This study focuses on the institutionalization of information security in the banking sector. This study is important to pursue since it explicates the internalization of information security governance and practices and how such internalization develops an organizational resist…
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Chapter 2. This essay examines the effect of the state's institutionalization of Islam in governing and the legal system on regime type. The influence of the institutionalization of Islam is compared to the effect of other economic, institutional, and cultural determinants of re…
Organizations are embedded in a multilevel institutional environment where institutions at each specific level do not necessarily have uniform impact on various functions of organizations. In other words, institutionalization should not be viewed as a macro process that only aff…
Why do social movement organizations change? This study attempts to answer this question by observing forty diverse social movement organizations (from both random and convenience samples) active across a wide spectrum of social movements in Seattle, Washington between 1999 and …
Senegal's population growth rate of 2.7% is greater than double that of the world average of 1.16%. The Government of Senegal acknowledges the population problem and has made efforts to address this issue. For over the past two decades the United States Agency for International …
The oil and gas industry, Nigeria's fulcrum of economic growth and development, is a highly regulated sector. Findings from studies show that organizations and firms are both constrained and enabled by the institutions in their environment. This quantitative correlational study,…
The period from World War II to the collapse of the USSR witnessed a remarkable interaction between the Soviet Party-state and Central Asian Muslims. Over the course of these five decades, an institutional foundation came to define relations between the Muslim population and Isl…
The focus of this thesis encompasses a developing history of collegiate women's sports at a single institution. I trace the history of the University of Michigan's women's sports from women as participants to achieving equality as amateurs. Female students began participating in…
The world today witnesses increasing recognition and a more positive reception towards disability. Despite this recognition, persons with disabilities continue to share experiences of stigma and discrimination. Based on this observation, I raise the following questions: 1) To wh…
The “Orillia Asylum for Idiots” (1861–2009), Canada’s oldest and largest facility for the care and protection of children and adults with disabilities, was once praised as a beacon of humanitarian progress and described as a “community within a community.” Yet, survivors who liv…
This thesis scrutinises the issue of production, proliferation and effects of border violence in a frontier town of Melilla, Spain. It broadly deals with narratives of multiple bordering dynamics taking place at the border zone and within Melillan society and follows multiplicat…
The changing landscape of foreign aid has both stimulated and acknowledged the re-emergence of Southern countries as donors and providers of aid and knowledge in global development cooperation. This research explored how Indonesia, as a Southern state, has constructed the idea o…
Stress-related brain mechanisms, specifically HPA axis dysregulation and reductions in hippocampal volume, have long been associated with the pathology of major depressive disorder, especially within the context of a history of childhood maltreatment. However, investigations tha…