PhD Dissertations: Recent submissions

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Nature, antecedents, and consequences of managerial configuration-making preference

Baltazar, Ramon Gabriel (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 ...
Meaningful change: making sense of the discourse of the language of change

Thurlow, Amy (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 ...
Organizational culture, HRM and firm performance : examining relationships using the competing values framework in call centres

Carroll, Wendy R. (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 ...
An investigation into the individual and organizational correlates of expatriate success, satisfaction and organizational commitment

Vladi, Natalie (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 ...
Non-radial oscillations in rotating intermediate mass stars

Lovekin, Catherine (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 ...
An investigation of mandatory retirement : a qualitative and quantitative examination

Warren, Amy M. (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 ...