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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)When exploring the disaster at Mann Gulch, Weick wrote, “the phrase that holds the world together is, 'You know what I mean'” (1993, p. 632). During times of change, people strive to understand what is happening in a way ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)Professionals have an inherent expectation of autonomy in their work, an associated lack of respect for both the managerial role and the people who hold managerial positions, and highly specialized knowledge and skills. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)We build a K-selected catalog of z ∼ 1.6 gzKs galaxies in the Deep and Wide fields of the Canada-France-Hawaii Legacy Survey, with a final effective area of 27.6 deg2. This catalog allows us to recover ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Age diversity has the potential to offer significant advantages in contemporary workplaces. However, surprisingly, many organizations fail to realize these benefits. This may partially be due to a lack of understanding of ...
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(Halifax, N.S.: Saint Mary's University, 2007)This thesis is a poststructuralist account of the language of organizational change and its significance in producing and maintaining a discourse of change. Approaching change management as a process which has emerged from ...
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Microsporidia-host interactions in beneficial lady beetles : factors that influence chronic disease (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-27)Lady beetles produce species-specific defensive compounds (alkaloids) that are toxic to some predators and deters others with their foul taste. Some lady beetle alkaloids, such as harmonine from Harmonia axyridis, ...
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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, 2015)A critical assumption of the leadership development literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert & Kelloway, 2014). Drawing on self-determination theory, I address the question of ...
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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, 2007)The purpose of this thesis is to explain the nature, antecedents, and consequences of managerial configuration-making preference. Based on a definition of configuration as the nature of the alignment between organisation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-30)This thesis explores the pivotal role of capabilities and technologies in the digital transformation of the banking sector, with a focus on identifying optimal strategies within diverse regulatory environments. Utilizing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)Galactic fluorine abundance is strongly dependent on the conditions in the astrophysical sites. This feature makes it useful to probe different nucleosynthesis scenarios, mainly in the AGB stars. It is also important in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis explores the relationship between the choices made by individuals and the influences of the groups to which those individuals belong. To interrogate the nature of groups, the thesis employs ideas from actor-network ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)In this work I investigate the influence of rotation on pulsation frequencies in upper main sequence stars. I use 2D stellar structure models and a 2D linear adiabatic pulsation code to calculate pulsation frequencies for ...
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On the importance of being scrappy : entrepreneurial orientation and bricolage in social enterprises (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Social enterprises are hybrid organizations that create social value using market-based models. Social entrepreneurship (SE) as a process is increasingly seen as holding promise for tackling mounting social and environmental ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This study aims to explore the link between stressors and strain at work by examining individuals’ experiences of stressors over time. The link between stressors and strain was evaluated with the job demands-resources ...
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(Halifax, N.S.: Saint Mary's University, 2008)The role of organizational culture in strategic human resource management (SHRM) research was examined in call centres in Canada. Two concurrent studies were conducted using the business unit level of analysis with ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013 [i.e. 2012]., 2012)This thesis examines the formation and evolution of cold gaseous structures in galaxies and galactic outflows in two distinct scenarios. Previous analytic estimates of the viscous time-scale due to cloud-cloud collisions ...
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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, 2021)Understanding job performance has been an important and longstanding workplace challenge for over a century. However, continued criterion deficiency has resulted in ongoing disparity between job performance and job performance ...
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