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Sharma, Surya kant. "A Study on the use of team buliding as an organisation development technique in Indian organisations." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/123.
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Phylactou, Maria. "Household organisation and marriage in Ladakh Indian Himalaya." Thesis, Online version, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.261706.
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Clayton, Martin. "The rhythmic organisation of North Indian classical music : tal, lay and laykari." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29282/.
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North Indian (Hindustani) classical music is remarkable for both the sophistication and the diversity of its rhythmic organisation. Rhythm and metre are controlled by a number of concepts which, although developed over the course of many centuries, have acquired new meaning as a result of radical changes in performance practice over the last century. This work examines the rhythmic organisation of North Indian music on all levels- from large scale performance scheme, to metric structure, to the generation and variation of surface rhythm patterns. It does so by synthesising two research methodologies- combining the study of indigenous concepts and hence of the music's wider cultural context, with objective and empirical analytical techniques- in order to build up a comprehensive and culturally appropriate model of rhythmic organisation. Section I looks at various aspects of rhythmic organisation, proposing a flexible theoretical model of metric structure, and demonstrating its relevance with sudies of key rhythmic parameters. Chapter 1 puts forward the principal arguments for this theoretical model. The next four chapters cover the following topics in turn- tal (metric structure), lay (tempo, rhythmic density), performance practice and surface rhythm (including composition structure, and development techniques), and finally laykari (rhythmic variation). Section II illustrates the findings of Section I, by means of a case study. This study shows how two instrumental forms- the madhya lay gat and vilambit gat as performed in the repertoire of sitarist Deepak Choudhury- may be characterised in terms of rhythmic parameters. This characterisation is used to inform a discussion of the status of these gats as independent genres, and of their relationship with analogous vocal forms. The research generates a wide range of insights into North Indian classical music, demonstrating the application of Section I's theoretical model, and of the the analytical approach developed in the thesis as a whole.
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Naidoo, Kumaran. "Class, consciousness and organisation : Indian political resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979-1996." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310296.
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Aldous, Michael. "Avoiding 'negligence and profusion' : the ownership and organisation of Anglo-Indian trading firms, 1818 to 1870." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3214/.
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Debates in business and economic history have focused on the role played by business ownership and organisational forms on the performance of firms, industries and economies. Alfred Chandler asserted that it was the adoption of hierarchical managerial structures and joint-stock ownership which enabled an unprecedented expansion of the scale of business in the late 19th century. This argument is widely debated and a growing literature has looked at the role played by different forms of business organisation, such as the partnership and cooperative, in enabling economic growth. This thesis contributes to these debates through an investigation of Anglo-Indian trading firms between 1813 and 1870. A new data-set of firms operating in Calcutta identified the use of various business forms to conduct trade. In this period the number of trading partnerships increased from 24 to 88, whilst the number of joint-stock firms expanded from a handful in the years before 1850 to over 170 by 1868. In the decade after 1858 the number of hybrid managing agency firms tripled, whilst the number of firms using agents grew from 57 to 183. Drawing on the ‘analytic narratives’ method a novel analysis using transaction cost and agency theories is made of four firm case studies. This analysis reveals that changes in the economic environment altered the transactions undertaken by the firms and incentivised the adoption of different forms of ownership. In turn, the internal organisation of the firms adapted to mitigate costs of agency caused by changes in ownership. These findings show that entrepreneurs sought adaptive organisational solutions to balance an evolving set of trade-offs between transaction and agency costs. Key to this process was the capacity of the partnership form to reduce the costs of agency incurred by firms operating with geographically distant actors. This resulted in the proliferation of the managing agent form. These findings reinterpret existing explanations of the evolution of firms in the Anglo-Indian trade, showing that problems of managing agents at distance remained a key challenge throughout this period.
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Mohkamsing, Narindersing. "A study of rhythmic organisation in Ancient Indian music : the Tāla system as described in Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra /." Leiden : Universiteit, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39141285m.
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Bendi, D. "Developing an offsite readiness framework for Indian construction organisations." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/42599/.
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The rapid growth of the construction industry and rising demand in housing and infrastructure facilities in India are challenges to the efficiency of Indian construction organisations. In view of the poor quality and under-supply of present day construction practices, the emergence of alternative and new technologies in construction have drawn the attention of many organisations. With this background, the Off-Site Construction (OSC) method has evolved as an efficient alternative approach addressing time, cost and quality concerns of the existing practices. Several construction organisations in India have recognised the need to implement OSC methods to achieve competitive advantage. In order to achieve successful implementation of OSC methods, the construction organisations must be fully aware of the operations and processes involved in working with OSC products, while the organisation itself must be prepared to customise according to the requirements of OSC methods. The concept of Off-Site Construction has been drawing more attention from scholars. Various researchers have discussed about the existence of OSC practices in India. However, scholars have been less interested in exploring the status of OSC in India and factors affecting the uptake of OSC in the country. Therefore, the current research has aimed to develop the Off-Site Construction readiness framework to assess the preparedness of Indian construction organisations towards the application of OSC methods. The researcher has investigated the drivers and barriers for adoption of OSC techniques in India, and documented the results in this thesis. Current research has adopted the epistemological position of interpretivism and the ontological position of subjectivism as a research philosophy, issues that have been widely discussed in the chapter three “research design and methodology”. The research identified that cost and time certainty, minimising on-site duration and achieving high quality are some of the driving factors towards the adoption of OSC techniques. On the other hand, longer lead times, client resistance and scepticism, along with lack of guidance and information are the potential barriers for extensive implementation of OSC methods in India. The seventeen constructs of the Off-Site Construction readiness framework are divided into four groups, entitled Operational challenges, Broad execution strategy, Certainty in planning and Operational efficiency. These groups were developed from the literature, self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews in the different phases. The researcher also validated the refined framework through conducting case studies in three OSC-practicing construction organisations in India. The proposed Off-Site Construction readiness framework will guide the practitioners in assessing the OSC readiness of the construction organisations in India. The assessment will enable the organisation to evaluate and to benchmark its process in strategic and operational phases. The framework will also identify the areas of concern and the scope for further development or change in order to get optimal advantage of OSC methods. Hence, the research recommends application of the proposed framework in the OSC-practicing construction organisations in India in order to evaluate their current OSC readiness and to achieve competitive advantage. Though this assessment framework was proposed for India, it has a potential to serve as a general guide for OSC practitioners, policy makers and other key stakeholders involved in improving quality of the construction industry globally. In the real world implementation, the contribution of this research will improve awareness, increase confidence and strength of organisations in the execution of OSC techniques in Architectural, Engineering and Construction domains.
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Lunn, Jennifer Claire. "Religious organisations and development in Kolkata, India." Thesis, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537495.
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Hornborg, Alf. "Dualism and hierarchy in lowland South America trajectories of indigenous social organization /." Uppsala : Stockholm, Sweden : Academiae Upsaliensis ; Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18210588.html.
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Birk, Fridolin. "Kommunikation, Distanz und Organisation : dörfliche Organisation indianischer Kleinbauern im westlichen Hochland Guatemalas /." Tübingen : Geographisches Institut, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37642474b.
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Ahamada, Mmadi. "La Commission de l'océan indien, une organisation de développement et de coopération." Paris 5, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA05D012.
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Depuis sa création en 1984, l’environnement de la Commission de l’Océan Indien a connu des profonds bouleversements. Les évolutions internes et internationales ont sensiblement transformé les enjeux de la coopération sous-régionale. Les membres de la COI souffrent en commun de la fragilité environnementale, des petites économies insulaires et vulnérables face aux catastrophes naturelles. La COI est donc confrontée au défi de trouver des réponses à des questions et phénomènes complexes notamment le développement de ses espaces insulaires. La complexité de ces derniers nécessite une autre pensée du développement et la COI est appelée à réorienter ses axes de coopération et à modifier ses stratégies pour atteindre le développement économique, social et durable de ses membres. En dépit des progrès réalisés grâce à la coopération de la COI, ses membres se heurtaient à des profondes inégalités systémiques dans les domaines du commerce, des finances, de la dette extérieure, des droits et des transferts de technologie, ce qui limitait leur capacité de coopérer de manière significative. Toute une série de facteurs structurels entravaient également la coopération entre les membres de la COI. L’insuffisance des systèmes de communication et le manque de connectivité entre les pays et à l’échelle nationale constituaient un problème majeur. Au regard des expériences sous-régionales et régionales passées, mais aussi présentes, peut-on conclure à la réussite de cette approche pour des économies telles que celles des îles du sud-ouest de l’océan indien ? La coopération sous-régionale telle qu’elle a été orientée et telle qu’elle se perpétue, a-t-elle permis ou permettra-t-elle d’atteindre les objectifs fixés ? Comment et dans quelle mesure la COI peut-elle jouer un rôle supranational ? La COI dispose-t-elle réellement d’une autorité pour obliger ses membres à respecter leurs engagements ? En bref, on peut se demander dans quelle mesure la COI peut faire de la coopération entre ses membres un véritable levier de développementSince its creation in 1984, the environment of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) knew profound turnovers. The internal and international evolutions appreciably transformed the stakes in the sub-regional cooperation. The members of the IOC suffer in common from the environmental fragility, the Small Island and vulnerable savings in front of natural disasters. The IOC is thus confronted with the challenge to find answers to questions and complex phenomena; in particular, the development of its island spaces. The complexity of these last ones requires another thought of development and the IOC is called to reorganize its axes of cooperation and modify its strategies to reach economic, social and sustainable development of it members. In spite of the progress achieved thanks to the cooperation of the IOC, its members collided with profound systematic disparities in the field of business, finance, foreign debt, rights and technology transfers, which limited their capacity to cooperate in a significant way. A whole series of structural factors also hindered the cooperation between members of the IOC. The incapability of the systems of communication and the lack of connectivity between countries as well as on national scale, constituted a major problem. Given the past and present sub-regional and regional experiences, can we talk in terms of the success of this approach for economies such as those of the islands of the southwest of the Indian Ocean? Can the sub-regional cooperation as it was and continues to be directed, allow its members to reach to the fixed objectives? How and in which measure can the IOC play a supranational role? Has IOC really an authority to oblige its members to respect their commitments? In short, we can wonder as to what extent the IOC can make the cooperation between it members a real control lever of development
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Schwabenland, Christina. "Creation mythology in voluntary organisations in the UK and India." Thesis, University of East London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532483.
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This is the report of a research study of the 'founding stories' of 30 voluntary organisations, 15 in the UK and 15 in India, as told by the chief executives. , suggest that an analysis of these stories may prove fruitful in deepening our understanding of the voluntary sector and of the ways in which leadership is understood within it. The study explores three propositions; 1) that these founding stories can be regarded as analogous to creation mythology in the functions they fulfil for the organisation, 2) that chief executives make use of these stories as a heuristic in sensemaking, and 3) that the symbolic meanings latent within the stories may be revelatory of differing constructions of the meaning of society and of social change in the two cultures. I have drawn on hermeneutics for developing an interpretive methodology. Two chapters discuss the theoretical background for the study, concentrating on the themes of mythology and hermeneutics. The study includes a review of the literature on storytelling in an organisational context and of the voluntary sectors in the UK and in India and concludes with a suggestion that one meaning of the metaphor of the voluntary sector may be to provide a space for the construction of contemporary understandings of ethical behaviour.
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Lunn, Jennifer. "Faith in action : religious organisations and development in Kolkata, India." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/3728929a-deff-4911-ae3c-3d24ea460022/1/.
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Religion has returned to the public sphere after a long absence. Ideas of progressive secularisation, dominant for the last century, have been proved wrong by the revival and spread of religion across the world. Accordingly, religion has emerged as a revitalised topic of enquiry in almost every social science discipline. This includes the field of international development, where religion has appeared on the agendas of academics, policy-makers and practitioners. This research is framed within postdevelopment theory, which seeks to identify alternative approaches to development that are culturally specific and locally rooted; this includes incorporating the religious or spiritual dimension into development. One significant aspect of religion and development is the role of religious organisations as development actors. Although religious organisations have always been involved in development, their presence has been sidelined and their contribution undervalued: a better understanding is urgently required. There are major questions being asked about religious organisations in terms of the extent of their contribution to development, the ways in which they differ from secular organisations, their effectiveness, and the nature of their relationships with other development actors. This study joins the emerging literature that is seeking to address these questions; it offers a theoretically and conceptually framed analysis of the empirical complexities surrounding the role of religious organisations in development practice. This thesis is based on data collected from religious organisations in the city of Kolkata, India. The fieldwork was divided into three main stages. A survey of the civil society sector revealed over 220 religious organisations registered in central Kolkata; these were scrutinised by type and activities to identify those engaged in development. A sample of 50 organisations from ten different religions was selected for further analysis; data were collected through interviews with senior representatives and the examination of organisational documentation. Finally, three of these organisations were chosen for in-depth study, involving participant observation over a period of four months. The findings suggest that religious organisations form a significant part of civil society and play an active role in development. Many religious organisations are motivated to engage in development by their beliefs and values and see religion and development as inseparable. Some religious organisations also utilise particular religious resources and assets in development practice, with apparent effectiveness. Religious organisations tend to be situated within complex webs of interaction with a range of other development actors such as government, secular NGOs and the private sector; however, such relationships tend to be relatively superficial and the evidence of cooperation and collaboration in development is limited.
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Balloy, Benjamin. "Procession, progression. Périodicité, mythes et hiérarchie dans l'organisation sociale des Muscogee (Creek) au 18e siècle (Alabama, Etats-Unis)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0114.
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Le projet de renouveler l’écriture de l’histoire coloniale de l’Amérique du Nord, qui anime une historiographie majoritairement états-unienne depuis les années 1970, peut-il s’accomplir sans renouveler les paradigmes ethnologiques qui fournissent aux historiens une partie de leurs cadres d’intelligibilité ? Le cas de l'organisation sociale des Muscogee du 18e siècle (actuel Alabama) nous a amené à interroger le statu quo ethnographique du Sud-Est selon deux axes : en partant d’une approche d’analyse structurale de la mythologie des Muscogee, on a voulu réinscrire le Sud-Est – au plan du mythe, du rite et de l’organisation sociale - dans l’espace de cohérence culturelle pan-amérindien établit par les Mythologiques de Lévi-Strauss ; au plan des modèles sociologiques on a cherché à réarticuler la question du dualisme et de la stratification sociale contruite sur les hiérarchies politico-rituelles, de façon critique par rapport à la “chefferie” qui sert à penser la transition entre des systèmes politiques fortement hiérarchisés dans la période mississippienne (900-1550 ap. J.-C.) et les organisations sociales qui émergent, après un trou noir documentaire d'un siècle, dans les sources à la fin du 17e siècle. L’intrigue suivie par ce travail, recourant aux sources françaises, anglaises et espagnoles du 18e siècle, fait émerger les thèmes de la procession, de la progression et du « mouvement séquencé ». L’intérêt analytique de ce paradigme - version muscogee du chromatisme – s’applique tant à la compréhension de l’ordre hiérarchique dans l’organisation sociale, pour laquelle on développe le concept de formation aristocratique qu’à la reconstitution de la cohérence profonde des pratiques rituelles aux plans cosmologique, eschatologique et leur articulation à la périodicité de leur morphologie socialeThe historiography of colonial North America has been deeply challenged mainly by north american scholars since the 1970’s. Can such a project be carried out without renewing as well the ethnological paradigms that sustain most of these ethnohistorians’ interpretation models ? The case of the social organization of the Muscogee (Creek) in the 18th century (present Alabama) has led us to challenge the current ethnological statu quo for the Southeast along two main lines : taking a structural analysis of Muscogee mythology, the attempt was made to set more firmly the Southeast – its mythology as well as ceremonial practices and social organization – within the broader space of continental cultural coherence drafted by the Mythologiques of Lévi-Strauss ; at the level of sociological models, the path followed has been an attempt to cope with dualism and social stratification based on politico-ritual hierarchies, in a critical stance to the “chiefdom” model, usually brought forth to think the transition between the mississippian period policies and the 18th century “tribal” organizations.Using French, English and Spanish sources, this work brings forward the themes of progression and procession as well as that we have called the “step by step movement”. The analytical interest of this paradigm – muscogean version of chromatism – is directed toward the understanding of the hierarchical ranking in the social organization, for which the concept of aristocratic figuration is suggested, as well as the analysis of the profound coherence of ceremonial practices with muscogean cosmology, eschatology and the periodicity shown by their social morphology
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Balakrishna, Sridharan. "Organisational politics and information systems implementation : the case of the Indian public administration." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2632/.
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Today, many developing countries are embarking on ambitious programmes to develop large computer-based information systems within their public administration to promote socio-economic development. However, the overall objectives of these investments remain unfulfilled. Success and failures of information systems are largely determined by the performance of organizational members associated with the development and use of information systems. Performance of these members is primarily determined by individual competencies and the environment in which the activities of these members are taking place. Information systems related education and training to create competent individuals has always been a matter of great concern to almost all developing countries. However, public administration in developing countries is an intensely political affair. Organizational politics very often give birth to a number of macro and micro environmental conditions, which constrain certain courses of action of competent individuals. Therefore, individuals, however competent, cannot perform to the best of their abilities. This invariably results in information systems that are ineffective and inefficient. Systematic empirical studies that can increase our understanding of this domain are virtually non-existent. The current research aims to rectify this issue. The research methodology adopted for the current research assumes that organizational members, when involved in a particular activity in a particular context, interpret the situation, and act accordingly. Researchers, by immersing themselves in the members' world can understand their actions. Focusing on two cases within the public administration of India and adopting a hermeneutic approach, the study interprets the actions of different organizational members associated with the implementation of information systems. By relating the performance of these members to the strengths and weaknesses of the information systems, the study makes broad recommendations. Findings of the study reveal that Indian policy makers and implementers have always given significant consideration to information systems related education and training. However, on the other hand, the very factors that India has been trying to address through successive administrative reforms since national independence happen to be the same factors that constrain the performance of competent individuals.
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Phalkey, Jahnavi. "Big-science, state-formation and development: the organisation of nuclear research in India, 1938-1959." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36535.
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This thesis is a history of the beginnings of nuclear research and education in India, between 1938 and 1959, through the trajectories of particle accelerator building activities at three institutions: the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the Palit Laboratory of Physics, University Science College, Calcutta, later (Saha) Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. The two main arguments in this thesis are: First, the beginnings of nuclear research in India were rooted in the "modernist imperative" of the research field. However, post-war organisation of nuclear research came to be inextricably imbricated in processes of state-formation in independent India in a manner such that failure to actively engage with the bureaucratic state implied death of a laboratory project or constraints upon legitimately possible research. Second, state-formation, like the pursuit of nuclear research in India for the period of my study, became about India's participation and claim upon the universal. State-formation was equally a modernist imperative. Powerful sections of the nationalist bourgeoisie in India understood "Science" and the "State" as universals in World History, and India, they were convinced, had to confirm its place in history as an equal among equals. These two arguments combined explain how nuclear research came to be established, transformed, and extended through the gradual assembly of material infrastructure to realistically enable the new country take a capable decision on the nuclear question.
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Targa, Sergio. "The Pala Kingdom : rethinking lordship in early medieval North Eastern India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391805.
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Erikson, Philippe. "Les Matis d'Amazonie : parure du corps, identité ethnique et organisation sociale." Paris 10, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA100134.
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Etude ethnologique des Matis, société amérindienne de l'ouest brésilien. L'approche se veut monographique - puisqu'il s'agit de la première description de ce fragment de la famille ethnolinguistique pano-, mais aussi comparative, puisque les données sont systématiquement resituées dans leur contexte ethnographique régional. Le thème principal est celui de la construction de l'identité collective et de la perception du soi Matis, appréhendé à travers une analyse du "travail sur le corps" (ornements, tatouages, décorations. . . ) Ainsi que des représentations indigènes qui en découlent : eschatologie, théorie des saveurs et des affects, conception originale de l'altérité. Une filmographie et une bibliographie exhaustive consacrée aux sources documentaires pano sont enfin proposées en appendiceThis dissertation is an anthropological monography of the Matis, Amerinds of Western Brazil. It aims at being holistic - ours being the first description of this fragment of the panoan linguistic family- but also comparative in scope, our data being systematically reset in its regional ethnographical context. The main theme is that of self-perception and construction of collective identity among the Matis, focused through the angle of "symbolical body building" (ornaments, worn artefacts, tattoos. . . ), and the ensuing emic theories such as cosmology, morality, gustatory principles, and foreign affairs. A filmography and an exhaustive bibliography are given in appendix
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Kunze, Isabelle [Verfasser]. "The social organisation of land use change in Kerala, South India / Isabelle Kunze." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122041535/34.
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Oliver, Jane E. "Contradictions in organisation : case study of a rural development NGO in Rajasthan, India." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296335.
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Ho, Wenny Wen Sen. "Sense-making in turbulent times every-day strategic changing by Indian NGDOs /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2007. http://dare.uva.nl/document/54538.
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Lewis, Caroline. "Establishing India : British women's missionary organisations and their outreach to the women and girls of India, 1820-1870." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15737.
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Establishing India explores how British Protestant women’s foreign missionary societies of the mid nineteenth century established and negotiated outreach to the women and girls of India. The humanitarian claims made about Indian women in the missionary press did not translate into direct missionary activity by British women. Instead, India was adopted as a site of missionary activity for more complex and local reasons: from encounters with opportunistic colonial informants to seeking inclusion in national organisations. The prevailing narrative about women’s missionary work in nineteenth-century India is both distorted and unsatisfactory. British women’s missionary work has been characterised as focused on seeking to enter and transform the high-caste Hindu household. This both obscures other important groups of females who were key historical actors, and it reduces the scope of women’s work to the domestic and private. In fact, British women missionaries sought inclusion in mainstream missionary strategies, which afforded them visibility, largely through establishing schools and orphanages. They also engaged with mainstream discourses of colonial and missionary education in India. Establishing India also details how India was established for British missionary women through texts and magazines. Missionary magazines provided British women with a continuous record of women’s work in India, reinforcing a belief in the providential rightfulness of the project. Magazines also both facilitated and misrepresented various types of work that British women engaged with in India: orphan sponsorship was established through the magazines and myths of zenana work were constructed. Missionary magazines were crucial to counteracting male narratives of white female absence or victimhood in India and they served to keep the women’s missionary project in India both visible and intact.
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Abheeshta, Putta. "Comparative Analysis of Software Development Practices across Software Organisations : India and Sweden." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-13355.
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Context. System Development Methodologies (SDM’s) have been an area of intensive research in the field of software engineering. Different software organisations adopt different development methodologies and use different development practices. The frequency of usage of development practices and acceptance factors for adoption of development methodology are crucial for software organisations. The factors of acceptance and development practices differ across geographical locations. Many challenges have been presented in the literature with respect to the mismatch of the development practices across organisations while collaborating across organisations in distributed development. There is no considerable amount of research done in context of differences across development practices and acceptance factors for adoption of a particular development methodology. Objectives. The primary objectives of the research are to find out a) differences in (i) practice usage (ii) acceptance factors such as organisational, social and cultural b) explore the reasons for the differences and also investigate consequences of such differences while collaborating, across organisations located in India and Sweden. Methods. A literature review was conducted by searching in scientific databases for identifying common agile and plan-driven development practices and acceptance theories for development methodologies. Survey was conducted across organisations located in India and Sweden to find out the usage frequency of development practices and acceptance factors. Ten interviews were conducted to investigate, reasons for differences and consequences of differences from the software practitioners from organisations located in India and Sweden. Literature evidences were used to support the results collected from interviews. Results. From the survey, organisations in India have adopted a higher frequency of plan driven practices when compared to Sweden and agile practices were adopted at higher frequency in Sweden when compared to India. The number of organisations adopting "pure agile" methodologies have been significantly higher in Sweden. There was significant differences were found across the acceptance factors such as cultural, organisational, image and career factors between India and Sweden. The factors such as cultural, social, human, business and organisational factors are responsible for such differences across development practices and acceptance factors. Challenges related to communication, coordination and control were found due to the differences, while collaborating between Indian and Sweden sites. Conclusions. The study signifies the importance of identifying the frequency of development practices and also the acceptance factors responsible for adoption of development methodologies in the software organisations. The mismatch between these practices will led to various challenges. The study draws insights into various non-technical factors such as cultural, human, organisational, business and social while collaborating between organisations. Variations across these factors will lead to many coordination, communication and control issues. Keywords: Development Practices, Agile Development, Plan Driven Development, Acceptance Factors, Global Software Development.-
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Mosse, C. D. F. "Caste, Christianity and Hinduism : A study of social organisation and religion in rural Ramnad." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336962.
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Stewart, Eileen. "Limited empowerment in a South India women's producer organisation, evaluating the economic empowerment approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22100.pdf.
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Stewart, Eileen (Eileen Louise) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Limited empowerment in a South India women's producer organisation; evaluating the economic empowerment approach." Ottawa, 1997.
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Daillant, Isabelle. "Sens dessus dessous : organisation sociale et spatiale des Chimane d’Amazonie bolivienne." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100211.
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Apres avoir situé les Chimane (ainsi que leurs "parents", les mosetene voisins) dans un cadre historique, puis avoir exposé quelques principes fondamentaux de leur identité (en examinant notamment les relations qu'ils entretiennent avec leurs voisins indiens et boliviens), ce travail aborde l7un de ses deux thèmes majeurs : le système de parente. Comme souvent en Amazonie, celui des Chimane est cognatique et dravidien mais il présente en outre la particularité remarquable de fonctionner sur un mode global. L'analyse montre comment ce fonctionnement atypique peut résulter de la synthèse entre les différentes composantes du système ou des parties extrêmement rigoureuses (pour ce qui est de la terminologie et des mariages) coexistent avec des parties singulièrement souples (en matière de résidence et d'attitudes) qui s'avèrent également nécessaires. Outre des problèmes théoriques, cette configuration soulève encore une question démographique à laquelle une hypothèse concernant la constitution du réseau de parente actuel peut fournir une réponse. La partie suivante, consacrée à la religion et à un ancien mode d'organisation sociale plus formalise, s'attache à la fois à compléter la sociologie Chimane (accusations intra et inter-ethniques de sorcellerie, relations avec des esprits "parents") et à mettre en évidence certaines représentations spatiales (manifestées par les mythes, le destin post mortem, la localisation des esprits, le rituel, les anciens villages). La dernière partie porte spécifiquement sur la spatialité : soulignant la récurrence de la figure du retournement, elle propose aussi une vision d'ensemble de la morphologie et de l'orientation du monde Chimane. Celui-ci est organisé par une opposition intérieur extérieur qui admet plusieurs réalisations concrètes (concentrique, ouest est, dessous dessus) et qui ordonne de nombreuses représentations. Selon le registre auquel elles appartiennent, elles s'agencent en plusieurs tableaux qui, tout en obéissant aux mêmes principes de base, restent relativement autonomesThis enquiry first sketches the historical background of the Chimane (as well as of their "relatives" and neighbors, the mostene) and sets out some of the fundamental of their identity (i. A. With reference to their relationships with their Indian and Bolivian neighbors). It then addresses of its two major themes: the kinship system. As is common in the amazon, the Chimane system is cognatic and Dravidian but it is in addition characterized by a singular distinctive mark: it is a global mode of functioning. The analysis seeks to show how this a-typical fea may result from the conjunction of different components of the system which combines very rigorous parts (concerning terminology and marriage) with others that are most flexible (in matters of residence and attitudes) but not less necessary. In addition to such theoretical issues, this pattern raises a problem of demography to which an answer may be provided by a historical hypothesis concerning the emergence of the present kinship network. The following section, dealing with religion and with an older, more formal, type of social organization, seeks both to give a fuller picture of the Chimane sociology (e. G. Intra-and inter-ethnic accusations of witchcraft, relationships with spirit «relatives") and to throw some light on a series of spatial representations (underpinning myths, views of after-death destiny, localization of spirits, rituals, former village topography). The last section deals specifically with spatial sues: noting the recurrence of the "reversal" theme, it also proposes an overall view of the morphology and orientation of the Chimane world. This is ordained by an internal-external opposition which can assume various concrete forms (concentric, west east, under over) and governs many representations. According to the spheres of reality to which they belong, these combine to form various pictures which while conforming to the same basic principles, remain relatively autonomous
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Humberstone, Julie. "Managing for organisational self-reliance and social impact in Indian microfinance : alternatives to the mainstream." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665436.
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The thesis contributes to understanding of how the tension between social and financial performance in microfinance is assessed and managed. The dominant view at the global level favours prioritising financial performance and organizational self-reliance on the grounds that these are necessary if not sufficient for achieving sustained social impact over time. This has led to a focus in research on microfinance organizations (MFOs) that have sought transformation into registered financial institutions. In contrast, there has been less research into performance management of MFOs with strong NGO roots (referred to here as NGO-MFOs) who have prioritized social impact over growth and transformation. The thesis explores these issues for microfinance in India, starting with a systematic literature review of secondary evidence on its social impact. Two case studies of NGO-MFOs located in Tamil Nadu (ASSEFA and CRUSADE) then provide a more ethnographic perspective on social performance management and assessment. Case study data consists of participant observation, staff semi-structured interviews and organizational documents collected primarily during fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2013. These case studies document how NGO-MFOs view the ‘best practices’ of mainstream microfinance models (including financial performance) pragmatically while conceptualizing social performance according to their core values and social movement roots. They also illustrate how the mainstream view of social performance assessment (reflected by the review of impact evaluations) fails to capture the informal, flexible, and process-oriented approaches to social performance management pursued by some NGO-MFOs.
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Gali, Priya Antony, and n/a. "The significance of the role of non-governmental organisations in development in India." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060711.122120.
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The research reported in this thesis examines the various factors which
influence the role of NGOs in development in India. Despite the centrality
of NGOs to the development process in the projects examined, little effort
has been made to look at existing experience in terms of what works and
what does not work in actual practice. This study attempts to analyse the
importance and effectiveness of NGOs through the documentation and
analysis of the experiences of five NGOs. The five NGOs are: CERTH
India and RDI, in the union territory of Pondicherry; ASHA and GRAM, in
Krishna and Adilabad districts respectively in the state of Andra Pradesh;
and PMDS, in the South Arcot district of the state of Tamil Nadu.
These five organisations have spent the five to 15 years organising their
respective client communities. The local organisations that have come
into existence through their efforts have reached a stage at which village
units have federated and are displaying self-management skills to varying
degrees. Specific dimensions of the NGOs examined in this study/
include: influencing factors related to their communities and
environments; objectives, strategies, structure and functioning, focusing
on community participation, vulnerable groups, empowerment,
sustainability, the importance of participatory evaluation and participatory
research in an NGO; administration and accountability of NGOs; and
enabling relations and collaborations which have to be fostered between
government and NGOs on the one hand, and global institutions and
NGOs on the other.
The main approach used in this study was the use of In-depth, openended,
informal interviews and discussions based on pre-planned
questions, with a range of NGO staff and members of the organisations.
Direct contact with some of the beneficiaries, a literature review, and
project reports and records also aided the study.
The results showed that strategies and techniques used by the NGOs are
valuable for attaining self-reliant development. Holistic development is
best achieved when the organisation aims at transforming all the
important dimensions of people's lives through the process of collective
reflection and action on the forces that presently prevent them from
developing.
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Bangara, Athena. "The effect of institutions, organisational governance and managerial intentionality on the internationalisation of smaller Indian firms." Monash University. Faculty of Business and Economics. Department of Management, 2008. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/68403.
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Emerging economies and the behaviour of firms domiciled in these markets is beginning to develop as a research area; yet little empirical work exists (Bruton, Ahlstrom, & Obloj, 2008; Hoskisson, Eden, Lau, & Wright, 2000; Meyer & Peng, 2005; Peng, Wang, & Jiang, 2008; Wright, Filatotchev, Hoskisson, & Peng, 2005). An extensive and critical review of the literature revealed that there was limited research that focused on the internationalisation of emerging economy firms to other emerging and developed economies. In order to address this clear gap in our understanding, the broad research problem that this thesis sets out to investigate is ‘how do institutions, organisational governance and managerial intentionality effect the internationalisation of smaller Indian firms’? It is argued that in order for research in strategy to make a lasting contribution, there is a need to contemplate whether the theories and methodologies developed in primarily mature and developed economies are applicable to the emerging economy context (Wright et al., 2005). In addressing this concern, this study draws on institutional theory, transaction cost theory, the resource-based view and aspects of the organisational capabilities perspective in order to understand the internationalisation of smaller Indian firms. In particular, the aim of this research was to understand the effect of institutions (Research Question One), organisational governance (Research Question Two) and the moderating effect of managerial intentionality (Research Question Three) on the internationalisation of smaller Indian firms. India was chosen as the context for the study due to its rapid growth in recent years which places it among the four big emerging economies of the world (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003). The relatively recent liberalisation of the Indian economy in 1991 provides an interesting context within which to study the internationalisation behaviour of firms. Prior to its liberalisation India adopted what was known as an inward-focused, socialist-style, economic framework (Wilson & Keim, 2006). The liberalisation of the Indian economy has increased the country’s trade linkages with other emerging and developed countries, yet little research has been conducted on the internationalisation of Indian firms (Peng et al., 2008; Wright et al., 2005). Further, India’s linguistic distance but geographic closeness to emerging markets, yet western Commonwealth past and geographic distance to developed markets makes it a unique context. The research methodology adopted in this study entailed a qualitative design conducted through multiple case studies. The case study firms comprised four smaller manufacturing and four smaller service firms. Cases for the study were selected theoretically (Eisenhardt, 1989) using intensity sampling, snowball sampling, criterion sampling and opportunistic sampling techniques (Patton, 1990). To determine the size of the firms, the definition proposed by the Government of India was used. One key growth region in India was chosen due to the institutional diversity in India. Bangalore was chosen as it is considered a high growth region of the country that is well reputed for its service sector, as well as a competitive manufacturing sector (Ahya, Xie, Roach, Sheth, & Yam, 2006). The adoption of a multiple case study design facilitated an aggregated cross-case analysis. The data was collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with senior management in the selected case study firms. In addition, documentary evidence was collected through newspaper articles, information from trade journals and information from the company websites. The interviews were guided by an interview protocol and a case study database was created for each firm in order to increase the reliability and validity of the data. The data was coded using NVivo (version 7) and analysed using the ‘template approach’ (Crabtree & Miller, 1999). To date, literature originating out of mature markets has regarded institutions as background information due to the stability and maturity of institutions in these markets (Ingram & Silverman, 2002). However, when studied in an emerging market context, the role of institutions is argued to be pushed to the forefront of strategy research due to its relative underdevelopment (Meyer & Peng, 2005). This study used Scott’s (1995) three institutional pillars (regulative, normative and cognitive) to gain an institution-based view of the business strategies pursued by the smaller Indian firms (Peng et al., 2008). The findings highlighted regulatory institutional influences at the home country, host country and trade policy levels. The findings from this study shed light on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship, thereby extending institutional theory to take into account the strategic behaviour of firms. The findings further emphasised the need to gain legitimacy in international markets as a means to gain access to resources and overcome the liabilities of foreignness and newness. In doing so, the findings from this study extended Mathews’ (2006) ‘linkage, leverage and learning’ strategy to a ‘linkage, leverage, learning and legitimising’ strategy. Next, the findings from Research Question One extended the U-Model of internationalisation to highlight the importance of domestic market experience when gained in an institutionally complex market such as India. Finally, the findings highlighted the interaction between the path-dependent experience of the founders and the various dimensions of their managerial intentionality in managing the institutional influences on the firm. In studying organisational governance decisions (Research Question Two), transaction cost theory was used as the key conceptual perspective. This study used Williamson’s (1975) governance continuum to understand the organisational governance decisions of smaller Indian firms. Interestingly, the findings emphasised a move away from the narrow comparative-efficiency framework developed by Williamson (1975), towards a more eclectic understanding of the effect of transaction costs. The findings highlighted the choice of governance modes not as discrete designs, but as those that overlap as a result of being influenced by institutions, the experience of the firm with a particular mode, the propensity to trust, the constraints on firm behaviour, the managerial intentionality of the founders and the need to gain local knowledge from network partners. In adopting this broader perspective, the findings addressed the call by Madhok (1997) to understand the choice of governance modes from more than a cost minimisation perspective. Hutzschenreuter, Pedersen and Volberda (2007) suggested that the role of managerial discretion to date is downplayed in existing IB literature and hence called for research to focus on the role of managerial intent in the strategies of established multinationals rather than on the process of ‘becoming a multinational’. Research Question Three highlighted the moderating effect of managerial intentionality in managing the institutional influences and governance decisions of the firm. This study extended Hutzschenreuter et al.’s (2007) conceptualisation of managerial intentionality by emphasising the resilience as well as the reluctance of the founders (due to past experiences) as important in the emerging economy context. This study has practical implications for the case study firms as well as for potential entrants into India. Firstly, for the case study firms it is important to develop clear internationalisation strategies (as opposed to a reactive approach) due to the increasing competition both locally and internationally. Second, for the manufacturing firms, it is important to move beyond their pure low cost advantage. Partnering with other companies to leverage their resources and capabilities in international markets is one possibility. Third, for these firms to remain globally competitive, the sourcing of international talent is likely to increase their legitimacy and reduce their liability of foreignness. Finally, the continued liberalisation of the Indian economy has made it an attractive destination for foreign firms. While the case study companies have recognised the opportunities overseas, they should not ignore their domestic market where they enjoy a ‘home court advantage’. For potential entrants into India, it is important to recognise the potential competitive advantage that local incumbents have with regard to the environment. Second, foreign firms entering India and competing with smaller players need to understand the subtleties of the market and tailor their strategies to meet local needs. Finally, while this study has made contributions to the field, the findings must be interpreted in light of the limitations of the study. First, this study focused on one key big emerging market; India. Further, within India only one key region was examined. The findings reflect the business strategies by firms domiciled in Bangalore. Hence future studies could extend this research to other emerging markets and other regions of India to gain a more detailed perspective. Second, given the qualitative nature of the study, only analytical generalisations can be made. However, these insights can provide a basis for future researchers to develop quantitative measures to test the inferences drawn. Finally, this study was cross sectional in nature. In order to gain a more detailed analysis on the effect of institutions, future researchers may consider a longitudinal design to capture the institutional transitions over time.
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Roy, Fanziska. "The torchbearers of progress : youth, volunteer organisations and national discipline in India, c. 1918-1947." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/74167/.
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The thesis deals with volunteer bodies in India from the end of the Great War to c.1947. It examines the genealogy of these bodies as a projection surface for ideal citizenship, a space to experimentally put those ideas into practice and as site of a mobilisational drive ‘from below’ rendering these bodies contested spheres of national self-definition. The energies of ‘Youth’, both feared and desired by many actors, were sought to be disciplined into volunteer corps and utilised for the building of a disciplined ‘modern’ nation. ‘Youth’ and ‘volunteers’ thereby become mutually related categories, the former needing to be transformed into the latter. Several groupings of ‘volunteers’ appeared at the time, such as the Seva Dal, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Khaksars, and the Muslim National Guards, all of which were provided paramilitary training and were available for use not only for various ‘social service’ activities, but also political intervention and, when necessary, for displays of violence, the latter feature most evident during the Second World War and the communal violence leading up to Partition and Indian Independence. Three levels of analysis are undertaken herein: the first, of event history, which aims not at a comprehensive narrative but to provide illustrations of the operation and dynamics of youth and volunteer movements. The second is an intellectual history (or genealogy) of the movements, outlining a series of engagements with ideas relating to modernity as well as to organicist ideas of the nation as a body with its citizens as component parts. The third is a structural analysis of volunteer groups with their tendency to resemble one another. Such ‘family resemblance’ also reopens the question regarding the greater ideological formations of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Pereira, Vijay. "A longitudinal case-study examination of HRM practices in high-performing work organisations in the Indian HRO/BPO industry." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-longitudinal-casestudy-examination-of-hrm-practices-in-highperforming-work-organisations-in-the-indian-hrobpo-industry(e0e67389-0547-42c0-8385-0d99544f1556).html.
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This research is concerned with the Human Resource contribution to High Performance Work Systems in High Performing Human Resource Offshoring and Business Process Offshoring organisations in India. Indian Business Process Offshoring organisations offer knowledge intensive services dependent on human resources for delivery. Technology underpins the delivery of services and processes; however, the employees of Human Resource Offshoring Business Process Offshoring are central to organisational resources and represent a cornerstone for value creation. The management of Human Resources is therefore central to overall performance and success. There is a lack of research on High Performance Work Systems strategies adopted and adapted by successful Indian firms in this sector. This study bridges this gap through an empirical longitudinal study. Methodologically, longitudinal qualitative reflexive case study examinations have been rare in management and organisation research. Previous studies have concentrated on being ‘snap-shot’ whereas this study’s longitudinal nature enabled a more holistic and contextualised view of the Human Resources processes. Fieldwork was conducted in three phases, (ten visits) over five years. Data gathering methods included interviews and focus groups. A longitudinal reflexive research methodology using inductive and deductive approaches was utilised via an innovative and robust combination of ‘template’ ‘processual’ and ‘systematic’ analysis. Findings suggest a complex, global, networked and dynamic business context, wherein Human Resource Management is understood and enacted in different forms, characterised by 'shape-shifting', a dynamic 'entanglement' of problem solving and strategic adoptive and adaptive approaches to attrition and performance. Phase 1 of the research witnessed attrition anxiety drive both a focus on employer branding and perceived sophisticated Human Resources. In Phase 2, an 'attritioncentric' approach that integrated both employer branding and other Human Resources practices took hold and in Phase 3 a distinctive blend/bundles of attrition-centric Human Resources and employer branding emerged. Influences were seen to include the complexities of life cycle, leadership ambitions, economic and market fluctuations, cultural, social, socio-cultural, national, sub-national and institutional contexts. Theoretically, this phenomenon suggested a unique Human Resource Management-performance link in the Indian Business Process Offshoring industry and was grounded and premised on the ‘evolutionary resource-based view’, as an alternative to the traditional human capital versus resource-based view. This idiosyncratic theoretical form is supported by six identified dimensions including tacit knowledge, the knowledge based view, resource dependency, core competencies and core- related specificity, casual ambiguity, and social complexity, thus contributing to academic knowledge.
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Dey-Nuttall, Anita. "Origins, development and organisation of national Antarctic programmes : with special reference to the United Kingdom and India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261545.
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Wahlgren, Isabel, and Sarah Bergh. "Empowering women through an NGO chain : Assessing development from a knowledge transfer perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255966.
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Over the last decades the topic of microfinance as a method to alleviate poverty has been debated to a large extent in the academic literature. In India, the method of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) is today widespread among Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and has been proven to empower women economically and socially. Alongside, NGOs have increasingly directed their efforts towards more long-term development strategies, in which knowledge has gained a larger attention as a component to sustainable development. Even though literature from different research streams has confirmed that there is a need for effective knowledge transfer between NGOs to reach and empower the female end beneficiaries in the NGO-sector, few theoretical attempts have been made to understand the organizational dynamics behind knowledge transfer in an NGO-context. That is why we wished to further understand knowledge transfer in an NGO-context. Our purpose is to explore what it is that makes knowledge become transferred throughout an NGO-chain in order to reach the end beneficiaries. To answer the research question of what variables affect knowledge transfer throughout the actors in an NGO-chain and what factors determine these variables, a case study was conducted on an NGO-chain working towards SHGs in Uttarakhand, Northern India. Interviews have been conducted with leaders and staff of one foreign and one local NGO and two focus groups have been held with participants of SHGs. The findings show that several of the variables that research within knowledge management previously have found, including trust, communication, organizational culture and absorptive capacity, do have an influence on the transfer of knowledge throughout the NGO-chain. Furthermore, the variables networks, relationships, and organizational strategy were also shown to impact the outcome of the knowledge transfer. Moreover there are several factors in the intra-organizational and inter-organizational dynamics of the NGO-chain that determine whether each variable has an inhibiting or enabling effect on knowledge transfer.
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Agarwal, Nikhil. "Technology and social activism : an empirical study of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by Indian single-issue groups." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31374.
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This thesis explores the role of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in political organisation. It explores the use of ICTs by singleissue groups - the emergence of which has become a salient feature of contemporary political activity. There has been considerable interest amongst politicians, activists, commentators and social scientists in the contribution of ICT (eg. social media) to democracy and the renewal of political life. Optimistic accounts are especially evident around 'the Arab Spring', though subsequent experiences have called into question the prevalent technological utopianism of the time. Despite this, we are now building a complete picture of how ICT can contribute to the political organisation. In particular, the significance of new media and technology for single issue groups has not yet been explored in developing countries context. This thesis, therefore, examines the characteristics of single issue groups and how social activists appropriated new media tools and its consequences for political organisation in a developing country: India. A qualitative study was undertaken to focus on two detailed case studies: India Against Corruption (IAC) and the Pink Chaddi campaign. IAC was the traditional activist organisation that used new media to its advantage whereas Pink Chaddi was the pioneering example of online social activism in the India. Forty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of actors involved to understand how single-issue groups appropriated technology and how new practices have emerge from this appropriation. Drawing upon the Social Shaping of Technology perspective (Williams & Edge, 1996) and its extension to Social Learning (Sørensen, 1996), the thesis refutes prevalent deterministic accounts (whether utopian or dystopian) of the impact of new technologies on political organisations. Instead, a detailed account is rendered of the adoption of various communication media and their utilisation in the particular practices and activities of the single-issue groups selected. The results demonstrate that the particular setting shapes the appropriation of new media and the development of new organisation practices: the skills resources and strategies of the local players involved as well as the availability and affordances of technology. The thesis introduces the concept of 'creative configuration' - to capture the innovative and adaptive process by which the actors involved explored the applicability of general purpose technology infrastructure and tools, assisted by forms of local expertise available to hand, to support organisational objectives. The research examines the applicability of the theory of temporary organisation (Lundin & Söderholm, 1995) to the activities of single-issue groups. It suggests an extension of this theory, highlighting how 'technology' acts as a catalyst to sustain temporary organisations such as single-issue groups. Further, a framework for sustainable local innovations is proposed to explore lessons for organisations in exploiting technologies sustainably and more efficiently.
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Zanfini, Linda. "Ouverture commerciale et structure du travail dans les îles du sud-ouest de l'océan indien." Paris 10, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA100073.
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L’ouverture commerciale devait relancer la structure productive de Madagascar ; plus de vingt ans après le début de la libéralisation, ses résultats sont très contestés. La théorie du commerce international, dont se sont inspirés les promoteurs de la libéralisation, ne pouvait pas prévoir ces résultats, car elle ne prend pas en compte la dimension spatiale des phénomènes, la rationalité située des individus et le sous-emploi, structurel. En milieu rural, le démantèlement des organismes de collecte étatiques, et l’augmentation du risque marchand pour les producteurs paysans des régions les plus isolées, a provoqué leur sortie du marché et leur repli sur l’autosubsistance, entraînant l’effondrement des exportations traditionnelles. Dans les villes, à l’essor des nouvelles activités exportatrices à haute intensité de main d’œuvre, souvent situées en zone franche, fait écho le déclin de l’industrie locale, peu intégrée au secteur moteur. Dans une situation de sous-emploi structurel, il n’y a pas de réallocation du travail entre ces deux secteurs; les entreprises franches puisent leur force de travail parmi les travailleurs sous-employés du secteur informel, ce qui leur permet aussi de réduire les rémunérations de la main d’œuvre, sous-intégrée dans le rapport salarial, et de bénéficier des économies d’urbanisation. Cette dynamique risque toutefois de déstabiliser les facteurs de la croissance des entreprises modernes. Le rapprochement avec le cas de Maurice, pays émergent voisin, et la mise en relief des facteurs du succès de la zone franche mauricienne, permettent enfin d’identifier les raisons de l’instabilité de la croissance malgache et de sa zone francheInitially aimed at improving Madagascar's productive structure when it was launched more than 20 years ago, the liberalization of trade in this area is far from reaching the expectations. The International Trade Theory, which did inspire the liberal decision makers, could not foresee these results because it is not taking into account the dimension of space in these phenomenon’s, the “spotted rationality” of individuals and the structural under-employment. In rural areas, the dismantling of state owned structures in charge of goods collection and the increased trade risks for isolated farmers, led them to leave the marketplace and pushed them toward self-sufficiency. This resulted in the collapse of traditional exports. In urban areas, the growth of new labor-intensive export activities located in the export processing zones, came along with the decline of the local industry, not integrated enough to the leading sector. In a structural under-employment situation, there is no re-allocation of labor between the two sectors. Free trade companies are drawing the workforce from the under- employed of the informal sector, which helps them not only to reduce wages but also to benefit from economies of urbanization. This attitude might however destabilize the growth factors of modern companies. The comparison with the case of the neighbouring island of Mauritius and the analysis of the success factors of the Mauritius free trade zone, enable us to identify the reasons for the instability of the economic growth of Madagascar and its free trade zone
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Herring, Mathew. "The catalytic role of non government organisations in the prevention of blindness : the case of India /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ISG/09isgh567.pdf.
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Yadav, Smita. "Informal labour and livelihood diversification : dignity and agency among the Gonds in central India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61911/.
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In India, the efforts by the welfare state to aid the poor and improve their lives focus on formal, quantifiable, and bureaucratic policies in the form of housing, education, and employment. Yet, little is known about the less formal and experiential aspects of their lives and livelihoods. The Gonds, living in a Central Indian district of Panna in the state of Madhya Pradesh, are one group that has rarely partaken of the above welfare state policies designed to aid them, yet are surviving in the face of continuous threats to their traditional ways of forest-based livelihoods. The Gonds are an indigenous group of people, also known as adivasis, that are categorized as a scheduled tribes (STs). They lack basic literacy and possess no material assets like land. How then are Gonds creating their own forms of social welfare and economic security? Having worked on the Gonds' lives in their labouring roles as majdoors (labourers), and having understood how they experienced hardships has lead me to reflect on how they aspire to live dignified lives and exercise agency within the informal economy. A life-course perspective of Gonds' livelihood practices show that the informal economy works for Gonds because they exercise their agency in various ways, including by demanding desired wages and forms of work that are unavailable through formal welfare state schemes. The Gonds in fact experience dignity as they use the informal economy to stay debt-free, avoid starvation, and create formidable and reliable forms of care for their families. Thus, the thesis contributes to the literature on informal and precarious forms of work in India by showing, through the example of the Gonds, how even though the poor may feel vulnerable and disconnected from formal welfare schemes, they may still experience dignity through livelihood diversification and their exercise of agency and access to social capital. The thesis also presents empirical findings on labour contracts, the informal economy, and poverty.
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Govinda, Radhika. "Politics of the women's movement in contemporary India : case study of a grassroots organisation in rural Uttar Pradesh." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611627.
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Faisal, Syed Mohammed. ""We are always in debt" : commerce and belonging amongst Muslims in South India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/77295/.
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Reade, Carol Elizabeth Wasbauer. "Organisational identification of managers in multinational corporations : a quantitative case study in India and Pakistan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1490/.
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This thesis set out to address a prescription that is sometimes made in the management literature. The prescription is that it is vital for MNC employees worldwide to share the core values and goals of the parent organisation, that is, to identify with the organisation as a global entity. The starting point for the present research was not only the prescription itself, but the apparent underlying assumption that exclusive identification with the organisation as a global entity is both possible and desirable. The thesis empirically examined, with the aid of social identity theory, whether managerial employees of MNC subsidiaries might have another main identification foci within the organisation, namely, their local subsidiary. It also examined whether there might be differential antecedent conditions and outcomes of identification with the local subsidiary and the organisation as a global entity. Additionally, the study examined whether those respondents who strongly identify with both levels of the organisation 'outperformed' other respondents. Finally, the study examined whether the type of MNC subsidiary might have an effect on local/global patterns of employee identification. The results of the research indicate that identification in the MNC is not a monolithic phenomenon. Respondents drew a distinction between their subsidiary and the MNC as a global entity. Identification with each level of the organisation was found to have differential antecedent conditions and outcomes. Identification with the global level of the organisation revealed a positive association with a willingness to exert effort for the MNC as a whole, while identification with the subsidiary level of the organisation revealed a positive effect on the desire to remain a member of the organisation over the long term. Those respondents who strongly identify with both levels of the organisation did not 'outperform' other respondents. The type of MNC subsidiary appears to have an effect on local/global patterns of employee identification.
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Karmali, Talib Bahadurali. "Reaching the poor? : the identification and assessment of rural poverty by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Gujarat, India." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/7543.
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Dehouve, Danièle. "Production marchande et organisation sociale dans une province indienne du Mexique : XVIe-XXe siècle." Paris, EHESS, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985EHESA002.
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Chinnappan, Delfi. "Digital media and Hijra identity: Understanding community-building and self-representations among Hijra community-based organisations in India." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207761/1/Delfi_Chinnappan_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines hijra community-based organisations’ (CBOs) use of social media platforms to represent hijra identities in India. This study used social media ethnography as an approach to study the social media presence of hijra community members and involved 30 interviews. The hijra community are placed at the intersection of culture, politics, legal developments for the third gender, popular culture, and social media uses in this study. Further, it deepens knowledge on how the hijra community has framed their identity(ies) in the light of their community work after legal recognition in India.
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Blockert, Niklas, and Katarina Puhm. "Från policy till praktik : En kvalitativ studie om implementationen av Sidas genuspolicy hos biståndsmottagande organisationer i Indien." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal University College, Department of Social Work, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-576.
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Desai, Bina. "Local brokers : knowledge, trust and organisation in the practice of agricultural extension for small and marginal farmers in Rajasthan, India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416035.
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Tropp, Håkan. "Patronage, politics and pollution : precarious NGO-state relationships : urban environmental issues in south India /." Linköping : Tema, Univ. [distributör], 1998. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp99/arts182s.htm.
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Cash, John Alexander. "School leaders and the implementation of education management information systems (EMIS) in the Bahamas : a case study of six principals." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59360/.
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The tension between the leadership of technology and technology as a means of school improvement are still issues of debate. Researchers have argued that education management technology has yet to make a significant contribution to school improvement, while others have experienced small pockets of success. This study seeks to contribute to the debate by exploring the tension associated with the implementation of an education management information system (EMIS) in The Bahamas from the experiences of school leaders. More specifically, this thesis explores EMIS from the understanding of six principals in their schools and its contributions to their schools. This study develops a social constructivist view and relies on the case study approach. Among the major findings of the study was that EMIS was often perceived by principals to be associated with conflict and the primary uses of the technology were for generating report cards, facilitating school administrative tasks and monitoring. Principals' expressed concern for the lack of support from senior management and the impact of using the technology on their role as leader. As conflicts hindered the implementation of EMIS, principals adopted a shared leadership approach. This study offers pertinent information concerning the reasons why EMIS is underutilized and the important contributions of leadership to the successful implementation of the technology. Such information can be useful for understanding EMIS in education organizations.
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Grills, Nathan. "'Believing' in HIV :The effect of faith on the response of Christian Faith Based Organisations to HIV in India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489447.
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Internationally, faith based groups are increasingly being called upon to play a part in the response to HIV. In India, where there are approximately 2.5 million people living with HIV, there is an increasing interest by groups such as the Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation to partner with Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) to maximise the response to HIV. However, little is understood about these FBOs, and, in particular, how faith might affect their response. Some postulate that faith is no longer relevant; others view faith as merely an impediment. This thesis therefore seeks to understand how, if at all, the Christian faith affects the FBO's response to HIV.
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Taglioni, François. "Les petits espaces insulaires et leurs organisations régionales." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00006995.
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Ce mémoire d'habilitation à diriger des recherches se compose de trois volumes. Le premier est la synthèse, avec ses lignes de forces et ses faiblesses, avec ses contradictions et ses accords, de nos activités scientifiques, pédagogiques et administratives sur la période 1989-2003. Le second est un travail original de recherche dont nous produisons ici un résumé. Le troisième est un recueil de nos publications (24 articles, un ouvrage et 12 comptes rendus de lecture). Le volume de recherche intitulé "Recherches sur les petits espaces insulaires et sur leurs organisations régionales" se compose de deux parties. La première s'articule autour d'une double interrogation : qu'est-ce une île ? qu'en est-il de ses spécificités scientifiques ? Ces questions de nombreux chercheurs se les sont posées et d'autres après eux les aborderont sans doute encore. Trois entrées principales nous ont permis de cerner ces questions. Un premier chapitre s'attelle à retravailler les concepts de base que sont l'isolement, la taille, l'insularité, l'insularisme et l'îléité pour déboucher sur une définition possible de l'île ou tout au moins des petits espaces insulaires. Les deux autres chapitres s'articulent autour des grands thèmes de la fragmentation, de la périphéricité, de la dépendance et de la vulnérabilité. À défaut d'êtres parfaitement spécifiques aux îles, ces thèmes permettent néanmoins de les qualifier en adoptant une démarche systémique. La deuxième partie est davantage méthodologique et inductive que la première. Elle contribue à une réflexion sur la régionalisation en général (chapitre I) et sur la régionalisation en milieu insulaire en particulier (chapitre II). Le constat de départ, pour mener à bien une analyse des organisations régionales, est celui d'une carence d'outils conceptuels et des lacunes empiriques. La préoccupation est double, d'une part tirer une quintessence de nos descriptions analytiques de terrain de l'étude de la coopération régionale insulaire dans le monde et, d'autre part, élaborer un schéma explicatif (chapitre III) ayant une portée générale à partir des influences particulières rencontrées. L'approche est aussi bien diachronique que synchronique. Le schéma du système de coopération régionale que nous avons conçu est applicable à d'autres espaces que ceux qui sont insulaires. Il présente l'avantage de s'adapter aux diverses formes de régionalisation qui s'organisent entre États d'un même ensemble continental ou autour des océans et des mers. Il est aujourd'hui évident que les processus de coopération régionale sont une composante majeure du développement et de l'intégration des États-nations au système international. Les États les plus vulnérables, qu'ils soient ou non insulaires, comme les superpuissances, sont tous engagés dans des entreprises similaires d'approfondissement et d'intégration économique ou politique. Néanmoins, il semble difficile de dicter des lois et d'établir des normes qui régiraient les relations régionales et a fortiori internationales. La conclusion de ce travail d'habilitation à diriger des recherches est une proposition constructive ouvrant sur des perspectives concrètes d'application de nos recherches passées et à venir. Elle se fonde sur le constat de la dispersion et la fragmentation au plan national des données et des ressources humaines concernant les petits États et territoires. Il s'agirait donc de créer un Centre d'études et de recherche sur les petits États dans le monde (CÉRPÉM) pour fédérer les chercheurs, les ressources documentaires et financières.