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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"organizational adaptation"”.
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Remixed, Remastered: Investigating Organizational Adaptation in Higher Music Education
… the music industry. This study was grounded in organizational adaptation theory, drawing upon nine well-established theories: population ecology, life cycles, strategic choice, isomorphism, symbolic action, resource dependence, cybernetics, and network theory. Critical concepts of the turbulent …
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Organizational adaptation in the Venezuelan petroleum industry after nationalization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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The organizational adaptation of online schools in traditional school districts
… they navigate contingencies to establish online organizational structures. This study uses the theoretical framework of contingency theory to understand how school districts structurally adapt to internal and external factors, or contingencies to establish new online schools. This multiple case …
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Reskilling IS professionals : individual and organizational adaptation to software process innovations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Liberal Arts Colleges During the Great Recession: Examining Organizational Adaptation and Institutional Change
… of liberal arts colleges and expand the organizational adaptation research base, the current study aimed to understand how private liberal arts colleges adapted during the Great Recession of 2007 by examining institutional changes at three private liberal arts colleges and their effects …
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Work In The 21st Century: A Study In Organizational Adaptation To Alternative Work Arrangements
The concept of alternative work arrangements (AWAs) represents a growing trend within many organizations to shift once-common models of working to newer paradigms. Among many options, this includes models where employees may work from somewhere other than a primary physical office space (remote …
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A Study of Seton Hall University and the Attributes of Organizational Adaptation Employed in Fashioning its Catholic Identity and Mission in the Post-Vatican II Era (1966-2006)
… Hall University. It specifically examines the organizational structures of Seton Hall University over a forty year period in light of the tumultuous changes in the Catholic Church and Catholic academia post-Vatican 11. Of particular importance is change that influenced the Catholic identity and …
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Organizational Adaptations During Uncertain Times: A Qualitative Study of Decision-Making in Small, Hospital-Affiliated Healthcare Colleges
… for higher education institutions during organizational adaptation. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore higher education leaders’ perceptions of decision-making practices during organizational adaptation in small, hospital-affiliated healthcare colleges during the …
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The Use of Adaptive Leadership and Adaptive Learning Strategies in Organizations Facing Market Extinction
… The study acknowledges the situational nature of organizational adaptation by examining environmental influences and factors of organizational context, including leadership and learning, as both impetuses for adaptation and as resources for doing the necessary adaptive work. In particular, the use …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and strategy.
… change shapes entrepreneurial activity, organizational adaptation, and firm-level strategic capabilities. Drawing on the External Enablers framework and the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship, it develops a multi-level perspective linking economic shocks, organizational …
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Essays in organizational economics
… theoretical essays that examine the role of organizational architecture in facilitating organizational adaptation to a changing environment. Chapter 1 develops a model of coordinated adaptation where .an organization needs to respond to incoming information about its environment while at the …
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TRANSITIONING THAI SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TO A UNIFIED COMMAND: A STUDY ON ENHANCING COUNTER-HYBRID WARFARE CAPABILITIES
… quantity over quality, particularly in terms of organizational adaptation to emerging hybrid threats. These threats include traditional and irregular challenges arising from grey-zone activities, coercion over water resources, and transnational crime network issues that conventional security …
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Using MTWS for human-in-the-loop C2 organizational experiments
… issues in joint command and control, focusing on organizational adaptation. The project includes a series of "human-in-the-loop" experiments at the Naval Postgraduate School. The experiments are in three tiers, ranging from basic to applied/operational research, with tier-1 being the most basic. …
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Identifying Complex Adaptive Systems Using Quantitative Approaches At A Midsized Biotechnology Firm
… an alternative leadership model for successful organizational adaptation. However, much of the research surrounding complexity theory remains academic. Historical data from a biotechnology company was analyzed during a computer hardware and software upgrade to detect the presence of a complex …
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Multihospital Systems Wave of the Future in Healthcare
… whether or not, this will be the principle organizational design for health care institutions in the years to come (i.e. short term future). All available data indicates that this form of organizational adaptation is much more than an idiosyncratic fluke of the health care industry. The …
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The Impact of Environmental Factors on Business Strategies in Selected Major U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Companies 1970-2005
… were used as a framework for this study: organizational interpretation process (e.g., Daft & Weick, 1984; Milliken, 1990) and organizational adaptation theory (e.g., Miles & Snow, 1978; Zeithaml & Zeithaml, 1984). Qualitative analysis was conducted for data analysis. Part 1 of data …
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Japanese approaches to organizational internationalization of Universities:a case study of three national university corporations.
… by focusing on the configuration of organizational design, program strategies and contextual factors. It examines how these three exemplary universities have changed their administrative systems to implement selected internationalization initiatives based on their own …
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Organizational responses to technological discontinuities: the case of the American College of Radiology (ACR)
A long history of organizational research has shown that organizations are affected significantly by changes in technology. Scholars have given particular attention to the effects of so-called disruptive or discontinuous technological changes. Studies have repeatedly shown that established, …