Academy of Management Journal 2010‚ Vol. 53‚ No. 6‚ 1474–1498. FROM RITUAL TO REALITY: DEMOGRAPHY‚ IDEOLOGY‚ AND DECOUPLING IN A POST-COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AGENCY ´ ANDRAS TILCSIK Harvard University Decoupling—the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices—is ubiquitous in organizations. Yet little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over time. This qualitative case study of a post-Communist government agency develops process models of what precedes and what follows
Premium Cosmic microwave background radiation Government spending Qualitative research
The Ethics of Advertising: Do advertisers go too far? Introduction: Advertising is any paid form of non-personal communication about an organization‚ good‚ service or idea by an identified sponsor (Berkowitz‚ Crane‚ Kerin‚ Hartley‚ & Rudelius‚ 494). Advertisements are displayed through various means to a large audience. They can be found on the Internet‚ in a magazine‚ or even on the highway. Advertisements are everywhere! Their main goal is to grab the consumer’s attention about a specific
Premium Advertising
How far was Britain’s policy of Appeasement the result of popular opinion? Britain’s policy of appeasement was partly due to popular opinion. The British people did not want to enter another war after losing 722‚000 lives and having 1‚676‚000 people wounded. There was a widespread feeling that death and destruction should never be allowed to happen on such a scale again. However public opinion was not the only reason Britain followed a policy of appeasement to Hitler. There were other factors such
Premium World War II Germany Nazi Germany
percentage of the human rights abuses in the UK in terms of getting fair treatment‚ and so the HRA has led to many successful victories for human rights campaigners. This can be seen through the 2004 case of nine suspected terrorists being released from Belmarsh Prison on the grounds that their arrest was based on a law that discriminated illegally between foreign nationals and UK citizens. Furthermore‚ prior to the introduction of the HRA‚ plaintiffs had to travel to Strasbourg in order to bring
Premium United Kingdom Parliament of the United Kingdom
Metternich fleeing from power in March 1848 and revolutions resulting in chaos that threatened the extinction of any future Austrian influence‚ the crippling state’s main focus was to supress anything that could jeopardize its weakened power even further‚ rather than establishing any plans to increase dominance. However certain events such as the failure of the Erfurt union‚ the humiliation at Hesse-Cassel and the meeting at Olmutz tightened Austria’s grasp by an almost transfer of power from Prussia to
Premium Germany World War II Prussia
The industry is constantly changing and Game of Thrones and Supernatural are just two examples of thousands of TV shows. 5.1 Changes So Far Modern media has been becoming more accepting of the queer community. “We are in a climate now‚ where it is acceptable to have queer people on screen.”1 But the tolerance has taken its time. The first time a gay romance was featured on screen was in 1972‚ in a TV move called That Certain Summer. 1975 two homosexual characters appeared on screen as a couple in
Premium Homosexuality Sexual orientation LGBT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Wyatt‚ "They Flee From Me" Set of Multiple-choice Questions Analyzing a Poem Sir Thomas Wyatt’s sixteenth-century lyric "They flee from me" is an enigmatic poem that pleases at least partly because it provides no final certainty about the situation it describes. Yet the poem‚ while in some respects indefinite and puzzling‚ is nevertheless quite specific in its presentation of a situation‚ particularly
Free Metropolitana di Napoli Madrid Metro Osaka Municipal Subway
Emancipation from Segregation By Don Moore (2010) The physical chains of slavery were broken by the Emancipation Proclamation passed by President Lincoln in the 1860s. Ten years later the African American people faced a second form of slavery. In the South‚ right after the Civil War‚ in the 1870s‚ anti-African American laws were passed which were called the Jim Crow laws. According to David Pilgrim‚ Professor of Sociology‚ the Jim Crow laws mandated that African Americans were not to go
Premium African American Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fuel From Plastic Waste Introduction: Household items made of various kinds of plastic. Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic amorphous solid materials used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass‚ and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce costs. Monomers of Plastic are either natural or synthetic organic compounds. The word is derived from the Greek
Premium Plastic
Milgram’s aim was to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress
Premium Stanford prison experiment Psychology Milgram experiment