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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"informal structures"”.
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The influence of informal power structures on corporate strategy of a selected mining organisation in Northern Cape Province, South Africa
… ensures organisational success and the role of informal structures in achieving this success has also gained a lot of focus. However, several scholars have pointed out that most of the studies on informal structures have used western and Asian socioecological narratives to contextualise informal …
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Now That's Promising: A Social Influence Model of Innovation Evaluation
… such processes are influenced by the formal and informal structures within which individuals in this setting operate. To address these limitations, I first draw from work on the psychology of idea evaluation to identify and develop a heuristic of evaluation relevant to the evaluation of …
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Measuring the effects between family and teacher characteristics on student achievement
… the learning of a child through the formal and informal structures and procedures developed by teachers. Teachers can establish an environment that facilitates learning and influences certain values and behaviors.
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Making Community Gardens Thrive: A Systematic Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Community Gardens in Greater Victoria
… shows that local community gardens mostly adopt informal structures and non-bureaucratic governance which renders them vulnerable to challenges during its establishment and development. While many community garden organizers are rich in social capital, it is found that individual agency is …
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Informal pathbreakers: civil society networks in china and vietnam
… connections and develop into flexible, often informal structures that engage in path-breaking advocacy with authorities and elites. In the challenging political contexts of China and Vietnam, civil society networks have brought about significant social change. The findings of extensive …
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Design thinking for school improvement toward deeper learning
… in different ways, including through formal and informal structures such as scheduling and supervisory practices, hiring practices, and the mindsets that they modeled. Like principals, school district leaders can influence ow people engage with design thinking through the professional learning …
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Forces Affecting Beginning Teacher/Mentor Relationships in a Large Suburban School System
… problem solving, multi-layered support, and informal structures for getting together. Positive forces affecting the relationships included personality of the participants, perception of mentor role, closeness of age, proximity of classrooms, and common teaching assignment. Time constraints …
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Acceptability of the Human Papillomavirus(HPV) Vaccine among stakeholders in two selected Schools in Lusaka
… which included regulations, policies, and informal structures, also influenced acceptability of the vaccine by either constraining or promoting recommended behaviours. The study identified factors that influenced acceptability at individual, interpersonal and service levels. The findings …
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Exploring linguistic "creativity" on social media: A case of selected posts by Namibians on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp
… that interaction among the youth is made up of informal structures that deviate from standard English, which is a reflection of netspeak among the digital natives. The study found that the youth uses the following strategies of linguistic innovation: emojis and emoticons, code-switching/mixing, …
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Sustainability entrepreneurship : design principles, processes, and paradigms
… become embedded in the enterprises' formal and informal structures, allowing the enterprises to maintain their intended purposes and character while necessarily evolving to ensure survival into the future. The third principal outcome is the proposition that this distinct approach to enterprise …
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Women Parliamentarians perceptions of political influence in the South African Parliament
… transition. This study examines the formal and informal factors that South African women parliamentarians discuss as helping and hindering their political effectiveness.Aside from the work of Hassim (2003) and Pandor (1999), little academic research explores the experiences of women within South …
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The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
… Germany, pre-existing social network ties guided informal cooperation, recruitment and programmatic development in the reformation of the East German communist party SED into the PDS. With the help of interviews, auto-biographies and documents, I retrace the takeover of the SED as a process of …
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The scope of learning alliances as a mechanism for more innovative urban water management
… making between stakeholders in both formal and informal structures and involved marginalised groups as well as researchers. This reduced conflicts and promoted a more collaborative approach through which stakeholders built consensus. Power relations need to be managed and the role of facilitator …
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Micro-Enterprise innovation in Zimbabwe's Knowledge Economy: Navigating the contextual barriers to achieve business viability
… together, forming business hubs in formal and informal structures relying on business theories to enable them to organise effectively. In such settings, traditional business theories cannot be applied in conventional ways; however, they can be utilised to innovate and create new processes. The …
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Enterprise architecture driven design of an artefact to support strategic Information Technology decision-making of Small Enterprises in Nigeria and South Africa
… in small enterprises with limited resources and informal structures. The pragmatic philosophic stance was the premise for understanding the decision challenges and the development of a roadmap to intervene the problems the researcher identified. The Vaishnavi and Kuechler design science research …
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Organization and community : the determinants of insurgent military effectiveness
… In particular, the theory focuses on both informal structures of social support and formal military structures such as logistics, command and control, and personnel management systems in explaining how some insurgent organizations achieve relatively high levels of military effectiveness and …
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Importance of utilization of social capital in agro-based poverty reduction strategies in smallholder farming area in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… monthly expenditure per capita (p < 0.05). Informal structures dimensions which encompass the extent of networks people had with family, friends and neighbours were relatively more important than all the other predictors of social capital. Membership of organisations yielded significantly …
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Understanding the impact of culture on business IT alignment within a South African parastatal
… research on BITA has focused more on formal structures such as reporting structures, decision-making rights and centralisation vs decentralisation, rather than informal structures such as relationship-based structures, including organisational culture, that go beyond the formal division of …
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Die Interdependenz formaler und informaler Strukturen im Lichte der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns
… Gedankengang führte zu der Überlegung, dass informale Strukturen selbst organisierte Interaktionssysteme sein müssen. Sie müssen sich bereits in irgendeiner Form selbst organisieren. Sie stehen unter dem Gesetz des Wiedersehens. Die sozialen Kontakte werden sich in einem absehbaren Zeit- und …
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Teacher Capital Unbound? The Role of Organisational Structures for Teacher Social Capital and Student Outcome
… addresses the role of school organisational structures for teacher social capital and student outcome. The thesis is driven by a general concern over the widescale reforms Swedish schools have undergone in the last decades and particular concern over the so-called work unit reform. This …