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A Case Study of a Neighborhood Organization Initiation and Structure of the Organization Revitalization Activities and Their Support Relationship to Voluntary Associations and Networks Relationship to City Government Outcomes.Abstract:
Theory The Role of Theory in Doing Case Studies What is the Case Study Method? What is the Role of Theory in Doing Case Studies Exploratory Case Studies Case Selection and Screening: Criteria and Procedures Causal Case Studies I: Factor Theories Causal Case Studies II: Explanatory Theories Descriptive Scase Studies Conclusions Descriptive Case Studies A Case Study of a Neighborhood Organization Initiation and Structure of the Organization Revitalization Activities and Their Support Relationship to Voluntary Associations and Networks Relationship to City Government Outcomes List of Respondents and Annotated Bibliography Computer Implementation in a Local School System The Computer System in Operation Organizational Issues Explanatory Case Studies A Nutshell Example: The Effect of a Federal Award on a University Computer Science Department Essential Ingredients of Explanatory Case Studies: Three Drug Prevention Examples Simplified Case Example No. 1: "Town Meetings Galvanize Action Against Drug Dealing" Simplified Case Example No. 2: "Interagency Collaboration to Reduce BWI Incidents" Simplified Case Example No. 3: "Designated Driver Program, Delivered Through Vendors" "Transforming" a Business Firm Through Strategic Planning Company Profile and Conditions Leading to Change Strategic Plan Transforms the Business Chronology Sheriff's Combined Auto Theft Task Force The Practice and Its Funding Implementation of the Practice Outcomes to Date Chronology Cross-Case Analyses Technical Assistance for HIV/AIDS Community Planning Defining a Framework for Assessing the Effectiveness of Technical Assistance (TA) Documented Outcomes, Varieties of TA Studied and Possible Rival Explanations for the Outcomes Findings on Individual Hypotheses Regarding Reasons for Successful TA Delivery Proposal Processing by Public and Private Universities Introduction to the Study The Time Needed to Process and Submit Proposals Costs of Preparing Proposals Case Studies of Transformed Firms Why Study Transformed Firms? What is a Transformed Firm? What Kind of Transformation Did the Firms Experience? Did the Transformations Share Common Conditions Summary: General Lessons About Transformed Firms About the authorread more
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Activity Theory as a framework for understanding teachers\' perceptions of computer usage at a primary school level in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the strength of activity theory lies in its ability to enable one to understand learning as the complex result of tool-mediated interactions, rather than as something opaque, which happens in a student's mind.
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A case study of sme–university research collaboration in the context of a small peripheral country (cyprus)
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of barriers and facilitators within a broad network framework provides a structural approach to the description of these problems and opportunities, and a longitudinal investigation of a case study enables an in-depth consideration of the evolution of barriers in collaboration over time.
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Managing Project Risk at the Enterprise Level: Exploratory Case Studies in China
TL;DR: This paper explored the role that enterprise-level risk management (ERM) plays in construction project risk management and found that ERM can improve the ability and performance of PRM through controlling project risk at the enterprise level, which is based on four key components: risk management department, risk management procedure, external service, and corporate culture.
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Social entrepreneurial opportunity and active stakeholder participation: Resource mobilization in enterprising conveners of cross-sector social partnerships
TL;DR: In this article, a model of social entrepreneurial opportunity is developed that relates opportunity recognition, opportunity discovery, opportunity creation and the mobilization of resources without the expectation of monetary reciprocity, based on an empirical examination of participant activities across seven collaborative social entrepreneurial ventures.