Dissertations / Theses: 'Integrative organisation'

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Benedetti, Andrea. "Le Bureau socialiste international : de boîte postale à organisation intégrative, 1900-1918." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024STRAG015.

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Cette thèse étudie le Bureau socialiste international (BSI) au prisme de l’évolution progressive de ses compétences, de sa création laborieuse dans un milieu internationaliste qui refuse toute centralisation institutionnelle, jusqu’à la survie paradoxale de l’institution pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, alors que la Deuxième Internationale s’était disloquée. Nous nous intéressons aux logiques sous-jacentes à la transformation du BSI d’un simple outil de liaison à un organe de coordination de mobilisations politiques transnationales, essayant de comprendre dans quelle mesure peut-il s’apparenter au concept contemporain d’organisation intégrative. Cela permettra de vérifier si l’évolution du BSI peut être considérée comme une redéfinition des dynamiques internationalistes elles-mêmes, visant à rendre palpable la solidarité par-delà les frontières à l’heure de l’exacerbation des nationalismes en Europe
This thesis examines the International Socialist Bureau (ISB) through the prism of the gradual evolution of its competences, from its laborious creation in an internationalist milieu that rejected institutional centralisation, to the institution's paradoxical survival during the First World War, when the Second International had broken up. We are interested in the rationale behind the transformation of the ISB from a simple liaison tool to a coordinating body for transnational political mobilisation, in an attempt to understand the extent to which it can be likened to the contemporary concept of integrative organisation. This will enable us to ascertain whether the evolution of the ISB can be seen as a redefinition of internationalist dynamics themselves, aimed at making solidarity across borders palpable at a time of exacerbated nationalism in Europe

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Morris, Charlotte L. "Leadership in charitable non-government organisations (NGOs) : integrating individual and organisational beliefs." Full text available, 2006. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20070511.111236.

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Morris, Charlotte Lucy. "Leadership in charitable non-government organisations (NGO's): Integrating individual and organisational beliefs." Thesis, Curtin University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1815.

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The exploration of the four key themes of leadership, spirituality, ethics and values and their relationship between and with employers and employees in human service charitable NGOs in Perth, Western Australian, provided the main purpose for the current research. In addition, the purpose included examining the impact of charities operating as if they were for-profit businesses; the impact of faith and secularity on the work of charities; and possible gender differences arising from the themes within this context. The qualitative research was undertaken using hermeneutic phenomenological methodology; however, feminism, post-modernism and narrative practices were used to elicit additional perspectives from the resulting material. The current research used a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary approach, thus encompassing a literature review of the philosophical, ethical, psychological, theological and anthropological disciplines as it tracked some of the material’s substantial heritage. Additionally, the research focussed on the experience of charitable workplace cultures which provide the context for the delivery of human services, and discussed the current charitable human services paradigm. A total of 46 individuals from 8 different charities participated through in-depth interviews. They included organisational leaders, management and front-line workers who provided collectively and individually a rich mine of material for exploration and discovery from which to unravel the essence of the responses.The emerging conclusions provide the capacity to view the charitable organisation from a gendered perspective, as female, thus reflecting the profile of the workforce; while also uncovering substantial discrimination and inequity in employment conditions. Leadership styles were gendered, as were the discourses on ethics, values and spirituality. Organisational size was a key factor in determining values and changing perspectives matched more closely, the business paradigm. The faith and secularity of each NGO also presented opportunities to map organisational intention around leadership, spirituality, ethics and values such that further research opportunities have been highlighted across the results.

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Morris, Charlotte Lucy. "Leadership in charitable non-government organisations (NGO's): Integrating individual and organisational beliefs." Curtin University of Technology, Curtin Business School, 2006. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17015.

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The exploration of the four key themes of leadership, spirituality, ethics and values and their relationship between and with employers and employees in human service charitable NGOs in Perth, Western Australian, provided the main purpose for the current research. In addition, the purpose included examining the impact of charities operating as if they were for-profit businesses; the impact of faith and secularity on the work of charities; and possible gender differences arising from the themes within this context. The qualitative research was undertaken using hermeneutic phenomenological methodology; however, feminism, post-modernism and narrative practices were used to elicit additional perspectives from the resulting material. The current research used a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary approach, thus encompassing a literature review of the philosophical, ethical, psychological, theological and anthropological disciplines as it tracked some of the material’s substantial heritage. Additionally, the research focussed on the experience of charitable workplace cultures which provide the context for the delivery of human services, and discussed the current charitable human services paradigm. A total of 46 individuals from 8 different charities participated through in-depth interviews. They included organisational leaders, management and front-line workers who provided collectively and individually a rich mine of material for exploration and discovery from which to unravel the essence of the responses.
The emerging conclusions provide the capacity to view the charitable organisation from a gendered perspective, as female, thus reflecting the profile of the workforce; while also uncovering substantial discrimination and inequity in employment conditions. Leadership styles were gendered, as were the discourses on ethics, values and spirituality. Organisational size was a key factor in determining values and changing perspectives matched more closely, the business paradigm. The faith and secularity of each NGO also presented opportunities to map organisational intention around leadership, spirituality, ethics and values such that further research opportunities have been highlighted across the results.

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Phookpan, Pantharak. "An analysis of organisational culture of integrated public organisations : the case of Thailand." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-analysis-of-organisational-culture-of-integrated-public-organisations-the-case-of-thailand(645829e4-8770-4789-b986-9b4165218294).html.

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The theme of the re-aggregation of public organisations has been embraced in the recent public sector reforms of some developed countries such as the UK. The re-aggregation of public organisations may benefit the government in terms of focusing its interests on policy coordination. This is an alternative way of reforming the public sector in order to increase greater outcomes and the performance of public organisations with regard to the achievement of particular policy goals. The reform inevitably affects the targeted public organisations in both tangible and intangible ways. Since organisational culture is an important issue that can affect organisational outcomes and performance, including the achievement of policy goals, the research aims to analyse how organisational cultures have been changed following the integration of Thai public organisations. In this respect, the researchers used an integrated model of Competing Values Framework and human paradox theory to assess cultural changes of integrated public organisations.The research was based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered in field research conducted in Thailand’s four integrated public organisations. It was found that, overall, organisational cultures were altered following the organisational integration. Public employees perceived that the hierarchy culture hardly changed following a reform. However, the clan value has largely reduced, while market and adhocracy values have increased rather significantly within the new organisations. In terms of clan value, the research found that the reduction was a result of power struggles between groups of people who came from different organisational backgrounds. Power-struggling between clans could lead to lower team cooperation, a lack of trust and diminished loyalty to organisations. Public officials also perceived that a significant development of market and adhocracy cultures in organisations could be a result of external forces, as well as the integration reform. With regard to these changes, the development of market values was inimical to human relations within integrated organisations. Together with the existence of a patronage system in the Thai public organisations, leadership also contributed to a paradox of competition and cooperation where members of a dominant clan could be favoured over the others. People who came from minor cultures might feel a disadvantage from being part of the minority and then give minimal cooperation to the integrated organisation. In this respect, teamwork and organisational cohesion could be difficult to build if the tension is unbalanced. It can be concluded that the cultural model of the organisations studied changed and seemed to be more balanced than was previously found. The integration of organisations also has a great influence on cultures and paradoxes in organisations. The dissertation hopes to contribute to the existing literature, with regard to the application of a Competing Values Framework and human paradox theory to the underexplored context of integration reform in the public sector. Findings from the use of this instrument can offer a fresh point of view towards the reality of organisational integration reforms, especially for academics, Thai reformers and public employees themselves.

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Lindquist, Bert. "Deltagande integrerar individ och organisation : En teoretisk studie i integrationens former, mekanismer och processer." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-146739.

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The aim of the present study is to clarify the nature of integration between the individual and the organization. I have utilized four analytical tools in this endeavor – forms of association, theoretical starting points, integrating factors, and principles of integration. The forms of association have been taken from Amitai Etzioni's model for describing the interplay between members' experience of an organization and organizational sanctions. These in turn provide us with three categories – coercion, when association is steered by constraint exercised by the organization; interest, when integration proceeds deliberately and voluntarily; and normative or institutional integration, when association is steered by a normative community. The starting point selected is important, and often decisive, for any effort to understand the connection between the individual and the organization. In the present effort to theoretically explain how a particular association between individual and organization emerges, I have deliberately selected human nature (the integrating unit) from the choice of two alternatives for the starting point. That is to say that the starting point for integration should be sought not in the organization, but in people. The reason for this decision is my contention that organizations have no organic form, and that they can be steered and influenced in a completely differently way than people. In order for the theoretical starting point to function as a explanatory factor, it should provide the location for an active element. I have chosen the individual's striving for development and maturity as the active element or integrating factor in this regard. The integration of individual and organization is fostered to the extent that the individual's striving for development is satisfied within the framework of the organization. I argue that participation is the principle of integration that serves this goal. In conclusion, participation promotes the integration of the individual and organization, and it drives the process of integration in respect to three forms of coordination – coercion, interest, and institutional integration. Submission (the absence of participation) leads to coercion. Negotiation (the preliminary stage of participation) leads to interest integration. Participation, finally, leads to institutional integration.

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Tsekouras, George. "Integration, organisation and management : investigating capability building." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263212.

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ARISI, CLAUDIA. "THE POLITICAL ORGANISATION OF BUSINESS AND WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING: HOW ASSOCIATIONAL FACTORS SHAPE EMPLOYERS' COOPERATION FOR SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/208343.

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Given that business interests have assumed ever-growing importance in welfare state restructuring, and that welfare programmes impose significant costs on firms, when and how can employers decide to actively support the development of contemporary social policy? This thesis shows that specific types of business interest organisation can favour the cooperation of employers for the establishment of new social welfare legislation by mediating between their heterogeneous economic interests and the political target structure, and by governing their collective political mobilisation. Drawing on theories of collective action and neo-corporatist models, the thesis elaborates an original typological framework and assesses it through an historical cross-national study of the role of organised business in the Austrian and Italian severance pay reforms (1990s-2000s). Detail process-tracing and systematic cross-case comparison are used to reconstruct and analyse what motivated and enabled the Austrian business community, but not the Italian one, to decisively promote the use of severance payments for the expansion of supplementary pension funds. Empirically, the thesis finds that differences in the institutional set-up of the national organisation of business interests have shaped divergent governance roles of business in the two countries by making for different organisational capacities of interest coordination and unification on the one hand, and of bargained interest accommodation, on the other. In particular, highly inclusive and cohesive organisational forms of interest representation, like the Austrian ones, have allowed employers’ representatives to contain intra-class interest conflicts and deliver unitary, politically manageable and moderate social policy demands. Moreover, rather stable participation in state regulation (in non-wage policy areas) and high sanction leverage vis-à-vis members have enabled organisational leaders to determine collective social policy goals and strategies quite independently from the short-term interests of employers, and to render organisational decisions binding also for members opposing resistance. In closing, the thesis provides evidence that, even in presence of appropriate institutional arrangements, a remarkable responsibility for building business support for social welfare initiatives rests on the government. Since the latter can bias the contingent conditions of political influence, it can dampen organisations’ cooperative efforts whenever it opts for clientelistic dynamics of policy formation instead of backing the construction of cross-class reform coalitions.

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Stöger, Eduard A. "Integrating apprenticeship training in learning organisations /." Wien [u.a.] : LIT, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/529519984.pdf.

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Chen, Xin. "Adopting emerging integration technologies in organisations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2005. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5159.

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A review of the innovation and diffusion literature indicates a considerable amount of research, where attention is given to a range of features which may support integration technologies adoption. However, some literature suggests that the findings derived from the study of large enterprises cannot be generalised and applied in SMEs due to the distinct characteristics of SMEs. Although the adoption of integration technologies is recognised as being different between large and small companies, the literature on its adoption by SMEs remains limited. Nevertheless, in existing work, there is a lack of studies emphasising the reasons why SMEs and large companies take the decision to adopt integration technologies, focusing specifically on the different factors. This thesis therefore identifies the significant differences in the way that SMEs and large companies approach integration technologies, based on the existing literature, theoretical diffusion theories, and resource-based theory. In doing so, the parameters that can be used to explain the adoption of integration technologies in SMEs and large firms are identified, as nature of organisations, company size, integration needs, adoption factors for SMEs and large organisations, and time. Additionally, adoption factors are found and classified into three categories: adoption factors explicit to SMEs, adoption factors explicit to large organisations, and common factors. Based on this, a conceptual model is introduced to explain the different factors that influence adoption between SMEs and large organisations. The empirical contexts of the research are one project on integration technologies adoption, and four case studies on a large firm and three SMEs, which are analysed using an interpretive and qualitative research approach. The evidence suggests that the empirical data complement the identified dimensions nature of organisations, integration needs, company size and time. The empirical data also confirm that the current integration technologies adoption factors reported in the literature can be classified into common factors, factors explicit to SMEs, and factors explicit to large firms, to support a more comprehensive view of this area. An additional factor perceived future prospect has been considered as an influence on adoption in large organisations. The findings of this research can be useful to guide analysts and researchers in determining critical aspects of the complex issues involved for integration technologies adoption, and lead to suggestions for further valid research.

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Hajro, Aida, Günter K. Stahl, Callen C. Clegg, and Mila B. Lazarova. "Acculturation, coping, and integration success of international skilled migrants: An integrative review and multilevel framework." Wiley, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12233.

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In this article, we review the limited but growing body of research on international skilled migrants and examine to what extent knowledge generated in adjacent research streams-specifically, work on assigned and self-initiated expatriates-can be meaningfully applied to aid our under- standing of the challenges, coping strategies, and acculturation dynamics of skilled migrants. We develop a framework that explains how variables and processes at multiple levels (individual, organisational, and societal) influence migrant acculturation and coping and result in integration-related outcomes in the domains of personal/family life and workplace/career. We discuss directions for future research and implications for practice.

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Nilsson, Hanna. "The role of civil society organisations in labour market integration of young immigrants in Sweden: An analysis of the organisation Right To Play." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414794.

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During the year of 2015 and the large migration wave that hit Europe, many unaccompanied young refugees came to Sweden. For this particular group, the challenge is to become integrated to the labour market in order to receive a permanent residency permit in Sweden after they graduate their upper secondary education. Over the past few years, it has become more evident that the state is not able to handle the integration process alone, and that it is time to shed light on contemporary initiatives deriving from other actors, such as civil society organisations. The question is whether these initiatives have been successful in bringing about change, and in what ways. The purpose of this thesis was therefore to analyse the civil society organisation Right To Play that uses sports as a tool for labour market integration, through the theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship by identifying its rationales, resources, and relations that are used to prompt institutional change. Through three semi-structured interviews and one observation, together with secondary data, a narrative analysis of their stories was conducted. The results showed that the organisation manage to mix a set of strong rationales of sports, labour market integration, and youth agency, to transform the youth from being passive receivers of integration to become active agents and important human resources within the organisation, and to connect the youth with other actors in the society through external relations. The study also concluded that the elements of rationales, resources, and relations, that are used to investigate the power of an organisation to prompt institutional change, also helps the organisation to become resilient in times of crises.

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Lindh, Cecilia. "Business Relationships and Integration of Information Technology." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Business, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-143.

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It is a well-established view that, over time, companies in a business-to-business setting develop long-lasting business relationships. The business relationship between two companies involves a wide range of exchanges on products, technical and economic issues. It also has a social content as it engages people in both companies. Business relationships are, therefore, argued to be founded on a varying extent of exchanges and content of behaviour. This thesis deals with the current and complex issue of the integration of information technology in such business relationships.

Integration in this thesis refers to when information technology is purposefully used and inseparable from the business relationship. A special standardized questionnaire was used to collect extensive empirical data on 353 business relationships between suppliers and one of their important customers. The results of the analysis of the data in the thesis show that high information technology integration, in terms of exchanges and behaviour, increases the efficiency of information exchanges in business relationships. Integration is also connected to the importance of business relationships for the development of information technology and increases a company’s knowledge on this technology. Furthermore, the results show that what is fundamental for the integration of information technology is its combination with the strength of the business relationship. Thereby, the integration of information technology has a wider impact on business relationships than simply facilitating higher efficiency under certain circumstances. It affects the general competence in using information technology, and allows new opportunities for the business relationship and the companies.

Through its rich empirical content, theoretical approach and proximity to current business situations, this thesis is of interest to researchers and students who wish to understand the employment of information technology in business relationships, or for business professionals who want to further understand their situation regarding information technology in order to make decisions about further employment.

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Walker, Tim. "Applying integrative therapeutic approaches across organisational and clinical settings." Thesis, City, University of London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17468/.

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This study used a sequential, primarily explanatory, mixed methods analysis to investigate the relationships between Psychological Inflexibility (the central concept of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ‘ACT’), Early Maladaptive Schemas (a key concept of Schema Therapy) and Burnout, and how these factors might inform appropriate interventions. The first component of this study used an online survey combining the Maslach Burnout Inventory–General Survey (MBI-GS, Maslach et al., 1996), the AAQ-ii (Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, Bond et al., 2011) and the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-S3, Young, 2005), along with additional demographic items. A total of 506 participants completed the survey. Quantitative results demonstrated significant relationships between Psychological Inflexibility, a number of Early Maladaptive Schemas, specific demographic variables, and Burnout. Based on these relationships, a number of regression models were created to explain variance in the three dimensions of Burnout measured (Emotional Exhaustion, Cynicism and Professional Efficacy). Additionally principal components (‘factor’) analysis was used to create a single burnout factor, used in additional regression-modelling. The second component of this study used thematic analysis to analyse data collected from interviews with six therapists experienced in working with symptoms of burnout, three identifying themselves as ACT Therapists and three as Schema Therapists. The analysis of the ACT Therapist data resulted in four superordinate themes: 1) Key ACT Concepts and Burnout, 2) Clinical Observations, 3) Assessment and Intervention Principles, and 4) Intervention Specifics. The analysis of the Schema Therapist data also resulted in four superordinate themes: 1) Coping styles, 2) Schema Modes, 3) Understanding Burnout - The Clinician’s Perspective, and 4) Formulation and Intervention. The results from both components are discussed in the context of published literature, relevance to counselling psychology, potential interventions and opportunities for future research.

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von, Haartman Robin. "Externa integration and the need for manufacturing competence." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4467.

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For a number of years, manufacturers have increasingly focused on their perceived core competencies and outsourced activities not seen as such. In doing so there are an increasing number of competencies that fall outside the ‘core’ domain but are nonetheless required for effective product and process development. The proposed solution to this problem has been external integration with an emphasis on collaborative product or process development and also the wider concept of supply chain management. It is, however, not always easy to substitute internal competencies with customers’ and suppliers’ capabilities. Many authors have focused on finding the prerequisites for effective external integration and particularly on areas such as trust and power.

This thesis contributes to the literature by extending the concept of absorptive capacity into the manufacturing domain and in the context of external integration. A conceptual framework is developed, where different streams of the literature have been merged into one coherent model. Integral parts of this framework are the concept of absorptive capacity as well as a model of competitive priorities. Competitive priorities have been taken into account as firms differ; what contributes to competitive advantage for one firm may be irrelevant for another.

Three papers are included in the thesis. The first one uses survey data, from a representative sample of the Swedish manufacturing industry, in order to validate the concept of absorptive capacity in the manufacturing sector. The second paper also uses survey data but aims to shed some light on competitive priorities’ impact on both the extent and the outcome of internal and external integration. The third paper describes a case study of a first-tier supplier and aims to illustrate how absorptive capacity in a manufacturing firm may look in practice.

The thesis concludes that the conceptual framework is indeed useful for understanding the challenges of effective external integration. Internal manufacturing competencies may allow a firm to integrate more effectively external sources, but the required competencies may vary from firm to firm. This implies a need for a fit between companies’ competitive priorities, external integration and absorptive capacity. It also implies that companies may struggle to achieve competitive advantage by utilising their customers and suppliers if they do not simultaneously develop appropriate competencies in-house.

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Morissette, Raymond. "Toward a theory of information choices in organisations, an integrative approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21371.pdf.

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Hedlund, Jessica. "Integration inom kommunal kulturverksamhet : En studie om organisation och institutionell teori." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130224.

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Integration in municipal cultural activities – A study on organization and institutional theory. The purpose of the study is to provide knowledge on how local municipal cultural activities and civil servants understand and work with integration. The study is characterized as a case study. It is based on two selected local municipal cultural activities. Officials from each municipal cultural activities were interviewed for the paper. Documents from the cultural units and from municipal cultural units represent empirical material. The paper shows certain aspects that are important among the officials when they discuss integration in relation to cultural activities. Officials reconnect to the outside world’s importance to translate integration in relation to culture. The current social climate incorporated when cultural activities molded and planning cultural activities. It emerges from informants that new events or storytelling has been used to address the need to indorse the integration of newcomers.

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Oskarsson, Hanna, and Selma Topalovic. "Organisationens resa mot omnikanalstrategi : En studie om implementering av omnikanal och de utmaningar det kan innebära." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157970.

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Bakgrund: Digitaliseringen har bidragit till nya kommunikationsvägar och förbättrade produkter och tjänster. Möjligheterna som kommer med digitaliseringen leder till ökade krav på en sömlös shoppingupplevelse. Det ställer krav på företagen att uppdatera sina strategier och anpassa organisationen för att lyckas tillmötesgå kundens behov. Omnikanal är en strategi som vuxit fram i samband med digitaliseringen. Fenomenet är dock fortfarande ett oexploaterat område och avsaknad forskning på organisationens perspektiv. Därmed är det av intresse att undersöka strategin i praktiken. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att skapa en djupare förståelse för omnikanal och den organisatoriska påverkan en implementering kan innebära, samt identifiera de utmaningar inom organisationen som företag upplever. Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ flerfallstudie med ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv och abduktiv ansats. Det empiriska materialet samlades in genom åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju fallföretag där intervjuguide med öppna frågor baserades på teman anpassade efter studiens syfte. Slutsats: Studien visar att teorins definition på begreppet omnikanal inte alltid har samma innebörd som praktikernas, men att det är viktigare att uppnå målet med strategin än att identifiera sig med en teoretisk definition. Implementeringen påverkar organisationen genom omorganisering till mer decentraliserade strukturer. Införandet av nya enheter eller krossfunktionella team för att säkerställa bättre kommunikation anses också som en viktig påverkan. Många av de påverkande faktorerna är dock också de främsta utmaningarna där teknik, kompetens och internkonkurrens hämmar arbetet mot omnikanal.
Background: Digitalisation has contributed to new communications and improved products and services. The opportunities that comes with digitalisation leads to increased demand for a seamless shopping experience. It places demands on the companies to update their strategies and adjust the organisation in order to succeed in meeting the customer’s needs. Omnichannel is a strategy that has emerged in connection with digitalisation. The phenomenon is still an unexplored area and there is lack of research on organisations perspective which makes it of interest to study the strategy in practice. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to create deeper understanding of omnichannel and the organisational impact an implementation can entail, and also identify the challenges within the organisation that companies experience. Methodology: The study is a qualitative multiple case study with a phenomenological perspective and abductive approach. For the data collection, eight semi-structured interviews with seven case companies has been conducted. The interview guide included open questions based on themes adapted to the purpose of the study. Conclusion: The result of the study shows that the definition of the term omnichannel do not always have the same content in theory as for practitioners and that it is more important to achieve the goal of the strategy rather than to identify with a theoretical definition. The implementation affects the organisation through reorganisation into more decentralized structures. The introduction of new units or cross-functional teams to ensure better communication is also considered as an important impact. Many of the influencing factors, however, are also the main challenges where technology, competence and internal competition obstruct the work against omnichannel.

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Nübel, Ilke. "Integration von E-Learning und Wissensmanagement : Wege zur lernenden Organisation /." Aachen : Shaker, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014595626&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Krystek, Nicole, and Malin Näsström. "Ständiga Förbättringar av Ledningssystem : Organisation och Arbetsprocess för Skanska Sverige." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-125044.

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Schuster, Michael. "Integration von Organisationen : ein Beitrag zur theoretischen Fundierung /." Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 2005. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=3824483556.

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Williams, Philip Iestyn. "Incomplete contracts, control rights and integration decisions in economic organisations." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3049/.

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This thesis comprises an introduction and four distinct chapters. Its central theme is the role played by the allocation of asset ownership rights in motivating asset-specific investment, when contracts are incomplete. Chapter 1 considers the debt financing of an entrepreneurial project. To encourage asset-specific investment and loan repayment, debt structure should minimise both (voluntary) strategic default and liquidation following (unavoidable) liquidity default. Liquidation incentives are critical and shown to depend crucially on creditor characteristics. In general, borrowing from multiple creditors with contrasting attributes is found optimal. The benefits of borrowing from a creditor also undertaking project trade are explored. In Chapter 2 the relationship between asset ownership and investment specificity is examined. Asset control encourages efficient, asset-specific investment by owners. However, lock-in fears lead non-owners to choose widely applicable but less effective investment. The interactions between asset ownership, firms' technology choices and workers' investments are considered. In particular, it is found that the costs and benefits of individual integration decisions are sensitive to overall industry structure. The specificity framework is extended in Chapter 3 to model a retailer's product choice. Vertical merger encourages investment in integrated supply and foreclosure of non-integrated manufacturers. An anti-competitive as opposed to an efficiency interpretation depends delicately on the trade-off between the benefits of supplier-specific investment and multi-product retailing. Where retailers compete, it is shown that vertical integration implements effective competition-reducing differentiation strategies. In Chapter 4 vertical integration, through the incentive effects of asset ownership, is shown to amount to a specialisation decision. The attractions of encouraging investment in input as opposed to final good production depend on the effectiveness of investment at each manufacturing stage, and the scale benefits of input sales to generally rivalrous downstream firms. These benefits are sensitive to downstream competitive pressures, yielding a potentially non-monotonic relationship between competition and integration.

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Themistocleous, Marinos G. "Evaluating the adoption of enterprise application integration in multinational organisations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5524.

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A review of normative literature, in the field of Information Systems (IS) integration, indicates that traditional approaches to applications integration have failed to result in flexible and maintainable IT infrastructures. In addressing this issue, a new technology called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) has emerged and addresses most of integration problems by resulting in the development of reusable and manageable IT infrastructures. Enterprise application integration is a new research area with many research issues needing to be investigated. At this end, EAI adoption has not efficiently studied with organisations and researchers needing to understand and analyse EAI adoption. This work examines the introduction of enterprise application integration in multinational organisations and proposes a novel model for its adoption. The model is based on a comprehensive set of factors that influence the introduction of EAI in organisations. Since there is an absence of theoretical models for EAI adoption, the proposed model adapts factors that influence the adoption of other integration technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDT). Additional factors like an evaluation framework that supports decision making have been considered by the author as factors that influence EAI adoption. In moving from the conceptual to the empirical, the work is based on a qualitative case study approach to examine the concepts of the proposed model for the adoption of EAI. In doing so, two case studies were conducted at multinational organisations and presented and analysed. However, during the empirical research complementary factors also emerged, which resulted in modifications being made to the previously presented conceptual model. In interpreting from empirical data, it appears that ten main factors influence the adoption of EAT namely: (a) benefits; (b) barriers; (c) costs; (d) internal pressures; (e) external pressures; (f) IT infrastructure; (g) IT sophistication; (h) an evaluation framework for the assessment of integration technologies; (i) evaluation framework for the assessment of EAT packages and, (j) support. The proposed model makes novel contribution at two levels. First, at the conceptual level, as it incorporates factors identified separately in previous studies as influencing adoption of other integration technologies. These factors are used for the development of a consistent model for the adoption and evaluation of EAT. Secondly, the concepts of the proposed model can be used for the adoption of inter-organisational information systems. The proposed model can be used as a decision-making tool to support management when taking decisions regarding the adoption of EAI. Additionally, it can be used by researchers to analyse and understand the adoption of application integration.

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Young, Margaret. "Piloting a scale of social integration in South African organisations." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31699.

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“Social integration” is a construct referred to in workgroup and organisational research, in particular in research focused on understanding workplace diversity. The present research examined how the social integration construct could be more clearly conceptualised and measured in the South African context. Guided by Hinkin’s (1998) scale development framework, the research seeks to contribute to the early stages of the development of a scale of social integration, suited for use in South African workplaces. Items were generated theoretically, leading to a final pool of 72 items. 620 usable responses were received from individuals employed in organisations in South Africa and this sample was randomly split into two samples of 310 participants each: a “calibration” and “validation” sample. On the calibration sample, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted in order to examine emerging first- and higher-order latent variable structures. EFA led to the development of a first-order, seven-factor model. Exploratory extension analysis generated three possible higher-order latent variable structures. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), both the first- and higher-order models were fitted to the “validation” sample to test if the models generalised to a second sample drawn from the same population. Results indicated that the first-order model demonstrated an adequate fit, as well as two of the three higher-order models. The fit of these two higher-order models did not differ significantly. Post-hoc analyses determined that, while social integration can be considered a meaningful higherorder construct, the construct has theoretical rather than practical relevance for researchers. Responses to the proposed scale of social integration should be interpreted at the level of the identified first-order constructs rather than as a single scale representing the higher order, abstract social integration construct. The generalisability and contextual nature of the research findings, suggestions for future research, and the theoretical and practical limitations of the present research are discussed.

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Lochbrunner, Veronika. "Integrating Trends into Strategy Formation." St. Gallen, 2006. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/00645168002/$FILE/00645168002.pdf.

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Henrico, Hendrik Salidoor. "Integrating the transforming organisation with the global market / by Hendrik Salidoor Henrico." Thesis, North-West University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2512.

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Nübel, Ilke [Verfasser]. "Integration von E-Learning und Wissensmanagement : Wege zur lernenden Organisation / Ilke Nübel." Aachen : Shaker, 2005. http://d-nb.info/1186577037/34.

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Polyak, S. "An integration framework for managing rich organisational process knowledge." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.660668.

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The problem we have addressed in this dissertation is that of designing a pragmatic framework for integrating the synthesis and management of organisational process knowledge which is based on domain-independent Al planning and plan representations. Our solution has focused on a set of framework components which provide methods, tools and representations to accomplish this task. In the framework we address a life-cycle of this knowledge which begins with a methodological approach to acquiring information about the process domain. We show that this initial domain specification can be translated into a common constraint-based model of activity (based on the work of Tate, 1996) which can then be operationalized for use in an Al planner. This model of activity is ontologically underpinned and may be expressed with a flexible and extensible language based on a sorted first-order logic. Synthesised or modified processes/plans can be translated to and from the common representation in order to support knowledge sharing, visualisation and mixed-initiative interaction. This work united past and present Edinburgh research on planning and infused it with perspectives from design rationale, requirements engineering, and process knowledge sharing. The implementation has been applied to a portfolio of scenarios which include process examples from business, manufacturing, construction and military operations.

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Hoffmann, Judith. "Die Integration Südosteuropas : die Demokratisierungspolitik europäischer Organisationen in Albanien /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990657779/04.

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Groen, Bernard Maarten. "Complex organisational integration : a case study of health and social care integration in England." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11270/.

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This dissertation aims to provide a strong contribution to the public debate which centres on health and social care integration in England. With ever increasing demands on the health and social care system, politicians have championed the integration between the two sectors as a major element to cope with this challenge. Indeed, verbal opposition to this policy is scarce, yet integration efforts do not tend to be readily observable and wide-spread. Moreover, service redesign efforts cost multiple millions of pounds, therefore, what could be done to improve these processes is critical and pertinent at this time of great challenge for our care services. The main objective of the goal-directed research in this dissertation is to uncover to what extent social psychological processes play a role in this seeming ‘disconnect’ between what people ‘say’ and what they actually ‘do’. To create this insight, a series of five social studies were designed using a mixed research methods approach, using new and interactive technology to capture this data. A total of sixty-three individuals volunteered to participate in the study. The results indicate that comparatively healthcare participants indicate higher levels of social empathy, social perspective taking, and willingness to reach out and share funding with those in social care during the explicit studies. Yet, the implicit data suggest a moderate to strong automatic preference for healthcare over social care by participants from the healthcare sector. The findings in this cast a certain doubt over the use of traditional behavioural analysis techniques such as surveys and interviews. We provide a way forward to increase the validity of these methods and provide recommendations for policy for health and social care integration in England.

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Lawrence, Sandra A. "An integrative model of perceived available support, organisational stress and support mobilisation /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19277.pdf.

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Wickstrøm, Jensen Kent. "Knowledge-integration networks in product development /." [Odense] : Univ. Press of Southern Denmark, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/518770052.pdf.

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Perlinski, Marek. "Skilda världar : specialisering eller integration i socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-37663.

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The general objective of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how specialised respective integrated forms of organisation in the Swedish Personal Social Services (PSS) condition social workers’ interventions and client effects (outcomes). The three specific questions are: 1) How are structural conditions for social work with clients created in specialised versus integrated (generic) forms of organising PSS? 2) How do social workers carry out their work with clients in specialised versus integrated (generic) PSS-organisations? 3) How do different organisational models of PSS influence the results for clients? The research was conducted in three Swedish municipalities with different organisational models within the personal social services: 1) specialised organisation, 2) integrated organisation, and 3) a “combined” organisation with a mix between integration and specialisation. The research had a complex design. It was carried on as comparative case study. Data was collected in several different ways: 1) by means of survey among social workers, 2) by interviewing politicians, mangers and social workers, 3) focus groups consisting of social workers, 4) by collecting official documents, guidelines etc. 5) by mapping of the organisation of social services in the municipalities by means of analyse of their homepages and additional interviews by telephone. The data were analysed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The main results in this dissertation are: 1) In the majority of Swedish municipalities the PSS are nowadays specialized. 2) The formal organizational structure of PSS is always challenged by the employees’ spontaneous organising process that goes in an opposite direction. 3) Only the integrated (generic) organisation emphasizes social workers professional competence and knowledge. 4) Social workers, as a professional group, have the collective power to (to a certain degree) influence political decisions on what kind of PSS organisation is chosen in their municipality. 5) Regardless of organisation model, social workers’ method use is more unspecific than specific. 6) Social workers, in general, place significantly more weight on working with clients’ relationships and aspects of trust than on (specific or unspecific) working methods. 7) A holistic (generic) view of a client can only exist in a direct relationship between social worker and the individual and a unique client. It seems difficult to build in holism into primarily specialised organisations. 8) One may question whether a specialised organisation leads to specialisation of its employees in a way that they become experts on specific problems. The three organisational models are not equally good. Neither the specialised organisation nor the combined organisation is able to create economic or organisational conditions for working with clients that are clearly experienced as good. This also holds true for assessment of need, possibilities to make relevant interventions, such as building relationships. Those two organisations show several deficits regarding work with clients.
Specialisering eller integration av socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg. Effekter på insatser och resultat.

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Canty, Martin Neil. "Marine pollution and echinoderms : a biomarker study integrating different levels of biological organisation." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1310.

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There is growing concern that the invertebrate test organisms commonly employed in the field of aquatic ecotoxicology may not be sufficient to accurately screen for the possible deleterious effects of contaminants discharged into the marine environment. The use of echinoderms has been proposed to redress this problem, due to their ecological importance and their evolutionary closeness to the chordates. But to date, there is a paucity of data in the published literature which has utilised the adult stages of echinoderms in laboratory based toxicology studies. The present studies aimed to fill this lack of information. A suite of biomarkers which operated at different levels of biological organisation (sub-cellular, cellular and individual level) were identified for use with different echinoderm species (the common sea star, Asterias rubens, the purple sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus and the common brittle star, Ophiothrix fragilis). These biomarkers used were micronucleus induction, the Comet assay, the modified Comet assay, phagocytosis, neutral red retention, clearance rate and righting time. Concurrent exposures showed that echinoderms were more sensitive to model contaminants than a commonly used sentinel ecotoxicological test species, namely the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. These contaminants included: the reference toxicants hydrogen peroxide (Chapter 2) and methyl methanesul phonate (Chapter 3); a pharmaceutical, cyclophosphamide (Chapter 3); a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, benzo(a)pyrene (Chapter 4) and a heavy metal, cadmium (Chapter 5). The results for all the exposures showed that the biomarkers which operated at the lower levels of biological organisation (i. e. at the subcellular level – namely the micronucleus and Comet assays) were the most sensitive at detecting the deleterious effects of the contaminants. But, interestingly, some strong correlations were found between these sub-cellular consequences and those that operated at higher levels of biological organisation (for example, between righting time and both micronucleus induction and Comet assay in Asterias rubens following cyclophosphamide exposure). Theses correlations suggest that biomarkers which operate at the whole organism level (namely righting time and clearance rate) may serve as rapid and accurate indicators of possible damage induced by xenobiotics in echinoderms and bivalve molluscs.

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Berri, Bersisa Gutema. "Exploring the integration and application of knowledge in a charitable non-government organisation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5647/.

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Although the strategic importance of knowledge is widely recognised, there is no unified concept of the characteristics and role of knowledge within organisations, and the process of knowledge application remains theoretically underdeveloped. Organisations therefore often lack clear frameworks for integrating and applying their dispersed knowledge. Using a case study in international development non-government organisation, this study describes the nature of knowledge in an organisation and explores Knowledge Integration (KI) and application from multiple stages-multiple factors perspective. Data was gathered from 42 individual interviews, document analysis and participant observations and analysed using template analysis technique. The findings show that knowledge in an organisation is seen as continuously evolving holistic variable resource. KI and application is a complex process and influenced by multiple and interrelated individual knowledge sharing behaviours, organisational knowledge governance practices and informal social interactions characteristics. This study introduced new ‘multiple stages- multiple factors approach’ to KI and application process. From a practical perspective, this study provides managers with better understanding of the features of knowledge in organisations and clarifies how knowledge dispersed in an organisation can be effectively and efficiently integrated and applied to accomplish organisational tasks and enhance competitive advantage. Limitations of this study are noted together with proposed directions for future research.

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Louw, Hendrik Johannes. "Integrating management and employee expectations in determining organisation-specific performance appraisal systems' design." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04292009-131712/.

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Skild, Fredrik, Men Thai, and Johan Älverdal. "Inter-organisational Application Integration : Developing Guidelines Using Multi Grounded Theory." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-641.

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Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory, coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings, productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology, business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally. However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions coordinating the uniform communication is vital.

Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.

Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.

Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level when working with Application Integration.

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Hämäläinen, Thomas, and Hillevi Strömberg. "Vägen till kontinuerliga leveranser : En fallstudie om continuous delivery och DevOps i en offentlig organisation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-120739.

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Information system development projecs are often considered a costly and uncertain process were projects often exceed the scheduled time and budget. By continuously integrating source code and do regular builds problems can be discovered almost directly and thus minimizing the cost to fix them. In this qualitative study we have focused on which challenges a large public organization who cooperate with an external provider can face when adopting continuous integration and continuous delivery. We have interviewed six employees within the organisation and two employees from the external provider, who are all in some way connected to the software development process. The results showed that our interviewees are interested in agile software development and to be able to deliver high quality software continuously. We also found that the software development process is complex and has a lot of barriers and handovers that slows the process down. Our conclusion is that the organization needs to change their approach to software development. To achieve this the organisation needs to adopt Devops, which means erasing the barriers between development and operations.

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Colosio, Valerio. "'The children of the people' : integration and descent in a former slave reservoir in Chad." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/79652/.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the social legacies of slavery in the Guéra region, in central Chad. The topic of the legacy of slavery in the Sahel is receiving increasing attention from both local and global civil society, as well as from scholars. This thesis aims to contribute to these debates, connecting post-slavery issues with the new models of governance developed in the Sahel since the 1990s, and the increasing competition for resources through mobilising ethnic categories. It argues that as the recognition of citizenship rights tends to be related to specific identities, slave ancestry becomes a political tool that is used in different ways. Based on nine months of fieldwork in Guéra, the thesis explores the complex interactions between a group that is widely seen as slave descendants, Yalnas, meaning “the sons of the people” in Chadian Arabic, and their neighbours. Until it came under French rule in 1911 the Guéra region acted as an effective “reservoir” of slaves for the neighbouring Wadai sultanate, whose warriors regularly took captives from among the scattered groups of local farmers. After the colonial regime's abolition of slavery, the opportunities for former slaves and the social dynamics related to this were different from those in areas inhabited by former slave-holders. In this context, the ethnonym Yalnas initially facilitated the integration of former slaves locally, whereas today it used to criticize the rights of its members, to the point that people called Yalnas are trying to get rid of this label. The thesis analyses the narratives of the past of both the Yalnas and other local groups. It brings together the stories recounted by elders and archival sources with contemporary political tensions, to explore the ongoing importance of the presumed past of the Yalnas as slaves. In Guéra, it was relatively easy for slave-descendants to be accepted among other local groups and intermarry with them. However, Yalnas' integration has been built on contradictions that make their status ambiguous. This ambiguity is central to current contestations over land and citizenship. Since the reforms of the 1990s, a range of new local associations have formed in Guéra. These are used by local leaders to consolidate support and distribute resources on an ethnic basis. In this context, the past of the Yalnas as former slaves has been used as an argument to exclude them from the opportunities created by these associations. In these struggles, narratives about the past are used by all groups as political tools and are critical to secure citizenship rights. A focus on the label Yalnas and its changing uses over time provides important insights about the connection between slavery, identity and citizenship in a former slave.

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Aytar, Osman. "Mångfaldens organisering : om integration, organisationer och interetniska relationer i Sverige /." Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis (AUS) : Universitetsbiblioteket [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1413.

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Wickramaarachchi, Wickrama Arachchilage Deepthi Nilmini. "Contextual determinants of intrapreneurial behaviour: An integrative perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211244/1/Wickrama%20Arachchilage%20Deepthi_Wickramaarachchi_Thesis.pdf.

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Intrapreneurs, who are entrepreneurially thinking employees, and their behaviour are the foundation of organisational innovation, renewal and the resulting competitive advantage of firms. The complex nature of intrapreneurial behaviour (IB) suggests that there could be numerous factors that influence IB and the question of what motivates it has been debated over decades. In this thesis, the contextual determinants of IB were explored in an integrative perspective considering organisational, individual and socio-cultural factors in Sri Lanka, a country where the socio-cultural influence is significant for individual behaviours. This was achieved by adopting a qualitative, multiple case study approach.

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Älverdal, Johan, Fredrik Skild, and Men Thai. "Inter-organisational Application Integration : Developing Guidelines Using Multi Grounded Theory." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-283.

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Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory,

coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings,

productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology,

business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally.

However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information

exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions

coordinating the uniform communication is vital.

Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define

a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.

Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local

IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.

Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration

content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level

when working with Application Integration.

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Aytar, Osman. "Mångfaldens organisering : Om integration, organisationer och interetniska relationer i Sverige." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1413.

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The aim of this dissertation is to examine inter-ethnic relations between organizationally active people with different ethnic backgrounds. I focus on relations that are based on a mutual interdependence between parties, mutual respect, common procedural rules, real opportunities that expressly approve or reject a proposal in a decision or deliberation situation free from compulsion, where people, who have different ethnic backgrounds, strive after insight and understanding in their relations. In this dissertation I present three empirical cases about cooperation, consultation and participation as forms of inter-ethnic relations from the organizational fields in the society. These cases are examples of what I characterize as “organizing inter-ethnicity”, or organizing people with different ethnic backgrounds around common concerns. Organizing inter-ethnicity is in turn a part of organizing and integrating diversity in society. Drawing on the results of three case studies, I distinguish between opportunities and barriers. My case studies clearly illustrate that the tensions that influence the patterns of and variation in opportunities and barriers have sources that reach well beyond ethnicity. Tensions between old and new organizations, between working immigrant organizations and refugee organizations, between organizations from same group or between organizations that have conflicts from their members’ countries of origin provide some examples of the difficulties that generate barriers to broad interest constellations between organizations.

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Hartmann, Stefan. "The relevance of internal communication in contexts of organisational integration." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2007. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19764/.

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This study has examined the relevance of internal communication in contexts of organisational integration ('merger communication'). Today, mergers and acquisitions represent a key means of growth. The fundamental impacts of mergers on the people within the affected organisations are, however, frequently underestimated. Many difficulties experienced in mergers appear to be the result of misguided communication founded on a lack of understanding of the underlying communication processes. Previous research and practice on merger communication may have relied too heavily on transmission-oriented approaches which insufficiently address the complexities of merger scenarios. The present study adopts the philosophical commitments associated with 'critical theory' and 'critical realism'. In methodological terms, a qualitative, interpretive approach was used for the research. The data analysis was split into two parts: the first part involved data collection and analysis using grounded theory. As a result a new theory of merger communication was induced. Primary data was obtained by interviewing 32 subjects who were involved or affected by merger integration. Subjects questioned had differing backgrounds, occupied various positions and gained experience in different organisations. The second part of the research involved a broadly-based literature review which, detached from grounded theory principles, served to corroborate the findings from the primary data analysis. The study found that merger communication involves reciprocal interaction processes. During these processes, fields of joint and socially constructed views are produced. Overall, the study advances communication theory which has been empirically tested in merger settings, i.e. there was an examination of the interplay between communication and organisational integration. As a result the field of cultural communication, a route within communication theory, has been furnished with an explanatory approach which extends current understanding of shared meaning relationships. The mergers and acquisitions theory on the other hand is confronted with the finding that an instrumental approach to communication is of limited use only. While a few academics in the area of mergers and acquisitions have regarded merger communication as involving the sharing of meanings none have developed this idea any further with an overarching model.

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Leitner, Talitha. "Corporate design principles to integrate digital nomads in post-bureaucratic organisations." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18188.

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Experts predict that more than one billion people will adapt to the lifestyle of digital nomads until 2035. Digital nomadism is a new lifestyle and employment oportunity and arises from the combination of reliable and affordable technology and the increasing mobility of employees. Digital nomads spend at least a few months per year abroad, change their destination frequently, and earn their living with digital jobs. Retaining and developing these digital nomads are one of the biggest challenges for companies in the future. They have to find new solutions to match labour supply and demand in the digital era. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the strategic posture of corporate organisations towards digital nomadism and to develop suitable design principles to successfully integrate digital nomads into the corporate environment, which has not been research yet. The derived research aim of this study is threefold. The first objective is to identify and analyse the motivational drivers of corporate organisations to integrate digital nomads. Second, this thesis aims at clarifying the nature of potential challenges while integrating digital nomads. Third, design principles for corporate organisations are developed to propose a smooth integration process of digital nomads. Due to a lack of theoretical and empirical insights, a qualitative, explorative approach was employed to achieve the established research aims. Accordingly, nine interviews with digital nomads and companies employing digital nomads were conducted. The analysis of transcripts reveals two major motivations of corporate organisations to integrate digital nomads, namely (1) Proactive Motivations and (2) Reactive Motivations . Similarly, there are two main categories of challenges for corporate organisations to integrate digital nomads, namely (1) Organisational Challenges and (2) Social Challenges . These corporate motivations and challenges were enriched by digital nomads’ perspectives to create a more sophisticated picture. Finally, five design principles: (1) Corporate Culture, (2) Career Planning, (3) Govern ance, (4) Performance Measurement and (5) Tools at Work were derived to help corporate organisations to successfully integrate digital nomads. This study contributes to both theory and practice by bringing more clarity to the understanding of this newly emerged phenomenon.
Os especialistas preveem que, até 2035, mais de 1 bilhão de pessoas se adaptarão ao estilo de vida dos nómadas digitais. O nomadismo digital constitui um estilo de vida e uma oportunidade de emprego novos, emergindo da combinação entre a tecnologia acessível e de confiança e a crescente mobilidade dos trabalhadores. Os nómadas digitais passam, pelo menos, alguns meses por ano no estrangeiro, mudam o seu destino com frequência e ganham a vida com trabalhos digitais. A retenção e o desenvolvimento destes nómadas digitais apresenta-se como um dos maiores desafios para as empresas no futuro. Estas veem-se obrigadas a encontrar novas soluções para harmonizar a oferta e a procura de trabalho na era digital. O objetivo da presente tese é a investigação da postura estratégica das organizações empresariais relativamente ao nomadismo digital, bem como o desenvolvimento de princípios de conceção adequados que permitam integrar com êxito os nómadas digitais no ambiente empresarial, assunto que ainda carece de investigação. O presente estudo possui três objetivos de investigação daí resultantes. O primeiro objetivo é a identificação e a análise dos fatores catalisadores no seio das organizações empresariais que as levam a integrar os nómadas digitais. Em segundo lugar, a presente tese visa esclarecer a natureza dos potenciais desafios aliados à integração dos nómadas digitais. Em terceiro lugar, são desenvolvidos princípios de conceção para organizações empresariais, no sentido de propor um processo de integração harmoniosa dos nómadas digitais. Devido à ausência de perspetivas teóricas e empíricas, optou-se por uma abordagem qualitativa e exploratória, a fim de alcançar os objetivos estabelecidos para o presente estudo. Nesse sentido, foram realizadas nove entrevistas com nómadas digitais e com empresas que os empregam. A análise do conteúdo das entrevistas revela duas motivações principais por parte das organizações empresariais em integrar nómadas digitais, designadamente, (1) Motivações proativas e (2) Motivações reativas. Da mesma forma, existem duas categorias principais de desafios colocados às organizações empresariais ao integrar nómadas digitais, designadamente, (1) Desafios organizacionais e (2) Desafios sociais. Estes desafios e motivações por parte das empresas foram enriquecidos pelas perspetivas dos próprios nómadas digitais, para criar uma imagem mais sofisticada. Por último, são apresentados cinco princípios de conceção: (1) Cultura empresarial, (2) Planeamento da carreira, (3) Governação, (4) Avaliação do desempenho e (5) Ferramentas de trabalho, que visam ajudar as organizações empresariais a integrar com sucesso os nómadas digitais. A contribuição do presente estudo é tanto teórica como prática, ao tornar mais clara a compreensão deste fenómeno recente.

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Rudhult, Maria. "Herding cats: Understanding the difficulties of European integration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256334.

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The study is set out to contribute to an increased understanding of the structural problems that cause difficulties for the European Union to achieve common action, and contests the assumption that a permanent presidency of the European Council will solve these issues. This study describes the European Union as a meta-organisation and through organisational theory to understand the issue. It also reviews the original purpose of the European Coal and Steel Community to provide a historical understanding of the European Union as a meta-organisation. This study finds that the issues causing difficulties to achieve common action and to speak with one voice stems from inherent conflict of autonomy between the EU and its member states. The European Union’s misguided assumptions that increased authority through the appointment of a President will increase its decision-making abilities. As this research shows the European Union’s attempts to increase its authority is constantly met with member states unwillingness to give the increased authority at the price of their autonomy.

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Ejeleva, Irina. "Skanska: från monokultur till mångfald." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1313.

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Regeringen förordar och Svensk Näringsliv förespråkar om mångfald och nolldiskriminering på arbetsplatsen. Det leder till att organisationer riktar sin verksamhet till mångfald, där kunskaperna bedömas inte efter kön, ursprung, trosuppfattningar eller hudfärg, utan individuellt förmåga att prestera.

Många företag har redan tagit en stor del av denna förändring men vissa fortfarande agerar med stort försiktighet. Bland de företagen som tåg medvetet steg att förändra är Skanska som är en av de aktörerna inom byggbranschen.

För själva företaget sådan övergång innebär förändringar inom organisationen, snarare sagt förändringen av kulturen inom företaget och integrationen av de nya normerna. Hur väl lyckas organisationer att implementera nerskrivna normer och förverkliga sina mål är teman för den här undersökningen. Undersökningen riktar sig till att följa upp och förstå effekterna av företagets övergång från en typ av organisationskultur som uppfattas som maskulin och monokulturell till en annan som är mångfald och heterogen.

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Thomson, James William Hugh. "Prolegomenon to a political economy of intelligence and security : can microeconomic analysis explain success or failure in intelligence cooperation?" Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11668.

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The governmental functions of security and intelligence require a number of distinct organisations and functions to interact in a symbiotic way. Because the external environment is uncertain and complex, these organisations must constantly negotiate with each other to establish which of them addresses which issue, and with what resources. Coasian principles suggest that if there are no transacting costs and property rights are clear, then such negotiations should lead to an overall maximisation of the benefits gained (in this case better security and intelligence provision), yet this is rarely realised. By coupling the transaction cost theory devised by Oliver Williamson in 1975 with a range of alternate theoretical perspectives that impact on these areas of governance, an institutional costs approach is developed. By increasing the resolution of the analysis whilst still retaining a comprehensive overview, the frictions that hinder negotiated cooperation become apparent. The two cases of counterterrorism and defence intelligence in both the United Kingdom and the United States are then used to test and refine the institutional costs paradigm that results. These demonstrate that orthodox views of good cooperation in the former and poor cooperation in the latter are overly simplistic, as neither is necessarily more disposed to behave cooperatively than the other; rather, the institutional costs environment that their respective organisational architectures create incentivises different cooperative behaviour in different circumstances. The analysis also shows that the impact of the various factors that make up the institutional costs paradigm is in fact far more nuanced in these areas than is evident in earlier transaction costs scholarship. Their relevance differs by type as well as degree. Institutional costs analysis therefore provides the beginnings of a political economy for cooperative working in the intelligence and security spheres of governance.

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Kunz, Regina. "Die schulische Versorgung zugewanderter Kinder und Jugendlicher in Deutschland : Organisation, Förderung und psycho-soziale Betreuung /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990446980/04.

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Zannoli, Marina. "Organisation de l'espace audiovisuel tridimensionnel." Phd thesis, Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00789816.

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Le terme stéréopsie renvoie à la sensation de profondeur qui est perçue lorsqu'une scène est vue de manière binoculaire. Le système visuel s'appuie sur les disparités horizontales entre les images projetées sur les yeux gauche et droit pour calculer une carte des différentes profondeurs présentes dans la scène visuelle. Il est communément admis que le système stéréoscopique est encapsulé et fortement contraint par les connexions neuronales qui s'étendent des aires visuelles primaires (V1/V2) aux aires intégratives des voies dorsales et ventrales (V3, cortex temporal inférieur, MT). A travers quatre projets expérimentaux, nous avons étudié comment le système visuel utilise la disparité binoculaire pour calculer la profondeur des objets. Nous avons montré que le traitement de la disparité binoculaire peut être fortement influencé par d'autres sources d'information telles que l'occlusion binoculaire ou le son. Plus précisément, nos résultats expérimentaux suggèrent que : (1) La stéréo de da Vinci est résolue par un mécanisme qui intègre des processus de stéréo classiques (double fusion), des contraintes géométriques (les objets monoculaires sont nécessairement cachés à un œil, par conséquent ils sont situés derrière le plan de l'objet caché) et des connaissances à priori (une préférence pour les faibles disparités). (2) Le traitement du mouvement en profondeur peut être influencé par une information auditive : un son temporellement corrélé avec une cible définie par le mouvement stéréo peut améliorer significativement la recherche visuelle. Les détecteurs de mouvement stéréo sont optimalement adaptés pour détecter le mouvement 3D mais peu adaptés pour traiter le mouvement 2D. (3) Grouper la disparité binoculaire avec un signal auditif dans une dimension orthogonale (hauteur tonale) peut améliorer l'acuité stéréo d'approximativement 30%

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