Essays on Institutionalization

Introduction

Management accounting (MA) involves collection and dissemination of accounting information for purposes of decision making. Over the recent past, management accounting has experienced significant changes, an aspect that is explained by different scholars (Sven, 2007, p. 336). The topic has attracted different concerns from various stakeholders, linking recent changes to globalization and changes experienced in the organizational settings. The concept of MA is understood to have significant impacts on organizational management as it is used in making strategic decisions (Arroyo, 2015, p. 287). This paper evaluates various theories explaining factors influencing change in management accounting. To achieve study objective, ...

Parent’s Influences and Responses to Children’s Risk-taking in Outdoor Play

Introduction Parents play an integral role in guiding their children in making crucial decisions in life, especially when it comes to risk taking. Although in most instances children depend on their direct experiences to react appropriately to risky situations it is apparent that parents also influence their ability to make sound decisions in such situations. When children are young most of these decisions are influenced by their parents since they control most of the activities they engage in. As children grow older, they start gaining independence in handling several tasks thus they take a greater responsibility for their decisions. ...

Institutionalization of Chinese politics since Deng Xiaoping:

The Chinese state and its relationship to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been by far the most significant factor in determining the level of institutionalization of Chinese politics. Chinese politics was highly shaped during the revolutionary and Maoist periods by the power of the CCP. The CCP’s role in the revolution and its creation of a particular state form highly influenced the state form. The Chinese state under Mao was revolutionary inasmuch as it was primarily focused on class struggle as its primary role. This changed after Mao’s death and the rise of Deng Xiaoping and ...

Summary

Summary Chapter 7 of the book is titled A Multi-theory Approach to Change. This chapter provides the readers with five cases. In the first case, Ken, as associated dean of faculty, is developing an international branch campus in Saudi Arabia. Though it is a first-order change, it requires work at multiple levels. Thus, speaking about the type of change there is no need for the second-order change. As to the context of change, it is necessary to consider the political and economic forces, which stand against Ken’s change. Ken may use his leadership qualities and authority through scientific ...

Introduction

In the contemporary community, culture plays a vital role in developing a connection between people and memories. The norms we have grown to see, experience and practice defines our existence from a given period. This resources of culture are essential in educating and helping the community to express the need and necessity of preservation. There are different ways and means of conservation of a culture that helps in defining, developing and implementing a logical protection about human life. For instance, there is the need of saving and protecting for something that has value and meaning to you. If not ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

Physical Therapy following Stroke

The purpose of this paper is to review a study by Kim, Kim, and Kim1 on the topic of physical therapy following cerebrovascular accident (stroke). The paper will summarize the study, comment on the relevance of the article to the field of physical therapy, and the importance of the study to other stakeholders. Finally, the paper will add recommendations for future research based on the results of the study. 1. Summary of the study The aim of the study was to determine if there was a relationship between stroke survivors’ quality of life and their ability to accomplish daily ...

Medieval Europe Prostitution

Depiction of Women in the French Fabliaux Within the French fabliaux, women are portrayed in many different ways. However, the two most dominating depictions are as the heroic figure, or the unsavory figure. There are numerous articles and essays written on this topic, supporting one side or the other, explaining the reason behind why women are portrayed in a certain way within the fabliaux. However, are we really able to support strictly one side of the argument? The history of prostitution explains to us that there could be a reason why there exists such conflicting portrayal of women within ...

Explain the terms “widening” and “deepening” in terms of how they apply to the European Union.

Deepening could be defined as the gradual process of formal, vertical institutionalization. On the other hand, widening could be defined as the gradual process of formal, horizontal institutionalization. The European integration process has many different dimensions. It highlights historical, political, economic, sociological and judicial dimensions. Deepening and widening have distinct meanings when applied to the different dimensions of European integration (European Commission, 2009). Deepening and widening are schools of thought showing how the European Union should develop. The European Union has evolved progressively to what is termed as the first-ever close union among European people. Its clear manifestation is ...

The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 granted funds to states to create community mental health centers. The purpose of the Act was to provide community-based mental health care as an alternative to institutionalization. The benefit of the community-based care was to allow mental health patients and those with intellectual disabilities to live and work at home while undergoing treatment or supervised care (Office of NIH History, Public Law 88-164 Oct.31, 1963). Those most affected by the Act were the mentally health patients and mentally handicapped individual who were released from institutions, and their families. Indirectly, the Act impacted ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...

The dispensation of judicial services in the US and particularly in the state of Texas has been faced by a myriad of problems. Most of these problems are caused by internal redundancies that have been in existence for decades. These have hindered efficient judicial services to the citizens and consequently reduced trust in the judiciary. This court management proposal looks at ways through which the state can ensure an improved judicial process and get rid of the backlog and delay characteristic of the courts. The paper suggests that the Victim Offender Mediation program be instituted to deal with less severe ...