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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"institutional environments"”.
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Entrepreneurship in the informal economy: evidence from informal institutional environments
The informal economy remains understudied and a misunderstood phenomenon. This dissertation examines entrepreneurship in the informal economy by drawing upon a variety of theories in management research to examine antecedents that may explain and predict the entrepreneur’s likelihood of …
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Essays on location strategies, institutional environments, and knowledge/resource management
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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How host country institutional environments influence the digital transformation objectives of multinational subsidiaries operating in emerging markets
… used to compare the effects that host country institutional voids had on digital transformation and how multinational subsidiaries in six African countries overcame those effects in their respective markets. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews and archival records. The type and …
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The duality of corporate political activity: impact of institutions on lobbying and campaign contributions
… is a need to pay more attention to social and institutional environments that are likely to affect corporate political activity. Thus, I build upon the institutional theory to investigate how corporate political activity as strategic, self-interested behavior is affected by various …
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The effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms: ownership and media
… of divergent constituents across different institutional environments and times. The extant literature has typically viewed corporate governance as solving a principal–agent problem between shareholders and management. But useful insights about corporate governance must inevitably have a …
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Host-country risk, corporate political strategies and the subsidiary performance of South African multinationals in wider Africa
… the years, focused on its local application in institutionally stable developed environments. Existing literature suggests that political strategies are essential for firm performance. However, there is a dearth of studies that empirically examine the mechanisms through which they affect …
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Formal and Informal Institutional Influences on Multinational Enterprise Social Responsibility: Two Empirical Studies
<p>How do environmental institutional influences in a multinational enterprise’s (MNE’s) portfolio of locations affect social responsibility (and irresponsibility)? To explore this question, I engaged in two complementary empirical research studies, each exploring a particular subset of the MNE …
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Knowledge Transfer in Base of the Pyramid Markets
… knowledge transfer in Base of the Pyramid environments. The Base of the Pyramid (BOP) refers to environments characterized by high-degrees of poverty and informal institutional environments. While extant theory helps illuminate knowledge transfer, there are also distinct features of BOP …
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Corporate Legitimacy Across Cultural Contexts: Mapping the Cultural Schemata of Religio-Institutional Actors
… is investigated using the theoretical lens of institutional theory and methodological techniques of discourse analysis. Specifically, I examine the relationship between the corporation and the religio-institutional environments in which they transact by mapping the cognitive schematic elements …
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THREE ESSAYS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS, CORPORATE MISCONDUCT, AND FIRM VALUE
… focuses on corporate misconduct in complex institutional environments. In particular, I examine how listed firms’ kinship networks and political connections shape their engagement in financial misconduct and the firm value at the onset of their misconduct scandal. The first study examines …
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Healing Heroes: a model for connecting community to PTSD therapy Centers
… architecture solutions and be removed from the institutional environments they are found in today.
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A comparative study of business ethics and entrepreneurship in the UK and China
… by taking into account the influence of institutional environments when considering business and entrepreneurship. The study adheres to the social constructionist approach of Berger and Luckman (1967), and applies the sense-making theory of Weick (1979, 1995, 2001) and discourse analysis …
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Dependency in Caregiving Contexts : The Role of Personality
… factors which influence dependency in home and institutional environments. Subjects completed standardized scales of trait dependency, affiliation, and respect for authority. Measures of stoicism, caregiver affiliation, and respect for medical authority, which were specially designed with the …
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Conspiracy, exile, & resistance : planning & narrative in Chelsea, Massachusetts
… ordinarily work amid conflict in complex institutional environments alive with rival interests, distinct identities, disparate resources, and competing claims. For planners who have responsibility for crafting a consensus out of participatory processes, interpreting these discrete voices …
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The blended separation of powers and the organisation of party groups: the case of English local government
… major political parties. Due to the shift in the institutional environments, this thesis uses a rational choice institutionalist approach to consider how the legislation has affected groups; through assessing methods used to satisfice their goals. Using a mixed-methods approach incorporating …
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On the governance of regional innovation systems. Case studies from four city-regions within the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen, Dortmund, Duisburg and Düsseldorf
… regional and sub-regional dynamics in building institutional environments conducive to innovation. The research employs a qualitative research methodology that comprises semi-structured interviews with 47 policy-makers, practitioners and academics in four case studies of city-regions within the …
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The social environment and Indigenous student success in a Canadian post-secondary institution
… was directed at changing social relations. Institutional staff did not use intercultural skills to improve social relations with Indigenous students. There was little understanding at organizational levels of why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is required. Combining a social …
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The Impact of Community Governance Participation on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Property Management Companies
… affects corporate sustainability, using neo-institutional theory (NIT) as a framework. A qualitative case study approach is adopted, incorporating thematic analysis of interviews with property managers, Local Street Office officials, Residents’ Committee members, industry experts, academics, …
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From Classroom to Career: Understanding Impostor Phenomenon in Black Women
… triggered response to racialized and gendered institutional environments. Using a narrative inquiry (NI) methodology, two rounds of in-depth interviews, along with one focus group interview, were conducted with five high-achieving Black women from diverse educational and professional settings. …
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Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure in Emerging Securities Markets: China as a Case Study
… approach in an emerging market depends on the institutional environments of the market. Considered the institutional differences between developed markets and emerging markets and as well between emerging markets themselves, this article gives an overview of the CSE disclosure development in …
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