Michael Mann (1997 [1984], p. 60) wrote, “The state is undeniably a messy concept,” but in the years since he made this observation, little seems to have been done to clean it up. This dissertation seeks to use ontology-based methods to answer three major research questions conc…
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The main purpose of this study, which used two different survey questionnaires for data collection, was to examine the relationship between organizational-communication satisfaction, as measured by the Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ), and organizational commitment…
The purpose of this study was to examine the managers' transformational leadership practices in Yemeni governmental and financial audit organizations. In addition, the study examined the manager-employee relationship as reflected by the comparison of managers and employees' perc…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leaders' behavior and employees' commitment to the organization in different national cultures. Two research questions were proposed. Research Question 1 tested the relationship between employees' perception of th…
This research presents a study of six national gymnastics organisations in terms of their structures and written policies to manage the sport; the countries involved in the study are: Australia, Ecuador, France, Indonesia, Italia and New Zealand. The study focused on the regulat…
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) addressing social problems like poverty, poor health, and human rights abuse often join interorganizational (IO) networks to increase their impact. Joint action can bring the combined resources of multiple organizations to bear on social prob…
• What insights can art reveal in the context of organizational change? • How do artistic practices influence the way communities address change? • In what ways can an individual artistic practice concerned with the role of art in society add new insights to theories and practic…
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the factors that hindered government-owned organizations in Nigeria from achieving operational efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and productivity. The purpose of the study was to explore whether priva…
Can Islamic groups play a positive role in democratization? If so, under what conditions? I examine the case of Indonesia, where Islamic actors variously resisted, supported, and acquiesced with a secularist dictatorship over three decades. At the beginning of that timeframe, th…
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States became a much different place to live and work for Muslim-Americans. Muslims are one of most discriminated, misunderstood, and feared groups in the US. This qualitative study used survey questionnaires to explore the potenti…
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Western governments and international donor agencies have invested in the development of civil society, in order to promote the growth of democratic ideology in the newly independent, post-Soviet Central Asian states. After nineteen years the …
Military organizations are often called upon to assist with emergency management missions, so it is critical that they have appropriately established and well understood organizational perceptual factors. Military organizations are often unique within a nation, which increases t…
Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Region, along the border with Afghanistan, is home to a number of Pashtun tribes that continue to remain politically autonomous. Wresting control of this territory has been the object of numerous efforts by various alien rulers over the years, none …
Many democracies throughout the developing world have representative government constituted through free and fair elections and yet struggle to provide good governance for its citizens. Rule of law is often invoked as a palliative but remains a heavily contested concept in the l…
In the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, mismanagement of irrigation has created immense environmental and economic problems. Canal systems are poorly constructed and maintained, delivery and application efficiency is low, and soil and water degradation is widespread. The di…
This qualitative phenomenological research inquiry was designed to explore the lived experiences, challenges, and successes of 24 immigrant Nigerian women leaders living and working in California. It also explored the factors that influenced these women to aspire to leadership p…
This dissertation seeks to vindicate the place that narrative has in historiography and recognize the rational components that are involved in narrative construction. The first chapter of this dissertation develops a novel account of some of the cognitive principles that are inv…