Around the world bureaucratic forms of state coordination are being displaced by new techniques of participatory governance; changes that blur the boundaries between government, markets, and civil society. These alterations to the state are routinely attributed to three global t…
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This research examines the changes that took place in the field of Youth Engagement and Development (YED) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in the period between the years of 1987-2011. It explores how changes in the political opportunity structures over the period of …
The purpose of this study was to explore human resource (HR) managers' perceptions of training practices (i.e., needs assessment, trainee preparation, training program review, accountability, management support, knowledge transfer, and performance improvement) in Saudi private s…
This study examines the leadership-styles of Egyptian city administrators and the impact of those leadership styles on the functioning of their respective cities. The study concentrates on three new Egyptian cities, 10th of Ramadan, 6th of October, and 15th of May, and discusses…
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…
The major contribution of this study is to quantify the economic impact of Kuwait's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on supply, demand, welfare and terms of trade. A general equilibrium international trade model is used to obtain quantitative results. The model i…
In this dissertation, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, I examine activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. I concentrate on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructio…
This study measured and compared the perception of consumer satisfaction with primary health care at the existing conventional health system and the family practice system in the State of Kuwait. Weber's bureaucratic theory was employed to explain the varying levels of consumer …
Although national leadership is of great interest and discussions and debates about it are common, the focus of this dissertation is to study managerial leadership in formal organizations. The author argues that managerial leadership in formal organizations provides the foundati…
In recent years the important of leadership in the organization has become an area of interest. Leadership has been noted to impact corporate culture, employee commitment and response and the overall performance of the organization. Given the fact that leadership is such an impo…
Turbulent change in business environment has increased the ongoing dilemma in public sector organizations. On the one hand, it must work in a more effective and flexible way to adapt to the change; on the other hand, it must comply with the rules and procedures. Many studies hav…
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 …
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia places great emphasis on developing the productive skills of its labor force. Part of this effort involves providing jobs for Saudi nationals, the so-called "Saudization" program. The number of Saudis employed in the private sector is very low, and fo…
Invariably, every market has a set of institutions that regulate and define economic activities. Emerging economies may be developing in a way that integrates and blends traditional practices and beliefs with international conventions and standards. In these economies, like in a…
This ethnography of recording studio work shows both the importance of the non-musical in shaping systems of musical practice, and the extent to which traditional music practices (including Anatolian ethnic, Turkish folk, Karadeniz, and Ottoman art musics) now exist within and a…
Concerns about ethical conduct and the career-related choices accountants have to make from organizational challenges were addressed in this study by survey method. The data were collected from 102 accountants and the variables were studied using Pearson's correlation coefficien…
Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork (2004-2005) amongst Iranian non-governmental political, civic, human rights, and scholarly organizations in Washington, D.C., this dissertation makes two major observations: One, that many Iranian scholars and activists as well …
This dissertation focuses on how different Islamic groups attempt to assert their authority to represent "True Islam" for Muslims living in Europe and how they cope with challenges from rivals with different interpretations. It focused on four Islamic communities ( cemaat ) that…
The integration of Islamists into Tunisia's post-Arab Spring democratic landscape has brought about a renewed interest in the mechanisms that govern political party behavior. The moderation of political parties has long been a topic of debate in the literature, yet recent Islami…