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Western University

2012

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Organizational Perceptions And Responses To The Natural Environment, Michael O. Wood Oct 2012

Organizational Perceptions And Responses To The Natural Environment, Michael O. Wood

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that two-thirds of the world’s ecosystems were being exploited well beyond sustainable levels. Given that many firms across sectors rely on natural resources to conduct business, it is surprising that many have failed to make their business practices more sustainable. I believe this occurs not because companies are acting in their own enlightened self-interests, but because they are unable to perceive the severity of such issues. The key is that perceptual deficiencies are not the result of blatant disregard, but of systemic incompatibility. That is, most companies do not choose to ignore environmental …

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Women & Video Games, Johanna Weststar, Marie-Josee Legault Oct 2012

Women & Video Games, Johanna Weststar, Marie-Josee Legault

Management and Organizational Studies Presentations

This is a presentation that was given as part of the Industry Panel on Women`s Experiences in the Screen-Based Industries at the International CRIMT conference on Union Futures in Montreal, Quebec Oct 25-27, 2012

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The Effects Of The Environment And Corporate Governance On Illegal Cartel Activity, David Kunsch Aug 2012

The Effects Of The Environment And Corporate Governance On Illegal Cartel Activity, David Kunsch

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Illegal corporate activity, including the price fixing activity of two or more firms through cartels, costs the global economy billions of dollars a year, yet its causes are neither well studied nor well understood in organizational literature. This thesis explores possible external and internal antecedents of illegal cartel activity through the management lenses of resource dependency theory and agency theory and the criminological theory of anomie in the examination of the research question “Why do corporations engage in illegal activity?” I posit that illegal international cartel activity is influenced by the environment in which the organization finds itself, moderated by …

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Negotiating In Silence: Experiences With Parental Leave In Academia, Johanna Weststar Jul 2012

Negotiating In Silence: Experiences With Parental Leave In Academia, Johanna Weststar

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

This paper presents a case study of pregnancy/parental leave arrangements among faculty members at a mid-sized Canadian University from 2000-2010. The data show that leave arrangements were very inconsistent across faculties, across and within departments, and even for individual faculty members who had taken more than one leave. The majority of problematic cases were instances where a faculty member began or ended a leave in the middle of an academic term. Without specific language in their collective agreement, these faculty members often negotiated circumstances that carried individual penalties for duties that were unassigned in light of the leave. This research …

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A Transaction Governance Perspective On Business Entertainment: A General Model And Evidence From China, Yonglin Sun Apr 2012

A Transaction Governance Perspective On Business Entertainment: A General Model And Evidence From China, Yonglin Sun

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Despite the prevalence of business entertainment in economic life, nearly all studies on the phenomenon have explored it from a social perspective by labeling it as a social vice. Although a few scholarly works have identified the role of business entertainment in facilitating exchange relationships; none of them has offered a systematic explanation of how business entertainment plays such a role. Meanwhile, despite some scholars’ recognition of the role of social sanctions in regulating economic activities, virtually none of them has explored the relationship between social sanctions and business entertainment. This dissertation aims to bridge these gaps by arguing that …

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Vocational Well-Being Of Workers With Childhood Disability Onset, Mark E. Moore, Alison M. Konrad, Yang Yang, Eddy S.W. Ng, Alison J. Doherty Apr 2012

Vocational Well-Being Of Workers With Childhood Disability Onset, Mark E. Moore, Alison M. Konrad, Yang Yang, Eddy S.W. Ng, Alison J. Doherty

CRDCN Research Highlight/RCCDR en évidence

No abstract provided.

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A Polyphonic Approach To The 'Dark Side' Of Making Video Games, Johanna Weststar, Amanda Pettica-Harris, Steve Mckenna Jan 2012

A Polyphonic Approach To The 'Dark Side' Of Making Video Games, Johanna Weststar, Amanda Pettica-Harris, Steve Mckenna

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

This paper considers the video game industry and how it is represented through social media blogs and tweets. It aims to disentangle the polyphony of voices communicating through different stories about what it means to work in the gaming industry. The multiple voices found within the blogs and tweets weave a complex and contested narrative about the carnivalesque way in which video games are made, poignantly illustrating the good, the bad, and the ugly. Using the work of the Russian literary theorist and philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin (1984, 1993), and particularly his notions of monologic and dialogic stories and narratives (McKenna, …

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