Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-89).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1999. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

The current research of slack-performance relationship pays attention mainly to a set of overlapping slack natures, such as being sticky or liquid, without sufficient consideration of variables related to the internal structure of a given organization. I posit that this weakness may prevent us from further understanding how different slack resources (the slacks) influence firm performance. Moreover, the research on slack-performance relationship has pay insufficient attention to firm's performance in terms of corporate social responsibilities or CSR. Combining the transaction cost theory of the firm with a perspective of international strategy (Taylor, Beechler, & Napier, 1996), I propose a new model explaining how organizational-structure-related variables may interact with the slacks and influence firms' corporate social responsibility. In the study, I propose that with the international strategy, the positive relationship between liquid slack of a given MNE and its corporate social performance will become stronger. Meanwhile, with the international strategy, the negative relationship between the sticky slack of a given MNE and its corporate social performance will become weaker. After analyzing data from publicly listed US firms (2000-2012), I obtain evidence supporting the importance of organizational integration structure for understanding slack-performance relationship. The results show that the international strategy has negative effects to moderate the relationship between the slacks and corporate social responsibilities. Keywords: Sticky slack, Liquid slack, Corporate social performance, Corporate social irresponsible, International strategy

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:04:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lopes_a_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1594237 bytes, checksum: c5daf0154ca9ec2e06458fc930f4449e (MD5) / Levando-se em conta a multiplicidade de organizações sociais que compõem a sociedade, diante de um quadro amplificado da diversidade cultural, do pluralismo de idéias que nela está presente e considerando o processo de transformações sofridas pelas organizações que compõem o Estado e o Mercado, este trabalho objetiva investigar a escola, as organizações sociais e as parcerias educativas no Município de Votuporanga. Para realizá-lo, fez-se um estudo sobre a função social da escola, cuja atuação não se restringe somente ao seu ambiente interno, mas que, diante de um cenário mais sistêmico, a escola precisa manter uma inter-relação com as demais organizações sociais e, juntamente com elas, compor, quando se tratam de objetivos comuns, novas formas de colaboração, entre elas, as parcerias educativas. Foram aprofundados os conceitos de educação e suas variáveis, de organizações sociais, sua tipologia e classificação, e dando destaque às organizações que compõem o terceiro setor. O tema parcerias foi estudado, focalizando as parcerias públicas, as individuais e as realizadas por Organizações do Terceiro Setor. Para reforçar a importância das parcerias educativas, procurou-se conhecer algumas organizações sociais comunitárias que prestam trabalho educativo. Para completar, fez-se uma pesquisa numa das escolas estaduais, conhecendo a sua história e analisando os resultados de um questionário, aplicado nos alunos, quanto a dados pessoais e o envolvimento e aproveitamento nas atividades escolares, sobre o relacionamento do pessoal da escola, e dados sobre a família na instituição. No final, foram extraídas as conclusões sobre o assunto estudado. / Taking in account the multiplicity of social organizations that compose the society, ahead of an amplified picture of the cultural diversity, the pluralism of ideas that is present and considering the process of transformations suffered for the organizations that they compose the State and the Market, the objective of this work is to investigate the school, the social organizations and the educative partnerships in the City of Votuporanga. To develop this function was made a study on social school, whose performance does not restrict only in the environment of its internal, but that ahead of a systemic scene, the necessary of school to keep an interrelation with several social organizations and, together with them, to compose, when they are about common objectives, new forms of contribution, between them the educative partnerships. The concepts of education and its variable had been deepened, of social organizations, its typology and classification, and giving it has detached to the organizations that compose the third sector. The subject partnerships was studied, focusing the public partnerships, individual and the carried through ones for Organizations of the Third Sector. To strengthen the importance of the educative partnerships it was looked to know some communitarian social organizations that give educative work. To complete, a research in one of the state schools was made, knowing its history and analyzing the results of a questionnaire that was applied in the pupils, how much the personal data and the involvement and exploitation in the pertaining to school activities, on the relationship of the staff of the school and data on the family in the institution. In the end, the conclusions on the studied subject had been extracted.

<p> The purpose of this grant proposal was to develop and seek funding for the implementation of &ldquo;Project Motherhood&rdquo;, a parenting program for transitional aged youth (TAY) mothers in Los Angeles County. The clients, former clients of Heritage Group home for Teens Inc., as well as referrals from local agencies located in Los Angeles County will have an opportunity to participate in the proposed parenting program. </p><p> Through a review of the literature on the needs and challenges as well as current services and interventions in place for TAY, the grant writer proposed and designed a parenting program. This grant writer explored numerous potential public and private funding sources. The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation was selected as the potential funding source because it best fit with the goals and objectives of this project. </p><p> The actual submission and/or funding of this grant were not required for the successful completion of this academic project.</p><p>

A study of the available literature on Psychological WellQBeing and Positive Organisational Scholarship revealed that enormous potential existed for further research. This is a relatively new field with limited literature and research evidence available. It became very clear from the beginning that the relationships between these constructs could successfully be researched. It was therefore decided to embark on an academic research journey in order to contribute to the existing knowledge available on these constructs within the South African Private Healthcare Industry. This quantitative research was used to obtain more clarity about the relationships between the two constructs and to gather the responses from the research population. The research sample consisted of 152 nursing staff. Two questionnaires were integrated to develop the Nursing Psychological WellQBeing Questionnaire and consisted of i) PsyCap Questionnaire developed by Luthans, Youssef and Avolio2007, and ii) Psychological WellQBeing Questionnaire developed by Ryff 2000. A total of 152 nursing staff responded to an 87–item paperQbased questionnaire. Four research questions were formulated and covered the following: •The content, validity and portability of the measuring instruments; •The configuration of the various constructs; • Relationships between some of the variables . The content and the structure of the measuring instruments were assessed by means of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and) Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFA). These assessments showed that the original measuring instruments are not portable to a culture which is different to the one where they were originally developed. The relationship between dimensions of Psychological WellQBeing and PsyCap sense of achievement and optimism is a significant finding. The significance of the findings of this study and the contribution that it makes to the existing theory is seen in the importance of the portability of measuring instruments. Recommendations in this regard have been made in Chapter 5. Various findings have also highlighted the relationships between Psychological WellQBeing and PsyCap. The importance of future research topics has been recommended.

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M. Tech. Business Information Systems / The requirement for appropriate information management and usage is critical in any modern day organisation. Without proper information structures and management, organisations may be affected badly in terms of sustained growth and competition. Social factors affecting information usage and management are seldom seen as needing proper attention and, therefore often neglected. Due to this obliviousness, organisations may subsequently suffer serious losses economically, without the awareness of the casual factors. To this point, this study explored the social factors that may influence the use and management of organisational information. The study analysed the organisational structure, actions, processes, operations and role of information users and managers, in a financial organisation.

Der Aufbau und das Management von Online Communities hat in den vergangenen Jahren für Unternehmen erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Grund dafür ist die steigende Popularität und Nutzung neuer Technologien, insbesondere Social Media, mit deren Hilfe virtuelle Gemeinschaften im Unternehmenskontext aufgebaut und gepflegt werden können. Besonders populär ist die Anwendung in den Bereichen Marketing und PR. Hier werden vor allem die Kommunikation und Vernetzung mit Kunden gefördert. Auch im Innovationsmanagement, gerade bei Open-Innovation-Projekten, werden vielfach Community-Ansätze gewählt, um das Wissen und die Ideen externer Stakeholder nutzbar zu machen. Nicht zuletzt finden Communities auch innerhalb von Unternehmen, vor allem bei Organisationen mit einer großen Anzahl an Mitarbeitern, Anwendung. Mit Hilfe von Social Intranets vernetzen sich Mitarbeiter, die Zusammenarbeit und das Wissensmanagement werden gefördert. Interne Communities sind oftmals ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der digitalen Transformation, weil sie Change-Prozesse auf verschiedenen Ebenen unterstützen. [Aus dem Volltext.]