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Role Theory

The Business & Management Collection
Jeffrey T Polzer
exaly   +5 more sources

A Theory of Role Composition

2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2008
We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, which must interoperate while maintaining secure access to information. The integration problem is to take the set of such services and to find a globally consistent access control policy that ensures ...
Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar
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The role of theory in HIV prevention

AIDS Care, 2000
There is growing evidence that well designed, targeted, theory-based behaviour change interventions can be effective in reducing the spread of HIV. Although each behaviour is unique, there are only a limited number of theoretical variables that serve as the determinants of any given behaviour. Understanding these variables and their role in behavioural
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The Role of Theory

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1996
In his response to the 1987 English Coalition conference, Peter Elbow writes, "It's about time we finally don't know what we are" (What Is English? [New York: MLA, 1990] v). For many beleaguered humanists this statement is almost a battle cry for the miasma and apparent relativism that they believe has been eroding, like acid rain, the edifice of this ...
John C. Hawley   +5 more
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The Role of Theory

2014
This chapter looks at the role of theory in theorizing. Knowing theory, in order to be good at theorizing in social science, is not the same as having a knowledge of the history of social theory. It is true that it is helpful to have some of the skills of an intellectual historian when one tries to figure out what a concept means, why a theory looks ...
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The Role of Theory

1998
We already have argued at several places for the importance of empirical political theory as a potential saviour for the methodological problems facing a good deal of comparative political analysis. If there are too many variables and an insufficient number of cases, then good comparative theory is expected to ride to the rescue and to enable the ...
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