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Managing Growth: Best Practices of Family-Owned Businesses [PDF]
, 2010 Family-owned businesses represent the majority of business in the United States. As consumers and employees, we are compelled to their sense of trustworthiness that all too often disappears in the business world.
Andrews, Justin M
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Commercial heads, social hearts? Organizational changes and effects of civil society organizations becoming more business-like: a literature review [PDF]
, 2016 A growing body of literature points at the increasing hybridization of civil society organizations (CSOs) by incorporating entrepreneurial practices, values and ideas, but also focuses on the presumed risks of non-profits becoming more ‘business-like ...
De Rynck, Filip +2 more
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Reflections on Method in Interwar American Sociology [PDF]
, 2010 The article provides a historical contextualization of the debates on theory and method within interwar American sociology. This period is often portrayed as the “golden” age of empirical inquiry resulting in proliferation of methodological orientations.
Balon, Jan
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Too Good to be True?: The Opportunity and Cost of the $1 Building [PDF]
, 2015 A study commissioned by The Kresge Foundation's Arts & Culture Program finds that arts organizations have experienced a wide range of outcomes when acquiring low-cost or free buildings, also known as "$1 buildings." In many cases, the actual costs of ...
Kate Burgin +2 more
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A Phenomenology of Professional Failure [PDF]
This is a (likely incomplete) transcendental phenomenology of professional failure. You can read it, if you like.
Sheredos, Ben
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Icelandic Journalists & the Question of Professionalism
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2015 The question whether journalism constitutes a profession or not has been widely discussed in the literature in recent decades without a definite conclusion.
Birgir Guðmundsson +1 more
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Working to Recover the Essence of Education for the Sake of Teaching and Teacher Education: Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of the Forgotten, Ontological Aspects of Learning [PDF]
, 2011 The current definition of a good teacher is grounded in sets of pre-determined competencies established and imposed upon schools by bureaucratic organizations that are, proximally and for the most part, removed from the foundational elements of education,
Magrini, James
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Releasing Authority Chairs: A Comparative Snapshot Across Three Decades [PDF]
, 2017 This report provides a comparative analysis of releasing authority chairs' views of the issues and challenges confronting them at two points in time: 1988 and 2015.
Ebony Ruhland +3 more
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