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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"institutional context"”.
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Mothering and mental illness: an ethnography of attachment in an institutional context.
… illness: An Ethnography of Attachment in an Institutional Context, explores mothering in the context of mental illness. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from November 2008 to October 2009 in Oliveto – an Australian, state-run, mother and baby unit that facilitates dual …
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The Influence of Institutional Context on Crowdfunding Adoption for MSME Financing in Nigeria
… finance research. Recent studies suggest that institutional context plays a critical role in facilitating crowdfunding adoption through the development of a viable crowdfunding ecosystem. Yet this relationship is yet to be investigated at a holistic level. While some studies have explored the …
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… develop a conceptual framework of the political/institutional context of this "new" approach. In order to develop a framework that can be utilized by practitioners, field studies were conducted in Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina; Lynchburg, Virginia; and …
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Heterogeneity in Institutional Context and Its Impact on Initial Public Offerings and Corporate Social Responsibility
<p>This dissertation investigates the impact of institutional heterogeneity, which arises due to variations in institutional context, on a market and a non-market transaction. It draws from institutional theory and organizational institutionalism, and contributes to organization theory, corporate …
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Putting varieties of risk-based governance into institutional context: The case of flood management regimes in Germany and England in the 1990s and 2000s.
This thesis analyses how floods are managed in two European countries, focusing in particular on the role of risk instruments within emerging flood management regimes. Studying flood management is not only relevant because of a rise in frequency and severity of flood events in the 1990s and 2000s, …
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How do African American Alumni at Private Predominantly White Institutions Describe and Interpret the Influence of Culturally Responsive Support Spaces on Their Sense of Belonging, Academic Persistence, and Long-term Professional Development with the Institutional Context
… and cultural validation beyond traditional institutional diversity or compliance-based initiatives. Guided by Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Validation Theory (VT), this research examined how alumni interpreted their interactions with these support spaces and how such experiences influenced …
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Impotence and omnipotence : problematising the articulation of anthropological perspectives within the land restitution process
… extent applied anthropologists operating within institutional contexts can effectively articulate their anthropological perspectives in order to contribute towards effecting positive social change. In order to explore the above thesis, I have reflected upon and analysed my role as an applied …
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An exploratory study of mathematics teachers beliefs and classroom practices in state schools and private preparatory courses : an institutional perspective
… practices in relation to the wider institutional context in which teaching practices are situated. The study takes a naturalistic approach, with minimum prior assumptions on the way in which teachers' classroom practices are examined. The structure of the examination of practices is …
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THE INTERNATIONALISATION DECISION OF THE ENDOWED SME
… eight SMEs operating in a munificent business context, specifically, the State of Qatar, which is one of the richest if not the wealthiest country in the Arab Gulf region. More specifically, the case study research investigates how operating in resource-abundant conditions affects specific …
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Service-Learning Faculty Perceptions
… area (Personal Growth, Teaching Advancement, Institutional Context, Community, Scholarship, Personal Values, and Institutional Emphasis). It was hypothesized that faculty who perceive having a highly supportive institutional culture of service learning will have higher levels of personal and …
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The institutional family : group music therapy in an institutional setting
… examines the interactions that occur in a daily institutional family context between children who have mental and physical handicaps and their adult group leader. The aim is to investigate what role music therapy might play within an institutional family with persons who have diverse disabilities …
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Transitioning to Online Education in the Caribbean: The UWI Open Campus
… successful transition. Factors examined included institutional context, vision, curriculum, organizational structure, finances, leadership, stakeholder attitudes towards online courses, staff training, student support and programme quality. The study also examined whether online education could …
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Enforcement practice, development assistance and servicing clients: progressing compliance with wastewater discharge regulations in industrialised north Vietnam
… and practical norms that help constitute the institutional context in which environmental officials operate, in part through considering responses to foreign assistance. The research explores the dynamic and diverse interactions amongst institutional context, organisational systems and models, …
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Development of a predictive coalition building analysis for stakeholders of sociotechnical systems: case studies of high-speed rail development in the Northeast Corridor of the United States and the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan
… to better understand future uncertainties in institutional structures and cooperative relationships surrounding large, complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure and transportation projects. We present the development of Predictive Coalition Building Analysis (PCBA). The three-phase …
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Corporate governance : the case for Asian REITs
… all" and must be tailored to fit the appropriate institutional context.
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Organizational and social challenges in the implementation of interdisciplinary postgraduate curricula
The institutionalization of interdisciplinary programmes is one way in which attempts are made to deepen the socially responsive nature of South African higher education. In this minor dissertation, two postgraduate interdisciplinary programmes that appear to be socially responsive in nature are …
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Transformation of data into knowledge within higher education
<p>Establishing institutional effectiveness has beleaguered U.S. higher education institutions for thirty years. One key element of institutional effectiveness is the ability of an organization to use data for effective decision-making. This study provides new insight into this critical component …
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La relación entre las prácticas contables y el medio ambiente
… institucionales, por lo que estudiarla fuera de contexto puede considerarse un error. Finalmente, hemos observado que la contabilidad medioambiental surge en contextos de debilidad ante la negociación de la empresa con el entorno, y en menor medida como una herramienta inductiva del cambio …
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