Theories of organizational behaviour mostly originated in North America. In testing their applicability elsewhere, attention must be given to differences in local environments and in the values of local employees. Within Latin America, the prevalence of high collectivism and power distance are particularly important. Employees’ attachment to their organization has been shown to differ within collectivistic cultures. The argument is illustrated by two Latin American studies. Firstly, the ways in which managers handle work events within Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are compared. Secondly, cross-national work problems of employees from these countries are surveyed. The results emphasize the need to take account of variability within the region, and the need to use measures that capture locally important issues. / Las teorías del comportamiento organizacional se han originado principalmente en América del Norte. Al probar su aplicabilidad en otras regiones culturales, debe prestarse atención a las diferencias en los ambientes y en los valores de los empleados locales. Dentro de Latinoamérica, la prevalencia de altos niveles de colectivismo y distancia al poder es particularmente importante. En ese sentido, se ha demostrado que el apego de los empleados hacia su organización difiere dentro de las culturas colectivistas. El argumento se ilustra por dos estudios latinoamericanos. En el primero, se compara la forma en que los gerentes manejan los eventos laborales dentro de México, Colombia, Brasil, Chile y Argentina. En el segundo, se examinan los problemas laborales transnacionales de los empleados de estos países. Los resultados enfatizan la necesidad de utilizar medidas que capturen aspectos localmente importantes.

This dissertation analyzes processes of globalization, through a critical examination of the dynamics of neoliberalism in the Americas. It employs and also develops a Foucauldian governmentality analytical framework, demonstrating how such a framework contributes to our understanding of world politics. This dissertation also develops the concept of a liberal political imaginary—consisting of the market, society, and the state—and utilizes this as an analytical framework for understanding the globalization of neoliberal forms of governance. The research suggests that discourses and practices of globalization, global civil society, and global governance represent a fundamental transformation in the way that contemporary social and political reality is understood, and that this has significant consequences for the kinds of political practices and relations that are possible. Moreover, the research suggests the globalization of a neoliberal form of competitive subjectivity that can be applied to a broad range of actors—from individuals to nation-states and international organizations—is reshaping contemporary world politics. The dissertation concludes by suggesting how Foucauldian IR can move forward by incorporating studies of contemporary transformations in capitalism into their analyses.

This dissertation examines local governments’ efforts to promote economic development in Latin America. The research uses a mixed method to explore how cities make decisions to innovate, develop, and finance economic development programs. First, this study provides a comparative analysis of decentralization policies in Argentina and Mexico as a means to gain a better understanding of the degree of autonomy exercised by local governments. Then, it analyzes three local governments each within the province of Santa Fe, Argentina and the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. The principal hypothesis of this dissertation is that if local governments collect more own-source tax revenue, they are more likely to promote economic development and thus, in turn, promote growth for their region. By examining six cities, three of which are in Santa Fe—Rosario, Santa Fe (capital) and Rafaela—and three in Guanajuato—Leon, Guanajuato (capital) and San Miguel de Allende, this dissertation provides a better understanding of public finances and tax collection efforts of local governments in Latin America. Specific attention is paid to each city’s budget authority to raise new revenue and efforts to promote economic development. The research also includes a large statistical dataset of Mexico’s 2,454 municipalities and a regression analysis that evaluates local tax efforts on economic growth, controlling for population, territorial size, and the professional development. In order to generalize these results, the research tests these discoveries by using statistical data gathered from a survey administered to Latin American municipal officials. The dissertation demonstrates that cities, which experience greater fiscal autonomy measured by the collection of more own-source revenue, are better able to stimulate effective economic development programs, and ultimately, create jobs within their communities. The results are bolstered by a large number of interviews, which were conducted with over 100 finance specialists, municipal presidents, and local authorities. The dissertation also includes an in-depth literature review on fiscal federalism, decentralization, debt financing and local development. It concludes with a discussion of the findings of the study and applications for the practice of public administration.

Orientador: Wilson Cano / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T09:52:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mioto_BeatrizTamaso_D.pdf: 3182855 bytes, checksum: e92d7da2f67b15c5c81964f4ffd846a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A produção de moradias constitui-se numa importante atividade para a acumulação capitalista e num dos focos de conflito ao redor da apropriação do espaço. Isso exigiu, historicamente, a regulação estatal por diversos meios, entre eles, as políticas habitacionais. Ainda que seja algo presente em todas as formações sociais, a maneira pela qual se dá a produção e a regulação do setor nos diferentes espaços depende fundamentalmente do padrão de acumulação em curso. Diante desse pressuposto metodológico, o objetivo do trabalho é, à luz da teoria crítica do subdesenvolvimento, analisar as atuais características e limites das políticas habitacionais no continente latino-americano. Diante da variedade de experiências em curso, a discussão será centrada nas políticas do Brasil, Colômbia, México e Venezuela enquanto modelos paradigmáticos da produção da cidade. Constata-se que, apesar das similitudes nos mecanismos institucionais, as principais diferenças entre os programas são: a relação dos esquemas de subsídios e financiamentos; a política fundiária e a relação do Estado com as frações de capital que determinam, em maior ou menor medida, o padrão das políticas dos países. Nesse sentido, a política venezuelana diverge das demais, uma vez que apresenta forte atuação estatal sobre a produção e a questão fundiária, destarte, a política apresenta maior coerência entre a atenção às camadas da população de menor renda e o acesso à infraestrutura urbana. No caso brasileiro, em que pese o protagonismo dos capitais privados nacionais, a política apresenta uma coordenação maior entre os mecanismos de subsídio e financiamento, permitindo uma atenção mais ampla à população que, historicamente, esteve apartada dos principais programas estatais. No caso mexicano e colombiano, as políticas e seus distintos instrumentos constituem versões mais acabadas do que os organismos multilaterais determinaram como padrão de política neoliberal e, em função da aposta nos mecanismos de mercado para resolução do problema, têm enfrentado limites no que tange o acesso da população mais pobre ao subsídio/financiamento, bem como, produzido resultados espaciais contestáveis, como o aumento da periferização, falta de acesso à infraestrutura urbana e pior qualidade dos imóveis (tanto no tamanho, quanto nos materiais) / Abstract: The housing production is an important activity for capitalist accumulation and is one of the sources of conflict surrounding the appropriation of space. Such characteristic historically requires state regulation by different means, including, housing policies. While it is present in all social formations, the manner in which production and regulation of the sector is configured in distinguished spaces depends on the current pattern of accumulation. While present in all social formations, the manner in which production and regulation of the sector is configured in distinguished spaces depends on the current pattern of accumulation. Facing variety in ongoing experiences, the discussion will be focused on the policies adopted in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela as paradigmatic models in the production of the city. Despite institutional similarities, the survey results point out that the main differences regarding the programs are: the subsidy schemes and the means of financing; land policy; and state in relation to the fractions of capital that at various levels determine the pattern of these policies in the countries. Thus, Venezuelan politics as it features a strong state action on production and land issue differs from the others. Thus, the policy shows more consistent attention to the low income population and in the provision of urban infrastructure. In Brazil, despite the role of national private capital, the policy has a greater coordination in subsidy and financing mechanisms, allowing a wider attention to the population that historically has been excluded from the main government programs. In the Mexican and Colombian case, policies and their various instruments are closer to the neoliberal guidelines of multilateral organizations. Based on market mechanisms to solve the problem, Mexico and Colombia demonstrate a restricted access of the poor to subsidies and financing. Thus, the space outcomes in these countries are troublesome, with increasing periphery, lack of access to urban infrastructure and poor quality of housing / Doutorado / Desenvolvimento Economico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente / Doutora em Desenvolvimento Econômico

Orientador: Fernando Cezar de Macedo Mota / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T09:47:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aruto_PietroCaldeirini_M.pdf: 1521759 bytes, checksum: 79bf6131650ef8ed2bf00f5236f45676 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O objetivo desta dissertação é desenvolver o conceito de formação socioespacial dependente a partir do conceito de formação socioespacial definido por Milton Santos. De modo geral, o conceito trata da capacidade que o espaço tem de manifestar as condições históricas postas à produção social no modo de produção capitalista. Uma vez que sua origem encontra-se no embate das correntes marxistas em torno da concepção de formação econômico-social, resgata-se criticamente no primeiro capítulo essas contribuições para aprofundar o conceito proposto, especialmente no que tange à associação entre as relações de produção e as mudanças espaciais. A redefinição metodológica que se propõe a partir da formação socioespacial dependente busca compreender as transformações históricas que se operam entre e dentro das formações socioespaciais, ou seja, leva à discussão de duas categorias centrais da dimensão espacial: nação e região; desenvolvidas nos capítulos 2 e 3. Para ir além do plano eminentemente teórico, a investigação é centrada na análise da formação sociespacial dependente da América Latina, onde as relações de produção no continente são especificamente marcadas pela superexploração da força de trabalho. Dessa forma, o resultado da investigação permite compreender, dentro da totalidade do modo de produção capitalista, a associação entre a produção social do espaço e relação de produção nas formações socioespaciais dependentes, mostrando que o espaço é estruturado e transformado para garantir as condições de reprodução da força de trabalho abaixo do seu valor / Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to develop the socio-spatial-dependent formation concept from the socio-spatial formation concept as defined by Milton Santos. In general, the concept is concerned with the capability of space to manifest the historical conditions underlying the social production in the capitalist mode of production. Once its origin lies in the shock within Marxism regarding the social-economic formation concept , it is recovered critically in the first chapter these contributions to deepen the proposed concept, especially the association between relations of production and spatial changes. The proposed methodological redefinition seeks to understand the historical transformations that operate in socio-spatial formations, ie, it leads to the discussion of two central categories of the spatial dimension: nation and region; to be carried out in chapters 2 and 3. Extrapolating the theoretical level, research is focused on the analysis of Latin America socio-dependent formation, once the relations of production are specifically characterized by overexploitation of the labour power. Thus, the result of research allows understanding, within the totality of the capitalist mode of production, the association of social production of space and relation of production in the dependent socio-spatial formations, showing that space is structured and transformed to ensure the conditions of reproduction of the labour power below its value / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento Economico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico

A presente dissertação apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa comparativa do tema da questão nacional nas obras do historiador brasileiro Caio Prado Jr. e do jornalista e militante peruano José Carlos Mariátegui. Partindo-se da hipótese de que um dos principais dilemas enfrentados pelo marxismo na América Latina foi dar um tratamento adequado à questão nacional no sub-continente, propôs-se que ambos os autores ao abordarem a questão nacional como construção inconclusa da nação deram respostas análogas ao problema e deitaram as bases de um método marxista capaz de dar conta da realidade local. Todavia, foi preciso ir além desse elemento em comum e demonstrar os diferentes modos pelos quais ambos os autores levaram adiante suas empreitadas políticas e intelectuais. Assim, a dissertação dividiu-se em duas partes, em um primeiro momento foi feito uma reconstrução comparada dos contextos históricos do Brasil e do Peru bem como dos diferentes momentos do movimento comunista nos quais ambos atuaram. Já na segunda parte procurou-se cotejar as obras do brasileiro e do peruano em torno de alguns eixos temáticos comuns. Com esta reconstrução interligada de texto e contexto espera-se ter não apenas demonstrado as semelhanças e diferenças do pensamento de Caio Prado e Mariátegui, como também apontado suas contribuições fundamentais para o estabelecimento de um marxismo especificamente latino-americano. / This dissertation presents the results from a comparative analysis of the national issue based on the works of the Brazilian historian Caio Prado Jr. And hose of Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui. Considering the hypothesis that one of the most important dilemmas faced by the latin-american marxism was to develop proper answers for the sub continents national issue, is possible to say that the approaches of both authors offered similar solutions using the Marxist method in a creative way to understand their local realities when addressing the national issue as the nations unfinished construction. However, it was necessary to go beyond this common element and demonstrate the different ways in which both authors have undertaken their political and intellectual endeavors. Therefore, the work was divided into two parts, at the first it was made a comparative reconstruction of the historical contexts of Brazil and Peru as well as of the different moments of the communist movement n which both authors acted. In the second part the comparison was between the works of the Brazilian and Peruvian authors around some common themes. With this interconnected reconstruction of text and contexts, not only the differences and the similarities between Prados and Mariáteguis works could be pointed out, but also their fundamental contributions to the establishment of a particular latin-american marxism.

abstract: This dissertation proposes a re-evaluation of the films of Caliwood—a close-knit group of film fanatics who produced socially-minded independent cinema in Cali, Colombia—and the group’s contribution towards a national film industry. Focusing primarily on the works of Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo during the period ranging between 1971 and 1991, this study analyzes six key films—Oiga vea! (1972), Cali de Película (1973), Agarrando Pueblo (1977), Pura Sangre (1982), Carne de tu carne (1983)—which showcase the evolution of the group’s production from experimental documentaries to pseudo-documentaries and fictional films. Additionally, It All Started at the End (2015) is analyzed because it is the last film produced by Luis Ospina and it showcases the history of the group from his own perspective. In totality, these films represent a political stance derived from the tenets of the Third Cinema movement—a call for a revolutionary cinema which reverberated throughout Latin America—which denounces neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment for profit. Furthermore, this comprehensive analysis of Caliwood’s films covers a representative sample of their film legacy, as well as their critique of socio-political and cultural issues in Colombia. The reflections yielded from this study propose a reframing of Colombian film history and acknowledges the importance of Ospina’s and Mayolo’s contribution to the development of a “national” film tradition in Colombia. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2020

After the Jomtien conference and the World Declaration, Education for all in 1990, by UNESCO, education began to be a topic of greater relevance for global politics, and not only for domestic politics. The thesis aims to examine the construction of the OECD’s discourse about higher education using Chile as a Case of study, through the analysis of the OECD’s document Reviews of National Policies for Education, Education in Chile, published in 2017, and on the Law 21091 of Higher Education in Chile promulgated in 2018. For this, from poststructuralist theory, and using the concepts of legitimacy and norm as a theoretical framework, discourse analysis is carried out using the What is the Problem Represented to be approached. Thus, the thesis reveals that the OECD discourse is built on OECD preconceived standards, and not on particular standards for Chile, however, this also leads Chile to recognize itself as a country part of a world elite.

Camilla Bregante Coca eradication programs and environmental detriment in Colombia Abstract Conceived as U.S. assistance to Bogotá in combating Colombian drug cartels, Plan Colombia imposed the eradication of coca plants mainly through the fumigation with glyphosate. In the accusations against the Plan, human health issues largely surpassed discourses over environmental preservation. This thesis argued that the protection of biodiversity-rich Colombian ecosystems should be prioritized, hypothesizing harmful effects of Plan's implementation on flora and fauna. Building on the securitization theory, Colombian environmental detriment was proved to constitute a security issue. First, indeed, critical review of main toxicologists' studies on the matter revealed that the mixture used in fumigations deeply affects the ecosystems. Notably, a case study on Putumayo department emphasized damages on non-target vegetation and animals, which reduced to poverty the locals. Secondly, elaborating the data collected by the Integrated Illicit Crops Monitoring System (SIMCI) between 2001 and 2015, a comparative analysis between Putumayo and the Pacific region detected major crops displacement along the years, and, therefore, more and more forests cleared to grow coca. Finally, the last chapter described how, in the same...

In the past decade, the financial industry has been criticized to lack a faster digital transformation to provide more efficient services, where FinTech (a neologism generated from the contraction of “(Fin)ancial” and “(Tech)nology”) start-ups or fintechs represent a paradigm shift to reinvent the industry. FinTech is gaining attention in multiple academic disciplines, however, it was found that it has been neglected from the international business discipline to understand the internationalization process of fintechs. Furthermore, as the financial industry is an important cornerstone to foster economic growth and social welfare, particularly in the context of Latin American emerging countries, lack of studies in this context also motivated the development of this thesis. The purpose of this study is to accommodate FinTech in the international business discipline drawing from network theory and born-digital firms’ characteristics, emphasizing on core activities within the digital value chain to analyze the internationalization process and identify the main challenges. A conceptual framework was developed to analyze the internationalization process of Ecuadorian fintechs and the challenges faced. The research has a qualitative approach, employing multiple case studies strategy, where semi-structured interviews with founders and senior managers of four Ecuadorian fintechs were conducted. Empirical findings showed that despite having a high digital value chain and take advantage of internet technologies to internationalize faster, Ecuadorian fintechs followed a gradual regional expansion within Latin American countries and their internationalization process was mostly network-driven. Furthermore, besides the most prominent internationalization challenges such as liabilities of outsidership (LoO) and institutional regulations, additional resource-related internationalization challenges were found such as funding, skilled IT talents and innovation, which raise the importance to emphasize in such challenges for further research.