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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Beyond community| Understanding the experience of communitas among Information Technology Road Warriors

Napier, Gayla S. 11 January 2017 (has links)
<p> Community, or the sense of being connected to others, represents an enduring conversation throughout organizational literature. <i>Communitas </i>, on the other hand, has not been well researched in this context. <i>Communitas</i> refers to an unstructured community in which people have a sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group. Building on the anthropological work of Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner, this study explores the experience of communitas among Information Technology <i>Road Warriors </i>, those consulting professionals that spend much of their work life away from home and within the liminal environment of their project-based work. It also elucidates the supporting nature of strong social relationships among Road Warriors. The study employs a qualitative approach and draws on in-depth interviews of 21 Road Warriors from five professional services firms. Findings were captured in an integrative model of communitas, that includes both structural and behavioral elements that together represent the symbolic construction of communitas as experienced by the participants. The data indicate that participants sharing this liminal space enjoy a particular sense of community that allows what might be seen as a disparate group to find a sense of belonging and communitas. Practical implications for professional services firms, managers, employees, and organizations that employ liminal work groups are presented, along with recommendations for future research.</p>
Sociology|Organizational behavior
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A network perspective of multiple social exchange relationships

Gillis, Lynette Rylander, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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An ethnography of teachers in a rural school in China

Wang, Dan. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Syracuse University, 2009. / "Publication number: AAT 3381598."
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Industrial maintenance data collection and application developing an information strategy for an industrial site /

Evans, Roy F. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 160-164.
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Qualitative analysis of the perceptions of affirmative action beneficiaries in South African parastatals

Boikhutso, Rantsae Abner. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (M. Admin. (Labour relations))-University of Pretoria, 2004. / Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
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Conceptualizing international development project sustainability through a discursive theory of institutionalization : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management Studies /

Jackson, Elizabeth C. January 2010 (has links)
Thesis (M.M.S.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references.

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