Determinants of aspirations [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 27] [PDF]
, 2008 Aspirations vary for different sections of the population both in terms of parents’ educational and occupational goals for their children and the ambitions of the young people themselves. In this report, we review the current research literature across a
Akerman, Rodie, Gutman, Leslie
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The relevance of Giddens' structuration theory for organizational research [PDF]
, 2010 Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory is probably one of the sociological theories more directly referenced and more widely used, in a variety of ways, in organizational research. Why is that, and what does it mean for organizational research?
Albano, Roberto +2 more
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A Mixed-Method Approach for the Study of Practices in Interorganizational Settings [PDF]
, 2017 A general interest in the study of social practices has been spreading across a diversity of disciplines in organization and management research, relying mostly on rich ethnographic accounts of units or teams.
Berthod, Olivier +2 more
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The Case of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies [PDF]
, 2012 Taking issue with the classical theory of path dependence, we capture the active agency involved in collective efforts aimed at extending a current technological path and, in parallel, at creating a new path in the field of leading-edge international ...
Möllering, Guido +3 more
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Conceptualizing emotion in information systems development [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this theory paper is to develop a contextual theory of appraisal that may be drawn on to understand emotional processes in IS development (ISD).
Chiasson, Mike, Stacey, Patrick
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Peer - Mediated Distributed Knowledge Management [PDF]
, 2003 Distributed Knowledge Management is an approach to knowledge management based on the principle that the multiplicity (and heterogeneity) of perspectives within complex organizations is not be viewed as an obstacle to knowledge exploitation, but rather as
Bonifacio, Matteo +3 more
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The Mediterranean Solar Plan through the Prism of External Governance [PDF]
, 2011 Through the prism of external governance, this paper investigates the emergence of the Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP) as an external mode of sectoral governance and its actual capacity to cope with the regulatory gapproblem between the European Union (EU)
Carafa, Luigi
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The strategic formation of project networks: a relational practice perspective [PDF]
, 2010 This article develops a relational practice perspective on the strategic formation of project networks as organizational forms, based on structuration theory and an in-depth case study of a European researcher and his project network.
Manning, Stephan
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Redefining managerial effectiveness in a multilevel organization : a structurationist account [PDF]
Many organization theories consist of an interpretation frame and an idea about the ideal equilibrium state. This article explains how the equilibrium concept is used in four organization theories: the theories of Fayol, Mintzberg, Morgan, and Volberda ...
Offenbeek, M. van, Paul, L.
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Great game or great confusion? The geopolitical understanding of EU-Russia energy relations [PDF]
, 2016 This article explains why a considerable part of the International Relations literature frames highly complex energy relations between the EU and Russia in terms of simple, exclusive geopolitical intentions.
Casier, Tom
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