Much current literature on management and strategy still describes strategy work as a linear, top-down, management-based, rational, logical, structured and planned change activity with clear and predictable goals. It is described as an activity in which individual managers are a…
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This thesis adopts the methodology of systems theory to examine the limits of anti-discrimination law. The sociology of Niklas Luhmann, alongside extensions provided by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, is applied to construct a versatile re-description of anti-discrimination …
Flooding has the potential to have significant impact on the value of properties depending on the level of inherent vulnerability. Experts argue that it is not the actual risk but the perception of risk among property holders that influences vulnerability of value. The hypothesi…
This thesis investigates the factors associated with provision of education for children with autism spectrum disorders. The child is at the centre of this investigation, as the issues and constraints clearly impact on the quality of the provision delivered. Educational provisio…
This study applied a theory of marriage and family therapy, specifically cybernetics, to the relationship between the US and Iraqi governments. This study also attempts to describe recent changes in Iraq incurred during the ongoing war in Iraq as either first- or second-order ch…
Literary criticism in the 'Information Age' requires a theory and a theoretical language compatible with the post-modern interdisciplinary educational communication. It seems that Systems Theory fulfills such expectation. Accordingly, society is an autopoietic system comprised o…
My dissertation project focuses on the history of cybernetics and aesthetics as a key site for the comparative study of cultural exchange between Arabic and American cultures. I argue that the emergence of cybernetics in the post-WWII era provided an infrastructure for a synthes…
Complex global challenges--including environmental, economic, diplomatic, and health-related--span national boundaries and increasingly necessitate international cooperation. As a result, diplomacy has broadened from government-to-government relations to include government-to-pu…
This is a practice-based research in spatial electronic music composition, performance and observation. The current state of the art includes many different technologies, approaches and organizations that remain separated due to incompatible tools, institutional structures or la…
The forced extraction of raw materials and life forms from the Earth’s biosphere sustains human feats of modernity. From precious metals to fossil fuels, from copper to uranium, and the rare earth minerals essential to modern infrastructure and electronics, the history of mining…