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Browsing PhD Dissertations by Thesis (Degree/Level) "Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration (Management)"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)For this thesis, I examined the relationship between positive leadership and follower work behaviours through two studies. In the first, 313 employees participated in a study to examine how leaders’ positivity and positive ...
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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, 2018)Co-operative organizations operate as an economic commons and focus on meeting the needs of their members. Co-operatives operate through an identity of values and principles that center the actions of the organization on ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Using ANTi-History this dissertation sets out to understand the development of management studies in a Canadian context. The dissertation traces 18 human scholars by analyzing Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ...
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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, 2009)This dissertation contains three sequential studies that use a mixed-methods approach. The first study involved qualitative interviews with 29 individuals using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1949) and Peterson ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This dissertation revisits the socio-historical origins and perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practice and its relationship to OHS studies in Canadian business schools by concentrating on the first ...
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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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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)Previous models of leadership have been based on an assumption of face-to-face contact between the leader and the follower. Increasingly, however, advanced information technology is being used by organizations to enable ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)This dissertation explores the apparent contradiction between the independence and autonomy of an elite profession and the pursuit of collective bargaining. Crown prosecutors employed in the Canadian public service bureaucracy ...
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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, 2023-06-28)In the second chapter, we rely on collaborative intelligence, which combines human and artificial intelligence (i.e., supervised machine learning), to construct a textual feature that measures firmlevel gender diversity ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Previous research on aggression and violence in the workplace has focused on factors in an organizationally and physically bounded context. Over the last two decades, as organizations have adopted information and communication ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis studies the concept of kindness. The study of kindness is limited in management and organizational studies and this research problematizes the concept of kindness, shows how kindness research is represented ...
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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, 2017)Recent business scandals (e.g., Lehman Brothers) raise questions regarding the role of decision-making in shaping outcomes such as performance. Researchers have examined decision-making of organizational teams from a variety ...
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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, 2015)The objective of my research is to explore expedited arbitration in Canada. Labour arbitration remains an expensive and time-consuming process to resolve unionized workplace disputes. In the first of my three studies, I ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-14)Drawing from the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR), small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and management system standards, this study explored the motivations of SMEs – an understudied subpopulation ...
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