsibility became a full-time occupation. …
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Organizational Decision-Making in Information Technology Choice: A Case Study and Investigative Approach
… that has not been extensively studied is how organizations select technologies to begin with. To understand how an organization makes a choice on technology, one has to investigate the underlying organizational decision-making processes. The subject of this research is a case study of a …