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Technology and infrastructure co-creation from the bottom-up : Institutional, sociomaterial, improvisational and symbolic accounts from the field : The case of grassroots internet infrastructure development in Belarus / Aljona Putilina Zorina ; sous la direction de D. E. Avison
(2012)
This dissertation is a multi-perspective inquiry into the phenomenon of grassroots end-user innovation. It focuses on the processes of end-user innovation and technology co-creation and investigates how these developments ...
Needle Pulling Thread : The Emergence, Diffusion, and Transformation of Ready-to-Wear Fashion in New York and Paris between the 1940s and the 1970s / Yue Zhao ; sous la direction de Marie-Laure Djelic
(2012)
In this dissertation, I study the emergence, diffusion, and transformation of ready-to-wear fashion in New York and Paris from the 1940s to the 1970s through three component papers. The comparative study in paper 1 reveals ...
Managers in disputes and use of alternative dispute resolution in France / Adrian Borbély ; sous la direction de Ayse Öncüler
(2012)
This dissertation explores resistance factors toward Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) that can be observed in French companies, more precisely in relation with the micro interactions between managers and lawyers as ...
Scaling in social entrepreneurship : partnerships, knowledge transfer, and business models / Imran Chowdhury ; sous la direction de Anca Metiu
(2012)
The purpose of this dissertation is to deepen the study of social entrepreneurship by examining how social entrepreneurs use partnerships and organize themselves to transfer knowledge. My research takes a first step towards ...
The interactive effects of formal and informal information exchanges on team performance and team satisfaction / Jau-Shyuam Lai ; sous la direction de Michael Ahearne et de Arnaud De Bruyn
(2012)
This study establishes a multilevel model to investigate how managers can increase team performance and team satisfaction by influencing team members communications. I applied organizational communication theory, social ...
Multiculturals in organizations : Their roles for organizational effectiveness
(2012)
This dissertation explores multiculturals in global corporations. To date, limited research helps us understand the role of multicultural individuals in facilitating the effective functioning of global teams. To investigate ...