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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"institutional pressures"”.
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The role of innovation and institutional pressures in sustainable packaging
… packaging Tanzania. Using the main concepts from institutional theory along with the diffusion of innovation model, this paper will examine the environmentally friendly packaging innovations in the Tanzanian food and beverage industry. The purpose of this research is to understand the factors that …
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Institutional pressures and decoupling in projects: The case of BIM level 2 and coercive isomorphism in the UK’s construction sector
… mandated by governments in multiple countries. Institutional theorists would describe this as coercive isomorphism – encouraging firms across sectors to adopt the same practices. In the UK and many other countries, formal structures have been devised and imposed as part of these coercive …
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A Comparative Analysis of Federal Agencies' Integration of Equity and Diversity Practices Addressing Minority Representation in Senior Executive Service
… shifts in leaders responsibilities, shifts in institutional pressures, and minority representation at the Senior Executive Service level influence how they integrate equity and diversity programs in federal agencies. When federal agencies address the issue of minority representation in Senior …
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The Architecture of Stakeholder Collaboration: Unpacking Institutional Enablers and Constraints in University Entrepreneurship Education
… the multi-actor dynamics through which institutional pressures and stakeholder incentives interact to shape educational outcomes (Fayolle and Gailly, 2015). To address this gap, this study integrates institutional theory (Scott, 2014) with stakeholder collaboration perspectives (Freeman, …
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An institutional perspective on the timing of the adoption of accounting standards by large non-financial firms
… standard or to adopt early. Findings are that institutional pressures to copy the practices of other firms have an impact on both firms and their auditors and these pressures influence firms to stay in the mainstream by adopting new accounting standards from the mandatory effective dates. Firms …
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Drawing the Line: Student Reassignment Policies In South Carolina
… reassignment understood through the lens of institutional and organizational theories? To answer this question this research draws on Institutional Theory (both old and new) to develop a comprehensive model that specifically addresses the strategies a district uses to create a plan that …
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Psychotropic Medications and Children: Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals
… issues of access, limited evidence, cost, and institutional pressures to practice within a biomedical model of care. This thesis suggests that the supremacy of biomedicine has changed the conversation of mental health so drastically over the past forty years that psychological and social …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… and complicated during the time of great institutional change in scientific research, which occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century in America. Scientists constructed scientific ethos through demonstrations of aesthetic judgment in order to respond to the exigencies of …
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An Institutional Perspective on Talent Management. Four Case Studies in the Banking and Petroleum Sectors in the Sultanate of Oman
… Eastern context of Oman, from the perspective of Institutional Theory. Through a qualitative, multiple case-study approach, data was collected from four banking and petroleum-sector organisations through semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that the different influences of …
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In pursuit of continuity : engaged scholarship for personal and institutional transformation
… curriculum has been driven in large part by institutional pressures far removed from practical application or development of new planning knowledge. The placement of scholarship grounded in service and practice along the margins of planning curriculum has led many in the academy, particularly …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… balancing the cultural value of Spanish with institutional pressures favoring English. Even when their Spanish skills felt “incomplete,” participants found ways to validate their linguistic identity. The dissertation advocates for educational practices that recognize students’ hybrid language …
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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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Extending The Human Capital Theory Of Career Success: An Empirical Test In The Ecuadorian Context
… theory by including economic, managerial, and institutional facets. These facets include not only an economic rational perspective, but also a managerial component that considers organizational policies and practices, as well as an institutional component that considers how environmental …
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Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments
… structures, this dissertation examines the ways institutional pressures can shape assessments, and makes suggestions for new, socially just approaches relying on assemblage theory that follow current trends in writing assessment.</p>
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Towards the development of a financial reporting framework for Sri Lankan SMEs
… using thematic analysis via the NVivo software. Institutional theory was adopted as the theoretical framework to study Sri Lanka’s decision to adopt the IFRS for SMEs. This decision was in response to institutional pressures rather than alleged benefits of internationally comparable financial …
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Exploring the Impact of Performance-Based Funding Policy Reform: The Role of Institutional Research in Supporting Data-Driven Decision-Making
The institutional pressures placed on the Ontario college system, exercised through funding model reform, brought forward organizational challenges difficult for even the most fiscally savvy to navigate. The enrollment corridor mechanism and the expansion of the proportions of the differentiation …
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… media. Source selection also reflected institutional biases, with government officials dominating coverage in Bangladeshi outlets. U.S. outlets were more likely to include voices from protesters and experts compared to Bangladeshi outlets. Western outlets more frequently cited protesters …
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Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff
… leaders (BSLs) who understand the systemic and institutional pressures Black children may face and have to overcome, having undergone similarly racialized experiences in school, are uniquely placed to create liberatory spaces for Black students by recruiting and developing these liberatory …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… (e.g., government regulation, world events, institutional pressures), firm (e.g., size and performance), board (e.g., size, level of board independence), and CEO (e.g., ownership and tenure) characteristics. Overall, this study contributes to research by illustrating that board power is …
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RELIGION, CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF ISLAM AND SAUDI CULTURE ON HRM PRACTICES OF INDIGENOUS AND FOREIGN OWNED AND MANAGED CORPORATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA
… focus group). The main findings identify that institutional pressures (regulatory and normative) are strong catalysts facilitating the impact of Islamic teachings on the workplace in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The regulative forces represent the organisations’ rules, regulatory constraints …
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