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Sack, Warren. "Actor-role analysis : ideology, point of view, and the news." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62330.
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Coleclough, S. "Film performance : the role of the actor within cinematic expression." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/31804/.
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This work seeks to consider film acting as an integrated element of cinematic expression, a core aspect of film performance but one which gains additional meaning and commentary via combination and integration with the more traditionally considered aspects of filmmaking. Although ‘performance’ is a widely written and talked about aspect of cinema studies, a clear understanding of acting and performance, their relationship to one another and to the mechanism of filmmaking has until now been absent. When in recent years ‘film performance’ has been offered as an academic focus, the cynosure of the analysis has been the actions of the actor and a language to describe them, rather than the skills employed in relation to the specifically technical demands of the medium. What then do we gain when we consider in detail the organic relationship between those technical demands and the actor’s decisions? This foundational question is addressed here in a number of ways. A range of texts are accessed that purport to consider the discipline ranging between academic analysis and practitioner skills. This combination of approaches enables a rounded consideration of the work of the film actor absent from any one exploration of the field. To fully consider cinematic expression, the skills specific to the technical aspects of filmmaking must also be examined. Within these fields research exists which offers a wider integration of the technical and the aesthetic. However, the specific focus of the texts in question also prevents extended consideration of the integrated nature of the chosen code. To augment the initial research, in-depth analysis of a chosen film is presented to reveal the ways in which integration of raw material and post-production can produce a final realisation of ‘performance’. When acting is positioned as a part of cinematic expression the interrelationships of technical choices and their aesthetic application can be fully examined. By no longer positioning the actor as “doing nothing very well” we can begin to assess the ways in which adaptation and accommodation of the technical needs of cinema feed into the decisions and actions of the actor as they attempt to deliver their character in terms of the requirements of script and director. Defining acting and thus performance enables us to consider their place within a unified film product, one that demonstrates a distinct and essential skill set, a craft as central to filmmaking as cinematography, sound, and editing.
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Feltham, Richard Mark. "Theatre at work : the characteristics, efficacy and impact of participatory actor-based applied theatre in the workplace." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3573.
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This thesis examines the use of actor-based Applied Theatre methods within the workplace. Typically such methods are employed for behavioural skills training with the intention of enabling staff to effectively perform their work roles in a context of rapid and fundamental change to work practices and structures. This research uses case studies and mixed methods and finds that whilst work-based Applied Theatre may be commissioned for reasons of efficiency, in practice there is also the potential for individual efficacy. Whilst competitive forces drive the imperative for increased efficiency, the practice opens a space where the human consequences of this pressure can be explored. Studies of Applied Theatre have ignored or excluded the workplace as a site of research and consequently applications of these methods are under researched and little understood. This thesis questions the exclusive assumptions of the academic field, presenting a more complex picture of the practice than currently appears in the literature. Whilst the workplace presents many tensions that must be negotiated, this research finds that the participative, embodied and dialogic qualities of the practice can enable a space for catharsis, negotiation, expression and learning not possible through other methods. These dialogic and participatory qualities are found to promote a social model of leadership and interaction that is progressive, facilitating a shift away from pervasive mechanistic command and control approaches to management and leadership. A central quality of this efficacy and impact was found to be the role of the workplace actor which has evolved beyond the delivery of performance and into innovative approaches that aim to increase the actor’s contribution to learning. This emerging hybrid role is defined here as the ‘pedagogical actor’, drawing on skills of calibration, feedback and facilitation in addition to delivering a credible performance. Case Studies include an examination of the use actor-based role-play within financial services company Friends Provident and Forum Theatre used by the multi-national 3M, in addition to numerous case examples.
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Thomas, Christopher. "Participatory Forest Management and Actor Role Dependency in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve, Kenya." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13333.
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Conservation management of state-controlled forests has shifted away from strict, centralized management by incorporating community-based co-management initiatives. Often termed participatory forest management, these initiatives include local residents in forest planning, implementation, and management. This thesis examines two case studies located at the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve, Kenya. The case studies illustrate how imbalances of power establish participant (actor) roles through policies set by governments and NGOs. Power imbalances are perpetuated through hegemonies of postcolonialism that reinforce actor role perceptions. Awareness and understanding of role perceptions is paramount in participatory conservation initiatives that benefit both the physical environment and community development. Analyzing histories of past conservation initiatives with assessments of current and perceived future issues may reduce unrealistic role expectations. Examining actor role contributions at multiple scales of power is necessary. Reflection upon how roles influence perceptions may decrease failures of conservation initiatives involving affluent global donors and marginalized local communities.
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Crawshaw, Julie Scott. "Beyond targets : articulating the role of art in regeneration." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/beyond-targets-articulating-the-role-of-art-in-regeneration(18ce8df5-63d4-445c-938e-51269769c379).html.
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An anthropological study of urban practice, this thesis contributes a nuanced understanding of the role of visual art in regeneration. Inspired by the experiential philosophy of Dewey (1934), we have traced the effects mobilised by art as part of urban transformation. The literature of cultural policy and ‘culture-led regeneration’ (Vickery, 2007), discusses art as physical artworks, in support of development; or as socially-engaged practice, in support of social renewal. Through tracing the movements of all the actors involved, our research goes beyond explanation in support of policy targets. We have described what happens in practice, on its own terms. To account for a range of professional perspectives, the research included four empirical studies at different proximities to practice: an exploratory study embedded in art practice; eighteen in-depth interviews with a range of art and regeneration professionals; sixteen in-depth interviews with practitioners of an Urban Regeneration Company (URC) case study; and a six-month ethnography of the same URC case. Accounting for the agency of humans and non-humans (Latour, 2007a), our explications took close account of the effects produced by the associations of urban relationships, between: engineers, planners, construction workers, and artists; as well as plans and drawings, objects, materials, concepts, ideas and natural elements. Through tracing actors at the ‘microscopic’ (Geertz, 1973) scale, we did not observe art as ‘works’, but the way art works as a driver for re-imagining the urban. In practice, we see regeneration not as buildings or communities, but as a continuous process of re-shaping human-physical relationships. As part of this relational network, art ‘mediates’ (Hennion, 1997) participation, collaboration and reflection on the ambitions of regeneration: producing new ideas for urban possibilities. The effects are produced through the continuous associations between ‘inner’ (human) and ‘outer’ (physical) materials. These material associations meld to create a neutral platform for professionals to shift from their usual remit; to re-consider the ‘big picture’ from a new perspective. Regeneration is an active part of the political landscape. As a catalyst for urban imagination, rather than deliver policy objectives, art re-shapes them. Through tracing practice this research contributes new understandings to the study of art and regeneration. By revealing urban networks through tracing art, rather than explaining regeneration as physical or social, we have made a contribution to urban studies by describing the micro movements of regeneration as a relational practice. As a contribution to art studies, through tracing how art works in regeneration, we have produced nuanced descriptions of how art ‘mediates’ action and reflection in and on urban practice. As a contribution to policy and practice, we have articulated the role of visual art in regeneration as: mediating emergent imaginings; re-shaping rather than delivering objectives. As a tool for the policies of the time, ‘regeneration’ has a shelf-life. As an articulation of the role of art as a catalyst for collaboration in support of positive urban transformation, the findings of this study continue to be relevant.
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Mirfakhar, Atieh Sadat. "Effective Implementation of HR Practices: A Multi-Actor Perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667294.
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La implementació de les polítiques de RRHH, com un procés a través del qual es pot explicar la relació entre la gestió de RRHH i l'acompliment de l'empresa, és de fet un tema important i rellevant, que està poc estudiat i requereix més atenció. Sent un tema destacat en la visió dels RRHH com a procés, la seva naturalesa dinàmica amb múltiples actors i etapes requereix una major exploració. Aquesta exploració es porta a terme en primer lloc aclarint el significat d'implementació i d'implementació efectiva, conceptes tots dos sobre els quals no existeix un consens. En segon lloc, es porta a terme una revisió de la literatura centrada en identificar els factors que influeixen en la implementació efectiva de polítiques de RRHH, categoritzant-los en factors de contingut, context i procés. En tercer lloc, la tesi se centra en la naturalesa dinàmica de la implementació i mitjançant un estudi de cas comparatiu, analitza les dimensions de poder dels actors involucrats i en com influeixen en la implementació efectiva de les polítiques. Finalment, s'aprofundeix en l'estudi d'un dels actors amb més poder, el Director General, i s'explora com aquest actor influeix en el procés d'implementació de les polítiques de RRHH directament i indirectament, a través del paper estratègic del departament de RRHH . En resum, aquesta tesi se centra en el paper de diferents actors a l'hora d'influir en la implementació efectiva de les polítiques de RRHH.<br>La implementación de las políticas de RRHH, como un proceso a través del cual se puede explicar la relación entre la gestión de RRHH y el desempeño de la empresa, es de hecho un tema importante y relevante, que está poco estudiado y requiere más atención. Siendo un tema destacado en la visión de los RRHH como proceso, su naturaleza dinámica con múltiples actores y etapas requiere una mayor exploración. Dicha exploración se lleva a cabo en primer lugar aclarando el significado de implementación y de implementación efectiva, conceptos ambos sobre los que no existe un consenso. En segundo lugar, se lleva a cabo una revisión de la literatura centrada en identificar los factores que influyen en la implementación efectiva de políticas de RRHH, categorizándolos en factores de contenido, contexto y proceso. En tercer lugar, la tesis se centra en la naturaleza dinámica de la implementación y a través de un estudio de caso comparativo, analiza las dimensiones de poder de los actores involucrados y en cómo influyen en la implementación efectiva de las políticas. Finalmente, se profundiza en el estudio de uno de los actores con más poder, el Director General, y se explora cómo este actor influye en el proceso de implementación de las políticas de RRHH directa e indirectamente, a través del rol estratégico del departamento de RRHH. En resumen, esta tesis se centra en el rol de distintos actores a la hora de influir en la implementación efectiva de las políticas de RRHH.<br>HR implementation, as a process through which the relationship between HRM and firm performance can be explained, is indeed an important and relevant topic which is understudied and requires more attention. Being brought to the spotlight by the process-based view of HRM, the dynamic nature of this multi-actor and multi-stage process needs further exploration. In doing so, due to the lack of a unified understanding of HR implementation and its effectiveness, this thesis first clarifies the meanings of these two concepts. Second, it provides a literature review on the factors influencing effective HR implementation, categorizing them into content, context, and process antecedents. Third, focusing on the dynamic nature of HR implementation and conducting a multiple comparative case study approach, this thesis looks at the power dimensions of the involved actors and how these dynamics influence HR implementation effectiveness. Finally, taking advantage of a natural shock and using a multiple comparative case study approach, this thesis looks at the roles of one of the powerful actors, the CEO, and explores how this actor influences the HR implementation process directly and indirectly through affecting the strategic role of HR departments. Overall, this thesis emphasizes on the roles of the involved actors and how they impact HR implementation and its effectiveness.
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Nordqvist, Sofia. "Actor roles, knowledge types and the role of patenting for progressing sustainable technologies: A case study of demonstration projects :." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Industriell Ekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-71289.
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The transition towards a bioeconomy is one of the greatest challenges of our times, and dependent upon radical innovations and the replacement of fossil-based technologies with clean and more sustainable ones. This is however not done in a jiffy since key underlying process technologies are underdeveloped and also contradict with the prevailing socio-technical regime. This makes demonstration projects crucial for the development of new biorefinery technologies since such projects can reduce not only technical but also organizational and institutional uncertainties. Due to the complexity and costs of demonstration activities, they are typically performed in inter-organizational settings with actors from government, academia, research institutes and the industry. Such a constellation of actors often implies somewhat contradicting interests, for example regarding diffusion versus protection of knowledge that bring challenges for technological development. The overall purpose of the thesis is therefore to enhance knowledge about demonstration projects as knowledge generators contributing to the progression of sustainable technologies. The thesis builds upon case studies of biorefinery demonstration plants and investigates the processes of knowledge development and diffusion in order to contribute to bridging the valley of death between demonstration and commercialization of more sustainable technologies. Three papers are appended to the thesis. Paper I studies which key barriers that actors engaged in demonstration plants experience during technological development and suggest a role-typology to address those barriers. The second paper investigate knowledge production taking place in demonstration projects and suggests that there is an “imbalance” in production of domain-specific technical knowledge in relation to general and procedural knowledge on how to work with commercialization, which contributes to the problem of new technologies not making it past demonstration. The third paper seeks to address management of demonstration projects as protected spaces for emerging technologies. Those findings show that patenting strategies influence the formulation of expectations among actors that guides the creation of the social network as well as the experimental work and learnings taking place there in order for emerging technologies to develop further.<br>Förverkligandet av den biobaserade ekonomin: pilot- och demonstrationsanläggningar i innovationspolitiken
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Osentoski, Nicole Jean. "Replacing the Handshake with Automated Rules. An exploration of the effects of multi-role performativity during organizational change on the change agent." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14368.
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This is an auto/ethnographic account of one organization and one person as we concurrently moved thru a process of IT driven planned organizational change. The purpose of the study is to explain how the change agent is affected by the experience of leading change. Using actor-network theory and a polyphonic approach, I present a multi-voiced, multi-actor account of the social network in situ and trace how the various actors engaged with one another during the organizational change process. I reflect upon my own multi-role performativity when acting in the role of the internal change agent next to my daily job roles and explore the effects on both me and the network; which identifies that a new actor network has been created. Finally, a multi-voiced exploration of myself is presented which traces my evolution from researcher to auto/ethnographer, further demonstrating the effects of multi-role performativity on the human actor. The study demonstrates that the effects of organizational change on both the social network and the actors within the network cannot be foreseen. Furthermore, in combining the use of Actor Network Theory and auto-ethnography, the study provides new insights into the effects of performance on the human actor within a socio-technical network, which is an unexplored dimension within the field of organizational change.
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Söderqvist, Felicia. "Energy, Environment and Transportation : An Actor-Role Network Analysis of the World Energy Outlook 1977-2016." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-386463.
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This thesis explores how energy and environmental issues have been presented in the transportation sector over time in World Energy Outlook (WEO) publications; the flagship publication of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The thesis covers WEO publications from the first publication of 1977 up to 2016 (with the exception of WEO 1982). The data was extracted through the aid of interpretive content analysis, focusing on the transport sector. Energy and Environmental issues within the context of transportation were then discussed as to their roles and forms of action they were ascribed throughout the publications. Actor-network theory was used as a theoretical framework to map and showcase how these roles and actions conditioned and connected to each other. The results of the study show that energy has had a tendency to be divided into the camps of fuels that are either solutions or problems. The exceptions are biofuels, which stand out as fuels that are both solutions and problematic. The environmental issues are solved and caused through energy use, and in 1977,environmental consideration were presented as obstacles to energy security. In 1993 global warming and emissions have changed into being major policy concern. Pollution, congestion, dust, noise, and related health issues are added to the fray as time proceeds, and so are more forms of energy for solutions. Goals and interests showcased in the publications are shown to conflict with others, while energy efficiency as a solution has emerged as a solution to both global warming and energy security. The transport sector starts of as framed more asan area or space where environmental issues take place and solutions are implemented,however, increasing motorisation of the sector and traffic and its role as amajor emitter are later added as active aspects of the conditioning of thesector and in offsetting the solutions. Regional cases are used to exemplify the issues and solutions, with a major focus on OECD contexts, and technological renewal emerges early on as a mayor pathway in solving the environmental issues, through the support of consumers. However, the major issues still remain the same as in 1993.
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Kaya, Taylan Ozgur. "Analysis Of The Role Of The European Union As A Foreign And Security Policy Actor In The Post-9/11 Era: The Middle East Peace Process." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611713/index.pdf.
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The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the role of the EU as a foreign and security policy actor in the post-9/11 international security environment. The thesis investigates the congruity between the role that the EU aspires to play as a foreign and security actor (role conception) and its actual foreign and security policy actions and decisions (role performance) in a specific case of the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) in the post-9/11 era. The role conceptions of the EU are identified by analyzing the content of the general foreign policy speeches delivered by the principal EU foreign policy officials and the EU official documents concerning foreign and security policy of the EU. The congruity between EU&rsquo<br>s self-defined role conceptions and its actual role performance is tested in the case-study of the MEPP. As a result of the analysis, it is concluded that although the EU encountered some constraints when performing some of its self-proclaimed roles, this moderately weakened its effectiveness and international credibility as a foreign and security policy actor in the post-9/11 era, all in all, as observed in the case of the MEPP, the decisions and actions carried out by the EU while enacting its self-identified roles outweighed its deficiencies in its role performance. Despite some inconsistency problems the EU has encountered while performing its self-identified roles, its overall balance sheet as a foreign and security policy actor in the post-9/11 era is fairly positive.
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Almström, Knut Albin Pär. "The 'Strategic Actor' and Public Security Strategy : A theoretically explorative study of how the concept of strategic actor can be developed, to increase understanding of states' and intergovernmental organizations' strategic reasoning." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-5430.
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With the aim of contributing one aspect to the international relations enterprise of understanding the grounds for security policy action, this essay makes a theoretical exploration of the basis for security strategy-making on the political level, with the aid of a multidisciplinary framework for analysis (combining research on strategy, narratives and role theory). Developing the concept of strategic actor by assessing its constitution through aspects of strategic theory (e.g. theories of action), role enactment, and strategic narratives, enables the study to construct an analytical tool which can be utilized to assess the strategic reasoning of actors within international relations. This analytical tool is tested for relevance by being employed to empirically analyse public security strategies of states and intergovernmental organizations as presumed strategic actors. Empirical analysis guided by the framework for analysis is conducted vis-à-vis a selection of security strategies (a.k.a. strategic concepts) between 2000 and 2010, of state-actors: the Russian Federation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and IGO-actors: the European Union and NATO. The essay increases the understanding of strategic actors’ strategy-making in general and security strategy-making in particular. The findings augment the understanding of the complex choices facing political units if they aim to credibly cast themselves as a strategic actor – at least regarding the aspect of reasoning strategically – as well as shedding some more light on the particular policy material that security strategies represents.
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Sandström, Karoliina. "Self and no-self : an examination of the role of ideas about the self in actor training." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/20887/.
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This thesis examines the notions of self and no-self, specifically in light of the actor’s experience and manner of engagement in actor training. Arguing that the actor’s assumptions and beliefs regarding self affect embodiment and engagement in training, the thesis highlights the importance of considering these notions, and proposes some practical explorations. Training experiences in theatrical biomechanics and the work of Nicolás Núñez are reflected upon as practical references for the investigation. The lack of a fixed ongoing self in experience is identified as a key stance in considerations within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, and the consequences, for the actor, of conceiving an independent, on-going self as existing in experience are suggested to lead to a perceived dualism that is at times considered to interfere in the actor’s work. The thesis suggests an understanding of self as a ‘myth’ created through ‘storytelling,’ conceptualisation and embodied metaphor, and as a process of neurological mapping as argued by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Antonio Damasio, Louis Hoffman and others. For considering the notion of no-self and the actor’s potential for operating without a sense of personal identity, the thesis draws on the no-self theory of Buddhism and ‘attunement’ and the ‘self-cultivation’ model proposed by Nagatomo Shigenori and Yuasa Yasuo. Drawing on no-self theory, the questions regarding dualism in the actor’s experience, a transformation of habitual patterns of movement and action, everyday consciousness and the actor’s manner of engagement in training are examined. Identifying actor-training as a process of self-exploration and self-definition in the work of Phillip Zarrilli, Eugenio Barba and others, the thesis argues for the importance of considering the notions of self and no-self and introduces alternative models for this examination.
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Greatorex, Francesca Mary. "The development of the role of the actor-musician in Britain by British directors since the 1960s." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/18324/.
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This thesis will investigate the creation and development by two British directors, Glen Walford and Bob Carlton, of the use of the actor-musician in small-scale touring, popular theatre community and subsidised repertory with a strong community base performance practices from 1960 to 2000. It will argue that the actor-musician had been established in touring community theatre companies, where distinctive working methodologies had evolved. Using previously unpublished archive material and new interviews; this is the first dedicated academic study to identify the work of these directors as a distinctive and innovative practice, which has one key strand of musical theatre performance in Britain since the 1960s. It locates this new body of practice in a diverse tradition of socially engaged and politically informed theatre that evolved through times of financial stringency, it will argue nonetheless that the work of these two directors has primarily creative or artistic validity which was driven and underpinned by social and political concern. The thesis will demonstrate that the two directors investigated represent the key line of continuity in the field of actor-musician practice. Each of these directors has worked and continued to work in very distinct styles and contexts and utilised the actor-musician in differing ways. The thesis will employ case studies in order to demonstrate ways in which the potential and range of the actormusician was developed in: classic plays, including Shakespeare reworked and extant musicals; new work that has been specifically conceived and created for actor-musicians. In conclusion it will evaluate the continuing significance of this practice within British musical theatre.
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Leta, Gerba [Verfasser]. "The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and Its Role as Development Actor : Cases from Southwestern Ethiopia / Gerba Leta." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1167925998/34.
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Donzello, Cristian. "Employing Actor Network Theory to Explore the Role of Management Control Systems in New Product Development Projects." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1606.
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This thesis is a theoretically-led conceptual investigation about the socio-technical factors that influence the role and use of control systems in New Product Development (NPD) settings. The purpose of the dissertation is to explore the socio-technical micro-foundations underpinning the influence of management accounting and control systems in NPD contexts. In addition, this dissertation offers insights to some critical issues related to the Actor Network Theory applied for the empirical analysis. Particularly, an exploration of semiotic and power issues related to non human actors is provided.
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Långmark, Henrik. "The Role of Ethical Funds in Influencing Sustainable Business Practice." Thesis, Stockholm University, Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7180.
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<p>Den snabbt växande etiska fondmarknaden är dels en respons på ökad efterfrågan från investerare, och dels en reaktion på ett ökat intresse och förståelse för miljö och etiska frågor från företagens sida. Denna studie diskuterar detta fält från företagens perspektiv. Ett flertal studier har lagt fram teorier om att socialt ansvarsfullt investerande [SRI] och etiska fonder specifikt, har potential att förändra företagens beteende. Denna uppsats placerar etiska fonder bland generella drivkrafter som har en effekt på dagens företag, och analyserar etiska fonder utifrån deras roll som en drivkraft när det gäller påverkan av företag som dessa investerar i. Från KPA Pensions etiska fondinnehav, deltog 19 företag i studien. Genom enkät och intervjuer har denna studie funnit att de etiska fonderna inte kan sägas vara en drivkraft när det gäller att påverka företagen gällande miljö och CSR frågor. Kunder, investerare och företagens egna, inre engagemang verkar vara de främsta aktörerna och drivkrafterna för att uppmuntra till arbete med dessa frågor. Enligt företagen själva, dock, finns det fortfarande positiva effekter som de etiska fonderna ger upphov till i form av positiv respons från kunder, ökad goodwill och ökade markandsandelar. En del av företagen menar att de inte har haft lika mycket kontakt med KPA Pension som de kanske hade velat, men känner att dialogen och samarbetet mellan dem och KPA Pension har varit och är värdefullt. Dessutom visar företagen tecken på förståelse att ett arbete med miljö och CSR- frågor är ett kontinuerligt sådant, och därför borde relationen mellan företagen och KPA Pension förbättras.</p>
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Sloat, Amanda. "Scotland's role in the European Union : expectations of multi-level governance among political elites : an actor-centred approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22637.
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The thesis seeks to document and analyse the expectations of Scottish political elites about Scotland's role in changing European Union during the crucial months preceding the first elections to the new Scottish Parliament. Through interviews with members of Scottish civil society, officials, and politicians, it considers two key questions. First, how do elites expect the Scottish Executive to influence European policy-making? Second, how do elites understand the operation of governance under new constitutional arrangements? The thesis draws from the conceptual frameworks of Multi-Level Governance, which focuses attention on the roles of sub- and supra-national levels of government, and of New Institutionalism, which explains how actors' behaviour can be influenced by institutional norms. It uses an actor-centred approach to obtain a more nuanced understanding of elites' expectations, arguing that an actors' proximity to the devolution process and personal experiences also affect perceptions. The thesis begins by outlining the 'established wisdom' about these questions, assessing academic literature, governments documents, party manifestos, and civic publications. This background provides a comparative reference for the consideration of elites' expectations. The thesis examines the extent to which observers believe the UK government incorporated Scottish interests in European negotiations. It suggests that a lack of transparency and varying involvement in the political arena cause different actors to present divergent assessments. However, most elites do not expect the Scottish Executive to exert greater influence on the UK's position. Although some policy-making procedures will change, there will be continuity as existing civil service channels will be used to conduct negotiations between the governments. The thesis suggests that Scotland's European priorities differ form England's in emphasis rather than substance due to distinct civic institutions, history, and geography. Devolution will better enable a nuanced approach to European policy-making as the Executive can publicise Scotland's views, enabling observers at home and in Brussels to judge whether the UK government has considered them, and implement directives n a suitable manner.
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Obney, David M. "The Actor in the Space: The Influence of Space on the Construction and Creation of the Role of Macbeth." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1191335507.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Dance, Theatre and Arts Administration, 2007.<br>"December, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 02/22/2008) Advisor, James Slowiak; Committee member, Chris Hariasz; School Director, Neil Sapienza; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Clateman, Andrew. "Inheriting the motley mantle an actor approaches playing the role of Feste, Shakespeare's update of the lord of misrule." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4871.
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Playing role of Feste in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night presents a complex challenge to the actor. Feste is at once a character in the world of the play and a clown figure with specific dramatic functions having roots in the Lord of Misrule of the English holiday and the Vice of the morality play. How can the actor playing Feste create a believable psychological portrayal that is aligned with the functions Shakespeare assigns the role? And be entertaining as well? I suggest that actor will benefit greatly from an exploration the traditional function of the clown its development in society and literature before Shakespeare, and how Shakespeare's use of the clown developed, culminating in the writing of Twelfth Night. The actor will thereby have a better understanding of what Shakespeare might by trying to achieve with Feste,, and he (or she) may better find the motivations for Feste's sometimes-enigmatic words and actions, which will, in turn, give shape and purpose to the clowning. I put this thesis to the test in preparing for and playing the role of Feste in Theater Ten Ten's production of Twelfth Night in the spring of 2010 in New York City. My research and preparation will include: a substantial immersion in much of Shakespeare's cannon, and viewing of performances of it (mainly on video); research on the role of the clown, how it developed through history until Shakespeare's time, and how Shakespeare appropriated and developed that tradition, culminating in Feste; a performance history of the role; a structural analysis of Feste's role in Twelfth Night; a character study of Feste; a rehearsal and performance journal documenting my ongoing exploration, challenges and choices. The main challenge, as I foresee it, is to arrive at my own unique performance of Feste while fulfilling both my director's vision and Shakespeare's intention.<br>ID: 029809094; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169).<br>M.F.A.<br>Masters<br>Theatre<br>Arts and Humanities
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Mamujee, Shehzana Nadine. "The role of the boy actor in the children's companies of the early modern English stage circa 1580-1610." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.643552.
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This thesis explores the role of the boy actor in the plays of Lyly, Marlowe, Marston and Jonson circa 1580-1610. Focusing on the Children of Paul's and the Children of the Chapel Royal/Queen's Revels, the two most prominent children's troupes of the period, I seek to redress three main critical imbalances. Firstly, I attempt to counter the general preoccupation with the boy as a player of female roles in the Shakespearean adult companies; and secondly, I argue against the exclusion of Lyly from discussions about the boy's performance of gender. Thirdly, this study aims to accompany recent literature about the Jacobean boy player, by offering the Elizabethan perspective. However, rather than analysing the organisation of a particular repertory, my approach takes the boy player as a single entity, concentrating specifically on his role within the performance practices of the companies. It attempts to reveal insights into the playwrights' conceptual approaches to the child, linking the boy's place on the stage to wider social discourses of parent-child relationships, sexuality and gender, and the economic imperative which also fuels theatrical performance.
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Addison, Brian J. "'I'm just the Sunday boy!' : exploring the role of uncertainty in 'becoming' a pharmacist." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21799.
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This thesis explores the notion of professionalism in pharmacy from a pharmacy education viewpoint, specifically the process of becoming a ‘professional’ as experienced by pharmacy students as they undertake the educational programme required for registration as a pharmacist. Registration as a pharmacist is commonly understood as an end-point in becoming a professional, portraying the educational programme as an acquisitional endeavour where upon completion, an individual has become a professional. Such understandings are problematic as they disguise the complex, uncertain and individual journeys that students experience as they undertake an educational programme that portrays becoming a professional as a static, linear process rather than an on-going negotiation and emergence of professional selves. This study adopts a social constructionist framework to explore the experiences of pharmacy students at one Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the United Kingdom. Rejecting positivistic notions of control, prediction and generalisability this study uses an interpretive approach to the generation and analysis of interview data to gain understandings of the individual and local experiences of pharmacy students at this particular HEI. Interviews were conducted with nineteen students who prepared a repertory grid to describe their own constructions of an ‘ideal’ pharmacist and the grids were used as a catalyst for discussion in individual participant interviews. Using the repertory grid approach afforded an insight into pharmacy students’ experiences of ‘becoming’ a pharmacist, revealing themes and patterns emerging from analysis of student narratives. Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a theoretical lens to explore these themes and patterns from a socio-material perspective, the micro-interactions and exchanges that emerged from these networks exposed the innumerable realisations of ‘becoming’ a pharmacist. Tracing some of these networks in this thesis revealed a number of powerful actors in these micro-interactions and exchanges. When considered individually these actors appear inconsequential, however, collectively these micro-interactions and exchanges reveal the highly individualised, complex and uncertain experience of ‘becoming’ a pharmacist. In coming together these non-human and human actors emerge as a driving force in the emergence of student identities as a pharmacist. This study makes an original contribution to pharmacy education by revealing the uncertainty that pharmacy students experience in ‘becoming’ a pharmacist. It identifies that this experience is highly individualised and personal to each student and argues for embracing uncertainty as a helpful and essential experience of ‘becoming’ a pharmacist.
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Devaux, Jerome. "Technologies in interpreter-mediated criminal court hearings : an actor-network theory account of the interpreter's perception of her role-space." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/43417/.
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Her Majesty’s Courts Service in England and Wales has been subject to various changes within the past seventeen years. New working methods have been adopted, while the introduction of technologies has revolutionised the legal sphere. Since 2000, courts in England and Wales have indeed been increasingly using videoconference (VC) technologies to speed up the legal process, to enhance security, and to reduce costs, all of this in a context of budgetary constraints. Such VC pieces of equipment mean that all parties are not required to be physically in attendance in court for a case to be heard. In fact, a defendant may attend his pre trial court hearing from his detention centre since the courtroom and the prison will be linked via cameras, screens, and microphones. Interestingly, the court interpreter can be called to interpret in either location. Even though some may embrace the advent of technological tools available in court interpreting, the effect that they may have is still unknown. Some studies have explored various linguistic and para-linguistic features of Videoconference Interpreting (VCI). However, although the court interpreter’s role, from a conduit to that of an active participant, has been widely researched in Interpreting Studies (e.g. Hale, 2008; Martin and Ortega Herráez, 2009), the role of the court interpreter when interpreting via VC systems is an under-researched field. In this context, this thesis examines the interpreter’s perception of her role, whether she is located in court or in prison, through the analysis of eighteen interviews conducted with practising court interpreters. Building on research carried out on the use of VCI in court and the court interpreter’s role in a face to face setting, this study adopts an interdisciplinary approach by examining the interpreter’s role perception through the lens of role-space and that of Actor Network Theory. It is argued that the interpreter’s perception of her role-space varies, depending on whether she considers herself, in Actor-Network Theory terms, as a primum movens or not, alongside the role-space axes of presentation of self, participant alignment, and/or interaction management. Furthermore, the court interpreter deploys many-but-mostly-covert role interessement devices to ensure that the other court actors rally on the interpreter’s perception of her role. This thesis ends with various recommendations as to how the court interpreter can re-align her role-space when interpreting in VCI. Key words: Actor-Network Theory, Court Interpreting, Role Perception, Role Space, Videoconference Interpreting.
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Ndoulou, Anissa Ockenga. "The role of enterprise resource planning in entrenching business processes in a selected organisation in the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2822.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019.<br>The main objective of research is to determine how business processes influenced by corporate strategy can be entrenched in an organisation. Organisations rely on business processes to deliver product and services to customers and meet organisational goals. Several process weaknesses prevail in organisations and impede process performance. Organisations merely focus on technical aspects of the transformation to address efficiency and effectiveness in business processes and tend to ignore the social elements attached to the transformation which bring considerable changes in the employees working environment. Human attitude and behaviour can thus impede process change and entrenchment. As a result, the change endeavour fails, and processes are not entrenched. The study thus gave due consideration to the socio-technical elements because process relies on human intervention to progress at some points. The study aimed to understand and interpret how business processes can be entrenched in an organisation and used a selected organisation in the Western Cape, Cape Town as a case study. To address the main research objective three subordinated objectives were developed and a main research question and three sub-research questions were investigated. Given the human element involved in the process transformation, the phenomenon is a socially constructed reality that can be understood and interpreted using a social theory. Actor Network Theory (ANT) was used as a lens through which to understand and interpret the factors influencing the entrenchment of business processes. It is argued that enterprise resource planning (ERP) influences both technical and non-technical factors involved in process entrenchment and that entrenchment emanates from the alignment of interests of social, process and technology actors. An interpretative paradigm applies to the study where qualitative philosophy was followed together with the underpinning theory. The theory and review of literature were used to develop semi-structured interview schedules to collect opinions from participants. The research participants included twenty-one managers at senior, middle and lower level positions from the Finance, HR and IST departments of the studied organisation. Ethical considerations applied to this research relate to the data collection process and the disclosure of the research findings. Data collection was approved by the institution under study to ensure confidentiality and non-violation of organisation policies. In addition, interview questions were reviewed by senior managers to ensure that the information obtained would not hurt the reputation of the organisation. The research findings revealed that actors need to be transformed and supported to accommodate the change and that the principles of ERP can be implemented as a strategy to lead the process transformation and entrenchment. The research generated a general framework to guide the use of technical and non-technical factors to influence process entrenchment. As such, recommendations are made to actors of process transformation to ensure entrenchment.
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Stankevičiūtė, Erika. "Vaidmens kūrimo individualių metodų paieška aktoriaus rengimo procese." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100709_133133-98821.
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Sistemiška vaidmens kūrimo analizė, metodų kūrimas prasidėjo tik XX a. pradžioje. Aktoriaus rengimo mokyklų pradžia laikoma žymiausio aktorinio parengimo pedagogo, žymaus aktoriaus, režisieriaus K. Stanislavskio (1863 m.) sukurta savita sistema, kuri padarė įtaką visai teatro raidai. K. Stanislavskis turėjo daug savo pasekėjų ne tik Rusijoje, bet ir visame pasaulyje. Iš K. Stanislavskio sistemos išsivystė dvi teatro kryptys: 1. Psichologinis teatras (K. Stanislavskis, M.Čechovas, Š. Diulenas). 2. Fizinis teatras. (V. Meyerholdas, J.Grotowski, B.Brecht ir kt.). Šios kryptys turėjo didelę įtaką ir Lietuvos teatro mokyklos raidai. Nuo V. Boguslovskio, A. Sutkaus, A. Olekos-Žilinsko, J. Miltinio iki šių dienų Lietuvos teatro aktoriaus parengimas pakito nedaug, tačiau galima teigti, kad šiuolaikiniame Lietuvos teatre vyrauja režisūrinis teatras, kuriame svarbūs vizualūs ir muzikiniai/ritminiai sprendimai. Tačiau vaidmens kūrimo procesas daugiausiai remiasi psichologinio teatro metodais. Tiek aktoriams, tiek režisieriams svarbu, kad aktorius suvoktų savo uždavinį, suprastų spektaklio visumą, žadintų savyje emocinius išgyvenimus. Kad ir kaip nebepripažintų teatro kūrėjai K. Stanislavskio sistemos, aktoriai iki šios dienos ją laiko universaliausia ir patikimiausia mokykla. Taip pat galima pastebėti, kad režisieriai neieško individualaus metodo ir jo netaiko. Lietuvos aktorius yra išmokytas ir tebemokomas būti tikslia spektaklio vitražo dalimi. Studijų metu aktoriai supažindinami su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]<br>Systematic analysis of role creation and methods development started just in the beginning of XX century. A unique system created by the most famous acting teacher, well known actor and director K. Stanislavski (1863) is believed to be the first impulsion for the acting schools introduction and thus made a big influence for the whole development of theatre. K. Stanislavski had many followers in the whole world, not only Russia. From K. Stanislavski’ system two types of theatre trends have evolved: 1) Psychological theatre (K. Stanislavski, M.Čechov, Š. Diulen) and 2) Physical theatre (V. Meyerhold, J.Grotowski, B.Brecht etc). These two trends were also influential for the development of Lithuanian theatre school.
Since V. Boguslovski, A. Sutkus, A. Oleka-Žilinskas , J.Miltinis until these days the training of Lithuanian theatre actors has changed little, however, one could tell that in today Lithuanian theatre prevails staged type theatre where visual and musical or rhythm solutions are most important. On the other hand, the process of role creation is mostly based on methods from psychological theatre. Actors as well as directors care that the actor understands the wholeness of performance, stimulate inner emotional experiences. Accordingly, no matter how strong the disagreement of theatre founders for K. Stanislavski system would be actors still consider it as the most universal and reliable school. In addition, it is clear that directors do not try to find individual... [to full text]
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Forozan, Hesam. "The military in the Islamic Republic of Iran : an assessment of the Sepah's role (IRGC) as a political and economic actor." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9514/.
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This thesis analyses the rise to power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami, also known as ‘the Sepah’, in post-Khomeini Iran, particularly after the election of Ahmadinejad to the presidency in 2005. It explains the manner in which the Sepah has become a powerful political force with a substantial stake in Iran’s economy and foreign policy. To understand the growing role of the Sepah as a political and economic actor, the thesis develops a theoretical framework by combining the literature on civil-military relations and institutionalist studies with an analysis of power relations in post-revolutionary Iran. Drawing on Laswell’s concept of the ‘garrison state’, the thesis explains the growth in power of the Sepah from the vantage point of its evolution from a pillar of the regime, referred to here as an ‘auxiliary guardian’, to a leading political and economic player in the IRI. The thesis demonstrates that this evolution has taken place gradually, within the context of Iran’s factionalised political process, and under conditions of perpetual domestic and international tension; moreover, it will show that while the Sepah was imbued with political and non-military functions owing to its role as the guardian of the revolution, the scope of its political involvement and its influence over Iran’s economy and foreign policy was the outgrowth of its responses to internal crisis and perceived external threats in the context of Iran’s ongoing elite struggle for power.
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Soga, Lebene Richmond. "The role of Web 2.0 (social) technologies in leadership within the organisation : through the analytical lens of the actor-network theory." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78143/.
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We live in an increasingly technological age in which ubiquitous technologies permeate nearly every aspect of life in contemporary organisations. One such group of technologies is what are referred to as Web 2.0 (social) technologies manifesting in applications like social media for online interactions. In this study, Google+, a social technology, is deployed by Drugster, a Fortune 500 organisation for internal communication among organisational members. The study investigates how this technological actor became an integral part of the network of relations in the organisation and how it intermediates the manager-employee leadership relationship. By following actors – both human and non-human – as they implement the technology, the study uses interviews, observations, and netnography as methods of inquiry to understand how this new technological entrant influences the practice of leadership inside the organisation. The study finds that in the digital space, managers, employees and technology all enact relational practices that devolve leadership in a zone of heterogeneous relations. In network construction, the study finds that actors deploy strategies that make them stand in relation with the interests of, and in relation to the actions of those they seek to influence. Here, leadership is argued as a relational enactment of influence in a heterogeneous network in which evolving social order and change are constructed, sustained, and or constrained through intermediations that seek to (de)stabilise the network. The findings also uncover unintended consequences that emerge as a result of the deployment of this technological actant for the manager-employee leadership relationship. Using the analytical lens of the actor-network theory, the study contributes to relational leadership literature by proposing a network perspective that embraces emergent, ambiguous, relational and heterogeneous properties of the manager-employee-technology relationship – what it refers to as a technologized manager-employee relationship.
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Wiesneth, Katharina [Verfasser], and Mathias [Akademischer Betreuer] Klier. "Enterprise Social Networks – Contributions to Research with respect to Actor Roles in Knowledge Management, the Role of Formal Hierarchies, and Network Evolution / Katharina Wiesneth ; Betreuer: Mathias Klier." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1137701676/34.
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Mayar, Wahidullah. "The Role of Telemedicine in the Management of Stroke Patients and Knowledge Sharing among Health Care Providers in Afghanistan." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24381.
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Focusing on the potential use of telemedicine among other efforts for better treatment of stroke patients, this study explored the role of telemedicine in the management of stroke patients and knowledge sharing among health care providers in Afghanistan. To this end, fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with physicians, specialists, neurologists, and decision makers from the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Actor-network and diffusion of innovations theories provided a theoretical framework for this exploratory qualitative study. The study was intended: 1) to find out about the major challenges and problems associated with managing stroke patients in Afghanistan; 2) to explore the perceptions of Afghan health professionals about the application of telemedicine as a means of improving the delivery of health services for stroke patients in Afghanistan; and 3) to understand the perceived barriers to knowledge sharing and to ascertain the potential role of telemedicine in knowledge sharing among health care providers in Afghanistan. The findings of this study demonstrated that almost all of the participants were optimistic about the potential positive role telemedicine could play in the management of stroke patients and knowledge sharing among health care providers in Afghanistan. Some important existing organisational, socio-economic, geographical, security, and cultural barriers to the management of stroke patients and knowledge sharing among health care providers in Afghanistan were revealed. To the best knowledge of the researcher, there has been no study of this kind conducted in Afghanistan yet; thus, the findings of this study will likely contribute to the development of health communication in the context of Afghanistan, and could likely be used as a resource for future research about the applications of telemedicine in various medical specialities.
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Gartner, Matthew. "'We're all coming through fine' : the observed self of the screen actor in the multi-role performances of Peter Sellers and Buster Keaton." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62422.
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In Stars, Richard Dyer writes that star actors “seem to be of a different order of being, a different ‘ontological category’” than other people (49). It is here, in the core question of studies on screen acting, that this thesis places itself. Building on Dyer’s claim, this work documents a unique category of existence for film actors: beings that are legitimately understood as one of three separate types of individuals (a character, a persona, or a private self), while also regarded as an accumulation of all those three (many characters, the many roles that create a persona, and the visible and invisible parts of one’s personal life). Another part of the screen actor that facilitates this existence—something not yet encountered in film studies discourse—is referred to here as the observed self, which allows for the many disparate pieces of an actor to be corralled into one body. As part of this analysis, Michel Foucault’s notion of the care of the self is employed, allowing for the identification of an observed self in films such as The Mouse that Roared (Jack Arnold, 1959), Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964), and The Play House (Buster Keaton, 1921). After one chapter that surveys trends in screen acting academia, and another on the relevant Foucauldian concepts, this thesis examines performances from Peter Sellers and Buster Keaton to identify the observed self on screen. This piece of identity is found in films that house all three of the different components of an actor’s constitution. Once the components of the observed self are identified within these films, the thesis identifies moments in which audiences must rely on this to place themselves within a familiar viewing experience. I argue that these moments are broadcast at a high frequency in films where actors play multiple roles, and that actors employ Foucault’s notion of transgression, with this inherent quality allowing the viewer to see them as beings that are both unified and disintegrated.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Theatre and Film, Department of<br>Graduate
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Tracchi, Matteo. "Citizenship education in Croatia and Italy: what place and role for human rights? A multi-level actor-centred approach to human rights education." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425917.
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The research focuses on citizenship and human rights education, particularly looking at two case studies, namely Croatia and Italy. The main objective is to understand whether citizenship education in lower secondary school (specifically grade 8) includes a human rights component and is aligned with the concept of Human Rights Education (HRE) as enshrined in international and regional standards. The research is based on a quantitative part, coming from a secondary analysis of the results of an internationally renowned study developed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and entitled ICCS 2016 (International Civic and Citizenship Education Study). More specifically, data relevant to the research were analysed for both Croatia and Italy (e.g. students’ endorsement of gender and racial equality, learning objectives, school contexts, etc.) and used to frame some of the questions that have been asked during a series of 25 one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders identified in both countries (Ministry of Education, National Agencies, Local Authorities, Civil Society, Academia). Refusing the assumption of linearity and uniformity in the structure and development of citizenship education (CE), and rather conceptualising it as a tension political field of diverse and conflicting demands to which a multitude of actors have to respond simultaneously, the research adopts an actor-centred perspective using the methodological steps of the talk-and-action approach (Zimenkova & Hedtke, 2008) to:
- identify the differentiated picture of CE actors as seen by the actors themselves, including their beliefs, conceptions and perceptions;
- better understand the complex systems and environments of citizenship education focusing on multiple key actors at stake;
- discover (inconsistent) demands and central tensions of citizenship education related to human rights and how these are perceived by the selected actor;
- analyse the reactions of each respective actor to the demands previously assessed, pushing for a thorough differentiation between talk, decision and action;
- investigate the relationship between citizenship education and human rights education in the two focus countries (Croatia and Italy).
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Valverde, Heidi Tatiana. "The role of regional Igr institutions in decision-making in Santa Cruz -Bolivia." University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7794.
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Magister Administrationis - MAdmin<br>The research investigation explores the topic from the point of view of intergovernmental institutions and the regional (departmental) decision-making process in Santa Cruz- Bolivia. The purpose was to determine if these institutions influence the decision-making process of actors in the area of road infrastructure. The topic is explored from the viewpoint of Actor-Centered Institutionalism from Scharpf. It states that the solutions to solve social problems can be explained as the outcome of interactions among intentional actors, but that these interactions are structured and outcomes are influenced by the characteristics of the institutional setting in which they occur. For that purpose, the study identifies the actor constellations participating in the process, their modes of interaction and the
constraints they face as a result of the institutional setting. The research starts by distinguishing the formal, informal and fiscal lOR institutions and determine their importance; for this purpose, the classification by Agranoff is used. Afterwards, the investigation portrays the decision-making process in the area and analyzes the final decisions of actors as a result of the institutions shaping them. It is argued that mostly fiscal arrangements are shaping the decision-making process in the area. The formal and informal arrangements are determining the actor constellations participating in the process and how they interact, as well as which institutional constraints they face. It is concluded that there are missing channels of intergovernmental cooperation between the national and the departmental level, and it generates misunderstandings and uncertainty. The channels of cooperation between the department and the provinces exist, but training and technical advice is needed to enhance actors' capacities at this level. The mini-thesis concludes with the policy implications derived from the dynamics at the regional level and identifying other factors influencing the decision-making
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Kurzweil, Matěj. "Role jedince v mezinárodních vztazích: Vůdci a jejich postavení v mezinárodním systému." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-191706.
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The main goal of the thesis was to find out why leaders decide the way they do. Using the example of the Cuban Crisis from 1962 I try to analyze the decision making process of the american president John F. Kennedy and the soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Cuban Crisis was the most dangerous moment since World War II and the world got to the edge of a nuclear war. The lives of thousands of people were in the hands of the two leaders. Their decision making process was influenced by many internal and external factors and in this thesis I am trying to find out which factors and to what extent had the biggest influence on their decisions.
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Gosselin, Danielle. "An actor's approach: stepping into a role and a world of the past." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5637.
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To step into a character and a world of the past, the actor must not discard the present, but seek to find connections and links between the worlds. I was cast in the Orlando Shakespeare Theater production of Sense and Sensibility, a Jon Jory adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, in the role of Lucy Steele. This was an equity production, and it ran February 6th – March 17th, 2013, in the Orlando Shakespeare Theater's Margeson Theater. Lucy is a female character from England in a period often referred to as the Regency era. As a woman from today's United States of America, first I explored how Lucy's words and actions fit into the society of her time, and second I explored how I, a contemporary actor, could organically step into her shoes. One of the greatest tools I had to help me address these questions was the playwright himself, Jon Jory. He was at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater for the 2012 Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, during which he gave a keynote address and taught a master class in acting, in which I participated. Furthermore, I had the unique opportunity to personally interview him regarding Sense and Sensibility and his connection to the world of Austen and her characters. Along with applying this insight, I applied tools from his acting master class to my work on his Sense and Sensibility text. This special access to the playwright greatly influenced the work and served as a key into Lucy's world. In addition to working with the playwright, I further researched Austen and her work, because Lucy and her world originate there. I explored various resources about England's Regency era society and the role of women in this society. By comparing the world and people of the play to the current cultural and political landscape with which I am most familiar, I found fundamental links between people living in different times and places, breaking down walls between Lucy's world and my own. Finally, this performance thesis project utilized the practical acting, voice, and movement skills, which I cultivated in my studio work as an MFA acting candidate at the University of Central Florida. It was a wonderful opportunity as an aspiring young actor to participate in an equity production and work with professional actors. I exercised my stage dialects training by using a standard British dialect, and I applied what I learned in my theatre styles acting class and in various movement classes to develop the behavior and physicality of my character. In order to preserve the new information gained from this study, I chronicled my explorations and discoveries throughout the rehearsal and production process. Through my work with the playwright Jon Jory, my research on Jane Austen and the Regency era, and my application of what I learned in the studio, I strove to create a model process for an actor to utilize when stepping into a role and a world of the past.<br>M.F.A.<br>Masters<br>Theatre<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Theatre; Acting
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Klikovac, Sasha, and Sajra Kiserud. "Mobbningscen och lärarens roll : En kvalitativ studie om lärarnas arbete mot mobbning." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för socialpedagogik och sociologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8057.
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Bakgrund: Skolan som institution har existerat i olika former under många århundraden, samtidigt som den hela tiden har följt samhällsutvecklingen. Om problematiken med mobbning inom skolmiljön har det vittnats åtminstone i flera decennier, trots att skolan påvisar den genom aktivt arbete med främjande och förebyggande åtgärder. Vittnesmål kring mobbning kommer oftast från personer som har varit utsatta, ofta långt efter att kränkningarna ägt rum, och ger oss ett perspektiv på problemet. Vår intention med denna uppsats har varit att lyfta upp mobbning från ett annat perspektiv, genom att fånga upp lärarnas upplevelse kring det praktiska arbetet mot mobbning. Syfte: Studiens övergripande syfte är att med hjälp av Goffmans teori om scen, skapa en fördjupad förståelse för vad lärarna inom ett antimobbningsteam på en grundskola har för upplevelse kring deras arbete mot mobbning mellan eleverna. De frågeställningar studien förhåller sig till är: 1. Hur beskriver grundskollärare från antimobbningsteam sin roll i förhållande till elever i mobbningssammanhang? 2. Hur kan Goffmans begrepp scen, roll, aktör, publik, team, inramning och uppsättning användas för att förstå lärarnas upplevelse kring mobbning? Metod: En kvalitativ ansats har använts med fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med lärare från antimobbningsteamet. Analysen av skapad data gjordes utifrån Goffmans dramaturgiska teori om scen samt tidigare forskning. Resultat: Resultatet visar på att vid mobbningen mellan skoleleverna är det hela gruppen som deltar, antingen aktivt genom att utöva kränkningar, eller passivt genom att uppmuntra till det via positiv respons. Detta sker oftast bortom lärarnas synhåll, på scener och vid sådana tillfällen som lärare inte kan bevittna. Studien synliggör att lärare upplever sig ha bristfälliga kunskaper kring problematiken samt att det saknas tidsmässiga resurser för att motarbeta problemet. Scenen för mobbning ramas in av skolans styrdokument men även genom skolans bristande satsningar på resurser och lärarutbildningar.<br>Background: The school as an institution has existed in various forms for many centuries, and constantly followed the development of society. Regarding the problem of bullying in the school environment, it has been testified as a problem during at least several decades. This despite the fact that the school demonstrates it through active efforts of promotion and prevention. Testimony about the bullying usually comes from people who have been exposed, often long after the violations occurred, and gives us a perspective on the issue. Our intention with this essay has been to illustrate the bullying from a different perspective, by capturing the teachers' experience on the practical work against bullying. Purpose: The overall aim is that by using Goffman's theory about stage, creating a deeper understanding of what teachers in an anti-bullying team at a primary school experience within their work with bullying among students. The issues the study relates to are: 1. How primary school teachers from the anti-bullying team describes their role in relation to students in bullying context? 2. How can Goffman's concept stage, role, actor, audience, teams, setting and set be used to understand the teachers' experience concerning bullying? Method: A qualitative approach has been used with semi-structured interviews in which the analysis of the created data was based on Goffman's dramaturgical theory about the stage and previous research. Results: The results show that the whole group is involved at the bullying between school children, either actively by exercising violation, or passively by encouraging it through positive feedback. This usually occurs beyond the teachers' sight, on stages and at such times the teachers cannot witness. The study reveals that teachers feel they have insufficient knowledge about the problem and a lack of time resources to address the problem. The stage of bullying is framed by the school's governing documents and also by the school's lack of investment in resources and teacher training.
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Brown, Arielle B., and Arielle B. Brown. "The Effects of Politics and Media on America: Creating the Role of Lainie Wells in Lee Blessing's Two Rooms." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2130.
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Two Rooms, by Lee Blessings, was selected for performance at the University of New Orleans during the fall of 2015. I studied and portrayed the role of Lainie Wells as my thesis project. The purpose of my thesis was to research a character physically, psychologically, and emotionally as an actress and create a character through the eyes of Lainie Wells.
The following is a brief breakdown of the structure of my written thesis: biography of Lee Blessing, hostage families and their mental state as it relates to the Iranian hostage crisis, mass media effects on Syria, The Hunt for Bin Laden, the rehearsal process, and a scored script including all actions and objectives; a review of my work, my own conclusions based on my process and character arc, photographs of my performance, a professional headshot along with my resume to highlight the significance to my work as an artist.
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Ndisi-Haffner, Mylène Shiroko. "The place and the role of the actor in the governance of research and innovation projects : Two case studies of Africa-Europe cooperation in the field of food security and greenhouse gas observation." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Clermont Auvergne (2021-...), 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UCFA0148.
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L’objectif de cette recherche est d’apporter une contribution à la compréhension de la méta-gouvernance de la coopération internationale en matière de recherche et d’innovation, entre des partenaires africains et européens. La coopération, étudiée ici, vise à promouvoir la sécurité alimentaire, à limiter des impacts environnementaux et à assurer une soutenabilité économique pour des acteurs dont les revenus proviennent de l'agriculture et cela en s'appuyant sur des innovations technologiques d'observation et d'adaptation aux évolutions climatiques. La méta-gouvernance liée à la gouvernance durable comporte des dimensions économiques, sociales et environnementales (Meuleman, 2019), cette recherche propose d’éclairer la théorie de la méta-gouvernance (Sørensen et Torfing, 2007 ; Torfing et Sørensen, 2014) à travers les concepts d’autoréflexivité, de réflexivité et d’objectifs futurs issue de la théorie de la créativité d’action (Joas, 1996 ; Joas & Beckert, 2001 ; Wiek, 2012). L’enjeu est de mieux comprendre la position et le rôle des acteurs impliqués dans la coopération scientifique mondiale. Cette recherche abductive s’appuie sur l’analyse de deux cas de coopération scientifique Afrique-Europe. La collecte de données par entretiens auprès des acteurs de la coopération porte sur leurs attentes, motivations et actions (Joas, 1996 ; Joas et Beckert, 2001) en matière de gouvernance. Les conclusions soulignent l'importance du rôle des acteurs dans la gestion commune des connaissances, le suivi de l'évaluation et de l'apprentissage, le co-investissement, ainsi que la définition et la compréhension continues du contexte. Les acteurs n’étaient pas aussi familiers avec les méthodes d’engagement qu’ils jugeaient nécessaires, soulignant ainsi l'importance de la compréhension du contexte et des domaines et thèmes d'intérêt de chacun<br>This research seeks to contribute to the understanding of metagovernance in international environment and food security research and innovation cooperation, through the case studies of two projects between African and European institutional partners. This cooperation is needed to attain nutrition security, environmental sustainability via climate-smart technologies, and the economic enhancement of actors that depend on agricultural income, in global dynamic relations. Since metagovernance is related to sustainability governance with economic, social and environmental components (Meuleman, 2019), this research proposes that metagovernance theory (Sørensen & Torfing, 2007; Torfing & Sørensen, 2014) be informed by the theory of creativity of action’s self-reflexivity, reflexivity and goals-in-view concepts (Joas, 1996; Joas & Beckert, 2001; Wiek, 2012) to find the position and role of the actor in the cooperation. This research objective considers the context’s research governance challenges including a lack of consistency in competition and collaborative objectives of countries in global science cooperation (Flink & Schreiterer, 2010; Román & Schunz, 2017; Ruffini, 2020). The research design employed reiterative in-depth studies (Dumez, 2009, 2012; Easton, 2010; Saldaña, 2011; Zackariasson, 2015). Private, public sector and civil society actor expectations, motivations, and actual action (Joas, 1996; Joas & Beckert, 2001) in governance were examined from qualitative and quantitative data collected. Analysis (Rhodes, 2007; Voronov & Vince, 2012) was carried out according to governance mode instruments and creativity of action concepts. Findings reiterated the role and position of the actor engaging in common knowledge management, monitoring evaluation and learning, co-investment, and continuous context definition and understanding. The actors were found not to be as familiar with the same methods of engagement as they thought necessary hence the concluded role of actor understanding of their context and themes of focus
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Cox, Jason M. "Educational Communities, Arts-Based Inquiry, & Role-Playing: An American Freeform Exploration with Professional & Pre-Service Art Educators." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436306956.
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Jedeskog, Gunilla. "Teachers and computers : Teachers' computer usage and the relationship between computers and the role of the teacher, as described in international research." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Uppsala university, 2000. http://publications.uu.se/theses/fulltext/91-506-1439-8.pdf.
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Riddle, Matthew. "The roles actors perform : role-play and reality in a higher education context /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002885.
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Hooper, Shelley Wind. "Actors without an Audience? Performance Analysis of the "Borderlands" Live Action Role Playing Epic." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HooperSW2003.pdf.
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Timilsina, Bikram. "The Role of External Actors in Nepal's Peace Process." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/415301.
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This thesis examines the diplomatic, military and economic interventions of three external state actors – namely, India, China and the United States – during Nepal’s peace process (2005-2015). It identifies three critical junctures in Nepal’s peace process that were likely to be influenced by external interventions: the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) 2006, the Constituent Assembly (CA) Elections 2008, and the Constitution of Nepal 2015. Introducing an external intervention typology framework, this research identifies and compares the specific nature of the interventions undertaken by each of the three external actors at each of the three critical junctures. By examining the wide range of intervening measures used by India, China and the US, it finds that the relative influence wielded by each actor varied at each juncture: while India was more influential than China and the US during negotiations over the CPA, it was the least influential actor during the Constitution promulgation phase. Similarly, while China and the US failed to influence the peace process outcomes during the first critical juncture, their interventions corresponded with the peace process outcomes during the third critical juncture. Thus, although each of the three external actors influenced the peace process at particular junctures, none were influential enough to alter the trajectory of the peace process in its entirety, either positively or negatively. This thesis thus argues that in cases such as that of Nepal, a relatively small state which is subject to the competing interests of great powers and big neighbours can exercise agency, defy external powers’ interventions that do not serve the interests of peace, and shape the trajectory of its own peace process. It demonstrates that at each of the three critical junctures, domestic political actors were able to capitalise on strategic competition between India, China, and the US, to achieve the support of at least one of these external actors. Similarly, local actors were also able to resist interventions that appeared to be against domestic peace process initiatives, by gaining the backing of one or more of the intervening state’s strategic competitors. That is, domestic political actors were able to lead and control the peace process by using the complex geopolitical context and the competing strategic interests of great powers and neighbours to their advantage.
With extensive interviews of influential politicians, diplomats, bureaucrats and/or scholars from Nepal, India, China and the United States, this thesis not only produces a comprehensive, in-depth, and original research study on external interventions in Nepal’s peace process, but it also offers insights on how a small power can gain agency to tackle major powers and big neighbours to lead and protect its peace process, especially when the civil war country has a complex geopolitical milieu and competing strategic interests of big powers and neighbours.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Govt & Int Relations<br>Griffith Business School<br>Full Text
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Eken, Tugce. "Gentrification In Fener Balat Neighborhoods: The Role Of Involved Actors." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612732/index.pdf.
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Gentrification emerged as a middle-class interest in renovating houses in old city cores. The
process changed in parallel with the economic and political restructuring during the last
decade. In this period, urban regeneration became an urban strategy used by the local
governments as well as a mask for gentrification. It aimed at restructuring the urban land in
line with the preferences of wealthier groups rather than the social needs of existing
residents. The governments intend to remove poor images of cities through the displacement
of poor inhabitants. This, in turn, increases the risk of dilapidating the authenticity of the
existing social, cultural, and historic fabric of the regeneration areas.
Against this trend, international conservation agencies promote rehabilitation projects to
benefit existing communities of historic neighborhoods. In line with the international
declarations, they intend to rehabilitate socio-economic conditions of long term inhabitants
along with the conservation of historic heritage.
Accordingly, the unique architecture of Fener and Balat neighborhoods has been the focus
of international efforts during the last decade. Besides, the neighborhoods attracted the local
governments&rsquo<br>interest and were declared as urban regeneration area in 2006. In this regard,
thesis intends to compare Rehabilitation of Fener Balat Districts Program (RFBDP) based
on the partnership of Fatih Municipality and EU and Fener Balat Neighborhoods
Regeneration Project (FBNRP) based on a model of Fatih Municipality and private sector
partnership, with a focus on conserving existing communities and preventing displacement.
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Hart, Bryan Schrader Stephens John D. "The role of international actors in post-conflict Bosnian elections." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,658.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Political Science Chapel Hill." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Whittam, Geoff. "The role of trust and cooperation between different economic actors." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687432.
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This thesis is a collection of five papers from over forty I have co-edited over a twenty year period whilst being employed as an academic. However, the underpinning philosophy and cognitive processes evident in the selected papers can be traced back to my undergraduate days. The thesis reflects my continuing struggle to undermine the neo-classical dominance of economics. This struggle is borne out of, on the one-hand, frustration; frustration that one school of thought has come to dominate all others within the field of economical , on the other, grudging respect at the ability of the neo-c1assical school to adapt and reform its central components and thereby maintain its dominance. The thesis highlights within the selected papers a central thesis that trust and cooperation have been understated in the relationships that exist between different economic actors. This central thesis is identified in different scenarios from the networks of small medium enterprises In 'the Third Italy' to the Community Buy-Outs of the Islands and Highlands of Scotland and yet the underpinning relationships unified by trust and cooperation are readily identifiable.
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Allegrucci, Angela <1997>. "The role of international actors in Libya’s transition towards peace." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20423.
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In light of the latest events, Libya seems to have broken the deadlock represented by the civil war thanks to the new government of national unity which is likely to lead the country towards new crucial elections in December 2021. The result of this new ambition is the reacquisition of a certain centrality of Libya’s leverage as a point of interest in the Mediterranean region. In fact, such area is going to build a renewed stability and the European Union, especially southern Member States -among which Italy itself plays a major role-, is going to take part of this process of territorial reunification through institution-building processes. Even the UN, which has been operating in Libya to support peace-building process since the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, is trying to take advantage of this window of opportunity towards a democratic transition within the country. On the one hand, European efforts are mainly concentrated on political support, security and defence joint programmes such as IRINI and EUBAM (which are the two main military/civilian missions currently ongoing on the Libyan seas and inner land), and socio-economic objectives. On the other hand, UNSMIL, the United Nation programme in Libya, is also trying to focus on the Libyan reunification through support for the preparation, drafting and adoption of a new constitution and providing technical advice and support to key Libyan institutions. Thus, the aim of this dissertation is to analyse the evolution of the country’s political, military, and economic conditions, drawing on existing literature on recent Libyan political history concerning civil wars and post-conflict reconstruction. From a methodological point of view, the work’s structure will follow a deductive method of inquiry: starting from general premises drawn from a number of academic sources and press reports, the aim is to understand whether and how international institutions intervened in Libya in response of its recent political events.
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Blake, Damion Keith. "Violent Actors and Embedded Power: Exploring the Evolving Roles of Dons in Jamaica." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49569.
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The Jamaican don is a non-state actor who wields considerable power and control inside that nation's garrison communities. A don is a male figure, usually from the community in which he plays a leadership role. Garrisons in Jamaica have often emerged as neighborhoods that are don-ruled shadow versions of the official State. These are poor inner city communities characterized by homogeneous and, in some cases, over-voting patterns for one of Jamaica's two major political parties: the Peoples National Party (PNP) or the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP). This dissertation explores the major roles dons played in Jamaican garrisons. It focused on one community in the downtown metro area of one of the nation's cities. Additionally, it investigated the factors that account for the evolution of such roles performed by dons from the 1960s to the present. I used governance theories and the concept of embeddedness as an analytic framework to interpret the power and authority dons have in garrisons. Dons, as it turned out, perform four central roles in garrisons: security/protection, social welfare, partisan mobilization and law, order and conflict resolution via "jungle justice" measures. Different types of dons perform alternate mixes of these roles. The case study described here led me to develop a taxonomy of these informal community leaders by separating them into Mega, Area and Street Dons. I argue overall that dons are embedded governing authorities in Jamaican garrisons based on the socio-economic and political roles they carry out. By examining the responsibilities of dons in Jamaica, this analysis contributes to the literature on the activities of non-state criminal actors and their forms of influence on governance processes. The study suggests that it may now be appropriate to re-think the nature of governance and the actors we broadly assume are legitimate holders of power and authority in developing nation contexts.<br>Ph. D.
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Economou, Daphne. "The role of virtual actors in collaborative virtual environments for learning." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392215.
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Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) transform today's computer networks into navigable and inhabited spaces for collaborative work and social play. Various domains have experienced the beneficial use of CVEs, particularly in training and entertainment. Inhabitants are represented as virtual actors, which convey their presence, identity and status of activity, issues that are essential for enhancing social interaction. However, understanding social interaction in CVEs and the way virtual actors could enhance this, is still a challenge for human factors. Various issues complicate such a study: the vast amount of factors involved in the construction of CVEs and virtual actors; the current immaturity of the technology and the prototypical nature of current applications, which restrict the full potential of the technology to be investigated; the lack of a rigorous research methodology for studying and informing CVE design. The research studies the role the virtual actors adopt in CVEs for learning; it provides guidelines for their use in such environments to support social interaction and pedagogical concerns; and directs the underlying CVE technology development to satisfy real user and application needs. To determine requirements for the use of virtual actors in CVEs for learning the research uses as its case study the work of the Manchester Museum Education Service with children at Key Stage Level 2 (-9-11 years old) of the National Curriculum. The learning situation is based on `sent', an ancient Egyptian board game from the Museum's collection of artefacts from the pyramid builders' town of Kahun. The study is structured in three distinct phases of increasing sophistication in terms of: the technology used for building prototypes; the population involved in each phase; and the study of user actions and activities in real life to identify interaction requirements between virtual actors within a CVE. The prototypes are studied with `real users'. This process gradually builds on knowledge of interaction and communication issues that arise in the learning situation. This knowledge forms a set of design guidelines for the use of virtual actors in CVEs for learning. These are implemented using the Deva CVEs system developed by the Advanced Interfaces Group at Manchester University. The prototype is studied with real users. This process refines and extends the design guidelines; and derives technology requirements for the development of the underlying CVE and virtual actors technology by clarifying where the current CVE technology fails to support the design guidelines developed in this research
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He, Yuqing. "Distribution and Evolution of Actors’ Roles in Knowledge Transfer in Innovation Networks." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39837.
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Collaborative innovation is an important mechanism for firms to exchange and acquire external knowledge. Through collaboration, innovators convene and form networks that, in return, help overcome the boundaries of knowledge transfer. To have a better understanding of actors’ collaborating behaviours in innovation networks, we identify three pairs of roles: 1) do actors make connections or bonds with their partners? 2) do actors exchange their knowledge with internal or external partners? 3) do actors absorb or distribute knowledge? We examine the distribution and evolution of actors’ roles from these three perspectives by using social network analysis. In this thesis, we use thousands of patent data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, to investigate the actors’ behaviours in the chemical industries of two Canadian regions, i.e. Montreal and Windsor-Sarnia.
Based on the results of our analysis, Montreal, acting as a public-dominated region, shows a more complex distribution of roles, while Windsor-Sarnia with a private orientation indicates a simplex pattern. From the evolution perspective, the network of Montreal is more stable and diversified, with key actors being active in the local network for more extended periods. Unlike Montreal, Windsor-Sarnia faces a higher level of mobility and globalization.
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Mbouzeko, Raymond. "Discours et représentations sociales dans la prévention du paludisme au Cameroun : logique des discours, perceptions de la maladie et pratiques des populations." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20066/document.
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Le paludisme est une vieille endémie tropicale bien connue, dont les moyens de prévention, de lutte, voire d’éradication sont aujourd’hui bien vulgarisés. Au Cameroun pourtant, il continue de sévir, faisant chaque année plus de victimes et de morts que toutes les autres maladies. Au vu des efforts consentis pour la contenir, nous avons choisi d’interroger les échanges discursifs entre les acteurs de la communication sociale sur le paludisme pour expliquer la persistance d’une situation aussi paradoxale. Cette maladie est, en effet, au cœur de nombreux échanges, faisant intervenir des représentations scientifiques et des représentations sociales séculaires des populations. En fonction des acteurs, l’on distingue ainsi : des discours internationaux et des discours nationaux sur cette maladie. Les seconds sont constitués principalement de discours médicaux (produits par les experts tant de la médecine conventionnelle que ceux de la médecine traditionnelle), de discours économiques et politiques. L’examen de la construction de ces discours montre que les discours nationaux sont l’adaptation des grandes orientations adoptées au niveau mondial pour la lutte contre l’endémie. Ces discours répondent, par ailleurs, aux exigences économiques, de santé publique, de mobilisation des fonds et de mobilisation sociale liés à la lutte contre le paludisme.L’analyse de ces discours a permis de déceler plusieurs entraves à la prévention du paludisme : le jeu des protagonistes de la lutte et la promotion de méthodes de prévention impuissantes à juguler durablement le fléau paludique dans le pays. Dans cette lutte en effet, des acteurs, y compris ceux entretenant des représentations sociales néfastes sur le paludisme limitent l’accès des principales cibles de la maladie (femmes enceintes et enfants de moins de 5 ans) aux moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticides. D’autres mettent en avant leurs profits personnels. Enfin, les discours montrent que les méthodes courantes de prévention de la maladie sont celles de protection contre les piqûres de moustiques et non celles de frein à leur prolifération. Elles se confinent au domaine de la santé au lieu de faire de la lutte un problème holistique de développement qui met une emphase sur les mesures d’assainissement pour contrôler la prolifération des moustiques<br>Malaria is an old endemic disease which means of prevention, treatment, not to name eradication, is well known and vulgarized. However, this disease is each year the main cause of sickness and death in Cameroon, in spite of tremendous endeavors to fight it. The present research has chosen to scrutinize social communication actors’ speeches on the disease to try and shed light into this paradoxical situation. Malaria inspires a number of discourses exchanges involving scientific representations and aged social representations of populations on the disease. Based on actors’ functions, one can distinguish between international and national discourses on the disease. National discourses mainly include medical speeches (produced and used by modern and traditional medical experts), economical and political speeches. The study of the construction of those speeches shows that at the national level, the speeches on malaria are adapted from global orientations on malaria control adopted at international level. In the other hand, those speeches respond to the economical and public health requirements, as well as to resources and social mobilization needed for malaria control.Discourses analysis on malaria in Cameroun has shown that the prevention of this endemic disease is render ineffective by many reasons, namely: a kind of game played by some key actors of the fight against malaria and the promotion of prevention methods that stand little chance to sustainably get raid of the malaria scourge in the country. Some actors, including persons attached to misleading social representations on malaria, prevent the main malaria targets (pregnant women and under five children) from access to impregnated mosquito nets. By involving themselves in the fight against malaria, some other actors put forward their own interest. Lastly, some speeches clearly show that prevention methods, promoted in the country, aim at protecting populations from mosquito bides while neglecting mosquito proliferation. The tendency is to consider malaria control as an exclusive health problem instead of treating it as a holistic developmental problem, widely calling upon sanitation measures to continuously cut down in mosquito population
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Lee, Jeng-Di. "Managing coastal resources in the Philippines : the role of actors in policy interventions." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409123.
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