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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"institutional model"”.
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A Competency-Based Model for Gospel-Centered Vocational Education
… with the intent to construct a framework for an institutional model replicable to a Majority World context. Three trade schools in the United States were purposively selected from the populations of Christian-based trade and technology institutions that provide skill-oriented training. The …
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Efficiency Motives and Institutional Considerations in Make -or -Buy Decisions
In addition to the proposed institutional effects model, this thesis also proposes a testable model of the efficiency paradigm and an integrated model of both to compare the ability of each to explain these decisions. The integrated model considers complementary aspects operating in organizational …
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Co-operative or investor owned: how does the structure of the electric wind energy firm influence the effects of wind energy development on community development?
… nor of the consequence of privileging a given institutional model (the investor-owned utility) over robust alternatives (electric co-operatives). By ignoring the effects of organizational structure of wind energy firms, government energy policymakers may be missing an opportunity to enhance …
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Staying Power: Aging in Community and the Village Model
… healthcare services from a centralized institutional model to a decentralized home-based model. However, a majority of homes older adults reside in lack basic accessibility features and are in predominantly suburban locations that have limited transportation options. Villages, a …
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Judicial politics in the Privy Council: a legal analysis of its impact on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean
… behaviour in the perspectives of the legal model, the institutional model and the attitudinal model of such behaviour. It worth noting that in some Commonwealth Caribbean States the death penalty is the punishment prescribed by law for persons guilty of the crime of murder. However, there …
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Work-family responsiveness in organizations: The influence of resource dependence and institutionalization on program adaptation
… The frameworks of resource dependence theory and institutional theory were used to develop a model to explain differences in work-family responsiveness among for-profit companies. The theoretical models were tested on survey data collected through a stratified random sample of 692 for-profit …
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Adventist Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of 19th Century Founding Governing Principles in 21st Century Adventist Hospitals
… (d) sustain financial and administration model despite attention to all social classes, (e) unwavering biblical principles, (f) wholistic perspective, (f) physical activity as part of treatment, (g) preparing people to be whole before God, (h) prayer combined with treatment and obedience …
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Enactive Democracy
… individuals, mutual reason-giving, or, in some models, to practices of mutual care that serve as the pre-conditions of mutual reason-giving. To illustrate, I show how within Canadian political and legal institutions, Indigenous modes of reason-giving suffer from systemic forms of denigration and …
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Understanding Local Political Participation In West Africa
<p>A growing body of research suggests that institutional performance affects citizen participation (see Holzner 2010; Bratton, Mattes et al 2005; Hiskey and Bowler 2005). But despite this recognition of the importance of institutions, there is relatively limited research into the institutional …
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Human rights and environmental sustainability in the context of globalisation
… proposed alternative, Thomas Pogge’s idea of an institutional model of human rights. Thereafter the focus of the thesis shifts to environmental sustainability. Firstly, chapter 5 investigates definitions of environmental sustainability and proposes an evaluative framework for assessing different …
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Constructing the Architectonics and Formulating the Articulation of Islamic Governance: A Discursive Attempt in Islamic Epistemology
… a ‘good governance’ agenda as an archetypal model to achieve development for underdeveloped and developing countries. However, closer scrutiny can trace the root of this agenda back to the hegemonic nature of modernity that proposes a specific meta-narrative upon others, as part of …