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Raynard, Mia. "Deconstructing Complexity: Configurations of Institutional Complexity and Structural Hybridity." SAGE Publications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127016634639.
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This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three factors that contribute to the experience of complexity - namely, the extent to which the prescriptive demands of logics are incompatible, whether there is a settled or widely accepted prioritization of logics within the field, and the degree to which the jurisdictions of the logics overlap. The central thesis is that these "components" of complexity variously combine to produce four distinct institutional landscapes, each with differing implications for the challenges organizations face and for how they might respond. The article explores the situational relevance of an array of hybridizing responses and discusses their implications for organizational legitimacy and performance. It concludes by specifying the boundary conditions of the framework and highlighting fruitful directions for future scholarship.
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Ahmadsimab, Alireza. "From animosity to affinity : institutional complexity and resource dependence in cross sector partnerships." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ESEC0001.
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La présente thèse étudie comment certaines organisations parviennent à accorder des logiques institutionnelles différentes dans le contexte de partenariats intersectoriels. L’étude utilise des données longitudinales sur trois partenariats entre entreprise à but lucratif et entreprise à but non lucratif. Les partenariats étudiés s’attaquent à trois causes différentes : maladie infantile, éducation, et conditions de travail. Les données proviennent de sources multiples, notamment des entretiens approfondis, des sources telles que les archives organisationnelles, les rapports annuels, des rapports officiels sur des projets, et des contenus de médias sociaux. Le premier article décrit comment les logiques contradictoires d’un partenariat entre entreprise et ONG (organisation non gouvernementale) peuvent être réconciliées. Le deuxième article de cette thèse étudie le résultat de la confrontation des logiques institutionnelles des organisations engagées dans ces partenariats, et identifie deux scénarios : l’hybridation et la coexistence. L’article explore en outre la transformation des ONG d’organisations informelles en organisations plus formelles du fait de leur interaction avec les entreprises. Le troisième article analyse du point de vue théorique la combinaison des logiques institutionnelles au niveau de l’échange entre les partenaires. En prenant en compte 1) la tension entre les logiques institutionnelles, et 2) l’interdépendance résultant des échanges entre les organisations considérées, on aboutit à une typologie et des propositions qui prédisent les résultats de la confrontation. Globalement, cette thèse montre que la dynamique de réconciliation dans les situations de complexité institutionnelle peut être mieux comprise en observant comment les partenaires négocient la portée de leurs échanges dans le partenariat, et comment l’obtention des premiers résultats dans le cadre du partenariat influence les phases ultérieures de la collaboration. Les résultats de la recherche enrichissent la littérature sur les collaborations inter-organisationnelles ainsi que celle sur les logiques institutionnelles parce qu’ils soulignent l’importance de la dépendance des ressources dans l’interprétation de la complexité institutionnelleThis dissertation investigates how organizations reconcile different institutional logics in the development of cross sector partnerships. It is based on longitudinal data from three cases of partnership between firms and NPOs. These partnerships addressed three distinct sets of social challenges: childhood disease, education and labor force conditions. The data is collected from multiple sources, including in-depth interviews and archival material such as organizational records, annual reports, formal project reports, and social media content. The first essay explains how reconciliation between competing logics of partners can be achieved in a firm-NPO partnership. It focuses on the mechanisms that enable partnership to exist despite different institutional logics of partners. The second essay of this dissertation explores the outcome of competition between the institutional logics of the organizations involved in these partnerships and it identifies different scenarios, namely hybridization and co-existence, as the result of confrontation between different institutional logics of partners. It further explores the transformation of NPOs from informal entities into a more formally organized entity as a result of their interaction with firms. The third essay of this research theorizes the impact of institutional logics at the level of exchange between partners. Taking into account 1) the tension between institutional logics and 2) the interdependence of organizations resulting from their exchanges, it develops a typology and propositions predicting the outcomes of the confrontation. Overall, the findings of this study suggest that the dynamics of reconciliation in situations of institutional complexity can be better understood by examining how partners negotiate the scope of activities in their partnership, and by exploring how the development of valuable outcomes for both parties during the initial stages of the partnership impacts subsequent stages of the collaboration. The research findings contribute to the literatures on inter-organizational collaboration and institution logics by highlighting the role of resource dependence in understanding institutional complexity
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Kodeih, Farah. "Organizational and field-level responses to institutional complexity : The case of french Grandes Ecoles de Commerce." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011ESEC0002.
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Cette thèse cherche à mieux comprendre la manière dont les organisations font face à des logiques et attentes institutionnelles potentiellement contradictoires. Pour ce faire, la thèse étudie le cas des Grandes Ecoles de Commerce Françaises (GECF), qui font face depuis le milieu des années 1990 à une mondialisation croissante de l’enseignement supérieur en gestion. En raison de cette mondialisation, les GECF doivent gérer deux types de contraintes : d’une part, répondre aux exigences des organismes d’accréditations et des classements internationaux – qui véhiculent les standards du modèle de la business school (recherche, internationalisation, académisation) – et, d’autre part, préserver leur identité originelle et fondatrice, construite sur un modèle national, et qui constitue encore leur source de légitimité locale. Les problématiques générées par la présence de ces deux logiques institutionnelles dans le champ des GECF, nécessite de la part de ces dernières des arbitrages complexes, et une redéfinition de leur identité. En particulier, la thèse cherche à identifier les mécanismes entrepreneuriaux et identitaires à l’oeuvre dans les réponses des GECF aux pressions institutionnelles différentes et parfois contradictoires. Ecrite sous forme d’articles, la thèse s’intéresse aux origines des GECF et à l’émergence d’une logique institutionnelle propre, à la transformation de leurs pratiques et de leurs identités en réponse aux nouveaux standards internationaux et à l’incidence de ce processus sur les logiques institutionnelles présentes dans leur environnementThis dissertation explores how organizations cope with multiple and heterogeneous institutions, a situation recently referred to as ‘institutional complexity’. It is based on the study of French Business Schools, known as French Grandes Ecoles de Commerce (FGEC). Up until the mid 1990s, FGEC operated in a familiar and monolithic national institutional environment. Recent years have seen a rise in global standards for management education; a movement that has been particularly salient in Europe with the proliferation of MBAs, the development of accreditation and public ranking systems and the endorsement of the Bologna agreement in 1999, which aimed at developing a harmonized European higher education system. From that point onwards, FGEC have come under pressure to adapt to the growing internationalization of management education and adopt its dominant standards. While trying to redefine themselves as International Business Schools, FGEC continue to value their historical identity, which still forms the basis of their national legitimacy. This dissertation brings together a wide range of qualitative methods (participative observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary evidence), which are particularly suitable for understanding the social dynamics of institutional processes. The architecture of the dissertation goes from the micro to the macro level of analysis and combines three articles that should be considered together. The first article focuses on the case of one FGEC and explores how it attempted to promote an alternative definition of what an MBA program represents, by simultaneously combining the FGEC and the International Business School institutional logics. The second offers a comparative study of how four FGEC have interpreted and experienced the rising institutional complexity in their field, based on their identities. The third article offers a study of the FGEC population. It explores how and why FGEC emerged, established themselves as a particular form of management education, and developed by infusing practices from a competing logic, while remaining true to their traditional core
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Villani, Elisa <1983>. "Institutional Complexity and Technology Transfer: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5823/1/Villani_Elisa_tesi.pdf.
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This Doctoral Thesis unfolds into a collection of three distinct papers that share an interest in institutional theory and technology transfer. Taking into account that organizations are increasingly exposed to a multiplicity of demands and pressures, we aim to analyze what renders this situation of institutional complexity more or less difficult to manage for organizations, and what makes organizations more or less successful in responding to it. The three studies offer a novel contribution both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the first paper “The dimensions of organizational fields for understanding institutional complexity: A theoretical framework” is a theoretical contribution that tries to better understand the relationship between institutional complexity and fields by providing a framework. The second article “Beyond institutional complexity: The case of different organizational successes in confronting multiple institutional logics” is an empirical study which aims to explore the strategies that allow organizations facing multiple logics to respond more successfully to them. The third work “ How external support may mitigate the barriers to university-industry collaboration” is oriented towards practitioners and presents a case study about technology transfer in Italy.
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Villani, Elisa <1983>. "Institutional Complexity and Technology Transfer: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5823/.
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This Doctoral Thesis unfolds into a collection of three distinct papers that share an interest in institutional theory and technology transfer. Taking into account that organizations are increasingly exposed to a multiplicity of demands and pressures, we aim to analyze what renders this situation of institutional complexity more or less difficult to manage for organizations, and what makes organizations more or less successful in responding to it. The three studies offer a novel contribution both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the first paper “The dimensions of organizational fields for understanding institutional complexity: A theoretical framework” is a theoretical contribution that tries to better understand the relationship between institutional complexity and fields by providing a framework. The second article “Beyond institutional complexity: The case of different organizational successes in confronting multiple institutional logics” is an empirical study which aims to explore the strategies that allow organizations facing multiple logics to respond more successfully to them. The third work “ How external support may mitigate the barriers to university-industry collaboration” is oriented towards practitioners and presents a case study about technology transfer in Italy.
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Sundström, Oskar, and Vili Yrjänä. "Fotbollstränares syn på ledarskap - Att orientera sig i en skog av institutionell komplexitet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-122956.
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Sports clubs today are exposed to multiple, sometimes contradictory, forces and expectations. This study is about sports coaches and their problems with and experiences of multiple institutional logics in Swedish sports. The aim of the study was therefore to provide further knowledge about the relationship between sports coaches’ leadership and institutional complexity. The study focused on the context of football in northern Sweden. The research questions that were examined were about institutional pressures, legitimacy, institutional logics, sports clubs’ impact and coaches’ strategies to manage institutional complexity. The data was collected through the means of qualitative interviews with 12 active football coaches. The results showed that the football coaches experience multiple institutional pressures and legitimacy claims. The coaches engage with 4 different coexisting institutional logics depending on the situation. Despite the fact that the institutional complexity is institutionalized in the context, it is sometimes viewed as problematic due to lack of control and support by the sports clubs. This indicated that the coaches are relatively autonomous and free to plan the activities as they wish and pursue the goals they see appropriate. Furthermore, the sports clubs have an important role in helping the coaches manage the institutional complexity and provide guidelines.
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Luangsomboon, Natnipha. "Institutional complexity in Thai state-owned enterprises : the implementation of performance measurement systems." Thesis, Aston University, 2016. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/28785/.
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This study explores institutional complexity in Thai State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). In doing so, a qualitative approach has been employed in this study in order to identify institutional logics in the field of Thai SOEs and to understand organisational and individual perceptions of institutional complexity in the implementation of performance measurement systems (PMS) and how they respond to the complexity. To achieve this goal, two Thai SOEs were studied, both of which faced challenges in the implementation of Economic Value Management (EVM) and Balance Scorecard (BSC) as well as difficulties in linking their individual BSC and incentive systems. The qualitative data were collected from semi-structured interviews and document reviews. The empirical aspects of this study reveal that the institutional logics in the field of Thai SOEs are the logic of bureaucracy, commercial operations, social activities, seniority and unity. Regarding the multiple institutional logics embedded, SOEs experienced the institutional complexity in the implementation of PMS. The results suggest that the organisations have decoupled the EVM and loosely coupled the BSC from organisational practices to cope with institutional complexity and conflict institutional demands. Also, the evidence shows that the institutional logics influence SOEs’ actions towards resisting changes incentive systems and the relationship between individual BSC and incentives.
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Raonic, Ivana. "The timelines of income recognition by European companies : an analysis of institutional complexity." Thesis, Bangor University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401974.
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Meyer, Renate, and Markus Höllerer. "Laying a smoke screen: Ambiguity and neutralization as strategic responses to intra-institutional complexity." SAGE Publications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127016633335.
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Our research contributes to knowledge on strategic organizational responses by addressing a specific type of
institutional complexity that has, to date, been rather neglected in scholarly inquiry: conflicting institutional
demands that arise within the same institutional order. We suggest referring to such type of complexity as
"intra-institutional" - as opposed to "inter-institutional." Empirically, we examine the consecutive spread of two management concepts - shareholder value and corporate social responsibility - among Austrian listed
corporations around the turn of the millennium. Our work presents evidence that in institutionally complex
situations, the concepts used by organizations to respond to competing demands and belief systems are interlinked and coupled through multiwave diffusion. We point to the open, chameleon-like character of some concepts that makes them particularly attractive for discursive adoption in such situations and conclude that organizations regularly respond to institutional complexity by resorting to discursive neutralization techniques and strategically producing ambiguity. (authors' abstract)
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Anders, Viking. "Institutional complexity in Swedish built environment regulation : exploring the interface with industrialized house-building." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Industriellt och hållbart byggande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-66215.
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The industrialized house-building movement has emerged as aresponse to recurring criticism of the construction sector. It seeks toemulate management practices prevalent in manufacturing industries,including the use of standardized work processes and building systems.This approach does, however, make industrialized house-buildingcontractors susceptible to unpredictable variations. Swedish localplanning authorities have a legal and democratic mandate to regulatethe built environment within its borders and views variations betweendifferent municipalities as a desirable consequence of a functional localdemocratic system. Meanwhile, industrialized house-buildingcontractors have highlighted variations in regulation of the builtenvironment as obstructive to their intended methods of managing thebuilding process. The aim of this thesis is to increase understanding ofhow local planning authorities make interpretations when regulatingthe built environment and how those interpretations influenceindustrialized house-building contractors and to, within the ongoingresearch process, identify theoretical perspectives suitable for describingtensions in the interface between industrialized house-building andlocal planning authorities. The theoretical frame of reference for thisthesis consists of two major streams of organizational literature:organizational coordination, operationalized though the concept ofcoordination mechanisms, and neo-institutional theory, operationalizedthrough institutional logics and institutional complexity. Theoverarching research strategy is best described as a case study approachinvestigating cases of institutional complexity in regulation of theSwedish built environment. The design consists of one multi-casestudy relying on interviews with representatives of industrializedhouse-building contractors and local planning authorities and onesingle-case study investigating a longitudinal land development processusing a combination of interviews, direct observations and documentanalysis. Findings indicate that local planning authorities faceinstitutional complexity stemming from three semi-compatibleinstitutional logics that each prescribe different roles for planningpractitioners and expectations for their behaviour. As some planningpractitioners are more attuned to particular logics than others, it is difficult to predict, for each given situation, which logic will beactivated. Furthermore, findings indicate that institutional logics can beviewed as coordination mechanisms, thereby highlighting afundamental tension between the coordination preferences ofindustrialized house-building contractors and local planning authorities.This tension causes a lack of accountability, predictability and commonunderstanding resulting in an inability for industrialized house-buildingcontractors and local planning authorities to coordinate theircontributions in the planning and building process. The findings implythat industrialized house-building contractors and local planningauthorities should attempt to acknowledge each other’s participation inand contributions to the planning and building process. The findingsalso highlight the importance of interpretations for regulation of thebuilt environment, which implies that not all sector-wide problems canor need be solved through legislative action.
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Wang, Yu-Kai. "The Impact of Institutional Complexity and Top Management Characteristics on Executive Compensation and Firm Performance." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/427.
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While most studies take a dyadic view when examining the environmental difference between the home country of a multinational enterprise (MNE) and a particular foreign country, they ignore that an MNE is managing a network of subsidiaries embedded in diverse environments. Additionally, neither the impacts of global environments on top executives nor the effects of top executives’ capabilities to handle institutional complexity are fully explored. Thus, using a three-essay format, this dissertation tried to fill these gaps by addressing the effects of institutional complexity and top management characteristics on top executive compensation and firm performance.
Essay 1 investigated the impact of an MNE’s institutional complexity, or the diversity of national institutions facing an MNE’s network of subsidiaries, on the top management team (TMT) compensation. This essay proposed that greater political and cultural complexity leads to not only greater TMT total compensation but also to a greater portion of TMT compensation linked with long-term performance. The arguments are supported in this essay by using an unbalanced panel dataset including 296 U.S. firms with 1,340 observations.
Essay 2 explored TMT social capital and its moderating role on value creation and appropriation by the chief executive officer (CEO). Using a sample with 548 U.S. firms and 2,010 observations, it found that greater TMT social capital does facilitate the effects of CEO intellectual capital and social capital on firm growth. Finally, essay 3 examined the performance implications for the fit between managerial information-processing capabilities and institutional complexity. It proposed that institutional complexity is associated with the needs of information-processing. On the other hand, smaller TMT turnover and larger TMT size reflect larger managerial information-processing capabilities. Consequently, superior performance is achieved by the match among institutional complexity, TMT turnover, and TMT size. All hypotheses in essay 3 are supported in a sample of 301 U.S. firms and 1,404 observations.
To conclude, this dissertation advances and extends our knowledge on the roles of institutional environments and top executives on firm performance and top executive compensation.
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PILATO, VIVIANA. "THE DEPLOYMENT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: FROM INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY TO STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/35760.
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La letteratura di business internazionale fornisce la prova convincente della diffusione globale di pratiche di responsabilità sociale delle imprese (RSI) e l'importante ruolo svolto dalle multinazionali (MNC) nel trasferimento di pratiche di RSI alle loro controllate estere. La tesi esplora la gestione di strategie di RSI da società controllate di MNC, spiegando il meccanismo che permette loro di bilanciare le pressioni istituzionali divergenti. Questo fenomeno è noto come ‘complessità istituzionale’, derivante dai molteplici ed eterogenee forze istituzionali a cui le controllate di multinazionali e le loro sedi sono esposte in relazione all'adozione di pratiche di RSI. Attingendo alla letteratura su RSI e teoria istituzionale, il primo articolo della tesi sviluppa un framework concettuale e un set di proposizioni da testare per studi futuri, attraverso un approccio configurazionale. Il secondo articolo della tesi esamina come le filiali di MNC gestiscono le pressioni, le barriere e i mezzi che affrontano durante la distribuzione delle loro attività di RSI in cinque paesi africani (Angola, Egitto, Ghana, Kenya e Sud Africa), attraverso 33 interviste, permettendoci di catturare alcuni modelli di variazione nella distribuzione di pratiche di RSI all'interno dei paesi in via di sviluppo. Il terzo documento della tesi analizza le pratiche di dialogo realizzate da 418 società quotate all'indice FTSE4Good in Europa, Nord America e Asia.The international business literature provides compelling evidence for the global diffusions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and the important role played by Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in transfer of CSR practices to their foreign subsidiaries. The thesis explores the management of CSR strategies by MNCs’ subsidiaries, by explaining the mechanism that allows them to balance divergent institutional pressures. This phenomenon is known as ‘institutional complexity’, resulting from the multiple and heterogeneous institutional forces to which MNCs’ subsidiaries and their headquarters are exposed in relation to the adoption of CSR practices. Drawing on CSR literature and institutional theory, the first paper of the thesis develops a conceptual framework and a set of propositions to be tested for future studies, through a configurational approach. The second paper examines how the MNCs’ subsidiaries manage the pressures, the barriers and the enablers they face when deploying their CSR activities in five African countries (Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa), through 33 interviews, allowing us to capture some patterns of variations in CSR deployment within developing countries. The third paper analyses the stakeholder dialogue practices realized by 418 companies listed in the FTSE4Good index in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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PILATO, VIVIANA. "THE DEPLOYMENT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: FROM INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY TO STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/35760.
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La letteratura di business internazionale fornisce la prova convincente della diffusione globale di pratiche di responsabilità sociale delle imprese (RSI) e l'importante ruolo svolto dalle multinazionali (MNC) nel trasferimento di pratiche di RSI alle loro controllate estere. La tesi esplora la gestione di strategie di RSI da società controllate di MNC, spiegando il meccanismo che permette loro di bilanciare le pressioni istituzionali divergenti. Questo fenomeno è noto come ‘complessità istituzionale’, derivante dai molteplici ed eterogenee forze istituzionali a cui le controllate di multinazionali e le loro sedi sono esposte in relazione all'adozione di pratiche di RSI. Attingendo alla letteratura su RSI e teoria istituzionale, il primo articolo della tesi sviluppa un framework concettuale e un set di proposizioni da testare per studi futuri, attraverso un approccio configurazionale. Il secondo articolo della tesi esamina come le filiali di MNC gestiscono le pressioni, le barriere e i mezzi che affrontano durante la distribuzione delle loro attività di RSI in cinque paesi africani (Angola, Egitto, Ghana, Kenya e Sud Africa), attraverso 33 interviste, permettendoci di catturare alcuni modelli di variazione nella distribuzione di pratiche di RSI all'interno dei paesi in via di sviluppo. Il terzo documento della tesi analizza le pratiche di dialogo realizzate da 418 società quotate all'indice FTSE4Good in Europa, Nord America e Asia.The international business literature provides compelling evidence for the global diffusions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and the important role played by Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in transfer of CSR practices to their foreign subsidiaries. The thesis explores the management of CSR strategies by MNCs’ subsidiaries, by explaining the mechanism that allows them to balance divergent institutional pressures. This phenomenon is known as ‘institutional complexity’, resulting from the multiple and heterogeneous institutional forces to which MNCs’ subsidiaries and their headquarters are exposed in relation to the adoption of CSR practices. Drawing on CSR literature and institutional theory, the first paper of the thesis develops a conceptual framework and a set of propositions to be tested for future studies, through a configurational approach. The second paper examines how the MNCs’ subsidiaries manage the pressures, the barriers and the enablers they face when deploying their CSR activities in five African countries (Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa), through 33 interviews, allowing us to capture some patterns of variations in CSR deployment within developing countries. The third paper analyses the stakeholder dialogue practices realized by 418 companies listed in the FTSE4Good index in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Unites, Becky. "THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ENGLISH-MEDIUM INSTRUCTION (EMI) REFORM CONCEPT IN THREE NORTHERN EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/epe_etds/21.
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This study examines university English-medium Instruction (EMI) reform implementation approaches from a comparative organizational perspective. Over the last decade, the number of master’s degree programs instructed exclusively in English in non-Anglophone Europe increased dramatically. Europe is an interesting case as it actively promotes multilingual learning; however, many European policies over the last twenty years accelerated the rise of monolingual EMI reforms, especially at the graduate-level. The purpose of this exploratory study is to contribute to our understanding of how widespread EMI reforms impact structures and behaviors at the organizational level in European universities in ways that respond to the organization’s embedded policy contexts.
This research aims to advance our understandings of comparative EMI reforms and also, drawing on the concepts of neoinstitutional theory, develop our knowledge of how these processes might be theorized and expanded. I combine the theoretical frames of translation and institutional logics to analyze empirical case studies of the implementation of the EMI reform concept in three Northern European universities in leading EMI provider countries: the University of Oslo in Norway, the University of Göttingen in Germany, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The theoretical concept of institutional complexity is used to analyze the contending tensions universities confront when deciding the best way to design and implement EMI reforms.
The three-axis comparative framework developed in this study represents a novel approach to examining variations in EMI reform implementation. Variations in organizational EMI implementation approaches (collegial, targeted, and market) are understood by analyzing comparatively how the three universities interpreted axial tensions between institutional logics for the best way to organize their EMI reform approaches: for academic or economic purposes; cooperative or competitive purposes; and local or global purposes. This comparative case study underscores the importance of examining a university’s embedded environment (both European and local levels) to understand university response to widespread EMI reform trends and highlights the significance of contextual dynamics to European EMI program development policy. The study concludes with policy recommendations and future directions.
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Smiech, Teissandier Magdalena. "Internationalization of small firms : influence of institutional logics and firms' responses to institutional complexity : case of subcontracting SMEs in the space industry in France." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU10041.
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Le résumé en français n'a pas été communiqué par l'auteurOur thesis has for purpose to explain how subcontracting SMEs evolving in changing and globalized space industry respond to institutional complexity whilst going international. We refer to the literature on SMEs’ internationalization: processual approaches, International Entrepreneurship, research investigating more specifically subcontracting firms and their modes of internationalization, as well to institutional logics perspective. We conducted a single-embedded qualitative case study in the space industry in France with five subcontracting SMEs, carried out 4 open-ended interviews, 35 semi-structured interviews, took part in 2 international events and 3 professional meetings and analyzed 830 pages of field material related to the space industry. Our analysis shows that social actors involved in space activities and SMEs perceive two institutional logics: Space as National Pride and Space as Global. These both logics drive institutional change which creates institutional uncertainty and institutional disequilibrium between French and international markets. Despite the same changing context, the five SMEs adapt different strategies reflected in different patterns of internationalization. We suggest that this variation may be explain by each SME’s receptivity to institutional change and more particularly by the meaning associated to the impact of change on firms’ activities perceived as: either local threat, status quo, ambiguity, international threat, or potential growth. Furthermore, we suggest that receptivity to institutional change and more particularly the attitude associated to the French space industry, with namely: loyalty to one big contractor, inconsistency, historical ties, new dynamic needed, and detachment may contribute to reinforce the type of strategy and to shape patterns of internationalization
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Fritiofsson, Malin, and Anna Olofsson. "Marknadsföring inom den kommunala gymnasieskolan : En fallstudie om institutionell komplexitet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139046.
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Bakgrund: Sedan slutet av 1980 - talet har skolmarknaden genomgått stora förändringar i och med konkurrensutsättningen, kommunaliseringen av skolan, friskolereformen och det fria skolvalet. Från att tidigare endast varit en del av den offentliga logiken har den kommunala gymnasieskolan nu även blivit en del av marknadslogiken vilket har medfört ett ökat behov för skolan att marknadsföra sin verksamhet. Att kombinera två institutionella logiker kan ge upphov till institutionell komplexitet vilken är viktig för organisationer att förstå och hantera för att på så sätt kunna överleva på marknaden. Syfte: Syftet med denna undersökning är att bidra med ökad kunskap om hur den institutionella komplexiteten tar sig uttryck i marknadsföringsarbetet i den kommunala gymnasieskolans kontext. Genomförande: Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i det fenomenologiska perspektivet och är en kvalitativ enfallsstudie med ett iterativt angreppssätt. Studiens urval består av fem strategiskt utvalda respondenter inom den valda fallorganisationen och data har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Slutsats: Den institutionella komplexiteteten tar sig uttryck i marknadsföringsarbetet genom att den skapar utmaningar som uppvisas i organisationens interna dynamiker missnöje, gemensamma värderingar, maktförhållanden och handlingsförmåga. Organisationen hanterar dessa utmaningar till en viss grad, men för att ytterligare minska den institutionella komplexiteten måste organisationen inse och acceptera de konkurrerande logikernas samexistens. En prioritering av logikerna behöver göras för att därefter forma en marknadsföringsstrategi och därmed agera proaktivt. En vidare rekommendation är att anställa ytterligare en resurs till att enbart arbeta med marknadsföring för att på så sätt även kunna minska den institutionella komplexiteten.Background: Since the end of the 1980s, the school market has undergone major changes in the face of competition, the municipalization, the reform of the private schools and the free choice of school. Before the reforms, the public school has only been a part of the public institutional logic but is now also a part of the market institutional logic which has lead to an increased need for the public school to market their business. Combining two institutional logics may lead to institutional complexity which is important for the organization to understand and manage in order to survive. Aim: The aim of the study is to contribute to an increased knowledge of how the institutional complexity is expressed in the markering within the public school context. Completion: The study takes its starting point in a phenomenological perspective and is a qualitative single case study with an iterative approach. The study´s sample consists of five strategically selected respondents within the chosen case organization and data has been collected through semi structured interviews. Conclusion: The insitutional complexity is expressed through the marketing and challanges are perceived in the internal dynamics of the organisation which are interest dissatisfaction, value commitment, shared values and power dependencies. The challenges are handled by the orgaisation to a certain extent, but in order to further reduce the institutional complexity, the organization has to realize and accept the competing institutional logics coexistence. A priorititazion between the logics must be made so that a strategy can be fomulated which will help the organization to act in a more proactive way. Further, a recommendation to hire a person responsible for marketing is given in order to reduce the institutional complexity, institutional confusion anc enabling a proactive way of working.
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Moss, Cowan Amanda. "Sea change : a sensemaking perspective on competing institutional logics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9908f689-1de6-4562-9795-61cd00626d6d.
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In recent years, institutional theorists have been increasingly interested in institutional change, seeking to understand the contextual factors and agents responsible for alterations to existing institutional arrangements. Institutional theory’s historical focus on isomorphism has made it challenging to account for actors’ motivations to pursue change projects. It is generally believed, though, that agents are mobilized through exposure to multiple institutional logics. Recently, scholars have begun to recognize that competition among multiple logics may not quickly produce a ‘winning logic’; rather, such logics may co-exist for prolonged periods in a context of ‘institutional complexity’. The turn toward institutional complexity reveals that preoccupation with the ‘paradox of embedded agency’ has left the development of change projects themselves under-theorized: What happens when organizational actors must interpret puzzling institutional contexts and generate alternatives? In seeking to understand organizational actors’ efforts to cope with conflicting logics in a context of scientific uncertainty, this study aligns with this growing interest in institutional complexity. Drawing on concepts from sensemaking theory, this research illuminates how actors with divergent interests, enacting their organizational roles, cope with competing logics and interact around a change project that emerges as a result of their efforts at coping. It thus contributes to institutionalist understandings of institutional complexity and change and adds to an emerging body of research linking institutional theory and sensemaking. The empirical setting for this single-case study is the ‘sustainable seafood’ discourse that began in the early 1990s when the cod collapsed off North America’s eastern seaboard. Prolonged scientific uncertainty regarding the collapse made generation of preferred alternatives problematic; this resulted in lengthy sensemaking efforts by multiple stakeholder groups, drawing on different institutional logics to produce divergent and competing interpretations and action scripts. Tracing the evolution of this discourse through documents, observations, and interviews empirically reveals processes of interrelated sensemaking, and further, exposes sensegivers as bricoleurs who use institutional elements creatively to affect the sensemaking of others.
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Wäckerle, Manuel, Bernhard Rengs, and Wolfgang Radax. "An Agent-Based Model of Institutional Life-Cycles." MDPI, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/g5030160.
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We use an agent-based model to investigate the interdependent dynamics
between individual agency and emergent socioeconomic structure, leading to institutional
change in a generic way. Our model simulates the emergence and exit of institutional
units, understood as generic governed social structures. We show how endogenized trust
and exogenously given leader authority influences institutional change, i.e., diversity in
institutional life-cycles. It turns out that these governed institutions (de)structure in cyclical
patterns dependent on the overall evolution of trust in the artificial society, while at the same
time, influencing this evolution by supporting social learning. Simulation results indicate
three scenarios of institutional life-cycles. Institutions may, (1) build up very fast and
freeze the artificial society in a stable but fearful pattern (ordered system); (2) exist only for
a short time, leading to a very trusty society (highly fluctuating system); and (3) structure
in cyclical patterns over time and support social learning due to cumulative causation of
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Ju, Chuanjing, and 鞠傳靜. "A study of institutional complexity and contractors' safety management strategies / y Chuanjing Ju (BEng., Msc, Chongqing University)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212608.
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While prior studies have examined the influence of environmental factors (e.g. regulatory, market, and socio-cultural environment) on construction safety accidents, the explanations offered remain piecemeal and the environmental factors are largely treated as given and immutable. In reality, the external environment is dynamic and continuously evolving. Contractors are subject to regulatory, market and socio-cultural segments of environment simultaneously. However, there has to date been little apparent effort to systematically investigate: 1) what are the pressures or expectations faced by contractors that operate in the broader context? And 2) how do contractors typically adapt to these pressures and expectations?
Drawing on the institutional theory, this study aims to investigate how contractors experience and respond to the complex safety demands in their surrounding institutional environment. Institutional theory is borrowed because 1) the broad definition of institutions encompasses a wide range of environmental factors; and 2) it informs the mechanisms of how organisations are shaped by and strategically respond to institutional pressures. Given that the institutional theory in safety research is still nascent, lacking well-established constructs and casual relationships, a qualitative research strategy was employed, comprising three interlinked components: archival and documentary data analysis; case study; and semi-structured interviews.
At the first step, the documentary and archival data analysis was conducted to establish a holistic view of the institutional environment faced by construction companies. Based on the documentary and archival data, this study developed a concept of construction safety-defined organisational field and provided a historical overview of the control and coordination mechanisms of the field. It is found that the field has undergone four stages: early days, the embryonic stage, golden time and the transition stage.
An exploratory case study at the second step aimed at exploring whether site safety practices could be interpreted from an institutional theory perspective, and if it does, how? Safety practice data were obtained from 62 open-ended interviews and project archives. The institutional perspective was proved insightful in understanding contractors’ safety practices. The findings showed that the complex institutional environment, especially the incompatible progress and safety requirements, was a key determinant of mixed site safety practices.
With the insights obtained from the documentary analysis and case study, semi-structured interviews were lastly carried out to investigate: 1) the specific institutional demands imposed on contractors regarding site safety; and 2) how contractors respond to the complex institutional demands. 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The data analysis follows the logic of abduction. By travelling back and forth between extant institutional theory literature and empirical evidence, the research findings were gradually formed.
It is found that contractors face four categories of institutional demands comprising: 1) legislations and enforcement; 2) clients’ requirements; 3) construction companies’ internal requirements; and 4) field-level voluntary safety programmes. The results also showed that site safety is guided by two intertwining logics: the prescriptive logic and the performance-based logic. These two logics work collectively to improve site safety.
Five patterns of institutional complexity were identified residing in the complex institutional environment. These are: 1) inconsistent regulatory demands; 2) regulatory uncertainty and rigidity; 3) redundant institutional demands from field actors; 4) conflict between safety demands and production efficiency; and 5) disparate values and beliefs about safety and the ways to achieve safety. Contractor’s experience of institutional pressures and general safety management strategies depend on construction companies’ field positions (i.e., central and peripheral). The level of institutional complexity experienced by contractors is moderated by project structure and governance. It is found that contractors would adopt a series of strategic responses, such as concealment, buffering, imitation and influence, to cope with those five patterns of institutional complexity.
This study extends the existing safety research to an institutional domain. The organisational field perspective adds a new dimension to explain safety management actions or structures of construction companies. Practical implications are also provided for policy-makers, clients and construction companies.published_or_final_version
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Rozenfeld, Gabriela Cecylia. "The formation of an inter-organisational network and inter-organisational management controls under conditions of institutional complexity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7865/.
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The overarching aim of this study is to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of multiple institutional logics on the formation and maintenance of public-private (mixed-type) inter-organisational networks (hereafter IONs), in which various inter-organisational relations (hereafter IORs) of a focal organisation are embedded. This study seeks to understand how multiple logics shape the inter-organisational management controls (IOMCs) which are deployed by a focal organisation to manage, control and coordinate its numerous IORs. In doing so, the institutional logics approach, in conjunction with a ‘whole network’ perspective, is deployed and an explanatory case study design is adopted. An investment portfolio of a public pension fund, which is a hybrid organisation operating under conditions of institutional complexity, is used as an illustrative case of an ION. Investment portfolios, composed of various investments and IORs, are engines of the ION’s evolution. However, due to the limited number of studies on IONs, our knowledge about how IONs emerge and are sustained in practice is very limited. The originality of the present research is threefold. Firstly, this thesis contributes to the developing body of management accounting literature on IOMCs in mixed-type IORs and IONs. Secondly, it provides insights into to the emerging body of literature deploying the institutional logics approach to explain the peculiarities of different management controls used by various organisations in in-situ contexts. Lastly, it expands our understanding of the impact of the institutional realm of developing countries on IORs, IONs, and the IOMCs deployed within them; thereby contributing to the limited management accounting research undertaken in such environments.
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REIS, ADRIANA GRAY DA SILVA. "INTERACTIONAL COMPLEXITY IN THE RESERVATION CENTER OF AN AIRLINE COMPANY: FRAMES, FOOTINGS, AND CONVERSATIONAL SEQUENCES IN AN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5503@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRONeste estudo, são analisados encontros de serviço desempenhados na central de reservas por telefone de uma companhia aérea brasileira. A análise realiza-se com base no arcabouço teórico da Sociolingüística Interacional em relação de interface com a Análise da Conversa. As interações foram coletadas no âmbito de uma metodologia de pesquisa etnográfica. Focaliza-se a manifestação de diferentes dinâmicas de enquadres e alinhamentos bem como a variação nos padrões de organização e construção de turnos de fala. Procura-se mostrar que esses aspectos (i) estão relacionados a diferentes tipos de atendimento e (ii) refletem uma realidade interacional complexa na central de reservas estudada. Tais fatos, conseqüentemente, dificultam a elaboração prévia de comportamento lingüístico na central de reservas, bem como o gerenciamento e controle desse comportamento através da prescrição de scripts de atendimento a clientes.
This study analyzes service encounters held through the telephone in the reservation center of a Brazilian airline company. The analysis was conducted based on the Interactional Sociolinguistics framework interfaced with Conversational Analysis and the data collection was ethnographically oriented. Different dynamics of frames and footings are looked at, as well as the variation in organizational patterns and construction of discourse turns. This study aims to show that these aspects (i) are related to different kinds of attendance, (ii) reflect a complex interactional reality within the reservation center. Thus, these aspects make difficult the management process and as well as the previous control of sequences of linguistic behavior suggested by attendance scripts to clients.
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Schliemann, Marvin. "Implications of Logic Multiplicity During Early Phases of Competence Center Formation : A Case Study of 3D Printing in Life Sciences." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412959.
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Great challenges often require the combined strength of various actors. Especially in areas that are shaped by fast technological development such as the application of additive manufacturing (AM) in life sciences, the interplay of different fields of expertise, including experts from industry, academia and government, is needed. While the collaboration of diverse actors can constitute a vast potential for innovations, it also entails a major challenge to negotiate among diverse individual interest, backgrounds, beliefs, and value systems. One field of research that can help to understand the consequences of such differences in the interests and beliefs in organizational settings is the institutional logics perspective. Institutional logics account for broader institutional value systems that guide actors’ cognition and actions. When organizations embody multiple logics, scholars speak of logic multiplicity. However, the consequences for organizational functioning that arise from logic multiplicity are still discussed among scholars, ranging from an enhanced innovativeness, to an increased conflict potential and organizational dismiss. In order to better understand logic interaction and its implications for organizational functioning, an embedded-case study was conducted. The embedded-case study focused on AddLife at Uppsala University, a competence center in its early phases of formation which is concerned with the advancement of applications of AM in life sciences. Based on semi-structured interviews and documentational data, three different logics were captured for three main stakeholder groups in AddLife. Further, the interaction of these logics during the early phases of competence center formation was analyzed, corroborating the role of logic compatibility (whether logics imply consistent goals). This study’s findings suggest that common goals have been found in AddLife, but some differences regarding the different logics’ implied goals remain, stressing the role of active mediation. Further, the study suggests that building strong intra-organizational ties is pivotal during the early phases of competence center formation, proposing a framework that encompasses three main approaches to build such ties. The first approach is to create a sense of community, including to reinforce synergies, to ensure engagement, and to connect projects. The second approach is to establish an open communication flow which comprises to clarify roles, to encourage asking questions, and to match expectations. Finally, the third approach is to organize personal meetings in order to establish relationships in the first place and to enable discussions.
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Al, Hashemi Hamed. "Pathways to diversification." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11694.
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A fundamental research question in regional economic development, is why some regions are able to diversify into new products and industries, while others continue to face challenges in diversification? This doctorate research explores the different pathways to diversification. It follows the three-stage modular structure of DBA for Cranfield School of Management. This thesis consists of a systematic literature review, a single qualitative case study on UAE, and a research synthesis of published cases on Singapore, Norway and UAE. The linking document provides a summary of the three projects and consolidates findings and contributions into a path creation model that provides new understanding on the pathways to regional diversifications.
This research integrates existing theoretical foundations of evolutionary economic geography, institutional economic geography, path dependence, industry relatedness, economic complexity, and path creation into a unified conceptual path creation model. It generates propositions, builds a framework and develops a matrix for path creation that integrate context, actors, factors, mechanisms and outcomes shaping regional diversification. It finds that in the context of path dependence and existing conditions of a region, economic actors undertake strategic measures to influence the institutional capabilities to accumulate knowledge and trigger indigenous creation, anchoring, branching, and clustering diversification mechanisms to create complex varieties of related and unrelated diversification outcomes. The institutional collaboration capabilities are found to be instrumental in accumulating knowledge and determining the relatedness and complexity of diversification outcomes. This research further provides a set of integrated platform strategies to guide policy-makers on setting up the pathways to regional diversification.
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Judd, Joshua Scott. "Auditor Industry Specialization and Revenue Manipulation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/577330.
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While the effect of auditor industry specialization is well documented in prior literature, it is unclear under what conditions or for which type of firms an auditor's industry expertise matters. I hypothesize that industry specialist auditors will provide higher quality audits in settings where the likelihood of revenue manipulation is greater. I use a firm's manipulation of revenues to measure audit quality because the revenue account is significant, requires in-depth industry specific knowledge, and is subject to frequent manipulation. The results suggest that the impact of industry specialists is concentrated among firms with complex revenue recognition standards, high growth, and low institutional monitoring. Overall, my findings highlight the importance for regulators, auditors, clients, and investors to consider the circumstances in which industry expertise improves the quality of an audit.
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Dreyling, Justus [Verfasser]. "Regulatory Reform under Conditions of Regime Complexity : Weak Actors and Institutional Opportunity Structures in the Global Governance of Intellectual Property / Justus Dreyling." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1214641369/34.
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FORLIANO, Canio. "The role of system dynamics to unveil the complexity of academic missions. An integrated approach for entrepreneurial universities’ performance evaluation and management." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10447/580154.
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The third mission concept implies that universities are expected to perform several diversified activities besides teaching (first mission) and scientific research (second mission). Third mission efforts may include activities such as knowledge dissemination, technological innovation, social innovation, advisory services, or entrepreneurship. Through third mission activities, universities engage in sustainable, inclusive development and/or territorial competitiveness by interacting with a wide range of subjects far beyond their students and reference scientific communities. The third mission’s activities vary a lot according to the specific characteristics of each university, the territory in which it is located, and the intricate nature of the relations with the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems’ actors. Since these missions can be reciprocally complementary or conflicting, they can result in paradoxical tensions and competition around allocating key resources and leveraging specific drivers to enhance universities’ performance.
Both the management literature and national and international ranking agencies have made huge efforts to build effective performance measurement systems. However, there are still no shared frameworks that can effectively overcome the above-mentioned difficulties and solve the possible tensions that can exist at various organisational levels. By considering how those organisations respond to logics' multiplicity, this research project primarily aims to advance a conceptual model for evaluating and managing the performance of entrepreneurial universities and the role they can play in contributing to the development of modern complex, dynamic, and knowledge-intensive societies.
To achieve these objectives, the relevant literature regarding entrepreneurial universities’ role and impact is analysed in the first phase. To do so, a bibliometric analysis was conducted by applying performance and network analysis techniques. Interestingly, from the conducted analysis, three different thematic clusters have emerged as shaping the current scientific debate: (1) knowledge management and innovation; (2) performance management and economic growth; and (3) technology transfer and knowledge commercialisation. Subsequently, leveraging the institutional logics meta-theory, a cross-country comparative case study was conducted in order to identify the different institutional logics that characterise entrepreneurial universities' activities. In particular, considering entrepreneurial universities as submersed complex organisational fields, three logics have been identified in association with each of their three academic missions. So, the inclusiveness, vocational, and excellence logics emerged in relation to the first mission. The focalisation, materiality, and excellence logics were identified in relation to the second mission. Third, the dissemination, translational, and entrepreneurial logics were distinguished concerning the third mission.
In the end, those nine different logics have been reconciled to the different key performance indicators used to evaluate entrepreneurial universities' performance in pursuing the three academic missions. Then, leveraging system dynamics principles, those results have been used to build a causal loop diagram to offer a dynamic viewpoint of the intertwined relationships existing between the three different academic missions and how their associated institutional logics can result in mutually complementing or conflicting with each other. Finally, a dynamic performance management chart is leveraged to offer some concluding remarks on the interrelationships existing between the strategic resources, intermediate results (i.e., performance drivers), and short-term (i.e., output) and long-term (i.e., outcomes) end results that are related to entrepreneurial universities’ activities. Hence, the proposed model contributes to the literature regarding entrepreneurial universities’ management and their performances and impact assessment, with a particular focus on their intangible resources and those organisations’ role in contributing to societal and economic developments.
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Bergsten, Arvid. "Spatial complexity and fit between ecology and management : Making sense of patterns in fragmented landscapes." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-97618.
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Avoiding the negative effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is especially challenging when also the management institutions are spatially and administratively distributed. This doctoral thesis introduces five case studies that investigate ecological, social and social-ecological relations in fragmented landscapes. I present new approaches in which research and governance can detect and manage mismatches between landscape ecology and planning. The case studies include urban and forested landscapes where an intense land-use is limiting the connectivity, i.e., the potential for many species to disperse between the remaining patches of habitat. Graph-theoretic (network) models are applied to map connectivity patterns and to estimate the outcome for dispersing species at the patch level and for the whole study system. In particular, the network models are applied to evaluate the spatial complexity and the potential mismatches between ecological connectivity and geographically distributed management institutions like protected areas and municipalities. Interviews with municipal ecologists complement the spatial analysis; revealing some problems and ways forward regarding the communication and integration of ecological knowledge within local spatial-planning agencies. The results also show that network models are useful to identify and communicate critical ecological and social-ecological patterns that call for management attention. I suggest some developments of network models as to include interactions between species and across governance levels. Finally, I conclude that more effort is needed for network models to materialize into ecological learning and transformation in management processes.At the time of the doctoral defence the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 2: Manuscript.
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Ohlström, Sebastian, and Oscar Stenberg. "RPA i offentlig sektor : Översättning av institutionella logiker och lokala idéer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388391.
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Rapid technological development and change in modern society is unprecedented in history.Digitalization and automation of business processes is widely seen as a way of streamliningorganisations and changing institutional settings in them. The impact on individuals andorganisations raison d’etre increases as they face stronger institutional pressure from differentstakeholders. As with every thought that comes to mind, the process of translation tries to remedythe gap in individuals and organisations different outlooks. Grounded in theory of institutionallogics and translation, the authors of this paper set out to approach this institutional complexity byinvestigating it through a lens of these theories. We find that the market and corporate logic areinfluencing all of the organisations, but which of the logics that is most likely to be constituteddepends to a high degree on the local translation process. The translation that is produced dependson the institutional environment that is predominant in the organization. For the organization to besuccessful in rapid technological development and change, a thorough understanding of theincremental institutional complexity is paramount.Snabb teknisk utveckling och förändring i det moderna samhället är oöverträffad i historien.Digitalisering och automatisering av affärsprocesser ses allmänt som ett sätt att effektiviseraorganisationer och ändra den institutionella sammansättningen i dem. Påverkan på individer ochorganisationers existensberättigande ökar när de står inför starkare institutionellt tryck från olikaintressenter. Översättningsprocessen försöker här avhjälpa klyftan i individers och organisationersolika perspektiv som uppstår när nya idéer får fäste. Grundade i teorin om institutionella logikeroch översättning, försöker författarna till denna uppsats att närma sig denna institutionellakomplexitet genom att använda en lins av dessa teorier. Vi finner att marknads- och företagslogikenpåverkar alla organisationer, men vilken logik som sannolikt kommer att få fäste beror i hög gradpå den lokala översättningsprocessen. Översättningen som produceras beror på den institutionellamiljön som dominerar organisationen. För att organisationen ska lyckas med en snabb tekniskutveckling och förändring, är en grundlig förståelse för den inkrementella institutionellakomplexiteten är avgörande.
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Rissler, Simon. "Tillitsbaserad styrning i en kontext präglad av en institutionell komplexitet : En kvalitativ fallstudie om Trafikverkets tillitsbaserade styrning." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96254.
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Sedan 2016 har en tillitsbaserad styrning implementerats i offentliga verksamheter i Sverige, vilket det inte finns mycket forskning om. Den tillitsbaserade styrningen skiljer sig mycket ifrån de tidigare styrningsformerna som präglat den offentliga sektorn. Jag har genom en kvalitativ studie ämnat att öka förståelsen för hur den tillitsbaserade styrningen fungerar med en byråkratisk logik och en marknadslogik. Min empiri är insamlad genom ostrukturerade intervjuer ifrån medarbetare på Trafikverket. Under studien har jag använt institutionell teori för att skapa en förståelse för de förutsättningar som råder för den tillitsbaserade styrningen och hur den påverkas av befintliga krav. Jag kunde ifrån min studie konstatera och dra slutsatsen att den byråkratiska logiken påverkar den tillitsbaserade styrningen. Det genom logikens krav på säkerhetsställande och efterföljande av lagar och regler, vilket enligt respondenterna begränsar möjligheterna att visa tillit, handlingsutrymme och medbestämmande som den tillitsbaserade styrningen förespråkar. Det framgick dessutom att marknadslogiken påverkar den tillitsbaserade styrningen genom logikens krav på ekonomisk effektivitet.Since 2016, trust-based governance has been implemented in public organizations in Sweden, which there is not much research on. The trust-based governance differs greatly from the previous forms of governance that have characterized the public sector. Through a qualitative study, I have aimed to increase the understanding of how trust-based governance function with a bureaucratic logic and a market logic. My empiricism is collected through unstructured interviews from employees at the Swedish Transport Administration. During the study, I have used institutional theory to create an understanding of the prevailing prerequisites that exists for trust-based governance and how it is affected by existing demands. I could see and conclude from my study that a bureaucratic logic affects trust-based governance. This, through the logic's requirement for collateralization and compliance with laws and regulations, which according to the respondents, limits the opportunities to show confidence, room for action and co-determination as the trust-based governance advocates. It was also shown that the market logic affects trust-based governance through the logic's demand for financial efficiency.
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Kaufmann, Cristine. "Comunicação organizacional e sustentabilidade: cartografia dos sentidos de sustentabilidade instituídos pelo discurso organizacional." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134837.
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A sustentabilidade, em sentido complexo, apresenta-se como um dos grandes desafios da humanidade, sendo a comunicação organizacional um lugar de sua construção e legitimação. Sob essa ótica, tendo como lente teórico-epistêmica, o Paradigma da Complexidade, conforme Morin (2006, 2008, 2011, 2013), com esta pesquisa temos o objetivo de compreender que perspectiva(s) teórico-filosófica(s) sobre sustentabilidade está(ão) orientando as práticas organizacionais na contemporaneidade. O tema do estudo são as apropriações da noção de sustentabilidade na/pela comunicação organizacional, especificamente, no âmbito da “organização comunicada” (BALDISSERA, 2009a), que é a dimensão das falas oficiais, lugar onde as organizações propõem imagens qualificadas de si na perspectiva do “ethos discursivo” (MAINGUENEAU, 2008). Nosso objeto de investigação são os sentidos de sustentabilidade produzidos e ofertados no discurso organizacional, especificamente, aquele materializado no Guia Exame de Sustentabilidade (GES) e nos sites institucionais de empresas premiadas pelo GES. Consideramos que esses são locais de instituição de sentidos, pois que se tratam de materializações discursivas orientadas pela intenção de comunicar e fazer reconhecer (instituir, conforme Bourdieu (1996)) determinados sentidos de sustentabilidade. No trajeto teórico-metodológico articulamos noções da Análise do Discurso, tendo como principais nortes as reflexões de Foucault (2006, 2012), Pêcheux ([88]2009), Orlandi (2009) e Maingueneau (1998, 2001, 2008, 2013). No processo de análise, acionamos, ainda, a sistematização proposta por Baldissera (2009b) sobre os lugares da sustentabilidade na cultura: 1) valor central; 2) valor periférico e/ou estratégico de mercado; 3) não-valor, valor negativo e/ou modismo; e 4) valor extrassistema. A análise dos sentidos de sustentabilidade instituídos no discurso organizacional nos permitiu compreender que a sustentabilidade tende a ser traduzida como sinônimo de lucratividade e perenidade dos negócios, com vistas à manutenção da lógica dominante, assumida, assim, como valor periférico e/ou estratégico de mercado na cultura organizacional.Sustainability in complex sense, presents itself as one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and organizational communication a place of its construction and legitimation. Under this view, with the theoretical and epistemic lens, the Paradigm of Complexity, according to Morin (2006, 2008, 2011, 2013), with this research we aim to understand what perspective (s) theoretical-philosophical (s) about sustainability is (are) guiding practices in contemporary organizations. The study of the subject are the appropriation of the concept of sustainability in / by organizational communication, specifically in the context of "communicated organization" (BALDISSERA, 2009a), which is the size of the official speeches, where organizations propose qualified pictures of themselves in perspective of "discursive ethos" (MAINGUENEAU, 2008). Our research object are produced sustainability senses and offered the organizational discourse, specifically, that materialized in the Exame Sustainability Guide (GES) and institutional sites of companies awarded by the GES. We believe that these are directions institution places, because that these are discursive materialization guided by the intention to communicate and to recognize (institute, as Bourdieu (1996)) certain sense of sustainability. The theoretical and methodological path articulate notions of discourse analysis, the main north reflections of Foucault (2006, 2012), Pêcheux ([88]2009), Orlandi (2009) and Maingueneau (1998, 2001, 2008, 2013). During the review process, we switch-also the systematization proposed by Baldissera (2009b) of the role of sustainability in the culture: 1) central value; 2) peripheral value and / or market strategy; 3) non-value, negative and / or fad; and 4) extrassistema value.
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Moren, Jan. "Om reformer : En studie av Kvalitetsreformen, Politireform 2000 og Kunnskapsløftet." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för arbetsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7318.
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This thesis studies three major reforms in the public sector of Norway. The sectors studied are the police, higher education, and primary schools. The main motive for studying these reforms are of a theoretical nature, the reason to study them is to produce general knowledge about reforms. The study aims to answer two main questions. One is about the possibilities and limitations contained in using reforms to change organizations. The second is about how organizations can promote the ideals of representative democracy. In its efforts to attain answers to these questions the thesis blends empirically-oriented research with aspects of organization theory and political theory. The thesis is divided into four different parts. First, there is a descriptive presentation of the three reforms. Secondly, there is a discussion of various theories of reforms and organizations. The primary aim of this analysis is to illuminate and explain the empirical data, but this discussion should also provide its own answers to the main questions asked in the thesis. Thirdly, these theories are applied to analyze data from the three reforms. And finally, the study concludes with a summary of what general insights about the reforms we are left with after studying the Quality Reform, The Police Reform 2000, and the Knowledge Reform. The study shows that reforms have both policy and content aspects, and that it is important to distinguish between the two in order to analyse and understand them. The policy aspect is that reforms are a strategy for change - they are tools for implementing change in organizations. The content aspect is that reforms have a specific content - they have certain objectives that they want to realize. The study concludes that in order to understand this complex and fascinating phenomenon, we need to understand reforms both as instrumental tools, institutional adaptations and symbols.
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Sambugaro, Jonathan. "Les conditions d'élaboration et d'énonciation d'une doctrine politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2090/document.
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Cette thèse en stratégie vise à comprendre comment les organisations pluralistes, qui combinent une pluralité de logiques d’action, peuvent conduire la transformation délibérée de leurs doctrines. Elle développe une approche originale du travail politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes, approche qui s’appuie sur les théories pragmatistes de la rationalité et des institutions. Les résultats qu’elle présente sont issus d’une recherche de terrain (ethnographie et intervention) réalisée au sein d’une grande mutuelle d’assurance française, la Macif, qui est un acteur référent dans le champ de l’économie sociale. Le premier volet de la recherche a permis d’identifier et d’analyser les obstacles que rencontrent les organisations pluralistes lorsqu’elles cherchent à transformer leurs doctrines. Le second volet a permis de conceptualiser et d’expérimenter les modalités sous lesquelles elles peuvent parvenir à opérer la transformation souhaitée. La thèse présente pour finir un certain nombre de propositions visant à guider l’élaboration de la stratégie des organisations pluralistesThis doctoral research aims at understanding how pluralistic organizations that combine multiple institutional logics can engage in their deliberate transformation. It draws on pragmatist theories of rationality and of institutions to develop a novel perspective on strategy practices and processes in pluralistic organizations. Its results rely on fieldwork (ethnography and research-action) conducted within a French mutual insurance company, Macif, which is a key actor in the field of social economy. Firstly, this research identifies and analyzes the major obstacles that prevent pluralistic organizations from conducting such a transformation. Secondly, it conceptualizes and experiments ways to do so. Finally, this research suggests some methods for strategizing and organizing in pluralistic contexts
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Gräbner, Claudius [Verfasser], Wolfram [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Elsner, and Christian [Gutachter] Cordes. "A systemic framework for the computational analysis of complex economies: An evolutionary-institutional perspective on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of complexity economics / Claudius Gräbner. Betreuer: Wolfram Elsner. Gutachter: Wolfram Elsner ; Christian Cordes." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1102308889/34.
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Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius [Verfasser], Wolfram [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Elsner, and Christian [Gutachter] Cordes. "A systemic framework for the computational analysis of complex economies: An evolutionary-institutional perspective on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of complexity economics / Claudius Gräbner. Betreuer: Wolfram Elsner. Gutachter: Wolfram Elsner ; Christian Cordes." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105216-14.
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Kentzingen, Raphael. "The Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro : project : related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and technological impacts on the main project actors." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18284.
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This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by theprincipal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the OrganisingCommittee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, anintroduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linkedconcepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal twowidely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholdertheory and Institutional theory. In light of the literature and by means of a content analysisto local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events thatoccurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted andcategorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader projectmanagement picture related to those issue is supported by a brief description of Rio 2016´s project governance. Finally, the paper finishes with the appeal to widen up theacademic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lackingexplanatory and evaluative capability of the aforementioned theories in assessing the mainconceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issuesthat the abovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impactingmegaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impactand the technological impact.
Este estudo tem como foco a gestão do megaprojeto Rio 2016 realizada pelos principaisatores do projeto: o Comitê Olímpico Internacional, o Comitê Organizador dos JogosOlímpicos e o Governo Brasileiro. Em primeiro lugar, uma introdução em megaprojectosprecede a explicação de dois conceitos intrinsecamente ligados, Complexidade e Gestãode Risco. Somente após esse retrato fundamental, duas teorias extensamente adotadas napesquisa do megaprojeto serão revistas: Teoria do Stakeholder e Teoria Institucional.Segue, em luz da literatura e por meio de uma análise de conteúdo, uma coleta de artigosde jornais locais e internacionais sobre os principais eventos relacionados ao projeto,ocorridos pouco antes, durante e depois dos Jogos Olímpicos. No total, foramidentificados doze eventos relacionados ao projeto. O quadro mais amplo degerenciamento deste projeto é apoiado por uma breve descrição da governança do projetoRio 2016. Por fim, o trabalho conclui com o apelo de ampliar a pesquisa académica sobrea complexidade dos Jogos Olímpicos, pois há uma falta de capacidade explicativa parauma avaliação dos principais empreendimentos conceituais deste megaprojeto. Isto devidoao motivo de os eventos gerenciados pelos atores terem acabado por ser explicados porquatro dimensões do megaprojeto: O impacto político, o impacto estético, o impactoeconómico e o impacto tecnológico.
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Huq, Asif M. "How does accounting and auditing regulations affect firm growth and cost of capital?" Licentiate thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Mikrodataanalys, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28408.
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This thesis provides an understanding of how new audit regulation affect firm growth and how audits affect the cost of capital. To investigate the effect of audit reforms on employment growth, we exploited a Swedish reform made in November 2010 that gave certain firms the option to opt out of previously imposed statutory audits. We find that firms which fulfilled the requirements for voluntary auditing, compared to a control group of similar firms that did not, increased their employment growth rate by 0.39%. Furthermore, the reform was also exploited to investigate if audited financial statements add value for firms in the private debt market. We find that firms with audited financial statements, on average, save 1.26 percentage points on cost of debt compared to firms with unaudited financial statements. Thus, the reform creates a possibility for firms that have the ambition to grow in employment to do so by not auditing, and those who want to grow by investments in capital to do so by reducing the cost of such investments by auditing. However, the current ceiling of the reform is also likely to force some firms to operate at sub-optimal levels, those without having the option to opt out of audit even though they might not accrue any benefit from auditing, at least in the short-run. One can argue that is partly due to how institutions evolve, generally slower than other actors in the society do.
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Huq, Asif. "How does accounting and auditing regulations affect firm growth and cost of capital?" Licentiate thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Mikrodataanalys, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28408.
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This thesis provides an understanding of how new audit regulation affect firm growth and how audits affect the cost of capital. To investigate the effect of audit reforms on employment growth, we exploited a Swedish reform made in November 2010 that gave certain firms the option to opt out of previously imposed statutory audits. We find that firms which fulfilled the requirements for voluntary auditing, compared to a control group of similar firms that did not, increased their employment growth rate by 0.39%. Furthermore, the reform was also exploited to investigate if audited financial statements add value for firms in the private debt market. We find that firms with audited financial statements, on average, save 1.26 percentage points on cost of debt compared to firms with unaudited financial statements. Thus, the reform creates a possibility for firms that have the ambition to grow in employment to do so by not auditing, and those who want to grow by investments in capital to do so by reducing the cost of such investments by auditing. However, the current ceiling of the reform is also likely to force some firms to operate at sub-optimal levels, those without having the option to opt out of audit even though they might not accrue any benefit from auditing, at least in the short-run. One can argue that is partly due to how institutions evolve, generally slower than other actors in the society do.
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Marval, Sánchez Moyra D. "Corporate accelerators : novel organizations for entrepreneurial support – toward a process theory." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E071.
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Cette thèse traite des accélérateurs corporatifs, en appliquant une méthodologie qualitative processuelle. Depuis les années 2010, les grandes entreprises se sont mis à lancer des accélérateurs et ont ainsi rejoint à leur tour les écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux. Ces nouvelles organisations, les accélérateurs corporatifs, diffèrent à bien des égards des accélérateurs indépendants. Ils constituent un riche contexte à étudier, notamment en ce qui concerne la manière dont les organisations gèrent une pléthore de prescriptions, souvent contradictoires, émanant de leurs divers publics, au fil du temps. S'appuyant sur 52 entretiens et d'abondantes données secondaires issues de six études de cas d'accélérateurs corporatifs en Europe, analysées et agrégées sur une période de huit ans (2011-2018), cette thèse propose un cadre conceptuel intégré qui met en évidence l'interaction distincte des pressions institutionnelles subies par ces organisations. Il théorise par ailleurs sur les différentes stratégies qu'ils utilisent, rejettent, et réinventent au fil du temps, pour faire face à cette complexité institutionnelle afin de gagner en légitimité, de survivre et de prospérer. De cette enquête qualitative émerge en outre une nouvelle définition des accélérateurs corporatifs, qui pourra stimuler de futures recherches, en se centralisant sur l’enjeu principal de ces organisations, qui consiste à accélérer la formation d’alliances collaboratives entre grandes entreprises et startupsThis is a qualitative process inquiry about corporate accelerators. Since 2010, large firms have begun to launch accelerators, and thus participated in entrepreneurial support ecosystems. These novel corporate accelerators differ in many ways from independent accelerators. Furthermore, they constitute a rich context to study, namely in how they manage diverse, often contradictory prescriptions from their various audiences over time. Grounded in 52 interviews and abundant archival data from six case studies of corporate accelerators in Europe aggregated over a period of eight years (2011-2018), this thesis contributes an integrated conceptual model that evidences the distinct interplay of institutional pressures experienced by these corporate-backed organizations. It theorizes on the different strategies they use, discard, and reinvent over time, to address this institutional complexity so as to gain legitimacy, survive, and strive. It also proposes a new definition of corporate accelerators to stimulate future research, focusing on these organizations’ core purpose, which is to accelerate the formation of collaborative alliances between large firms and startups
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Sebti, Bouchra. "Etude des pratiques de ressources humaines des moyennes entreprises : une approche managériale." Phd thesis, Université Paris Dauphine - Paris IX, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01070849.
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Cette étude des pratiques RH dans les moyennes entreprises met en évidence l'influence significative des facteurs organisationnels et institutionnels. Dans le cadre de cette recherche, nous nous intéressons à ces pratiques à travers une approche intégratrice des théories mobilisées et montrons des particularismes en termes : 1/ de différenciation et d'hybridité structurelle, 2/ de légitimité institutionnelle et 3/ de complexité relationnelle.Reposant sur une méthodologie de recherche qualitative, l'étude empirique comprend 40 entretiens dont 13 menés dans le cadre de deux études de cas. Ces entretiens réalisés auprès de plusieurs acteurs RH permettent des comparaisons entre des moyennes entreprises de différentes tailles.À la lumière des spécificités des moyennes entreprises, nos résultats mettent en évidence une diversité des pratiques de RH. Notre recherche confirme l'intérêt d'une approche " non consensuelle " des pratiques de RH, celle-ci étant due au recul de la hiérarchie face à l'arrivée des managers. Nos résultats montrent aussi que dans les moyennes entreprises, les pratiques de RH sont personnelles, conformistes, pseudo-conformistes, pseudo-innovantes et innovantes.
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Barbier, Antoine. "Analyse de la complexité institutionnelle de la collaboration public-privé au sein des projets d'équipements ludo-sportifs : le cas des concessions de travaux de centres aquatiques français." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Normandie, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024NORMR003.
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En France, 83% du parc d’équipements sportifs appartient aux collectivités qui doivent en financer le renouvellement et l’adaptation à de nouvelles pratiques ludiques et hygiéniques, dans un contexte de contrainte budgétaire croissante. En conséquence, elles ont développé des collaborations avec le secteur privé qui ont récemment pris la forme des concessions de travaux, permettant de déléguer à un groupement d’entreprises privées une mission globale (financement, conception, construction et exploitation-maintenance). Cette forme de contractualisation redéfinit le positionnement et les stratégies des différents acteurs au sein des projets d’équipements sportifs. Dès lors, la problématique de cette thèse consiste à analyser les modalités de collaboration public-privé dans le cadre de projets de concession de travaux d’équipements sportifs. Cette question sera en particulier étudiée dans le cadre des projets de concession de centres aquatiques, à partir du concept de logiques institutionnelles (Thornton et al., 2012). Pour cela, cinq projets de centres aquatiques français ont été investigués à partir de 31 entretiens semi-directifs complétés par un corpus documentaire pour chaque cas (n = 378).Ce travail met en avant le besoin de compétences spécifiques sur les projets, dont la gestion doit s’inscrire dans une démarche plus large de management de projet. Les résultats permettent également de questionner la notion de risque économique ainsi que la place du service public au sein de ces équipements hybrides (Richet et al., 2009), tout en relativisant l’efficience permise par la globalisation des missions au sein d’un même contratIn France, 83% of sports facilities are owned by local authorities, which must finance their renovation and adaptation to new leisure and health practices, in a context of growing budget constraints. As a result, they have developed collaborations with the private sector, which have recently taken the form of works concessions, whereby a consortium of private companies is delegated a global mission (financing, design, construction and operation-maintenance). This form of contractualisation redefines positions and strategies for the stakeholders involved in sports facilities projects. The aim of this thesis is therefore to analyse public-private collaboration in the context of sports facilities concession projects. This issue will be studied in particular in the context of aquatic centres concession projects, based on the concept of institutional logics (Thornton et al., 2012). Five French aquatic centre projects were investigated based on 31 semi-structured interviews supplemented by a corpus of documents for each case (n = 378).This research highlights the need for specific project skills, which must be managed as part of a broader project management approach. The results also raise questions about the notion of economic risk and the place of public service within these hybrid facilities (Richet et al., 2009), while putting into perspective the efficiency allowed by the globalisation of missions within a single contract
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Bachir, Bendaoud Hamid. "Les outils de gestion, des véhicules et régulateurs de logiques institutionnelles au sein des organisations publiques ? : analyse d’un nouvel outil de gestion de transparence financière au sein d'une collectivité territoriale, le rapport d’orientation budgétaire (le ROB)." Thesis, Paris, HESAM, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020HESAC043.
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Notre travail de recherche interroge le rôle des outils de gestion au sein d’organisations confrontées à la complexité institutionnelle. Notre point de départ est la dernière réforme territoriale (la loi Notre, 2015) qui introduit un nouvel instrument de transparence financière (le rapport d’orientation budgétaire) afin de véhiculer une logique managériale au sein des collectivités territoriales où préexistent d’autres logiques fortement ancrées (bureaucratique et politique). En mobilisant les travaux sur les logiques institutionnelles, que nous croisons avec les travaux sur l’instrumentation de gestion, et une étude de cas longitudinale (2016-2020), nous montrons, comment les outils de gestion et leurs usages sont façonnés par les multiples logiques en présence. Nous observons également comment les outils de gestion permettent à l’organisation de répondre à la complexité institutionnelle à travers un processus de « tension créatrice ». L’outil permet la coexistence des trois logiques (managériale, bureaucratique et politique) en servant de base à des compromis combinant l’hybridation et la compartimentation. Ce rôle semble lié au positionnement de l’outil au sein de l’organisation et à son degré d’ambiguïté, et fait apparaître le découplage observé comme une condition du compromisOur research focuses on management tools and how they can help organizations to manage institutional complexity (Greenwood et al., 2011). We are interested in the latest territorial reform (the NOTRe law, 2015) which introduces a new transparency management tool (the budget orientation report) in order to convey a managerial logic within local authorities. By mobilizing research on institutional logics and management instrumentation, and a longitudinal case study (2016-2020), we show how management tools and their use in a context of institutional complexity are shaped by multiple logics. We also highlight how management tools allow the organization to respond to this complexity through a process of "creative tension". The tool allows the coexistence of logics by serving as a basis for compromises combining hybridization and partitioning in which decoupling appears as a condition of compromise
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Orellana, Salomon E. "Coping with policy-making complexity electoral institutions, diversity, and policy problem-solving /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Dutra, Cléber José Cunha. "Bases teóricas para a concepção e a gestão de Programas de Produção mais Limpa adequados a grupos de empresas." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/14961.
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Considerada a importância de que os Programas de Produção mais Limpa (PPLs) são investidos e os problemas constatados com suas performances em todo o mundo, avalia-se como crítica a ausência de Bases Teóricas para avaliar esses programas. Na Literatura acadêmica para este tema, não se encontram abordagens que orientem a Concepção e a Gestão dos PPLs. Movida por estas constatações críticas e pelo senso de urgência em atender esta carência, a pesquisa empreendida, da qual parte dos resultados compõem esta Tese, se dedica à construção de Bases fundamentadas em áreas do conhecimento científico que apóiem a avaliação dos PPLs. Diante da escassez de abordagens teóricas para este propósito, esta Tese se constitui em estudo exploratório e voltado à proposição de um conjunto de enfoques que atenda à sua meta fundamental. Sugerindo que o conjunto resultante estabeleça um arcabouço teórico primário, dirigem-se os enfoques para três níveis de análise : (i) aspectos externos a um Programa a avaliar (macro-análise); (ii) constituição estrutural deste PPL e dinâmicas de seus componentes (meso-análise); e (iii) aspectos psico-sociológicos das relações internas no PPL (micro-análise). Define-se o nivel de meso-análise como foco das elaborações da Tese, para o qual se desenvolvem dois enfoques. Aos enfoques elaborados para os outros dois níveis de análise dedicam-se menores desenvolvimentos, limitando-se a indicar sua integração com os enfoques do nível de meso-análise e seus posteriores desdobramentos e aprofundamentos. Para as construções dos enfoques, utiliza-se de revisões amplas na literatura de Teorias de Aprendizagem, Teorias Organizacionais, Psicologia Ambiental, Complexidade e Gestão da Mudança, como apoios para a revisão de publicações acadêmicas sobre PPLs. Limitações constatadas para estas elaborações teóricas do conjunto de enfoques destacam a importância de uma fase complementar de estudos empíricos qualitativos que, na Tese, prioriza aperfeiçoar o enfoque para Análise Estrutural. Empregando-se principalmente a abordagem de Estudos de Caso e recursos adaptados da Grounded Theory, elabora-se um Esboço Estrutural para este enfoque. A consolidação da integração dos enfoques propostos pela Tese alcança maior consistência pela aplicação do Esboço Estrutural para descrever aspectos dos Casos estudados em um Estudo de Caso Genérico, acompanhada de uma série de análises que integram, progressivamente, conceitos teóricos das ferramentas analíticas que compõem os enfoques. A base da lógica que coordena concepções e construções da Tese se alicerça no enfoque de Pensamento Complexo de Morin, operacionalizada através da dialética hermenêutica que orienta a postura de pesquisa. Tais escolhas filosófico-epistemológicas proporcionam nexo para a integração complexa de múltiplos e variados fatores e conceitos que passam a compor os enfoques, conciliando ambigüidades, oposições e paradoxos típicos dos fenômenos observados nos PPLs. Como resultados, alcança-se evidente capacidade do conjunto de enfoques elaborado para avaliar PPLs de diversos arranjos organizacionais, permitindo-se interpretações ricas dos aspectos que concorrem para seus resultados, o que atende ao propósito original de contribuir para a compreensão de suas performances. Desta forma, a Tese oferece contributo significativo para um campo de conhecimento que carece de contribuições teóricas urgentes.A critical lack of approaches based on theoretical fundamentals to evaluating Cleaner Production Programmes (CPPs) in the academic literature collides with the significance of these programmes and with their crucial performance problems all over the world. Scientific guidance on designing and managing CPPs is nonexistent or unavailable to regular search on academic publications. Intending to reduce this scarcity of scientific knowledge, the research from which this Thesis gathers its results conceives approaches supported by theoretical underpinnings aimed to evaluate CPPs. Given the knowledge insufficiency on this subject, this Thesis constitutes an exploratory study devoted to the proposition of a set of analytical approaches. This set is intended to establish a basic theoretical framework whose approaches are designed to fit three analytical levels : (i) external aspects of a Programme under assessment (macro-analysis); (ii) structural constitution of this CPP and the dynamics of its components (meso-analysis); and (iii) psycho-sociological aspects of the CPP internal relations (micro-analysis). The main focus of elaborative work concerns the meso-analysis level, to which two approaches have been developed. Less development is dedicated to the other levels and the Thesis confines the elaboration of their approaches to their vital fit and sound synergy with the approaches of the meso-analysis level. The study indicates detailed features of the micro-analysis approach and how they develop in future advanced stages of the research. Similar indications of future developments for the macro-analysis approach receive attention in the discussions. Encompassing reviews of the literature on Learning Theories, Organisational Theories, Environmental Psychology, Complexity and Organisational Change underpin the conception and development of the approaches, integrating elements drew on an extensive review of the academic literature on CPPs. In order to overcome limitations pointed out from the elaboration of the approaches, a complementary empirical phase of qualitative research assumes vital importance to the study and its priority focused improvements in the structural analysis approach. Case Study methods and adapted features of Grounded Theory served as main contributing approaches/techniques to the complex confection of a Structural Blueprint for this analytical approach. Applying this Structural Blueprint as a tool to describe aspects examined in actual Cases, composing a Generic Case Study, followed by a series of analyses that progressively integrate theoretical concepts of the proposed approaches into the assessment supported by the Blueprint, the study succeed in consolidating the integration of the analytical approaches. The logical basis steering Thesis conceptions and developments stands on Morin’s concept of Complex Thinking, which provides guidance to the hermeneutic dialectic conducted in accordance with the study’s research posture. Nexus afforded by such philosophic-epistemological orientation prevails in the complex integration of multiple and diverse factors and concepts embodied in the analytical approaches, providing consonance for the typical ambiguities, oppositions, and paradoxes observed in phenomena related to CPPs. The proposed set of approaches features evident capacity to evaluate CPPs holding varied organisational arrangements, imparting rich interpretations of aspects that contribute to their results and serving its original purpose of assisting the comprehension of their performance. Thus the Thesis offers relevant contribution to this field of knowledge, which demands urgent theoretical advancements.
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Sharma, Pradeep. "Identity formation, newcomer dynamics and organisational change in a higher educational institution." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/12625.
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This research looks at the dynamics of identity formation in a higher education organisation during a strategic branding project, the arrival of a newcomer and my role as the dean of a school of art and design. Most branding literature focuses on the key stages of how a brand proposition is formed and assumes the straightforward roll out of the identity for the organisation. In this research I focus on what goes on around me as ideas are formed and presented back to the organisation, rather than on the idealised process of what should go on. The method takes a “withness” approach to the narrative rather than a synoptic case study approach, focusing on my experience and practice. This highlights the social context of organisational life – the context of human power relationships in which people enable and constrain each other on the basis of human attributes such as identities, anxieties, values, emotions, fear, expectations, motives and interests. The research shows that intention is only a part of the narratives about strategy and identity in organisations. I argue that notions of certainty that are inherent in intentional brand strategies are often based on arbitrary inferences and that by nature brand propositions are abstractions and therefore only representative of a partial reality. To present them in a rigid sense and develop vigilant strategies for identity preservation seems artificially limiting and devoid of context. Branding has played an important role in the world of objects and transactions. It has indicated a sense of ownership, a promise of quality and performance, and more recently an indication of self-image and identity. Yet when branding is applied to organisations it is problematic. Taking principles from a context of objects and applying them to social life has led to branding often being about the preservation of a specific concept of identity and not about the ongoing dynamic process of identity formation in organisations. It is frequently seen as manipulative and controlling, yet is also seen as an important indicator of personality, differentiation, togetherness and is linked to notions of loyalty and trust. Paralleling Mead’s notion of the “I-me” dialectic, an organization can also be seen to be emerging in the context in terms of its presentation in everyday life. The notion of certainty in this sense of organizational identity denies the dynamics of the situation and one could argue that vagueness is present in all aspects of social life and essential for creative action as it allows space for newness. Any articulation of identity is a simplification of an identity that is constantly evolving. But at what level are these simplifications and abstractions useful and not debilitating? This is not to argue that intention and strategy are not essential parts of joint action. The process of negotiating is an essential part of working together towards joint action. It is a process in which we reveal our intent and discover important aspects about each other and ourselves as we emerge in the social; it is about intention and attention. However we cannot really know how people will respond to our gestures and actions, and it is in the actions that we reveal the sincerity of our intent. Managers and strategies do not solely determine organisational identity, and neither are employees free to choose their identities, attitudes, expectations and actions. We are both enabled and constrained by our own pasts and social relationships. We inform the organisational identity as well as being informed by it in an on going process of relating. This way of thinking has implications for the way that we think about brand strategy in organisations – it is not a deterministic process of control, and neither is it a process of anarchic behavior, of open resistance to management intention. Branding is a social act and is performed by human agents who are inherently complex, individual and collective at the same time. The role of the practitioner is to make sense of what is going on between us and pay attention to what emerges – after all, it is not what a brand is but what a brand does.
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Jabot, Françoise. "L'évaluation des politiques publiques : cadres conceptuel et étude de son utilisation par les décideurs des institutions régionales de santé en France." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0201/document.
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Contexte : Malgré une volonté affichée traduite dans des textes et procédures, l’évaluation en France n’est que peu intégrée dans le processus de décision. Pourtant, dans le secteur de la santé confronté à de multiples défis, l’évaluation pourrait être une approche utile à la détermination des choix. L’utilisation de l’évaluation dépend d’une pluralité de facteurs, dont les connaissances produites et leur mode de production, les caractéristiques des décideurs et autres utilisateurs et le contexte sociopolitique et institutionnel de l’évaluation. Objectifs : Les objectifs de ce travail sont d’apprécier l’utilisation de l’évaluation dans les politiques de santé, d’identifier les leviers associés à cette utilisation et d’apprécier la capacité de l’évaluation à satisfaire les attentes et favoriser l’utilisation de ses productions. Méthode : Une revue de littérature a permis d’enrichir la compréhension du concept d’utilisation, d’identifier les facteurs influents et de faire émerger les problématiques associées. Considérant l’évaluation comme un système d’action complexe, un modèle basé sur une approche systémique a été construit et mis à l’épreuve à travers quatre étapes d’analyse des évaluations des plans régionaux de santé publique (PRSP) : (1) analyse globale de 16 évaluations ; (2) lien processus/utilisation dans une région ; (3) résultats à court/moyen terme dans 9 régions ; (4) études de cas approfondies et analyse multicritères dans 5 régions. Résultats : Une première analyse a éclairé les enjeux du contexte et la contribution des PRSP à la cohérence des politiques régionales de santé. L’examen du processus d’évaluation dans une région a montré la relation entre finalités, démarche et utilisations de l’évaluation. L’observation des suites de l’évaluation dans neuf régions a identifié différentes formes d’utilisation et les principaux facteurs intervenant. La dynamique de changement a été appréhendée dans la globalité des interactions entre le contexte, les acteurs et l’évaluation dans cinq régions. Discussion : Les retombées de l’évaluation sont plus à chercher du côté des savoirs accumulés et des évolutions des pratiques que dans des décisions formelles transformant de façon radicale les politiques. Le contexte, la crédibilité de l’évaluation, l’engagement et la motivation des acteurs sont des facteurs déterminants. Des pistes de recherche sont envisagées en vue d’approfondir les conditions du développement des capacités et de la culture d’évaluation, elles-mêmes indispensables à une meilleure exploitation de l’évaluationContext: Despite the willingness showed in texts and procedures, evaluation in France is little integrated in the decision making process. However, in the health sector which faces multiple challenges, evaluation should be a useful approach to select choices. The use of evaluation depends on multiple factors such as, knowledge and its production process, characteristics of decision makers and others users, and the political and institutional context of the evaluation Objective: The objectives were: to assess the use of evaluation on health policies; to identify levers associated with use; to assess the capacity of evaluation to fit with decision-makers needs and to enhance usability. Method: Literature review allowed to enrich the understanding of the concept of use and to identify the main influent factors as well as the related issues. Regarding evaluation as a complex system, a model based on a systemic approach was built and tested in evaluations of regional public health plans (PRSP) in 4 steps: (1) global analysis of 16 evaluations; (2) relation process/use in on region; (3) use at short/medium term in 9 regions; (4) case studies and multicriteria analysis in 5 regions. Results: A first analysis enlighted the context and the contribution of the PRSP to the coherence of regional policies. A deeper process analysis carried out in one region pointed out the relation between final aims, management and evaluation use. The examination of evaluation consequences conducted in nine regions identified different forms of use and the major factors associated with them. The dynamic of change has been apprehended as a whole through the interactions between context, users and evaluation in five regions. Discussion: The effects of evaluation are more obvious in terms of knowledge building and evolution of practice than in radical change of policies. Context, evaluation credibility, actors’ commitment and motivation are key factors. Future research should help to better understand how to foster the culture and the capacities of evaluation. These are important prerequisites to a wider use of evaluation
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Filosof, Jana. "Making the general particular : practising corporate social responsibility in a UK Higher Education Institution." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20189.
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This research deals with the ways Corporate Social Responsibility is interpreted in a UK Higher Education Institution. It evolved from my initial curiosity about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially the way it is taken up in daily practices. Drawing on the pragmatic tradition of John Dewey (1859-1952), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which gives primacy to experience, I am paying attention to my daily interactions with others. I explore what is, rather what should be. I also draw on analogies from complexity sciences, as well as on insights from sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy, to reflect on how the everyday practice of CSR is evolving in the interactions of interdependent players. Reflecting on the assumptions that underpin my thinking about organisations and about research, and tracing my evolving beliefs and perceptions, I have become aware of my participation in the processes that sustain and at the same time disrupt the 'community engagement' narrative of my organisation. Iterating my reflective narratives reveals how change in practice and in ideas evolves. This research was prompted by my introduction to CSR early in my academic career. The idea of organisations being responsible to their stakeholders fitted with my personal values. The more I read about the topic, the more uncomfortable I became - CSR had usually been presented in vague, general and idealised terms. So, when faced with setting up a Unit that would address the CSR of my organisation, I was left with no manual for getting on with my work. Reflecting on the feeling of helplessness, revealed my assumption that such guidance should exist, and that CSR practitioners must know how to practice the generalised idea of CSR. Exposing this and other emotions, I demonstrate how assumptions and beliefs arise in society and in the individual simultaneously. This research contributes to knowledge in this field by establishing CSR not just as an abstract idea, but as a practice within an organisation. Many authors have called for exploring CSR at the individual level, yet this call seems to remain unanswered. My research addresses this gap in literature and explores CSR from my perspective as a practitioner, thus contributing to the nascent body of literature that focuses on individual and local practice. Exploring interdependence and the emergence of CSR meant understanding that my actions have consequences, and at the same time, neither I nor any one individually can control those 2 consequences. The outcomes of our working together are at times intended and at times unintended. But they are inevitably unpredictable, because they arise in complex webs of interactions. Thinking reflexively about practising CSR has had a significant impact on my practice. I believe that my reflections will resonate with other practitioners, thus contributing to their practice.
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Bajenaru, Violeta. "Complexité et diversité des comportements individuels dans le contexte du changement institutionnel post-communiste." Aix-Marseille 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007AIX32011.
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Vallée, Boris. "Three Essays on Financial Innovation." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHEC0008/document.
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Cette dissertation est constituée de trois chapitres distincts, qui visent à analyser empiriquement l'innovation financière dans des champs différents: la finance des ménages, la finance publique, et le secteur financier. Le premier chapitre, effectué en collaboration avec Claire Célérier, analyse la complexité croissante des produits financiers offerts aux investisseurs particuliers et suggère que cette complexité est utilisée par les banques pour réduire la pression concurentielle.Le deuxième chapitre, écrit avec Christophe Pérignon, porte sur les emprunts toxiques émis par les collectivités locales, et comment leur utilisation s'inscrit dans un système d'incitation politique. Le troisième chapitre étudie en quoi l'adoption d'un type d'obligations innovantes représentant un capital conditionnel, peut contribuer à solutionner le dilemne sur le levier bancaireThis dissertation is made of three distinct chapters that empirically investigate financial innovation in different fields: household finance, public finance and financial institutions. The first chapter presents a work joint with Claire Célérier,analyzing the growing complexity of retail structured products, and how bank use complexity to mitigate competitive pressure.The second chapter, joint with Christophe Pérignon, studies how local governments strategically use toxic loans according to their political incentives. The third chapter explores the effects of exercising contingent capital, and how these instruments can contribute to solving the bank leverage dilemna
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Sambugaro, Jonathan. "Les conditions d'élaboration et d'énonciation d'une doctrine politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2090.
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Cette thèse en stratégie vise à comprendre comment les organisations pluralistes, qui combinent une pluralité de logiques d’action, peuvent conduire la transformation délibérée de leurs doctrines. Elle développe une approche originale du travail politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes, approche qui s’appuie sur les théories pragmatistes de la rationalité et des institutions. Les résultats qu’elle présente sont issus d’une recherche de terrain (ethnographie et intervention) réalisée au sein d’une grande mutuelle d’assurance française, la Macif, qui est un acteur référent dans le champ de l’économie sociale. Le premier volet de la recherche a permis d’identifier et d’analyser les obstacles que rencontrent les organisations pluralistes lorsqu’elles cherchent à transformer leurs doctrines. Le second volet a permis de conceptualiser et d’expérimenter les modalités sous lesquelles elles peuvent parvenir à opérer la transformation souhaitée. La thèse présente pour finir un certain nombre de propositions visant à guider l’élaboration de la stratégie des organisations pluralistesThis doctoral research aims at understanding how pluralistic organizations that combine multiple institutional logics can engage in their deliberate transformation. It draws on pragmatist theories of rationality and of institutions to develop a novel perspective on strategy practices and processes in pluralistic organizations. Its results rely on fieldwork (ethnography and research-action) conducted within a French mutual insurance company, Macif, which is a key actor in the field of social economy. Firstly, this research identifies and analyzes the major obstacles that prevent pluralistic organizations from conducting such a transformation. Secondly, it conceptualizes and experiments ways to do so. Finally, this research suggests some methods for strategizing and organizing in pluralistic contexts
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Sunaryo, Lenny, and n/a. "Chinese social institutions imitating nature? : an investigation of Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneurs' business strategies - insights from complexity theory." University of Otago. Department of Management, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090922.141645.
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This thesis provides a theoretical foundation explaining the long-standing paradox of Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneurs' highly successful economic behaviour. Combining Western and Eastern philosophies, this study examines the role of culture in prescribing beliefs and practices that affect human efforts to self-actualise, notably the motivations underlying these entrepreneurs' business practices. It applies Aristotle's notion of phronesis (practical knowledge or wisdom) to organisation studies (as suggested by Tsoukas and Cummings, 1997, and Flyvbjerg, 2006). The enquiry employs the concept of self-organising systems (drawn from complexity theory) to ground the Confucian organismic conception of the cosmos (Needham 1956).
The underlying empirical study investigated Chinese entrepreneurs' strategic actions in a particular field (Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia), an environment characterised by complexity, uncertainty and social instability. Primary data was collected through extensive field interviews, developed into narrative case studies and analysed using the explanation building technique (Yin 2003) based on Confucian modelling of social interactions to explain informants' trajectories in their life course.
The findings support the Confucian organismic conception of the cosmos, which emphasises the notions of complexity, continuity, irreversibility and unpredictability. When the future is highly unpredictable, people learn and progress by recourse to learned strategies that were effective in their own adaptive success in the past. Especially when facing tension or instability, the studied entrepreneurs' decision making and strategic actions were spontaneous, without explicit predetermined goals, but based on their pragmatic value judgment, phronesis (practical knowledge) of a situation and the capability of the individual actors within their social networks to control it. When faced with a higher level of instability (especially under extreme constraints), their actions were instinctively revolutionary, often requiring a jump to a new level of network with higher complexity (Holland 1998), returning them to a normal condition. The entrepreneurs' wulun-based social roles and guanxi-based social institutions legitimised all such decisions. Their strategies were therefore contextual and pragmatic, driven by the actors' instinct to enhance the survivability of the individual, family and society.
Chinese culture embraced the natural state of complexity, dynamism and unpredictability of the cosmos by establishing Confucian social institutions, specifically wulun and guanxi, that are learned and practiced from an early age and subsequently internalised as habitual and dispositional practices, including in business. Wulun functions as a social control mechanism for constraining people's behaviour and at the same time allowing people to increase their ability to adapt in order to self-organise in different contexts, whereas guanxi is practiced as a strategy to create a pool of interlocking resources that provides a feedback loop promoting continuous self-actualisation and self-transformation. Identity is associated with progression and transformation; when the self is developed, the family and the larger society are also transformed.
The contribution of this thesis is its integration of Western and Eastern, natural and social, complexity theory and organisation studies concepts to illuminate the relationship between the self-actualising behaviour of entrepreneurs and the cultural context within which they operate.
Keywords: phronesis, complexity, Confucianism, self-organisation, self-actualisation, wulun, guanxi, pragmatism