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Hamilton, William – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
This personal reflective essay explores a group Dissertation in Practice (DiP) model and process used in a localized Doctor of Education program. It describes and recommends this team-based DiP approach as an innovation that prepares practitioners to tackle complex problems of practice by focusing on a process centered around group dynamics that…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Teaching Methods, Doctoral Students

Stalker, Alice Blake – ACA Bulletin, 1991
Discusses two models for dissertation support groups, noting rationale, models, and examples of such groups. Offers suggestions for the development of dissertation support groups. (SR)
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Group Guidance, Group Structure, Higher Education
Scott, W. Richard; Meyer, John W. – 1982
Following recent thinking that sees organizations' structures as dependent on their environments, the authors consider characteristics of institutional sectors that affect the organizations arising within them. They first point out problems in present models relating organizations to their environments and discuss several "forerunners"…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Group Structure, Models, Organizational Theories

Astley, W. Graham; Van de Ven, Andrew H. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983
Classifies organizational theories, by analytical level and assumptions about human nature, into four perspectives (system-structural, strategic choice, natural selection, collective action), each with different concepts of organizational structure, behavior, change, and managerial roles. Identifies six debates generated among the perspectives and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Group Behavior, Group Structure, Models
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
This essay reviews major trends in methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of organizations since the mid-sixties and espouses the political analysis of organizations, a position representing a middle ground between comparative structuralism and the loosely coupled systems approach. This position emphasizes micropolitics as well as…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Administration