Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cristina Monteiro Tasca.pdf: 471227 bytes, checksum: bb330985d6ebff73a2a58c058e84d62f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-02-12 / Research that broaches the organizations management question in the contemporary society, using as a conducting wire the formation of cooperation nets as an alternative for the confrontation of globalization impact decurrent problems and the communication and information technologies accelerated development. It presents, from different authors, factors that have stimulated the organization transformations in the last decades, the nets concept, its characteristics and the phenomenon manifestation in diverse contexts, with emphasis to the enterprise one. It argues the social organization conceptions origins that created the different administrative theories and have guided the managers. It investigates the net relations occurrence in the public universities Libraries Systems in S?o Paulo state, through the survey in institutional reports and home pages and cooperative programs developed in 1995-2000. Specifically in the investigation scope, it identifies twenty three actions to apply instruments to the projects in the libraries and other different organizations participation in this process. It categorizes the services and products privileged by these actions and presents an analytical report about the impacts in the Libraries services-means and services-end belonging to the Systems involved in the research. / Pesquisa que aborda a quest?o do gerenciamento das organiza??es na sociedade contempor?nea, com foco nos Sistemas de Bibliotecas das Universidades P?blicas do estado de S?o Paulo, utilizando como fio condutor a forma??o de redes de coopera??o como alternativa para o enfrentamento de problemas decorrentes do impacto da globaliza??o e do acelerado desenvolvimento das tecnologias de comunica??o e informa??o. Apresenta, a partir de diferentes autores, fatores que impulsionaram as transforma??es organizacionais destas ?ltimas d?cadas, o conceito de Redes, suas caracter?sticas e manifesta??o do fen?meno em contextos diversos, com destaque ao empresarial. Discute vertentes de concep??es das organiza??es sociais, que originaram as diferentes teorias administrativas e nortearam os gestores. Investiga a ocorr?ncia de rela??es em rede nos Sistemas de Bibliotecas das Universidades P?blicas do Estado de S?o Paulo, atrav?s do levantamento em relat?rios e home pages institucionais, de programas cooperativos desenvolvidos no per?odo de 1995-2000. Especificamente no ?mbito da investiga??o, identifica vinte e tr?s a??es para instrumentaliza??o de projetos nas bibliotecas e a participa??o de outras e diferentes organiza??es nesse processo. Categoriza os servi?os e produtos privilegiados por essas a??es e apresenta um parecer anal?tico dos impactos nos servi?os-meio e servi?os-fim das Bibliotecas pertencentes aos Sistemas envolvidos na pesquisa.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Education) / Globally, women face a number of challenges as they pursue career paths to become academic leaders. This study aims to comprehend the rarity of black women vice-chancellors inside South African public universities by exploring their lived experiences as academic leaders. The study examines family backgrounds, educational experiences, previous career paths, and patriarchal obstacles as factors that affected them. The study explores how these women navigated both, their way into leadership positions and the practices inside universities. The study further probes how such women in academia have embraced the intersection of identity in relation to race, gender, age, and to a lesser extent, class. Since these women have experienced inequalities in a political context, this study used feminist theories to explore the post-colonial feminism framework, which supported the study's purpose. These female pathfinders are powerful role models, and role-modelling is a form of education that is available to all people across all walks of life. The research design followed the epistemological position assumed in the biographical approach. Semi-structured interviews and documents were used as research tools for data collection. The thematic results revealed that the participants' shared trait of middle class, professional backgrounds played a major role in their professional ascension. Furthermore, these participants formed a cohort of black women vice-chancellors that broke the proverbial glass ceiling, ending over 300 years of white, male-dominated academic leadership and practice. The common thread in these rare stories is achievement against all odds, which inspires the next generation of women leaders.

Public higher education increasingly relies on performance-based funding (PBF) policies to enhance accountability. These policies attempt to steer institutions towards successful outcomes via performance indicators, such as graduation rates. Nationally, PBF policies continue to grow in popularity despite limited evidence that they are effective (Hillman, Tandberg, and Gross, 2014). Motivated by the apparent conflict between the widespread adoption of PBF policies and the lack of evidence that they actually improve outcomes in higher education, this dissertation investigates the perceived impacts of PBF policies. Florida’s public university system serves as the setting for the study due to its uniquely punitive PBF policy design and the model’s non-standardized performance indicators. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The world of today's higher education organizations is characterized by complexities brought about as a result of rapid change, economic and political turbulence, and increasing global interdependence. The complexity of the environment in which colleges and universities operate is also due in part to a need to serve multiple internal and external constituencies. In order to be more responsive to the demands of its numerous constituencies and at the same time preserve their intrinsic values, colleges and universities need to know how effective they are in what they do. This research asked: To what degree does institutional effectiveness allow public colleges and universities to operate in a sustained manner over a long period of time while meeting the needs of their constituencies? The lack of criteria about what constitutes effectiveness in higher education contributes to the lack of research in this area of organizational theory. This research examined organizational effectiveness and its measurement in higher education environment using a survey of multiple internal and external constituencies. The purpose of the survey was to gather information regarding participants' perceptions about educational outcomes, processes, and environment in higher education organizations. In addition, given the changes in how higher education institutions are financed and the potential implications of these changes for effectiveness, this research explored the degree to which resource dependence, primarily dependence on public funding, influences the effectiveness of public colleges and universities. To address these questions the research tested the applicability of the sustainability framework as a model of effectiveness in higher education. The study suggests modification of the elements of the sustainability and extends the use of the concept of environment as it is defined in the sustainability framework to the concept of environment as defined in organizational theory. The sustainability framework has not been tested in this way before. The results indicate that there is promise in using the sustainability framework in this modified form and suggest that this concept is worthy of further exploration. Additionally, the study examined the role of multiple constituencies in defining effectiveness in higher education. The findings indicate that there are significant differences in perceptions of effectiveness among the groups of constituencies examined in the study. Finally, the results suggest that sources of public funding and the amount of money institutions spend per student have an influence on some aspects of effectiveness. To examine this further, the study explores the role of the political and fiscal environment in which institutions of higher education operate and offers institutional theory as a basis to explain resource dependence in public higher education. The findings of this study contribute to the field of organizational effectiveness, aid in understanding the role that public funding plays in higher education effectiveness, and contribute to the field of organizational theory more generally.

This thesis is about the concept of Sustainable Development and its application in Thailand. Whilst many people and Thai Government itself accept the need for sustainable development as an integral part of the country's future, there is no clear consensus on what the application of sustainable development will actually mean for Thailand. Up until this point in time the most common referent for sustainable development in Thailand has been the United Nations´ "Our Common Future" and "Agenda 21". Even though this document contains many broad principles that are applicable, there are significant differences in Thai context, which require alternatives to be proposed. Buddhism supplies a Thai point of departure for such an alternative. This thesis purposes that the principle of Buddhism such as Arriyacca, Patticca-Samuppada, Tri- Lakkha and etc. are entirely appropriate for application on the Thai socio-environment development. This discussion is a key part of this thesis. As a mean of verification and of applied example, the last section of the thesis looks specifically at growth patterns of areas and spaces in "Central Academic Area" (CAD) in the main campuses of regional public-universities of Thailand.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007. / Title from title page screen, viewed on February 15, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Edward R. Hines (chair), Patricia H. Klass, Ross A. Hodel, W. Paul Vogt. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-203) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1999. / Title from title page screen, viewed July 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Edward R. Hines (chair), Kenneth H. Strand, G. Alan Hickrod, Ramesh B. Chaudhari. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-108) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.P.A. )--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2005. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2938. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 1 leaf (ii). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1994. / Title from title page screen, viewed April 13, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Robert L. Arnold (chair), John R. McCarthy, Kenneth H. Strand, Louis G. Perez. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-103) and abstract. Also available in print.