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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"conventional wisdom"”.
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The political discourse of globalisation: globalising tendencies as self-induced external enforcement mechanisms
I begin with a critical deconstruction of the conventional wisdom of globalisation. If the world does indeed resemble that depicted in the conventional wisdom, the claim that policy change is structurally determined at the economic level could well be sustainable. However, I show that globalisation …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
<p>The conventional wisdom of counterinsurgency runs that insurgent groups with bases in neighboring states (transnational sanctuaries) are relatively more difficult to defeat than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from …
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Integrated quality and quantity modeling of a production line
… studies, we have investigated some of the conventional wisdom on this interaction, and we have found that the wisdom holds only under specific conditions, and we show that the conventional wisdom is wrong under other conditions. We therefore anticipate that more such research will have a …
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Three Essays on Protest and Negotiations
… by which protests succeed or fail. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that protests mobilising more resources, such as people, money, facilities, and violence, are more likely to achieve their goals, this is now under increasing empirical challenge and needs theoretical refining. This …
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Analysing the loyalty levels displayed by football fans: A case study on Cape Town City Football Club
According to conventional wisdom, football fans exhibit perpetual loyalty to the clubs that they choose to support. These prevailing beliefs are largely the product of the fanaticism and intense partisanship that fans display. However, in South Africa, the reality is that the majority of the …
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Taking Terrorists at Their Word: Testing the Co-Religionist Hypothesis in Islamic State Propaganda
… be of the same religion as the belligerents. Conventional wisdom holds that Daesh, in choosing targets to fight both on the battlefield and in its recruitment propaganda, prioritizes groups that are less similar to it – for example, Jews and Christians. My analysis upends this conventional …
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Clashing Cultures or Collaborating Networks: A Study of Organization Culture in Breast Cancer Prevention
… A dominant culture emerged referred to as conventional wisdom. Emergent was a significant complex interaction of conventional wisdom with the advocacy movement of the early 1990s. This interaction consisted of a clashing that resulted in differentiated culture outcomes for advocacy: radical …
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Generation and Analysis of Strategies in an Evolutionary Social Learning Game
… respond to such shocks. This conflicts with the conventional wisdom that successful social-learning strategies are characterized by a high frequency of individual learning; and agrees with recent experiments by others on human subjects that also challenge the conventional wisdom.
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Strategies for Commercialization: Missouri Agriculture, 1860-1880
The conventional wisdom that commercialization fostered specialization, in the aggregate and on the farm, is not confirmed by farm-level evidence. I create a linked sample of rural farms and households from the 1860, 1870 and 1880 population and agricultural censuses of Missouri, and add data from …
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Managing uncertainty : foresight and flexibility in cryptography and voice over IP policy
… question is when they are capable of adaptation. Conventional wisdom and most organization theory literature suggest that organizations are reactive rather than proactive, reluctant to change, and responsive only to threats to their core mission or autonomy. The technological, economic, social, …
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Enabling dedicated single-cycle connections over a shared network-on-chip
… bottlenecks and limit scalability. Thus conventional wisdom forces coherence protocol and software designers to develop techniques to optimize for locality and keep communication to the minimum. This dissertation challenges this conventional wisdom. We show that on-chip networks can be …
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Greed, hedging, and acceleration in convex optimization
… chosen stepsizes. This result goes against the conventional wisdom that acceleration is impossible without momentum. The second main message is a universality result for quadratic optimization. We show that, roughly speaking, "most" Krylov-subspace algorithms are asymptotically optimal (in the …
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
… of the commons. Specifically, by challenging the conventional wisdom at the time, demonstrating how communities can successfully manage the common resources without any regulation by central authorities or privatization. Ostrom proposed eight design principles that identify the underlying …
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Three Essays on Property: The Microeconomic Foundations of Locational Obsolescence; Holdouts and Cartel Formations in the Land Assembly Process; Compensation for Land Use Regulation: The Lucas Case
… foundations of locational obsolescence. Conventional wisdom holds that locational obsolescence is caused by externalities, yet this view implies that externalities fall primarily on building, rather than land, values. Evidence is provided herein that a more general cause is misallocated …
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B2B E-commerce : value chain transformation, enablers and barriers, technology, privacy and security
… is changing the way we do business. Today's conventional wisdom says that in order to survive in the new economy era, companies must transform from and align their old business practices, processes and culture to suit the new business requirements. This thesis examines the dynamics of channel …
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Synthesis of Metal Nanowires Using Nanocracks and Dna-Templates and Their Characterization
… whereas aluminum nanowires, contrary to conventional wisdom, showed no grain growth even until melting. The absence of grain growth in aluminum can be attributed to the presence of more grain boundary impurities and an oxide layer that inhibit grain boundary migration and consequently …
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The Effects of Nonverbal Content in Political Spot Advertisements: The Interaction of Candidate Visual Presentation and Verbal Appeal Type
… the findings support the view that, contrary to conventional wisdom, variations in verbal content have more influence on viewers' responses to candidates than do variations in nonverbal content. The results argue for further study to account for these findings and to explore effects due to the …
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To protest or not to protest? : Zimbabweans' willingness to protest
… The evidence from this study reveals that, while conventional wisdom would associate protest with the economically insecure, the unemployed and individuals who belong to the working class, in Zimbabwe protest potential is high among the urbanised, the young, professionals, educated and the …
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The value of flexible design : real estate investment and development strategy under uncertainty
… and models, and produce results which challenge conventional wisdom. One case study suggests that including a redevelopment option can increase the valuation of moderately performing assets by up to 25% over conventional discounted cash flow analysis, even when redevelopment is not economically …
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Understanding developing countries' capacities to negotiate effective trade agreements : Colombia
… research contributes to the understanding of the conventional wisdom of international negotiations in developing countries. This work highlights the challenge of international trade negotiations for developing countries (the absence of critical thinking and prescriptive proposals, and the …
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