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Baek, Pyounggu, Jihyun Chang, and Taesung Kim. "Organizational culture now and going forward." Journal of Organizational Change Management 32, no. 6 (2019): 650–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-05-2018-0121.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the fundamental premises (i.e. perspectives on organizations and intrinsic research contributions) embodied in the literature on organizational culture and offer insights into where organizational culture research should be headed now and going forward. Design/methodology/approach This research provides an integrative review of organizational culture research and investigates commonalities and differences in terms of the fundamental premises between North America and Europe. Findings The findings include that the modern perspective was most pervasive (87 percent) in both regions, with Europe slightly more open to varied perspectives such as symbolic and postmodern ones; approximately 70 percent of the studies were geared toward organization-level contributions, less than 10 percent toward individual-level contributions, and less than 20 percent toward mega-level contributions as the underlying research intent; and (c) in terms of the perspective-contribution combination, the pair of modern perspective and organization-level contribution was most dominant in both regions, while the individual-level contribution was paired with no other perspectives than the modern one. Research limitations/implications This research suggests that the research community shape a whole new discourse on organizational culture and recommends several promising research avenues. Originality/value By engaging in fundamental discussions on how an organization has been perceived and what purpose it has meant to deliver, this research offers an overarching view of where we stand currently and possibly where we should be heading in terms of organizational change management.

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Otra-Aho, Ville Juhani, Jon Iden, and Jukka Hallikas. "The Impact of the Project Management Office Roles to Organizational Value Contribution." International Journal of Information Technology Project Management 10, no. 4 (2019): 79–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.2019100103.

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Many project-oriented organizations have implemented a project coordination mechanism, such as a project management office (PMO), to align projects with the organization's strategy, to ensure the success of projects, and to create value for the organization from projects. While organizations continue establishing PMOs, these PMOs are struggling to create sufficient value for organizations. The results reveal a significant impact on the PMO environment and interaction of the roles on PMO value contributions. The findings confirm that PMOs have an essential organizational role creating a fit between organization assets.

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Flyverbom, Mikkel, and Christina Garsten. "Anticipation and Organization: Seeing, knowing and governing futures." Organization Theory 2, no. 3 (2021): 263178772110203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26317877211020325.

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Anticipation is part of organizational attempts to manage their future affairs and shape their surroundings. Still, the ways in which organizations engage in anticipation have not been sufficiently conceptualized in the field of organization and management studies. This article conceptualizes organizational ways of shaping and orchestrating futures by engaging insights from Foucauldian scholarship that highlight the intersection between what we can see, know and govern. We highlight the importance of processes of knowledge production in governance efforts, and articulate how anticipatory governance is crafted through intricate combinations of resources such as narratives, numbers and digital traces. The main contribution is a conceptual typology outlining four different templates for anticipatory governance in organizational settings that we term ‘indicative snapshots’, ‘prognostic correlations’, ‘projected transformations’ and ‘phantasmagoric fictions’. We posit anticipatory governance as a knowledge-based, performative phenomenon that addresses potential and desirable futures in and between organizations. Such anticipatory activities gauge and guide organizational processes and modes of thinking and acting along different temporal orientations, and have governance effects that makes anticipation performative by its very nature. This understanding of anticipatory governance, we suggest, offers both conceptual contributions and empirical avenues for research in organization and management studies.

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Duffy, Sam, and Patrick G. T. Healey. "The conversational organization of musical contributions." Psychology of Music 42, no. 6 (2014): 888–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735614545501.

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Singh, Poonam. "Lean in healthcare organization: an opportunity for environmental sustainability." Benchmarking: An International Journal 26, no. 1 (2019): 205–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bij-04-2018-0104.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide insights toward the potential of lean healthcare organization for environment sustainability and develop propositions for future studies.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper to study the inbuilt capacity of lean healthcare organization to mitigate environmental footprint. As a result, lean compatibility with environmental sustainability (ES) has been explored in areas like manufacturing, supply chain, aviation, construction, etc. The lean philosophy, lean culture and lean tools were analyzed to identify their contribution to ES in the context of healthcare organizations.FindingsBased on the analysis of lean philosophy, culture and tool, this paper theorizes that lean healthcare organizations have huge potential to mitigate environmental footprints. Lean healthcare organizations need not to do any extra effort for ES albeit it is inbuilt in it. Lean philosophy provides a vision to the healthcare organization for ES whereas lean culture bestow healthcare with an epistemology for the same.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper provides insight that ES is embedded in lean healthcare organizations. Lean healthcare organizational culture is ideal for application for constructivism theory where employees construct a new knowledge from their experiences to minimize the waste that eventually help in ES.Originality/valueMajor contributions of the study include a new approach for mitigating the environmental footprints by adopting lean in healthcare organization.

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Cai, Huiru, Anna Carmella G. Ocampo, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Kohyar Kiazad, Catherine Midel Deen, and Min Li. "Career Commitment in STEM." Journal of Career Assessment 26, no. 2 (2017): 359–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069072717695586.

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In this article, we draw insights from the employee–organization framework to test a model linking offered inducements and expected contributions to career commitment through organizational commitment. Data were collected from 396 full-time chemists and laboratory specialists who work in a large health-care organization in China. Results revealed that organizational commitment mediated the relationships between employee–organization framework (i.e., offered inducements and expected contributions) and career commitment. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that the conditional indirect effects of offered inducements in predicting career commitment via organizational commitment were stronger for high as opposed to low expected contributions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Buzzanell, Patrice M. "Introduction to special issue." Learning Organization 25, no. 1 (2018): 2–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-11-2017-0107.

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Purpose This paper aims to first introduce the four contributions to the themed issue of The Learning Organization entitled “Learning Organization/Organizational Learning and Gender Issues”. Second, the commonalities among these articles function as themes that can generate further research and engaged or problem-driven scholarship and practice. Design/methodology/approach Feminist critique. Findings These articles challenge commonsense, blur boundaries between reality and imagined visions and form a multilevel matrix for understanding and change regarding gendered learning organizations. Originality/value As an introduction to a special issue, this essay summarizes and extends on the four contributions and then extends the insights to encourage discovery, learning and engagement.

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De Oliveira Lucas, Hugo Manuel, Lisete Dos Santos Mendes Monico, and Florencio Vicente Castro. "PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL OF INDIVIDUALS: WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS?" International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD de Psicología. 5, no. 1 (2016): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v5.701.

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Abstract.The research about positive psychology establishes a link between high levels of optimism and hope with the physiological state and psychological well-being of individuals. The present article analyses the Psychological Capital and its pertinence in the current contextualization of organizations. The following are considered POB (Positive Organizational Behaviour) states: hope, resilience, trust and optimism. The sample is composed by 301 employees from Portuguese organizations, aged between 18 and 67 and with diverse academic qualifications and organizational functions. We applied the PsyCap Questionnaire (Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007), comprising four factors: Hope, Resilience, Optimism, and Self efficiency. The results indicate that the highest score corresponds to Self-efficiency, followed by Hope, Resilience and, lastly, Optimism. The psychological capital is analyzed according to personal data (gender, age, and academic qualifications), information concerning professional status (professional situation, time of work in the organization, managerial duties performance, and liquid monthly salary), and the organizational variables (size of the organization). The results are discussed taking into account the contributions of positive psychological capital, and the impact of current crisis scenario in lower levels of optimism.Keywords: Psychological Capital; Organizations; EmployeesResumo.A investigação sobre psicologia positiva estabelece uma relação entre níveis elevados de otimismo e de esperança com estados fisiológicos e psicológicos de bem-estar dos indivíduos. O presenta artigo abordada o Capital Psicológico e a sua pertinência na contextualização atual das organizações. Consideram-se como estados POB (Positive Organizational Behavior) a esperança, a resiliência, a confiança e o otimismo. A amostra é composta por 301 colaboradores de organizações portuguesas, com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 67 anos e com diversas habilitações académicas e funções organizacionais. Aplicámos o PsyCap Questionnaire (Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007), composto por quatro fatores: Esperança, Resiliência, Otimismo e Autoeficácia. Os resultados indicam que a pontuação mais elevada corresponde à Autoeficácia, seguindo-se a Esperança, a Resiliência e, por último, o Otimismo. O capital psicológico é analisado em função de dados pessoais (género, idade e habilitações literárias), de informações referentes à condição profissional (situação profissional, tempo de trabalho na organização, desempenho de funções de chefia e vencimento líquido mensal) e a variáveis organizacionais (dimensão da organização). Os resultados são discutidos atendendo aos contributos do capital psicológico positivo e ao cenário de crise atual se repercutir em níveis menores de otimismo.Palavras-chave: Capital psicológico; Organizações; Trabalhadores

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Soulsby, Anna, and Ed Clark. "Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge." Human Relations 60, no. 10 (2007): 1419–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726707083470.

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Daugirdas, Kristina, and Gian Luca Burci. "Financing the World Health Organization." International Organizations Law Review 16, no. 2 (2019): 299–338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15723747-01602005.

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When it comes to financing the work of international organizations, voluntary contributions from both state and non-state actors are growing in size and importance. The World Health Organization (WHO) is an extreme case: voluntary contributions – mostly earmarked for particular purposes – comprise more than 80 percent of its funds. Moreover, non-state actors supply almost half of WHO’s funds, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ranking as the second-highest contributor after the United States. A number of public-health and international relations scholars have expressed alarm over these trends, arguing that heavy reliance on voluntary contributions is inconsistent with genuine multilateralism. Relying on interviews with current and former WHO officials, our study explores the causes and consequences of these trends, and recent efforts by member states and the WHO secretariat to reconcile growing reliance on voluntary contributions with multilateral governance. We describe the headway WHO has made in mitigating the risks associated with heavy reliance on voluntary contributions – as well as the challenges that persist. Most importantly, we argue that multilateralism is not categorically incompatible with reliance on voluntary contributions from both state and non-state actors. Collective multilateral decision-making is not a binary feature, either present or absent. Even if the final decision to provide voluntary contributions is up to individual donors, international institutions have opportunities to regulate such contributions both in terms of substance and process. The more heavily regulated voluntary contributions are, the more embedded they become in collective decisions, and the less tension there is between multilateralism and reliance on voluntary contributions.

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Huckestein, Maria Luisa Sandoval. "Central office supervisor contributions within exemplary Texas school districts." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3081091.

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Petkov, Christopher Iliev. "The perceptual organization of sound : behavior and neural contributions in macaques /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Zhang, Dashi. "Business and society : an integrated study of corporate philanthropy and organization-public relationships in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1550.

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Scoufelis, Aristides. "The public views and charitable contributions of American big businessmen toward learning, culture, and human welfare, 1910-1932." Access Digital Full Text version, 1985. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1051904x.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Trygve R. Tholfsen. Dissertation Committee: Hazel Whitman Hertzberg. Bibliography: leaves 133-146.

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Bernard, Jacob Jean. "Higher Education in Haiti, 1958-1988: an Analysis of its Organization, Administration and Contributions to National Development." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331788/.

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The problem of this study was the status of higher education in Haiti. The purposes were to analyze the organization, administration, and contributions of higher education to national development from 1958 to 1988 and to provide background information from foreign literature which might assist in the improvement Haiti's system of higher education. In an effort to locate information necessary to achieve these purposes, a computer search was conducted. A survey of available literature in French, Creole, and English and personal and telephone interviews were also conducted. The results of this study reveal that, in the past three decades, higher education in Haiti has merely functioned as a symbol of social prestige. Haiti's system of higher education exhibits no apparent direction, purpose, of long-term goals. With more than 90 percent of its professors part-time and ill-prepared, its curriculum unrelated to the needs of Haitian society, and its student body in revolt for the past three years, higher education in Haiti is urgently in need of radical reform. Any contribution made to national development by the system of higher education is weak at best. The small but oppressive elite group that dominates the economic and political realms in Haiti has proved to be a stumbling block to educational reform. The prospect of the establishment of an adequate system of education depends heavily on the establishment of a democratic government. The State University, which is the prominent instrument for higher education, must be reorganized and strengthened so that it can meet the basic academic standards of a university. This reorganization must include the redesign of the curriculum and the retraining of current professors. It is urgent that the qualitative aspects of higher education be given attention. Higher education should also develop a working relationship with industry in order to prepare individuals who are qualified to fulfill the country's technical needs.

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Wardell, Clarence L. III. "Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31721.

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At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of international humanitarian relief organizations. It has been observed that large scale humanitarian relief events tend to spawn highly competitive environments in which organizations compete with one another for publicity and funding, often times to the detriment of effective resource utilization. The question of why altruistic organizations behave in this manner arises. Positing that competition is a result of dual organization objectives and the inability to credibly signal quality a model of signaling is presented to explain this phenomenon, and conditions under which pooling and separating equilibrium can occur are shown. Results are shown to match closely with observed behavior, and potential policy remedies are considered using the model as a foundation. Chapter 3 addresses a similar question but broadens the analysis to that of a general market for charitable goods. Building on foundational results in search theory, I propose a two-stage model of donor search behavior to explain the effects of transparency and exposure on both donor and organization behavior as it regards how donors select organizations. Using both analytical and simulated results I show how donor behavior changes under various market constructions, with implications on total market outcomes and organization behavior discussed. Chapter 4 concludes with an empirical analysis to test the assumptions and results from the models of Chapters 2 and 3. Using an observational data set provided by the online charitable giving marketplace GlobalGiving, fixed effects panel regression and logit models are used to investigate the effects of transparency on both the amount of a donor's gift, and on the likelihood of repeat giving. Results are complicated by discussed validity issues, and in general show that within the context of GlobalGiving proxied transparency does not appear to have a significant practical effect on either the amount of the gift or organization selection by a given donor. While some significance is shown for various constructions, the results are not shown to be robust. A discussion of the results within the context of the donor search model of Chapter 3 is also provided.

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Berglund, Martina. "Using Tentacles in Planning and Scheduling Work : Activities, Roles and Contributions." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Ergonomi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10564.

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Handling production scheduling is increasingly difficult for manyenterprises, and human involvement is necessary. The overall objective ofthis research was to gain further understanding of planners’ and schedulers’work within the manufacturing industry, to elucidate how their worksituation is formed, and to explain their significance to other employees’work and company activities. Scheduling work was studied in fourcompanies in the Swedish woodworking industry; a sawmill, a parquet floormanufacturer, a furniture manufacturer and a house manufacturer. Themethod used was activity analysis which is based on the analysis of workactivities in real work situations. Data collection included 20 days’observations and 65 interviews. Cross-case analysis with British cases onplanning work was also included.The findings revealed that the schedulers’ tasks lead to many activities. Twothirds of these are what can be expected. The remaining third constitutesactivities that depend on the schedulers’ individual attributes and the contextin which they work. The schedulers serve as problem solvers in a number ofdomains and constitute efficient information nodes, making them animportant service function. Furthermore, they have an alignment rolebetween different organizational groups. This role is specifically remarkablein dealing with production enquiries that must be aligned with productioncapability. Here, both planners and schedulers play an essential role inlinking the manufacturing and the commercial sides and their differentfunctional logics.Planners and schedulers in daily work exert strong influence on others. Theydo not hold legitimate power. Instead their influence emanates mainly fromaccess to and control of information and their ability to apply expertise tointerpret this information and examine the impact of decisions made acrossdifferent areas of the business. Personal power related to social skills is alsosignificant.Furthermore, they facilitate others’ work in continuous personalinteractions, serving the technical scheduling software system, and aligningdifferent organizational functions. In combination with expert knowledgeand developed social skills, they significantly contribute to quality operationsperformance. Finally, the schedulers influence the decision latitude of otheremployees and may indirectly promote job satisfaction, thus contributing todeveloping appropriate working conditions for others in the company.<br>QC 20100624

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Sieweke, Jost [Verfasser]. "“Putting Bourdieu into Action” – Analyzing the Contributions of Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to Research in Management and Organization Studies / Jost Sieweke." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1027572456/34.

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Alsarhan, Fadi Mahmoud Soud. "Factors and impact of Wasta on HRM practices in Jordan : Contributions to Theory and Leadership Implications on New Public Management (NPM) Culture of Organization." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE3056.

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Malgré le fait que le phénomène de la Wasta, (« le piston, la cooptation, les connections au travail »), représente une partie constitutive et une caractéristique emblématique de la GRH dans le secteur public au Moyen-Orient et en Jordanie, un nombre limité de recherches porte sur ce phénomène intriguant et complexe. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, la Wasta reste un objet de recherche peu expliqué et insuffisamment analysé pour sa portée managériale. Ainsi, cette thèse se veut de construire un nouveau modèle d’approfondissement théorique pour décrire la Wasta à partir des données ancrées dans le terrain, afin de parvenir à une compréhension plus précise des enjeux et des représentations liées à la propagation de la Wasta parmi les pratiques de GRH dans le secteur public jordanien. Pour ce faire, nous illustrons la définition du concept de la Wasta et nous démontrons ses conséquences négatives sur les pratiques de GRH et sur la performance globale des institutions publiques jordaniennes. Nous explorons également les réalités autour de ces institutions dans l’époque de post-réformes publiques. De surcroît, notre étude cherche à proposer plusieurs propositions pour mieux cerner les facteurs qui déterminent l’étendue de la Wasta dans le secteur public en Jordanie. Cette recherche fournit, par ailleurs, des aperçus importants sur la GRH au Moyen-Orient et en Jordanie aussi bien pour les chercheurs et les académiciens, que pour les décideurs et les spécialistes des RH, ou encore pour les leaders internationaux qui s’intéressent aux potentiels économiques dans les pays moyen-orientaux en général et en Jordanie en particulier. Enfin, c’est à travers les nouvelles connaissances obtenues au fil de cette recherche, que nous souhaitons contribuer aux savoirs et à la modernisation des concepts et des pratiques de GRH dans les contextes moyen-orientaux et jordanien<br>Though Wasta, an Arabic word for “connections in the workplace”, is considered to be an integral part and an emblematic characteristic of HRM in the Middle Eastern and Jordanian public sectors alike, little is known about this intriguing and complex phenomenon. Till this day, Wasta remains a relatively obscure topic of research, insufficiently dealt with in academic papers. Therefore, this dissertation comes as an attempt to build a theoretical framework model for Wasta from the data grounded in the field, which seeks to offer a deep understanding of the factors and considerations that relate to its extent among various HRM practices in the Jordanian public sector. To do so, we illustrate the definition of the concept of Wasta and demonstrate its negative impacts on HRM and overall performance of public institutions. We also explore the realities in the Jordanian organizations in the post-public reform era. Furthermore, this dissertation aims to provide several propositions regarding the factors that determine Wasta’s extent in the public sector in Jordan. This work also offers insights for academics who are interested in HRM research in the Middle East and Jordan alike, for decision makers and HR specialists in the Middle East; as well as for global leaders who are interested in business potentials in Middle Eastern countries in general and in Jordan in particular by pointing out Wasta-related realities. In the end, through this newfound understanding, our dissertation aims to contribute to the rising understanding and the modernization of HRM principles and practices in the Middle Eastern and Jordanian contexts

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Malas, Anas. "Contributions à la résolution du transport à la demande fondées sur les systèmes multi-agents." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMIR07/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur le problème du transport à la demande (TAD). Nous proposons trois approches décentralisées basées sur les systèmes multi-agents pour résoudre ce problème. La première approche multi-agent utilise l'algorithme A* afin de trouver une solution optimale dans un réseau routier caractérisé par des vitesses de voyage constantes. Des expérimentations sont effectuées sur le réseau routier d'une ville libanaise appelée Tripoli et de bons résultats sont obtenus. Cependant, dans une ville comme Tripoli, les vitesses de voyage dépendent fortement de la situation dynamique du trafic routier. Pour cette raison, la deuxième approche multi-agent massif vient remédier à la première en tenant compte de l'évolution du trafic. Le réseau routier est considéré comme dynamique déterministe. Il se caractérise par des vitesses de voyages dépendantes de la situation habituelle du trafic. Ces vitesses sont pré-calculées en se basant sur des connaissances historiques du trafic routier. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent que le nombre de clients insatisfaits est supérieur à 50 % si les vitesses sont considérées comme constantes. Or, les connaissances historiques ne suffisent pas pour refléter la situation réelle du trafic surtout en cas d'apparition d'un événement imprévu tel qu'un accident sur le réseau. Pour cela, une troisième approche multi-agent massif auto-organisé est proposée. Le réseau routier est considéré comme dynamique stochastique caractérisé par des vitesses de voyage dépendantes de la situation réelle du trafic. Cette approche représente l'organisation dynamique du trafic à son échelle en se basant sur des connaissances historiques du trafic et sur des informations du trafic en temps réel. Les trajectoires des véhicules et leurs durées sont calculées et recalculées en ligne à chaque fois qu'un événement imprévu perturbe la situation habituelle du trafic. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent que jusqu'à 39 % des clients seront insatisfaits si un accident routier n'est pas considéré durant le traitement de leurs demandes. Autrement, 50 % à 100 % de ces clients sont satisfaits<br>This thesis addresses the problem of on-demand transport (ODT). We propose three decentralized approaches based on multi-agent systems to solve this problem. The first multi-agent approach uses the algorithm A* in order to find an optimal solution in a road network characterized by constant travel speeds. Experiments are carried out on the road network of a Lebanese city called Tripoli and good results are obtained. However, in a city like Tripoli, travel speeds depend heavily on the dynamic situation of road traffic. For this reason, the second multi-agent approach massif comes to remedy the first taking into account the evolution of traffic. The road network is considered as dynamic deterministic. It is characterized by travel speeds dependent on the usual traffic situation. These speeds are pre-calculated on the basis of historical knowledge of road traffic. The experimental results show that the number of dissatisfied customers is greater than 50 % if the speeds are considered to be constant. Nevertheless, historical knowledge is not sufficient to reflect the actual traffic situation, especially in case of an unexpected event (such as an accident) occurring on the network. For this, a self-organized massive multi-agent approach is proposed. The road network is considered as a dynamic stochastic characterized by travel speeds dependent on the actual traffic situation. This approach represents the dynamic organization of traffic on its scale based on historical traffic knowledge and real-time traffic information. Vehicle trajectories and their durations are calculated and recalculated online whenever an unexpected event disrupts the usual traffic situation. The experimental results show that up to 39 % of customers will be dissatisfied if a road accident is not considered during the processing of their demands. Otherwise, 50 % to 100 % of these customers are satisfied

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Books on the topic "Contributions in organization"

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Sangyō to rinri: San Shimon no shakai soshiki shisō. Heibonsha, 1989.

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Social organization of an urban grants economy: A study of business philanthropy and nonprofit organizations. Academic Press, 1985.

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Kirton, John J. Canada and APEC: Contributions and challenges. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 1997.

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Tremblay, Victor J. New perspectives on industrial organization: With contributions from behavioral economics and game theory. Springer, 2012.

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International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, ed. Psychoanalytic studies of organizations: Contributions from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). Karnac Books, 2009.

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Anderson, Kym. Measuring WTO's contributions to global economic welfare. An Elgar Research Collection, 2014.

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Patten, James J. Van. Individual and collective contributions toward humaneness in our time. University Press of America, 1997.

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Board, Financial Accounting Standards. Transfers of assets involving a not-for-profit organization that raises or holds contributions for others. Financial Accounting Standards Board, 1998.

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Corporate fund raising made easy: Learning from the success of CRY. Books for Change, 2000.

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Board, Financial Accounting Standards. Transfer of assets to a not-for-profit organization or charitable trust that raises or holds contributions for others. FASB, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Contributions in organization"

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Vicentini, Francesca, Federica Brunetta, and Francesca Capo. "Building Organizational Insight: Strategy and Organization." In Contributions to Management Science. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44591-5_4.

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de Vries, Manfred F. R. Kets. "Alexithymia in Organizational Life: The Organization Man Revisited." In Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12847-3_11.

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Seirafi, Kasra. "Organization as Conceptual Distinction." In Contributions to Management Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34194-6_1.

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Mühl, Johannes Karl. "Organization A: Investigative Study." In Contributions to Management Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04069-1_5.

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Mühl, Johannes Karl. "Organization B: Investigative Study." In Contributions to Management Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04069-1_6.

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Meulenberg, Matthew T. G. "Marketing Organization, Innovation and Agricultural Cooperatives." In Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50001-5_10.

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Stebbins, Robert A. "Contributions to Community and Organization." In Leisure and Positive Psychology: Linking Activities with Positiveness. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56994-3_7.

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Suomi, Reima. "Different Conceptual Approaches to Virtual Organization." In Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57346-0_8.

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Scherer, F. M. "Leonard Weiss' contributions to research in industrial organization." In Studies in Industrial Organization. Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2795-0_1.

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Amado, Gilles. "Psychoanalysis and Organization: A Cross-Cultural Approach." In Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12847-3_2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Contributions in organization"

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Conger, Dorian S. "Can Safety Culture Be This Important?" In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-31241.

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Organizational culture has been extensively studied since the 1950’s. The research consistently demonstrates that an organization’s culture has a direct and immediate impact on the behaviors of the people working within the organization. For many years, the culture of an organization was not a part of the evaluation process when performance deficiencies or incidents were evaluated. In some instances, organizations were even told specifically that such ‘soft’ issues were not to be considered. Now, it seems that the pendulum has swung completely in the opposite direction. Organizations are encouraged and sometimes even required to consider safety culture contributions to performance problems and accidents/incidents. Few systematic methods exist to evaluate the contributions of safety culture to incident and accidents as part of a root cause analysis. This paper explores several questions related to the importance of safety culture and how it can be evaluated and changed for the betterment of the organization(s) involved. Some of the critical questions are: 1) How is it possible that safety culture has become so important in evaluating the performance of an organization? 2) Whether in terms of deficiencies or accident/incidents — can safety culture be reliably measured, particularly during a root cause analysis? 3) If it can be measured, how can it be changed? 4) Does organizational culture change have to take years to accomplish?

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Andaç, Faruk. "UN World Tourism Organization’s Contributions to World Tourism." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c05.00946.

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According to the UN World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) rules, this organization’s aim is to promote tourism through economic development, international understanding, peace, security, basic human rights and freedom, and to show respect throughout the world without exception of race, gender or religion. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) was founded in 1924 under the United Nations and it has been continuing its activities in Madrid, Spain since 1970. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) takes all necessary measures with tourism in order to achieve its goals. The UNWTO pays strict attention to the interests of developing countries in the field of tourism. For this reason, the UNWTO has a close relationship in the tourism field with the United Nations’ authorities and specialized institutions. It deals with the tourism problems of all countries and supports their contributions to tourism by international agreements. On the other hand, the UNWTO is cooperating with the United Nations Development Program and tries to contribute to the activities of this program. All countries are expected to be a member of the UNWTO and adopt its principles, because tourism will make it possible for them to increase National Income and Development. Macedonia hasn’t applied to be a member of this organization yet, but it is important to start the attempts immediately.

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Peres, Paula, Lino Oliveira, Angelo Jesus, and Armando Silva. "Designing learning paths: Contributions to the organization of b-learning initiatives." In 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/cisti.2017.7975727.

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Fahmy, Syahrul, Abdul Razak Hamdan, and Aziz Deraman. "IT in Education Organization: A Strategic Planning Approach." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2474.

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Information Technology (IT) has significant impacts to modern organizations especially in assisting daily operations and meeting business targets. Main contributions of IT to organizations are increased efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness. Non-profit organizations can also benefit as much as for-profit organizations from IT. Education Organizations (EOs) for example, would benefit in terms of effective management of assets, improved communication channels, management of education system changes and systematic dissemination of academic materials. This paper proposes an IT Strategic Planning (ITSP) framework for EOs in order to plan and manage IT-related resources. The framework comprises of five phases namely Strategic Direction, Analysis, Strategy, Implementation and Evaluation. End result of this process would be the ITSP Manual, a detailed documentation of the organization’s strategic direction, its environment and specific action plans to achieve business targets. This manual can be used in policy and decision-making activities.

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"Business Priorities Driving BYOD Adoption: A Case Study of a South African Financial Services Organization." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4284.

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[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16] Aim/Purpose: Bring your own device (BYOD) provides opportunities for both the organization and employees, but the adoption of BYOD also introduces risks. This case study of an organization’s BYOD program identifies key positive and negative influences on the adoption decision. Background: The consumerization of IT introduced the BYOD phenomenon into the enterprise environment. As mobile and Internet technologies improve employees are opting to use their personal devices to access organizational systems to perform their work tasks. Such devices include smartphones, tablets and laptop computers. Methodology: This research uses a case study approach to investigate how business priorities drive the adoption of BYOD and how resulting benefits and risks are realized and managed by the organization. Primary empirical data was collected using semi-structured interviews with 15 senior employees from a large South African financial services organization. Policy documents from the organization were analyzed as secondary data. Contribution: Thematic analysis of the data revealed six major themes: improving employee mobility; improving client service and experience; creating a competitive industry advantage; improving business processes; information security risks; and management best practices. Findings: The themes were analyzed using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, showing the key positive and negative influences on the adoption decision. Recommendations for Practitioners: Organizations need to clearly understand the reasons they want to introduce BYOD in their organizations. The conceptual framework can be applied by practitioners in their organizations to achieve their BYOD business objectives. Recommendations for Researchers: BYOD remains an important innovation for organizations with several aspects worthy of further study. The TOE framework presents a suitable lens for analysis, but other models should also be considered. Impact on Society: The findings show that organizations can use BYOD to improve client service, gain competitive advantage, and improve their processes using their digital devices and backend systems. The BYOD trend is thus not likely to go away anytime soon. Future Research: The applicability of findings should be validated across additional contexts. Additional models should also be used.

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George Saadé, Raafat, Harshjot Nijher, and Mahesh Chandra Sharma. "Why ERP Implementations Fail – A Grounded Research Study." In InSITE 2017: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Vietnam. Informing Science Institute, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3762.

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Aim/Purpose: A grounded research study to understand ERP implementation failure. This study was done in a United Nations agency. Background: An organization mid-size ERP system (AGRESSO) was implemented over a period of 6 years in a United Nations agency, under conditions of political pressures and limited budget. Methodology : Observations and quasi-structured interview method was used to collect the data. Contribution: ERP implementation success is still difficult to frame. This study looks at this problem in terms of the causes of failure. Moreover, ERP research studies are relatively few and dispersed, especially for the UN context – which to our knowledge has not been published. Findings: The major finding is that the political nature of the UN fosters a hierarchical culture that is detrimental for Information Systems implementation in general, excluding the end-user from the functional requirements engineering process. There seems to be a lack of vision and strategic direction for ERP implementation in the UN. The context of the UN makes the strategic direction the more difficult of formulate and implement. Recommendations for Practitioners: For the UN, a cultural paradigm shift is necessary whereby the end-user must be included in any information systems development and implementation initiative. End-user development (although not a new approach) needs to be adopted for the UN. Recommendation for Researchers: Information systems development and deployment studies for the UN should take front stage as it represents an underlying stream of high complexity on all research in the field. Understanding ERP implementation in the UN has the potential to enhance its success in all other industries. Impact on Society: Any progress of the UN impacts positively the whole world since 193 countries are members of the UN. As such, ERP implementation is primarily about increasing operational efficiencies, it and promises transparency with regards to the member states financial contributions. Future Research: More ERP implementation studies on the different types of UN organizations. Also studies that address appropriate ERP systems for the various types of UN organization do not exist. The UN provides many research opportunities as it is hardly being studied.

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Racine, Francois. "Contribution of planned built environments to city transformation: urban design practice in Montreal from 1956 to 2016." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.4809.

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Contributions to the literature on Canadian urbanism and, in particular, Canadian urban design, despite some notable exceptions, are relatively limited. The presentation explains from an urban form perspective the practice of urban design in Montreal from the mid-twentieth century onwards. The research seeks to interpret the development of urban design practice in Montreal by reviewing a representative sample of urban projects built over the past six decades. The urban projects are used to illustrate the different renewal strategies adopted, to understand how urban design ideology/ideas have changed over time in Montreal and how they have influenced the spatial organization, form, and aesthetic of the city. The principal theoretical and methodological contribution of the research is to develop a morphological framework to study and understand the physical-spatial mode of organization of planned built environments and to study their relationship to urban form (Racine 2016). The author uses this chronological investigation of the cases to reveal how each school of thoughts that has emerged in the discipline of urban design since its foundation in 1956 (Krieger, Saunders, 2009), has addressed the problems of modernist urban planning and to move the field of urban design thinking forward. The first results of our analysis show the importance of morphological and spatial relations between vernacular and planned built environments. The morphological issue of continuity of urban space is crucial to assure a certain level of urban equity between citizens and to assure the sustainability of the development of the city as a whole.

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Schlesinger, Dave. "Organizational Culture." In 2017 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2017-2247.

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Much has been said and written about the role culture plays in the safety performance of organizations across all industries. Understanding that accidents cannot simply be blamed on those directly at fault, this paper explores organizational culture and the part it has played in contributing to the cause of rail and other transportation accidents. This paper also discusses the pivotal role of organization leaders in setting cultural norms and priorities that either bolster or hinder safety. Structure, budget, mission statement, and values, which are established by leaders, all demonstrate the importance of safety to employees and others. At the same time, organizations focused on production run the very real risk of placing safety second. This is a particular concern with transportation providers who may be pressured to focus on performance and schedule adherence, at the cost of safety Recommendations for improvement of organizational culture are provided, with a focus on generally accepted best practices.

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Márquez-Ramos, Laura. "Bridging the gap between academic and policy-oriented activities in higher education institutions." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11168.

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There are three different types of activities performed in higher education institutions that, taken together, form the components of a trilemma in higher education. These include traditional academic activities (research and teaching), along with those that aim to transfer knowledge beyond academic research (policy-/industry-oriented activities). I argue that there are potential synergies across these three components that can be exploited to resolve this trilemma. This is illustrated in an augmented research value chain that introduces teaching and policy-/industry-oriented activities as phases that complement the research process. The interaction of the different phases in the research process contributes to the generation of new knowledge, increasing the value-added of the organization. This proposal relies on an application in an organizational unit specializing in international trade within an Australian university. Australia provides an interesting case study because research-intensive Australian universities are no longer evaluated purely in terms of their research quality, but also in terms of their transfer of knowledge and contributions beyond academic research. In this context, I conceptualize how to resolve the trilemma, and increase the feasibility of bridging the gap between academic and policy-/industry-oriented activities in higher education institutions.

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Neptune, Richard R., David J. Clark, and Steven A. Kautz. "Modular Control of Human Walking: A Modeling and Simulation Study." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-204166.

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Recent evidence suggests that performance of complex locomotor tasks such as walking may be accomplished using a simple underlying organization of co-active muscles, or “modules”, which have been assumed to be structured to perform task-specific biomechanical functions (e.g., to provide body support and forward propulsion). Modular organization has been shown to explain muscle activity across a wide range of walking speeds, levels of body weight support and other combined movement tasks (e.g., [1]). However, no study has explicitly tested whether the modules would actually produce the biomechanical functions associated with them or even produce a well-coordinated movement. The purpose of this study was to generate muscle-actuated forward dynamics simulations of normal healthy walking using muscle activation modules identified using nonnegative matrix factorization as the muscle control inputs to a) assess whether the modules are sufficient to produce well-coordinated walking, and b) identify the contributions of each module to the necessary biomechanical walking sub-tasks of body support, forward propulsion and leg swing. This analysis will critically assess the functional output of the previously identified modular organization of muscle activity in walking and investigate whether it provides a foundation for the neuromotor control of human locomotion.

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Reports on the topic "Contributions in organization"

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Aguilar Herrera, María Alejandra, and Alba Paula Granados Agüero. Inclusion of human, ethnic and gender rights in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Colombia and Peru (in Spanish). Rights and Resources Initiative, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/zltf9832.

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In December 2015, the Paris Agreement was adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Five years after the submission the NDC proposals and their initial implementation, signatory countries had to update and share the progress of their NDCs in 2020. This study carried out by Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad, ONAMIAP (National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru) and RRI analyzes the degree that human rights, women’s rights, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants are included in the NDCs of Colombia and Peru, as well as in the processes related to updating them.

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Wehner, M. F., J. S. Amthor, and K. G. Caldeira. Contribution to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/483364.

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Blasco, Andrea, Olivia Jung, Karim Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. Motivating Effort In Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w22189.

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Stawiski, Sarah, Stephen Jeong, and Heather Champion. Leadership Development Impact (LDI) Framework. Center for Creative Leadership, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35613/ccl.2020.2040.

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There is abundant evidence that leadership development leads to positive impact. But how do we define impact, and what factors should be considered when assessing the results of leadership development? Our comprehensive framework is specifically relevant to leadership development and defines four levels of impact (individual, group, organizational, and societal) as well as three factors that contribute to its effectiveness (leader characteristics, leadership solution, and context). Understanding the four levels will enable organizations to clarify the goals and purpose of their development initiatives and know where to focus measurement. Attending to the contributing factors can help organizations understand the results they are getting and take appropriate steps to maximize the impact of their development initiatives.

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Cheryl G. Burrell, Ph.D. The Contribution of Tissue Level Organization to Genomic Stability Following Low Dose/Low Dose Rate Gamma and Proton Irradiation. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1039942.

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Shen, B. W. Contribution of ankyrin-band 3 complexes to the organization and mechanical properties of the membrane skeleton of human erythrocyte. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10114973.

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Bouzon, Arlette. Comunicación en las organizaciones: contribuciones a las revistas académicas europeas/ Communication and organization: contribution to a review of de european academic lierature. Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-1-2011-01-09-28.

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Contreras Salamanca, Luz Briyid, and Yon Garzón Ávila. Generational Lagging of Dignitaries, Main Cause of Technological Gaps in Community Leaders. Analysis of Generation X and Boomers from the Technology Acceptance Model. Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22490/ecacen.4709.

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Community and neighborhood organizations are in the process of renewing the organizational culture, considering technological environments in the way of training, and advancing communally, being competitive in adaptation and learning, creating new solutions, promoting change, and altering the status quo, based on the advancement of technology over the last few years, currently applied in most organizations. The decisive factor is the ability of true leaders to appropriate the Technological Acceptance Model –TAM– principles, participating in programs and projects, adopting new technologies from the different actors involved, contributing to the welfare of each community. There is, however, a relative resistance to the use of technology as support in community management, due to the generational differences in leaders and dignitaries, according to collected reports in this study, in relation to the age range of dignitaries –Generation X and Baby Boomers predominate–. They present a challenge to digital inclusion with difficulties related to age, cognitive, sensory, difficulty in developing skills, and abilities required in Digital Technologies, necessary to face new scenarios post-pandemic and, in general, the need to use technological facilities.

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Wright, Kirsten. Collecting Plant Phenology Data In Imperiled Oregon White Oak Ecosystems: Analysis and Recommendations for Metro. Portland State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/mem.64.

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Highly imperiled Oregon white oak ecosystems are a regional conservation priority of numerous organizations, including Oregon Metro, a regional government serving over one million people in the Portland area. Previously dominant systems in the Pacific Northwest, upland prairie and oak woodlands are now experiencing significant threat, with only 2% remaining in the Willamette Valley in small fragments (Hulse et al. 2002). These fragments are of high conservation value because of the rich biodiversity they support, including rare and endemic species, such as Delphinium leucophaeum (Oregon Department of Agriculture, 2020). Since 2010, Metro scientists and volunteers have collected phenology data on approximately 140 species of forbs and graminoids in regional oak prairie and woodlands. Phenology is the study of life-stage events in plants and animals, such as budbreak and senescence in flowering plants, and widely acknowledged as a sensitive indicator of environmental change (Parmesan 2007). Indeed, shifts in plant phenology have been observed over the last few decades as a result of climate change (Parmesan 2006). In oak systems, these changes have profound implications for plant community composition and diversity, as well as trophic interactions and general ecosystem function (Willis 2008). While the original intent of Metro’s phenology data-collection was to track long-term phenology trends, limitations in data collection methods have made such analysis difficult. Rather, these data are currently used to inform seasonal management decisions on Metro properties, such as when to collect seed for propagation and when to spray herbicide to control invasive species. Metro is now interested in fine-tuning their data-collection methods to better capture long-term phenology trends to guide future conservation strategies. Addressing the regional and global conservation issues of our time will require unprecedented collaboration. Phenology data collected on Metro properties is not only an important asset for Metro’s conservation plan, but holds potential to support broader research on a larger scale. As a leader in urban conservation, Metro is poised to make a meaningful scientific contribution by sharing phenology data with regional and national organizations. Data-sharing will benefit the common goal of conservation and create avenues for collaboration with other scientists and conservation practitioners (Rosemartin 2013). In order to support Metro’s ongoing conservation efforts in Oregon white oak systems, I have implemented a three-part master’s project. Part one of the project examines Metro’s previously collected phenology data, providing descriptive statistics and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the methods by which the data were collected. Part two makes recommendations for improving future phenology data-collection methods, and includes recommendations for datasharing with regional and national organizations. Part three is a collection of scientific vouchers documenting key plant species in varying phases of phenology for Metro’s teaching herbarium. The purpose of these vouchers is to provide a visual tool for Metro staff and volunteers who rely on plant identification to carry out aspects of their job in plant conservation. Each component of this project addresses specific aspects of Metro’s conservation program, from day-to-day management concerns to long-term scientific inquiry.

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Price, Roz. Access to Climate Finance by Women and Marginalised Groups in the Global South. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.083.

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This paper examines the issue of management of climate finance in the Global South. It acknowledges the efforts made by the various stakeholders so far but seeks to advance a clarion call for a more inclusive and targeted approach in dealing with climate change. The authors highlight the limited role played by least developed countries and small island developing states in contributing to the conversation on climate change. The authors emphasize the need for enhancing the role of the most vulnerable countries, marginalized groups, and indigenous peoples in the management of climate change. This rapid review focusses on the access to the Green Climate Fund by local civil society organisations (CSOs), indigenous peoples, and women organizations within the Global South. The authors observe that there still exist barriers to climate finance by local actors in the Global South. The authors note the need for more significant engagement of all local actors and the need to devolve climate finance to the lowest level possible to the most vulnerable groups. Particularly, climate finance should take into consideration gender equality in any mitigation measures. The paper also highlights the benefits of engaging CSOs in the engagement of climate finance. The paper argues that local actors have the potential to deliver more targeted, context-relevant, and appropriate climate adaptation outcomes. This can be attributed to the growing movement for locally-led adaptation, a new paradigm where decisions over how, when, and where to adapt are led by communities and local actors. There is also a need to build capacities and strengthen institutions and organisations. Further, it is important to ensure transparency and equitable use and allocation of climate finance by all players.

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