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Barnett, Jane. "Efficient and effective management in Higher Education : an insider action research perspective." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/7944.
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The purpose of this research was to examine the factors that underpin efficient and effective management of the administration services that support academic delivery in an academic school in higher education. It emanated from personal disquiet that my formal management education, with curricula delivered on a discipline basis, had not equipped me to deal with the complex and messy reality of the managerial role. There were six objectives associated with this project: (a) examine effective and efficient management through action research; (b) develop management effectiveness through action research; (c) analyse the factors that underpin, contribute to and affect the manager's efficient and effective delivery of support activities; (d) enhance and develop the researcher's managerial competencies and improve work systems; (e) examine how past managerial experiences affect current practice; and (f) examine the benefits of insider, first person, action research to support managerial activity in a university academic school. An autoethnograhic approach, using reflective narratives, was adopted. The reflective narratives, which form the data for this research, were written over a two year period between spring 2010 and spring 2012, and encompassed the daily activities, both planned and unplanned, mundane and unique of my life as a manager. The findings indicated that effective self-management was a pre-requisite of the successful management of others. Self-management and the management of others requires skills based around four themed areas of emotional management, relationship management, presentation management and the management of roles and tasks. Experience, combined judiciously with formal management education and training (hard skills), ability in the four themed areas (soft skills), and sector and organisational knowledge are required to manage successfully within a university setting. Experiential learning, achieved by structured reflective practice, was found to be an important tool for the improvement of practice through continuing professional development. Action research and reflective practice were useful approaches in the improvement of managerial effectiveness. The manager must be able to apply their professional knowledge according to the situation; this was when tacit knowledge-in-action was required. The findings suggest, therefore, the need to educate managers in the acquistion of structured reflective practice. Formal management education should teach students about the need for and the development of the soft skills pertaining to the management of emotions, relationships, self-presentation and of roles and tasks in themselves and others. This thesis has important implications for management education and for the continuing professional and personal development of practising managers.
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Humphrey, Bryan, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Insider Research, the Process and Practice: Issues arising from professionals conducting research within their own working environments." Deakin University. School of Education, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040614.122119.
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This thesis explores the chaotic, dynamic, ambiguous, complex and confusing world of the insider researcher. The proliferating species of insider researcher is common in public sector organisations and is particularly prevalent among post-graduate students who have combined study with work. Insider researchers range from the in-house researcher employed to conduct research to those who are conducting research in addition to their normal duties. This thesis, through five illustrative case-studies, discusses, reflects upon, explains, and clarifies the possibilities, limitations and the issues arising from a consideration of the practice of professionals conducting research in the large government education system in Victoria.
The central focus of this thesis, that of exploring issues arising from professionals conducting research in their own working environments, has an importance that hitherto has had little direct recognition in the qualitative education research literature. And yet the practice of insider research is common and has a potentially large impact on the nature of the decision making process in public sector organisations. This relative invisibility in the social research literature of a discussion of issues relating to insider research demands to be made more visible. It is both useful and necessary to explore the particular possibilities, conditions and challenges of insiders conducting research in public organisations as the practice of insider research contines to grow. This thesis adds to the literature by locating insider research in a discussion of the wider soial context of ideology, culture, relationships, politics, language and meaning, and the decision-making process.
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Young, Alison Margaret Grieg. "Re-embodying leadership through a re-examination of the sacred." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16455.
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The last couple of decades have witnessed an exponential increase of interest in religion and spirituality in the academic disciplines of leadership and organization. Some scholars argue that this interest is prone to neglect analysis of Western religion’s historical origins and therefore of what may be its repressed influences on leadership and organizational practices. Others, that this revived focus on the sacred may be limited by an over-reliance on too narrow a theology rooted within a singular (Judeo-Christian) cosmology. I seek to both speak to and expand the concerns of such previous research. I do this by introducing ecofeminism as a theoretical framework for a critical analysis of the macro level of what has already been framed as the repressed influence of mainstream religious orthodoxy within the field of leadership studies. Building upon the perspectives provided by ecofeminism and feminist spirituality I extend the aforementioned concerns by suggesting that some of the ethics within the Judeo-Christian cosmology itself bear some relationship to and responsibility in crises relating to environmental sustainability and social justice. I explore a number of related themes, arguing in particular that the demotion of nature and partnership with what might be described as the divine feminine within Western culture are not only linked but also generate profound dysfunction, in both leadership and organization. In the second section I present empirical data at a micro level, collected within a contemporary spiritual community where both nature and the divine feminine play central roles in its cosmology. The School of Movement Medicine functions as a financially successful business organization dedicated to the encouragement of spiritual fulfillment, ecological sustainability and social justice. The practices it teaches are specifically designed to assist those who engage with them to take responsibility for responding to the individual, societal and global challenges that lie before us - aiming, in other words to make leaders out of members. My hope is that these explorations may answer some of the calls of previous work to broaden representation within the leadership and spirituality field, as well as enriching its theory and practice with greater potential to generate increased levels of social justice, environmental sustainability and human fulfillment.
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Chauhan, Vipin. "Knowledge brokering : an insider action research study in the not-for-profit sector." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/35556.
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This study contributes an original, practice-based analysis of knowledge brokering in inter-organisational communities of practice in the not-for-profit sector. Defining characteristics of the not-for-profit sector include its social values, principles and practices. Existing literature understates or overlooks the significance of values and principles that are manifested in and enlivened through every day social practices and practitioner encounters. The study contributes by presenting knowledge brokering as a knowledge sharing intervention which integrates people, processes, values and principles into practice. Knowledge brokering and other practice interventions in the not-for-profit sector have to align with its social mission, if they are to be compatible and effective. This is especially so in multi-agency partnerships and inter-organisational communities of practice where collaboration and co-existence rather than assimilation are the primary objectives. This study finds that values-compatible knowledge brokering interventions, boundary bridging, co-creation, common artefacts and knowledge sharing, enable inter-organisational communities of practice to evolve without sacrificing individual autonomy. Foundational knowledge brokering literature emphasises the structural position of the knowledge broker, their knowledge superiority and the benefits they accrue by operating on the periphery of a social network. The study contributes by arguing that knowledge brokering processes and roles can be examined through an alternative practice lens with the knowledge broker as an internal co-practitioner located within a network. The study was carried out in a new, time-limited multi-agency partnership project in the not-for-profit sector. The partnership constituted an inter-organisational community of practice comprising advice, information and support agencies that had agreed to work collaboratively to improve local services. The author was employed as the project s Knowledge Management Officer and carried out the study over a two year period using an insider action research approach. As an insider practitioner-researcher, the author contributed to the project s objectives, worked collaboratively with practitioners and gathered rich data. Action and research occurred simultaneously and the iterative processes enabled the cumulative learning to inform, develop and analyse the practice. The combination of using insider action research approach, an examination of knowledge brokering as a practice intervention and a multi-agency, not-for-profit setting, makes this a unique practice-based study untapping knowledge management lessons from the not-for-profit sector.
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Emory, Jorie Lynne. "Public Pedagogy and Relational Philanthropy: An Insider Action Research Study of Columbus SOUP." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429204991.
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Lin, Szu-Yu. "Insider Perspectives of Mate Selection in Modern Chinese Society." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7698.
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With the increased exposure to Western cultures and the transition towards modernization, Chinese society has experienced substantial social change, which has influenced marital relationships. Although recent research has documented contemporary patterns of marital interaction, less is known about what Chinese adults consider to be an ideal marital partner and what their parent' roles play in the mate selection process. What do contemporary Chinese adults value in a partner? How much parental influence is involved in choosing an ideal marital partner? These questions were addressed by conducting six focus groups in Taipei, Taiwan. The focus groups included a total of 51 participants (male = 25; female = 26) and included separate groups for middle-aged married men, middle-aged married women, younger married men, younger married women, never-married young adult men, and never-married young adult women. The results from qualitative analysis indicated three major themes in an ideal partner: family-of-origin (e.g., similar family background, good relationship with in-laws), personal qualities (e.g., financially stable, responsible), and relationship qualities (e.g., getting along, communicating well, mutual respect, gender equality). These results indicate that contemporary Chinese adults value a combination of traditional Chinese (e.g., similar family background) and Western (e.g. good communication) values. When it comes to parental approval on their marriage, most younger participants reported that they would marry a person despite their parents' disapproval, although many indicated that they would want their parents' approval because it would increase family harmony. The older participants, on the other hand, were more likely to still favor parents having significant influence on who their children marry. Overall, the young Chinese participants showed greater incorporation of Western values than the older participants. These findings suggest that modern Chinese society is being increasingly influenced by individualistic Western values.
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Gibbs, B. T. "An insider research into the changing role of the management accountant during organisational change." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6693/.
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This research explores the perceptions of management accountants and their work community within a UK university, during a departmental restructure, when new roles and responsibilities emerged. Current literature on the role of management accountants suggests a lack of understanding as to how their role has developed over the years, with research being fragmented and rarely undertaken from the perspective of the service users, or the role holders. Research has predominantly concentrated on organisational aspects of change in management accounting, there being a dearth of research on the effect that role change has on the management accountant’s perception of their role, identity and associated power within the organisation. In addition, there is lack of field-based research and of practitioner research that is undertaken by qualified management accountants working in situ. A qualitative approach was adopted, wherein the author acted as an insider researcher. As an employee and qualified management accountant, the researcher was part of the community being investigated, which enabled observing-participant techniques to be used. Formal data generation spanned a two-year period, wherein semi-structured interviews were undertaken with nineteen key actors, including the accountants and those they served. Throughout, a research diary was maintained to record observations from meetings, face-to-face encounters, and the verbal and written communications associated with the accountant’s role. Cultural Historical Activity Theory was adopted as a lens with which to explore the perceived changes in perceptions that occurred between the management accountants and their wider organisational community. A thematic analysis of the data revealed three key themes: role, identity and power relations. On further analysis, inconsistent actor reports were apparent which referred to the decentralisation process and the change element of the managing accountants’ role. The resultant tensions and contradictions were analysed in detail as activity developed and altered over time. The effectiveness of the finance business partner model was seen to be flawed. In addition, the perceptions management accountants held of their role, identity and power within the university were impacted on negatively. Overall, analysis provided a rich picture that detailed the experiences of the difficulties and ambiguities brought about by change in the management accountants’ role. In investigating professional accountant practice in situ this study makes a strong contribution to the limited research that addresses the changing perceptions and roles of management accountants in the public sector. The insights further contribute to the literature of management accounting activity, in making a theoretical contribution to knowledge in the field of change, with specific reference to power relations, resistance to change, identity and role perception. With respect to the future, as the finance business partner role has become established in recent years, there is a need for a wider understanding of the transition in the management accountants’ role, as a finance business partner and further research is recommended both in the public and private sector.
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Doyle, Daniel James. "Insider research into Microsoft's Anytime Anywhere Learning : primary school children empowered in a constructivist classroom." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273541.
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Gelain, Gabriela Cleveston. "Releituras, transições e dissidências da subcultura feminista Riot Grrrl no Brasil." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2017. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6327.
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Este trabalho tem o objetivo de entender o que os elementos subculturais e sujeitos que envolvem a subcultura Riot Grrrl dizem sobre a sua atualização no Brasil. Enquanto elementos subculturais estão os fanzines, blogs, shows, bandas e eventos como o Girls Rock Camp no país. Enquanto sujeitos, entendo as mulheres que estão em contato direto e envolvidas com a subcultura Riot Grrrl no Brasil, amostra composta por 67 entrevistadas de 11 estados brasileiros, entre 15 e 47 anos de idade. A partir de autores e autoras como David Hesmondhalgh (2005), Paula Guerra (2010), Dick Hebdige (1979), Paul Hodkinson (2011) como base, proponho discutir o porquê de tratar Riot Grrrl enquanto subcultura, e ainda as questões de invisibilidade feminina na música e nos estudos subculturais e sobre juventude. Quanto à metodologia, assumo, através de uma observação participante (online e off-line) e inspirada na etnografia virtual, a posição de pesquisadora insider (Paul HODKINSON, 2005; Adriana AMARAL, 2009). Por fim, não há um consenso sobre o que significa ser uma riot grrrl, nem sobre o que seria a subcultura hoje no Brasil, mas nesta complexidade de vozes, idades, estados e opiniões, a vontade de trazer outras mulheres para pensar os feminismos parece falar mais alto do que os diferentes estilos musicais, as dissidências ou preocupações em dar nome às inspirações que tomamos sobre as atitudes das primeiras e “originais” riot grrrls.
This work aims to understand what the subculture elements and people that involve Riot Grrrl show about their update in Brazil. As subculture elements I understand the fanzines, blogs, shows, bands and events such as Girls Rock Camp. As people are the women who are in direct contact and involved with the subculture Riot Grrrl in Brazil, a sample composed of 67 interviewees from 11 Brazilian states, between 15 and 47 years of age. From authors such as David Hesmondhalgh (2005), Paula Guerra (2010), Dick Hebdige (1979), Paul Hodkinson (2011) as a basis, I propose to discuss why to treat Riot Grrrl as a subculture, as well as invisibility issues about women in music and in subcultural studies, and also on youth studies. About methodology, I’ve assumed through a participant observation (online and offline) and inspired by the virtual ethnography, the position of an insider researcher (Paul HODKINSON, 2005; Adriana AMARAL, 2009). Finally, there is no consensus on what it means to be a riot grrrl, nor on what would be the subculture in Brazil today but in this complexity of voices, ages, states and opinions, the desire to bring other women to think feminisms seems to speak louder than the different musical styles, disagreements or concerns in naming the inspirations we take about the attitudes of the first and "original" riot grrrls.
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Pelevin, Dmitrii. "Research of methods and algorithms of insider detection in a computer network using machine learning technologies." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-21877.
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Background. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems today are sophisticated sets of software packages combined with hardware platforms, which can perform real-time analysis on security events and can respond to them before potential damage due to the actions of intruders. A huge number of systems rely on the continuous transmission of data through computer networks. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a sphere of human activity that would not be affected by information technologies and would not use computer networks. Along with the means of protecting information, the technologies that are used by cybercriminals to achieve their goals are also improving. Moreover, the so-called insiders - information security perpetrators inside the protected perimeter, who can cause much more damage by their actions, as they are among the legitimate users and can have access to more confidential information - are becoming a growing threat. Objectives. To identify insider activity within an acceptable time inside the network, we need to develop a methodology to detect abnormal activity within the network using advanced data processing techniques, based on machine learning. After recreating the data processing system, we will also need to determine the most efficient algorithm that can be applied to the task of insider detection. Methods. The work analyzed research papers with similar objectives to investigate methods and technologies for securing against intruder intrusions, in conjunction with a study of machine learning techniques for detecting anomalies in the data. Experimental data were also collected containing information about network activity within the same network over two weeks. With this data, it is possible to conduct an experiment in network traffic processing using state-of-the-art technology. Results. During the study of relevant works, several effective ways to detect anomalies in the data were identified, technologies for processing large amounts of data using NoSQL were studied, and work on creating an experimental bench was performed. As a result, the experimental data obtained was sufficient to verify the effectiveness of the obtained solution. Conclusions. As a result, we analyzed existing approaches to detect insider activity within a computer system. Algorithms based on machine learning and big data processing methods were evaluated. In addition, a model for representing big data in NoSQL format was developed, which made it possible to create an architecture of a system for detecting insiders in computer networks using a graph database and machine learning methods.
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Botelho, Marcel. "Learning to be an insider agent of change in a Brazilian rural university." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/33735.
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The “University” is under pressure to address both local and general requirements from society towards a phenomenon called globalisation. In Brazil, the Ministry of Education has tried, without success, to promote institutional change. Confronted by this situation a process initiated by an internal change agent and based upon the introduction of Action Research was itself the subject of this AR Study by the change agent. This thesis draws upon the findings of that AR and uses it to critically examine the potential to foster change within the higher education context in Brazil using AR. The research was designed in two synchronous processes taking place at two different levels. The first is the facilitation of the uptake of Action Research by a group of academic staff, and the second is the research into that process as a piece of Action Research in its own right by the change agent/facilitator. Facilitation of change has been described as taking place in three phases: a) Mobilization; b) Implementation; and c) Continuation. Throughout such phases in this case data were systematically gathered by the use of five instruments of data collection: 1) Observation; 2) Diary; 3) Questionnaires; 4) Interviews; and 5) Sociogram. Results show my personal learning in facilitating this process of change and two main contributions to knowledge. The first is one which, though local and specific, may nevertheless speak to the challenges faced by other practitioners. Exemplified in this study by the critical exploration of the ‘Daisy Model’ of introducing AR that led to its modification into the ‘Flower Model’. The second is that new knowledge which appears to be more generalisable and for which a case can be made for its wider applicability. Again exemplified in the continuous and disruptive process of change that unfolded to reveal a suitable framework for the use of Action Research as a vehicle of change in a rural university in Brazil where all actions were based on four central principles that emerged from the research: neutrality, voluntary participation, time and motivation. The future success and sustainability of the change processes begun are contingent upon the reaction of the current management of the institution. Five scenarios are examined and a second phase for this AR project is suggested that attempts to address the issues raised.
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Lyons, Joanne Patricia. "Using collaborative action research to support adoptive parents in their communications with school staff." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/using-collaborative-action-research-to-support-adoptive-parents-in-their-communications-with-school-staff(8499eee6-9489-4593-9fdc-7062526ab9f8).html.
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To address a gap in the empirical literature on Educational Psychology (EP) practice and on adoption, and to gain perspectives from the Local Authority (LA), this thesis describes collaborative action research conducted by an Educational Psychologist (EP) with adoptive parents to support their communications with school staff. Participants were members of an Adoption Support Group and colleagues in Social Care. Information was gathered via focus groups and semi-structured questionnaires to ascertain the types of difficulties expressed by adoptive parents and inform the processes of communication systems. Participatory action research empowered participants to engage in meaningful and purposeful actions of planning, designing and evaluating information. The research narrative reports on first person inquiry through personal reflection and learning. Second person inquiry was generated in the course of research interactions with participants and the data that emerged from their realities to inform practical learning in action. Third person inquiry moved towards thinking around explanations for issues and the generation of knowledge. Knowledge was developed about parents’ perspectives on the barriers and enabling factors involved in their communications with school staff. The action research approach captured the potential of the insider position to generate rich data in situ while promoting a collaborative response to the social situation faced by the adopters when communicating with school staff. My insider position as researcher, holding multiple roles as an adoptive parent, as an EP and LA officer, is actively acknowledged as influencing understanding and the conceptualisations of the findings. The participants collaborated in the generation of a resource that provided opportunities for insight into issues to improve working practice and may provide a tool to allow parents to communicate effectively with school staff. The resource supported two main recognised functions: practical structure and emotional support. Empowering approaches were those that respected their knowledge, used their language and meanings in an emancipatory way that removed barriers, and were inclusive of them and their children. Communication is enhanced by and depends on systems that are empowering for parents and staff to co-construct shared understandings.
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Tahilramani, R. A. "An insider Action Research study focusing on synergy realizations during post-merger integration phase between competing organizations." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3004487/.
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Mergers and acquisitions are gaining a lot of prominence in global corporate dynamics as a strategic way for organizations to grow and diversify rapidly. The significance of post-merger integration cannot be overstated (Shrivastava, 1986). Although the main purpose behind organizational mergers and acquisitions is “One plus one makes three”, most post-merger integration studies focus upon failures (Dutta, Dutta, and Das, 2011). This research study is based in the context of post-merger integration between two competing firms and presents an empirical Action Research study focusing on “synergy realization”. This research study builds upon Clayton’s (2010) work on Complex Adaptive System (CAS) (Stacey, 2011) for realizing synergies amidst post-merger integration. CAS has been complemented by Complexity Leadership Theory (Uhl-Bien, Marion and McKelvey, 2007) which provides some control over the otherwise unpredictable nature of CAS. This study also attempts to utilize proven methodologies and methods oriented around organizational behavior, change management, emergence, co-evolution, and other leadership concepts that are anchored in Mode 2 research. The research methods, as well as the issues related to the research context, have continuously evolved while conducting this research study due to reflections offered by the double loop learning process. Although the primary focus of this study was to identify synergy realizations during the merger integration phase, the research study also explored the underpinning issues, problems, and challenges faced by organizational members while adjusting to or reconciling the different ways of functioning and behaving that were affecting synergy realizations. This study therefore also includes findings associated with organizational merger associated concerns such as interpersonal issues, human resource, knowledge management, communication, organizational management, leadership, and organizational ethos. This study makes 3 main contributions. First, this research study presents innovative insights towards resolving some of the mysteries attached with organizational mergers, by focusing upon positive merger objectives through synergy realizations by heeding to Clayton’s (2010) appeal for scholars and practitioners to go beyond traditional M&A methodologies. Second, this study presents an empirical account of some of the Mode 2 knowledge creation concepts such as Action Research, CAS, CLT, SSM and LiC, which has the potential of inspiring similar experimentation in organizational learning and management research. And third, this study demonstrates how researching practitioners can make an impact on successful adaptations to organizational change management situations such as the ones presented by organizational mergers by bridging the gap between theory and practice, and building upon research-oriented knowledge through AR and professional doctorate programmes.
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May, John Paul. "Developing an evidence-based approach to climate change communications: Insider Action Research in partnership with Fossil Free Berlin." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23149.
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Communication practitioners are failing to engage publics and generate sufficient political will for decisive and timely action on climate change. Despite recent progress in climate communications research, a research-practice gap means evidenced-based approaches are not being adopted by practitioners. This degree project seeks to generate practical knowledge to support the campaigning group Fossil Free Berlin (FFB), of which I am a member, and climate communicators more broadly. FFB is part of the global Divestment Movement – a decentralised, grassroots campaign which aims to stigmatise the fossil fuel industry to mitigate climate change. Using Insider Action Research, I collaborated with the group to develop the following research question: “How can FFB positively and effectively engage audiences to act on climate change, in particular target audiences for our upcoming campaign (MP and the general public).” We found that values and frames, appropriate messengers and social norms can be leveraged to reach traditionally sceptical or inactive centre-right audiences. Positive storytelling, and relatable messaging can also bring the problem closer to home, empowering audiences to act – if communicated in conjunction with viable routes to change. As both the primary researcher and a member of the group, I use autoethnography and personal narrative to address issues of subjectivism and representation and communicate findings in an engaging, accessible way. This study is consciously written in the first person using broadly accessible language, and reflects on my feelings and experiences.
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Daoud, Janet Barbara. "Recognising and appreciating the artistry in professional practice : a means to researching and developing practice through insider practitioner research." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2004. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/385/.
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This study explores professional practice and examines an approach to research that could be useful for the practitioner in developing and extending their practice. The existence of artistry is recognised within professional practice (Schon 1983), and is important in making professional judgements (Fish and Coles 1998, pp. 28-53, de Cossart and Fish 2005). Therefore, as in the methodology proposed by Fish (1998), the artistic/holistic paradigm was adopted because this specifically enables the exploration of professional artistry and is suited to insider practitioner research. The study critically appraised the use of the proposed artistic/holistic paradigm. A case study approach was used in which the researcher was the case. A portrait of an episode in clinical practice was produced, followed by a critical appraisal of this portrait. These then became the portrait of research practice, which was equally appraised. This mirrors the process seen within the arts in which critical appreciation is a reflective process, deriving its rigour from the discipline and connoisseurship of the critic. The results demonstrate that the artistic/holistic paradigm is well suited to continuing professional development, both individually and corporately. The proposed paradigm does enable the recognition and exploration of professional artistry, both within clinical and research practice. Professional practice has a moral foundation and it was shown that this must be openly recognised if meaningful professional development is to occur. Evidencebased medicine, which is founded on the technical-rational view of practice, was shown to be insufficient for the professional's ongoing development. This, and similar work, will impact and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the traditions of the profession.
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Sakellariou, Evy. "Front End and New Product Concept Development: An insider action research study of FMCG products in a multi-national organization." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502510.
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The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding on the application of the first stage of the innovation funnel and on the gaps in knowledge through an analysis and synthesis of the NPD and the Front End literature. Within this literature it has been found that different authors propose different steps for the innovation funnel. These steps are discussed and then synthesized and classified under three major stages namely: Ideas/Concepts (Stage 0), Feasibility/Capability (Stage 1), Launch (Stage 2). It is the Ideas/Concepts (Stage 0) stage that is the area of concern of this action research study. There is a general awareness of certain problems and success factors during the front end. However, this stage remains 'fuzzy'; these activities of the early stage for fast consumer goods are the least explicit and a deeper understanding is needed through further research (Khurana & Rosenthal, 1998).The research explores 'Front End and New Product Development: An insider action research of FMCG products in a multi-national organization'. Such a research employs a constructivist approach to reveal the stages and the success factors at the international Front End, as perceived by Subject Matter Experts in international innovation, to develop a new International Product Concept Model and to apply it in a multi-national organization.
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Vondracek, Paul T. J. W. "Implementing time based manufacturing practices in pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers. Improving time-based manufacturing practices and enhancing manufacturing performance through action research." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4465.
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A double case study applying action research methodology was conducted in two
pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers in the Netherlands to improve their
manufacturing systems by implementing time-based manufacturing (TBM) practices.
Following the diagnosis phase, the situation of each Company was analysed and
suitable improvement interventions were selected for implementation in the Case
Companies. At the end of the action research project, semi-structured interviews were
taken in each Company a year later, and the achieved results of the improvement
programmes were collected and analysed. This research extends the existing theory of
time-based competition and demonstrates that TBM practices apply also in the
pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing industry. Furthermore, this study shows how
to improve TBM practices and reduce the throughput time by providing the route for
improvement and implementation. Although the first Case Company did not improve
the core TBM practices and manufacturing performance, its infrastructure improved
through the implementation of an ERP system and further enhancement of its quality
management system, illustrating that the design of the infrastructure is a key factor to
become a time-based competitor. The second Case Company succeeded to improve the
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TBM practices and throughput processes resulting in the reduction of the order cycle
time and increase of the delivery dependability. Based on the data of the two Case
Companies, this study demonstrated the relationship between these two manufacturing
performance parameters, which indicates that manufacturers may strive for both
delivery speed and delivery reliability using the same improvement plan. Adopting
TBM is a long journey of many years and needs a continuous improvement
infrastructure.
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Vondracek, Paul Theodoor Johannes Wilhelmus. "Implementing time based manufacturing practices in pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers : improving time-based manufacturing practices and enhancing manufacturing performance through action research." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4465.
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A double case study applying action research methodology was conducted in two pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers in the Netherlands to improve their manufacturing systems by implementing time-based manufacturing (TBM) practices. Following the diagnosis phase, the situation of each Company was analysed and suitable improvement interventions were selected for implementation in the Case Companies. At the end of the action research project, semi-structured interviews were taken in each Company a year later, and the achieved results of the improvement programmes were collected and analysed. This research extends the existing theory of time-based competition and demonstrates that TBM practices apply also in the pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing industry. Furthermore, this study shows how to improve TBM practices and reduce the throughput time by providing the route for improvement and implementation. Although the first Case Company did not improve the core TBM practices and manufacturing performance, its infrastructure improved through the implementation of an ERP system and further enhancement of its quality management system, illustrating that the design of the infrastructure is a key factor to become a time-based competitor. The second Case Company succeeded to improve the 2 TBM practices and throughput processes resulting in the reduction of the order cycle time and increase of the delivery dependability. Based on the data of the two Case Companies, this study demonstrated the relationship between these two manufacturing performance parameters, which indicates that manufacturers may strive for both delivery speed and delivery reliability using the same improvement plan. Adopting TBM is a long journey of many years and needs a continuous improvement infrastructure.
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Magni, Luca. "Changing perspectives on leadership through leadership blended learning: outcomes from an Insider Management Action Research conducted at Johnson & Johnson Medical, Italy." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730247.
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This exploratory study investigates the evolution of leadership cognitions as they emerged from the analysis of leadership belief systems of 16 managers who participated to the leadership development programme, organized by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Medical, Italy, early in 2013. The study addressed the following research questions: Did managers’ cognitions of leadership change as a result of their participation in the blended leadership training programme offered by J&J Medical, Italy? Did any relevant pattern emerge from the analysis of registered changes or stabilities? Can different change dynamics and/or different change-paces be attributed to the use of face-to-face (F-2-F) versus online learning solutions? How have the modalities used in the blended learning program been useful in modifying the beliefs of participants about leadership? Outcomes from this research indicate that changes in leadership beliefs of managers of J&J Medical, Italy, did follow their participation in the leadership blended training that the company organized. Changes of beliefs were more relevant in individuals who attended both e-learning and F-2-F sessions, in comparison to the ones who were only exposed to e-leaning. Further studies are suggested to investigate to what extent participants’ gender, self-esteem and other factors may predict individual leadership learnability and the responsiveness to different leadership training modalities.
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Baek, Mi-Kyung. "Insider at border interactions of technology, language, culture, and gender in computer-mediated communication by Korean female learners of English /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110301321.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 275 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 Mar. 8.
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Magni, Luca [Verfasser]. "Changing Perspectives on Leadership through Leadership Blended Learning : Outcomes from an Insider Management Action Research conducted at Johnson & Johnson Medical, Italy / Luca Magni." Munich : GRIN Publishing, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1121010601/34.
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Binns, Carole L. "The lived experiences of designing modules at one UK university: a qualitative account of academic practice." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15086.
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This thesis explores the relatively under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected from both sources is the main focus of discussion.
The thesis contextualises the research by presenting a brief description of the university of study and a sense of the social and political context of higher education in the few years preceding the onset of the project. Following this, there is a review of the existing literature around module and curriculum design. A separate chapter outlines the mixed methods employed to collect the data and the form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) used to theme the qualitative data provided by the survey and interviews. The findings supported previous studies, but there was some contradictory data concerning assessment design, the value of the institutional approval procedures, and the usefulness of involving students in the design process.
This study found that, as a result of the effect of institutional processes and documents on design, the consequence of changing student profiles (particularly around assessment), and the obligation staff feel to their students (despite their expressed lack of available time and resources), module design (and redesign) is more situation-informed than evidence-informed. It concludes that module designers employ a realistic and pragmatic approach to the process, even when their views, attitudes, and consciences around the rights and wrongs of the design process are sometimes questioned.The full text was made available at the end of the embargo, 26th Oct 2020
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Binns, Carole Lucille. "The lived experiences of designing modules at one UK university : a qualitative account of academic practice." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15086.
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This thesis explores the relatively under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected from both sources is the main focus of discussion. The thesis contextualises the research by presenting a brief description of the university of study and a sense of the social and political context of higher education in the few years preceding the onset of the project. Following this, there is a review of the existing literature around module and curriculum design. A separate chapter outlines the mixed methods employed to collect the data and the form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) used to theme the qualitative data provided by the survey and interviews. The findings supported previous studies, but there was some contradictory data concerning assessment design, the value of the institutional approval procedures, and the usefulness of involving students in the design process. This study found that, as a result of the effect of institutional processes and documents on design, the consequence of changing student profiles (particularly around assessment), and the obligation staff feel to their students (despite their expressed lack of available time and resources), module design (and redesign) is more situation-informed than evidence-informed. It concludes that module designers employ a realistic and pragmatic approach to the process, even when their views, attitudes, and consciences around the rights and wrongs of the design process are sometimes questioned.
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Sandberg, Robert. "Corporate consulting for customer solutions : bridging diverging business logics." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.] (EFI), 2003. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/617.htm.
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Kusaka, Laura Lee. "Negotiating Identities: An Interview Study and Autoethnography of Six Japanese American TESOL Professionals in Japan." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/280935.
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In this interview study involving the analysis of narratives collected from Japanese American professionals teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) who have lived more than ten years in Japan, I focus on how the participants negotiated their often contested identities in the TESOL context in Japan. I use the notion of identity negotiation narrowly defined as "struggles which occur when certain identity options are imposed or devalued, and others are unavailable or misunderstood" (Pavlenko & Blackledge, 2004, p. 20). Most Japanese Americans share similar phenotypes with the majority of Japanese nationals, creating many misconceptions about our linguistic competence in Japanese and English and ability to act appropriately within Japanese cultural norms. Educational settings are also an arena contributing to a simplistic Japanese/non-Japanese, native speaker/non-native speaker (NS/NNS) framework within which such encounters are defined. I intend to illuminate the underlying assumptions responsible for the misconceptions that continue to challenge their authenticity. This is in line with inquiry into the role of race in TESOL (Curtis & Romney, 2006; Kubota & Lin, 2006). The six participants were two men and four women, including myself. I conducted multiple interviews individually and in groups over a period of four years. I transcribed the narrative data into numbered lines and reworked selected parts into stanza form (Gee, 2005) or used block quotes to analyze the identity negotiation processes. For the autoethnography, I used intensive reflective writings done throughout the course of this project in addition to interview data in which I am the interviewer who also shares stories. Through multi-layered analyses (Sorsoli, 2007), I hope to illuminate what the individuals' narratives reflect about the contested nature of values held about language, ethnicity, race, and identity in the context of English teaching, learning, and use in Japan today. I suggest that the findings and conclusions from this study can be applied to other contexts in the world as well. It is therefore important for the TESOL professional to become an actively critical observer of how her work is affecting all the stakeholders, including her own self.
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Gore, Rosemary Anne. "The Kartini Project." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35809/1/35809_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This project is an account of one teacher's journey with her students, across cultural boundaries in search of creating authentic Asian/Australian Drama experiences. The project explores the notion of establishing a shared cultural context. The early chapters focus on the background influences that determine where and how the project is set. Subsequent chapters provide an account of the innovative use of dramatic forms used in preparation for the fieldwork, then account of the fieldwork and post classwork. The study ends with a series of recommendations for any teacher intending to undertake a similar project.
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Marshall, Cassandra. "Dating for innovation : recognizing and creating opportunities in fluid environments through collaborative interorganizational relationships." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Programmet Människa och Organisation (PMO), 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-531.
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Both practice and theory present good reason to believe that collaborative interorganizational relationships have become particularly important for innovation and new product development in industries characterized by rapid technological change and dynamic competition. Even though collaboration across organizational boundaries represents an important change in the way companies innovate and develop new products (services and processes), it appears as if the process and practical steps of such arrangements are scantly explored. The thesis Dating for Innovation addresses this gap by empirically studying a focal company’s attempts to bring new opportunities into the world through collaborative interorganizational relationships under conditions marked by fluid change. A diverse set of research methods ranging from an insider action research approach to more conventional case study methods were applied to shed light on contingencies that may play a role in influencing the process and practical steps. The result suggests an explorative logic and process, where the partners make use of interorganizational relationships as a means to explore the knowledge necessary for creating, recognizing, and, eventually, developing future opportunities. Not only interest and continued motivation, but also calculated costs and perceived risks, were thus outcomes of the collaboration rather than prescribed beforehand. Furthermore, the empirical findings suggest that corporate entrepreneurs at lower levels in the organization have a more significant influence than previously assumed. From a general point of view, these results imply that parts of the process can be facilitated, but not all initiatives or activities can be directed. Managers are thus challenged to reflect on how to productively deal with interorganizational innovation activities without adapting a classical linear and/or hierarchical monitoring of interorganizational innovation initiatives.Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2004 [10], iii, [1], 107 s.: sammanfattning, s. 108-265, [6] s.: 5 uppsatser
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Meltz, Adrienne. "The understanding and practice of inclusive education in a Jewish community school in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32467.
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This qualitative study, pursued within a one–site case study, explores the understanding and implementation of inclusive education in an independent Jewish community school in Johannesburg, South Africa nineteen years post democracy. It analyses the phenomenon of inclusion in a school with a community ethos of care and belonging whose context is by definition exclusionary on grounds of a particular social category, religion. Because of its exclusionary agenda the school can be paradoxically positioned as inclusive on grounds of strong communal values. The school however, struggles with difference and diversity of a certain kind, despite its purportedly strong communal spirit and strong religious culture. This study set out to probe how stakeholders understood inclusive education in an attempt to explain how this influenced their practice of inclusive education.
Lewin’s theory of Planned Change and four belief systems were utilized to examine the understanding and practice of stakeholders at the school. The study suggested that the four belief systems influenced the way in which inclusive education was both understood and practised in this school. The study argued for the recognition of the importance of different belief systems in the implementation of inclusion in South Africa.
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How has inclusive education policy been implemented in a mono-cultural community school in South Africa, with the three sub–questions being: 1. How do the various school stakeholders understand the concept of inclusion and what are their attitudes towards inclusion?
2. How is inclusive education managed at class, school and community level?
3. To what extent do their attitudes and understandings influence their practice of inclusive education?
It was conducted within an interpretative/constructivist research paradigm and utilized a case study design. It relied on qualitative methods of data generation such as insider interviews, personal accounts and document analysis. The participants were drawn from four stakeholder groups, namely, teachers, parents, middle managers and top managers.
The descriptions of the stakeholders’ understandings that emerged in this study highlighted how belief systems determined the action towards inclusive education and how despite the school being a community school, the community discourse did not prevail in the actions towards inclusive education, it was the individual beliefs which vied for dominance which determined inclusive action. This resulted in a qualified and fragmented inclusion and in some cases exclusion. The findings were linked to Lewin’s planned approach to change including field theoretical and group dynamic theories. The study concluded that the four belief systems influenced the way in which inclusive education was both understood and practised in this school and the study argued for the recognition of the importance of different belief systems in the implementation of inclusion in South Africa.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Mathieson, Sally Kathryn. "Inside Job| Correctional Conversations from Behind Bars." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3664100.
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This creative dissertation consists of a novella, The Riot. alongside a contextualizing essay. Ultimately, this project is about social justice for a population that is forced together, those who contain and the ones contained. The former group are the gatekeepers of the barrier that runs between two parallel worlds. less concrete than mortar and concertina wire, more dangerous and more permeable. It is the thinnest, most tenuous part of our buffered-up society, and one that can be rendered, ripped, or compromised in a moment..
Inside Job collates different perspectives into one novella, which acts as a frame story for the lived experience that is human containment, including the unique commonality between both parties, that of being judged by a larger society. Prison is a secret place; truth is often hidden. Steel bars are my view finder in weaving together the voices of those who are isolated as they serve either time or the system, along with the writings of prison scholars and creative fiction and nonfiction writers. Key to my contextualzing essay has been the work of Michel Foucault, Linda Alcoff, creative nonfiction pioneer Lee Gutkind, and prison writers who stand on both sides of the bars, including Ted Conover, George Jackson, and Caleb Smith.
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Myrick, Kimberly A. "Inside commercial interaction, audience research in interactive media." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0028/MQ30978.pdf.
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McGinley, Susan. "The Diversity Inside: Cryptic Fungi on the Navajo Nation." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622132.
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Valušytė, Eglė. "Research of digital signature implementation and usage inside an organization." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080619_104012-43107.
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While all the modern world is moving to the electronic space and the services are assuming a digital form, one also gives thought to the means to approach to this more and more often, and one of many of the means is digital signature. Electronic signature would even overtake its inky prototype not only in science or IT business, but also in the heads of the consumers, if there were not any traditional, organizational barriers, any fear of innovations and uncertainty amongst many other factors that are useful to explore. The most popular implementation of digital signature - PKI (Public key infrastructure) – can fill a lot more than one function; the variety of all of the PKI application areas is very wide. Also known as assymetric cryptography, PKI can provide an opportunity not only to sign a document, but also a reverse process is possible, that is to communicate safely in the Internet or other net using public key for encoding and private key for decoding. The paper strives to point out the essence and the main principles of PKI, to disclose its possibilities and means for the organizations and the users, to analyse the empirical information in an organization, to measure the current PKI situation in Lithuania also touching Europe, to reveal the mindset and behaviour peculiarities of a potential user of the digital signature.Visam šiuolaikiniam pasauliui persikeliant į elektronines erdves, paslaugoms įgaunant skaitmeninę formą, vis dažniau susimąstoma ir apie visas priemones tam pasiekti, iš kurių viena – e.parašas. E.parašas kai kuriais atžvilgiais netgi lenktų rašalinį savo prototipą ne tik moksle ir IT versle, bet ir vartotojų galvose, jei ne tradiciniai, organizaciniai barjerai, naujovių ir nežinomybės baimė, bei daugelis kitų veiksnių, kuriuos naudinga ištirti. Labiausiai paplitusi e.parašo realizacija PKI (Public key infrastructure) – viešojo rakto infrastruktūra – gali atlikti žymiai daugiau nei vieną funkciją, visos PKI taikymo sričių įvairovės darbe nepavyktų atskleisti dėl vietos ir laiko stokos. Dar vadinama asimetriniu šifravimu, PKI gali ne tik suteikti galimybę pasirašyti dokumentą, bet įmanomas ir atvirkštinis procesas, t.y., užšifravimui naudojant viešąjį, o iššifravimui – privatųjį raktą, saugiai komunikuoti internete ar kitame tinkle. Darbas siekia parodyti PKI esmę ir pagrindinius principus, atskleisti galimybes ir priemones organizacijoms ir vartotojams, išanaliztuoi empirinę informaciją organizacijoje, įvertinti dabartinę PKI situaciją Lietuvoje, paliečiant Europą, atskleisti galimo skaitmeninio parašo vartotojo elgsenos ypatumus.
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Jones, Laura E. "Inside and Outside 1101: First-Year Student Perceptions of Academic Writing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/122.
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First-year undergraduate students have vastly different perceptions of academic writing, the writing process, and the value of writing within their specific academic disciplines. These perceptions differ not only from their instructors but also from their peers. Yet, while reams of literature discuss, debate, and decipher student perspectives of writing from a scholarly point of view, the first-year student voice is conspicuously absent from this discussion. This study followed 92 first-year students through their first college composition course, English 1101, in order to capture the student perspective of how writing fits in their academic careers. The results indicate that while most students acknowledge first-year composition to be essential to their academic development, few report writing assignments in courses outside of 1101. This raises questions about how students identify writing activities and also suggests avenues for further inquiry, particularly the need for follow-up research at the culmination of their undergraduate careers.
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Siddiqui, Sayla Sowat. "CFO inside debt and corporate innovation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/64762/1/Sayla%20Sowat_Siddiqui_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the importance of CFO incentives on the value maximization of firm. It examines the association between CFO inside debt compensation i.e., CFO pensions and deferred compensation, and investment in corporate innovation. It finds that instead of encouraging innovation, CFO inside debt appears to have a dampening effect on investment in innovation.
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Collins, Nicolas. "Composing inside electronics : published research in the field of experimental music, 1988-2007." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441563.
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Raven, S. N. "From the inside looking out : creating a research based curriculum in a secondary school." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243827.
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Martyn, Karen. "Decision-making in a corporate boardroom: Inside the black box." Massey University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/986.
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The lack of empirical studies on board process represents a serious knowledge gap in the governance literature. To date there has been little research on how boards actually make decisions, the factors that contribute to effective board decision-making, and what tools and techniques may be used to improve board decision-making. Effective board processes are identified as leading to effective board outputs, and subsequently more effective organisational outcomes. This study explored the internal factors under the control of the board (or those selecting board members) that contribute to effective board decision-making processes. The perspective of small group decision-making research was applied to explore board decision-making processes. The three aims of the study were to investigate those factors that directors thought contributed to their board's successful and unsuccessful decision-making, to observe how a board actually makes decisions; and to determine whether training and usage of a normative decision-making methodology (including the use of a reminder role) might improve that board's decision-making process. Data collection included direct, in situ, observation of a board; semi-structured interviews with all board directors, the CEO and four executive team members; three surveys; and emotional intelligence testing (MSCEIT). The board was found to use normative decision-making procedures. These decision making procedures appeared to contribute to better decision-making processes and consequently better decision-making outputs. The task intent of acting in the best interest of the company and the relationship intent of trust were found to permeate the board inputs and processes examined during this research. Other input and process variables observed to influence board decision-making were classified as being task (structure, process, communication) and/or relational (relationships, director attributes and emotions) factors. Task factors included rational decision-making procedures; clarity of goals and roles; use of external advisors as critical evaluators; quantity and quality of information; consensus decision-making; post-decision evaluation and learning. Relational factors included homogeneity of directors through careful selection; socialising with management; board norms of a safe environment, supporting the doubtful director and the obligation to share contrary views; adequate business knowledge; emotional intelligence; and commitment. The results of emotional intelligence testing revealed levels sufficient to assist in positive board dynamics. The study results support the application of small group decision making research to aid in board process research, and further empirical exploration of board inputs using psychometric measures.
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Denis, Aleksander. "Experimental research on dynamic instabilities during condensation of pro-ecological refrigerants inside tubular minichannels : doctoral dissertation." Rozprawa doktorska, [s.n.], 2020. http://dlibra.tu.koszalin.pl/Content/1292.
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Talbert, Linda Louise. "Inside Jacob's story : exploring counsellor contribution to narrative co-construction using imaginary dialogues with a Biblical character!" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22042.
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Psychotherapeutic practice often involves the telling and retelling of a client’s stories of life in collaborative, meaning-making dialogue with a counsellor. This study demonstrates and explores the dynamics of counsellor contribution to this narrative co-construction, particularly the ways in which the counsellor’s inner conversations, reflexivity and interpretive style may emerge in practice and have an influence on the client’s understanding, re-evaluation and cohering of his or her own story. The multi-voiced, multi-layered intersubjective space and time in which this kind of narrative collaboration takes place is a difficult area to access for study but one whose potential impact on the client should make it the focus of respectful, ethical monitoring and careful reflective practice. Using phenomenological theories of reader-response and dialogical play, my research sets up an analogy between the way a reader might reflexively interact with life story episodes in a written text and the ways a counsellor might listen to and interpret a client’s stories of life over the course of a counselling contract. My project uses a comprehensive and episode-rich story of a life, the iconic ‘womb to tomb’ story of Jacob in the book of Genesis. My own hearer/reader response to the story gives rise to the creation of a set of imaginary dialogues between two interlocutors, Jacob as an elderly client reviewing his life story and myself as counsellor, listening to his stories of life. This methodology is used as a means to access an in vivo lived experience, as it might unfold in practice, of my counsellor contribution to Jacob’s story and the interplay of voices and standpoints which characterise it. Attention is drawn to the inchoate, but deeply human, intersubjective aspects of narrative co-construction as a process and the value of this form of reflective practice to surface actual praxis experience for analysis. Insights surfaced by this reader-response methodology point to the significant extent to which the hermeneutical standpoints and dialogical voices of a counsellor are actively involved and implicated in narrative co-construction.
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Forest, Heather. "Inside Story: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Creative Process of the Storyteller as Leader." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1193235618.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2007."Submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership & Change Program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2007."--from the title page. Title from PDF t.p. (July 31, 2008). Advisor: Carolyn Kenny Keywords: storytelling, leadership training, creative thinking, change leader, arts-based research, autoethnography, communication skills Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-238 ).
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Chaput, Catherine Jean. "Inside the teaching machine: The United States public research university, surplus value, and the political economy of globalization." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289848.
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Most studies of higher education examine the university as either economically determined--relying on Louis Althusser's notion of ideological state apparatuses--or culturally determined--embracing either traditional or multicultural approaches. Alternatively, this dissertation blends postcolonial and Marxist theories to show that the U.S. public research university responds to the historical exigencies of a multivalent and dynamic political economy. I trace the evolution of this university system in conjunction with changes in the capitalist political economy and focus on the construction and reconstruction of the professional as the site of individual and collective agency. Chapters One and Two historicize the U.S. public research university system and argue that it has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. While the popular narrative of public higher education emphasizes civic preparation and upward mobility, these chapters demonstrate that supposedly egalitarian policies like the Morrill Land-Grant Act and the GI Bill serve the changing interests of capitalism. Such legislation forges and enables a university-produced professional class that functions both ideologically and structurally to facilitate transitions in the capitalist political economy. Mapping economic and cultural globalization onto the university system, Chapter Three discusses how contemporary university professionalization contributes to new methods for producing surplus value. Chapter Four examines how the U.S. public research university model circulates outside the United States, changing the global political economy as well as the production of surplus value in its wake. Focusing on a range of U.S. public research universities, I argue that the rhetoric and structure of mission statements move overseas through supranational organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and becomes implemented through policies attached to World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans. To conclude, Chapter Five develops specific strategies for the professional who opposes the capitalist logic of this global university system. Informed by Marxists scholars, like Althusser and Antonio Gramsci, critical pedagogues such as Paulo Freire, Peter McLaren, and Paula Allman, as well as the U.S. Third World politics of Chela Sandoval, Gayatri Spivak, and Edward Said, this chapter proposes concrete options for engaging and redirecting globalization.
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Van, Pottelsberghe Bruno. "The efficiency of science and technology policies inside the triad." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212154.
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Norton, Patricia Jean. "Teacher learning: A process of grafting new truths on to old truths - a case study of teacher learning in an independent school." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16332/3/Patricia%20Norton%20Thesis.pdf.
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The intent of this professional doctorate study was to clarify theory and develop knowledge that could benefit the researcher's workplace. It achieved two aims. The first was the useful knowledge gained by the insider-researcher about how to effect teacher learning in a reform context. The second was the improved understanding of the uniqueness of contextual conditions that affected teacher learning in one school. A case study of a single school site was the means of examining the problem of what issues confronted teachers in learning new knowledge mandated by curriculum reform, along with why those issues existed and how teachers dealt with them.
A genealogical approach to the literature investigation determined where, why and how teacher learning should be effected in a learning community, in what reflected an "outside in" approach to the problem. However, the intent of the study was that this should be balanced by the "inside out" approach evident in the consideration of what teachers in a school had to say about the realities of teacher learning. Interviews with teachers considered good informants resulted in quality data that facilitated the construction of explanatory theory. A comparison of this theory constructed from data grounded in the realities of teachers' experiences with the theory derived from the literature constituted the final stage of clarifying the problem. Results from the study, therefore, represented both useful knowledge and understanding of the problem. These were of benefit to the specific school, while contributing to the professional efficacy of the researcher-insider, responsible for delivering curriculum reform that was dependent on teacher learning.
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Norton, Patricia Jean. "Teacher learning : a process of grafting new truths on to old truths : a case study of teacher learning in an independent school." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16332/.
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The intent of this professional doctorate study was to clarify theory and develop knowledge that could benefit the researcher's workplace. It achieved two aims. The first was the useful knowledge gained by the insider-researcher about how to effect teacher learning in a reform context. The second was the improved understanding of the uniqueness of contextual conditions that affected teacher learning in one school. A case study of a single school site was the means of examining the problem of what issues confronted teachers in learning new knowledge mandated by curriculum reform, along with why those issues existed and how teachers dealt with them. A genealogical approach to the literature investigation determined where, why and how teacher learning should be effected in a learning community, in what reflected an "outside in" approach to the problem. However, the intent of the study was that this should be balanced by the "inside out" approach evident in the consideration of what teachers in a school had to say about the realities of teacher learning. Interviews with teachers considered good informants resulted in quality data that facilitated the construction of explanatory theory. A comparison of this theory constructed from data grounded in the realities of teachers' experiences with the theory derived from the literature constituted the final stage of clarifying the problem. Results from the study, therefore, represented both useful knowledge and understanding of the problem. These were of benefit to the specific school, while contributing to the professional efficacy of the researcher-insider, responsible for delivering curriculum reform that was dependent on teacher learning.
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Balk, Katherine N. "Change from the inside out in Tanzania| Investigating change in a nonprofit organization in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, through participatory action research." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1542253.
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All over the globe, nonprofit organizations aim to strengthen communities while struggling with the restraints of limited resources. This research study involved Participatory Action Research (PAR) to examine how to build internal capacity in one such organization in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. This study was a partnership between me (the academic researcher) and organizational members and stakeholders of the Baobab Home. Through interviews and meetings, the project focus involved creating written contracts. Over the course of five meetings, contracts were researched, policies and procedures were discussed, and formal contracts were created in Swahili. Findings include a discussion of the role of the outside researcher in the PAR process, as well as the value of partnering with a cultural guide. This study also provides a look at how to use PAR to build capacity within organizations. Finally, there is a review of the project itself, its successes, and its lessons learned.
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Wu, Yui-Chi, and 吳毓基. "A Research on Insider Trading Performance." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24612753633383692025.
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HSU, FU-TE, and 徐富德. "The Research of Criminal Stage In Insider Trading." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25049931424593803225.
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碩士國立臺北大學
犯罪學研究所
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The purpose of this research is to one of article 157 of Securities Exchanges Act, since revising and enlarge in the 77th year of the Republic of China, it is mainly to disclosing the people inside the issue company, is it issue share 10% more than big shareholder, is it learn people and people office person who learns news that state in the past of news to concern on the basis of job or control to hold, utilizing unexposed news to buy in or sell stocks, the lesson gives specific civil and criminal responsibility.This law has been implemented for many years, investigated such many aspects as the judicial authority,etc. as the organ, procurator organ,etc. cooperate and detect doing with all strength, still unavoidably result apparent comment that raised.Heir law this form important document and improve their punishment responsibility through numerous revision it, from originally sentencing to the fixed-term imprisonment under one year, detention or department 10,000 under fine revise fixed-term imprisonment, detention, department or and department 150,000 following fine under sentencing to one year, and then revise it in order to sentence to the fixed-term imprisonment under seven years, must combine under department's new Taiwan dollar of 3 million yuan fine, the ones that revised for being current were subject to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years finally, must combine more than 10 million and less than 200 million yuan fine of new Taiwan dollar of the department; And with its person who reaches more than 100 million yuan of new Taiwan dollar of amount of money of crime income in fining item 2 of the responsibility, sentenced to imprisonment over seven years, must combine more than 25 million yuan and less than 500 million yuan fine of new Taiwan dollar of the department.State Switzerland Lausanne international research paper of management college and infringement important case of Securities Exchanges Act taken place can find many cruel punishments high to punish for recently in the past, it is also unable to check and hinder the crime motive with heart criminal. This research adopts the interview law of the depth, have involved insider trading doing depth interview to 5, all there are a set of excuses of rationalized criminal offence before the criminal offence of the trade of the insider trading or after the crime is discovered to find them.And can understand clearly from the talk, it is still in they for having a certain degree acceptance for legal provisions, but in the ' more greedy to read ' and ' by sheer good luck ' psychology under, think one's own criminal offence can pour lintel find, detected and run by the judicial authority when finding in this way, go for rationalized criminal offence with a set of statements of letting oneself believed. Finally, this research tries to propose considering the direction at ten o'clock in strengthening the strength of proving of evidence of forming the important document of the insider trading, and as to the thing that research and propose three suggestions for follow-up researcher's reference in follow-up. Key word: Insider Trading
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Liang, Yen-ni, and 梁燕妮. "The Research of Occupational Relationship in Insider Trading." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04270521400152043251.
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碩士東吳大學
法律學系
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Generally speaking,the insider trading means that a person who has specfic identity exchanges stocks and bonds,after acquiring the important information which has not been public and can affect the price of these stocks and bonds.This behavior pattern is also a kind of economic crimes,deception crimes of negotiable securities,and interests sending crimes.However, there is still a controversy over whether the prohibition of an inside trade should be legislated as a crime or not.Now,most countries in the world have considered the inside trade as a crime,and the opinions stated in this paper also hold the same stand. In Taiwan, the biggest issues of an inside trade is that the related regulations is not clear and definite,and the necessary measures of prosecution and prevention of the same are lacking.The related laws and regulations leave too much space for explanations,which cause the defendants confused and helpless,and the deicisions inconsistent.This could violate the principal of the " principle of clarity and definiteness of law".On the other hand,lack of necessary measures result in the poor efficiency of prohibition against the inside trade, and the purpose of the legislation against the inside trade cannot be achieved. In recent years in many famous practice cases, how namely involved the constitution important document to be supposed to explain with was suitable, as well as how should other criminal question recognize and so on the dispute questions. This article namely has chosen several foreign and domestic practice cases about occupational relationship in insider trading (the journalists and civil servant) to come to examine the analysis, and the concrete explanation should have what opinion and the reason, and proposed will repair suggestions in the future the law. Should carry on how as for the related practice in investigates with guards against of the system inside connection transaction, also proposed suggestion the legal system and the policy aspect, hoped for makes an integrity regarding the inside connection transaction standard the self-criticism. Then, regarding the stock market stable development and the safeguard general investor's standard of goal negotiable securities exchange law, the side can carry out.
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Tsao, Yu-Ping, and 曹玉萍. "Research and Development, Insider Trading and Foreign Institutional Investor." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70045118261152678082.
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碩士中原大學
會計研究所
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Abstract: This study examine the manufacture companies, which listed in our nation’s stock & over-the-counter exchanges, for unsymmetrical of information caused by the R&D activities. Further more, because of this unsymmetrical information flow would it cause the inside trade between internal personnel and foreign investors; which will reveal the positive profit after buying and negative after selling. However, the study found, the R&D activities of certain companies would have significant cause of change stock holdings of foreign investments, but not related to internal personnel. Moreover, the study also found that with company that includes R&D activity, the internal personnel would have higher profit of buying stocks, which is as expected; however, not as expected, to sell them would also bring higher profit
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Cooper, L., and Chrissie Rogers. "Mothering and ‘insider’ dilemmas: feminist sociologists in the research process." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15922.
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YesThis paper is about care, insider positions and mothering within feminist research. We ask questions about how honest, ethical and caring can we really be in placing the self into the research process as mothers ourselves. Should we leave out aspects of the research that do not fit neatly and how ethical can we claim to be if we do? Moreover, should difficult differences, secrets and silences that emerge from the research process and research stories that might 'out' us as failures be excluded from research outcomes so as to claim legitimate research? We consider the use of a feminist methods as crucial in the reciprocal and relational understanding of personal enquiry. Mothers invest significant emotional capital in their families and we explore the blurring of the interpersonal and intrapersonal when sharing mothering experiences common to both participant and researcher. Indeed participants can identify themselves within the process as 'friends' of the researcher. We both have familiarity within our respective research that has led to mutual understanding of having insider positions. Crucially individuals' realities are a vital component of the qualitative paradigm and that 'insider' research remains a necessary, albeit messy vehicle in social research. As it is we consider a growing body of literature which marks out and endorses a feminist ethics of care. All of which critique established ways of thinking about ethics, morality, security, citizenship and care. It provides alternatives in mapping private and public aspects of social life as it operates at a theoretical level, but importantly for this paper also at the level of practical application.