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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry
- 1Brazil
- 1Institutional Logics
- 1Institutional Theory
- 1Institutional Transformation
- 1Institutional Values
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Competing institutional logics, religion, and social movement outcomes: The case of solidarity economy enterprises in Brazil
DownloadFall 2019
This research reveals how the work of social movement organizations is affected by multiple—and sometimes competing—institutional logics surrounding a movement. Communities are part of the context that influences the ability of social movements to achieve their goals, and multiple institutional...
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Three Studies of Institutional Transformation: Theorizing an Institutional Logic’s Basis of Worth, The Role of Values in the Coherence of Institutional Logics, and Remaking Worth in Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry
DownloadFall 2024
Values are core to institutions. The overarching aim of this dissertation is to examine institutional values and their role in enabling or constraining a widely examined phenomenon within organizational studies: transformations. Theoretically, my research contributes towards a growing body of...