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Li, Chuang (Austin). "China's skateboarding youth culture as an emerging cultural industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34372.
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This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.
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Gaye, Abdoulaye. "Valorisation du patrimoine industriel de la ville de Rufisque, sauvegarde et transmission: quel impact sur le développement local?: le cas de l' ex usine." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/20751.
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(INTRODUÇÂO) Le choix d'un sujet du mémoire n'est jamais anodin.Entreprendre cette proposition de recherche sur la valorisation du patrimoine industriel de la ville de Rufisque, sauvegarde et transmission : quel impact sur le développement local et portant sur le cas spécifique de l’ex manufacture Bata constitue un défit et une fierté. D’abord en tant que natif de cette ville tricentenaire qui porte toujours les vestiges de la préhistoire, et dont les habitants étaient considérés comme des citoyens Français (à l’opposé des indigènes)1, ensuite parce que le patrimoine industriel n’est pas très bien connu au Sénégal et enfin l’intérêt historique et son importance socioculturel et économique sur le développement local. Quand les sciences sociales parlent de patrimoine industriel, elles évoquent point un «fonds de commerce», mais un héritage, une mémoire, les traces d'un passé industriel révolu. Une ouverture croissante des entreprises en état d'activité à la réflexion sur elles-mêmes conduit du reste certaines d'entre elles, depuis peu, à créer le lien nécessaire entre ces deux concepts, économique et culturel, en réévaluant l'histoire de l'entreprise comme un des articles de son bilan, et en lui prêtant désormais l'attention que mérite une ressource «morale» où puiser à la fois pour résoudre des problèmes de gestion et pour conforter l'image interne et externe de l’entreprise2. Le patrimoine historique de l'industrie, concrètement, ce sont lestraces, plus ou moins bien préservées, de son fonctionnement et de son insertion dans le paysage ou dans la société.Les archives d'entreprises, les murs des usines, les débris des infrastructures ou de l'outillage, les collections de produits (ne serait-ce que sur catalogue), l'impact sur l'environnement, la mémoire des dernières générations de patrons ou de salariés: autant d'éléments matériels ou de souvenirs (immatériel) dont il est de mieux en mieux admis aujourd'hui qu'on ne saurait se passer pour écrire l'histoire de l'industrie, une histoire inscrite non seulement dans les statistiques, les enquêtes, les comptabilités, mais aussi dans l'espace en trois dimensions, dans la vision d'une population, dans des vies quotidiennes
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Marshman, Sophia Francesca. "From testimony to the culture industry : representations of the Holocaust in popular culture." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416226.
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This thesis addresses the issue of how the Holocaust has been represented in popular culture in recent decades. The starting point of my research relates to the question of whether, though the Holocaust appears to be firmly imprinted upon the public imagination, this engagement can be regarded as superficial. This thesis also examines how survivor testimony has been increasingly marginalised as the Holocaust has entered the sphere of popular culture and entertainment, and how this affects memory. In terms of methodology, I have adopted a case study approach, with each chapter of the thesis addressing a different form of Holocaust representation. Chapter One examines the importance of survivor testimony and its unique ability to convey the full horror of the Holocaust. This chapter also sets up the central debate which drives my research: the question of how we can hope to understand the Holocaust if we ignore the wealth of testimony in favour of the comforting inventions of popular culture. Chapter Two addresses the problems inherent in the genre of Holocaust fiction, and the ethical implications of literature which introduces elements of distortion, falsification and sexualisation to the `story' of the Holocaust. Chapter Three looks at the Americanisation of the Holocaust, with particular reference to the film Schindler's List. Chapter Four by contrast looks at the different approach of European Holocaust films and documentaries which are less entertainment-focused and therefore believed to represent the Holocaust more accurately. Chapter Five examines the growth in the number of museums devoted to the Holocaust, and the question of whether a heavy reliance on artefacts and images from the Holocaust/liberation era further dehumanises victims and encourages voyeurism. Chapter Six appraises the phenomenon of Holocaust tourism and the kind of memory communicated by authentic sites which are now essentially `empty', compromised by decay, reconstruction, and the commercialism which tourism inevitably encourages. Within the conclusion I offer an evaluation of the different approaches to the Holocaust with regard to their merits and shortcomings. In terms of a contribution to knowledge, my thesis draws together many different forms of Holocaust representation to evaluate which accurately represent the Holocaust, and which shield us from its harsher realities, indulge in sentimentalism and encourage consumption. i
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Almeida, Marcos Renato Holtz de [UNESP]. "As metamorfoses do diabo na modernidade: a secularização do mito e sua apropriação pela indústria cultural no século XX." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106272.
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A tese aborda as diferentes faces e fases destinadas à representação da figura do Diabo pela arte mediante o devir sócio-histórico-cultural do ocidente desde a Idade Média até a modernidade. Assim, a produção artística de bens simbólicos sobre o Diabo adquiriu diversos contornos desde os séculos finais da Idade Média e, mediante o devir histórico, vivenciou sua transformação e reprodução em mercadoria no século XX. Tomando por base esse cenário, por meio da ação da Indústria Cultural, o imaginário existente sobre o Diabo passou a ser utilizado pela indústria do entretenimento e pela sociedade de consumo como mercadoria capaz de satisfazer os gostos das sociedades e das culturas contemporâneas. O símbolo mítico do mal perdeu sua função religiosa e tornou-se um instrumento a serviço da ideologia capitalista.
The thesis aboards the different faces and phases destined to the representation of the figure of the Devil by art through the social, historical and cultural transformation of western society in the modernity. Thus, the artistic production of symbolic goods about Devil acquired many contours since the final centuries of the Middle Ages and, through the historical process, lived his transformation and reproduction in commodity in the XXth century. Based on this scenario, through the action of the Industry of Culture, the imaginary existent about Devil started being utilized by the industry of entertainment and by the society of consumption as commodity able to satisfy the taste of the society and culture contemporary. The mythical symbol of evil lost its religious function and became an instrument at the service of the capitalist ideology.
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Allen-Robertson, James. "Digital culture industry: a history of digital distribution." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546806.
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Zou, Xuemei, and 邹雪梅. "Landscape renovation: for Dahongmen clothing culture industry district." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47152965.
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Brown, Andrew D. "Information, communication and organizational culture : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1833/.
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This research is focused on information and communication phenomena within one industrial organisation. From its intellectual situation within the interpretive epistemological tradition the thesis seeks to demonstrate the utility of the case study approach combined with the style of qualitative analysis known as 'grounded theory' for scholars interested in furthering their understanding of the information dimension of complex organisations. More specifically, a preliminary examination of the data set in conjunction with a theoretical position which posited the socially and cognitive constructed nature of organisations quite naturally led to the case study material being interpreted through the prism of the cultural metaphor. Chapter 1 provides an account of the methodological and research design principles, issues and assumptions on which this research has been predicated. Chapter 2 gives an overview of the data collected in the form of brief summaries of the central themes which have been used to analyse the case study organisation. The cultural perspective on organisations is then presented in Chapter 3. Acquaintance with the content of the cultural approach to Complex organisations is required in order to facilitate the reader's understanding of Chapters 4-10 in which the data are examined and analysed. Chapter 4 gives a short introduction to the case study organisation at which the research was conducted. Chapters 5-8 are detailed case study analyses of four of the organisation's principal subsidiaries. These are followed by a macro-organisational analysis which examines the cultural and information/communication profiles that have been developed for the subsidiaries within the total socio-organisational context. Chapter 9's emphasis on the core categories omits some important aspects of the organisation's culture (its strengths, weaknesses, the issue of control and its relative stability) which are dealt with in Chapter 10. Chapter 11 provides a description and analysis of a new product launch conducted by the organisation: the chapter seeks to evaluate the merits of using an approach which emphasises information/communication and cultural variables for the understanding and analysis of organisational behaviour. Finally, Chapter 12 sets out some of the conclusions that can be drawn from this research project. It takes a critical look at the research design and methodology employed and introduces Kuhn's (1962) concept of a paradigm which is used as a descriptive and analytical tool for evaluating the cultural perspective. Some further conceptualisation of the cases and the new product launch is attempted and process models of complex organisations in general and organisational culture in particular are derived and explained. The inter-relation of information and communication phenomena and organisational culture is further elaborated first normatively in the form of typologies and second prescriptively in terms of the use value of culture for information and communication studies. The conclusions are then summarised and recommendations for further research are made.
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Tsang, Kee Fu Nelson. "Measuring service and service culture in the tourism industry." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3299876.
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Shum, Chun-pang. "The influence of organizational culture of main contractor to organizational culture of sub-contractor in the construction industry in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2004. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B37933140.
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HELOU, Sabine, and Timo VIITALA. "How Culture and Motivation Interacts? : - A Cross-Cultural Study." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1196.
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Motivating employees is essential for any organization aspiring to succeed. However, the process of motivating is not straightforward due to the diversity of individual’s needs. The task has been made even more difficult by the fact that personalized needs have altered in recent years. For instance, in many circumstances financial compensation is not considered as the main motivational factor of employees. Therefore, various other motivational practices have been developed, which take into consideration such issues as the work environment and the job itself.
This thesis is a comparative study between Sweden and Finland. The study has an objective of exploring how corporate culture affects the use of motivational practices in the Information Technology industry.
According to the findings gathered from two organizations, Sasken Finland Oy and SYSteam, culture does influence the choice of motivational practices. The issue of how culture affects, depends on whether corporate culture is task or person-oriented.
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Ogbonna, Emmanuel. "Organization culture and strategy in the UK supermarket industry." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314775.
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Ranzetta, Kirk Edwards. "The changing paradigm of agricultural knowledge the policy, memory, and culture of the Maryland tobacco buyout /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.98 Mb., 160 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220642.
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BASTOS, Luciene Maria. "Sociedade, indivíduo e fetiche: a constituição da subjetividade no âmbito da indústria cultural." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2007. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2157.
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Previous issue date: 2007-08-30The present study is part of the Cultural and Educacional Process Research Line and aims at investigating the loss of meaning of education as culture in the constitution of subjectivity in a scope in which the cultural industry is a privileged means of socialization. The individual tends to make bonds with adaptation and acceptance of the existing things as natural and unchangeable. A similar constitution metamorphoses the individual into indifferentiated and fetishised object, once it excludes denial as part of human life in society, resulting in identification and adjustment to the established social organisation. This study seeks understanding of the elements and processes that produce what can be called fetishising of subjectivity. By researches bibliographical, in order to reach such understanding, it is sought in Adorno and Horkheimer, the fertility of their analysis of the rationality that goes through culture and society since the beginning of the present time. Subjectivity is seen as constitution present specifically in society, process mediated by contradictions and clashes between private dimensions (individual) and universal (social), which the individual is composed by. Labour, the creating activity of men, in the scope of production of life under the rules of capitalism is found submitted to this mean of production, generating an alienated human constitution, both materially and spiritually. From this study, it can be concluded that the conditions of blocking autonomous subjectivity occur in historical conditions. This is the tendency of present society, since it is a social organisation ruled by capital. Such adjustment does not nullify the constitution of a critical, autonomous subjectivity, since this a continuous human process, and as such, surrounded by uncertainties and possibilities.
O presente estudo integra a Linha de Pesquisa Cultura e Processos Educacionais e objetiva investigar a deformação do sujeito pela coisificação e pela indiferenciação que constituem a fetichização da subjetividade, enfatizando-se o papel capital da indústria cultural nesse processo, expressando, no limite, a perda de sentido da cultura como educação na constituição humana. Para o estudo elegeu-se como campo privilegiado a relação entre indivíduo e sociedade no processo de socialização efetuado na cultura e no trabalho. Nesse universo, o indivíduo tende a vincular-se à adaptação e à aceitação do existente como natural e imutável. Semelhante constituição metamorfoseia o indivíduo em objeto fetichizado e indiferenciado, uma vez que exclui a negação como elemento inerente à vida em sociedade, resultando na identificação e no ajustamento à organização social estabelecida. Mediante pesquisa bibliográfica, busca-se compreender os elementos e processos que produzem a fetichização da subjetividade, tendo em vista a possibilidade objetiva de emancipação humana. Para alcançar tal compreensão, busca-se na teoria crítica da Escola de Frankfurt, especialmente em Adorno e Horkheimer, a fertilidade de sua análise sobre a racionalidade que permeia a cultura e a sociedade modernas. A subjetividade é compreendida como constituição erigida especificamente em sociedade, processo balizado por contradições e embates entre as dimensões particular (individual) e universal (social), as quais compõem o indivíduo. O trabalho, a atividade criadora do homem, elemento diferenciador que compõe sua individualidade, no âmbito da produção da vida sob os ditames do capitalismo, se encontra submetido a este modo de produção, gerando uma constituição humana alienada, material e espiritualmente. A partir deste estudo, conclui-se que as condições de obstacularização da subjetividade autônoma ocorrem em condições históricas. Essa é a tendência da sociedade atual, visto esta ser uma organização social administrada pela dominação do capital. Tal conformação não anula a constituição de uma subjetividade crítica, autônoma, em razão de este ser um processo humano contínuo e, como tal, permeado de incertezas e possibilidades
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Silva, Rafael Florencio da. "A construção já é ruína: a tropicália de Caetano Veloso sob o processo de modernização do território brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-09102018-131017/.
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Nossa pesquisa de dissertação se dedica a analisar as transformações ocorridas no campo da cultura nacional sob o processo de modernização a partir do estudo da obra do músico popular Caetano Veloso, em diálogo estabelecido com o crítico literário Roberto Schwarz. Ao tomarmos a relação entre cultura e política como campo de análise da investigação geográfica, estabelecemos o diálogo entre o processo de territorialização da indústria cultural e a formação territorial do Estado nacional brasileiro. O debate entre os dois autores, Veloso e Schwarz, nos permite analisar a partir do campo da cultura as transformações que o processo de modernização produziu em território nacional ao adotarmos o conceito de modernização retardatária a fim de problematizar a relação entre o arcaico e o moderno presente nas discussões sobre o nacional desenvolvimentismo. Nessa perspectiva, nos utilizamos das formulações de Guy Debord sobre a autonomização das esferas da cultura e da política na formação da sociedade do espetáculo. A interpretação tropicalista da formação nacional e identidade nacional se cruzam com percurso mencionado, bem como a formação de uma indústria cultural nacional como fator de integração do território nacional e territorialização do capital.Our dissertation research is dedicated to analyzing the transformations that occurred in the field of national culture under the modernization process, based on the study of the work of the popular musician Caetano Veloso, in a dialogue established with the literary critic Roberto Schwarz. When we take the relationship between culture and politics as a field of analysis of geographic research, we establish a dialogue between the process of territorialization of the cultural industry and the territorial formation of the Brazilian national state. The debate between the two authors, Veloso and Schwarz, allows us to analyze from the field of culture the transformations that the process of modernization produced in the national territory by adopting the concept of delayed modernization in order to problematize the relation between the archaic and the modern present in the discussions on national developmentalism. In this perspective, we use Guy Debord\'s formulations on the autonomization of the spheres of culture and politics in the formation of the society of the spectacle. The tropicalist interpretation of national formation and national identity intersect with the aforementioned path, as well as the formation of a national cultural industry as a factor of integration of the national territory and territorialisation of capital.
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Edwards, Jason R. "Safety culture and the australian heavy vehicle industry : a concept in chaos : an industry in need." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72870/1/Jason_Edwards_Thesis.pdf.
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This research proposed a new framework for safety culture and examined the influence that culture has on safety in the heavy vehicle industry. The results gave evidence for an industry wide culture, allowing future safety interventions to be designed in a culturally-relevant manner. Designing culturally-relevant interventions may maximise their effectiveness and reduce the levels of resistance to safety that have been evident in past years.
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Pusaksrikit, Paween. "How does Knowledge Management improve the Service Industry?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-590.
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In twenty-first century, the industry competes heavily. Entrepreneurs try to use technology to develop their business. However, using technology generates high costs. So companies need to find a new way to survive by using the existing resources to gain maximum benefit. Knowledge management is one of interesting alternatives as it can deliver competitive advantage such as greater competencies and synergy, more balanced decisions and less errors, more creativity and innovation, broader collaboration and knowledge sharing, and easier links to expertise and deeper understanding.
This paper deals with various aspects of knowledge management particularly concentrating on knowledge sharing in service industry. Issues in the context of different data sources and the research with qualitative methodology create the in-depth knowledge to understand how to do knowledge work for gaining competitive advantage. The emphasis is placed on analysis and evaluation of problems and barriers of both cases as applied from all data collection.
In the paper, each chapter has the following set-up. Chapter 2 highlights methodology. The qualitative approach has been used to obtain information and provide data analysis. A complete analysis of knowledge management has been developed by using a case study method with secondary data to analyze how service industry uses knowledge management to manage in its sector. Chapter 3 gives theoretical frame of reference. The definitions of knowledge and culture are explained. Problems and barriers of knowledge sharing are also presented. Chapter 4 gives analysis. Conclusion is presented in the final chapter. The findings show that to improve service and customer satisfaction, the industry has to find out and use knowledge management appropriately. Knowledge management helps reducing time to find information and sharing decision making. For the last part, the discussion and recommendation from culture and knowledge affecting knowledge management in the companies has been reported. Because of the time limitation of the study, the paper focuses only on the section of service industry. An area for further study would be using other research methods such as interview to gain more in-depth understanding and survey to increase reliability and validity of this topic.
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Weddikkara, Chitra. "The impact of professional culture on dispute resolution in the building industries of Australia and Sri-Lanka." Thesis, Weddikkara, Chitra (2003) The impact of professional culture on dispute resolution in the building industries of Australia and Sri-Lanka. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/395/.
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The construction industry poses a number of challenges to those working in it. One important challenge is that the industry is dependent upon human interactions in the management of building projects. In this environment it is important for those who manage the projects to deal with intricate relationships and to consider the emotions, interactions and various types of reasoning that lie behind the actions and decisions taken by the participants in the construction process.
The issue for researchers is to gain a better understanding of the variables that affect the actions of the participants in this process. Such research demands sensitivity to the values, attitudes and behavior developed by the different occupational groupings. These factors according to Edgar Schein define the culture of a professional group. This research was conceived on the belief that the professionals in the construction industry brought to bear their own professional culture on the industry. It was necessary to have a better understanding of this culture in order to be able to resolve disputes that occur in the construction process.
That is the impact of culturally deternlined values, attitudes and behavior of these professional groups. Therefore, this research is aimed at investigating the professional cultures of the participants who come together in a construction project. The question posed was whether they shared a culture or had differences, and if differences existed whetherthese differences had an effect on the reactions of each of the groups to disputes and their resolution.
A survey was carried out among professional groups in Australia and Sri-Lanka and the survey data from both countries were analyzed using statistical tests. The results show that professional groups share similarities in professional culture as well as differences. It also showed that these cultural differences created an adversarial atmosphere among construction project participants. It was also found that introducing a party outside of the usual professional groups would be beneficial in the resolution process. Respondents were of the opinion that the third party outside of the construction team could be a lawyer.
This type of research is still new within the field of construction. The contributions of this work are to link professional culture and conflict and give some indication how such conflict could be addressed. In this context by identifying the values attitudes and behavior of professional groups the subject of conflict and disputes could be beneficially addressed through professional education.
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Weddikkara, Chitra. "The impact of professional culture on dispute resolution in the building industries of Australia and Sri-Lanka." Weddikkara, Chitra (2003) The impact of professional culture on dispute resolution in the building industries of Australia and Sri-Lanka. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/395/.
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The construction industry poses a number of challenges to those working in it. One important challenge is that the industry is dependent upon human interactions in the management of building projects. In this environment it is important for those who manage the projects to deal with intricate relationships and to consider the emotions, interactions and various types of reasoning that lie behind the actions and decisions taken by the participants in the construction process.
The issue for researchers is to gain a better understanding of the variables that affect the actions of the participants in this process. Such research demands sensitivity to the values, attitudes and behavior developed by the different occupational groupings. These factors according to Edgar Schein define the culture of a professional group. This research was conceived on the belief that the professionals in the construction industry brought to bear their own professional culture on the industry. It was necessary to have a better understanding of this culture in order to be able to resolve disputes that occur in the construction process.
That is the impact of culturally deternlined values, attitudes and behavior of these professional groups. Therefore, this research is aimed at investigating the professional cultures of the participants who come together in a construction project. The question posed was whether they shared a culture or had differences, and if differences existed whetherthese differences had an effect on the reactions of each of the groups to disputes and their resolution.
A survey was carried out among professional groups in Australia and Sri-Lanka and the survey data from both countries were analyzed using statistical tests. The results show that professional groups share similarities in professional culture as well as differences. It also showed that these cultural differences created an adversarial atmosphere among construction project participants. It was also found that introducing a party outside of the usual professional groups would be beneficial in the resolution process. Respondents were of the opinion that the third party outside of the construction team could be a lawyer.
This type of research is still new within the field of construction. The contributions of this work are to link professional culture and conflict and give some indication how such conflict could be addressed. In this context by identifying the values attitudes and behavior of professional groups the subject of conflict and disputes could be beneficially addressed through professional education.
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Clausen, Diana M. "Organizational effectiveness in hospitality the culture, process and professional growth /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004clausend.pdf.
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Piper, Johann Stephen Charles. "Constructing the rap culture industry : a study of broadsheet newspapers." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511144.
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Strimpel, Zoe. "The matchmaking industry and singles culture in Britain, 1970-2000." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71609/.
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Mills, John. "Bacterial Community Analysis of Meat Industry Conveyor Belts." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2236.
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At the commencement of this study, some sensitive overseas markets were rejecting chilled vacuum-packed New Zealand lamb due to higher than expected total viable counts, and counts of Enterobacteriaceae, a family of bacteria used to indicate sanitary condition. Of the many factors that influence the bacterial composition of chilled lamb in the overseas marketplace, the meat producer can only exert significant control over: Hygiene, ensuring the bacterial viable count on the meat prior to packaging is as low as possible, and comprised of as few species as possible that are capable of anaerobic growth at chilled meat temperatures. Maintaining the pH of the meat within acceptable limits, by careful animal selection and minimal pre-slaughter stress. Refrigeration temperatures, through rigorous maintenance of the cold-chain. The type of preservative packaging used, which is often limited by regulation in the marketplace. Initial work established that the bacterial microbiota present on the meat contact surfaces in the butchering facilities at some premises, in particular conveyor belting, was excessive and comprised of species that contributed to the high counts on the meat reported above. As a means of improving the hygiene of this process, this study investigated the hypothesis that some species of bacteria were able to form biofilms on the conveyor belt contact surfaces, becoming reservoirs for cross-contamination. This hypothesis was not been proven by this work; the results showing that biofilms were not present and that adequate hygiene of these surfaces instead depends on the ability to remove all meat-based residues from them at the completion of each day's processing. For premises operating interlocking belts from one manufacturer (Intraloxreg), a clean-in-place system is now available that is able to achieve this. Premises operating conventional disinfectant and water sanitisation of either continuous or interlocking belts must ensure that meat residue is completely removed before disinfection. The majority of New Zealand meat industry premises can now demonstrate that their hygienic processes in this area are under control. The microbiota of conveyor belting in this study was found to consist of bacteria from five taxonomic groups; the Flavobacteriaceae, the Actinomycetales, the Bacillus/Clostridium group, and the alpha and gamma branches of the Proteobacteria. The genera present on belts from premises whose hygiene was found to be in control did not contain species known to cause food-borne disease or spoilage of vacuum packaged meats. The bacterial viable count remains the most effective method available at this time for monitoring conveyor belt hygiene. Attempts to develop a monitoring system based on microscopy of an in-situ sampling device were unsuccessful due to an inability to penetrate the meat residue matrix. Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) may offer an alternative for rapid investigation of diversity, but further work is required before this can be validated for routine use.
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Lockwood, Christi. "A Place to Stay: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Hotel Industry, 1790-2015." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107291.
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Thesis advisor: Mary Ann GlynnThis dissertation examines the organizational appropriation and deployment of cultural resources and, in particular, cultural capital (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977), i.e., “high status cultural signals used in cultural and social selection” (Lamont & Lareau, 1988: 164), in manners that account for broader social status dynamics and institutional pressures. I conduct three interrelated empirical studies, all situated in the context of the U.S. hotel industry, and particularly, the luxury market segment. Building from archival, interview, and observational data collected from multiple sources, the first study focuses on the industry level, examining sweeping changes in hotels over time (from 1790–2015) and linking them with shifts in broader socio-cultural sentiments; the second study examines how the luxury segment of the industry sought to maintain its high status by appealing to elite guests in the face of such changes; and the third study highlights the organizational level, examining how luxury hotels managed cultural resources to transform the meaning of luxury for guests and signal status in an age of egalitarianism. Taken together, the three studies offer insights on the cultural embeddedness of industries and especially, how macro-level processes (at the industry level) yield dominant cultural codes and, in turn, how micro-level processes (at the organizational level) deploy and contribute to legitimating those codes. My studies strengthen the theoretical connection between research on culture, status and market adaptation by integrating and extending applicable ideas from cultural sociology (DiMaggio, 1987; Hirsch, 1972; Swidler, 1986, 2001) and by illuminating these with empirical evidence to explain when, why, and how processes of cultural entrepreneurship are undertaken to enable change and adaptation to the market and to society
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management
Discipline: Management and Organization
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O'Neill, Tom. "Carpets, markets and makers : culture and entrepreneurship in the Tibeto-Nepalese carpet industry /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0015/NQ30108.pdf.
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Badia, Gelabert Eulàlia. "The organizational and safety culture of the Spanish nuclear industry. A descriptive approach based on 20 years of independent safety culture assessments." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673258.
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Les anàlisis posteriors a l'ocurrència dels accidents nuclears més importants (Three Mile
Island, Chernobyl i Fukushima) han posat de manifest que les causes dels incidents de sistemes
tecnològics complexos no solament estan vinculades a aspectes tècnics, sinó que factors
aparentment més imperceptibles, com el comportament humà o la cultura organitzacional,
juguen un paper important en el seu desenvolupament (Rasmussen, 1997).
En la indústria nuclear espanyola, l'estudi d'incidents com l'incendi en l'edifici de les
turbines de la central nuclear (C. N.) de Vandellòs I (1989), la corrosió dels sistemes de refrigeració en
la C.N. de Vandellòs II (2004) i l'alliberament de material radioactiu en la C.N. d'Ascó I (2008),
també ha evidenciat la influència del component humà i organitzatiu en l'operació segura
de les instal·lacions.
En aquest context, la present tesi doctoral té el propòsit investigador de tractar d'identificar
trets característics de la cultura de les organitzacions nuclears espanyoles a partir de l'anàlisi dels
resultats de les avaluacions externes de la cultura organitzativa i de seguretat realitzades al sector. El coneixement d'aquests trets culturals pot ajudar a comprendre el comportament humà en un context on la seguretat ha de ser un dels fins de l'organització.
Per a això, es proposen tres objectius específics plasmats en els tres estudis empírics que conformen la tesi:
1) Descriure la cultura organitzativa del sector nuclear espanyol i identificar la possible existència de diferents subcultures dins de la indústria (Badia, Navajas i Losilla, 2020).
2) Descriure alguns dels factors rellevants per al desenvolupament de les característiques de cultura de seguretat sobre la base de tres teories científiques sobre organitzacions complexes (Badia, Navajas i Losilla, 2021).
3) Identificar, en un estudi de cas, els factors que determinen el comportament notificador del personal en el sistema de reporti de problemes (Navajas i Badia, 2020).
Aquesta tesi aporta coneixement sobre alguns dels patrons normatius i trets culturals de la indústria nuclear espanyola que impacten en la seguretat de les instal·lacions. Aquest coneixement pot ser utilitzat pel sector per a la millora de l'acompliment i l'operació segura de les plantes.
En aquest sentit, la similitud cultural entre centrals nuclears podria ser considerada per les diferents organitzacions per a treballar col·lectivament a optimitzar el seu funcionament. Compartir actuacions en l'àmbit dels factors humans i organitzatius i buscar estratègies per a gestionar la
variabilitat cultural no sols podria ser un factor clau per a la seguretat, sinó que els permetria fer front conjuntament als desafiaments als quals s'enfronta la indústria amb l'abandó progressiu de l'energia nuclear.
Així mateix, aquesta tesi obre noves línies de recerca orientades a aprofundir en alguns de les troballes obtingudes com són la gestió de les diferències culturals entre col·lectius per part de les organitzacions o l'estudi de la influència en la seguretat de les diferents interaccions culturals.Los análisis posteriores a la ocurrencia de los accidentes nucleares más importantes (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl y Fukushima) han puesto de manifiesto que las causas de los incidentes de sistemas tecnológicos complejos no solamente están vinculadas a aspectos técnicos, sino que factores aparentemente más imperceptibles, como el comportamiento humano o la cultura organizacional, juegan un papel importante en su desarrollo (Rasmussen, 1997). En la industria nuclear española, el estudio de incidentes como el incendio en el edificio de las turbinas de la central nuclear (C. N.) de Vandellòs I (1989), la corrosión de los sistemas de refrigeración en la C.N. de Vandellòs II (2004) y la liberación de material radiactivo en la C.N. de Ascó I (2008), también ha evidenciado la influencia del componente humano y organizativo en la operación segura de las instalaciones. En este contexto, la presente tesis doctoral tiene el propósito investigador de tratar de identificar rasgos característicos de la cultura de las organizaciones nucleares españolas a partir del análisis de los resultados de las evaluaciones externas de la cultura organizativa y de seguridad realizadas al sector. El conocimiento de dichos rasgos culturales puede ayudar a comprender el comportamiento humano en un contexto donde la seguridad debe ser uno de los fines de la organización. Para ello, se proponen tres objetivos específicos plasmados en los tres estudios empíricos que conforman la tesis: 1) Describir la cultura organizativa del sector nuclear español e identificar la posible existencia de diferentes subculturas dentro de la industria (Badia, Navajas y Losilla, 2020). 2) Describir algunos de los factores relevantes para el desarrollo de las características de cultura de seguridad en base a tres teorías científicas sobre organizaciones complejas (Badia, Navajas y Losilla, 2021). 3) Identificar, en un estudio de caso, los factores que determinan el comportamiento notificador del personal en el sistema de reporte de problemas (Navajas y Badia, 2020). Esta tesis aporta conocimiento sobre algunos de los patrones normativos y rasgos culturales de la industria nuclear española que impactan en la seguridad de las instalaciones. Este conocimiento puede ser utilizado por el sector para la mejora del desempeño y la operación segura de las plantas. En este sentido, la similitud cultural entre centrales nucleares podría ser considerada por las distintas organizaciones para trabajar colectivamente en optimizar su funcionamiento. Compartir actuaciones en el ámbito de los factores humanos y organizativos y buscar estrategias para gestionar la variabilidad cultural no sólo podría ser un factor clave para la seguridad, sino que les permitiría hacer frente conjuntamente a los desafíos a los que se enfrenta la industria con el abandono progresivo de la energía nuclear. Asimismo, esta tesis abre nuevas líneas de investigación orientadas a profundizar en algunos de los hallazgos obtenidos como son la gestión de las diferencias culturales entre colectivos por parte de las organizaciones o el estudio de la influencia en la seguridad de las diferentes interacciones culturales.
Post-accident analyses of the most important nuclear accidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima) have revealed that the causes of incidents involving complex technological systems are not only linked to technical aspects, but also to seemingly more imperceptible factors, such as human behavior or organizational culture which play an important role in their development (Rasmussen, 1997). In the Spanish nuclear industry, the study of incidents such as the fire in the turbine building at Vandellòs I NPP (1989), the corrosion of the cooling systems at Vandellòs II NPP (2004) and the release of radioactive material at Ascó I NPP (2008), has also evidenced the influence of the human and organizational component in the safe operation of the facilities. In this context, the purpose of this doctoral thesis is to try to identify characteristic features of the culture of Spanish nuclear organizations based on the analysis of the results of the external evaluations of the organizational and safety culture carried out in the sector. Knowledge of these cultural traits can help to understand human behavior in a context where safety must be one of the organization's goals. To this end, three specific objectives are proposed in the three empirical studies that make up the thesis: 1) To describe the organizational culture of the Spanish nuclear industry and identify the possible existence of different subcultures within the industry (Badia, Navajas and Losilla, 2020). 2) To describe some of the relevant factors for the development of safety culture characteristics based on three theories on complex organizations (Badia, Navajas and Losilla, 2021). 3) To identify, in a case study, the factors that determine the reporting behavior of personnel in the problem reporting system (Navajas and Badia, 2020). This thesis provides knowledge on some of the normative patterns and cultural traits of the Spanish nuclear industry that impact on the safety of the facilities. This knowledge can be used by the industry for the improvement of plant performance and safe operation. In this sense, the cultural similarity between nuclear power plants could be considered by the different organizations to work collectively to optimize their operation. Sharing actions in the field of human and organizational factors and looking for strategies to manage cultural variability could not only be a be a key factor for safety, but would also allow them to jointly address the challenges they face with the progressive withdrawal of nuclear power energy. Likewise, this thesis opens new lines of research aimed at deepening some of the findings obtained, such as the management of cultural differences between groups by organizations or the study of the influence of different cultural interactions on safety.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Psicologia de la Salut i de l'Esport
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Selby, Shawn M. "Congress, Culture and Capitalism: Congressional Hearings into Cultural Regulation, 1953-1967." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212766295.
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Lawton, Alison. "The money industry as an extension of the culture industry: an analysis of mass media's stake in financial consumerism /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2618.
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Santos, Rosângela Vieira dos. "Indústria cultural: a mercantilização da arte e da cultura?" Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9240.
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Previous issue date: 2014-08-09The capitalist production based on goods finds a breeding ground to achieve its profit goals and economic success, turning elements of human social conscience in mercantile. The culture industry is a vigorous example on this way. Adorno and Horkheimer, exponents of the Frankfurt Scholl, notice this situation of exploration and open the conversation of the subject. However, arts and culture goes beyond the frontiers of capitalist cooptation and exploitation; thus, it is necessary to understand this relationship. Therefore, the theoretical approach moving between Political Economics and Philosophy is a good starting point to studies based on marxist conceptions that will bring an ambiguity able to identify the commodification and also identify goods that have their origin in freedom, and that have in their organic composition identity, values and sense
A produção capitalista fundamentada na mercadoria se desenvolve de maneira a encontrar terreno fértil para alcançar seus objetivos de lucro e sucesso financeiro, transformando funções da consciência social humana em elementos puramente mercantis. A indústria cultural é um vigoroso exemplo neste sentido. Adorno e Horkheimer, expoentes da Escola de Frankfurt, percebem esta situação de exploração e inauguram o debate sobre o tema. Contudo a arte e a cultura vão além do caráter limitador da exploração e cooptação capitalista e compreender estas situações torna-se necessário. Assim, uma abordagem que transita entre Economia Política e a Filosofia é um ponto de partida para um estudo à luz da concepção marxista que resultará numa ambiguidade que identifica a mercantilização e também um bem que tem sua origem essencialmente na liberdade, que tem em sua composição orgânica identidade, valores e sentido
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Kontour, Kyle, and n/a. "Making culture or making culture possible : notions of biculturalism in New Zealand 1980s cinema and the role of the New Zealand Film Commission." University of Otago. Department of Communication Studies, 2002. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.140943.
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In the 1970s and 1980s New Zealand experienced significant socio-economic upheaval due in part to the global economy, economic experiments, and the gains of Maori activism. Despite the divisiveness of this period (or possibly because of it), anxieties over notions of New Zealand national identity were heightened. There was a general feeling among many Kiwis that New Zealand culture (however it was defined) was in danger of extinction, mostly due to the dominant influences of the United states and Britain. New Zealanders sought ways to distinguish themselves and their nation. One of the ways in which this desire was manifested was in the establishment of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC). This government sponsored body corporate was designed to provide an infrastructure for New Zealand filmmaking, through which New Zealand and New Zealanders could be represented. As a result, New Zealand filmmaking boomed during the early to mid-1980s. Significantly, this boom occurred simultaneous to the increasing relevance and importance of notions of biculturalism, both in cultural and socio-political terms.
The question that drives this thesis is how (or whether) biculturalism was articulated in the explicit or implicit relationships between cultural debates, governmental policies, the NZFC�s own policies and practices and its interaction with filmmakers. This thesis examines the ways in which aspects of the discourse of biculturalism feature in New Zealand cinema of the 1980s in terms of the content, development, production and marketing of three films of this era that share particular bicultural themes and elements: Utu (Geoff Murphy, 1983), The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985) and Arriving Tuesday (Richard Riddiford, 1986). This thesis also examines the role of the NZFC in these processes as prescribed by legislation and in terms of the NZFC�s own policies and procedures.
This thesis consults a variety of primary and secondary sources in its research. Primary sources include film texts, public documents, archival material, trade journals, and interviews with important figures in the New Zealand film industry.
Conclusions suggest that the interaction of numerous socio-historical factors, and the practices and policies of the NZFC, denote a process that was not direct in its articulation of notions of biculturalism. Rather, this involved an array of complex cultural, fiscal. industrial, professional and aesthetic forces.
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Hill, Jennifer Ann. "Deconstructing the children's culture industry : a retrospective analysis from young people." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44273.
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The children’s “culture industry,” meaning the mass production of popular culture by corporations, has systematically targeted children to persuade them to desire commodities while promising an increase in happiness. Media in all forms has become the conduit through which corporations have access to children and the means by which they influence, mould and profoundly impact children's lives. Indeed, consumer culture plays a dominant role for individuals living in such cultures, arguably more than any other institution including government. In the 1990s, the most intense commercial campaign in the history of childhood had commenced. Despite the pervasiveness of consumerism, there has been a notable gap in the literature to ascertain from young people, in their own words, what are the experiences of and meanings attributed to consumerism throughout their childhoods. Using a paradigm of qualitative research, the present dissertation provides a detailed description of how young people, those aged 18 or 19, perceive the presence of consumer culture in their lives, both presently and with particular focus on the past, as children. Data presented here suggest that most of the young people interviewed feel considerable pressure to conform to the standards of consumerism, including the adoption of brand culture, fads and a ‘buy-and-consume’ modality. Furthermore, the very identities of young people are inextricably linked to the process of consumption including the desiring, acquiring and discarding of consumable objects. Nonetheless, the participants were adamant their individuality had not been altered by mass culture, and that they were free to make choices as citizens in democracies have come to expect. Overall, the participants’ responses demonstrated a distinct lack of insight about the motives of corporations, the power of advertising/media and their far-reaching influence on thoughts and behaviours. However, hopeful signs of understanding and resistance arose among some of the participants, including two in particular, who strongly expressed their desire to not conform.
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Pharaon, Abeer Abdul-Karim. "Building an innovation culture : a case of pharmaceutical industry in Jordan." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7100.
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The purpose of this research is to support organizations to sustain competitiveness by building an innovation culture and supportive climate which empower employees to provide new valuable creative ideas and achieve better performance. Studies into innovation are generally devoted to studying process innovation and/or new product introduction neglecting organizational culture as a major determinant of continuous innovation. The Innovation Culture Enhancing Model (The ICE Model) and guidelines developed in this research were based upon extensive literature survey and practical feedback. The ICE model was tested over a two-year period in a large pharmaceutical company in Jordan using an action research methodology in an in depth case study obtaining major improvements to the innovative capacity of the company involved. The intervention designed for the company was based upon the ICE model components and thorough culture and climate assessments and interviews with over 638 individuals representing all levels of the company's hierarchy. In the foundation stage, the intervention involved; a flexible structure and strategy devoted to innovation supported by full management commitment. In the culture change stage, the ICE Model Dimensions: (1) Leaders as change agents dimension, (2) Shared work values dimension and (3) Motivation dimension were used to create an innovation culture. Interventions were also introduced to Keys to creativity items: (1) organizational encouragement, (2) supervisory encouragement, (3) work group support, (4) freedom, (5) sufficient resources, (6) and challenging work. The significant change to the culture and climate inside the company assessed using established climate to creativity assessment instruments was associated with improved performance measured using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), successful achievement in international audit and empowered motivated individuals. Based upon an extensive literature survey and the action research experience, the ICE Model was refined to include two main contexts: (1) an understanding of the national culture (social structure, religion, language, education, political and economic environments), and (2) organizational environment (technological development, economic environment, socio-cultural changes, political and legal environment). This research provided background information about the national culture in the Middle East and its implications on Organizational Development (OD) interventions and MNCs investments. The research also introduced a new approach for OD interventions; named the Change by Values approach in which spiritual values are utilized as motivators to enhance successful application of culture change interventions. The outcomes of this research are particularly valuable to companies involved in mergers/acquisitions or joint ventures, which are likely to face cultural integration difficulties that might place the new endeavour at risk due to cultural differences. The developed ICE model and guidelines are major contributions to the innovation culture literature presenting innovation as a core value and creating innovation as a continuous competitive edge in a changing businesses environment.
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Tetteh, Lovelace. "Assessing safety culture : a special focus on the Ghana oil industry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587833.
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Incidents that have occurred in some parts of the world have alerted researchers and industries of the need to focus on safety culture. Assessing safety culture provides an "early warning" signal of potential safety system failure. The objective of the research was to examine how the industry manages safety, how safety is perceived by employees working in the oil industry, employees' action in preventing accidents, and a model explaining overall safety culture. Safety culture was assessed, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, in the Ghana oil industry. The assessment was based on a systems approach to corporate culture. This approach involves method triangulation (distribution of questionnaires, interviews, and observation). Questionnaires were distributed to oil workers at the beginning of a behavioural safety initiative. Prior to the distribution, interviews were conducted with managers in the oil industry and results formed the basis for further studies. Instruments were developed based on literature review and the first study, reflecting the norms of the industry. The results presented findings on the components of safety culture: safety climate, safety management system, safety performance. Principal component analysis revealed a seven factor safety climate structure and a two factor safety management system structure. Analyses of variance showed some differences based on age, years of experience, and occupational group. Finally, to test the relationship between these components and safety performance, a model was proposed and tested. An extended model was developed showing relationship between the three dimensions of safety culture (safety management systems, safety climate, and safety behaviour). Regression analyses demonstrated that employees' attitude, employees' involvement, and safety management system were ii predictive of actual safety behaviour. Also, safety priorities and need for safety and safety climate (attitude to safety and behaviour) predicted accident involvement. In addition, safety management moderated the safety climate and safety performance (observable behaviour and accident involvement) relationship confirming and contradicting findings with the extant safety culture literature. The study supports the use of a safety culture measure as a useful diagnostic tool in ascertaining the way safety is operationalised and to improve the state of safety in the industry.
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Chaves, Fabrizzio Orlando. "Essential organizational culture elements for companies within the life insurance industry." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1380.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Liu, Yuanyuan. "Organizational culture, employee resilience and performance in the international banking industry." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/354/.
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In today‘s intensely competitive and changing business environment, employee resilience plays an important role as a capability to enhance individual and organizational performance. Although organizational contexts matters greatly for the development of this capability, so far little research has been conducted on employee resilience in different organizational cultural contexts. This thesis systematically investigates the relationship between organizational culture, employee resilience, and job performance in the international banking industry. First, using a sample of 1501 employees from 14 banks in China, we examine the mediating effect of employee resilience on the ̳employee learning orientation – performance‘ relationship based on a conceptual framework from conservation of resource theory. We find that employee learning orientation not only directly and positively influences job performance, but also indirectly does so via employee resilience as a mediator. Second, by analysing the in-depth interview data of 32 Chinese-origin employees with over five years working experience from eight international banks, we identify three types of organizational culture – jungle culture, caring culture and conservative culture, and explore how employee resilience evolves in these different cultural contexts. We find that: in the jungle cultural context, organizational culture influences employee resilience in a U-shaped pattern; in the caring cultural context, organizational culture positively affects employee resilience; in the conservative cultural context, organizational culture negatively relates to employee resilience. Lastly, by using a unique data set from 236 Chinese-origin employees from six international banks, we examine that to what extent employee resilience is influenced by the match or mismatch between employee motivation and organizational culture. We find that: in the jungle culture, employees with a short-term motivation show a higher level of resilience than those with a long-term motivation, while employees with a long-term motivation display higher resilience than those with a short-term motivation in the caring culture. In addition, employees with a short-term motivation exhibit more resilience in the jungle culture than in the caring culture; however, employees with a long-term motivation show higher resilience in the caring culture than in the jungle culture. As such, theoretical and managerial implications of our findings are discussed.
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Alexander, Erin L. "Safety culture in the nuclear power industry : attributes for regulatory assessment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34441.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-35).
Safety culture refers to the attitudes, behaviors, and conditions that affect safety performance and often arises in discussions following incidents at nuclear power plants. As it involves both operational and management issues, safety culture is a sensitive topic for regulators whose role is to ensure compliance with safety requirements and not to intervene in management decisions. This report provides an overview of proposed safety culture attributes and worldwide approaches to safety culture assessment and identifies those attributes that should be of high priority to a regulator deciding to assess safety culture.
by Erin L. Alexander.
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Tamir, Boaz A. (Boaz Arnon). "Industrial strategy and political culture : elitism and bureaucracy in Israeli industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14852.
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Jones, Ceri. "Assessing safety culture and safety performance in a high hazard industry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30956/.
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In the UK 27 million working days are lost due to work-related illness or injury; at an estimate of £13.4 billion to the economy. Over the last 30 years researchers have examined safety culture and its relationship to poor safety performance. An organisation in the high hazard construction industry wanted to understand the factors that shaped and influenced safety performance and safety culture. This thesis details a research project which addresses that aim. A multi-method, triangulated approach was adopted combining both qualitative (focus groups and interviews) and quantitative (safety climate questionnaire) methods. The results of the qualitative studies informed the development of the safety climate questionnaire that included a measure of self-reported accidents and near misses. The qualitative studies identified 6 main themes; Communication, Leadership, Employee Engagement & Involvement, Safety Prioritisation, Job Demands and Culture. Quantitative study results show, Upward Communication, Perceived Organisational Support (POS), Employee Engagement. Leader Member Exchange (LMX) and Organisational Commitment demonstrate a significant relationship with Safety Climate. Safety Climate, POS had a Significant, positive, predictive relationship with both accidents and near misses reported. Upward communication had a significant negative, predictive relationship with accidents and near misses. LMX and Organisational Commitment show a Significant, negative, predictive relationship with accidents reported only. Results can be explained in the context of social exchange relationships. Reporting behaviour is being measured, this can be conceptualised as organisational safety citizenship behaviour. The probability of increasing or reducing reporting behaviours is shaped by social exchanges such as; a) the degree that employees feel supported by the organisation, b) and their manager, c) the safety climate, d) their commitment levels e) and opportunities to raise safety concerns. Interventions should aim to develop leaders and organisational practices to be more supportive, to increase reporting behaviour and to create a more accurate picture of safety performance.
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Redelinghuys, Paul. "Developing a zero harm safety culture framework for the mining industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95610.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.Safety culture is a multi-layered dynamic concept, meaning that it is not only the aspects pertaining to compliance with compulsory legislation, but also many other non-compulsory safety management and leadership initiatives, which enhance the companies’ safety performance. Most of the available literature focuses on a safety climate, which is an aggregate measure of employee attitude and opinion regarding safety. This paper presents the zero harm safety culture, a common contextual framework, taking readers beyond the traditional safety climate metrics and presenting a variety of assessment and analytical tools for each level of the framework. Techniques used to transform the safety culture toward a state of zero harm are explored in this research report. Finally, 26-components exist in a zero harm safety framework, to illustrate the development and application of a zero harm safety culture in the mining industry. It is also worth mentioning that the most important element of clearly perceived leadership has been found to be neglected in the past and resulted in persistence of incidents leading to fatalities. This important factor, which requires constant leadership interaction, is what makes or breaks the zero harm safety culture framework. Hence, it is crucial that organisations appoint leaders in positions influencing direction of the safety culture, and that these individuals are committed to the drive towards zero harm. This would assist leaders in the mining industry, especially small mines where resources are scarce, to apply the zero harm framework in such a way that the drive towards a zero harm safety culture becomes a reality. When considering implementing the zero harm safety framework in any mining company, irrespective of its size, a successful safety culture can be accomplished realistically within three to five. This paper also provides a series of recommendations to help implement this framework.
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Hsu, Pei-Yin(Hsu Pear), and 徐佩瑩. "Metropolitan Strategic Development of Cultural Industry Case Study: Policy toward Culture Industry in Taipei." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/578679.
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In 1998, the World Bank issued a report entitled "Culture in Sustainable Development: Investing in Cultural and Natural Endowments," which proposed that cultural endeavors provide new opportunities for local development, and can strengthen the social capital and the social cohesive force of a city. The concept of “cultural industry” was first put forward in the 1970’s, but the idea of using cultural enterprise as a way to develop and promote a local economy did not gain widespread attention until the 1990’s. This idea suggests that a contemporary metropolis’ development must be closely integrated with cultural industry. In other words, contacts between civic culture and economic activity are established as the elite people in all sectors of society begin to work together for the common end of advancing the city’s economic and cultural growth. As Taiwan's capital and its center for collection and distribution of cultural resources, the city of Taipei has a multicultural makeup and a cosmopolitan, urban disposition. But the issue of how to utilize Taipei’s unique cultural characteristics and its resources to put together a rich and full civic culture platform, which has economic/industrial value, requires the establishment of contacts between the city’s “industry” and the city’s “culture.” This report proposes a feasible policy plan for Taipei to continue its strong cultural and economic development and to face international interurban competition. The research direction of this report is that it follows models of consumer culture by first analyzing the resources of Taipei, including the available artistic and cultural talent, space, and activities (events and festivals). It also addresses official city organizations, public authority of government-run organization, the cultural imagination of Taipei, and the appearance and environment of Taipei. The report then provides perspective on cultural industry policy development in Taipei, based on the overall cultural/social/economic structure of the city. It is hoped that the city base and cultural industry will develop strategies and embark upon active projects for Culture Industry in Taipei.
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CHEN, LEE PAO, and 李寶珍. "The Practice of Culture Creativity Industry— The New Culture Industry Proposal of Bamboo as an example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84482644446454264153.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
美術學系在職進修碩士班
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The promotion of Taiwan government for the development project of culture creativity industry is to pioneer the creativity field, which combined with the humanity, economic, and develop the culture creativity industry, as well as create the culture products of Taiwan feature with aesthetic creation and business mechanism. While international societies start to emphasize the culture characters, Taiwan had went further to a new society of aesthetic economic body. By understanding the value and culture of Taiwan, integrating the wisdom and culture, and fusing with creativity aesthetics, we apply those mentioned to the industry products or life quality. The production of bamboo is very abundant in Taiwan, and with the advance of technology the application of bamboo is more comprehensive. In the new generation, we have more apprehension of bamboo by re-understanding the bamboo and seeing the delivery of early life culture to the present. The bamboo-made products are essential and even more the culture art of traditional wisdom. By understanding the relative knowledge and characters of bamboo, the development, investigation, interview of bamboo industry, dissection and analysis, the study is based on the bamboo in Taiwan as the product development plan of culture industry, with the development application of new design concept, to create more commercial products of add-values. Moreover, it is the exemplar as the development plan of new product. During the procedure of research, we found that the development space for bamboo is very huge, and the manufacture industry, authority, and academic all have interest to see the exploration of broader market, not only the domestic sales, also abroad such Japan, US, and Europe. We recommend the ally of different fields, the corporation of industry and academic, and anticipate that Taiwan government integrate the bamboo industry market, design, and skills to transform the traditional bamboo art industry in Taiwan in order to upgrade further to modern new fledging industry of culture creativity.
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Chou, Li-Chin, and 周麗菁. "Taiwan Tea Culture Industry Development Research." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b6c35a.
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碩士銘傳大學
經濟學系碩士在職專班
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The geographical climate and environment is very suitable for Tea Tree to grow in Taiwan, and Tea is also the characteristic Culture Industry in our country. Through the connotation of tea culture and Taiwanese tea industry development, it is expected to understand the advantage, disadvantage, opportunity, threat issues and problems that the tea culture industry is facing to research countermeasures and bring up conclusions and suggestions with the research results, for people of our country and industry to pay much attention to the development of this industry, to be the national trademark and to the unique fascination of our country, that is the motivation and purpose of this research. This research uses the literature analysis, to make out, analyze and conclude the development of the Taiwanese tea culture industry, the conclusion are as follow: 1.The continuity of the spirit of Taiwanese tea culture should proceed from family and school. 2.The conservation of Taiwanese tea culture feature should combine with the traditional and innovation technologies. 3.The expansion of Taiwanese tea culture should be multiple operated and marketed. 4.To be globally known, Taiwanese tea culture should train the expert ability certification.
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Lay, Gwo Mow, and 賴國茂. "Corporate Culture、Industry Style and Performance." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27867044117835124378.
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Kao, Chian-Hui, and 高千惠. "Safety Culture Assessment in Hotel Industry." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70455621050309573678.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
環境與安全衛生工程所
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This research takes employees of tourist and hotel industries as the object of study. According to the literature development, 11 dimensions for the safety culture scale are included, and there are 57 topic items as the research tool. The method of evaluation adopts five-point scale of Likert. 450 questionnaires were distributed and 317 effective samples were retrieved (70.44%). SPSS 14.0 is used to analyze. The research findings show that the entire safety culture status is presented by a radar chart and the percentage score of the entire safety culture dimension reaches 80.92. The percentage scores of safety culture in position types are higher and the employees in managerial hierarchy have more safety culture consciousness than non-managerial positions. The result of percentage scores in different organizational characteristics show that the level of safety culture consciousness for (Hotel B) winning many awards for health and safety environment is better than other hotels. Through t test, ANOVA analysis and post hoc test, we find out that the background variables for employees of tourist and hotel industries in safety culture consciousness are significantly different. According to the research findings, tourist and hotel industries should emphasize and upgrade the safety culture consciousness for female employees, young working groups (age below 25), unmarried persons, the persons who have less years of service and the employees of non-managerial hierarchy. As for relevant variables, the variables of “age” and “years of service” have an obvious positive impact on the entire safety culture. The variables of “gender”, “education background”, “marriage status”, “and post of job” and “experiences of occupational accidents” have an obvious negative influence on the entire safety culture. At last, this research builds up the norms of safety culture in tourist and hotel industries according to this safety culture scale and the results will be offered to the field of practitioners as the safety culture analysis and the tool for improving the intervention point. In current stage, enhancing health activities, prize and penalty for safety and upgrading the safety communications shall be the priorities to promote the safety consciousness of employees and make a safety culture with high quality, create a safe and healthy working environment, encourage employees’ morale to establish a good business reputation and increase the market advantage.
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Ko, Chiu-Hua, and 柯秋華. "Cultural Industry and Region Activation Pattern Research - Take Ceramic Culture and Yingge Town Industry as Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49620544861509347644.
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碩士經國管理暨健康學院
健康產業管理研究所
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Abstract Through the activation of cultural industry development and regional integration model, futher carry forward the unique culture resources, interaction of cultural and economic benefits generated by continuously innovation and learning, finaly cultural economic benefits generated. This research take the Yingge Town ceramics industry as the object of study, uses the qualitative interview and quantitative questionnaires of vendors, tourists, local workers or local residents in the evolutionary process, whether to play the mover role to lead the industrial economic development. Under the knowledge economy fast development, pondered because of the historical support and using the policy-type angle how assists to improve the industrial development by the literature analysis mode , takes nowadays the economical and system's analysis foundation again by the PETRE six strength analysis mode. The findings discovered that first, the confidence relationship between folk asnd government policies failed, and the official ceramic industry recognition insufficiency, resulting benefits of cultural industries and regional activation cannot reach an agreement. And the second, the marketing view of enterprise did not up-grade to international. According to the research results, relevant units can be improve by these two disadvantage, and the research results can be valuable reference to government and culture industry for management. Key word: Local culture, Ceramic culture, Ceramic industry, Regional activation
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Fu-Long, Huang, and 黃富隆. "A Study of Cultural Products Design by Using Cultural Codes in Culture Industry." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85051988088327681706.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
創意生活設計系
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This study builds the cultural product design factors and finds the most important element in culture industry from the view point of the Frankfurt school in Germany, which has stated the various impacts that cultural industry has brought to cultural creative design. There are two parts of experiment in the study. First, We found out the key factors of cultural product are as follow：(1)Creativity, (2)Elegancy, (3)High quality, (4)Durability, (5)Cultural sense and meaning. It coincides with one of the important points of Culture Industry that cultural itself is not the main thing for consumer gradually. Second part shows that the way to raise people’s interests in cultural product is based on the following：(1) Different from traditional stereotype of the object, (2) Cultural appearance and easy-understanding meaning, (3) A proper object details. At last, this study finds out that people will feel more things in a whole object design than partial object design. Thus, this study advice a way to design future cultural products is that pick the best part of cultural codes in advance, then use it to make a lot of good partial object designs and choose the best one between them in order to make the whole object looks different from the stereotype. It’s a way of showing the cultural itself by sending message to people without trouble understanding.
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Chen, Yen-yu, and 陳彥羽. "Crucial Social Network of Local Cultural Industry：A study of Hankeng，Xinpu Town’s Dried Persimmon Culture Industry." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63414329377279749631.
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碩士國立臺南大學
文化與自然資源學系碩士班
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This study is for Xin-pu dried persimmon culture industry To explain social network is the most important thing to the local culture industry operated system By long-tern field investigation, I observed the actors live behavior , interaction and the relationship with the local culture industryBy participating in Heng-Keng dried persimmon culture industry and observe more detail I found in the social organization, the heterogeneity critical network fulfilled their demand by cooperation with each other and reach social resource integrated In the research process, I observe how these organization to effect the local culture industry, and how to work with other network After those interact networking, these critical network reach the same local industry develop goal
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Alexandre, António Maria Carneiro Prego Marques. "To culture or not to culture : an assessment of the cultured meat potential impact on the European meat industry." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29708.
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With people becoming more aware about the negative impacts that the meat industry has on the environment, animal welfare and consumers’ health, different alternatives to meat are being developed and launched to the market. One of them is cultured meat which is meat that is produced in a laboratory with a process that uses cells taken from live animals as input. Hence, the objective of this dissertation is to analyze the impact that cultured meat might have in the European meat industry and its’ stakeholders as well as how the industry will evolve and look like in the future.
The impact will steadily increase over time as consumption levels also rise and market share from conventional meat decreases. For this evolution to occur, consumers’ perception about the negative impacts caused by the meat industry need to increase and technological improvements must reduce the production costs. To understand how the industry might evolve, distinct scenarios with specific likelihoods of happening were developed based on insights collected from expert interviews and information from secondary research. Even though it is not possible to precisely predict the future of the meat industry in Europe, it was concluded that conventional meat won’t be replaced by culture meat, still, it will lose a relevant share of the market to the disruptor here studied.Com as pessoas a tornarem-se cada vez mais conscientes sobre os impactos negativos que a indústria da carne tem ao nível do ambiente, do bem-estar animal e da saúde, várias alternativas à carne têm vindo a ser desenvolvidas e lançadas para o mercado. Uma delas é a carne artificial que é produzida em laboratório através de um processo que utiliza células provenientes de animais. Assim, o objetivo desta dissertação é analisar o impacto que a carne artificial poderá ter na indústria de carne e nos seus stakeholders, a nível europeu, bem como analisar a possível evolução do setor no futuro. O impacto vai aumentar gradualmente, motivado por um aumento dos níveis de consumo de carne artificial e diminuição da quota de mercado da carne convencional. Para que esta evolução ocorra, a perceção que os consumidores têm acerca dos impactos negativos que a indústria de carne tem precisa de aumentar assim como têm de se registar melhorias no processo de produção de carne artificial, de forma a que o seu custo diminua. Para perceber como a indústria poderá evoluir, foram desenvolvidos cenários distintos com probabilidades especificas de se realizarem, e que foram baseados em informação obtida nas entrevistas com especialistas e em pesquisas secundárias. Apesar de não ser possível prever o futuro, concluiu-se que a carne convencional não vai ser substituída por carne artificial, no entanto, vai perder uma parte relevante da sua quota de mercado para a disruptor aqui em estudo.
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Ping, Huang，Ru, and 黃如萍. "Industry，Corporate Culture and Public Relation Program." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62694462830413185125.
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Lin, Yu-Tang, and 林玉堂. "The Safety Culture Assessment of Polarizer industry." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26168583107967512621.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
環境與安全衛生工程研究所
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The target group consisted of employees in the Polarizer Industry. According to documents from the Development of Safety Culture, the assessment scale include 11 dimensions categories. The questionnaire include 98 questions, with answers that were measured on a five-point Likert scale. 360 copies of the questionnaire were distributed and 321 effective samples (92.5%) were retrieved returned from the target group. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 17.0 statistical software. The results of the research showed on the radar map, indicates the present situation of the whole safety culture. The whole safety culture dimension is getting to 75.9 percent. Other categories’ percentages are shown below: Official rank - The managers’ percentage is at 82.2%. The staff’s percentage is at 74.6%. It shows that the managers’ knowledge of the safety culture is higher than the staff’s. The result has been tested by a T-test and ANOVA analysis - understanding the background of the polarizer industry is a variable in the knowledge of safety culture. Sex distinction - According to the result, there are no gender differences in polarizer industries. Age - Employees between 41 and 45 have more safety culture knowledge than the others. Level of education - Employees who have graduated from a university had more knowledge of safety culture than those who only graduated from college or high school. Service period – Staff that have been working for 3 years and less than 5 years, had better knowledge of safety culture than the others. Occupational hazard experience – Individuals who didn’t have occupational hazard experience has better knowledge of safety culture than those who had occupational hazard experience before. The variables of "Age", "Level of Education" and "Service Period" have apparently affected the safety culture positively. The variables of "Type of Services", "Official Rank" have affected the safety culture negatively. According to this result, creating a normal scale of polarizer industries’ safety culture might be a tool to supply to the polarizer industries. The polarizer industries can diagnosis or improve themselves by using the normal safety culture scale. Staff need to commit to follow managers’ safety examples in the business. But at the moment, to enhance safety security is the main point, and to improve the rewards and fines so that staff can have the knowledge and make the quality of safety culture higher. Further, to create a healthy and safe working environment for the employees. Staff morale and to develop an excellent reputation and increasing market advantage.
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Tsay, Yu-chieh, and 蔡宇傑. "The Study of Vietnamese Tea Culture: Focus on Cultural Subjectivity and Tea Industry." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3anv4q.
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