This study explored how social structure and cultural values dynamically interact in collective learning between two religious organizations cooperating in a joint project. It further explored the enablers of and impediments to collective learning in this context. The study employed the...
As a consequence of power's ubiquitous nature in society, it remains difficult to isolate and analyze, given that power is an emergent, elusive social construct, appearing and disappearing within social exchanges. Historical writings about the late sixties suggest that American society at that...
The Process of Foreseeing:A Case Study of National Security Strategy Development Problem. As demonstrated by strategic miscalculations since World War II, national security and military strategy development often do not integrate understanding of a range of possible future conditions in the...
This study investigated the relationship between organizational learning and organizational innovativeness through the lens of Schwandt's Organization Learning Systems Model (OLSM). The study used an explanatory correlational design with a comprehensive sample. A total of 789 leaders, from four...
Abstract of DissertationThe Enactment of Learning and Knowledge Creation:A Study of Hospital Leadership Group InteractionThe ability of hospital leadership groups to collectively learn and build knowledge is critical to the competent and safe delivery of healthcare in the United States today....
Organizational perception and conception of interactions and relationships vary over time and space. This study focused on the capacity within and between healthcare organizations to collectively make sense of ambivalent and ambiguous environments in the context of social structuring actions...
Abstract of DissertationDespite increased awareness of the link between teamwork and medical errors, and increased development of interventions aimed at improving team performance, the incidence of preventable errors in hospitals, and in the surgical environment particularly, remains high. Absent...
This case study researched cross-level goals as structuring mechanisms in a healthcare setting, and the social structuring interactions between knowledgeable agents and organizational context. Stones' (2005) strong structuration theory was used as the theoretical framework in order to investigate...
This dissertation examines the actions, decisions, interactions, and operations undertaken by DuPont from 1989 to 2008 that enabled it to transform into a sustainable organization. Specifically, this dissertation examines the role of organizational change in sustainability exhibited by DuPont...
AbstractThe current study sought to answer the question, is there a significant difference between Distance Education (DE) and traditional face-to-face (F2F) class evaluations on the Individual Development and Educational Assessment (IDEA) survey, examined through the lens of Moore’s...