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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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Public health disaster research: surveying the field, defining its future
TL;DR: The authors survey the literature in the field and suggest that broader, more ecologically based research is needed.
Total quality management as cultural phenomena : a conceptual model and empirical illustration
Abstract: Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Technology to be presented with due permission for public examination and debate in ABSTRACT Total quality management has proven to be more than just a quickly disappearing management fad or fashion. It has been considered one of the most influential management innovations of the 20 th century. TQM is based on a rather naïve and overly rational view of an organization but, without a doubt, it has had a significant influence on contemporary management practices. The ISO 9000 family quality standards and quality award criteria have led to the practical development and diffusion of the discipline, and at the moment, they provide the most comprehensive definition for TQM. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award has been selected as the practical definition of TQM for this study. The role and impact of TQM is examined based upon how it ensures an organization will meet its mission and ultimate objective of long-term survival. The means of how to achieve survival are specific to an organization, and depend on multiple factors. At the basic level, organizational survival is based on the processes of external adaptation and of internal integration. The role of TQM is analyzed based on the impact it has on those processes. Additionally, this analysis takes into account both the symbolic and technical value of TQM practices and approaches. TQM is studied as a cultural phenomenon. Schein's model of organizational culture is used to create a multilevel framework of TQM. The framework has four interrelated levels: basic assumptions, core concepts and principles, management areas, and management practices. This research focuses on the deepest level, the analysis of basic assumptions. These are implicitly inherent to the discipline, and the process of deconstruction is used to uncover the core basic assumptions that support the implementation of a TQM program. They define the basic beliefs held in an organization, which has been able to fully implement TQM. These basic beliefs include an organization's mission and relationship to the external environment, the nature of human nature and relationships, the nature of reality and truth and the nature of time and space. The deconstruction of TQM and identification of its basic assumptions is done in the context of ideal quality management, which is the perfect implementation of TQM based on quality award scoring criteria. Convergent analysis of the discipline demonstrates that TQM is based on mutually compatible basic assumptions, …
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Integrated views of e-government website usability: perspectives from users and web diagnostic tools
Jyoti Choudrie,Gheorghita Ghinea +1 more
TL;DR: Results show that not only are there wide variations in the spectrum of information and services provided by these portals, but that significant work still needs to be undertaken to make the portals examples of 'best practice' e-government services.
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Export processing zones: comparative data from China, Honduras, Nicaragua, and South Africa
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Knowledge accumulation and vaccine innovation: lessons from polio and HIV/AIDS
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare vaccine innovation efforts in the cases of poliomyelitis and HIV/AIDS and find that shared, rather than competing, visions play a significant role in setting the vaccine innovation process in motion.