Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"contingency approach"”.
-
Costing Systems and Management Accounting Practices in Syrian Private Industrial Companies: a Contingency Approach: A Contingency Approach
… the study, the researcher has adopted contingency theory (CT) and institutional theory (IT) to identify those contingent and institutional factors having the greatest influence on the costing systems and MAPs used. This research is significant because it is the first empirical study in …
-
STRUCTURAL CONTINGENCY APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS.
STRUCTURAL CONTINGENCY APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS.
-
A contingency approach to the effectiveness of agenda sales strategies
… A conceptual model compatible with Weitz's Contingency Model of Salesperson Effectiveness was developed and tested. It was hypothesized that the effectiveness of agenda sales presentations is moderated by buyer expertise, the buyer/seller relationship, and the relative competitive strength …
-
Strategic models at the business level: Toward an integrative contingency approach
… has been made towards developing integrative contingency models of strategy, despite increasing interest in contingency models of strategy research. Also, very little research has been conducted to explore the strategic model on multiple performance objectives such as profit, market share, and …
-
Exploring new product launch strategies in the pharmaceutical industry: A contingency approach
… process. This study employs a coalignment approach to examine product launch operations and strategy. Accordingly, the study examines the impact of the coalignment among product launch strategy, a firm’s operations resources and its competitive environment, on new product performance. …
-
Cooperating for the Future: A Case Study of the Ashkelon Desalination Plant
… were proven to be insufficient, a more refined contingency approach of cooperating for the future was proposed. This thesis' study revealed that a competing technological company can cooperate with a competitor, if their collaboration promises to result in a breakthrough technology or …
-
Marketing, strategy, and the small firm: A systematic inquiry
… model employed explicitly incorporated a contingency approach to theory development, and as such contained contingency variables, response variables, and performance variables.
-
Modeling performance differentials in large construction organisations in South Africa
… theoretical views - industrial organisation, contingency approach, resource-based view and dynamic capabilities theory situated in the strategic management paradigm can be used in explaining the differentials in construction company performance. The rationale for the study stems from the …
-
The state and entrepreneurship in China: Essays from institutional and contingency perspectives
… activities rise or fall. My dissertation takes a contingency approach and test my claims by studying the booming entrepreneurial activities in China where the state has been widely acknowledged as a strong one. In the first study, I examine institutional level contingencies of state actions that …
-
The impact of high performance work systems on innovation performance: A study of Irish companies
… perspective and others including the ‘contingency’ approach. This study undertook to examine these issues by looking at the impact of HPWS on innovation performance in a multi-industry sample of firms in Ireland. A survey was conducted on a sample of 1000 larger firms, yielding complete …
-
Small business strategy and performance in a developing economy : an exploratory analysis of Zimbabwe’s small business sector
… sector of a developing economy. Drawing on the contingency theory of management, the study, inter alia, identifies knowledge gaps within the traditional contingency theory as well as in prior literature, and in addressing such gaps, insightfully contributes to the body of knowledge in this field …
-
Framing psychological factors effect on knowledge sharing behaviour: moderating role of islamic work ethics
… and personality traits) on KSB. Based on contingency approach, IWE was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between psychological factors and KSB. This study adopted a quantitative research approach and used convenience sampling technique to select the respondents. Four hundred and …
-
Relationship between organizational factors and job performance
… leadership on employee’ job at PTCL. Using contingency approach, HPHR was hypothesized to mediate these relationships. A quantitative research approach using cross-sectional survey design was used to collect data at PTCL. Respondents were selected using convenience sampling due to the …
-
The Journey from Intergroup Emnity to Peaceful Conflict Handling. Peacebuilding Experiences of local NGOs in the former Yugoslavia: Multiple Approaches for Undermining Intergroup Animosities and Dealing With Differences.
Classical approaches to conflict resolution assume that inducing conflict parties to analyse conflict constellations precipitates that the disputants recognise mutually shared needs or interests. Partially in critical reaction towards this assumption, a more recently emerging approach envisages …
-
Environmental attributes, strategy-making comprehensiveness and firm performance
… on strategy-:making. It appears this contingency approach is more fruitful in deepening and broadening our understanding of this critical area. To continue the research in this direction, this study inquired into the linkage between the environment and the strategy-making process. A …
-
The Constitution and the council-manager plan: public administration operating under a system without shared powers
… administrative behavior they should consider a contingency approach that is sensitive to the task area of the administrator. Indeed, data analysis suggests that a local government administrator’s profession may be the most important variable in predicting where an administrator will find …
-
Towards a generic theory of managerial and leadership effectiveness: a meta-level analysis from organisations in the UK Public Sector
… two broad camps. There are those who take a `contingency' approach arguing that the criteria that constitute management/leadership effectiveness are context-dependent, situation-specific and perspective-specific; and there are those who take a more `universalistic' approach, arguing that the …
-
Wirkungsvolles Change Management in Abhängigkeit von situativen Anforderungen : organisationale Veränderungsprozesse im Spannungsfeld von betrieblichen Voraussetzungen und Umweltanforderungen ...
Die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema Change Management erfordert die Auseinandersetzung mit einem heterogenen Feld von Ansätzen und fachlichen Perspektiven. Es besteht ein Mangel an systematischen empirischen Untersuchungen zu diesem Thema. Insbesondere fehlen Arbeiten, die mehr als eine "Schule" des …
Page 1 of 2