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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, 2013)With consumers becoming progressively more sophisticated in their evaluations of their service consumption experiences companies are forced to focus greater attention on the nature and quality of the service provided to ...
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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, 2020)This thesis explores how cultural differences impact impression management behaviors in an interview context. I first proposed a cross-cultural impression management model that may be used to predict how cultural values ...
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(2020)Three studies (and a manipulation check) were conducted using mixed methods to examine an intervention to improve young workers’ confidence and willingness to voice safety concerns at work. Study One involved semi-structured ...
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In the beginning was the word : the discursive construction of spiritual work and spiritual workers (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The methods of critical discourse analysis are used to shed light onto workplace spirituality. This research is premised upon the idea that reality is socially constructed, and language is the central mechanism through ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This thesis is about subjectivity. It is a critique and problematization of the concept of development, and takes a poststructural/postcolonial approach to examine how the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) shapes an ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)Global competition and emergence of new world markets have made it imperative to identify and develop managers who can effectively cope with culturally dissimilar environments. Expatriate managers live far away from their ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)In May of 2007, Newfoundland and Labrador abolished mandatory retirement policies. By the summer of 2009, all Canadian provinces will have passed similar legislation. In order to examine what influences people's retirement ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)The current research used three studies to examine recruitment source usage, job seeker perceptions of recruitment sources and the relationships between several recruitment sources' correlates. The relationship between ...
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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, 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, 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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(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, 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, 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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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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