This paper is focused on the quantitative analysis of the role of the faith-based organisations (FBOs) in development cooperation. The aim of this work is to determine to what extent do selected FBOs cooperate with government donors in development cooperation. The role of FBOs in development was so far neglected topic in Czech academic literature and this work thus fills to some extent this gap. In this work I characterise selected organizations based on their income, country of origin and religion, on which the organization is based. Then I gradually investigate to what extent do selected FBOs involve in European development cooperation, to what extent are selected FBOs publicly funded and finally compare the structure of revenues of selected FBOs with the revenues of secular nonprofit organizations.

Au cœur du processus de construction de l'économie de la connaissance, les diasporas sont considérées comme des leviers du développement. Ainsi, on observe un intérêt grandissant de la part des gouvernements et des organisations internationales pour la production et la mobilisation des Diaspora Knowledge Networks. Dans le même temps, les associations de migrants sont de plus en plus nombreuses et l'émigration qualifiée en Amérique Latine atteint des sommets. En partant de ce constat, cette thèse a eu pour but d'observer les dynamiques de circulation du savoir entre l'Europe et les pays andins. Alors, cette thèse se construit autour de l'idée du partage de l'espace diasporique entre la société civile, les administrations des pays d'origine et pays de destination. La thèse consiste donc à montrer comment les modes de spatialisation diffèrent selon que l'on étudie une initiative systémique ou par le bas. Ainsi, en bénéficiant des expériences andines et européennes, à partir des organisations de la société civile, cette thèse révèle le partage des diasporas par, et entre, ses acteurs. / In the knowledge based economy building process, diasporas are seen as a development enabler. Thus we observe a growing interest of governments and international organizations in promoting and mobilizing diasporas knowledge networks, allowing them to contribute to national research and development activities in their countries of origin. In the mean time, diaspora organizations are growing and emigration of highly qualified at the highest rates ever reached in South America. Considering this situation as a starting point, this thesis was dedicated to observe dynamics of knowledge circulations between Europe and the Andean countries. In so doing, this thesis makes its point showing how the civil society, the origin countries and destination countries administrations share the diasporic space undertsood as the space of knowledge circulations. From this perspective we show that spatialization modes are different between systemic or spontanous initiatives. Thus, benefiting from andean and european experiences among civil society organizations we state that diasporas are both shared and split by their actors.

The rapid rise of alternative organisations such as social enterprises is largely due to the promotional activities of intermediary organisations. So far, little is known about the affective nature of such activities. The present article thus investigates how intermediary organisations make social entrepreneurship palatable for a broader audience by establishing it as an object of desire. Drawing on affect-oriented extensions of Laclau and Mouffe's poststructuralist theory, hegemonisation is suggested as a way of understanding how social entrepreneurship is articulated through a complementary process of signification and affective investment. Specifically, by examining Austrian intermediaries, we show how social entrepreneurship is endowed with a sense of affective thrust that is based on three interlocking dynamics: the articulation of fantasies such as 'inclusive exclusiveness', 'large-scale social change' and 'pragmatic solutions'; the repression of anxiety-provoking and contentious issues (constitutive quiescences); as well as the use of conceptually vague, floating signifiers (moments of indeterminacy). Demonstrating that the hegemonisation of social entrepreneurship involves articulating certain issues whilst, at the same time, omitting others, or rendering them elusive, the article invites a counter-hegemonic critique of social entrepreneurship, and, on a more general level, of alternative forms of organising, that embraces affect as a driving force of change, while simultaneously affirming the impossibility of harmony and wholeness.

The thesis deals with the issue of ethical codes and codes of good governance and their application in selected financial institutions Banks in Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and abroad ( VÚB, Citibank, Komerční Banka and HSBC ). Within the framework of the theoretical background is presented the complexity of the relationship of the ethics and the banking sector in the form of the creation and implementation of Aegean codes and the implementation of the policy of corporate social responsibility. In the practical part is a comparative analysis of the codes of ethics of four selected banks with an evaluation of the questionnaire surveys of their clients which reflect their view of the ethical values of the bank and their compliance with the principle sections of these codes.

This thesis deals with the non-profit organizations with a particular focus on the civic associations. It consists of a theoretical and practical part. There are characterized the non-profit organizations in the theoretical part, their position in the Czech Republic. They are also compared with some countries of the European Union. The main part describes the civic associations, the ways of their financing, accounting and audit. The practical part is focused on the analysis of the economic results in Mateřské centrum Kapřík and Mateřské centrum Pampeliška. There are shortly compared with each other at the end of the work.

De nos jours les organisations publiques ont compris que les systèmes d'information sont devenus un atout stratégique. Dans ce cadre les organisations publiques gouvernementales ont recours massivement aux SI pour améliorer leur fonctionnement interne et les services qu'elles offrent aux usagers? Cependant le montant des investissements en SI s'avère élevé. Ces investissements comprennent certes le coût des technologies de l'information mais aussi des coûts immatériels liés à l'impact organisationnel des TI et le changement de nombreuses procédures en matière de management de l'information. / Owadays public organizations have realized that information systems have become a strategic asset. Within this framework governmental public organizations rely heavily on SI improve their internal operations and the services they provide to users? However the amount of investment in IS is high. These investments do include the cost of information technology but also the intangible costs associated with the organizational impact of IT and change many procedures for information management.

L'étude des processus de création de connaissances souligne la complexité des interactions individuelles au sein des organisations productives. Cette complexité est telle que les théories de l'entreprise basées sur les incitations, focalisées sur les problèmes de traitement de l'information, peuvent ignorer une part substantielle des facteurs de décision individuels intervenant dans le contexte de l'apprentissage organisationnel, et plus largement dans les processus de production collectifs. Nous utilisons dans cette thèse la méthode expérimentale pour étudier les déterminants de la coopération, afin d'affiner les hypothèses comportementales sur lesquelles sont basées les théories économiques de la production collective. Nous montrons que les deux visions de la coopération portées par les théories de l'entreprise - un comportement devant être extrait d'intérêts divergents et une propriété émergente découlant des interactions sociales entre agents – sont étayées par les résultats expérimentaux. Par conséquent, nous concluons que les deux approches devraient être retenues et éventuellement intégrées dans un cadre d'analyse plus large. / The study of knowledge creation processes has pointed to the complexity of individual interactions within productive organizations. This complexity appears to be such that incentive-based theories of the firm, which focus on information processing issues, may fail to grasp a substantial part of the individual decision-making involved in the context of organizational learning, and more broadly in collective production processes. In this thesis we use experimental methods to study the determinants of cooperation, in order to refine the behavioral assumptions on which economic theories of collective production are based. We show that the two visions of cooperation embodied in competing theories of the firm - a behavior to be elicited from diverging interests and an emergent property stemming from social interactions among agents - find support from the laboratory experiments. Accordingly, we conclude that both approaches should be upheld and possibly combined in a broader, integrative, analytical framework.

Cette thèse de doctorat, réalisée sous la direction du Pr. Catherine Hellemans, est issue d’un projet de recherche interdisciplinaire financé par l’Université Libre de Bruxelles et intitulé « Mobilisations professionnelles et engagements personnels dans le travail contemporain :les nouvelles tensions des espaces de qualification ».Les carrières contemporaines sont depuis quelques années considérées comme des carrières sans frontières, qui se déploient à travers de multiples organisations, professions et cadres culturels. En raison notamment des transformations du marché du travail, la mobilité professionnelle – définie comme une transition de rôle professionnel impliquant un changement de position, de tâches et/ou de responsabilités – marque de plus en plus les parcours professionnels. Elle est devenue pour les organisations une stratégie empreinte de réactivité et de flexibilité.Nos recherches visaient à déterminer les enjeux de la mobilité, c’est-à-dire, les raisons pour lesquelles elles sont entreprises par les organisations et les individus, et leurs conséquences. Plus précisément, il s’agissait d’établir la mesure dans laquelle une mobilité, en tenant compte de ses caractéristiques (volontaire ou non ;réussie ou non), influence ou non l’engagement au travail du travailleur, son implication à l’égard de l’organisation, son sentiment de bien-être, et son attitude à l’égard de futures mobilités. Les études ont été menées au sein de trois secteurs d’activités :le secteur bancaire, le secteur infirmier et le secteur de la recherche universitaire. Ce sont les mobilités inter- et intra-organisationnelles qui étaient au coeur de nos investigations dans les deux premiers secteurs, et les mobilités internationales dans le troisième.Les résultats ont mis en évidence que les différents types de mobilité sont liés à des enjeux relativement distincts et que, de manière générale, une mobilité organisée dans de bonnes conditions peut être un levier motivationnel. L’évolution des carrières lance vraisemblablement de nouveaux défis aux travailleurs, aux organisations et à nos sociétés. / Doctorat en Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

In recent years, EU’s development policy has undergone wide-ranging reform with the leading principle of responding to the circumstances and demands of the current world, but also for the sake of alignment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In line with the reasoning that an empowered civil society can help in the exercise of EU’s development policy and in the pursuit of development policy goals, the organisation has formed a strategy of engagement with CSOs in its external relations. This study’s focus is specifically on EU’s performance in Colombia, a Latin American country encompassed by EU’s development policy. Since Colombian CSOs still face numerous barriers hindering their work, it cannot be simply asserted that EU’s strategy has been effective. Hence, this study’s purpose is to critically evaluate EU’s engagement with Colombian CSOs, by taking into account EU’s capabilities as a civilian power to identify both the limits and potentials of the organisation’s approach. The study concludes that it is not the choice of power instruments, but the way the EU uses them that causes the strategy’s ineffectiveness. Although the Union has managed to increase Colombian CSOs’ capacity, the latter cannot be fully utilised due to the unfavourable framework for such organisations. Nevertheless, considering recent improvements made to EU’s strategy, it is argued that symbiosis between the EU and Colombian CSOs is still a realistic prospect, but one that requires increased efforts from the Union.

This research paper is a case study on the identity of three Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) located in the Mindanao Island of Southern Philippines. The empirical data was collected employing qualitative semi-structured interviews through virtual interactions. The research captures the journey of the three local FBOs as they continue to sustain their identity amidst the changes in the development world where they function. Identity is a complex issue, especially when FBOs have to experience the pressure to conform to how the world thinks who they are. So what does faith identity mean to these FBOs? How is this identity communicated in practice?The aim of this research is to acquire a better understanding of these FBOs; their faith- identity and its values; and how faith provides direction for actions which shape and characterise these organisations. Moreover, considerations were taken that faith is manifested in different ways. In studying these FBOs, the researcher was provided with another perspective on why FBOs held on to their identity regardless of the constant pressure to conform to the changing world and the opportunities the changing world has to offer. Moreover, to acquire knowledge on the importance of their identity helps to bridge communication gaps among the many actors in development and to know what to expect in development partnership.According to the modernists, religion will disappear. For the international development actors, religion will be less important as the communities modernise. However, faith is still significant to the FBOs in this research. Faith is not an add-on to the development work they do. Faith is the reason for their existence. For these FBOs, faith-identity means their development activities are inspired and guided by God to have compassion for the poor and marginalised people. For them, faith is communicated in practice by providing genuine care and by being inclusive in their development commitments.