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Managing Relational Legacies: Lessons from British Columbia, Canada
Baba, Sofiane; Raufflet, Emmanuel - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 15-34
second concerns stakeholder management. While the literature suggests that stakeholders should be managed by companies … management literature as dormant stakeholders, should not be underestimated. …
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A Descriptive Account of an Inter-Professional Collaborative Leadership Project
MacPhee, Maura; Chang, Li-Lu; Havaei, Farinaz; Chou, … - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 373-399
A collaborative project between an academic healthcare faculty and a professional development director resulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of an inter-professional collaborative leadership workshop with ongoing leadership development activities. The workshop attendees were five...
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Extending the Individual Level of Virtuality: Implications of Task Virtuality in Virtual and Traditional Settings
Orhan, Mehmet A. - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 4, pp. 400-412
Virtuality in organizations has usually been treated as a characteristic that is observed either at a team or organizational level. However, the penetration of new technologies into our lives has transformed the entire design of organizations and teams. Not only has the design of teams and...
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Business Contingency, Strategy Formation, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Chinese Apparel SMEs
Chi, Ting - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 27-45
This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...
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Understanding Cultural Difference Management through Charles Taylor’s Philosophy: Case Studies from the Food Processing Industry
Ouellet, Samuel Marleau; Facal, Joseph; Hébert, Louis - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 46-70
In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republicanism and common spaces, we look at how...
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Is the Asset Transfer of Public Leisure Facilities in England an Example of Associative Democracy?
Nichols, Geoff; Forbes, Deborah; Findlay-King, Lindsay; … - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 71-87
In England, public sports facilities and libraries provided by local government are being transferred to management and delivery by volunteers. The catalyst for this development has been reductions in local government budgets. However, case studies explore if this asset transfer “offers a way...
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A Review of Entrepreneurship Education for College Students in China
Zhou, Mansheng; Xu, Haixia - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 82-98
Partly as a result of the rapid growth in Chinese higher education, graduate placement has become a critical issue facing colleges and universties. In response, one of the policy initiatives adopted by the Chinese government is for higher education institutions to put an emphasis on...
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Global Responses to Chronic Diseases: What Lessons Can Political Science Offer?
Blouin, Chantal - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 120-134
Designing and adopting a global response to address the rise of chronic diseases in both the industrial and developing world requires policymakers to engage in global health diplomacy. In the context of the recent United Nations’ High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases, the paper first...
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A Review of Social Media Use in E-Government
Magro, Michael J. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 2, pp. 148-161
.0 technologies. This paper reviews the recent literature concerning Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and how it has been … used in the public sector. Key observations include literature themes such as the evolution of social media case studies in … the literature, the progress of social media policies and strategies over time, and social media use in disaster …
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Leprosy: International Public Health Policies and Public Health Eras
Awofeso, Niyi - In: Administrative Sciences 1 (2011) 1, pp. 32-44
Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder...
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