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Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
In the eye of the storm: Mediators' perspectives on resolving labor-management conflict.
(1999)
The participant observation portion of my research involved attending the FMCS new mediator training program. This training program consisted of four intensive week-long training sessions. The interview data were derived ...
Coping with limits: Responding to reform in Oklahoma.
(1998)
The model of legislative reform posited here include internal factors like: members' characteristics, professionalism, and internal political culture. It also include external influences like: the constitution, the states' ...
Images of decision-making and the launch of the Challenger space shuttle.
(1997)
Furthermore, I found that the interpretation of events leading to the Challenger decision was subject to the analyst's preconception of what transpired. I confined my research primarily to theoretical interpretations of ...