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Gareis, Roland. "Management in the project-oriented society." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2002. http://epub.wu.ac.at/814/1/document.pdf.
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A society, which applies frequently projects and programmes, and which provides project management-related education, research and marketing services, can be perceived as a project-oriented society (POS). More projects and programmes are performed in industry but also in new social areas, such as (small) municipalities, associations, schools and even families. "Management by Projects" becomes a macro-economic strategy of the society, to cope with complexity and dynamics and to ensure quality of the project results. In order to ensure international competitiveness through professionally managed projects and programmes more individuals and more organisations in the society have to be familiar with project management principles. Project and programme management competences are required not only in the industry but also in these new areas of application. A "project management cross-over" between business life and private life can be organised explicitly, to develop project management competences in families, schools, small municipalities, etc. Universities, PM associations, consulting and training companies, etc, have to take on responsibilities for the know how transfer from industry to individuals and organisations, representing these new areas of project management application. programm I austria - The Austrian Project Management Initiative promotes on the one hand the professionalisation of project and programme management, and of project portfolio management in the Austrian industry and on the other hand the application of project management in families and schools, in small municipalities and associations, in politics, in churches, etc. By that the maturity of Austria as a POS shall be further developed. First experiences were made with family projects, school projects and projects of small municipalities. (author's abstract)<br>Series: WU-Jahrestagung 2002
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Ljubownikow, Sergej. "An examination of the management of Russian civil society." Thesis, Aston University, 2011. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/16040/.
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This thesis begins by examining the concepts of civil society and social capital. Specifically, it outlines the role of health and education third sector organisations (TSOs) in building civil society and generating social capital which is conducive to democratisation. Following this, the thesis presents literature on civil society development in the context of the Russian Federation, highlighting a void in our understanding of health and education TSOs in this context. The literature review examines cultural-historic antecedents and their impact on civil society development. These antecedents result in three constraints which limit TSOs ability to establish civil society as an autonomous space. In light of these constraints, the thesis explores the present day realities faced by Russian TSOs and proposes that the all-dominant nature of the Russian state leads to managed civil society arrangements. Consequently the thesis addresses the question of how a managed civil society manifests itself in the context of the Russian Federation. Using a qualitative research design, the thesis investigates the control mechanisms created by legislative framework, the ability of third sector organisations to substitute for the state, and the organisational characteristics of TSOs within a managed civil society space. Based on interview data from 82 TSOs across three geographical regions, the empirical chapters explore these three aspects in-depth. Firstly, the thesis demonstrates how a specific legislative framework is used as a legally mandated method to manage civil society. Secondly, the thesis explores more subtle attempts by the state to manage civil society. And thirdly, the thesis highlights ways in which the state controls TSOs and coerces them to mimic marionette organisations. Overall, the evidence presented throughout the thesis highlights the idiosyncratic nature of managed civil society arrangements in Russia in which the state is able to control and direct civil society
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Mohammad, Abdullatif S. H. "Management and work environment in Kuwait society : the implication of gender for management style." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2204.
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The research focused on three main themes in the Kuwait society. The first study is developed to measure the differences in the characteristics of the work environment between the public and the private sectors within Kuwait labor force. The study had been conducted on 80 managers of both sexes and 266 employees of both sexes from the public sector, and 80 managers of both sexes and 274 employees of both sexes from the private sector. The results had indicated that according to the combined group (employees and managers, both sexes), the private sector exceeded the public sector regarding: involvement, peer-cohesion, task orientation, work-pressure, clarity, control, innovation and physical-comfort. Only the employees sample showed similar results. By comparing the male employees and the female employees in both sectors, it was clear that males had higher mean scores than females regarding involvement, task orientation, work-pressure, clarity, and control. Also, the results of the manager group is consistent with the combined group (both employees and managers, both sexes). However, the comparison between the male managers and female managers in both sectors indicated that, involvement, staff-support, clarity, control, innovation, and physical-comfort were higher in males than their females counterparts. The second study is designed to clarify any differences in personality traits between male and female Kuwaiti managers. The study has been conducted on 150 male and 150 female managers from Kuwait society. The results showed few differences between male and female managers. It was clear that males were more lively or enthusiastic and more imaginative than females. While, females were more depressive (as a personality characteristic) or apprehensive than male managers. The third study is concerned with the status profile of Kuwaiti women during the oil era (1946-1960) and developing period (1960-1985) regarding her social, educational, and vocational status. So, regarding work environment, work in the private sector was more likely to be seen as high in the involvement factor, more concerned with the work's regulations, conscientious, and more likely to remain and conform to the organization's disciplinary systems, more committed to new styles and modern systems in their jobs to achieve their targets, and they were more interested with their work place, than their public staff counterparts. Also, the private sector is often seen as an efficient and productive work sector in comparison with the public sector. Regarding the personality traits, Kuwaiti male managers appear to be more enthusiastic and lively with strong and imaginative personality traits. However, the Kuwaiti female managers appear to have strong apprehensive personality traits.
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Price, David A. "Environmental choices : coal, industry, environment, and society." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244902.
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Pershutkin, Alexander. "Information society and domestic conflicts." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Goeft, Ute. "Water centrality for water and society." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/21.
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The current approach to water management in Western societies, including Australia, is based on allocating water between different users. Appropriate for commercial uses, this commodity view of water has proved difficult for the inclusion of environmental and social concerns. Issues, such as which aspects have precedence, how much water should be allocated to each and how to make trade-offs in cases of insufficient water, pose problems that are yet to be worked out. In addition, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the identification of environmental as well as social water needs. The latter has prompted the writing of this thesis. A closer look at the neglected social water needs reveals the complete permeation of water into all areas of human life, from the basics of survival and health to the ethical and spiritual spheres. All these social aspects, or values, of water, should be integral to water management.
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Martínez, Fabián. "Modeling the Interactions between Hydrological Extremes, Water Management and Society." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296414.
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Throughout history there has been a close relationship between hydrological and social processes. Most of early civilizations around the world developed thanks to the accessibility to rivers and their water resources. However, traditional hydrological approaches have not been able to capture this observed interaction and have ignored for too long the human-driven impacts in the hydrological system and how they, in turn, shape the hydrological conditions that have been commonly observed. The present research develops a new conceptual model with the intention to capture the two-way interactions between societies and their responses under extreme hydrological events, both floods and droughts. This conceptualization accounts for the observations that societies accumulate memory (increase the level of awareness) after an extreme events. Based on the accumulation of societal memory, the human system (societies) takes decisions about water management, thus impacting the hydrological system (rivers). When no extreme hydrological events are registered, societal memory decays at a certain rate and then new decisions are taken over the water management of the hydrological system. Inspired by the extreme droughts and floods events observed in the three last decades in the catchment of the Brisbane River in Australia, the aforementioned conceptualization is applied. Results indicated that the simple proposed conceptual model is able to capture the interactions between the human and the hydrological system. Additionally, the model exposes that societal memory is the driver of the human system and is the main reason for societies to create impacts on the natural conditions of the catchment. At the same time, this conceptualization demonstrated that water management decisions based on the accumulation of societal memory can actually create an exacerbation of the potential damages associated to extreme hydrological events. Finally, the development of this new approach points out the strong necessity to acquire further insights to improve the understanding of the interplay between hydrological and social processes.<br>Genom historien har det funnits en nära relation mellan hydrologiska och sociala processer. De flesta tidiga civilisationer runt om i världen utvecklades tack vare tillgången till floder och deras vattenresurser. Traditionella hydrologiska metoder har emellertid inte lyckats fånga denna observerade interaktion och har alltför länge ignorerat de mänskligt drivna effekterna i det hydrologiska systemet och hur de i sin tur formar de hydrologiska förhållandena som ofta observerats. Denna forskning har utvecklat en ny konceptuell modell med avsikt att fånga tvåvägsinteraktionen mellan samhällen och deras respons under extrema hydrologiska händelser, både översvämningar och torka. Denna konceptualisering baseras på observationen att samhällen ackumulerar minne (ökar medvetenheten) efter en extrem händelse. Baserat på ansamling av samhällets minne fattar det mänskliga systemet (samhällen) beslut över vattenhushållning, vilket påverkar det hydrologiska systemet (floder). När inga extrema hydrologiska händelser registreras, avklingar samhällsminnet med en viss hastighet och sedan fattas nya beslut om vattenhushållningen i det hydrologiska systemet. Den konceptuella modellen har tillämpats på Brisbaneflodens avrinningsområde, i Australien, med anledning av den extrema torka och stora översvämningar som observerats under de tre senaste decennierna. Resultaten tyder på att den enkla föreslagna konceptuella modellen kan fånga samspelet mellan människa och hydrologiska system. Dessutom visar den att ett samhälles minne är drivkraften för det mänskliga systemet och är den främsta orsaken till att samhällen gör inverkan på de naturliga förhållandena i avrinningsområdet. Samtidigt visar konceptualiseringen att denna typ av vattenförvaltning, som baseras på samhällsminnet, faktiskt kan förstärka de potentiella skador som kan uppkomma i samband med extrema hydrologiska händelser. Slutligen framhåller utvecklingen av denna nya metod det stora behov som finns för att förbättra förståelsen av samspelet mellan de hydrologiska och sociala processerna.
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Nappo, Fabio [Verfasser]. "Intellectual Property Management in a knowledge-based Society / Fabio Nappo." München : GRIN Verlag, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1182326226/34.
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Farrelly, Michael. "State, society and water management in late imperial Southeast China." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123264.
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This thesis is a study of water management systems in the late imperial (1368-‐1912) Minnan region (southern Fujian), China. Based on stone inscriptions and local gazetteers, I present case histories of several well-‐documented water management systems. I explore trends in social organization and state-‐society issues relevant to water management systems, with particular emphasis placed upon the means by which lineages came to control water management structures. I then consider the causes and characteristics of water management-‐related conflict, as well as trends in government intervention in related disputes, and the principles upon which local officials adjudicated these disputes. I argue that property rights status was important to adjudication, particularly the concepts of "official," "communal" and "private" land and resources. Finally, I contextualize Minnan water management systems among systems in other parts of China.<br>Cette thèse étudie les systèmes de gestion de l'eau pendant les dernières années de la période impériale dans la région de Minnan (dans le sud du Fujian) en Chine. L'histoire de plusieurs systèmes bien documentés de gestion de l'eau est présentée, à partir de l'étude de pierres avec des inscriptions et de registres locaux. Les tendances dans l'organisation sociale liée aux systèmes de gestion de l'eau et les problèmes politico-‐sociaux associés sont analysés, avec une attention toute particulière sur les moyens employés par les groupes pour contrôler les organisations qui gèrent l'eau. Les causes et les caractéristiques des conflits relatifs à la gestion de l'eau sont étudiées, ainsi que l'intervention des gouvernements et les principes suivis par les instances locales dans la résolution de ces disputes. Les auteurs soutiennent que le statut de la propriété importe dans l'attribution des ressources, en particulier les concepts de ressources « gouvernementales », « communales » et « privées ». En dernière partie, les systèmes de gestion de l'eau dans la région de Minnan sont mis en perspective avec les systèmes d'autres régions de la Chine.
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Zhao, Zun Yan. "An investigation of materialism in contemporary Chinese society." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636796.
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Rowley, Andrew S. "Professions, class and society: solicitors in 19th century Birmingham." Thesis, Aston University, 1988. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/12184/.
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The thesis provides an analysis of an occupation in the process of making itself a profession. The solicitors' profession in Birmingham underwent a great many changes during the 19th century against a background of industrialisation and urbanisation. The solicitors' conception of their status and role, in the face of these challenges, had implications for successful strategies of professionalisation. The increased prestige and power of the profession, and especially its elite, are examined in their social context rather than in terms of a technical process, or educational and organisational change. The thesis argues that -the profession's social relationships and broad concerns were significant in establishing solicitors as "professional men". In particular these are related to the profession's efforts to gain control of markets for legal services and increase social status. In the course of achieving these aims a concept of profession and a self-image were articulated by solicitors in order to persuade society and the state of the legitimacy of their claims. The concept of the gentlemanly professional was of critical importance in this instance. The successful creation of a provincial professional "community" by the end of the 19th century rested principally on a social and moral conception of professionalism rather than one which stressed specialised training and knowledge, professional organisations and credentials.
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Mallison, Theodore R. "Summit County Historical Society: A Membership Program Case Study." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460121253.
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Kayser, Susan A. "The costs of corporate social responsibility and the role of civil society pressure." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3645007.
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<p> Having a reputation for being socially responsible is increasingly important to firm managers. To bolster their reputation, many firms have begun adopting corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The existing literature has primarily addressed the benefits of engaging in CSR initiatives, but has largely ignored the costs. This dissertation empirically explores the various costs of engaging in CSR and the critical role that civil society plays in creating those costs. </p><p> The first study, co-authored with Michael Toffel and John Maxwell, focuses on the non-market costs associated with adopting a CSR initiative. To manage reputational risks associated with supply chains, buyers are increasingly seeking information about their suppliers' labor and environmental performance. We hypothesize particular circumstances in which buyers can screen suppliers that have representative disclosures based on their participation in the Global Compact, which requires a public commitment and a public report. We find that the threat of scrutiny from civil society can deter firms with misrepresentative disclosures from participating. </p><p> In the second study, I examine the market response to the apparel industry after the collapse of Rana Plaza. CSR initiatives have been found to help firms preserve firm-value after a negative social or environmental event occurs. However, CSR initiatives may also signal to investors that the firm will respond by self-regulating to help repair the industry's aggregate reputation. I find that firms with CSR initiatives are harmed more so than those without initiatives after the collapse and that this is driven by pressure from civil society, but mitigated when firms can "cash in" on their investments. </p><p> In the third study, I analyze whether a company's symbolic policy to protecting the environment will lead to the adoption of a substantive CSR initiative, specifically an environmental management system (EMS). I find that firms with symbolic policies will be especially likely to adopt an EMS when the firm is subject to strong pressures from civil society. I also find that firms with symbolic policies are less likely to adopt an EMS when they face stronger peer pressure, suggesting that firms may use their symbolic policy as a substitute for a more substantive program.</p>
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Forrest, Mark. "The estates of Chertsey Abbey : land management and rural society 1300-1550." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401216.
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Lo, Victor H. Y. "Implementing quality management in a Chinese based society : Hong Kong : executive summary." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4391/.
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The research described in this Executive Summary starts from the premise that the implementation of TQM in Hong Kong is primarily focused on the use of individual tools for improvement. However, since 1991, more interest has developed in the holistic approaches, such as ISO 9000. Information gathered for this research supports the hypothesis that there is a missing quality dimension, namely, that of quality culture, which must obviously be of paramount importance if sustained quality performance is to be achieved. The second hypothesis explored in this research is that quality philosophies developed in the industrialised West can be better understood and appreciated if they can be explained in terms familiar to Chinese workers and managers, i. e., interpreted in terms of Chinese culture. This should lead to better integration of tools, techniques, holistic quality systems, and general philosophies concerning quality. All this should result in better and more effective implementation of TQM in Hong Kong. This study can be divided into two parts, A and B. Section A is mainly concerned with the exploration and understanding of the existing Hong Kong situation in terms of quality management implementation. Section B is concerned with the cultural aspects that were identified as being relevant to quality management. These cover Chinese values, Confucian principles, and how these are related to the principles of TQM. Several behavioural models were studied and the Connor/England model was selected and used to measure the relationship between cultural values and attitudes towards quality behaviour. The work of Professor Michael Bond on Chinese values was combined with the author's own interpretation of Chinese attitudes as expressed in Confucian Principles. This was to better understand quality behaviour intention when viewed from the point of the British Standard 7850 definitions of Total Quality elements. The Fishbein Behavioural model was also used as part of the survey instrument to measure Chinese attitudes in the implementing of TQM. A computer statistical package was used to analyse the survey data collected from local companies. The statistical factor analysis identified the working principles which best support TQM implementation in terms of the roles of both the leaders and the supporting staff of a company. The analysis also identified the role of Confucian Principles in terms of helping junior, middle, and senior management to better understand each others' working principles, and thereby promoting harmony and teamwork.
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Wijkström, Filip. "Different faces of civil society." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Företagslednings- och Arbetslivsfrågor (A), 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-659.
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This is volume II in a dissertation in two parts. In addition to the papers found in this volume, the major publication is a book: The nonprofit sector in Sweden (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997, written together with Tommy Lundström). Our points of departure in the book were that Sweden, within previous international research, often has been described as a country with a small nonprofit sector. Based on a comprehensive set of first-hand empirical data, the first systematic, consolidated account of the Swedish sector, its development, legal situation and current position, is provided, and the previous results are questioned. The two initial texts found in this volume focus on conceptual tools. The first article, The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in International Comparison is based on a critique of the dominant US/economics perspective found in mainstream nonprofit literature. It is argued in the article, that earlier attempts to understand the Swedish nonprofit sector have been biased by a cultural ethnocentrism. The purpose of the article is to broaden the understanding of this part of society by using a socio-economic approach. The second paper, Hate groups and outlaw bikers: part of civil society?, addresses the issue of definitions. The aim of the paper is to test two existing definitions of organizations in civil society. This test is conducted on two extreme forms of organization, the white hate group and the outlaw motorcycle club. It is shown that – according to existing definitions – both of these organizations, in their ideal-typical form, can be regarded as civil society organizations. The final two essays are more explorative and the author has taken the freedom to experiment. In Strategic dilemmas for Swedish popular movement organizations, the object of study is the Swedish popular movements (folkrörelserna) and an experienced sense of crisis in some of the organizations within these movements (PMOs). It is argued that a number of major external shifts have had a profound impact on the traditional Swedish PMOs. Underlying reasons for the reactions of the PMOs are discussed and some interpretations of the effects are presented. In the final essay – Outlaw biking in alternative frames of interpretation – an even more limited and empirically derived phenomenon is taken as point of departure. The study focuses on outlaw biking and approaches this social phenomenon from three different angles with the help of metaphorical images derived from the outlaw literature. The purpose was not to develop a best possible frame for the study of outlaw biking, but rather to lay bare some already existing images of outlaw motorcycle clubs, found in the previous literature.<br><p>Utgör jämte: The nonprofit sector in Sweden / Tommy Lundström and Filip Wijkström, diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 1998</p>
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Cordas, Jon D. (Jon Dmetrius). "The Emergence of a New Capitalist Ethic: Transformational Leadership and the Civil Society Movement as Emergent Paradigms Affecting Organizational and Societal Transformation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278427/.
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Rapid and chaotic changes in market environments have caused business organizations to modify their organizational structures and social relationships. This paper examines the change in relationship between management and employees, which is shifting from an adversarial and controlling role to facilitation and employee empowerment. This paper's research question concerns how classical sociological theory would explain power redistribution within organizations and the formation of an associative and collaborative relationship which contradicts traditional paradigms. Traditional bureaucratic and contemporary organizational forms are compared and contrasted. Organizational climate, psycho-social components of underlying assumptions and group ethics are seen to be the mechanisms impelling transformation. Organizational change is driven by an emerging secular ethic. This ethic is embodied in an applied model of leadership and examined as an ideal type. The common ethic impelling organizational change is seen to be the same as that causing social transformation in both national and international spheres.
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Scott, Voloe Jefferson. "Changing Channels : a framework for communication planning in a media intensive society." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49767.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-40).<br>In today's media intensive society, where consumers are well equipped to resist advertisers' strategies, creative and messages, it is becoming increasingly more difficult for advertisers to break through the concofany of noise to persuade the consumer that their product or service is worthy of a consumer's attention and eventual purchase. The purpose of this research is ultimately to suggest a framework for use in communication planning that is measurably successful in moving users up a succession of steps starting prior to awareness through purchase utilizing a combination of traditional and digital advertising tactics and techniques. We assume that in today's media intensive society, were traditional and digital advertising is thought to cannibalize one another, an integrated approach across multiple communication channels is the most effective way to reach and motivate the modern consumer whose media consumption habits are increasingly fractured. The framework proposed within the paper will contribute to a better understanding of how to leverage traditional and digital media tactics within communication planning.<br>by Voloe Jefferson Scott..<br>M.B.A.
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Ntimo-Makara, M. M. T. "Educational opportunity and management roles : a study of women in Lesotho." Thesis, University of Hull, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376369.
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Iversson, Piazza Tatiana. "Towards the co-production of fisheries knowledge for co-management using mobile technologies." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25305.
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Fishing is an ancient way of food gathering, which has been instrumental for the healthy living of many people, for many years. Nowadays, fishing is particularly important to developing countries since the value of fish surpasses that of agricultural commodities such as sugar and rice. People living along the coast have been harvesting marine resources for basic subsistence for generations and at present several small-scale fisheries operate along the South African coastline, ranging from the shore-based harvesting of intertidal resources such as mussels, to the targeting of migratory line-fish stocks using small motorized vessels. Due to their high dependence on marine resource harvesting, small-scale fishers (SSF) are among the most vulnerable socio-economic groups, and while small-scale fisheries employ the vast majority of the world's fishers, they are often marginalized and ignored. The lack of appropriate governance in South African small-scale fisheries has made it hard for fishers to benefit from the resources that are readily available to them. However, changes within fisheries management practices have led to the move from conventional resource-centred strategies to management approaches that recognize the complexity of the sector. The new small-scale fisheries policy, currently in its implementation phase, embraces many of these new approaches but does not necessary prepare small-scale fishers to actively participate in the co-management of their resources. Furthermore, the lack of reliable data and information about small-scale fisheries, due to historical marginalisation, is currently one of the primary challenges facing the sector in the country, and preventing small-fishers from demonstrating to policy makers the potential of the sector to contribute towards food security and poverty eradication. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of a mobile app in bringing about a co-production of fisheries knowledge and stimulating the co-management of fisheries, using the fishing communities of Lambertsbaai on the West Coast and Struisbaai along the South Coast as case studies. The research aimed to understand and assess the concerns and uncertainties of formalizing the mobile app (Abalobi) and explore if the mobile app can entice fishers' enthusiasm towards the implementation of
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Senol, Balaban Meltem. "Risk Society And Planning: The Case Of Flood Disaster Management In Turkish Cities." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610533/index.pdf.
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Global warming and climate change is believed to increase the hydro-meteorological natural disasters. Floods, the most widespread of natural hazards, are expected to occur more frequently and severely in the near future. This means that urban areas of Turkey are likely to be under intensive threat of floods, the adverse impacts of which are already considered only next to that of earthquakes. The recent disaster policy of United Nations together with contemporary interpretations of risk society shifted to capacity building and risk management prior to hazards, rather than preparations for relief after disasters. This historical turn in policy demands a more comprehensive and integrated form of planning for the mitigation of risks in the riverain cities of Turkey than existing approaches.
Turkey&<br>#8217<br>s current flood protection structure seems to be based on the surveys and assessments of a central authority and on its limited powers of intervention. The local municipal administrations are under different interests and pressures for development and land-use. It seems essential to integrate flood risk mitigation efforts with the local planning system and to involve municipalities in their estimations of risks and its declaration on official duty, as contemporary international approaches indicate. This conviction is based on a sample survey of four cases of riverine cities in Turkey, and on a review of current approaches in a sample of international cases.
Findings on four riverain case cities indicate that river floods turn into destructive disasters mainly due to tolerant land-use decisions. Inaccurate and discrete implementations and developments in and through the river basins are a second source of flood losses. Currently, neither urban development plans nor available flood plans are equipped with necessary measures to mitigate risks.
Findings indicate that current vulnerabilities are greater in value than investments made to curb flood risks. Independent and discrete efforts of mitigation seem to generate illusory feelings of safety, which aggravates vulnerabilities.
The compulsory declaration of flood vulnerabilities by municipalities themselves in their entitlement for special subsidies could raise the general level of awareness, could curb further vulnerabilities, and contribute to the articulation of planning methods in the more effective mitigation control.
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Mathieu, Chauvet. "The Management of Distance in Distributed-work." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cis_diss/50.
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Distributed- work has introduced challenges for both employees and managers alike. Maintaining a form of supervision and discipline remains then necessary as control is the ultimate means for the hierarchy to bridge the issue of distance. With regard to the unprecedented changes generated by the significant development of ICTs in organizations, we expressed the necessity to analyze how control is reconsidered within the managerial breakdown introduced by distributed-work.
Our theoretical reasoning finally led us to use the works of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as a basis for a more relevant conceptual framework. Data coming from 49 interviews and 7 days as non-participant observer enabled us to provide evidences for the disruption of management practices due to the reconsideration of control in distributed-work. Both for managers, evolving from a supervisory to a facilitator status, and distributed-workers themselves, whose activities will mainly be directed by the management of their visibility, responsiveness and modulation. Ultimately, this PhD dissertation provides concrete managerial manifestations for Deleuzian societies of control.
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Bento, da Silva Jose A. "The organising principles of the society of Jesus : from the pastorate to governmentality." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55794/.
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Foucault’s concepts of Pastoral power and “governmentality” have led to the development of the London school of “governmentalists” (McKinlay and Pezet 2010). However, extant literature on governmentality drawn from this school of thought has undertaken an analytics of power centred on the deployment of governmental forms of power at the State level, not taking into consideration another entity that emerged after modernity, the modern enterprise, and not going beyond the 19th century, thereby trapping “governmentality” studies inside their own modern discourse. Following Foucault’s established relation between Pastoral power and “governmentality”, this thesis analyses the form of organising deployed by an organisation that emerged in the 16th century, apparently being able to survive into modernity without adopting modern managerial business categories. This organisation is the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits. The first part of this thesis will analyse the relevance of the Society of Jesus for organisational studies and will show how modern business categories fail to explain its structural resilience. The second part of the thesis introduces Pastoral power as a possible explanation for the apparent structural resilience of the Society of Jesus. Following this line of reasoning, and after having established an analytics of power as a possible methodological framework, the Society of Jesus’ “organising practices” will be presented, leading to the conclusion that this entity, having emerged at the cornerstone of modernity, deployed practices that represent a significant shift when compared with previous Pastoral forms of organising. The fact that the Society of Jesus clearly intended to deploy practices for the conduction of geographicallydispersed individuals leads to the conclusion that it deployed a “protogovernmental” form of power, and that the rationality underpinning its practices, although not entirely modern, is clearly at the cornerstone of modernity and can therefore be enlightening to an understanding of how modern managerial categories might have emerged.
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Hashmi, Sahar. "Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124589.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2018<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "Doctor of Philosophy in Healthcare Systems: Management and Policy Research."<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>For my PhD thesis, I conducted behavioral science research and wrote three first- author journal format papers, of which one paper has been published and the other two will be submitted to healthcare management journals after completion of my degree. All three papers introduce new information about either the cost or the behaviors of patients in local clinics, filling a gap in the healthcare system's management and policy literature. The first paper studies patients with diabetes who are non-adherent to scheduled appointments with physicians in a specialized diabetes clinic setting in Boston. I developed and introduced new and interesting ''technology comfort" measures and a "Smartphone usage" scale, to evaluate if patients would be able to use smart technologies for their disease self-management. This paper not only suggests that patients with diabetes could potentially benefit from using existing advanced technologies, but that new policies can be introduced to reduce the rate of diabetes patients' appointment-related non-adherence. The second paper examines the system of adherence or self-management in five areas ( diet, exercise, medications, doctor's appointments and regular glucose monitoring), revealing how it is correlated to emergency visits and patient lifestyle satisfaction. I analyze predictors of emergency room visits and propose potential policies to reduce these ER visits through the use of advanced smart technologies. The third paper identifies the incidence and consequences of not practicing non- pharmaceutical interventions, during the time of a pandemic, in a student population at a local university clinic.<br>by Sahar Hashmi, MD.<br>Ph. D. in Engineering Systems<br>Ph.D.inEngineeringSystems Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Fleming, Elizabeth Ann. "Exploring the influence of culture on diabetes self-management : perspectives of Gujarati Muslim men." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2005. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21828/.
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In this qualitative study I sought to explore the influence that culture has on diabetes (type 2) self-management for Gujarati Muslim men. In particular, I aimed to develop a theoretical understanding of this influence. I used an interpretive approach, which involved combining ethnographic and phenomenological methodologies. Interview and participant observation methods were used to capture data about the lived experiences of diabetes self-management, for a small number of Gujarati Muslim men. These accounts, along with further narrative data from significant others, were thematically analysed over several cycles. The cyclical nature of analysis enabled me to gain deeper and more meaningful insights into the influence that culture has on diabetes self-management. Also central to the research process and analysis, has been my journey and reflexive experiences as a researcher. The study has taught me much about myself, and I have changed and evolved as a response. Therefore the representations presented in this work are inseparable from me and my life, and I have endeavoured to reveal this within the thesis. The study was informed by a contemporary perspective on culture, in which culture is part of the self. A person's culture is in a constant state of flux, as the self continually recreates and negotiates the meaning of culture within the context of the present lived experience. Similarly, and in contrast to current health care policy, which frequently perceives self-management as a set of interjected behaviours, self-management was perceived as the ways in which the man chooses to incorporate his diabetes into the totality of his life. The synthesis of the literature with the findings, demonstrates that culture does not influence diabetes self-management in a rigid and prescriptive way, but instead culture and self-management are interwoven through the self. Since self-management is negotiated by the self and culture is part of the self, it is the self which connects and interweaves the two. The influence of cultural beliefs on diabetes self-management is negotiated by the self within a complex context of interacting factors. This complex context includes other aspects which are equally as important as culture in shaping self-management, such as material, structural and practical factors. Because culture exists within a shifting and fluid context, its influence on self-management is subject to change, negotiation and re-creation. The perspective I have fostered in this thesis, is a considerable move away from the essentialist perspective of culture, taken in much current health care policy and research. I present a challenge to the dominant perspective in which culture is often oversimplified and consequently blamed for deviant or noncompliant self-management behaviours. The subjective perspective of culture that I have adopted in this thesis, enables the realisation that culture influences self-management in neither homogenous nor deterministic ways.
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De, Vries Leani. "A 'paradox of the Commons'? : The planning and everyday management of Green Point Park." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23760.
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Cape Town's Green Point Park is a legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, built on the then dilapidated, former Common. Initially heavily contested, it is now a beautiful, popular, and well-used public space that attracts diverse people from all over the city. The thesis narrates its paradoxical story by drawing on historical and archival data, park observations, a transect walk, as well as qualitative interviews with city planners, park management, service providers, and the formerly sceptical local public. First, the thesis reflects on the conflictual planning process that led to this new urban park and a changed vision and function for the Common. Second, it explores the park's everyday operation, the management and maintenance that are central to its present acceptance and safe, clean and pristine condition. I argue that the City's planning 'by exception' of the park, and the public-private management vehicle is central to its success and differentiates it from how others operate in the city. I suggest that this neoliberally planned and managed public park produces a paradox: it has restored this space once again as a usable and accessible public 'common'. This argument challenges a literature that assumes neoliberal forms of planning and regulation to limit, at best, or destroy urban spaces, resulting in a similar 'tragedy of the commons' (Hardin, 1968) or 'end of public space' (Sorkin, 1992; Mitchell, 1995). In contrast, the thesis builds on Jerram's (2015) critique in that the traditional commons too often become 'historical fantasy,' a theorised ideal and almost impossible reality, in the contemporary neoliberal era. This more nuanced assessment of the contemporary commons is important in the South African urban context, where there is great concern that neoliberal, market-led, world city agendas perpetuate exclusion and historical legacies of segregation (Marais, 2013). In a 'paradox of the commons', this publicly regulated, privately maintained free-to-the-public park has restored what was previously a Commons, albeit an unsafe and largely unused space. The Green Point Urban Park suggests a need to 'rethink' parks and their planning and management in contemporary and neoliberal post-apartheid South Africa. They do not necessarily result in a certain 'tragedy of the commons' or 'end of public space'.
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Krasnokutska, Nataliia. "Key trends in modern management." Thesis, NTU "KhPI", 2017. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/34935.
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The study has shown the major trends that affect the creation and spread of new methods of management in the information society.The attained results prove the fact that precisely because of the efforts of managers companies can take their rightful place in the business environment, even at the low level of physical resources.
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Churaňová, Klára. "Management financování dynamického růstu malé firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10992.
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The objective of my final thesis was to choose, based upon findings and profitability assessments of each type of financing, a suitable financing of growth of the W.A.G, mineral fuels, Inc., the society which operates the project of unmanned filling-stations Tank & Go. In my thesis, I describe types of financing, the ways of gaining financial sources, the changes in legal form of entrepreneurship, the forms of cooperation as well as the state assistance to the entrepreneurs. Consequently, in the practical research, I evaluate the suitability of these types of financing to the project Tank & Go in accordance with the criteria given by the owner of the society as well as with its financial structure.
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Smith, Alexander. "Exploring the interrelationship between the meanings of homeownership and identity management in a liquid society : a case study approach." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4363/.
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Identity research in consumer studies typically perceives consumers as bearers of fragmented, multiple postmodern identities. Contemporary social theory, broadly supporting this perspective, suggests that tradition is no longer required for the successful construction and maintenance of an identity. Unfettered from the restrictions of tradition, identities are asserted to have been liberated from the impositions of social and cultural institutions. However, this perspective appears to neglect the notion that individuals might actually desire tradition and social practice to develop a coherent, stable sense of self. This thesis explores the meanings of tenure - private renting and owner-occupation - to elucidate how these deeply felt connotations can affect individuals’ identities and their sense of self. In doing so this thesis articulates how the prospective consumption, or non-consumption, of a traditional practice – home ownership - can potentially have profound implications for one’s identity, overall sense of self and consumption behaviour. The results of this thesis were generated by conducting 30 qualitative interviews with private renters aged between 24 and 30 years old in Stoke-on-Trent using a case study approach. The findings indicate that identities are heavily influenced by the different meanings and interpretations of private renting and owner-occupation. Furthermore, the role of tradition to identity, and in particular to an overall coherent sense of future self, was found to be highly salient. Contextualised by Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘Liquid’ sociology, the findings of this study suggest that a threatened sense of future self can engender identity and consumption related practices that seek to affirm, re-affirm and defend one’s sense of self against stigmatising discourses.
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Stephen, John. "Management of civil society organisations (CSOs) : A case study of selected CSOs in Tanzania." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1144.
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Recent research findings have revealed that CSOs play very important hands on role to bring about social and economic change to developing countries like Tanzania. The CSOs are very diverse and unique in terms of set up, mission and mandate, there is therefore no single model on how should CSOs perform their functions in Tanzania. However, there are common held approaches that apply to effective management practices and so bring about good outcomes to the neediest people in Tanzania. This study has evidenced CSOs having a pivotal role to beef up service provision by the government and private sectors to spearhead socioeconomic development by explaining roles CSOs have been having in bringing such developments in Tanzania. This study has confirmed findings from previous studies that number, roles and diversity of CSOs increased significantly from 1980s to 1990s, and consequently involvement of CSOs in service provision has increased dramatically in recent years. Among the CSOs under this study, the ones which have been on board for more than five years have been seen to operate in coordinated multiple fields compared to the CSOs which have been on board for less than five years which operate in fewer fields. This study has evidenced increased annual budgets over time among the studied CSOs in Tanzania and this is an indication that CSOs’ performance capacity to manage projects and finances has improved over time. The current increased performance capacity of CSOs addresses the raised critique regarding managerial competence of CSOs in developing countries like Tanzania. The need for CSOs addressing issues in line with priority areas which are highlighted in the Tanzania’s National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (NSGRP) for rapid socioeconomic development of Tanzania has come out clearly from the findings of this study. This study recommends a more comprehensive study of CSOs to capture more issues and cover bigger geographical areas than what was done by this study.. This will help identify more areas which need improvement in future to strengthen the CSO sector and benefit ultimate project beneficiaries in Tanzania.<br>+255 754 203386 +255 22 2421019
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Shin, Hyesun. "Promoting Trust Building in a Unified Korean Society: The Arts-based Policy Strategy for Social Cohesion." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420676940.
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Brüggemann, Jörn Tobias. "INGO's and public management: the case of Human Rights Watch." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-194226.
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The purpose of this master thesis was to gain more insights into the actual impact that INGOs like Human Rights Watch incorporate as part of global politics. The case of HRW proved to be a great example, which had been largely neglected by the academic analysts so far. The theoretical framework introduced important implications necessary to understand the influence of INGOs to date. Based on a constructivist thinking, it was possible to outline a global political order, which is tremendously influenced by civil society actors such as INGOs. Especially the increasing significance of norms within an internationally arena -- that is becoming more and more connected -- gives impetus to actors that base their work on these collective beliefs. The deliberative power incorporated by INGOs enables them to actually challenge nation-states as well as market representatives by transforming the public sphere thoroughly. Human Rights Watch as particular case study has been analyzed as an organization that epitomizes the power of a rising global civil society. Throughout their historical development, HRW actively contributed to the defense of human rights against repressive governments as well as other violators. Obviously, the foundation of HRW was to a tremendous extent dependent on an overall evolution of human rights within the international arena. The end of the Second World War and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations paved the way for human rights to become an official and crucial part of international affairs. However, it took until the mid-70s when human rights turned into a major paradigm to be followed by nation-states. With the emergence of Helsinki Watch and the consequent evolution of other watch committees, the non-governmental organization strongly engaged with repressive governments (regardless of political orientation) in various regions of the world. Analyzing the contemporary organizational structure of HRW has been a difficult task due to relatively little information available. However, one can clearly state that HRW nowadays acts as a human rights defending organization that is virtually able to respond to abuses in every corner of the world. Its eagerness to review organizational process and adjust to novel human rights issues provides HRW with a unique flexibility and a large room for operations. This is also further strengthened through the integration of HRW within the international arena when considering their consultative status at the United Nations, the platform for worldwide relevant negotiations. Their growing presence in major capitals in conjunction with effective methodological approaches frequently permits HRW employees to meet up with heads of states. The impact this might have on the domestic opposition as well as on the actual socialization of norms has been described with the help of the example from Mexico, where the government refused to deal with forced disappearances. By actively engaging on-site, HRW tremendously fostered civil society movements that were otherwise unheard and powerless. As indicated in line with the spiral model, the intervention of HRW transformed the public sphere and boosted the dialogue between public and civil society representatives. The eagerness of the Mexican government to implement changes must be perceived as a success of HRW in its pursuit to defend human rights.
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Koyama, Hideyuki. "The mission of the church in a society in conflict : a study of Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251143.
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Kanamaru, Hiroyuki 1962, and Hikaru 1963 Kawachiyama. "The re-positioning and new brand creation of telecommunications companies in an IT society." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17607.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 119).<br>The telecommunications industry has developed differently, in each nation, depending on the political, economic, and cultural environment within each country. Only the technology has achieved some standardization in order to facilitate smooth connections between nations, with the assistance and coordination of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For the past twenty years, the telecommunications industry had faced multiple challenges, including privatization, deregulation, fierce competition, dramatic technological change, and a variety of market changes. Today, telecommunications companies need to quickly reposition themselves in order to survive. In Part One, we identify and discuss various long-term assumptions of customer needs. In Part Two, we construct scenarios relevant to the telecommunications industry, based on Fahey and Randall's competitive foresight scenarios methodology. Then we analyze strategies for NTT Group which we believe could revitalize the Japanese economy which has already endured ten years of stagnation, followed by suggestions for the world economy.<br>by Hiroyuki Kanamaru and Hikaru Kawachiyama.<br>M.B.A.
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Audrey, Anne 1957. "Water management and the kinship system: An investigation of the interface between resource management and society in the developing world." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291603.
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Patterns of water resource management are affected by the social structures of indigenous societies. The social structures of many indigenous groups, and in particular tribal groups, are kin-based. Water resource development projects which focus on kin-based societies may be affected by the characteristics of a society's kinship system. Three case studies of irrigating tribal societies were analyzed to determine the effects of kinship systems on water management. Results of the analysis indicate that in these societies water management was conducted under the auspices of kinship systems and according to norms consistent with kinship relationships. Each society's kinship system adapted as necessary to the environmental and physical constraints of irrigation. Following major political and water resource development changes, the role of kinship systems tended to decrease, but continued to influence patterns of water resource use.
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Batchelder, Xela. "The world's largest arts festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe: mechanics, myth and management." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149104422.
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Baker, Lawrence S. M. (Lawrence M. )Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Characterisation of glucose management in intensive care." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124577.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2019<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130).<br>Patients in intensive care routinely have their blood glucose monitored and controlled using insulin. Two decades of on-going research has attempted to establish optimal glucose targets and treatment policy for patients with hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU). These efforts rely on the assumption that health care providers can reliably meet given targets. Significant proportions of the ICU population are either hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic and poor blood glucose control may lead to adverse patient outcomes. This thesis analyses approximately 20,000 ICU stays at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) which occurred between 2008 and 2018. These data are used to describe the state of clinical practice in the ICU and identify areas where treatment may be suboptimal. Even at a world-renowned teaching hospital, blood sugars are not optimally managed. 41.8% of diabetics and 14.2% of non-diabetics are severely hyperglycemic (>215mg/dL) each day. Insulin boluses are given more frequently than insulin infusions, despite guidelines recommending infusions for most critical care patients. When infusions are given, rates do not follow a consistent set of rules. Blood sugar management faces several challenges, including unreliable readings. Laboratory and fingerstick measurements that were taken at the same time had an R² of only 0.63 and the fingerstick measurements read on average 10mg/dL higher. Overcoming these challenges is an important part of improving care in the ICU. It is hoped that publicly sharing the code used to extract and clean data used for analysis will encourage further research. Code can be found at https://github.com/lawbaker/MIMIC-Glucose-Management<br>by Lawrence Baker.<br>S.M. in Technology and Policy<br>S.M.inTechnologyandPolicy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Lamoureux, Patrick. "The Politics of Risk Management and the Culture of Risk Taking." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23253.
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Risk has become a key concept in social theory and has had a significant impact across academic disciplines including criminology. On the one hand, several criminologists argue that the rise of risk has fundamentally reconfigured the operations of courts, corrections, and policing. Many claim that, over the last few decades, crime control has moved away from the old rehabilitative and retributive approaches of the past and towards more actuarial approaches based on risk management – crime has become a risk to be managed in aggregate terms rather than a moral transgression in need of rectification. On the other hand, while risk-based approaches to governing crime have grown significantly, cultural criminologists and sociologists of sport have noted a heightened emphasis on risk-taking by urban graffiti writers, illegal street racers, extreme sports enthusiasts, and illicit drug users. For these people, the risk-averse logic of actuarial governance – risk as potential harm to be avoided – is inverted such that risk is positively embraced for the excitement it affords. What is particularly characteristic about the present, then, is that a politics of risk management is colliding with a culture of risk-taking. In attempts to make sense of this puzzling paradox, in this thesis I offer a primarily theoretical investigation of the dominant approaches used in the study of risk management (chp. I) and risk taking (chp. II & III) in sociology and criminology. After exploring how the rise of risk has reconfigured crime control over the last quarter century in Chapter one, in Chapter two I develop the argument that orthodox criminology provides two dominant images of criminal risk-taking. While dispositional theories explain criminal risk-taking as the pathological behaviour of individuals with particular body types, low-self control, or of lower-class origin, situational theories conceive of criminal risk-taking as the (ir)rational decisions of necessarily risk-averse actors. Despite differences between dispositional and situational theories, both leave no room for risk-taking that is controlled and intentional. In Chapter three I enlist the work of Jack Katz on the seductions of crime and of Stephen Lyng on the sociology of risk-taking to develop a third, cultural approach to risk-taking that is voluntary and cross-class. I illustrate how, for Katz’s and Lyng’s actors, risk is approached as a challenge rather than seen as a deterrent. Lastly, I add to the historicity of the cultural approach to risk-taking by tracing its roots in a romantic worldview that arose out of 19th century disenchantment with the bureaucratic rationalism and alienation of capitalist modernity. In conclusion, I summarize the main argument of the thesis and outline some potential avenues for future research.
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Hunter, C. "Approaches to control and management in education : An examination of participation, centralisation and future alternatives." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380794.
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Chauvet, Mathieu. "The management of distances in distributed-work : a Deleuzian approach to control." Thesis, Paris 9, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA090053.
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L’émergence du travail à distance a causé l’apparition de nombreux challenges pour les managers et leurs subordonnés. Par conséquent, maintenir une forme de surveillance s’avère plus que jamais nécessaire, notamment car le contrôle représente un moyen significatif pour réduire la problématique de la distance. Au regard du bouleversement conséquent amené par ce développement exponentiel des technologies, il convient de s’interroger sur la façon dont les processus de contrôle ont été remis en question dans le cadre de la rupture managériale introduite par le travail à distance. Notre réflexion théorique nous a finalement conduit à solliciter les travaux du philosophe Gilles Deleuze comme base conceptuelle. Les données issues de 49 entretiens et 7 journées d’observations nous permettent de démontrer le bouleversement significatif des pratiques de gestion lié à la reconsidération du contrôle dans le travail à distance. A la fois pour les managers qui voient leur rôle évoluer d'un statut de superviseur à facilitateur, et leurs subordonnés, dont l'activité sera majoritairement guidée par le management de leur visibilité, réactivité et modulation. Cette thèse de doctorat constitue finalement une illustration concrète en Management du concept Deleuzien des sociétés de contrôle<br>Distributed- work has introduced challenges for both employees and managers alike. Maintaining a form of supervision and discipline remains then necessary as control is the ultimate means for the hierarchy to bridge the issue of distance. With regard to the unprecedented changes generated by the significant development of ICTs in organizations, we expressed the necessity to analyze how control is reconsidered within the managerial breakdown introduced by distributed-work. Our theoretical reasoning finally led us to use the works of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as a basis for a more relevant conceptual framework. Data coming from 49 interviews and 7 days as non-participant observer enabled us to provide evidences for the disruption of management practices due to the reconsideration of control in distributed-work. Both for managers, evolving from a supervisory to a facilitator status, and distributed-workers themselves, whose activities will mainly be directed by the management of their visibility, responsiveness and modulation. Ultimately, this PhD dissertation provides concrete managerial manifestations for Deleuzian societies of control
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Cockburn, Ian. "The management and government of Scottish society as reflected in Clackmannanshire : 'the sma'burgh 1832-1870'." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25256.
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There is a deficiency of studies on the middle classes especially in Scotland during this period. In looking at the Clackmannanshire middle classes, we have to locate them within the wider context of Britain, Scotland and their urban position within a county seat. The evolution of the middle class in Scotland became much more rapid after the 1832 Reform Act and their rise from a state of fragmented power and limited collective identity in the mid eighteenth century to great unity and influence by the third decade of the nineteenth century, In Scotland as stated we have a gap in information or studies into the growth and power of the middle classes. There has been some detailed analyse by historians such as Stana Nenadic, Richard Trainer, R J. Morris and Graeme Morton in articles and part histories, also Tony Dickson on Paisley gives us the traditional Marxist lines of class formation and class conflict. We will use all of the above as a basis to form a picture of the middle classes in Scot. Stana Nenadic believes that it is not possible to explore the Scottish middle class other than within a British context nor he believes desirable, since it was during this period that Scotland was socially integrated with England. An argument I would disagree with as Scotland was politically aligned with England but socially not quite. Nenadic also states that in 1760 there was no tangible sense of class in Scotland. Therefore the middle classes almost came out of nowhere due to industrialisation and with Scotland's industrialisation coming later than England's the rise of the middle classes was more rapid. Nenadic puts this rise down to the middle classes evolving a sense of identity and collective solidarity.
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Kolahi, Mahdi. "Synergisms for the intricate system of biodiversity and society in the conservation management of IRAN." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/180469.
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Abu-Shaqra, Baha. "Technoethics and Sensemaking: Risk Assessment and Knowledge Management of Ethical Hacking in a Sociotechnical Society." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40393.
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Cyber attacks by domestic and foreign threat actors are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Cyber adversaries exploit a cybersecurity skill/knowledge gap and an open society, undermining the information security/privacy of citizens and businesses and eroding trust in governments, thus threatening social and political stability. The use of open digital hacking technologies in ethical hacking in higher education and within broader society raises ethical, technical, social, and political challenges for liberal democracies. Programs teaching ethical hacking in higher education are steadily growing but there is a concern that teaching students hacking skills increases crime risk to society by drawing students toward criminal acts. A cybersecurity skill gap undermines the security/viability of business and government institutions. The thesis presents an examination of opportunities and risks involved in using AI powered intelligence gathering/surveillance technologies in ethical hacking teaching practices in Canada. Taking a qualitative exploratory case study approach, technoethical inquiry theory (Bunge-Luppicini) and Weick’s sensemaking model were applied as a sociotechnical theory (STEI-KW) to explore ethical hacking teaching practices in two Canadian universities. In-depth interviews with ethical hacking university experts, industry practitioners, and policy experts, and a document review were conducted. Findings pointed to a skill/knowledge gap in ethical hacking literature regarding the meanings, ethics, values, skills/knowledge, roles and responsibilities, and practices of ethical hacking and ethical hackers which underlies an identity and legitimacy crisis for professional ethical hacking practitioners; and a Teaching vs Practice cybersecurity skill gap in ethical hacking curricula. Two main S&T innovation risk mitigation initiatives were explored: An OSINT Analyst cybersecurity role and associated body of knowledge foundation framework as an interdisciplinary research area, and a networked centre of excellence of ethical hacking communities of practice as a knowledge management and governance/policy innovation approach focusing on the systematization and standardization of an ethical hacking body of knowledge.
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CHAN, Hin Yeung. "The politics of crisis management in post-1997 Hong Kong : a state-society interactive framework." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2014. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/pol_etd/13.
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Most studies and research on crisis management and government crises put their focus on advanced, democratic nations, where governments have to bear the responsibility of handling of a crisis through elections. However, relatively little attention has been given on the consequences of crises, particularly governance crises, in regimes without full democracy. By using post-1997 Hong Kong, a liberal society with limited democracy, as an example, this thesis aims to examine the applicability of crisis management theories and models currently available, and to introduce an entirely new State-society Interactive Framework 1 to tackle their limitations.
The Five Tasks Leadership Approach suggested by Boin, 't Hart and Stern, et al. (2005) and the Pattern of Politicization Approach of Brandstrom and Kuipers (2003), which respectively represents the top-down and bottom-up crisis management approaches, are selected as the analytical framework. This thesis begins with an application of these two approaches on an analysis of two noticeable crisis cases in post-1997 Hong Kong – the 1 July 2003 Demonstration and the Anti-High Speed Railway incident. Based on the results, this research found that the applicability of current theories and models derived from previous studies is restrictive in two aspects - First, the level of severity of the crises affects the validity of those studies. Hence, for the purpose of effective interpretation, only mega-crises are chosen for this thesis. Second, instead of explaining the incident, most of the current theories view crises as a clue for fault-finding in the aftermath, with little attention devoted to the development process.
Drawing upon different approaches in the field, this thesis has developed a heuristic Crisis Development Ladder and the State-society Interactive Framework more relevant for limited democracies, such as Hong Kong and Mainland China. The Crisis Development Ladder refers to the flow from crisis to governance crisis and from governance crisis to change. At each stage of this process, there are interactions between the Crisis Strengthening Forces and Weakening Forces. By focusing on the Catalytic Effect of Crisis that accelerates reforms and changes, this research argues that critical crisis is politically influential and decisive in authoritarian system with an increasingly proactive civil society. This research has illustrated the deliberation of developing a crisis-driven society as an alternative to influence decision-making under non-democratic rule with valid examples. The current result suggests that crises are far beyond unfavourable situations that challenge the legitimacy of the government. More importantly, in the context of Hong Kong as well as other non-democratic systems, crises provide opportunities to initiate political changes. The current political institution in Hong Kong makes it possible for the government to pay no heed to the wants of the general public. Thus, the cases explored in this thesis show how activists and those who are not involved in the decision-making process use crises as a catalyser to impose sufficient political influence to the government so as to force a real change under a closed political system.
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Maier, Florentine, and Michael Meyer. "Managerialism and beyond: Discourses of civil society organization and their governance implications." Springer Science & Business Media, 2011. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3275/2/Managerialism_and_beyond_epub.pdf.
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Different disciplinary, theoretical, and empirical lenses have contributed to a kaleidoscopic picture of CSO governance. Most of the time, CSO governance is contrasted with corporate governance in business organizations; only rarely is the broad variety of CSOs taken into account. To widen this perspective, we develop an empirically grounded typology of five discourses of organization in CSOs: managerialist, domestic, professionalist, grassroots, and civic discourse. We argue that each of these discourses gives specific answers to the three core questions of governance: To whom is the CSO accountable, i.e., who are the key actors who need to be protected by governance mechanisms? For what kind of performance is the CSO accountable? And which structures and processes are appropriate to ensure accountability? The way in which different discourses answer these questions provides us with a deeper understanding of the reasons behind the manifold notions of governance in CSOs. (authors' abstract)
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Aswalap, Supaluk Joy O'Connor Brian C. "Tsunami disaster response a case analysis of the information society in Thailand /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12075.
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Harrison, Dean Charles. "Improving integrated wildfire management in the Fynbos Biome of South Africa using information on synoptic-scale atmospheric features that promote wildfires." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19957.
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Wildfire, an essential element for the Fynbos Biome of South Africa, can be a threat to property and human life if it is not well managed. Despite many studies on the dynamics and management of wildfire, the role of the atmosphere in inducing regional circulations that promote widespread wildfire is not well known. This dissertation studies the characteristics of wildfire in the Fynbos Biome, identifies synoptic-scale atmospheric features that produce favourable conditions for the wildfire, and examines possibility of using the features as indicators for wildfire occurrence. Ten years (2003 - 2012) of fire data from the MODIS "active-fires" datasets were analysed over the study domain. Daily Fire Danger Index (FDI) was calculated over Southern Africa for this period using maximum temperature (Tmax), minimum relative humidity (RHmin), and maximum wind speed (Wmax) data from the Climate Forecasting System Reanalysis datasets (CFSR) at a 0.5°x0.5° horizontal resolution. The Self Organising Maps (SOMs) technique was used to classify the FDI (anomaly) patterns on the fire days, and the atmospheric dynamics associated with each pattern were studied.
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Hendricks, M. (Mymoena). "School governing bodies : their significance in the democratic transformation of South African society." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51905.
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Thesis (MEd)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis seeks to demonstrate the potential of school
governing bodies to further the process of democratising South
African society.
Among the main features of the democratisation of South African
education, is the decentralisation of educational governance.
In this process the decision-making authority has been devolved
from central government to the local school level, thus
preparing school communities for self-government and autonomy.
The establishment of school governing bodies at all public
schools in the country brings South Africa in line with current
international trends for democratic local community
participation and control in education. When this aspect of the
education systems of three countries, the United States of
America, England and Australia, are compared with South
Africa's, it shows the extent of the latter's democratisation of
educational governance.
The background to local community participation in South African
education according to various pieces of legislation passed,
their failure to reform education, and other aspects which led
to the promulgation of the Schools Act (1996), places school
governing bodies in South Africa in proper historical context.
An examination of the Schools Act reveals its democratic nature
and identifies those aspects of school governing bodies which
have the potential of furthering the democratisation process.
The challenges that the changes in school governance bring with
them are analysed to highlight their implications and
significance for school governing bodies.
School governing bodies offer new and exciting opportunities for
enterprising and enthusiastic communities. School governors
should, therefore, be urged to seize the opportunity to
participate in school governance and in this way play their role
in furthering the democratic transformation of South African
society.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis poog om die potensiaal wat skoolbeheerliggame het
om die proses van die demokratisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse
samelewing te bevorder, aan te toon.
Een van die hoofeienskappe van die demokratisering van die Suid-
Afrikaanse onderwys, is die desentralisasie van onderwysbestuur.
In hierdie proses is besluitnemingsgesag afgewentel vanaf
sentrale regeringsvlak na die plaaslike skoolvlak, waardeur
skoolgemeenskappe voorberei word vir self-beheer en outonomie.
Die totstandkoming van skoolbeheerliggame by alle openbare skole
in die land, bring Suid-Afrika in lyn met huidige internasionale
tendense rakende die demokratiese plaaslike gemeenskapsdeelname
aan beheer en bestuur in die onderwys. Wanneer hierdie aspek
van die onderwysstelsels van drie lande, die Verenigde State van
Amerika, Engeland en Australië, met die van Suid-Afrika vergelyk
word, dui dit die omvang van die demokratisering van
onderwysbeheer en -bestuur in die Suid-Afrikaanse opset aan.
Die agtergrond van plaaslike gemeenskapsdeelname in die Suid-
Afrikaanse onderwys volgens verskeie stukke wetgewing, hulle
onvermoë om die onderwys te hervorm, en ander aspekte wat tot
die afkondiging van die Skole Wet (1996) gelei het, plaas
skoolbeheerliggame in die regte historiese konteks.
'n Ondersoek van die Skole Wet dui aan dat dit demokraties in
wese is, en daardie aspekte van skoolbeheerliggame wat die
potensiaal besit om die demokratiseringsproses voort te sit,
word geidentifiseer.
Die uitdagings wat die veranderinge in skoolbestuur met hulle
meebring, word geanaliseer om hulle implikasies en
betekenisvolheid vir skOOlbeheerliggame uit te lig.
Skoolbeheerliggame bied nuwe en opwindende geleenthede vir
ondernemende en geesdriftige gemeenskappe aan. Skoolbeheerliggame
moet dus aangespoor word om die geleentheid aan te gryp
om deelname aan skoolbestuur te hê en om sodoende hulle rol te
speel in die bevordering van die demokratiese transformasie van
die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing.
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Hong, Gong Soog. "Resource Management Problems of USU Foreign Students." DigitalCommons@USU, 1985. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2507.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the resource management problems of a group of foreign students. The sample surveyed was 300 foreign students who attended Utah State University during fall quarter of 1984. A questionnaire was used to examine the students' degree of difficulty with resource management.
The differences in the degree of difficulty with resource management and respondents' gender , academic level, marital status, length of stay in the U.S. and geographic origin were tested by Analysis of Variance.
Significant differences were found in the degree of difficulty with resource management and the length of stay in the U.S. and geographical origin of respondents. The degree of difficulty with resource management was not significantly different by marital status, gender or academic level.
Additionally, finances, language, and homesickness were found to be the most serious problem areas during the academic sojourn at USU. The respondents expressed interest in learning more about medical, banking, and auto repair services.
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Asher, Dianne. "Developing the leadership and management of Henshaws Society for Blind People for stability and future growth." Thesis, University of Salford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490416.
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This is a practice based thesis which primarily considers the issue of leadership and management in the voluntary sector. The focus for the thesis is my current organisation, Henshaws Society for Blind People, a charity which provides services for visually impaired people of all ages across the north of England.