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Phillips, Sarah Elizabeth. "The relationship between person-organization fit, attribution theory, and psychological contract violations within organizational settings." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2291.
Full textPatnaik, Ashok. "A comparison of the equity-supportiveness of organizational cultures of (public) NHS organizations and (private) Social Enterprise (SE) providers." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31550/.
Full textWood, John Vincent. "An understanding of moral philosophy classifications and social risk in relation to decision-making." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1979.
Full textCrimaldi, Christie Lynn. "Organizational policies, organizational social support, and work-family conflict: The mediating role of motivation orientation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3303.
Full textZhou, Peilin. "The effect of social support on job satisfaction at the varying levels of job stress and task structure." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/466.
Full textVan, Dyck Sarah Elizabeth. "Horizontal Workplace Aggression and Coworker Social Support Related to Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intentions." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/652.
Full textCrain, Tori Laurelle. "Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2327.
Full textRineer, Jennifer Rae. "Social Job Characteristics and Older Workers: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Job Tension." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/613.
Full textDaniels, Rachel Jane. "Workplace Cognitive Failure as a Mediator between Work-Family Conflict and Safety Performance." PDXScholar, 2007. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1674.
Full textClippert, Courtney A. "Potential Factors That Influence Team Identification: A Desire to be Similar or Different?" TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/148.
Full textKrueger, Paula Kay. "China and the USA: An analysis of intercultural training methods in the corporate environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2563.
Full textGruchala, Lauren Cathryn. "Fan Perception of Justice in Team Disciplinary Decisions." TopSCHOLAR®, 2009. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/78.
Full textEllis, Allison Marie. "Building Resources at Home and at Work: Day-Level Relationships between Job Crafting, Recovery Experiences, and Work Engagement." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2320.
Full textCrain, Tori Laurelle. "The Crossover Effects of Supervisor Work-Family Positive Spillover on Employee Sleep Deficiency: Moderating Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB)." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/895.
Full textGuros, Frankie. "Emotion Regulation and Strain in Corrections Officers: Examining the Role of Recovery Experiences and Coping Mechanisms." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1121.
Full textCampbell, Arthur (Arthur Donald). "Social networks in industrial organization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49714.
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Chapter 1 studies the optimal strategies of a monopolist selling a good to consumers who engage in word of mouth communication. The monopolist uses the price it charges to influence both the proportion of the population that is willing to purchase the good and the pattern of communication that takes place within the social network. I find a number of results: (i) demand is more elastic in the presence of word of mouth; (ii) the monopolist reduces the price to induce additional word of mouth for regular goods, however for goods whose valuation is greater for well connected individuals the price may, in fact, be greater; (iii) the optimal pattern of diffusion involves introductory prices which vary up and down; and (iv) exclusive (high priced) products will optimally target advertising towards individuals with many friends whereas common (low priced) products will target individuals with fewer friends. Chapter 2 presents a model of friendship formation in a social network. During each period a new player enters the social network, this player searches for and forms friendships with the existing population and all individuals play a prisoner's dilemma game with each of their friends. The set of friendships a player forms reveals some information to a friend about how likely she is to subsequently cooperate. Cooperative types are able to separate themselves from uncooperative types by becoming friends with people who know one another.
(cont.) The threat of communication amongst people who know one another prevents an uncooperative type mimicking a cooperative type. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of policies which support electricity generation from intermittent technologies (wind, solar). I find that intermittent generation is a substitute for baseload technologies but may be complementary or substitutable for peaking/intermediate technologies. I characterize the long run implications of this for carbon emissions.
by Arthur Campbell.
Ph.D.
Pilch, Scott Bradford. "The effects of varying types of voice on organizational justice and motivation perceptions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3013.
Full textVanin, Paolo. "Industrial organization, trade and social capital." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7355.
Full textThis thesis applies game theoretic tools to the investigation of the dynamic effects of several forms of local interaction externalities. It consists of three chapters. The first, "Competition and Reputation", is devoted to study repeated interaction among oligopolits in markets with asymmetric information. The second, "Trade Policy and Industrial Structure", focuses on interaction among monopolistic competitors facing foreign competition, and on their learning externalities. The third, "Economic Growth and Social Development", investigates the patterns of private and social capital accumulation, arising from individual choices in an environment with social interaction externalities.
Domenech, Aparisi T. A. "Social aspects of industrial symbiosis networks." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/762629/.
Full textMohammad, Khidhir Ali Samir, and Anand Santhanam. "The Role of Social Network within Industrial Organization." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18710.
Full textMuleya, Cedrick. "Interorganizational relationship management: managing across hierachies, markets and networks." University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1931_1189593862.
Full textThis study focused on understanding inter-organizational relationships (IOR) of a dynamic nature. A dynamic process that has repetitive sequences of negotiation, commitment, and execution stages is central to inter-organizational relationships. The dynamic process is a tool that is used by management through collaboration, co-operation, and coordination to engender formation, governance, and performance of inter-organizational relationships. This report looked into how the resource-dependency theory gives insight into the formation of an inter-organizational relationships and how the transaction-cost theory contributes to the understanding ofinter-organizational relationships governance.
Jones, Alan Meirion. "Creating a learning organization." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36107/.
Full textWeinberg, Lisa Ellen. "Seeing through organization : the experience of social relations as constitutive /." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-171002/.
Full textStegenga, Paul William. "Postsurgical recovery care : spatial organization and social relationships." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22979.
Full textLeung, Lai-yue Ciris, and 梁麗榆. "The social organization of a Cantonese opera performance." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29751093.
Full textSnyderman, Ellen Ruth 1961. "The social organization of managerial definitions of unethical behavior." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277860.
Full textSilva, Michel Soares Rodrigues da. "Éden: paraíso industrial em Sorocaba ou purgatório social?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-29032012-114233/.
Full textThis dissertation discuss how the recent industrialization process of Sorocaba City coming from the desconcentration of the industrial capital of São Paulo toward the country side of this same State. Due to this reality that happens since the decade of 1970, the city of Sorocaba organized itself to receive these companies earmarking an area of the city that was called Industrial Zone with the function of placing them. In this zone, consisted by Éden, Cajurú do Sul and Aparecidinha, the following dissertation analysis the most recent transformations that happened in Éden neighborhood featuring some of the historical aspects, its relation with the public agents and with the industrial activities developed. The population everyday is considered as a relevant aspect to understand the changes occurred in the geographical space, not only of the neighborhood but of the municipality as well, which adds not only the pretensions, the local population wishes, and also the public and private agents, the closer partners to reach the capital reproduction in detriment of the social welfare.
Dutta, Antara. "Intellectual property rights, market structure and social welfare : three essays in industrial organization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37413.
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This dissertation consists of three essays on the effects of intellectual property rights protection on market structure and social welfare in the Indian pharamaceutical industry. In contrast to pharmaceutical industries in the developed world, India had historically enforced a weak system of intellectual property rights protection that eliminated most legal barriers to entry in its pharmaceuticals markets. As a condition of its membership to the World Trade Organization, India became required to extend legal protection to all pharmaceutical products by 2005. The first essay analyzes the dramatic increase in the number of products released by domestic firms in India in the period leading up to the 2005 deadline. Speculation in the media linked this phenomenon to the imminent change in patent regime. The essay uses data on pharmaceutical products being sold in India in combination with data on drugs patented internationally to investigate the possibility that Indian firms launched products in the domestic industry as a strategic response to the anticipated change implied by the WTO. Results of the estimation do not provide conclusive evidence of strategic behavior by firms in markets where the patent enforcement could affect the future profitability of domestic firms.
(cont.) The results suggest that much of the increase in product launches was driven by the size of the market and the age of the drugs in question. However, without more information on counterfactual current and future profits, we cannot rule out strategic behaviour by domestic firms. The second essay develops a structural model of demand, supply and entry and relates the free entry setting of the industry during the sample period to two sets of welfare issues. The model incorporates firm heterogeneity and product differentiation and backs out demand and supply-side parameters for five key therapeutic categories in the industry. Results of the estimation show that demand varies significantly across the therapeutic categories and that firm heterogeneity is an important factor for both demand and entry costs. Counterfactual simulations of the effect of entry by foreign firms into selected drugs find no evidence of socially "excessive" entry; on the contrary, the simulations suggest large gains to consumers from the addition of more firms, which would overwhelm the losses to producers and thus increase social welfare.
(cont.) Simulations of the welfare effects of patent enforcement in India for four drugs that were under patent protection in the US at the time show losses of over $1 million on average for consumers in these markets and an average reduction in market size of approximately 35,000 patients. In comparison, the increase in profits of the global patent-holders for these drug are estimated to range between $0.08 million and $0.5 million. These gains are modest, particularly in comparison to the costs of global drug development that range between $200 million and $300 million. The third essay looks for empirical evidence of early-mover advantages for pioneering firms in pharmaceutical products markets in India. The first half of the paper employs fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity. Estimates from this basic model suggest that an earlier entry translates into positive gains for firms, in terms of both higher prices and higher revenues. The second half of the paper tackles the sample selection issues arising from the fact that firms choose their own orders of entry. A firm's order of entry into a market is modelled as a continuous decision variable at the first-stage. The selection model then uses the residuals from this first-stage to correct the sample selection bias at the second-stage.
(cont.) The order of entry continues to have a strong effect on the price and revenue received by a firm, with earlier entrants retaining larger long-term advantages. In particular, after accounting for the endogeneity of entry, results suggest that the pure order-of-entry effect on revenue allows the first entrant into a market to earn more than two times the revenue of the fifth entrant and over six times the revenue of the tenth entrant.
by Antara Dutta.
Ph.D.
Clemens, Georg [Verfasser]. "Strategic and Behavioral Aspects of (Anti-)Competitive Conduct in Oligopolies: Four Essays in Industrial Organization / Georg Clemens." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1048467910/34.
Full textWardiwiyono, Sartini. "Islamic corporate social responsibility disclosure in Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34138/.
Full textPereira, Filipe Ivo. "Gestão ambiental e aspectos estruturais em empresas industriais catarinenses." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2015. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/64.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar a relação existente entre a estrutura organizacional e as práticas de gestão ambiental das empresas industriais catarinenses. O objeto de estudo foram as empresas industriais catarinenses cadastradas na base de dados da Federação das Indústrias do Estado de Santa Catarina. A pergunta de pesquisa que norteou o trabalho foi: existe relação entre a estrutura organizacional e a prática de gestão ambiental das empresas industriais catarinenses? Para tanto, buscou-se na fundamentação teórica abordar os principais conceitos sobre gestão ambiental e estrutura organizacional, sendo abordado na primeira parte os temas relativos às indústrias, o meio ambiente e a gestão ambiental e, na segunda parte os temas relativos à estrutura organizacional e sua relação com a gestão ambiental. Este trabalho enquadra-se como uma pesquisa quantitativa de caráter descritivo. Foi empregado como procedimento de investigação a análise documental. Como métodos estatísticos foram utilizados exploratoriamente a análise descritiva, o coeficiente de correlação de rho de Spearman e a análise multivariada de correlação canônica. Os resultados da pesquisa confirmaram que quanto mais uma organização estrutura-se para a gestão ambiental mais suas práticas ambientais evidenciam-se, da mesma forma, quanto mais uma organização envolve-se com práticas ambientais mais sua estruturação organizacional voltada à gestão ambiental torna-se evidente.
Di, Paolo Ezequiel Alejandro. "On the evolutionary and behavioral dynamics of social coordination : models and theoretical aspects." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264593.
Full textPoitevin, Michel. "Three essays on the strategic interaction between production and financial decisions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29164.
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Ambrosio, Natasja. "Identifying the root causes of tensions arising from business adoption of sustainability." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97122.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: When business adopts sustainability, leaders, sustainability practitioners and employees experience tensions. Unless the root causes of such tensions are identified, understood and discussed, barriers that developed over time will significantly affect the rate of business transformation in building a sustainable future for both business and society at large. This thesis then aims to identify the root causes of tensions that arise in the process of sustainability adoption in business. The outcomes of the research highlight the process of organisational and systemic change required in business, and the need for organisational culture and values to align to the values of sustainability. The lack of adaptive leadership skills in business causes tension as a fundamental requirement of sustainability is transformation. Sustainability challenges the ethics of decisions made in business and thereby creates significant tension. Leaders and employees alike are faced with decisions that require careful consideration in order to ensure that the consequences of those decisions do not result in unintended consequences that impact negatively on society and the environment. Systemic complexity, where capitalism defines the rules within which businesses operate and are being measured, creates tension, as these rules often contradict the values of sustainability. Employees and leaders in business experience tension, as they have to face the dichotomy between values and profit imperatives. This results in an ethical dilemma for business. The current consumer culture, upon which retailers rely significantly for income, requires the extraction of raw materials and the use of energy, water, oil and chemicals for production purposes. This dependency is concerning, as price volatility as a result of the demand and supply fluctuations, affect the retailer price structures. If these resources were to be priced, based on the true cost to the environment, prices will increase, leaving retailers with no option but to increase sales prices. The scale and depth of change, as well as When business adopts sustainability, leaders, sustainability practitioners and employees experience tensions. Unless the root causes of such tensions are identified, understood and discussed, barriers that developed over time will significantly affect the rate of business transformation in building a sustainable future for both business and society at large. This thesis then aims to identify the root causes of tensions that arise in the process of sustainability adoption in business. The outcomes of the research highlight the process of organisational and systemic change required in business, and the need for organisational culture and values to align to the values of sustainability. The lack of adaptive leadership skills in business causes tension as a fundamental requirement of sustainability is transformation. Sustainability challenges the ethics of decisions made in business and thereby creates significant tension. Leaders and employees alike are faced with decisions that require careful consideration in order to ensure that the consequences of those decisions do not result in unintended consequences that impact negatively on society and the environment. Systemic complexity, where capitalism defines the rules within which businesses operate and are being measured, creates tension, as these rules often contradict the values of sustainability. Employees and leaders in business experience tension, as they have to face the dichotomy between values and profit imperatives. This results in an ethical dilemma for business. The current consumer culture, upon which retailers rely significantly for income, requires the extraction of raw materials and the use of energy, water, oil and chemicals for production purposes. This dependency is concerning, as price volatility as a result of the demand and supply fluctuations, affect the retailer price structures. If these resources were to be priced, based on the true cost to the environment, prices will increase, leaving retailers with no option but to increase sales prices. The scale and depth of change, as well asWhen business adopts sustainability, leaders, sustainability practitioners and employees experience tensions. Unless the root causes of such tensions are identified, understood and discussed, barriers that developed over time will significantly affect the rate of business transformation in building a sustainable future for both business and society at large. This thesis then aims to identify the root causes of tensions that arise in the process of sustainability adoption in business. The outcomes of the research highlight the process of organisational and systemic change required in business, and the need for organisational culture and values to align to the values of sustainability. The lack of adaptive leadership skills in business causes tension as a fundamental requirement of sustainability is transformation. Sustainability challenges the ethics of decisions made in business and thereby creates significant tension. Leaders and employees alike are faced with decisions that require careful consideration in order to ensure that the consequences of those decisions do not result in unintended consequences that impact negatively on society and the environment. Systemic complexity, where capitalism defines the rules within which businesses operate and are being measured, creates tension, as these rules often contradict the values of sustainability. Employees and leaders in business experience tension, as they have to face the dichotomy between values and profit imperatives. This results in an ethical dilemma for business. The current consumer culture, upon which retailers rely significantly for income, requires the extraction of raw materials and the use of energy, water, oil and chemicals for production purposes. This dependency is concerning, as price volatility as a result of the demand and supply fluctuations, affect the retailer price structures. If these resources were to be priced, based on the true cost to the environment, prices will increase, leaving retailers with no option but to increase sales prices. The scale and depth of change, as well as the uncertainties that exist within decisions that needs to be made, causes tensions for retailers. Other tensions that arise are the need for meaningful stakeholder engagement, transparency, and a common understanding of what sustainability aims to achieve. Meaningful conversations in business will help define new rules that can be applied to create long-term value for all in society. Employees are more committed to sustainability through intrinsic values as oppose to extrinsic values. Therefore, a values based approach to sustainability adoption will resonate with employees, thereby improving the effect of sustainability integration. Adaptive leaders who are prepared to interrogate current business models are required. This way, different models are developed, that delivers shared value and intergenerational equity to society and the environment.
Shah, Krina R. "Office place : the human side of an organization." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371192.
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Lampel, Joseph. "Strategy in thin industries : essays in the social organization of industry." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74589.
Full textThe dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first three chapters we explore thin industries as a type and as an environment. In the remaining three chapters we look at the ramifications of interorganizational learning on the management of external linkages. In the concluding chapter we discuss the implications of thin industries to the study and practice of strategic management. Three issues in particular are singled out: the decline of organizational autonomy, the limits of competition, and new directions for theory building. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Jarron, Christina. "More nearly social institutions legal regulation and the sociology of corporations /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/81460.
Full textThesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Dept. of Sociology 2009.
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Introduction -- Patterns of corporate activity as patterns of corporate dominance: legal, organisational, and economic features of corporations -- Representations of corporate dominance in insidious injuries -- The legal basis of corporate dominance: History of the corporation -- Legal individualism and corporate personhood -- Theories of the corporation -- The legal regulation of corporations - corporate liability laws -- Conclusion.
Corporations are no longer simply a type of business structure; they are dominant social institutions. As institutions, corporations are archetypes of contemporary complex social organisation and should, therefore, be a central concern for sociology. Yet with few notable exceptions, sociologists have failed to address their increasingly dominant position in contemporary societies. In this thesis I argue the importance of a renewed sociological interest in corporations. This must acknowledge, but go beyond, the political-economic outcomes of corporations to address the profound consequences of the legal foundations of the corporate form. Corporations are created and regulated by legal doctrine; it is only with a legal mandate that corporations are able to act as employers, suppliers and investors. On this basis, I claim that any understanding of corporate dominance and its effects must commence with an appreciation of the laws that enable the corporation to exist and operate. -- While contributing significantly to wealth creation, corporate dominance also increases the potential for harm to occur to individuals and communities who fall within a corporation's scope. The contemporary proliferation of industrial illnesses is a prime example of this and is examined through a case study of the operations of an Australian asbestos corporation, James Hardie. This case study is timely and unique in its specification of the link between corporate activity and law in contemporary society. -- I argue that corporate activity such as that in the case study is enhanced and legitimated by the legal description of the corporation that assigns to it the capacities of a human individual through corporate legal personhood. Corporate personhood is examined as an example of the legal individualism endorsed in liberal common law countries. By exploring accounts of corporate structure, decision-making and work processes, I explain how the individualised description of the corporation is at odds with its collective realities; the largest and most successful corporations are collectives of human and monetary resources. -- In light of this, I question the extent to which the effective regulation of corporations can be achieved within existing legal frameworks. Building upon research into workplace health and safety in the United Kingdom, the regulation of workplace deaths in Australia is examined to demonstrate the various approaches to regulating corporations and to identify their shortcomings. This is a striking example of the problems law faces in regulating corporations by virtue of its individualistic design. -- The thesis concludes with an affirmation that sociology needs to grapple with issues of corporate activity and that an understanding of the legal basis of the corporation is the foundation of such studies.
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Vickers, John. "Patent races and market structure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e3df3d2-b58a-48cc-b639-78c7c48bd3cd.
Full textLarsson, Thomas B. "The Bronze Age metalwork in southern Sweden aspects of social and spatial organization 1800-500 B.C. /." Umeå : University of Umeå, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357239764.
Full textCallaghan, Karen Ann. "A theoretical analysis of the democratic workplace : the movement away from authoritarian social organization /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487268021748841.
Full textOkyere, Francis. "Social responsibility in the SMMEs of the Botshabelo industrial estates." Thesis, [Bloemfontein?] : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/198.
Full textResearch evidence suggests that South African small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are not making the desired impact on their societies because they are unable to create jobs. The normative assertion is that by engaging in socially responsible activities, SMMEs will be able to enhance their impact on society. Much “noise”, effort and resources are being made available to South African SMMEs to encourage them to embrace this concept of social responsibility as it is also touted to result in business benefits. Socially responsible behaviour by SMMEs has therefore become an important national issue in South Africa. However, in spite of this realisation, very little is known about how seriously the South African SMMEs really consider and approach the whole issue of business social responsibility (BSR) precisely because of the dearth of empirical research on the subject. Without empirical evidence from systematic research, it becomes extremely difficult to tell for sure what these SMMEs think of and are really doing in terms of BSR; what obstacles they face in their BSR endeavours; what support they need; among others. Without such information, policy makers cannot reasonably be expected to formulate appropriate support mechanisms to enhance the BSR efforts of these SMMEs. In the end, communities like Botshabelo (in the Free State Province of South Africa) might lose out on the benefits that are usually associated with BSR performance of SMMEs. The purpose of this study was to provide such information. Specifically, the research investigated the following issues: SMMEs understanding of BSR; BSR as a sound business philosophy/practice for SMMEs; Why SMMEs undertake BSR; SMMEs’ attitude towards BSR; Barriers to SMMEs’ BSR engagement; and main BSR activities of SMMEs. In this study, research was conducted on the SMMEs of the Botshabelo industrial estate. After a thorough literature review, data were collected from 170 respondents on 137 out of the 150 SMMEs operating in Botshabelo. The results of the data analysis suggest that the SMMEs investigated have a good understanding of the concept and its value. However, the SMMEs focus mainly on employee and customer issues while showing less concern for community and environmental issues. The SMMEs also encounter barriers to BSR engagement which mostly have to do with lack of time. Based on these findings, recommendations are made regarding policy and further research.
Jones, Daniel Lee. "Organizing risky business: The social construction and organization of life insurance, 1810 to 1980." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298751.
Full textMaschino, Denis. "Avantages comparés, specialisation internationale intra-industrie et achats publics : aspects conceptuels, quantitatifs et institutionnels au Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74064.
Full textHartley, E. "The institutional treatment of juvenile delinquency : aspects of the English reformatory and industrial school movement in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35643.
Full textTrevisan, Lino. "Interculturalidade no ambiente empresarial: relações entre brasileiros e estrangeiros na Volkswagen/Audi de São José dos Pinhais-PR." Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná, 2001. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/175.
Full textThis investigation started from an interest to study the intercultural relationships between Brazilian and foreign workers in an automobile multinational company located in the outskirt area of Curitiba. The company chosen to be the setting of the research was Volkswagen/Audi located in São José dos Pinhais. The objective of this investigation was to identify difficulties employees faced in the intercultural relationships and the strategies they used to overcome the problems. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data since this study was designed in a qualitative paradigm. Fifteen Brazilian workers and ten expatriates of the production sector and administrative department were interviewed. The concepts behind this study are the cultural, cultural diversity, intercultural relationships and organizational culture concepts. In order to better understand the representations of the two main groups interviewed - Brazilians and Germans - brief features of the culture and organizational culture of Brazil and Germany were raised. In the results of the research, Brasilian representations weere shown followed by the "expatriates". Afterwards, these representations were analyzed using the concepts which support this study showing similarities and differences of representations of the two groups interviewed concerning their intercultural relationsships in the company. The representations were grouped in blocks and organized in items, the most revealing characteristics of the opinions mentioned by the interviewees were reunited and which meets the objetive of this study. Therefore, in this investigation some general considerations were made, followed by the presentation of the difficulties identified by the employees in the intercultural relationships, and after that, the strategies used by the group to overcomme the problems. Finally, reciprocal representations of "we ant "they", which were found in the interviews of the two groups, were presented. The discussion of these representations and the attempt to analyze them is a new interpretation done by the researcher. In sum, this study is the interpretation of interpretations.
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Lawrence-Fuller, Marilyn Susie. "The effect of perceived control on the decision to withdraw from an organization in an inequitable situation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2664.
Full textHuman, Debbie. "The corporate social dimension of the triple bottom line : a sustainable development perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50127.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the past the social dimension of business has often been neglected and regarded as inferior to issues related to the financial sphere of business. The rise of sustainable development and a growing awareness regarding the frailty of earth's resources have placed renewed emphasis on the importance of the corporate social dimension for sustained business success. Scrutiny of the literature revealed that numerous misconceptions regarding the corporate social dimension still prevailed and that the success of sustainable development is often jeopardised by a lack of implementation. The triple bottom line (TBL), a concept that embraces corporate economic, environmental and social elements, was identified as a most appropriate way of elucidating the corporate social dimension and for operationalising sustainable development, as it provides several philosophic and implementation principles and guidelines. The objective of this study was to contribute to an improved understanding of the corporate social dimension and its implementation as one of the three parts of the TBL, within the perspective of sustainable development. To achieve this objective it was considered fundamental to analyse the importance and development of the corporate social dimension, the concepts and terminology related to the social dimension, and the current status of the corporate social dimension in both a South African as well as a global context. The positive aspects and limitations of extant approaches were subsequently delineated. Another important prerequisite for achieving the objective of the study was the clarification of the importance, meaning and implications of sustainable development, and the TBL approach as an operationalisation method. The development, three drnensions, importance and benefits of the TBL approach were analysed and several fundamental principles and compulsory guidelines were identified as vital conditions (e.g. a stakeholder approach, leadership support and involvement, equal consideration of all the elements of the TBL, etc.) for apt TBL adoption and sustained business success. An analysis of the relevance of sustainable development and TBL principles and guidelines for the corporate social dimension, and the interrelation between business, government and the social dimension, contributed towards an improved understanding of the social dimension of the corporate triple bottom line and its implementation within the perspective of sustainable development, thereby facilitating the achievement of the objective of the study. The most salient conclusions of the study focused on the importance of addressing the corporate social dimension in an integrated manner within the perspective of sustainable development and by means of the TBL approach, despite the seemingly elusive nature of the social dimension and numerous debates and viewpoints regarding it. Based on the conclusions of the study a number of recommendations were made regarding the process of leveraging the context-specific and dynamic nature of corporate social definitions and viewpoints, the advancement of business application, and the advancement of theory.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die verlede is die sosiale dimensie van besigheid dikwels geïgnoreer en beskou as ondergeskik teenoor kwessies verwant aan die finansiële sfeer van besigheid. Die opkoms van volhoubare ontwikkeling en 'n groeiende bewuswording van die beperktheid van die aarde se hulpbronne het hernieude aandag gevestig op die belangrikheid van die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie vir volhoubare besigheidsukses. 'n Literatuur ondersoek het getoon dat verskeie wanbegrippe met betrekking tot die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie steeds bestaan en dat die sukses van volhoubare ontwikkeling dikwels op die spel geplaas word deur 'n gebrek aan implementering. Die "triple bottom line" (TBL), 'n konsep wat die korporatiewe ekonomiese, omgewings en sosiale elemente omhels, is geïdentifiseer as die mees geskikte manier om die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie toe te lig en volhoubare ontwikkeling te operasionaliseer, aangesien dit verskeie filosofiese en implementerings beginsels en riglyne verskaf. Die doelwit van hierdie studie was om 'n bydrae te lewer tot 'n verbeterde begrip van die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie en die implementering daarvan as een van die drie dele van die TBL, binne die perspektief van volhoubare ontwikkeling. Ter bereiking van hierdie doelwit is dit as fundamenteel beskou om die belangrikheid en ontwikkeling van die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie, die konsepte en terminologie verwant aan die sosiale dimensie, en die huidige status van die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie, beide in Suid-Afrika en in 'n globale konteks, te analiseer. Die positiewe aspekte en beperkinge van bestaande benaderings is vervolgens ondersoek. Nog 'n belangrike voorvereiste vir die bereiking van die doewit van die studie was die uitklaring van die belangrikheid, betekenis, en implikasies van volhoubare ontwikkeling, en die TBL benadering as 'n operasionaliserings metode. Die ontwikkeling, drie dimensies, belangrikheid en die voordele van die TBL benadering is geanaliseer en verskeie fundamentele beginsels en verpligtende riglyne is geïdentifiseer as deurslaggewende vereistes (bv. 'n belanghebbende benadering, leierskap ondersteuning en betrokkenheid, gelyke oorweging van al die elemente van die TBL, ens.) vir gepaste TBL aanneming en volhoubare besigheidsukses. Die analisering van die relevansie van volhoubare ontwikkeling en TBL beginsels en riglyne vir die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie, en die interverwantskap tussen besigheid, die regering en die sosiale dimensie, het bygedra tot "n verbeterde begrip van die sosiale dimensie van die korporatiewe TBL en die implementering daarvan binne die perspektief van volhoubare ontwikkeling, en daardeur ook tot die fasilitering van die bereiking van die doelwit van die studie. Die mees uitstaande gevolgtrekkings van die studie fokus op die belangrikheid van die aanspreek van die korporatiewe sosiale dimensie op "n geïntegreerde wyse binne die perspektief van volhoubare ontwikkeling en deur middel van die TBL, ten spyte van die skynbaar ontwykende aard van die sosiale dimensie en die vele debatte en oogpunte met betrekking tot die konsep. Gebaseer op die gevolgtrekkings van die studie is "n aantal aanbevelings gemaak met betrekking tot die proses van die hefboming van die konteks-spesifieke en dinamiese aard van korporatiewe sosiale definisies en oogpunte, die bevordering van besigheidstoepassing, en die bevordering van teorie.
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Full textWinters, Brittney. "PERSON-CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FIT: CONSIDERING THE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE VALUES ON FIT WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/255.
Full textSollitto, Michael. "Why and How Organizational Members Encourage Their Peer Coworkers to Voluntarily Exit the Organization| An Investigation of Peer-Influence Exit Tactics." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3637642.
Full textPrevious scholars have found that organizational members use various tactics to encourage their peer coworkers to voluntarily exit their organizations. These tactics are known as peer-influence exit tactics. What has been missing from the literature is clarity about the factors that influence organizational members' use of peer-influence exit tactics. This dissertation explored the construct of peer-influenced exit to develop greater clarity about the motives for encouraging peer coworkers to leave, the characteristics of the peer-influence exit tactic source and receiver, and the organizational influences on peer-influenced exit. Study 1 used an open-ended survey design to explore the motives, process, and means through which peer-influenced exit occurs and the success of using peer-influence exit tactics. Results indicated that organizational members use eight peer-influence exit tactics and have four overarching motives for using them. Organizational members also reported that they consciously planned their tactics and the tactics were used with some success. Study 2 used an experimental design to explore how certain tactic source and receiver characteristics and organizational characteristics affect the use of peer-influence exit tactics. Results of an exploratory factor analysis revealed that organizational members use affirmation, unprofessional, depersonalization, and professional peer-influence exit tactics. Results of the experiment indicated that organizational members use affirmation, unprofessional, depersonalization tactics more frequently with low performing peer coworkers than with high performing peer coworkers. No differences emerged regarding the use of peer-influence exit tactics based on the cohesiveness of the organizational culture. The results also revealed relationships between competitiveness, agreeableness, and self-esteem of the source and peer-influence exit tactics. Study 3 incorporated a correlational design in which working adults were surveyed about their personal experiences with peer-influenced exit. Results revealed that personal gain, altruistic, organizational enhancement, and climate improvement motives predicted the use of peer-influence exit tactics, as did the competitiveness, agreeableness, and self-esteem of the source, perceived similarity, work performance, liking, and organizational influence of the target, and the organizational climate, supervisor complicity, and coworker regard. The results provide greater insight into the antecedents and outcomes of organizational exit that are valuable for both organizational communication scholars and organizational practitioners.