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Browsing by Author "Mills, Albert J., 1945-"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Within the field of organizational analysis, Joan Acker's concept of the gendered substructure is one of the most widely cited in terms of potential for change yet under-explored in terms of application. In this thesis ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies by creating an alternative methodology for history, one that I have come to call ANTi-History . In the development of this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)The Atlantic School of Business (ASB), initiated in 1970 have become a unique and long lasting organization. One that persevered despite having no formal organization itself for 35 years. This lack of formal organization ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis adopts “performance” as a metaphor and participates with the dramatic by acknowledging the messiness of social interaction and by matching this with a proposed research method capable of dealing with heterogeneity. ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2011)Studying the management of multiple organizational identities while striving for organizational legitimacy, we undertake a critical hermeneutic analysis of the archives of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)In this dissertation, I investigate how ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ relate to non-white immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization, such as job ghettoization, underemployment and unemployment. Over the last three decades, the ...
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(2020)Feminist discourse exists at the margins of management and organizational studies and management history. Many figures and ideas have been overlooked by the largely gendered and limited scope of the development of field. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-06-13)Using British Airways (BA) PLC as the case study, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of the lack of diversity in top management teams. Organization leadership is important for several reasons including its role in ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)The purpose of this paper is to explore Joan Acker’s system of gendering processes and to assess the potential of this framework to help researchers better identify those activities in and around organizations that maintain, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-25)The aim of this research is to explore how government policies position female entrepreneurs in Canada in order to understand and positively impact inclusive women entrepreneurship policy reform in Canada. By using ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)The Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) have been hosting an annual business conference for the past 39 years. This conference does not belong to any one organization and has long been perceived as not having a structure. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Using interpretive narrative analysis to examine a series of interviews with members of selected family businesses in the US funeral industry, this case study offers a deeper understanding about the gendering processes and ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Although a distinct country from the United States, with different management challenges and opportunities, management theory as taught in Canada is a US-centric body of research that is considered scientific, rational, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)A hermeneutic analysis of work-family interaction is undertaken from a feminist poststructural perspective to destabilize the definitions of 'work', 'family', and 'work-family' in organizational discourse. This hermeneutic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)By 2010, women made up almost half (47%) of the entire Canadian workforce (Ferraro, 2010) and the majority of women work in the service sector with the highest concentration (82%) in the healthcare and social assistance ...
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(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2003)This paper explores the construction of organizational crisis through the discourse of media. Using a critical sensemaking framework, the authors conclude that the media serve as a disproportionate influence in the creation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This dissertation takes a poststructuralist perspective on becoming the Modernized Public Servant. The term modernized is used as a means of distinguishing the public service after the Public Service Modernization Act ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This study focuses on the narratives of Saudi women leaders in the workplace. There is an evident gap in the literature when it comes to Saudi women in the workplace. Much of the literature silences Saudi women’s stories ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Initial gendered studies on the male dominated organization of Rotary International (Rotary) were catalytic to the decision to do more research on both female and male membership experiences. Previous theoretical knowledge ...
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(Emerald Group Publishing, 2010)In this paper we argue that the (widely recognized) heuristic value of Joan Acker’s “gendered substructure” has not been realized due to inconsistencies in its interpretation and application. Through an exploration of the ...
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