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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"new organizations"”.
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Ny situation - ny organisation : Gatutidningen Situation Sthlm 1995-2000
New organizations emerge in times of social change. Their survival depends on their ability to mobilize resources in an environment defined by an old order, and thus they must adapt to it. Since new organizations learn how to adapt by mimicking already succesful organizations, their structure tend …
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Google distance analysis of the MIT curriculum
… Hierarchical Clustering algorithm to suggest two new organizations each for Department 6 (E.E. and C.S.) and for the MIT Departments into Schools. Convex hulls in MDS graphs of Department 6, colored based on classes a student has taken, are also used to predict new departments the student will …
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Pacts and Pretenses, Competition and Cooperation: What Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
… and the rise of developing countries, several new regional organizations and international regimes have emerged as alternatives to the Western structure. Among these relatively new organizations is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a self-defined intergovernmental mutual-security …
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The Government has a method to get product to soldiers fast - big defense needs to catch up
… The process does not enable contractors to get new products into the hands of warfighters expeditiously. The United States Government is aware of this and has been taking steps to create rapid procurement organizations that are empowered to develop and field new capabilities faster than the …
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Implementation strategies for integrated office information systems.
… of computer-based office information systems in organizations. The research methods employed are both qualitative and quantitative, and include fifteen case studies and a postal survey. A review of the literature and the case study research indicated that organizations are taking advantage of the …
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Context characterization for synthesis of process architectures
… from their inception - for example, at a new enterprise. As such, the thesis focuses on the creation of LPD, as opposed to traditional Lean improvement activities which benefit from the perspective of hindsight of a legacy process. Without established product development processes to …
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Understanding Anticipatory Socialization for New Student Affairs Professionals
… the anticipatory socialization experiences of new student affairs professionals. The focus was to gain a deeper understanding of how new professionals experience their anticipatory socialization, specifically the job search and pre-entry communication with their new organizations. The theory …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… late Qing period. Founding and operating private organizations or cooperating with the Qing government, the mercantile literati played a major role in public charity. The scope and types of charity women were involved, however, changed after 1898. By examining two types of charitable activities …
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Cultural Solidarity, Free Space, and African Consciousness in the Formation of the Black Fraternity
… a multifaceted account of the Black Greek-letter organizations that explains the creation of these organizations within the Black community. There are four steps or levels which were examined in order to understand the rise or the establishment of the Black organization as a means of social …
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Conversion Charter School Leaders' Perceptions of School Change: A Narrative Inquiry
… were brought into stark relief in the city of New Orleans following the devastating flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.</p> <p>This qualitative study is about school change from the perspective of school leaders who were hired to run the converted Orleans Parish …
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Organizational Fragmentation and the Trajectory of Militant Splinter Groups
Militant organizations commonly break down and split apart, with new groups emerging from the ranks of existing organizations. From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan, militant groups have splintered and proliferated in this way, creating fragmented oppositions that significantly complicate the conflict …
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Into the Workplace: Exploring the Learning Experiences of Newcomer Engineers during the School-to-Work Transition
Entering a new environment is challenging for everyone, including engineers. Despite national efforts to improve graduates' competencies, managers and other critical industry stakeholders consistently describe new hires as underprepared for practice. Nonetheless, as engineers move into their new …
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Projects without Project Ecologies: Experiments in Regional Governance from the Netherlands to Bulgaria and Back
… provides little support for its actions. All new organizations, but temporary ones in particular, have a high risk of failure due to limited time to set roles for their members, establish trust among them, and build a common identity. Temporary organizations have been shown to rely on role …
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The Night Watchman: Hans Speier and the Making of the American National Security State
… Office of Strategic Services, and other new organizations of the wartime government. After the war, this first generation of defense intellectuals, uninterested in returning to the relative tranquility of academia, allied with government and military officials to create a network of state …
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Employee Departure from Organizations: Three Empirical Essays
… essays which focus on employee departure from organizations. In the first two essays, I study how employee departure allows individuals to capture more value from their firms. The third essay examines the effect of employee departure on firm performance. Each essay identifies an important …
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Organizational lifecycle and happiness at work: investigating best-fit for employees based on their locus of control expectancy
… organizational development, and concludes that organizations follow a set path of development ˗˗ the organization’s lifecycle. Regarding new departments to be like new organizations; the research investigated the position of the department in the organizational life cycle and level of happiness …