Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-122).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2009. / Adviser: Thomas T. H. Wan. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-209).

The purpose of this research was to document how racial ideologies were expressed in relational organizing practices in a working class Latino Elementary school in Texas. By identifying dominant and subjugated racial ideologies, this research contributes to effort to challenge inequitable racial systems in schools through community organizing for school reform. I employed a participant ethnographic approach by becoming a volunteer relational organizer with a community organizing institution at Walnutbrook Elementary. I worked with working class Latino parents and the school staff to identify and challenge inequitable racial systems at the school. Using a racial systemic framework, I describe how dominant racial ideologies shaped relational organizing practices through racial narratives repeated throughout the organizing actions. I also document how some working class Latina leaders were able to counter narrate subjugated ideologies by using differential techniques as their organizing practices. Through microethnographic case studies, I am able to tell the stories of how schooling institutions continued inequitable racial systems by narrating dominant racial ideologies while local community leaders created spaces through which to challenge these systems and ideologies by privileging their Latina epistemologies. / text

published_or_final_version / Computer Science and Information Systems / Master / Master of Philosophy

This thesis explores self-organisation in SMEs, and has developed a framework for the role of self-organisation in the handling of adaptive challenge by enterprises, based on existing theory and the empirical findings of this study. Analysing self-organisation in three Australian SMEs, a quantitative measure of the ability to self-organise (ASO index) is proposed, with communication as the main driver of self organisation. The efficacy of the ASO index scores for the SMEs is substantiated by empirical evidence of self-organisation. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006.

This thesis explores self-organisation in SMEs, and has developed a framework for the role of self-organisation in the handling of adaptive challenge by enterprises, based on existing theory and the empirical findings of this study. Analysing self-organisation in three Australian SMEs, a quantitative measure of the ability to self-organise (ASO index) is proposed, with communication as the main driver of self organisation. The efficacy of the ASO index scores for the SMEs is substantiated by empirical evidence of self-organisation. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006.

This thesis explores self-organisation in SMEs, and has developed a framework for the role of self-organisation in the handling of adaptive challenge by enterprises, based on existing theory and the empirical findings of this study. Analysing self-organisation in three Australian SMEs, a quantitative measure of the ability to self-organise (ASO index) is proposed, with communication as the main driver of self organisation. The efficacy of the ASO index scores for the SMEs is substantiated by empirical evidence of self-organisation.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2007 / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-82).

Thesis (M. S.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Spuybroek, Lars; Committee Member: Al-Haddad, Tristan; Committee Member: Romm, Stuart.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Physics, 2006. / Includes author's previously published papers. "February 2006" Bibliography: p. [129]-140. Also available in print form.