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Struck, Olaf. "Continuity and change." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-207932.
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The "incorporation" of the GDR into FRG's existing system of institutions
after 1989 has led to a dynamic process of change in the living situation of East Germans. In the following paper stability and change of various dimensions of individual coping strategies are to be examined. To do this, I analytically distinguish four elements: frames, habits, utilisation of available resources, and framing.
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Brown, Alice. "ACAS arbitration : continuity and change." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20248.
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This thesis examines the arbitration function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service [ACAS] as one form of third party intervention in British industrial relations. It provides an explanation for the apparent contradiction between the stance taken by Conservative governments post- 1979 to trade union reform on the one hand; and the survival of an agency which maintains many of the attitudes and practices associated with the past on the other. In spite of government rhetoric and changes which have occurred in the period examined, it is argued that the key attitudes and practices in relation to arbitration have not altered significantly over time. Questionnaire surveys of arbitrators and the parties to arbitration were conducted in conjunction with a study of arbitration awards over the period 1942-1985. These revealed that many of the debates relating to arbitration, including support for voluntarism and resistance to compulsion in the process, the criteria for the appointment of arbitrators with appropriate skills and experience and the factors which arbitrators should consider in making their awards, have their foundation in the early part of this century: that the main focus of criticisms of arbitration surround issues of pay and terms and conditions of employment and that they were unfounded: and that the majority of parties to arbitration were satisfied with the service they received. The practice of arbitration was located within the corporatist theory debate and it was contended that elements of corporatist and pluralist relationships and networks within ACAS had survived the election of a government openly hostile to both corporatism and quangos. Explanations for the survival of ACAS and the arbitration service as one form of third party intervention can be found within the corporatist and dualist debate and understood within the context of the role which arbitration has played in the history of British industrial relations.
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Yi, Xiaoxiong. "China's Korea policy change and continuity /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1993. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9418957.
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Forti, Enrico <1980>. "Continuity and Change in New Products." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2515/.
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This doctoral dissertation is triggered by an emergent problem: how can firms reinvent themselves?
Continuity- and change-oriented decisions fundamentally shape overtime the activities and potential revenues of organizations and other adaptive systems, but both types of actions draw upon limited resources and rely on different organizational routines and capabilities. Most organizations appear to have difficulties in making tradeoffs, so that it is easier to overinvest in one of them than to successfully achieve a mixture of both. Nevertheless, theory and empirical evidence suggest that too little of either may reduce performance, indicating a need to learn more about how organizations reconcile these tensions.
In the first paper, I moved from the consideration that rapid changes in competitive environments increasingly require firms to be “ambidextrous” implementing organizational mechanisms and structures that allow continuity- and change-oriented activities to be engaged at the same time. More specifically, I show that continuity- and change-related decisions can’t be confined either inside or outside the firm, but span overtime across distinct decision domains located within and beyond the organizational boundaries. Reconciling static and dynamic perspectives of ambidexterity, I conceptualize a firm’s strategy as a bundle of decisions about product attributes and components of the production team, proposing a multidimensional and dynamic model of structural ambidexterity that explains why and how firms could manage conflicting pressures for continuity and change in the context of new products.
In the second study I note how rigorous systematic evidence documenting the success of ambidextrous organizations is lacking, and there has been very little investigation of how firms deal with continuity and change in new products. How to manage the transition form a successful product to another? What to change and what to keep? Incumbents that deal with series of products over time need to update their offerings in order to have the most relevant attributes to prospect clients without disappoint the current customer base. They need to both match and anticipate consumers’ preferences, blending something old with something new to satisfy the current demand and enlarge the herd by appealing to newer audiences. This paper contributes to strategic renewal and ambidexterity-related research with the first empirically assessment of a positive consumer response to ambidexterity in new products. Also, this study provides a practical method to monitor overtime the degree to which a brand or a firm is continuity- or change- oriented and evaluate different strategy profiles across two decision domains that play a pivotal role in new products: product attributes and components of the production team.
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Malone, Victor Steven. "German security policy : continuity and change." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23912.
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Glatter, Peter R. D. "Russian regional elites : continuity and change." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/97350.
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Stobie, Ingeborg. "'Change' and 'continuity' in educational psychology." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366935.
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Dickson, James Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Japanese security policy: change and continuity." Ottawa, 1993.
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Heatherington, Catherine M. "Perceptions of landscape continuity and change." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8433/.
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Interest in derelict, underused and neglected (DUN) sites has grown in recent years in both the academic and public domains. This interest is not only theoretical and landscape professionals are experimenting with new ways of designing landscapes on DUN sites. This research finds that designers incorporate the histories of these sites into the developed landscapes through their uses of new and recycled materials, through symbolic and metaphorical references and by revealing the relationships between material, spatial and temporal layers and processes. However there has been little research into the visitors’ perceptions of such developed DUN landscapes. I show that their responses to these landscapes are not always straightforward and predictable. They are often contingent and influenced by imagination and memory. The temporal and material layers in the landscapes are valued for the ways in which they juxtapose, what visitors perceive as, the natural and the cultural worlds. Individuals’ responses are dependent on external factors such as prior knowledge and experiences, and on perceptions of the wider landscape as well as on immediate sensations and observations within the site. I argue that these diverse ways of perceiving the landscapes contribute to a sense of continuity. However continuity in this context is not about permanence or a desire for things to remain static. For some it can be understood as a sense of the passage of time that does not necessarily exclude the possibility of future change. I suggest that an understanding on the part of professionals of these varied perceptions and responses can inform the design of the relationships between the semi-natural and cultural layers and enable a better understanding of the effects of creating temporal and material palimpsests in former DUN landscapes.
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McNamee, Ciaran. "Changed utterly? continuity and change in the regulation of Irish identities." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32057.
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The Supreme Court decision of A.O. & D.L. v. Minister for Justice [Lobe] and the
Irish Citizenship Referendum of 2004 had the cumulative effect of restricting both the
rights associated with Irish citizenship and the class of persons entitled to possess it.
This thesis considers the dynamics underpinning those restrictions.
The history of the regulation of Irish identities is not simply a story of ever tightening
border controls. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland in 1998
seemingly widened the class of person entitled to call themselves Irish. Moreover,
the Republic of Ireland's membership of the European Union has reduced the state's
ability to exercise control over its borders and narrowed the distinction between Irish
citizens and those of other EU countries.
I argue that recent developments in the regulation of Irish identities demonstrate the
Janus-like nature of modern law. Accepting the arguments advanced in Lobe and the
Citizenship Referendum necessitates the embrace of contradiction, not rationality.
They illustrate both continuity and change in the conception of what it means to be
Irish. Measures to reduce perceived "abuse" of Irish citizenship seek to preserve a
particular concept of Irishness and yet simultaneously serve to transform it.
However, with its adherence to the creed of modernity - reason, objectivity, and the
rejection of ambiguity - modern law cannot acknowledge these tensions.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Tahir, Tahir. "Minority Policies In Bulgaria: Continuity And Change." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1217850/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes Bulgaria’
s minority policy followed by various governments during the Principality, the Kingdom, Peoples Republic and post-Communist Bulgaria. General discussion and assessment of minority rights standards within major international organizations is followed by analysis of minorities&
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status and treatment in Bulgaria since 1878. The thesis seeks answers to what have been the main features of minority policies in modern Bulgarian history, what has constituted its continuity and change.
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Dereli, Pinar. "Change And Continuity In Russia'." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607300/index.pdf.
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CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN RUSSIA&rsquoS RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES IN EURASIA (2000-2005) Dereli, Pinar M. Sc., Department of Eurasian Studies Supervisor: Assit. Prof. Dr. Oktay F. Tanrisever June 2006, 112 pages This thesis seeks to analyze change and continuity in Russia&rsquo
s relations with the United States (US) in Eurasia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin between 2000 and 2005. The thesis argues that the fundamental change in Russia&rsquo
s relations with the US came immediately after Putin&rsquo
s presidency, rather than 9/11 terrorist attacks, as his foreign policy priorities required the establishment of close relations with the US as much as possible. The September 11 terrorist attacks have only facilitated the implementation of Putin&rsquo
s this pragmatic foreign policy. In fact, the continuation of differences between Russia and the US concerning bilateral and regional issues shows that their strategic partnership is mainly rhetoric driven by the short-term tactical considerations rather than shared global values and long-term interests. For this reason, Eurasia continued to be an area of confrontation in Russia&rsquo
s relations with the US in the post-9/11 era. The thesis consists of four main chapters apart from introduction and conclusion. The first main chapter discusses the evolution of Russian foreign policy towards the US between 1991 and 2000. The following chapter deals with the sources of change in Russian foreign policy towards the US before 9/11 events. The next chapter examines Russian-US bilateral relations after 9/11. Finally, the last chapter discusses the impact of 9/11 on the Russian-US relations in Eurasia. Keywords: Pragmatism, Vladimir Putin, Russian foreign policy, the United States, September 11.
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Wilson, Alexander David. "Sociotechnical processes of organizational change and continuity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2802/.
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This research combines the in-depth study of technical rationality and social practices with broader institutional influences that support or subvert the course of technology-led change in organizations. It contends that technology is socially shaped within the institutional and technical boundaries and that the choices made by individuals embedded in power relations shape the course of technological adoption in organizations. Two in-depth qualitative case studies are used to explore the sociotechnical processes of continuity and change.
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Azadegan, Farshid. "Change and continuity through mergers & acquisitions." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10311.
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I have lived through nineteen mergers and acquisitions and without moving companies, have signed eight employment contracts, all following M&As. Only two of the eight companies still trade, the others went bankrupt or shut down. My roles have been in engineering, sales, middle management and more recently a contributor at meetings where M&As were discussed and advisors attended. Despite professional advice, these M&As rarely turned out as planned including the envisaged growth and improvements. Often matters got worse, even for top executives. Yet, in both the literature and the way that people talk, businesses and individuals are portrayed as separate entities, M&As are aimed at changing only the businesses and are routinely associated with growth and improvements. My experience of M&As includes confusion about power and powerlessness, a sense of loss of valued relationships, identity issues and idealization of merged businesses. Using a narrative methodology and taking my experience seriously (Stacey and Griffin, 2005), I explore change and continuity through M&As and the experiencing of organizational upheavals. I also explore change in the idea of M&As and how we think of them. Drawing on complex responsive processes theory, I argue that we can enhance our understanding of change and continuity through M&As by exploring our experience of local interaction. Combined organizations as patterns of local interactions between people where these patterns emerge and evolve in the interplay of intentions, plans, actions and choices of all involved includes those between members of the merged organizations and between them and advisors, mediators, shareholders, competitors, customers, regulators and the media. To say that combined businesses emerge in this interplay is to understand change and continuity in terms of these evolving patterns of local interaction. These patterns include interpretations and conversations reflecting our ideologies, power relations, identities, idealizations and expectations about M&As. My expectations and reflections were influenced by and influence the discourse about M&As which I argue as social object evolves through our complex responsive processes of relating. Idealization of merged businesses, professional advice, the mainstream view of M&As as growth and improvement which amounts to ‘putting thought before action’ (Griffin, 2002: 25), all emerge and evolve through local interaction validating reflexive exploration of experience to enhance our understanding of change and continuity through M&As.
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Watts, Jacqueline Halina. "Women in civil engineering : continuity and change." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2003. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6730/.
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This thesis explores the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK and examines how women negotiate their place in a highly male-dominated profession. T he thesis considers why women are under-represented in this profession, are rarely appointed to senior management positions and how changes in the business pattern of UK engineering consulting companies has created barriers or opportunities for women. Uncovering the detail of women's career expectations and experience was more suited to a qualitative approach to data collection. .A series of semi-structured interviews was carried out with thirty-one women engineers working in different sectors of the profession. The women were in a variety of personal circumstances, including single and married women, some with young children and others with no dependent caring responsibilities. The ages of the women ranged from twenty three to fifty six years with the majority having attained chartered status. The interviews focused on factors that affect career progression and these were discussed within the three themes of subcultures of the profession, work/life balance and possible agents for change. Quantitative membership data from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and other construction professions has been analysed to provide the context for the research. Feminist concerns about the relationship between women's role in the private sphere of the home and the public sphere of paid work have led to a theoretical framework that draws mainly on the work of Walby and Cockburn. This has been enhanced by Greed's gendered critique of the wider construction sector. The findings show that women feel isolated within the profession and t his isolation seems more pronounced for the few women who reach the top and also generally in the setting of the construction site. Despite attempts by some contracting firms to reform the culture of construction sites, this sense of isolation is heightened by problems of harassment in that setting. .Thus, for many women the prospect of working on site is still very daunting. .Equal opportunities policies have a low profile in the industry and this research shows that women working as professionals in construction do not see' equality' measures of this type as likely agents for change. The image of the profession as predominantly a 'male preserve' continues. and the ICE is regarded as a 'very male club' which admits women only reluctantly. Although women report feeling marginalised within the profession many receive personal support from individual male and female colleagues and this factor can be critical to their career progress. Moving into management is seen as necessary for career success but some women are ambivalent about the negative impacts this may have on work/life balance. The culture of long hours is dominant and this marginalises women with caring commitments and reinforces male hierarchy within the profession.
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Gul, Murat. "German Foreign Policy: Change And Continuity (1949-2000)." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1267681/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to analyse the change and continuity issue in German Foreign Policy. In this study, the basic aim is to identify the basic parameters of the West German foreign policy during the Cold War and identify the implications of the reunification on foreign policy of Germany. Actually, after the reunification, the economically giant Germany has started to pursue a more self-reliant foreign policy course but there is not a radical shift from the basic parameters and the core values. The concept of ‘
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and the international climate within which the foreign policy is formulated, will be given priority. It is argued that from the Gulf War in 1990-1991 to the Kosovo War of 1999, German contribution to military operations has increased. However, Germany has done this within a multilateral context and the aim has been to keep the values of respect for democracy and human rights. Thus, continuity dominates over change in German foreign policy, with regard to its policy record during the 1990s.
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McCollum-Oldroyd, David Andrew. "Empirical studies on continuity and change in accounting." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/147.
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Wright, Margaret C. "Internalization and discipline practices, intergenerational continuity and change." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62873.pdf.
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Barbosa, Othon Fernando Jambeiro. "The Brazilian TV regulatory environment : continuity and change." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262160.
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Fearn, Raymond. "Continuity and change : the music of Bruno Maderna." Thesis, Keele University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277155.
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Bennion, Alice. "Continuity or change? : parents, teachers and primary schools." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019913/.
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Ward, Amanda M. "The Okhrana and the Cheka: Continuity and Change." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398772391.
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Månsson, Josefin. "Cannabis discourses in contemporary Sweden : Continuity and change." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-140931.
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The aim of this thesis is to study how cannabis is constructed in contemporary Sweden, which policy responses are promoted as rational, and how international cannabis trends are received in this context. The four papers are the result of analyzing empirical material from three different sub-studies: 1) a qualitative study of online discussions about cannabis and drug policy, 2) a qualitative and comparative study of print media articles from 2002 and 2012, and 3) a qualitative study of oral presentations from cannabis information symposia. All papers are based on a social constructionist approach. A point of departure is that attitudes and regulations on cannabis have changed in large parts of the Western world. In Sweden, however, strict prohibition of cannabis is still central in the national drug laws. Some of the main findings can thus be gathered in discussions on continuity and change. In Swedish online discussions, there seems to be a strong desire to change the national cannabis policy in line with international developments. This discussion propagates alternative views on cannabis, in which comparisons to alcohol become vital and more liberal cannabis policies become logical. These discussions are also characterized by continuity, as many arguments for liberal cannabis policies seem to be based on traditional social democratic values and prohibitionist “scaremongering” arguments. Continuity is also what seems to characterize traditional print media, where cannabis is generally portrayed as a potent and illegal drug producing social problems. However, this arena also shows signs of change, as the material from 2012 includes stories on cannabis as an economic asset as well as a recreational substance. Both traditional print media and cannabis information symposia focus on youth consumers, who are seen as particularly vulnerable to cannabis effects. Such constructions seem important for protecting prohibition from international influences and for a continuous discourse centered on the dangers of cannabis. It is concluded that cannabis appears to be able to represent almost anything. As such it can be “used” for any purpose to promote a whole set of ideas related to policy often based on what is considered as scientific evidence. Depending on the context, it thus seems possible that cannabis is medicinal, recreational, harmful, and addictive. If so, and if all of these constructions are in some way “real,” then it is suggested that cannabis necessitates a much more tailored and nuanced response than that which prohibition can offer.
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Hazarika, Shyamanta Moni. "Qualitative spatial change : space-time histories and continuity." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1325/.
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Spatial configurations tend to change. Dealing with spatial representations often means dealing with changing representations. Change in state for qualitative spatial representation languages has been analyzed through transition graphs in which relations form conceptual neighbourhoods via potential motion. Continuity has remained an implicitly assumed notion for any such understanding of motion. The work described in this thesis is concerned with formalizing an intuitive notion of spatio-temporal continuity for a qualitative theory of spatial change. Taking over a theory for spatial regions, I extend it for space-time. A mereotopological spatio-temporal theory based on space-time histories is developed. I formalize the intuitive notion of spatio-temporal continuity and christen it strong firm continuity. Continuous transitions in mereotopology for space-time histories are investigated. For strong firm continuity, transition rules for spatio-temporal histories are formulated. The conceptual neighbourhood for the spatial representation language RCC-8 specifies which transitions are continuous, and in its original presentation was simply posited without any proof of correctness. Formal proofs for the non-existence of transitions i.e., transitions absent from the RCC-8 conceptual neighbourhood are presented here.
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Bonine, Kathleen Anne. "Culture contact change and continuity: The Mohave Indians." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/673.
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Carnegie, Paul. "Uncertainty, continuity and change : an inquiry into Indonesian democratisation /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19436.pdf.
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Dolek, Deniz. "Change And Continuity In The Sivas Province, 1908-1918." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608809/index.pdf.
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Second Constitutional Era (1908-1918) was a period within which great changes occurred in the Ottoman Empire. On the one hand, it was a part of the modernization process that began in late eighteenth centuryon the other hand, it was the last period of the Empire that had its own dynamics. This study is to examine changes and continuities in a locality, the Sivas Province, during the Second Constitutional Regime. The Sivas Province was one of the largest and most populated Anatolian provinces. It located in the middle of Anatolia therefore it had a geopolitical importance. Moreover, it was one of the six Eastern Provinces with a considerable Armenian population. Sivas had the biggest Armenian and Greek population among these provinces. Thus, both geopolitical importance and population characteristics make the province an appropriate place to examine change and continuity during the Second Constitutional Regime. In this study, transformation of the province is examined over some topics such as demographic characteristics, political life, administrative, educational and economic structures. The research about these topics indicates that three main dynamics of the Second Constitutional Regime were influential on developments in the Sivas case. These dynamics are war, population movements especially the Armenian Deportation and nationalism. These dynamics also determined implementation of the modernization policies in the Sivas Province during the Constitutional Regime. Therefore, transformation/change of the province is examined over these dynamics.
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Can, Cetin Burcu. "Continuity And Change Of The Urban Character Of Sinop." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613943/index.pdf.
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This thesis attemps to examine the continuity and change in the physical character of Anatolian city which have crucial impacts on conservation of cultural values of town. From the mid-nineteenth century to the present timedecline of Ottoman Empire, establishment of Turkish Republic with new regime, wars in National Struggle, natural disasters, the policies of both central and local authorities, new regulations for urban planning and conservation are the reasons determined as major causes for the continuity and the change of historic urban character of towns. Sinop, which was one of Ottoman port city having commercial and military function, is representative of the towns in which the big changes are observed. Therefore, in this thesis Sinop is chosen as a case study. It is aimed to see the reasons and results of continuity and change in its physical character, how they take place in city and the values which heve been lost are analyzed.
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Zakrzewski, Sonia Ruth. "Continuity and change : a biological history of Ancient Egypt." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265607.
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The change in subsistence strategy, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and the associated development of social hierarchy form a series of changes of particular biological interest. There are two main aspects to these changes, which interact and modify each other; the first relates to human biology and human variation, and the second to the history of population movements along the Nile. The emergence of Egyptian civilisation was preceded by the introduction of agriculture in the Nile Valley. The emergence of the First Dynasty was a major development in the political and sociocultural transformation of the agricultural communities inhabiting the lower Nile Valley. Human variation can act in terms of differing responses to diet and ecology, and can be recognised through trends in biological markers. This study has employed biological measures to ascertain the pattern of biological changes occurring in the Nile Valley through the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods. A model was developed both to predict the pattern of physical changes expected to affect the individuals and to link these biological changes with the genetic structure of the local population. The first portion of the study concentrates on understanding the population affinities of the skeletal groups studied. These results suggest the local population continuity exists in Egyptian populations, but that there is also some evidence of changes in population structure, which may reflect immigration and admixture of new groups. The next sections of the study consider the actual biological effects of this migration, intensification of agriculture and the formation of the Egyptian state on the anatomy of the local population. Changes in growth outcome were found, with the differences being of a greater magnitude among the males than the females. These changes were associated with changes in the expression of cranial robusticity within the populations. Increasing levels of dental disease were found through time. The model developed in the study was therefore modified to explain the differences in expression of physical traits in males and females. The biological results were then linked with archaeological evidence to better understand the role of social ranking on human skeletal biology.
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Bougherira, Mohamed Redha. "Algeria's foreign policy 1979-1992 : continuity and/or change." Thesis, University of Salford, 1999. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26589/.
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This study analyses Algeria's foreign policy under the leadership of President Chadli Bendjadid from February 1979 until January 1992. Its aim is to investigate the extent of continuity and/or change in Algeria's foreign policy during this period. The central finding of this thesis is that "change within continuity" best describes what characterised Algeria's foreign policy under the post-1979 leadership. This thesis is divided into two parts. The First Part is composed of four chapters. Chapter One relates theoretical approaches. It examines whether or not there is a satisfactory approach that can be applied for our case study. In the same chapter, the making of Algeria's foreign policy is scrutinised through the identification and topological analysis of the key factors in the conceptualisation and implementation of Algeria's foreign policy. It also uncovers who makes Algerian foreign policy. Chapter Two identifies the guiding principles behind the formulation of Algerian foreign policy. In this chapter, reference to the FLN's past diplomatic activities is reviewed as it serves to provide a significant understanding of the context within which the fundamental principles of the policy pursued by contemporary Algeria were shaped, defined and set as the official framework for Algeria's foreign policy. Chapter Three deals with Algeria's foreign policy behaviour from 1962 to the end of 1978. A clear understanding of post-1979 Algerian foreign policy needs to rest on a review of how Algeria's foreign policy was determined and implemented in the years preceding this period and what were the dominant issues of the country's foreign policy at the time of Bendjadid's appointment. The Second Part comprises three chapters. It considers Bendjadid's leadership by exploring a number of issues/areas that came to be the focus of his government's external policy. Chapter Four relates to Algeria's policy towards it proximate neighbouring countries -Morocco-Tunisia-Libya-and the more distant Mashreq. This chapter suggests that the Western Sahara remained the central thrust of Algeria's Maghreb policy, just as it had been in the last years of Houari Boumediene's tenure (1975-1978).
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Clark, Jeffrey L. "From cults to Christianity : continuity and change in Takuru /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc593.pdf.
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Behr, Martin. "Continuity and change in the thought of Kenneth Burke." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61124.
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This thesis analyzes Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of identification. I will examine the extent to which Burke's earliest critical writings, which focus on the suasive nature of literary forms, affected the writing of his later critical works, which deal with how language functions as a type of symbolic action. In his later texts, Burke breaks with his earlier concern with literary discourse by attempting to expound a critical theory that accounts for historical change, human motivation and the role of language in collective communities. He argues that language motivates people to identify with a certain sets of beliefs by transcending an opposing set of beliefs. Section One is an account of Burke's earlier conception of ideology in relation to his view of literary discourse. In Section Two the emphasis shifts toward a study of how Burke integrates his notion of ideology with his theory of a rhetoric of identification.
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Lennon, Ben. "Savernake Forest Continuity and Change in a Wooded Landscape." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520181.
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Buchanan, J. S. "Change and continuity in recent Japanese corporate governance practice." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597048.
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This dissertation addresses the research questions: “Do recent changes to formal and informal corporate governance structures in Japan indicate the beginnings of a general transformation there? Do they signify the alignment of Japanese practice to an ‘Anglo-American’ paradigm? In particular, what do these changes suggest with regard to the processes of institutional diversity, change, transplantation, and hybridisation?” The research questions were approached mainly through a qualitative empirical study of opinions on corporate governance from officers at a group of Japanese companies, Japanese and foreign investors, government ministries, associations, and other bodies active in Japan. Primary data were collected through interviews and other contacts from late 2003 until late 2004. The objectives were to discover from corporate management how they saw both recent structural changes and their own current practices, and from investors and others how their views and activities could be expected to influence the choices of corporate management. Theoretical context covering the general corporate governance debate and institutional theory was derived from academic secondary sources. Specifically Japanese context covering corporate practices since the Second World War, economic events since the late 1980s, and recent developments relating to Japanese corporate governance structures was derived from secondary sources which included academic commentaries and information published by companies, ministries, associations, and the press. The results of the empirical study are presented against this contextual background under the three main categories of legally driven change, informal change, and influences external to corporate management. From these results, conclusions are drawn regarding the nature of the changes observed to date in Japanese corporate governance and the degree of tendency towards ‘Anglo-American’ practice. Their implications with regard to institutional diversity, change, transplantation, and hybridisation are then discussed. Finally, suggestions are offered with regard to the possible development hereafter of corporate governance practice in Japan.
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Charlton, T. H. "Continuity and change in English radical writing, 1659-1675." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597498.
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This thesis builds upon recent work by historians such as Richard Greaves and Jonathan Scott which has revealed both a vibrant radical underground in Restoration England and the significant role that illicit, ‘seditious’ printing played in maintaining the circulation of radical discourse. These accounts focus principally upon the practice of censorship in the Restoration, and its infringement. I contend, however, that the supporters of the Restoration also sought to control polemically the reception of texts whose oppositional rhetoric vindicated ideologies which challenged the authority of the Restoration. The thesis contends that a study of polemical matrices provides important new tools for understanding the continuities and changes in how the early modern public sphere operated. Whilst noting that the ‘Habermasian moment’ in early modern studies appears to be passing, the thesis offers in its place a model termed ‘the polemical matrix’. This seeks to account for the sheer responsiveness of much of the literature in this period, and focuses attention towards analysing how the acceptance or rejection of a text’s hermeneutical premises posits interpretation as a site for ideological contention. My research uncovers contemporary responses in correspondence, diaries, and manuscript marginalia, but concentrates on polemical exchanges within the literature. The thesis places these texts at the intersection of interpretation and rhetoric, highlighting how responses to previous arguments are pitched to persuade readers of the analytical validity of their readings. These are analysed in relation to three crises of authority: the ‘anarchy’ of 1659; the early years of the Restoration; and the debates over toleration in the late 1660s and early 1670s.
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Grant, Jane W. "Governance, continuity and change in the organised women's movement." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342137.
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Bardon, Jonathan. "Continuity and change in Ulster, Belfast and in Dublin." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322391.
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Court, Gillian. "Continuity and change in the part-time labour market." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303088.
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Samsi, Kritika. "Change and continuity in quality of life in dementia." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2011. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/change-and-continuity-in-quality-of-life-in-dementia(ea6acab7-8374-4a75-9195-80f3b70ff87e).html.
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Background: In the absence of a known cure in dementia, there is growing value in developing care practices and interventions that maintain good quality of life for people with dementia. To measure the efficacy of these therapies, understanding change in subjective quality of life in dementia becomes necessary. -- Methods: Study 1 was a longitudinal study over six months, measuring change in self-rated and carer-rated quality of life in dementia using the DEMQOL and DEMQOL Proxy. At Time 1, 121 people with dementia and 121 carers were interviewed; not all were matched pairs. At Time 2, 77 people with dementia and 75 carers were followed up. Study 2 was a qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological study, and explored in-depth the lived experience of dementia and techniques used to manage change. Nine people with dementia and nine carers were interviewed. -- Results: Study 1 found minimal significant change on DEMQOL and DEMQOL Proxy, suggesting that over six months, QoL remained stable. No significant predictors of change were identified in regression models. A secondary finding was limited correlation between DEMQOL and DEMQOL Proxy at Timel, at Time2, and between change scores. Study 2 identified a strong theme of continuity in narratives of people with dementia. Retained abilities were discussed and a variety of coping techniques were demonstrated. A sense of continuity was found to be associated with positive life quality. Carers talked more in terms of change and reasons for this are explored. -- Conclusions: Over six months, subjective quality of life in dementia appears to remain stable, as people with dementia focus on continuity and attempt to maintain preserved abilities and characteristics. The concept of continuity is suggested as a framework to understand the significance of coping mechanisms in relation to QoL measurement.
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Robinson, Rowena. "Conversion, continuity and change : lived christianity in Southern Goa /." New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks (Calif.) : Sage, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371061723.
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Huang, Shiun-Wey. "Religious change and continuity among the Ami of Taiwan." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14412.
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Within a few years of the end of World War Two Christianity had spread to every Taiwanese aboriginal group. Nowadays a variety of Christian churches play an important role in aboriginal society. This study is about conversion to Christianity and its aftermath in an aboriginal village. Fieldwork was conducted among the Ami (one of the nine Taiwanese aboriginal groups), in Iwan, a village on the eastern coastal of Taiwan. In this study the individual interests of social actors are emphasised. I suggest that not only political leaders had special motives (i.e. to pursue political power) in conversion, but also ordinary people had their own interests too (i.e. to pursue a better life in the future). In this sense we might say that the meanings, functions, purposes and aims imputed to religion by converts are arrived at through local dialogues. Religious conversion happened against a historical background of long and sustained contact with colonising immigrants (e.g. Japanese and Chinese). During colonial rule. Ami social life expanded radically and mass conversion took place, in the 1950s, when a common dissatisfaction with life was felt. I argue that relative deprivation was an important factor in this conversion and it became significant because of the emphasis put on it by local political leaders. The adoption of different Christian churches is best understood from the perspective of internal political relations and the careers of political leaders. In general I argue that through the articulations of prominent Ami leaders various external phenomena have been integrated into Ami life and successful articulations have also helped certain political leaders to pursue or maintain their authority.
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Williams, John Hunter Porter. "Continuity and change: Consociational democracy in the Benelux countries." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625069.
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Coyles, William Andrew. ""Everything's changed but everything's stayed the same" : continuity and change within youth justice services." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69473/.
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Recent youth justice policy and practice reforms within England and Wales have placed increasing emphasis upon service decentralisation and professional autonomy. They have thus provided room for manoeuvre for local youth justice services to develop both innovative forms of service delivery and frontline practice that represent a departure from a siloed and risk-centric YOT model of service delivery (Byrne and Case, 2016). Drawing upon empirical data gathered from a comparative case study within two contrasting youth justice services, this thesis explores the extent to which these opportunities have been capitalised upon on the ground. It argues that whilst there have been some examples of innovation in line with emerging critical evidence bases, the local negotiation of the reforms has been problematically characterised by varying degrees of continuity with the largely discredited risk-centric reforms of the New Labour era. The drivers of both continuity and change within local youth justice service delivery are thus explored, as well as the implications of this for service delivery and service users.
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Azarch, Anna. "Climate change negotiations and the North-South relationship : an exploration of continuity and change." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5202.
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Thesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.Bibliography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The politics of climate change has thus far been marked by controversy and a lack of consensus in regards to the best manner in which to comprehend and mitigate this problem. This is further aggravated by the characterisation of climate change as a global problem requiring a global solution which has served to only further complicate inter-state relations. While a number of analysts have remarked that the North-South relationship is no longer a meaningful analytical tool in international relations, it will be the purpose of this study to explore this contention within the field of climate change negotiations and to identify both the transformation and continuity within the relationship between the North and South. The unsuccessful nature of climate negotiations are largely held to be the result of the rift between the North and South, where the issues relating to the global political economy are largely responsible for the lack of consensus being reached between developing and developed countries. All climate negotiations since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment and Development have showcased the tension between the two regions in regards to climate change mitigation and their inability to overcome this fissure. More importantly, the ensuing Copenhagen Summit of 2009 further highlighted a rift amongst the developing countries of the South, and between the developed and developing countries. As a consequence, the main aim of the research will be to understand the character of the global interactions between the North and South in terms of the context of global environmental politics. It is also the purpose of this research to gain a more comprehensive account of the sequence of causation within this relationship which stalled the negotiating process and lastly, to understand the conceptual demarcations of the two terms in the post-Cold War era so as to better understand the nature of the relationship between the two regions. What may be surmised by the study is that there is still a continuity to be found in the international arena pertaining to the North-South relationship. However, the Copenhagen Summit has been instrumental in showcasing the growing stratification that is found within the South and as a result has highlighted the cross-alliances that have formed between the North and South in order to maintain economic growth. Overall, while the North-South relationship does impact the nature of climate mitigation negotiations, the stratification of states based upon economic and developmental divergences will result in states forming alliances based upon economic self-interest.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die politiek van klimaatsverandering is tot dusver gekenmerk aan kontroversie en ‟n gebrek aan konsensus met betrekking tot die mees effektiewe wyse waarop hierdie probleem verstaan en gemitigeer kan word. Die probleem word verder vererger deur die kenmerk van klimaatsverandering as ‟n globale probleem wat ‟n globale oplossing verg, wat tot die verdere komplikasie van interstaat-verhoudings gelei het. Verskeie analiste het opgemerk dat die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide nie meer dien as betekenisvolle analitiese gereedskap op die gebied van internasionale verhoudings nie. Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is gevolglik om hierdie aanname in oënskou te neem, en om beide transformasie en kontinuïteit binne die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide te identifiseer. Die onsuksesvolle aard van klimaatsonderhandelinge word grootliks toegeskryf aan die onenigheid tussen die Noorde en Suide, met kwessies rondom die globale politieke ekonomie grootliks verantwoordelik vir die gebrek aan konsensus tussen die streke. Sedert die 1972 VN Konferensie oor die Omgewing en Ontwikkeling het alle klimaatsonderhandelinge die spanning tussen die twee streke met betrekking to klimaatveranderingsversagtings en hul onvermoë om hierdie skeur te oorbrug, ten toon gestel. Die 2009 Kopenhagen-beraad het ‟n onenigheid ontbloot tussen die ontwikkelende lande in die Suide en tussen ontwikkelende en ontwikkelde lande. Gevolglik is die hoofdoelstelling van hierdie studie om die aard van globale interaksies tussen die Noorde en Suide te verstaan met betrekking tot die konteks van globale omgewingspolitiek. Die doel van die navorsing is ook om ‟n meer omvattende verklaring te verkry oor die volgorde van oorsaaklike verbande binne hierdie verhouding wat die onderhandelingsproses tot stilstand gebring het en laastens, om die konseptuele afbakening van hierdie twee terme in die post-Koue Oorlog era en die aard van die verhouding tussen die twee streke beter te verstaan. Hierdie studie wys dat daar steeds kontinuïteit in die internasionale arena is met betrekking tot die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide. Die 2009 Kopenhagen-beraad was egter instrumenteel om die groeiende stratifikasie wat binne die Suide gevind word uit te lig, en die kruisalliansies wat tussen die Noorde en Suide gevorm is om ekonomiese groei in stand te hou, te beklemtoon. Alhoewel die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide tog ‟n impak op die aard van klimaatsversagtingsonderhandelings uitoefen, sal die stratifikasie van state wat op ekonomiese- en ontwikkelingsafwykings gebaseer is tot gevolg hê dat state alliansies vorm op grond van ekonomiese selfbelange.
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Robinson, Elicia. "The psychology of change in organisations : mindsets and the paradox of continuity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709305.
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Reiss, Veronica Raffaela Sophie. "Viennese planning culture : understanding change and continuity through the Hauptbahnhof." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62893.
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Today, cities across the globe face a multitude of similar challenges – climate change, new disruptive technologies, new conceptions of both labour and capital, and mass migration, among others; simultaneously, planning scholars are continually acknowledging the diversity of both the conception and practice of planning around the world. As such, the concept of planning cultures has grown in recognition and importance. While the literature around planning cultures grows, few area specific studies have been completed. This thesis seeks to contribute to the understanding of the planning culture of Vienna, Austria, through an exploration of the history of urban planning in Vienna and through a contemporary case study of the planning of the Vienna Hauptbahnhof project, the recently completed central train station. This thesis seeks to expand the understanding of planning processes, practices, and outcomes in Vienna, a city world renowned for its affordable and social housing, as well as for its high quality of life.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Mealor, Tony UNSW. "Catalysts, Continuity and Change: Workplace Restructuring in the Chemical Industry." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17030.
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The thesis describes and analyses a long-term transformative change program conducted at ICI (Australia) Botany Site between the years 1987 - 1997. The change program is unusual in that, after a massive and destructive confrontation between management and the unions, a new collaborative approach to change was developed which led to significant organisational renewal. Change interventions developed in the program have diffused through Australian industry over the decade. The program is analysed within the framework of a theoretical model which describes a path taken towards achieving a capable organisation which can sustain productive performance. The thesis uses evidence from the case to investigate issues of management style, governance, flexibility, 'bundled interventions', productivity, work organisation, downsizing, reward systems, skills acquisition and self-managed teams. A theoretical model of organisational change is developed which suggests how the treatment of these contingencies can lead to organisational capability.
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Vieira, Julie Ann. "Karl Rahner's understanding of the dynamic of continuity and change." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0009/MQ36607.pdf.
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Phillip, Lyndon A. "The Caribana Festival, continuity, change, crisis and an alternative music." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39221.pdf.
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Ackerman, Brenda Papakee. "The tradition of Meskwaki ribbonwork cultural meanings, continuity, and change /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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