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Browsing PhD Dissertations 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)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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)This dissertation challenges the taken-for-granted status of humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontières. I will problematize humanitarianism and argue that the continued existence of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Although the subject of women in accounting has received considerable attention in the research literature in the past three decades the reported reasons for women accountants leaving public accounting firms have not changed ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)In this thesis, complex questions in relation to the process of identity construction by women managers will be addressed. First, I focus on how top women managers make sense of their identities through hybrid gender orders. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-20)In this thesis, I introduce a theoretical approach called Intersectional History (IH). IH is theorized by bringing together a critical approach to intersectionality with a postmodern approach to the study of the past. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The aim of this dissertation is to de-naturalize the overly mentalist, self-contained and singular depictions of subjectivity that populate the field of Management and Organizational Studies. To do so, my dissertation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This thesis explores the meaning of work and its effect on the individual through an 'existential' lens using the 'job-career-calling model' as heuristic. A qualitative study was conducted consisting of in-depth interviews ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)We all want to belong, fit in and be accepted. It is not surprising that when there are difficulties feeling as though we belong, that we experience distress (Lau, Moulds & Richardson, 2009; Robinson, O’Reilly & Wang, 2013; ...
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