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Victor, Elizabeth Kaye. "Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4246.

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Different kinds of collectives help to coordinate between individuals and social groups to solve distribution problems, supply goods and services, and enable individuals to live fulfilling lives. Collectives, as part of the process of socialization, contribute to the normalization of behaviors, and consequently, structure our ability to be self-reflective autonomous agents. Contemporary philosophy of action models characterize collective action as the product of individuals who have the proper motivations to perform cooperative activities (bottom-up); or they begin with the social-level phenom

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Dougherty, Richard K. Mir Pablo F. "Organizational structure for inter-agency information operations /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA389648.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations) Naval Postgraduate School, March 2001.<br>Thesis advisors, Carl R. Jones, Thomas, Gerblick. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219). Also Available online.

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Morris, Mark. "Managerial agency : personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2987/.

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This study begins with the clinical observation that psychopathic patients distort and disrupt the organisation containing and caring for them on one hand, and that organisational leaders manage to galvanise followers into realising his vision on the other; the two seeming to be phenomenologically similar; the former is organisationally effective antisocially, and the latter, pro-socially; one destructive and one creative. The study explores the implications of this observation through the sociological, psychological and leadership literatures, having focussed on the question of how managers a

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Bettez, Silvia C. Noblit George W. "Secret agent insiders to whiteness mixed race women negotiating structure and agency /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,846.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Education." Discipline: Education; Department/School: Education.

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Jordan-Baker, Craig. "Agency, structure and realism in language and linguistics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/44185/.

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This thesis considers the scientific status of linguistics and the historical and contemporary attempts to view linguistics as closely aligned to, or one of, the natural sciences. Such attempts share certain common features that make up what is identified here as the ‘Formalist Attitude'. The question ‘what is a language?' is central to the discussion of the scientific status of linguistics, so a central task of the thesis is to show how answers to this question display the features of the Formalist Attitude. In particular it is shown that attempts to constrict the theoretical purview of lingu

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Tasselli, Stefano. "Network structure, individual agency and outcomes in organizations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283966.

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Kiemtore, Bertrand. "Management structure of communication agency with comprehensive services." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33167.

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A communication agency is a company responsible for guiding any business, community, association in the development of its internal and / or external to promote the image of the company to the public and external partners. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33167

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Qually, Byron Alexander. "Design and democracy : transformative agency within indigenous structure." Thesis, Open University, 2018. http://oro.open.ac.uk/55017/.

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South African democracy is perceived and evidenced to be under duress. This research questions how design, when underpinned by transdisciplinarity and abduction, can articulate and address this problem. The literature is reviewed to map how designed objects, processes, and philosophy enable and hamper notions of democracy. Within this literature, two concepts are identified as key to a South African context, and require further research - Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and cosmopolitanism. The African concept of Ubuntu, a subset of IKS, is argued to function as an authentic context, howeve

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Elder-Vass, David John. "The theory of emergence, social structure and human agency." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430776.

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Carlton, Nancy. "Structure, agency and power in local authority possession proceedings." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/738385b2-fbac-4ce2-9738-21505a91c532.

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This thesis is a study of the conduct of local authority possession proceedings and the relationships of the parties involved in them: the courts, local authority housing departments and their tenants. On a more general level the thesis is concerned \\ ith the process of change and barriers to change in legal proceedings. The issue underlying these relationships is the nature of the security of tenure given to council tenants by the Housing Act 1980 (consolidated by the Housing Act 1985). On the face of it, discretion as to recovering possession of their properties was removed from local autho

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Allam, Bahaaeldin Samir Ismail G. "Board characteristics, ownership structure and agency costs : UK evidence." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11154/.

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The term “Corporate Governance” always proliferates after large accounting scandals and crises; practitioners claim that governance mechanisms are the cause of these failures, and worldwide reforms take place after each failure; however, these reforms did not succeed in preventing the subsequent falls down. Although corporate governance mechanisms are introduced to monitor and control the managerial opportunistic behaviour in order to reduce the agency costs; most of the prior studies were directed towards investigating the role of governance mechanisms in enhancing firm performance as an indi

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Meyerovich, Roman Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "Structure versus agency: collapse of the USSR re-examined." Ottawa, 1996.

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King, Matthew David. "The structure of responsibility symmetry, agency, and undermining factors /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8072.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Philosophy. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Akram, Sadiya. "Re-conceptualising the concept of agency in the structure and agency dialectic : habitus and the unconscious." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1266/.

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While the human agent has the capacity for consciousness, intentionality and reflexivity, the same agent must also be affected by the social and political world in which she lives: herein lies the essence of the structure and agency debate. This thesis argues that while realists are in principle committed to a dialectical relationship between structure and agency, there is much dissonance between this commitment and the concepts of agency that they develop. I highlight the exclusion of the unconscious from realist notions of agency and argue that this oversight serves to unbalance the dialecti

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Yu, Bing. "Agency Costs of Stakeholders and Corporate Finance." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1258316541.

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Caragata, Lea. "Civil society as shadowland, mediations among structure, agency and space." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27617.pdf.

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Retz, Aaron Josef. "Structure, contingency and agency : examining the science of self-understanding /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arr441.pdf.

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Le, Boutillier Shaun. "Dualism and duality : an examination of the structure-agency debate." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2075/.

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Within the structure-agency debate the works of Margaret Archer and Anthony Giddens represent opposite opinions of the society-person connection and the status of social types. Their views are defined, respectively, by an adherence to dualism or duality. Whilst Archer's theory requires ontological proof that social structures, as emergent phenomena, exist sui generis Giddens' argument, based on a commitment to hermeneutics and pragmatism carries no such ontological baggage. I argue that the demands of Archer's and Bhaskar's realism are unmet and that duality is the most plausible position to h

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Parker, Lucy Charlene. "Examination of the Relationship between Classism and Career Agency." Thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10976608.

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<p> Classism is a recently studied, but historically existent form of oppression. Classism may involve students feeling that they cannot pursue a degree or career due to discrimination related to their social class status. This study explored the relationship between classism, gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, and career agency through survey design research. Career agency is the primary dependent variable in this study. Career agency includes career choice, career forethought, and career related actions related. Psychometrically established instruments including The Experiences With Pe

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Duggins, Shaun D. "The Development of Sense of Agency." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_theses/88.

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Agency, a behavioral and psychological concept, is an individual’s sense of what they can do and what they think they can do. It is imperative to understand how a sense of agency in youths can be fostered and transformed into constructive action. This study builds on previous research to better identify predictors of agency, focusing on social and political involvement and opportunity structure. Additionally, it analyzes and proposes the use of a new measure of agency, the Community Leadership (CL) scale. Eighty-five teens (ages 13 to 18) were administered surveys. Involvement was found to

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Lê, Patrick Lâm. "Does Clark Kent tweet ? Structure, Agency and Materiality in Institutional Theory." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHEC0001/document.

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Cette thèse examine deux questions de recherche: Comment l’adoption des technologies en ligne impacte-t-elle le comportement des acteurs et leur reproduction des institutions ? Quels rôles jouent la structure, l’agence et la matérialité dans ces changements ? Ma principale conclusion est que les acteurs font preuve d’une forme d’agence pratique en tirant avantage d’une situation émergente qui est caractérisée par de nouvelles conditions matérielles. La thèse s’articule autour de trois essais. Le premier essai examine comment les normes professionnelles et les caractéristiques matérielles de Tw

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Atwood, Cynthia. "Border security agency structure: a hindrance to demonstrating border security success." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/38874.

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CHDS State/Local<br>Long-awaited immigration reform may become a reality in 2013, as Congress debates the merits of a comprehensive overhaul. The primary criteria for triggering reforms in the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744), involves demonstrated control of the Southwest border. The debate has been complicated, however, because only a few analysts and not the Department of Homeland Security itself have been able to produce acceptable metrics that illustrate success at enforcing border operations, at or between, the ports of entry.

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Hodkinson, Philip Michael. "Careership and markets : structure and agency in the transition to work." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294471.

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Al-Saud, K. F. T. "The inter-penetration of agency and structure within the Saudi bureaucracy." Thesis, Swansea University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635722.

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The place of the public sector bureaucracy in the political, social and economic life of Saudi Arabia is central. It plays a major role in both policy making and implementation and it is charged with development, planning and administration. Therefore whether or not the bureaucracy is succeeding in meeting this responsibility is of interest to and directly affects every member of the society. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that there are two forces at work within the Saudi bureaucracy. First, there is an overt, formal, systematic and rational structure that has been planned and or

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Matthews, Catherine S. "Trade credit management within small professional firms : practice, agency and structure." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/1a993efc-5b21-45d1-85d6-fd6c3bffc60d.

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This research surfaces the complex process of managing trade credit within small professional firms, exploring drivers of idiosyncratic practice within particular contexts. Despite the acknowledged macro-economic significance of trade credit, little is known of its management at firm-level. The well documented susceptibility of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to liquidity problems implies the importance of the management of internal resources for such firms. Small professional firms provided the opportunity to explore trade credit management where the length of the work in progress c

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Stapleton, Sarah Jane. "Institutions in/cognito : the political constitution of agency." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33074.

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Operating at the boundaries of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, politics and social theory, this thesis aims to develop an interdisciplinary model of the relationship between agency and structure. This thesis explores the question of why the agency/structure argument in the social sciences has not yet been resolved and argues for an interdisciplinary model of agency to be utilised by social theory. In the wake of poststructuralism there has been a gravitation back towards characterising the terms of this debate in more strongly dichotomous terms, arguing for the autonomy of agency in par

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Fu, Guopeng. "Physics teachers and China's curriculum reform : the interplay between agency and structure." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50426.

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This study explored how individual and collective agencies among physics teachers in a select high school were enabled and constrained in the context of the on-going curriculum reform in China. Human agency as used in this study was informed by five perspectives: Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory; Giddens’ Structuration Theory; Giroux’s critical pedagogy; Seixas’ historical consciousness; and Davies’ feminist and poststructuralist perspective. The study employed autoethnographical methods including observation, interviewing, the researcher’s and teachers’ reflective journaling, and data colle

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Fittipaldi, Luis Antonio Egidio. "Agency, structure and subjectivity : towards a new metaphorical model of the mind." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13631.

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The current thesis is based on the research of the psychoanalytical concepts of agency, subject and structure while it correlates the same notions with the clinical observations of patients with personality disorder in crisis [patient group]. It also proposes an answer to the problem of agency and structure, incorporating structuration theory and recursivity. This is done by the construction and outline of a new framework, which is designated as the scaffolding model. The analysis of the analytical observations demonstrated that patients present in the clinical arena with dual narratives that

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Grabowski, Lorie Jean Schabo. "Welfare participation and perceived self-efficacy : structure, agency, and the self-concept /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.

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Wallace, Gerald Leon. "Decisions of capital structure in the presence of agency and collusive monopsony." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6394.

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The United States acute care hospital (ACH) market provides a unique environment in which to examine questions about market structure and performance. The ACHs operate in a mature market of health services that is highly regulated and has one dominant primary consumer of services. The uncharacteristic industry structure offers the opportunity to analyze pervasive agency relationships and capital structure issues in a new setting. In addition, the policies of the U.S. Government have created an environment in which tacit collusion is likely to flourish, which leads to market buyer power (monops

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Rudd, Peter W. "Structure and agency in youth transitions : student perspectives on vocational further education." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1996. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/805/.

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SOUSA, ELIZEU SANTIAGO TAVARES DE. "AGENCY, STRUCTURE, COGNITION: THE INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT OF JOAQUIM NABUCO AND OLIVEIRA LIMA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21922@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O propósito deste trabalho será o de compreender o pensamento internacional de Joaquim Nabuco e Oliveira Lima mediante a reconstrução e sistematização da visão de mundo desses protagonistas do pensamento internacional brasileiro entre as décadas de 1890 e 1910, momento que, ao nosso ver, abrigou o debate inaugural da diplomacia moderna do país. Esta dissertação analisará ainda a construção das estruturas cognitivas que

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Martin, Natalie. "Structure, process and agency : the evolution of EU Turkey relations 1999-2004." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10106.

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When Turkey became a candidate of the EU in 1999 it had been a problematic applicant for forty years due to residual unpopularity with several member states for cultural, economic, security and normative reasons. However, the Helsinki European Council heralded a change of fortunes for Ankara and by 2005 accession negotiations had opened. This happened in spite of Turkey remaining an unpopular candidate with some member states. Moreover, since 2005, Turkey s standing within the EU has returned to a position akin to its pre-1999 stasis. This thesis thus asks: why did Turkey make such progress be

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Foster, Nicola. "Structure and agency in the economics of public policy for TB control." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31228.

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Globally, Tuberculosis remains a devastating disease, despite the availability of treatment. The disease is associated with poverty, and those with the disease incur a high cost of accessing care, while simultaneously experiencing income loss due to a loss in productivity. A key challenge in TB programmes remains the accurate diagnosis of the disease, especially in people who are HIV positive. Diagnosing TB can be very resource intensive and the accuracy of diagnosis is dependent on a range of disease, health service organisation and provider behaviour factors. This thesis seeks to enhance und

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Chua, Jaime D. "Bridging Structure-Agency Divide: A Structurational Approach to Institutional Adaptation and Innovation." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568731826882752.

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O'Callaghan, Steve. "Agency problems and ownership structure in large private firms in the UK." Thesis, Bangor University, 2015. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/agency-problems-and-ownership-structure-in-large-private-firms-in-the-uk(0cf73dc9-b0a0-429a-a1aa-652e74c4fdf7).html.

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This thesis investigates the relationships between ownership structure and agency costs, executive compensation and earnings management in large private firms in the UK. The study employs a sample of 1223 firms and data is collected from the FAME database and Annual Returns submitted to Companies House. The study uses a cross-sectional data set, with data from sample firms 2013 financial reports, and employs univariate tests and OLS and 2SLS regressions to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings of the agency cost study are that high and low agency cost firms differ significantly in their m

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Gardner, Emily A. "Narrative Structure and Reader Skepticism in Frankenstein." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1387214518.

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Walker, Marquita R. "Perceptions of educational attainment on intragenerational social mobility : individual agency within class structure /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3164547.

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Buckley, Barbara Jean. "The structure and enactment of agency in the context of rural nursing practice." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52673.

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There is a growing awareness of inequities in rural healthcare in Canada and internationally. Rural nurses are embedded within complex healthcare structures, yet little attention has been paid to their experiences. These complex structures can function to both constrain and enable nurses to provide equitable, safe, and quality healthcare services to rural populations. This ethnographic study was conducted with rural nurses to explore the relationship between healthcare structures and rural nurses’ enactment of their agency. Informed by Structuration Theory (Giddens, 1984), Sewell’s (1992) noti

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Mesmer, Marie. "Vertical occupational segregation and secretaries : a multiple case study of structure and agency." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842700/.

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This sociological study investigates how the process of vertical occupational segregation by sex is maintained at the end of the 20th century. It explores the secretarial role and opportunities for career advancement beyond this "pink-collar" occupation within four organizations in England that were self-identified as promoting equal opportunities. The evidence stems from case studies conducted at the BBC in 1992 and at the BBC, Channel Four, Rank Xerox, and Unilever in 1994. Data were collected in three forms: (i) semi-structured interviews; 18 with mid- to senior-level secretaries, 10 with m

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Forbes, Jeannie Harris. "Structure and agency in the 'Brand Box' : a self-ethnography of university branding." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578988.

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This thesis uses an in-depth case study of an English university's brand to examine the utility of Martin Kornberger's account of branding. It argues that structuration theory powerfully explains both the relationships between Kornberger's four main categories of branding theory, and the relationships within the empirical evidence presented in the thesis. Using self-ethnography, the thesis reports on an extensive set of semi-structured interviews with 33 participants at the University of Exeter which generated over 600 pages of rich qualitative data, and looks at how the Institution has sought

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Smith, Sarah Elizabeth. "Colonial contacts and individual burials| Structure, agency, and identity in 19th century Wisconsin." Thesis, The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1571930.

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<p> Individual burials are always representative of both individuals and collective actors. The physical remains, material culture, and represented practices in burials can be used in concert to study identities and social personas amongst individual and collective actors. These identities and social personas are the result of the interaction between agency and structure, where both individuals and groups act to change and reproduce social structures. </p><p> The three burials upon which this study is based are currently held in the collections of the Milwaukee Public Museum. They are all

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Shojaei, Reyhaneh sadat. "Deep understanding of private housing supply in Tehran : applied structure and agency approach." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11680/.

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The Tehran housing market is the largest concentration of most forms of economic activity, with the largest and most important housing market in the country. The roots of economic and demographic centralization in Tehran go back to the time when it became the capital of Iran. This market is a complex market dominated by the private sector, and encounters many problems such as high housing prices and a shortcoming in the housing supply, which seem unsolvable to experts and residents. In spite of multiple agents and institutions involved in this sector and engaging at different level of authorit

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Bartlett, Tom. "The transgressions of wise men : structure, tension and agency in intercultural development discourse." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24931.

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This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in Guyana, South America, between 1999 and 2002, looking at the use of English in negotiating situations between the indigenous Makushi communities of the North Rupununi Savannah, the Government of Guyana, and non-governmental and international development organisations. It considers notions of liminality and third-space encounters as they relate to the evolution within the Discourse of Development of fora that temporarily accommodate both indigenous and external modes of discourse, so opening up for debate the ideologies behind them while fosterin

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Okonkwo, Amaechi Dickson. "Agency or structure? : Nigerian University students' perspectives of influences on sexual risk taking." Thesis, Swansea University, 2009. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42787.

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This thesis is about influences on young people's sexual risk taking. It is situated within a complex context of young people's sustained structural/self-sexualisation, significant sexual activity, unwanted outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), intended benefits such as pleasure, and recurrent interventionists' promotion of abstinence-until-marriage sexual norm to young people. The above conceptualization is tested with a mixed-methodology that recruited fifty-six students with a snowball sampling technique. McCracken's long-interview and Stones' empirical research brackets

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Noronha, Gregory Mario. "Industry characteristics, agency theory, and the interaction of capital structure and dividend policy." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39752.

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Cutajar, Beverly. "The impact of organisational culture on the management of employees' talents : the case of Maltese ICT organisations." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28229.

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Organisational culture is one key phenomenon that was investigated both in comparative ways as well as an influence on various management mechanisms and systems, in academic and practitioner literature. Talent management is one such mechanism that has attracted debate in practitioner domains, although academic research is lacking. This study investigates the effect of organisational culture on employee talent management, taking the case of Malta based ICT companies. It includes a review of literature about organisational culture and structure, agency and talent management, exploring gaps in li

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Luo, Haowen. "Is 100 Percent Debt Optimal? Three Essays on Aggressive Capital Structure and Myth of Negative Book Equity Firms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862869/.

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This dissertation comprises of three related essays in regard of puzzling negative book equity phenomenon among U.S. public firms. In essay 1, I present the evidence that there is an increasing trend of negative book equity firms over the past 50 years, from 0.3% up to over 5% among publicly traded firms in US. In contrast to previous research which generally classify these firms as distressed firms with highly likelihood of bankruptcy, I propose a new method to separate Healthy Negative Book Equity Firms (HNBEF) from relatively more distressed negative book equity firms. The results show that

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Silva, Andre Espozel Pinheiro da. "Testing dynamic agency predictions to corporate finance." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18243.

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Allan, James P. "The British Labour Party in Opposition, 1979-1997: Structures, Agency, and Party Change." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9567.

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The British Labour Party has spent eighteen years in opposition since 1979. During that time it lost four consecutive general elections to the Conservative Party. In 1997, however, it now looks set to win its first election since 1974. This thesis examines the Labour Party in opposition since 1979, using a theoretical framework informed by Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Based on a dialectical notion of the structure and agency linkage, a two-tiered framework is constructed which at one level views a political party as consisting of a set of structures which can constrain and enable par

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