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Redefining Alliances in the Struggle for Organizational Autonomy
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2017AbstractThis paper aims to contribute to discussions around alliances and collaborations between feminisms. It analyses relations between movements in the development of indigenous women's organizational autonomy in Mexico. It seeks to understand how the struggle for autonomy involved a redefinition of the forms of collaboration by indigenous women in ...
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Professional Autonomy and Organizational Constraint: The Case of Engineers
The Sociological Quarterly, 1989Recent discussions of the professions agree on the centrality of autonomy to professionalism but disagree whether organizational employment is consistent with the maintenance of professionals' traditional autonomy. This article analyzes autonomy in the engineering profession with a view to discovering both whether engineers are able to maintain high ...
Peter F. Meiksins, James M. Watson
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Network Relations and Loss of Organizational Autonomy
Human Relations, 1991A fundamental premise of resource dependence theory is that organizations tend to avoid interorganizational relations which com- promise their autonomy. This study examined the frequency with which organizations in a population established interorganizational relationships as a function of five different types of network relations that varied in the ...
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Agency autonomy, public service motivation, and organizational performance
Public Management Review, 2021While agency theory predicts mixed impacts of agency autonomy on organizational performance conditioned by result-based controls, stewardship theory predicts positive effects.
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Foundations and Professions: The Organizational Defense of Autonomy
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1961Five procedures used by philanthropic foundations of the risk-capital type are identified and analyzed as organizational defenses, i.e., administrative procedures meant in part to reduce the foundations' vulnerability to control by their client professional groups, e.g. universities.
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Organizational environment and the support of patient autonomy in nursing home care
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1995This study examined how patient autonomy is associated with the organizational environment in nursing homes, particularly the organizational climate, organization of work and selected staff characteristics, such as age and experience of health care Staff from 13 nursing homes in the county of Stockholm, Sweden, were included The organizational climate ...
A C, Mattiasson, L, Andersson
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Perceived Teacher Autonomy and the Meaning of Organizational Control
The Sociological Quarterly, 1981This paper compares field data from three schools to generate explanations for teacher perceptions of their autonomy. These perceptions do not vary with control imposed on teachers in any regular way. Consideration of environmental pressure on the schools, however, reveals a pattern to the findings.
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Isolation, Autonomy, and Interdependence in Organizational Life
1999Abstract As the rewards of belonging to or being part of an organization decrease, there is a tendency for individuals and groups to focus more narrowly on their own needs and experience. Both in organizations and in society at large, we can observe simultaneous but opposing trends.
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Organizational Structure And The Experience Of Autonomy In Schools.
1977PhD ; Educational sociology ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/190195/2/7804749 ...
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Bureaucratic Autonomy, Organizational Culture, and Habituation
Administration & Society, 2004What really does change when a bureaucratic agency is created? What will the nature of a new agency’s interactions be with political and administrative actors in its environment? Despite the large interest in administrative reform during the past few decades, there has been only little attention given to institutionalization processes that follow the ...
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