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Exposure To The Field And The Meanings Managers Hold: Evidence From Manufacturing Best Practices Programs, Peter Cebon, E. Geoffrey Love Dec 2006

Exposure To The Field And The Meanings Managers Hold: Evidence From Manufacturing Best Practices Programs, Peter Cebon, E. Geoffrey Love

Peter Cebon

A central proposition of neo-institutional theory is that exposure to institutional fields shapes the meanings actors within the field hold. We test that proposition by asking whether variations in exposure to field-level processes will lead to variations in meanings held by actors. To do so, we examine the implementation of a managerial practice – Manufacturing Best Practices Programs – across a large sample of manufacturing sites in Australia and New Zealand. We assess exposure to field-level processes both indirectly (through structural characteristics such as site size and technological sophistication), and directly (as contact with theorizing agents and communities of practice). …

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Silenced Voices And Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help-Seeking, Angela M. Moe Dec 2006

Silenced Voices And Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help-Seeking, Angela M. Moe

Angela M. Moe

Despite social and governmental responses to battering, many women continue to feel entrapped in abusive relationships. Using standpoint epistemology, this article examines the various aspects of help seeking, and the social and institutional responses to such efforts, through the narratives of 19 women in a domestic violence shelter. The findings are discussed with reference to Ptacek's social entrapment perspective and Gondolf and Fisher's survivor hypothesis, illustrating the socioeconomic and political context of the control tactics utilized by abusers and the structural impediments to battered women's successful help seeking.

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La Inscripción Electoral De Los Jóvenes En Chile: Factores De Incidencia Y Aproximaciones Al Debate, Sergio Y. Toro Dec 2006

La Inscripción Electoral De Los Jóvenes En Chile: Factores De Incidencia Y Aproximaciones Al Debate, Sergio Y. Toro

Sergio Y. Toro

No abstract provided.

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Proposal Power And Majority Rule In Multilateral Bargaining With Costly Recognition, Huseyin Yildirim Dec 2006

Proposal Power And Majority Rule In Multilateral Bargaining With Costly Recognition, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

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The Ict Laboratory: An Analysis Of Computers In Schools In Rural India, Payal Arora Dec 2006

The Ict Laboratory: An Analysis Of Computers In Schools In Rural India, Payal Arora

Payal Arora

No abstract provided.

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Presidential Persuasive Advantage: Strategy, Compliance Gaining, And Sequencing, Gregory Petrow Dec 2006

Presidential Persuasive Advantage: Strategy, Compliance Gaining, And Sequencing, Gregory Petrow

Gregory Petrow

No abstract provided.

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Comercio Y Trabajo: Asimetrias En El Gobierno Global, Mario Pianta Dec 2006

Comercio Y Trabajo: Asimetrias En El Gobierno Global, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

No abstract provided.

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Issues In Korean Language Teaching In The United States: Recent Facts And Figures, David J. Silva Dec 2006

Issues In Korean Language Teaching In The United States: Recent Facts And Figures, David J. Silva

David Silva

In this paper, we consider the current state of Korean language education, with a focus on colleges and universities in the United States. As a compilation of demographics drawn from existing sources, this work is intended to provide Korean language professionals with a sense of the place that Korean occupies in the larger linguistic landscape of the United States.

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Tourism Law In Israel – Public Policy, Politics And Law (In Hebrew), Assaf Meydani, Natan Uriely Dec 2006

Tourism Law In Israel – Public Policy, Politics And Law (In Hebrew), Assaf Meydani, Natan Uriely

Prof. Assaf Meydani

No abstract provided.

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Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, And Firm Strategies In The Knowledge Economy, Susan Christopherson, Jennifer Clark Dec 2006

Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, And Firm Strategies In The Knowledge Economy, Susan Christopherson, Jennifer Clark

Jennifer Clark

Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations of economic change. This book is both a critique of the "new regionalism" and a return to the "regional question," including all of its concerns with equity and uneven development. It will challenge researchers and students to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy, and at the core of the …

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The Theology And Poetics Of Sin And Punishment In Go Tell It On The Mountain, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

The Theology And Poetics Of Sin And Punishment In Go Tell It On The Mountain, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Review Of _Philosophical Perspectives_.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Review Of _Philosophical Perspectives_.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

Review of Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions

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Entry On Mary Prince.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Entry On Mary Prince.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Slavery And African In Native Son.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Slavery And African In Native Son.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry 1 On Phillis Wheatley, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Entry 1 On Phillis Wheatley, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Entry 2 On Phillis Wheatley.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Entry 2 On Phillis Wheatley.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Dialect And Dichotomy: Literary Representations Of African American Speech., Babacar Mbaye Dec 2006

Review Of Dialect And Dichotomy: Literary Representations Of African American Speech., Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

Review of Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech.

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Do Information Technology Units Have More Power Than Other Units In Academic Libraries?, Sook Lim Dec 2006

Do Information Technology Units Have More Power Than Other Units In Academic Libraries?, Sook Lim

Sook Lim

No abstract provided.

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19th Century Petroleum Technology In North America, Emory L. Kemp, Michael W. Caplinger Dec 2006

19th Century Petroleum Technology In North America, Emory L. Kemp, Michael W. Caplinger

The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage

The Appalachian and the Ontario oil fields in Canada were the earliest developed oil fields on the continent. Appalachia dominated national oil production in the United States until about 1900, when the midwest and southwest fields suddenly began producing prodigious quantities of oil and quickly out-paced the eastern
oil region. Therefore, the eastern oil fields and the 19th century equipment and techniques employed there represent a period of the modern oil industry very different from the new methods and equipment used after about 1900. These two factors combine to make a convenient cutoff point for a contextual discussion of early …

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Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2006

Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Deconstructing The Terrorism- News Media Relationship, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2006

Deconstructing The Terrorism- News Media Relationship, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Swimming Upstream: Teaching State Crime To Students At American Universities, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2006

Swimming Upstream: Teaching State Crime To Students At American Universities, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Organizational Diversity, Vitality And Outcomes In The Civil Rights Movement, Susan Olzak, Emily Ryo Dec 2006

Organizational Diversity, Vitality And Outcomes In The Civil Rights Movement, Susan Olzak, Emily Ryo

Emily Ryo

Sociologists often assert, but rarely test, the claim that organizational diversity benefits social movements by invigorating movement vitality and facilitating success. Our analysis of black civil rights organizations shows that goal and tactical diversity of a social movement is largely a function of organizational density, level of resources available to the movement, and the number of protests initiated by the movement. Goal diversity increases the rate of protest, whereas tactical diversity increases the likelihood of achieving a desired policy outcome. These findings advance our understanding of social movements and organizations by illuminating how organizational dynamics of a social movement might …

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Welcome To Our Little Corner Of The Web, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Dec 2006

Welcome To Our Little Corner Of The Web, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

University of Maine Printing Services Fall 2007 customization of the subscription Printips newsletter service for printers. Kimberly J. Sawtelle was responsible for authoring original content as well as customizing the imagery, design, and promotional information to specifically market the products and services of UMaine Printing Services. The newsletter was a direct-mail product targeted at the UMaine audience.

Original newsletter content authored by Sawtelle, includes the article, "Welcome to Our Little Corner of the Web" which announces the 2007 launch of the Printing Services website and the "Feeling Boxed In?" display ad. Customized subscription content includes the article, "Why You Should …

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Presentation: Five Year Recovery Plan For The 9th Ward, Michelle M. Thompson Dec 2006

Presentation: Five Year Recovery Plan For The 9th Ward, Michelle M. Thompson

Dr. Michelle M. Thompson, GISP, FRGS

F i v e Y e a r R e c o v e r yP l a n f o r t h e 9th

W a r d: N i n t h W a r d C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n

PRESENTATION OF A FIVE-YEAR RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE 9TH WARD

Overall Development Goal and Objectives

Five-Year Action Plan

A. Restoring and Sustaining the Ecological Health and Wellness of the 9th Ward

B. Expanding Employment, Entrepreneurial, and Servic

e Opportunities for Residents, Businesses and Institutions …

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Rawls Különbözeti Elve (Rawls’ Difference Principle), Attila Tanyi Dec 2006

Rawls Különbözeti Elve (Rawls’ Difference Principle), Attila Tanyi

Attila Tanyi

This paper deals with the third and most disputed principle of John Rawls’s theory of justice: the so-called difference principle. My reasoning has three parts. I first present and examine the principle. My investigation is driven by three questions: what considerations lead Rawls to the acceptance of the principle; what the principle’s relation to effectiveness is; and what and how much the principle demands. A proper understanding of the principle permits me to spend the second half of the paper with exploring the difficulties the principle encounters. I first discuss four well-known objections and argue that all of them, partly …

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A Harmadik Út Értékrendszere (The Values Of The Third Way), Attila Tanyi Dec 2006

A Harmadik Út Értékrendszere (The Values Of The Third Way), Attila Tanyi

Attila Tanyi

The paper examines the value system of the English Third Way. It argues that, contrary to its critics, the Third Way is not an empty ideology but has content, though this content is not brand new. The Third Way, I claim, is more like a rhetorically defined area, which is delimited by existing values that however leave room for interpretation. The Third Way is a framework that is delineated by two clusters of value: opportunity-equality-justice and responsibility-community-authority. On the basis of the detailed analysis of these values, I draw up possible ideologies of the Third Way. I then argue that …

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Does Willingness To Pay For Green Energy Differ By Source?, Allison M. Borchers, Joshua M. Duke, George R. Parsons Dec 2006

Does Willingness To Pay For Green Energy Differ By Source?, Allison M. Borchers, Joshua M. Duke, George R. Parsons

George Parsons

We present the findings of a choice experiment designed to estimate consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for voluntary participation in green energy electricity programs. Our model estimates WTP for a generic ‘‘green energy’’ source and compares it to WTP for green energy from specific sources, including wind, solar, farm methane, and biomass. Our results show that there exists a positive WTP for green energy electricity. Further, individuals have a preference for solar over a generic green and wind. Biomass and farm methane are found to be the least preferred sources.

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A Classroom Teacher's Reflection On Learning Sustainability, Sandra Wooltorton Dec 2006

A Classroom Teacher's Reflection On Learning Sustainability, Sandra Wooltorton

Sandra Wooltorton

In 2004 I taught a class of 31 eleven and twelve year olds in a south-west Western Australian state primary school which I will call Forestdown. After critique and reflection on my 2004 teaching, in 2005 I taught half a day per week at the same school, this time with ten year olds. I used action research (Reason & Bradbury, 2001) to articulate my challenges and to formulate the approach I used to address them. The research context is a prosperous, business-as-usual culture built uupon a foundation of environmental destruction. Even though the children I taught in 2004 performed creditably …

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The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife And The Performance Of Masculinity As Collective Activity, David Grazian Dec 2006

The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife And The Performance Of Masculinity As Collective Activity, David Grazian

David Grazian

The purpose of this article is to document the collective nature of gender performance and sexual pursuit, activities typically associated with individual rather than group behavior. Drawing on narrative accounts, I analyze how young heterosexual male students employ the power of collective rituals of homosociality to perform sexual competence and masculine identity by “girl hunting” in the context of urban nightlife. These rituals are designed to reinforce dominant sexual myths and expectations of masculine behavior, boost confidence in one’s performance of masculinity and heterosexual power, and assist in the performance of masculinity in the presence of women. This analysis illustrates …

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