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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"corporatization"”.
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The corporatization of health care in the New River Valley, Virginia
… of the increasing costs of medical practice, the corporatization of health care is occurring in which physicians must not only rely on corporations for access to the capital that they need, but also relinquish some of their power to the corporations. McKinlay and Arches (1985) assert that these …
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RHETORICS OF CONSUMPTION: IDENTITY, CONFRONTATION, AND CORPORATIZATION IN THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN MOVEMENT
Inquiry into how social movements affect change has historically been grounded in either sociology or communication studies and has focused primarily on collective action in public spheres. However, important movement activity also takes place in the private sphere between individuals. Such …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… two papers for the reform of the public hospital corporatization law in Lebanon. My final paper explains innovation in municipal finance in Chile, using the incomplete contracts approach. In each of the papers, I draw lessons for institutional design.
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Commercialization and privatization
… are three stages of privatization, starting with corporatization, commercialization and latest followed, by privatization
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Reinforcing stereotypes and normative ideologies through animated subservience: "How does grand theft auto V perpetuate the dominant ideology of patriarchy through male protagonist game play?"
… patriarchal and capitalist interconnections. The corporatization and privatization of the gaming industry connects capitalism and patriarchy as they both execute a form of exploitative politics. The difference between fantasy and reality is explored, as moral boundaries are often crossed in Grand …
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Privatization of power supply in Lebanon
… privatization strategy that calls for a corporatization and restructuring transitional phase preceding a limited form of wholesale competition.
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America Inc.: The Rise and Fall of a Civil Democracy
… education in terms of curricular mandates, the corporatization of higher education, rampant privatization, and globalization. Educational mandates have created an atmosphere of control in which students are methodically deprived of exploration and creativity through strict adherence to a …
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Concentration and dispersion of primary care physicians and implications for access to care in Cook County, Illinois: 2000-2008
… to control health care costs and the increasing corporatization of health care are changing physician decisions about how and where to provide medical care. Physicians are increasingly drawn to medical office complexes, group practices, and hospital-owned practices, resulting in a shifting …
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The Business of War: A Content Analysis of Private Military Companies' Websites
… the industry. The main factors discussed are the corporatization of service providers and growing trends of privatization during the Cold War. Method: Through the use of a conceptual framework, three descriptive categories were developed. Each descriptive category is comprised of sub-categories …
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Rebels of Laicacota: Spaniards, Indians, and Andean Mestizos in Southern Peru During the Mid -Colonial Crisis of 1650--1680
… are explained here as an Indian strategy of 'de-corporatization.' These rising numbers, as is argued in this dissertation, were due to Indian laborers who, through their experience in cities and mining centers, became culturally hispanicized in a process of shifting identities. Considered to be …
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Towards evening paratransit services to complement scheduled public transport in Cape Town: exploring alternative policy interventions from the minibus-taxi industry's perspective
… scheduled services, this research finds that corporatization of paratransit operators may be less feasible than other interventions explored; this suggests that the City's policy shift is appropriate and that alternative approaches to paratransit reform that are less costly and require less …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… in the 1970s surrounding militarization and corporatization. I then examine the films of the early 1980s, TRON (Steven Lisberger, 1982) and Electric Dreams (Steven Barron, 1984), that express a rapidly-changing cultural conception of computers, set in narratives of homosocial struggle. And …
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The Antioch Debacle: A Corporatist Misadventure in Higher Education
In June of 2007 the Antioch University Board of Trustees announced a unilateral decision to close Antioch College, a school with a 150-year legacy of cultural and educational innovation. This thesis seeks to situate this closure within the framework of current trends in higher education, and to …
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Erklärungsfaktoren für die Managementautonomie in kommunalen Mehrheitsbeteiligungen
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist der Trend der Verselbstständigung in vielen Kommunen zu beobachten. Ein Großteil der öffentlichen Leistungserbringer wird mittlerweile als privatrechtliche Gesellschaften in einem wettbewerbsorientierten Umfeld geführt. Während viele Forscher Ausgliederungen in Form …