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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"organisation studies"”.
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Punishment and Violence in Organisation Studies
… of violence and punishment within organization studies. It takes the form of three journal style papers that draw on ethnographic data from two different settings. The first paper explores the use of extreme practices by vigilantes through an empirical case of a British pedophile hunting team, …
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Treading the (corporate) board. A critical analysis of organisational diversity discourse
… The first is to explore the extent to which organisational diversity discourse is the outcome of essentialist, binary thinking; the second is to examine whether essentialism can be analysed as a form of identity thinking; and the third is to assess whether and in what ways that analysis can …
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Middle management and the enactment of masculinity
Adopting a radically diverse organisation studies approach that embraces a Cultural Studies analytical framework, this thesis examines the ways in which today's middle managers enact masculinity. Considering the gender-orientated 'ways of being' of a middle manager within a contemporary …
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The implications of trade union merger: a view from the grassroots
… theories and concepts drawn from the field of organisation studies. In this way, the thesis also offered an opportunity to test the efficacy of applying analytical tools to an organisation seldom considered in organisation studies. Specifically, the thesis utilises perspectives of …
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The role of language in the process of creating meaning in a professional organisation
… itself with the processes of how meaning in an organisational setting is created, changed, sustained and 'achieved'. Its contributory value lies in the inductive development of a 'tropological approach' to the investigation of sensemaking processes in organisations.</p> <p>Positioned in an …
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The cognitive organisation of musical pitch
… idea that the rationales for the forms of pitch organisation employed within tonal music which have been adopted by music theorists have strongly affected those theorists` conceptions of music, and that it is of critical importance to music theory to investigate the potential origination of such …
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The politics of justice in crafting Circular Economy narratives: Evidence from academics, network organisations and consultants
… narratives and practices of academics, network organisations, and ESG consultants? The approach is based on looking at the presence, lack and nuance between processes of repoliticisation and depoliticisation. The study comprises two distinct sets of original data. The ESG consultants' study is …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… individual marketers, referred to as the Digital Organisational Storyteller (DOS), across five business-to-business (B2B) organisations. I focus on illuminating their marketing processes and self-understanding when undertaking online marketing work, a practice I describe as bringing the …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
… received little attention in post-development studies, and relatedly Management and Organisation Studies (MOS). This thesis interrogates – historically and critically – the imaginaries of modernity and nationalism, and later nation-building, that have animated development in post/colonial …
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The ray of hope : hidden work and the pursuit of accuracy
… on history of science and technology, science studies, organisation studies and feminist studies of technoscience. I explore the introduction of XVI and the ‘experimental’ nature of its introduction, set against uncertainties regarding the system’s effectiveness and consequences. The thesis …
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Sensemaking in Investor Networks: The Interactions between Financial Market Participants and the European Central Bank
… thesis is grounded in and aims to contribute to organisation studies, the social studies of finance and economic sociology, particularly with reference to networks. It shows the ways in which both monetary policy and investment decision-making is shaped by social processes of sensemaking in …
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Process, purpose and profit: organising the creation of shared value in an emerging economy
… tensions that have emerged in previous studies. I propose a new onto-epistemological visioning which reimagines creating shared value as an emergent, recurrent process. This reimagined stance is then applied empirically to two case studies to test this conceptual realignment in practice. …
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Discourse, dogma, and domination : knowledge work as art and politics
… The work provides a different insight into organisational and management theory that encourages critical thinking about the normalising effects of discourse, and points to the possibilities that can emerge from engaging with alternative perspectives, such as those emanating from …
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A multi-level analysis of gender-inclusive innovation in Oxfordshire
… role in driving gender-inclusive innovation, organisations and the wider ecosystem play an even more critical supporting role. To comprehensively examine the role of contextual factors influencing gender-inclusive innovation, this PhD research study conducted a multi-level analysis within …
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Approaches and organisational forms adopted by local tourism development partnerships in England
… through the integration of both policy studies, and organisation studies perspectives. Theories developed to account for inter-organisational collaboration are given particular prominence in this research. Additionally, theories are also incorporated from political geography, and from …
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Invigorating the Church for Mission. Action Research with Local Parishes
… on the one hand, and the discourse of management/organisation studies on the other. This bridge is akin to the steering platform on a metaphoric double-hulled canoe. I have brought the collective wisdom of each hull to the setting of the direction of my thesis and my guidance to its destination. …
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Strategic management in the public sector: An interpretive study of the application of strategic management practices in the local authorities in Malaysia
… principles of strategic management in their organisations. Taking a qualitative and interpretive approach, and as part of the ‘micro-turn’ in the study of strategy, this thesis presents empirical insights into three important areas in the field of strategic management, namely, strategic …
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Civil society organisations and the production of socio-geographic space : the organisation of space in Brazilian favelas
… are largely mediated by various civil society organisations (CSOs), which have grown in number over time. This study discusses the case of a favela in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which I call here Mucuripe. Mucuripe is located in a wealthy area of Rio and its population are mainly black working …
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Justifications for the Implementation of Shadow IT Solutions by Functional Departments in an Organisation
… (IT) solutions by end-users, while bypassing organisational laid-down IT acquisition and implementation processes and controls, poses a significant challenge for most organisations. This phenomenon, which is known as Shadow IT (SIT), has major financial, legal and security implications for the …
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Narrating The Body Shop: A story about corporate identity
The narrative turn in organisation studies locates organisations as authors of their own identities. Organisations in all sectors are talking about values, engaging in ongoing conversations with the larger society and telling their story to multiple audiences in their never-ending construction of …