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Chang, Huei-Chun, and huei-chun chang@rmit edu au. "Environmental Management Accounting within Universities: Current State and Future Potential." RMIT University. Accounting and Law, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080424.122823.

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Environmental management accounting (EMA) is attracting increased recognition as a management tool that assists in improving financial and environmental performance through enhanced environmental accountability. Various industries have been included in EMA-related research and study, but universities have typically failed to be the focus of the attention. This research studied the experiences of key managers from five universities to explore potential factors influencing the decision to adopt, or not to adopt, EMA within the higher education sector. For the purpose of this study, EMA is define

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Campos, Lilian Castelo. "Fatores que influenciam a utilizaÃÃo de artefatos de contabilidade gerencial: um estudo nas empresas cearenses." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15561.

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nÃo hÃ<br>A Internacional Federation of Accountants (IFAC) publicou o pronunciamento IMAP 1, reconhecendo quatro estÃgios evolutivos da Contabilidade Gerencial. Embora o estudo da IFAC (1998) tenha evidenciado que a Contabilidade Gerencial se encontra no quarto estÃgio, pesquisas apresentaram um baixo grau de implementaÃÃo de novas tÃcnicas de Contabilidade Gerencial nas empresas, e uma predominÃncia de uso de artefatos tradicionais em detrimento dos modernos. Nesta Ãtica, com o intuito de tentar compreender os motivos pelos quais hÃ esse distanciamento, Ã que pesquisas tÃm sido realizadas par

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Trabelsi, Raoudha. "Harmonisation comptable internationale dans les pays émergents : contigences environnementales ou pressions institutionnelles ? : cas de la Tunisie." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON10048.

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La recherche conduite se focalise sur le cas de la Tunisie, un pays émergent, initialement imprégné d'une culture comptable continentale, qui s'est engagé en 1997 dans une réforme avant-gardiste d'harmonisation comptable internationale, devançant plusieurs pays, dont ceux de l'Union Européenne, en abandonnant son Plan Comptable Général hérité de la période coloniale française, pour adopter son premier système comptable de type anglo-saxon, largement inspiré du référentiel international. Alors que la normalisation comptable internationale a considérablement évolué depuis 1997, notamment par le

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Östman, Elina, and Klara Engström. "Bolagisering av en kommunal förvaltning : En studie om beslutet att övergå till ett helägt kommunalt bolag." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105221.

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Bakgrund och problem: Bolagisering är ett växande fenomen inom svenska kommuner där övergången till ett kommunalt bolag innebär en rad förändringar inom verksamheten såsom tillämpning av aktiebolagslagen och en förändrad styrkedja. Motiven bakom bolagisering omfattas av att öka effektiviteten i verksamheten samtidigt som kostnadsreduceringar kan uppnås. Däremot presenteras även en rad risker som reformeringen kan medföra såsom en minskad insyn i det kommunala bolaget till följd av en separation av kontroll och ägande samt att bolaget driftar från kommunen. Till följd av den kritik som riktats

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Miroir-Lair, Isabelle. "L’évolution de la pratique du budget comme outil de communication financière." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CNAM0810/document.

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Cette thèse a pour objet, d’une part, de décrire les pratiques du budget quand l’outil est utilisé dans un rôle de communication financière, et d’autre part, d’observer si, dans ce cadre-là, il conserve ses fonctions de gestion interne de l’organisation. Au travers d’une enquête qualitative menée auprès de dix-huit groupes français, puis d’une enquête quantitative auprès de 53 sociétés du SBF 250, nous avons étudié les principales caractéristiques du budget dans un rôle de communication financière.Nous avons montré que les pratiques du processus budgétaire étaient modifiées par la nécessité de

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Bonemberger, Simone Zuconelli. "Gestão de custos e mensuração de resultado em organizações contábeis: estudo do isomorfismo, dos fatores contingenciais e proposição do Custo para Servir." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2017. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/3356.

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Medeiros, Miguel Botelho Tomé de. "Sistemas de Controlo de Gestão nas PMEs dos Açores e seus determinantes." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10443.

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Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças Empresariais<br>O presente trabalho empírico tem por finalidade identificar os fatores determinantes da adoção e do grau de utilização dos Sistemas de Controlo de Gestão (SCG) por parte das PME?s dos Açores, fazendo a ponte entre a Teoria da Contingência e a Teoria Institucional, em geral, e entre a incerteza da envolvente e a formação do diretor financeiro, em particular. Com base em dados recolhidos através de um inquérito por questionário, foi-nos possível corroborar as conclusões de estudos anteriores, bem como alargar o campo da literatura

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Burger, Kenneth Kehr Jonathan Wobensmith Brian. "Contingency contracting." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FBurger%5FKehr%5FWobensmith%5fManual.pdf.

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[Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.]<br>[MBA professional report] [Thesis advisor(s): R. Marshall Engelbeck, Rob B. Tudor.] [Authors: Kenneth Burger, Jonathan Kehr, Brian Wobensmith.] Also available online.

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Jeandrée, Philipp. "Experiencing contingency : towards a political theory of images." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/19192/.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between modern political thinking and aesthetic image-making through the conceptual framework of contingency. The focus on contingency takes account of the ambiguity and indeterminacy of visual perception and offers a language to describe the political potency of visual images in various historical contexts. The political potency of images is understood in terms of their affective intensities and material presence rather than ideological suspicion or propagandist seduction. In so doing, a case is made for reconsidering the traditional image

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Linton, Gabriel. "Entrepreneurial orientation : reflections from a contingency perspective." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-46894.

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Entrepreneurship has been argued to be a key driver of the economy by creating jobs, turning inventions to innovations, and also improving the overall standard of life. A firm’s entrepreneurial orientation (EO) indicates the degree to which a firm is entrepreneurial. However, there are several different approaches to conceptualizing the EO concept and its sub-dimensions, frequently described as innovativeness, risk taking, and proactiveness. The role of the sub-dimensions is not quite clear in the EO literature. Furthermore, many studies claim that firms can increase their performance simply b

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Kwak, Seung Ki. "Institutional theory of naive money." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120202.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical framework to elucidate how capital from unsophisticated investors (naive money) is associated with fund performance dynamics. In the framework, when naive money invested in a fund exceeds the ideal amount for the manager's skill, it leads funds to under-perform persistently. In contrast, the model predicts that, when the amount of invested naive money is smaller than the ideal s

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Bochner, Gregory. "Naming and contingency : towards an internalist theory of direct reference." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209797.

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This work is an essay on the reference of names in language and thought. According to the Theory of Direct Reference, nowadays dominant in philosophy of language, the semantic content of a proper name is directly its referent (Chapter 1).<p>Nevertheless, despite its current fame, this theory must face two major difficulties, familiar since Frege and Russell: the Co-Reference and the No-Reference Problems. The traditional response to these problems consisted precisely in abandoning Referentialism in favour of a version of Descriptivism according to which the semantic content of a proper name wo

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Haustein, E. "Management control systems in innovation companies : a contingency theory study." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2014. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23122/.

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Past research has traditionally argued that management control systems (MCS) may present a hindrance to corporate flexibility and creativity. The study’s overall research aim is to explore the contingency factors that influence the intensity of use of MCS in innovation companies. This thesis builds upon existing management control theory, mostly focused on R&D, product development and innovation settings, extended by field observations to identify factors that may influence the intensity of use of MCS categories in innovation companies. The objects of control paradigm, distinguishing between d

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Chizema, Amon. "Neo-institutional theory and institutional change : executive share options in Germany." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9811.

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This study focuses on one element of corporate governance, Executive Stock Options (ESOs) in Germany. The fact that ESOs are purely an Anglo-American innovation, and are now getting adopted in Germany; a country whose corporate governance system is so much different from that of the UKlUSA, makes this study more interesting. Several studies on executive compensation have used agency theory as a theoretical lens. On the contrary, this study employs neo-institutional theory, a theoretical lens that embraces socio-economic factors within the firm's institutional and market environment. In general

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Abrutyn, Seth Brian. "A general theory of institutional autonomy." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1871850211&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.<br>Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 425-458). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

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Aloini, Sabrina. "Una indagine esplorativa sul reporting behaviours dei comuni italiani : tra legitmacy theory e contingency theory." Thesis, Università degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/289.

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l'obiettivo principale del presente lavoro non e' definire le caratteristiche del fenomeno del social and enviromental reporting quanto individuare se esistono e quali siano i fattori che influenzano e determinano il contenuto dei report negli enti locali italiani e se il fenomeno del social and enviromental reporting possa essere legato a determinati fattori di performance dimensionali o di contesto. L' indagine ha valenza esplorativa (gli scopi principali di questo tipo di ricerca nella formulazione ipotesi generali riguardo la relazione fra piu' variabili) e comprende lo studio di una regre

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Patel, Urvashi B. "Physician Chief Executive Officers and Hospital Performance: A Contingency Theory Perspective." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/4.

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Years ago it was typical for a physician to serve as a hospital's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). However, with the development of Master of Health Administration, Master of Public Health, and Master of Business Administration programs, hospitals began to move away from this model. Today however, as hospitals search for innovative ideas to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of care, the idea of the physician hospital CEO has returned. Little empirical research is available in the health services literature on the physician hospital CEO. The study aims to examine the relationship be

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Hanzalik, Kathryn A. "Subversive Art and Institutional Vulnerability." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/64.

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George Dickie’s Institutional Theory of Art satisfies necessary and sufficient conditions for definition, but by leaving evaluation open cannot address artistic capacities to outstrip the usefulness of the theory for appreciating the concept of art comprehensively or meaningfully. Artworks that are known to members of the central and peripheral artworld seep into the general purview of the population at large as known “great works” of art. Upon examination of works that garner significant cultural influence, works broadly appreciated as great works, we find that their resistance to Dickie’s co

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Ross, Andrew David. "A model of contingency factors affecting contractors' economic organisation of projects." Thesis, University of Salford, 2005. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2169/.

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The identification of factors that affect the performance of temporary multi disciplinary organisational teams has been a central aim of management research in the construction industry for over 40 years. This study contributes to what is known about the formation of a construction project organisation by identifying the contingent factors that affect contractor's gathering and analysis of price information from supply chain organisations during the ex ante processes to contract formation. The research methodology adopted a combined approach to data collection and analysis, and used a theoreti

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Wärneryd, Karl. "Economic conventions : essays in institutional evolution." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Samhällsekonomi (S), 1990. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-917.

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Conventions are social institutions that solve recurrent coordination problems. Many of the written and unwritten rules that make up a modern market society may be said to have the coordinative property. This dissertation uses a game-theoretical framework to discuss the emergence and functioning of conventions of communication, private property rights, money, and the firm. In each case the anlysis provides new insigts for these classical areas of economic inquiry.<br><p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 1990</p>

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Tingbani, Ishmael. "Working capital management and profitability of UK firms : a contingency theory approach." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2015. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21785/.

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While the direct impact of working capital management (WCM) and its components (accounts receivable in days (AR), accounts payable in days (AP) and inventory holding period (INV)) on firms’ profitability has been examined in the previous literature, the underlying channels of influence have remained largely unexplored. This study adopts a contingency theory approach to investigate the relationship between WCM and profitability controlling for selected corporate governance and company characteristics. The study has three main objectives. The first objective is to determine the relationship betw

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Ojra, Jafar. "Strategic management accounting practices in Palestinian companies : application of contingency theory perspective." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/49725/.

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This study uses a quantitative methodology to explore the impact of contingency factors on use of strategic management accounting techniques (SMA), and combined impact of SMA Usage and contingency factors on organisational performance in a less developed country (LDC) context. The exploratory framework included two main dependent variables, namely SMA Usage and organisational performance. For the former, this study gauged the impact of perceived environmental uncertainty (competitive intensity and market turbulence), business strategy (prospector /defender), organisational structure (formalisa

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DeJordy, Rich. "Institutional Guardianship: the Role of Agency in Preserving Threatened Institutional Arrangements." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1394.

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Thesis advisor: Mary Ann Glynn<br>Institutional Theory has responded to early criticism that actors are characterized as passive "cultural dopes" primarily through work on Institutional Entrepreneurship, which implicitly links actors' agency to institutional change or creation. In this dissertation, I decouple change from agency, examining how actors work to maintain existing institutional arrangements that have come under threat. Through inductive, qualitative analysis of the creation of the Securities Exchange Commission in 1934, focusing primarily on the legislative history, I ground my ana

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Kelm, Matthias. "Institutional determinants of economic evolution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389840.

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Taylor, Laurel Kim. "Contemporary physician practice patterns, insights from institutional theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60352.pdf.

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Atkinson, Peter. "Assemblage and différance : an institutional theory and methodology." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14813.

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This thesis develops a postmodernist theory of institution, Discursive Organisation Theory (DOT), by building on elements of the work of Jacques Derrida and Giles Deleuze. One aspect of the theory is demonstrated by analysing transcriptions of eight focus groups composed of students studying in the field of business and management studies in universities in London. Postmodernists have so far eschewed theory development of this type but this study explicitly argues for the legitimacy of the project. The version of postmodernism to be used is carefully defined and takes as its central feature ar

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Zoch, Jeremy. "Hospitals With Physican CEOs: An Institutional Theory Perspective." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2623.

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ABSTRACT HOSPITALS WITH PHYSICIAN CEOS: AN INSTITUTIONAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE By: Jeremy S. Zoch, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Related Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011 Major Director: Kenneth R. White, Ph.D. Professor Department of Health Administration The complexities of the healthcare industry at the beginning of the 21st century continue to challenge hospitals to optimize their operations. A key leadership position in the overall success of a hosp

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Herold, David Martin. "Demystifying the link between institutional theory and stakeholder theory in sustainability reporting." SciView.Net, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6727/1/Herold_JEMS.pdf.

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In response to the global challenge of climate change, companies increasingly disclose sustainability-related information in form of sustainability reports. These reports, however, vary significantly due to multiple institutional and stakeholder pressures. From an academic perspective, institutional theory links these different outcomes to the influences of competing institutional logics on the field-level, representing institutional complexity on the field-level which is characterised by multiple demands from different stakeholders. Although current literature acknowledges that stakeholder ma

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Myers, Barry L. "Information systems assessment: development of a comprehensive framework and contingency theory to assess the effectiveness of the information systems function." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4302/.

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The purpose of this research is to develop a comprehensive, IS assessment framework using existing IS assessment theory as a base and incorporating suggestions from other disciplines. To validate the framework and to begin the investigation of current IS assessment practice, a survey instrument was developed. A small group of subject matter experts evaluated and improved the instrument. The instrument was further evaluated using a small sample of IS representatives. Results of this research include a reexamination of the IS function measurement problem using new frameworks of analyses yielding

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Jacome, Madariaga Laura. "Design and evaluation of an IS flexibility enabler framework : a contingency theory approach." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TELE0024/document.

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L’objectif central de cette recherche est d’étudier les caractéristiques de la flexibilité des SI, dans la perspective d’apporter une aide à la construction de SI plus flexibles, pouvant s’adapter rapidement aux changements, notamment en cas d’évolution stratégique. La question posée est donc : comment atteindre la flexibilité dans les SI ? Cette recherche s’appuie sur les recherches antérieures décrivant les caractéristiques de la flexibilité d’un SI et les enrichit en prenant en compte les différentes dimensions d’un système d’information. Elle inclut ensuite dans son analyse les caractérist

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Sager, Tore. "Communicate or calculate planning theory and social science concepts in a contingency perspective /." Stockholm : Nordplan, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=CAxPAAAAMAAJ.

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Hwang, Sungwook. "The estimation of a corporate crisis communication based on perceived CEO's leadership, perceived severity of threats, and preceived opposing public's size." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5594.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 8, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Welker, David Wayne. "POLICE PROGRAMS, CANINES, AND CONTINGENCY THEORY: AN EXPLANATION OF CANINE NUMBERS AMONG LARGE POLICE DEPARTMENTS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/775.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF DAVID WELKER, for the Master of Arts degree in CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, presented on OCTOBER 18, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: POLICE PROGRAMS, CANINES, AND CONTINGENCY THEORY: AN EXPLANATION OF CANINE NUMBERS AMONG LARGE POLICE DEPARTMENTS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Joseph Schafer Canines have provided services for humans over many centuries. More recently, they have been used for police work. Canines are used to apprehend suspects, track people, and find drugs. They are also seen as a less-than-lethal weapon and can be used in a numb

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Chanurai, Arreeya. "A contingency theory of diversification : the case of diversification into the Thai telecommunications industry." Thesis, City University London, 2002. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7597/.

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During the past two decades, the trend towards diversification by large corporations in the advanced industrialised nations has been a transition from diversification to specialisation. However, there is little evidence of these same trends being duplicated in the emerging-market countries. Are large business enterprises in the emerging market countries slow in responding to the new strategic logic or is there some justification for such discrepancy'? The study provides the rationale to support a contingency theory of diversification. Diversification strategy is an outcome of not only a firm's

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Chowdhury, Sanjib Kumar. "Customer Induced Uncertainty and Its Impact on Organizational Design." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2214/.

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How firms facing environmental uncertainty should organize their activities remains an important and challenging question for today's managers and organizational researchers. Proponents of contingency theory have argued that organizations must adjust their activities to fit the level of environmental uncertainty to ensure long-term survival. Although much work has been done on contingency theory, it is clear that our understanding of uncertainty is far from complete. One important aspect of today's organizations is their focus on service, mass customization, and continuous innovation. This foc

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Disbrey, Claire. "Innovation and tradition : towards an institutional theory of religion." Thesis, Open University, 1990. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57299/.

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Philosophical theories of religion often appeal to supposed facts about the way religions change and, in particular, to the role of innovators. This, is true of theories that stress the priority of experience and the priority of language. In this thesis an historical case study of innovation in religion is used as evidence of the inadequacy of both these sorts of theories and to suggest that same form of 'institutional' theory would form a base for a more satisfactory theory of religion. Consideration is given to William James' and Alasdair McIntyre's accounts of religion and the implications

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Leweling, Tara A. "Extending organizational contingency theory to team performance : an information processing and knowledge flows perspective /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Sep%5FLeweling%5FPhD.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D. in Information Sciences)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.<br>Dissertation Advisor(s): Nissen, Mark ; Arquilla, John "September 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 22, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-277). Also available in print.

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Vitelli, Emil, and Johan Ljunglund. "En storbanks anpassning till en ny miljö : En undersökning av Nordea med Contingency Theory." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-316603.

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Denna uppsats menar att den svenska bankbranschen genomgår ett miljöskifte. I enighet med Contingency Theory finns då ett behov av anpassning för de bankerna som äntrar den nya miljön. Den svenska storbanken Nordea används i denna studie som ett exempel på en bank i den nya miljön. Genom att intervjua sex medarbetare och sex kunder till banken antas ett dubbelt perspektiv för att diskutera hur Nordeas organisationstyp och strategi förhåller sig till den nya miljön. Kundintervjuerna har påvisat att personliga relationer värderas högt. Samtidigt visar medarbetarintervjuerna och e

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Silguero, Russell V. "Do contingency-conflicting elements drop out of equivalence classes? Re-testing Sidman's (2000) theory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848078/.

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Sidman's (2000) theory of stimulus equivalence states that all positive elements in a reinforcement contingency enter an equivalence class. The theory also states that if an element from an equivalence class conflicts with a programmed reinforcement contingency, the conflicting element will drop out of the equivalence class. Minster et al. (2006) found evidence suggesting that a conflicting element does not drop out of an equivalence class. In an effort to explain maintained accuracy on programmed reinforcement contingencies, the authors seem to suggest that participants will behave in accorda

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Lindberg, Claes. "Ekonomistyrning i småföretag : En fallstudie av ett israeliskt och ett svenskt småföretag." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-30963.

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Sammanfattning Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi inom ekonomistyrning. Ekonomihögskolan Linneuniversitetet Vårterminen 2012. Författare: Claes Lindberg Handledare: Jan Alpenberg Titel: Ekonomistyrning i småföretag Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är: Att bidra till ökad förståelse för användningen av ekonomistyrsystemen i ett tillverkande småföretag i Israel och jämföra med dito i Sverige. Att beskriva användandet av ekonomistyrsystemen samt analysera olikheter och likheter em

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Irwin, Jennifer, and Jennifer Irwin. "The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Institutional Maintenance in the Face of Social and Technological Change in American Public Libraries, 1876-2006." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12392.

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Institutions are generally assumed to be stable, but recent research has focused on how that stability may be overturned to create institutional change. The assumption of stability has led to a lack of research on the flip side of change, maintenance, even though we cannot fully understand change without understanding the forces change agents work against. By examining more than a century of American public library discourse, I develop the construct of core ideas and a model of the maintenance of these institutions. Core ideas are those institutionalized ideas at the heart of a field that act

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Maatoug, Abubaker Gium Saad. "Accounting education in Libya : an institutional perspective." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/819cb01d-bbb9-4838-a076-7bea21936fd7.

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This thesis employs a new institutional sociology perspective to investigate factors influencing accounting education practices in Libyan universities. For this purpose, two pieces of empirical work, a case study and an analysis of accounting textbooks used in Libyan universities, were conducted. The case study was undertaken at one Libyan university and included interviews of accounting academics, document analysis and observations. The findings of the case study informed the second part of the empirical work of this thesis analysing the accounting textbooks used in Libyan universities throug

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Paulsson, Astrid. "Thomas Pogge's Theory of a Minimally Just Global Institutional Order." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5244.

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The immense inequalities between the world’s poor and the world’s rich have compelledphilosopher Thomas Pogge to develop a moral framework based on the Universal Declarationof Human Rights that challenges our most commonsense political moral views. Poggedisputes minimally and universally that we all have a negative duty not to harm so long as theharm is foreseeable and avoidable, rather than a positive duty to do well. Furthermore Poggeargues for an institutional view of negative duties flown from the fact that we all shape,uphold and impose institutions.With the help of three philosophers; Po

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Mohamed, Abdulbari Mostafa. "International Financial Reporting Standards in Libya : an institutional theory perspective." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4154/.

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This thesis seeks to investigate a number of issues relating to the mandating of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in Libya in 2006. This includes examining the factors that influenced the decision of the Libyan government to mandate these standards and, following this decision, examining the obstacles to implementing these standards in Libya. The benefits of these standards are also investigated. In addition, this thesis seeks to assess the level of compliance of the companies listed in the Libyan Stock Market (LSM) with the disclosure requirements of IFRSs over two years (2

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Linsley, Philip Mark. "The application of neo-Durkheimian institutional theory in accounting research." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19021/.

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The seven publications comprising this PhD by publication employ neo-Durkheimian institutional theory (NDIT) to examine the relationship between the concept of culture and accounting practice. The primary focus of all the publications is on the dynamics of cultural dialogues (as defined in NDIT) and cultural change, and the publications contribute to accounting research in the areas of: audit failure, the financial crisis, developments in management accounting post-1980, financialization, risk disclosure, and accounting regulation. The contributions of three of the publications contributions d

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Falls, Alan David. "Brand management in social media environments : an institutional theory perspective." Thesis, Ulster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603532.

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The processes of branding and brand management have progressively transitioned from corporate offices to online social spaces in recent years as brands have become increasingly situated within social media. To date however there has been limited academic scrutiny directed towards understanding the impact of social media on brands and brand management. Taking the view that social media represent a new institutional environment for brands and brand management, this research draws from institutional theory in exploring brand management in social media environments. Specifically the study explores

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Myers, Lindsey P. Myers. "Crime and Punishment: An Empirical Test of Institutional-Anomie Theory." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503049000260017.

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Mahdi, Shireen. "Inefficient institutions and institutional change : theory and evidence from Tanzania." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/inefficient-institutions-and-institutional-change-theory-and-evidence-from-tanzania(98e14e0d-a267-48a4-9703-2d3bca3fffa3).html.

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The purpose of this thesis is to theoretically and empirically investigate the effects of institutional inefficiencies on markets and on non-elite groups, and to better understand the factors that prevent efficient institutions from evolving through the process of institutional change. It commences by reviewing the literature relating to institutions and institutional change and presenting a theoretical framework. It then presents three empirical chapters that aim to address the key questions and hypotheses relating to how inefficient institutions affect markets and why inefficient institution

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Berglund, Angela, and Tina Holtz. "Ledarskap för ökad effektivitet i byggproduktion." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40447.

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Purpose: The population of Sweden is steadily increasing, which raises the need for new infrastructure and new buildings. To meet these demands the construction industry must become more efficient. According to several researchers, better leadership can be a part of accomplishing this. Discussions regarding leadership are mostly from the leaders’ perspective and usually the decisions about what kind of leadership is needed is made by the leaders themselves. Not very often do the followers get a chance to share their thoughts on what they need to become more efficient. Earlier research shows a

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Barthold, Lauren Swayne. "Contingency, truth, and tradition Alasdair MacIntyre's and Richard Rorty's view of narrative /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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