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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"individual actors"”.
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Becoming a Recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): Institutional Culture & Title V
… culture, such as external environment, mission, individual actors, and subcultures. While Kuh and Whitt (1988) and Tierney's (1988; 2008) frameworks capture most of the findings, several aspects of institutional culture emerged that were not fully integrated into either framework. Most notably, …
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Lessons of Vocal Coaching Shakespeare in Hollywood: A Production Analysis
… process; a description of my sessions with the individual actors and an exploration of the dynamics of the vocal coach-director relationship. Chapter three focuses on the finished production and summarizes my response to the experience.
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Developing boundary-spanning relationships : learning through success stories
… the current research does little to address how individual actors successfully build the relationships upon which networks are based. Therefore, this qualitative research into the characteristics shared by successful networkers is a positive contribution to the body of knowledge concerning social …
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Federal perceptions and tribal sovereignty: consultation and relations between the Bureau of Land Management and federally recognized tribes
… Part I of this research analyzes how individual actors understand and shape these government-to-government relationships. Results indicate that even though BLM decisionmakers are responsible for Tribal relations, archaeologists are the primary employees maintaining them. Part II …
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Urban complex : between institutions and space
… and differs from planned and designed purpose, individual actors and relevant stakeholders establish self-organized institutions, along with formal governance, to manage the common-pool resources inside these buildings. The research describes such buildings as an urban complex because of not …
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Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities
… between state institutions, commercial actors, and individual actors in shaping media narratives. Ultimately, the thesis demonstrates that the interplay between traditional and new media is central to understanding contemporary gender dynamics in China, because it functions both as an …
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Network, network position and the deal flow of venture capital firms
… structures facilitate cooperative behavior of actors. In contrast, network openness (Granovetter 1973, Burt 1992) stresses that networks characterized by weak ties and structural holes promote the autonomy of actors and their ability to flexibly identify new opportunities. These two theoretical …
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Policy and Legal Pathways for a Greener Economy: Exploring the Capacity of the Food and Beverage Processing Sector to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals
… sustainable development. Rather than critiquing individual actors, the research aims to support evidence-based decision-making and issue a call to action for industry, policymakers, and stakeholders to harness low-hanging opportunities for meaningful progress toward the SDGs.
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Public-private partnership and the politics of economic regeneration in Sheffield c.1985-1991.
… policy that drew on a range of institutional and individual actors, producing both formal and informal mechanisms for articulating this approach. The co-operative framework that emerged was one which allowed the local authority a key position in the mediation of local interests, but that also …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
… of the relationship between institutional and individual actors performing nation branding in Poland. The findings of this study unfold the implications of the imposition and invasion of nation branding within the Polish field of power, specifically with regards to the marketisation of Polish …
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Business ethics : exploring the field and contextualising its contemporary appeal
… complexities and the uncertainties confronting individual actors living in an era characterised as one of Reflexive Modernity.</p> <p>With regard to business ethics, it is contended that there is a need to locate the phenomenon within an analysis of the socio-economic milieux of Western society. …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
… existence of soldiers. Through the lens of individual selfhood, this approach will explore the gray areas that saturated the experience of war. In order to gain a better understanding of how ordinary soldiers appropriated individual autonomy in total war, this master's thesis plans to use an …
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Exploring information systems development in English local government : a morphogenetic approach
… agency (Le. populations, organised groups,individual actors and collectivities), structure (Le. systems, institutions, roles, positions), and culture(ideas, theories, beliefs and values) in the specific context of cycles of information systems (IS)development and organisational change in …
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INDIGENOUS CONTESTATIONS OF SHIFTING PROPERTY REGIMES: LAND CONFLICTS AND THE NGOBE IN BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA
… the study demonstrates how the social agency of individual actors produces an individualized micro-politico-legal ecology that shapes the force-field in which the actors are embedded and displaces the intended effects of legal and institutional property constructions. In so doing, the study will …
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Mega-project politics : the evolution of Lahore's first BRT corridor
… political will shown by strong, committed local individuals. However, a limited number of scholars have pointed out that demand and political will are not sufficient explanatory variables, and have called for incorporating alternative explanations that pay greater attention to the processes, …
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The Labour party and the impact of war, 1939-1945
… The thesis focuses upon a wide range of individual actors, but Attlee is central: examining the way in which Attlee controlled his party, established his authority, and sought to expand his influence within government, while simultaneously struggling against his great rival Morrison, the …
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THE MECHANICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE: CLANDESTINE ROUTINES IN THE ODEBRECHT CASE
… fragmented information so that no individual possessed a complete picture of the system. Second, untraceability ensured that payments left no formal connection to the firm, by using cash transactions and layered offshore accounts. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on what I call the Odebrecht …
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The evolution of copyright policies (1880-2010) : a comparison between Germany, the UK, the US and the international level
… of the economic importance of copyright to individual countries. In the light of this and to contribute to possible solutions, it is necessary to examine what or who has driven the process. To do this, the evolution of copyright polices has to be mapped in a comparative way. This thesis …
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Samba in practice: motivations for joining the UIUC samba ensemble and an explicit theory of practice for ethnomusicology
… of the ethnographic study is that while each individual participant may have their own unique constellation of reasons for joining such an ensemble, the set of possible reasons for joining is quite limited. All individuals thus combine a certain number of these shared motivations and it is …
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Agency, Households, and the Practice of Li (Social and Ritual Protocols): Paper-Offerings in Rural Shandong, North China
… interactive activities and relationships among individuals/ households, paper-offerings, and spirits/dead, in daily and ritual life. The practices of paper-offerings concurrently reflect the habitual actions and flexible agency of actors (individuals and households) in local Chinese societies, …
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