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Peer reviewedStearns, Linda Brewster; Mizruchi, Mark S. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Not all organizational interlocks, when broken, will necessarily be reconstituted. Focusing on interlocks between industrial and financial corporations, this paper compares determinants of direct reconstitution with those of functional reconstitution. Factors affecting the likelihood of direct reconstitution are neutral in effect on the likelihood…
Descriptors: Banking, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
Direct linkKoutsantoni, Dimitra – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2006
Research articles and research theses constitute two key genres used by scientific communities for the dissemination and ratification of knowledge. Both genres are produced at advanced stages of individuals' enculturation in disciplinary communities present original research aim to persuade the academic community to accept new knowledge claims,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Rhetoric, Chemical Engineering
Peer reviewedKobayashi-Winata, Hiroko; Power, Thomas G. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1989
Explores the possibility that differences in compliance between Japanese and American children are the result of culturally distinct child-rearing practices. Child compliance with adult authority was positively associated with providing opportunities for appropriate behavior and negatively associated with reliance on physical discipline in both…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Rearing, Children, Comparative Analysis
Download full textScott, W. Richard; Meyer, John W. – 1984
The environment within which an organization must operate is expected to influence its administrative and program characteristics. Since public schools operate in more complex and conflicting environments than do private schools, it is predicted that they will exhibit greater administrative complexity and less curricular coherence. These…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Marshall, Catherine; And Others – 1989
A research project that developed methods for describing, organizing, analyzing, and predicting state education policy activity had as its major focus the way that values affect that policy. Data were drawn from six states: Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Arizona, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They were chosen to represent ranges of political…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Culture
Zeigler, Harmon; And Others – 1983
A 3-year research project was conducted to compare the conflict management behavior of school superintendents and city managers, both of whom are professionally trained experts held accountable to lay legislatures. Chapter 1, "Professionalism and Responsiveness," addresses the inherent tension, in a democracy, between elected officials'…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
