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This thesis shows that women's labour market participation, macroeconomic growth and family policies are closely linked to each other. Whereas there exists clear theoretical and empirical evidence that female labour market participation unambiguously promotes GDP growth, the inverse impact of...
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Using sociological institutionalism the three articles constituting this dissertation scrutinize the relationship between organizations and their (social) environment at different levels of analysis and in the context of specific research questions. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in...
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Research shows that larger, more profitable and more visible companies are less likely to disclose internal control weaknesses. Firms with similar characteristics tend to hire more female board members. This paper examines whether there is an association between companies that have a higher...
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Organizational failure is an incomplete process because routines and norms persist through employee careers. Qualitative interviews with former employees from four newspapers and two investment banks, all of which are bankrupt or disbanded, demonstrate ongoing utilization of routines and ongoing...
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This dissertation develops and tests a conceptual model to examine how organizations respond to social and political events that can significantly affect operations. The model incorporates concepts from resource dependence and institutional theories, which posit that a firm will develop a range...
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successful innovators apply specific practices--related to culture, talent management, and organizational structure …
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institutional (organisational) economics and the resource-based view of strategic management. The choice of efficient organisational …
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management and women’s careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women’s careers and why in 2010 they … continue to be under-represented in the retail management hierarchy. A contextual background to the selected papers is provided … models, the gendered processes in management and a contemporary overview of retail employment in the UK. Of the six papers …
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failure to enter senior management in greater numbers is that women in management may have differing perceptions of the … Australian middle managers, whose views were contrasted with senior managers? perceptions. Gender differences in perception were … considered necessary for achieving senior management promotion. In particular, female middle managers believed more strongly than …
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