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Showing 1 to 20 of 6597 for “"expectations"”.
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Expectations for Organizational Combinations
This study is an attempt to learn more about the expectations that people hold for organizational combinations (mergers and acquisitions). A measure of organizational combination expectations was developed to test hypotheses regarding the power, autonomy, identity, job security, and morale …
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Expectations in Financial Markets
… markets. How financial market participants form expectations when faced with uncertainty is therefore central to the study of financial markets. This thesis contains three chapters each highlighting the role of expectations formation in determining outcomes in financial markets. The first …
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Expectations across entertainment media
… product is dependent on how well their expectations are fulfilled. This study delves into the implicit contract that is formed between the purveyor of an entertainment property and their audience, as well as the consequences of frustrating audience expectations. Building on this model of …
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COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION
The construction of expectations has long been relegated and confined to psychological inquiry. This creates a deficit in research that necessitates a qualitative examination of how interpersonal discourse reflects and constructs mothering expectations. This study seeks to describe the relational …
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COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION
The construction of expectations has long been relegated and confined to psychological inquiry. This creates a deficit in research that necessitates a qualitative examination of how interpersonal discourse reflects and constructs mothering expectations. This study seeks to describe the relational …
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Tonal Expectations Defining Narrative Archetypes
<p>This thesis examines the contributions of tonal analysis to narrative readings of three nineteenth-century pieces. The method used originates from the work of two theorists, Byron Almén and Fred Lerdahl. Almén’s 2008 book, <em>A Theory of Musical Narrative</em>, outlines narrative archetypes. …
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Roles and expectations in inclusion
<p>The purpose of this study is to increase middle school teachers' awareness and knowledge of the inclusion model. This study will include research, professional development workshops on inclusion, and evaluation surveys. Through the research and teacher input, further workshops will be designed …
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The motherhood myth: unrealistic expectations
… dissertation explores the gap between women’s expectations of motherhood before they have children and the reality of their lives as mothers, a phenomenon that I call the Motherhood Myth. My study sheds light on how this Motherhood Myth takes shape, how it is transmitted and reinforced by …
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Icelanders' and Americans' expectations about counseling : do expectations vary by nationality, sex, and Holland's typology?
… Icelandic and American students' counseling expectations. Second, to study counseling expectations of men and women. And finally, to explore the relationship between counseling expectations and Holland's typology. Eight-hundred-and-one useable responses were gathered from the students. To …
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Climate change information and analyst expectations
… impounding of climate information into financial expectations. Using survey data from CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) about firms’ self-identified climate-related risks along with over 1 million analyst reports from ThomsonOne, I find climate disclosures foreshadow future financial …
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Expectations of motherhood: a qualitative investigation
Purpose: Women’s experiences of depression following childbirth have received increased attention within the research base over the past two decades. However, depression that occurs during pregnancy, or antenatal depression, remains poorly understood and often unrecognised. The aim of the present …
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Expectations and Participation among Drama Students
… examines the role that students’ experiences and expectations play in their educational outcomes in drama class. Students from two beginning drama classes at a public high school participated in this study. They were introduced to a short unit on social theater and on Augusto Boal’s Forum Theater. …
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Developmental expectations for child-like sentences
… to establish developmental sentence diversity expectations for children at 30 months of age. Two research questions were posed: (1) Is there a difference in the diversity of sentence subject types (i.e., first person singular, third person singular) at 30 months of age? (2) Is there a …
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Student expectations of future life roles
… life roles, and therefore gain insight into the expectations they have of their future life roles. Using Kelly's Repertory Grids Technique, qualitative data was obtained through fifteen interviews with postgraduate students from the University of Cape Town. The data was analysed using a …
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Disconfirmed expectations and group decision behavior
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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