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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"institutional influence"”.
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Institutional influence on the manifestation of entrepreneurial orientation: A case of social investment funders
Linking the new institutionalism to entrepreneurial orientation (EO), my dissertation investigates institutional forces and entrepreneurial forces—two contradicting types of forces—as main effects and moderating effects upon practices and performance of organizations embedded in the institutional …
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The Politicization of the American Judiciary: Practical and Theoretical Consequences of a Partisan Supreme Court
… between the long-term ideological and institutional influence of the Federalist Society and the U.S. Supreme Court. This significant relationship poses a fundamental threat to the execution of equal protection under the law and an erosion of democratic norms. This thesis proposes …
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Two essays on institutional investors
… by mutual funds. Consistent with active institutional influence, mutual funds are more likely to vote against management at portfolio firms that make more excess CEO pay or depict other symptoms of poor governance such as bad performance and CEO entrenchment. Both active and passive …
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Color-blind: The Effects of a Reporter's Race on Framing
… in written content. Additionally, the lack of influence of reporter race (a finding that contradicts previously established patterns based on the examination of verbal commentary) suggests that there may be an institutional influence on frame use in mediated coverage of sports. Future studies …
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The institutionalization of multilevel politics in Europe
… of multilevel politics can be explained by its institutionalization in terms of the emergence, the evolution and especially the effects of relevant institutions. Based on a mixed-method research project, the influence of European institutions on subnational actors and the alignment of actor …
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Protecting Asian American female sexual minorities: a qualitative study investigating the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation
… gender roles, gender norms, parental influence, and institutional influence. Findings also indicated that my participants had experienced intersectional blindness; consequently, their understandings of Asianness, womenness, and LGBTQness were affected. Another meaningful finding was …
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The impact of institutional stock ownership on a firm's earnings management practice: an empirical investigation
This study examines whether institutional investor shareholdings inhibit firm managers from engaging in earnings management practice. It investigates the empirical association between discretion/flexibility available to managers in managing abnormal non-cash working capital accruals and …
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Preparing and Progressing: A Narrative Study of Optics and Photonics Graduate Students' Identity-Trajectory
… three strands: intellectual development, institutional influence and network. The findings are grouped into pre-graduate training and graduate development experiences. Considering pre-graduate training, research experience as an undergraduate facilitates future decisions and access to …
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The Representation of the Outlaw Biker in California, 1953-1969: Film, Counterculture and Commodity
… Art of the Motorcycle” and how corporate and institutional influence sanitised the visual history of motorcycling for the masses, commodifying the image of the outlaw biker. Since the history of motorcycling has been defined by images, the thesis discusses how the image has been appropriated …
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The factors affecting the Adoption e-banking in Tanzania banking industry: The Case of Banks in Dar es salaam Region
… Perceived Credibility, (Perceived Regulatory), Institutional Readiness and Institutional Influence) which influence the adoption of e-banking in developing countries. The findings revealed that all these seven variables jointly provide an excellent understanding of the factors affecting the …
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The factors affecting the Adoption e-banking in Tanzania Banking Industry: The Case of Banks in Dar es salaam Region
… Perceived Credibility, (Perceived Regulatory), Institutional Readiness and Institutional Influence) which influence the adoption of e-banking in developing countries. The findings revealed that all these seven variables jointly provide an excellent understanding of the factors affecting the …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF POSSIBLE TRENDS OF FUTURE CHANGES IN CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT ARRANGEMENTS IN SINGAPORE
… of concern over the years due to its important influence on the performance of construction projects and the construction industry as a whole. Construction industry is operated in an external environment within which subsystems such as economical, political, financial, legal and technological …
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Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
… trade predominantly takes place without any institutional frame, quasi in a free space without regulation by an institution, is only partly applicable. How precise such framework conditions are designed and which influence they have on the small traders’ ability to act is often left out – …