The ability to recover from the effects of climate change among communities is acknowledged in previous research, where focus is laid on disaster recovery through adaptive capacities and resilience. The objective of this study was to investigate a rural community’s ability to cope with natural disasters in in the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, by using the case of Mudu Village in Koro Island, Fiji. The data was based on observations through an ethnographically inspired approach, as well as 20 semistructured interviews with residents in Mudu Village and other relevant stakeholders. The study was based upon the characteristics of the concept of community resilience, which allowed for deeper understanding of disaster recovery and coping mechanisms among rural communities exposed to natural disasters. The result of the thesis has showed that disaster preparedness and social support systems within the community has increased due to the experience from past recovery processes. By using the concept of community resilience, it has further become clear that the dependence on natural resources has decreased the capacity to cope with and recover from natural disasters in Mudu Village, which thus constitutes the main hindrance to community resilience.

Nas últimas décadas, a literatura sobre política industrial tem enfatizado os determinantes políticos e institucionais para explicar a forma e os resultados dessas políticas. Assumindo essa perspectiva, essa dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo compreender como a evolução das capacidades estatais impactou o caráter das políticas industriais brasileiras formuladas e executadas nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores, a nível Federal, entre 2003 e 2014. Assume-se como foco de análise a dimensão participativa das capacidades estatais, observando espaços de interlocução entre governo, empresários e trabalhadores. Para tanto, toma-se como objeto de estudo o Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social da Presidência da República, o Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Industrial e os Conselhos de Competitividade do Plano Brasil Maior. Os resultados apontam que, entre 2003 e 2007, o governo tentou estruturar as capacidades políticas; após esse período, percebe-se uma progressiva perda dessas capacidades. Isso se reflete na política industrial que progressivamente perde direcionamento estratégico, passando a incluir um expressivo número de setores econômicos, usando predominantemente instrumentos tributários para executar a política. / In recent decades, the literature on industrial policy has emphasized the political and institutional determinants to explain the form and the results of those policies. Assuming this framework, this master's thesis aim to understand how the evolution of State Capacities impact the character of Brazilian industrial policy formulated and deployed in the period of Workers‘ Party in the Federal Government, from 2003 to 2014. It is focused on the participatory dimension of State Capacities, analyzing spaces of dialogue between government, business and unions. Therefore, It is studied the Presidential Council of Social and Economic Development, the National Council of Industrial Development and the Competitiveness Councils of "Plano Brasil Maior". The results show that, from 2003 to 2007, the government tried to structure the political capacities; after this period, there is a progressive loss of this capacities. This is reflected in the industrial policy that loses the strategic direction, to include a significant number of economic sectors, using predominantly tax instruments to execute the industrial policy.

This paper, exploratory in nature, analyzes and estimates the relationships between the technological and innovation capacity (CTI), diffusion of good technological practices and labor productivity of productive units of the agricultural sector undertaken by family chiefs selling their production to (domestic and external markets) and of legal conditions of ‘natural persons’ of Peru. The main source of information is the National Agricultural Census of 2012. The three main results of the estimations point out that unit sizes, family chiefs’ human capital accumulation and the geographic distance between the location of the productive unit and the capital of the district of that location were key statistical factors that determined the producer technological and innovation capacity. This CTI together with the spillover effects coming from producers associations determined the diffusion and use of technological good practices. Finally, the stock of land per workers was the key determinant of labor productivity in all the regions of Peru. / El presente trabajo, de naturaleza exploratoria, analiza y estima las interrelaciones entre la capacidad tecnológica y de innovación (CTI), la difusión de buenas prácticas tecnológicas y la productividad laboral de unidades productivas del sector agrícola comprendido por jefes de familia de condición jurídica de persona natural los cuales venden su producción al mercado(interno y/o externo). La fuente primaria y básica de información de estos productores de la agricultura comercial moderna es el Censo Nacional Agropecuario de 2012. Los tres principales resultados de las estimaciones señalan: que el tamaño de la unidad productiva, el capital humano acumulado (en niveles de educación) del productor y la distancia geográfica entre la ubicación de la unidad de producción y la capital del distrito de dicha ubicación fueron los principales factores que incidieron en la capacidad tecnológica y de innovación. Esta capacidad conjuntamente con los efectos de derramamiento derivados de las asociaciones de los agricultores determinó el uso y difusión de las seis buenas prácticas tecnológicas. Finalmente, el stock de tierras por trabajador fue el principal determinante de la productividad laboral de cada una de las regiones del Perú.

Nas últimas décadas, a literatura sobre política industrial tem enfatizado os determinantes políticos e institucionais para explicar a forma e os resultados dessas políticas. Assumindo essa perspectiva, essa dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo compreender como a evolução das capacidades estatais impactou o caráter das políticas industriais brasileiras formuladas e executadas nos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores, a nível Federal, entre 2003 e 2014. Assume-se como foco de análise a dimensão participativa das capacidades estatais, observando espaços de interlocução entre governo, empresários e trabalhadores. Para tanto, toma-se como objeto de estudo o Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social da Presidência da República, o Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Industrial e os Conselhos de Competitividade do Plano Brasil Maior. Os resultados apontam que, entre 2003 e 2007, o governo tentou estruturar as capacidades políticas; após esse período, percebe-se uma progressiva perda dessas capacidades. Isso se reflete na política industrial que progressivamente perde direcionamento estratégico, passando a incluir um expressivo número de setores econômicos, usando predominantemente instrumentos tributários para executar a política. / In recent decades, the literature on industrial policy has emphasized the political and institutional determinants to explain the form and the results of those policies. Assuming this framework, this master's thesis aim to understand how the evolution of State Capacities impact the character of Brazilian industrial policy formulated and deployed in the period of Workers‘ Party in the Federal Government, from 2003 to 2014. It is focused on the participatory dimension of State Capacities, analyzing spaces of dialogue between government, business and unions. Therefore, It is studied the Presidential Council of Social and Economic Development, the National Council of Industrial Development and the Competitiveness Councils of "Plano Brasil Maior". The results show that, from 2003 to 2007, the government tried to structure the political capacities; after this period, there is a progressive loss of this capacities. This is reflected in the industrial policy that loses the strategic direction, to include a significant number of economic sectors, using predominantly tax instruments to execute the industrial policy.

O objetivo da presente dissertação foi verificar os efeitos de 22 semanas de treinamento com ênfase na capacidade técnica-tática sobre o comportamento das capacidades motoras, indicadores indiretos de dano muscular [creatina quinase (CK) e lactato desidrogenase (LDH)] e o desempenho em campo de jovens futebolistas (Capítulos 2 e 3). Além disso, objetivou-se comparar o primeiro com o segundo tempo de um jogo simulado de futebol no que se refere aos padrões de deslocamento e variáveis táticas e; identificar possíveis associações entre a CK e a LDH com os padrões de deslocamento em um jogo simulado (Capítulo 4). Participaram do estudo 20 voluntários (idade 15,1 ± 0,3 anos, estatura 171,5 ± 6,1 cm, massa corporal 60,4 ± 5,5 kg, % gordura 11,5 ± 2.8, pico de velocidade de crescimento 1,42 ± 0,5 anos, VO2máx 48,68 ± 4,67 ml.kg-1.min-1). As capacidades motoras foram acompanhadas por meio dos testes motores: salto vertical e salto horizontal; T-40; Shuttle Run Test e o Running Anaerobic Sprint Test. Para determinação da atividade plasmática das enzimas CK e LDH foram realizadas coletas de sangue venoso (10ml). O desempenho em campo foi verificado por meio de análises cinemáticas bidimensionais dos padrões de deslocamento (distância total, velocidade média, número de sprints, % nas zonas de intensidade) e variáveis táticas (área de ocupação da equipe, espalhamento dos jogadores) em um jogo simulado filmado por duas câmeras captando toda a área do jogo. O desempenho nas partidas da competição alvo foi analisado por meio do aproveitamento de pontos. Todas as avaliações supracitadas foram realizadas em quatro momentos distintos: pré etapa preparatória (T0); pós etapa preparatória (T1); pós etapa competitiva I (T2); pós etapa competitiva II (T3). Para todos os resultados obtidos por meio dos testes motores foram encontradas diferenças significantes (p 0,05) quando comparado os momentos T0 (pré-treinamento) com T3 (pós-treinamento), no sentido de ganho/melhora (Capítulo 2). No desempenho das partidas foi verificado um aproveitamento de 83,33% nos pontos disputados (Capítulo 2). Em relação ao comportamento dos padrões de deslocamento e variáveis táticas ao longo da periodização, foi verificado aumento significante (p 0,05) da intensidade do jogo e do desempenho tático quando comparado o momento T0 com T3. Fato evidenciado devido o aumento das variáveis: porcentagem da distância total percorrida em sprinting, em alta intensidade (AAI), na velocidade máxima, área de ocupação e espalhamento (Capítulo 3). No que refere-se à atividade plasmática da CK e da LDH, observou-se uma redução significante (p 0,05) (Capítulo 3). Em relação ao Capítulo 4, observa-se nos resultados um aumento significante (p 0,05) da distância total, da velocidade média, do número de sprints, AAI e das variáveis táticas no segundo tempo do jogo simulado. Em adição, verificou-se diminuição significante da porcentagem da distância total percorrida em baixa intensidade no segundo tempo. Além disso, verificou-se grande associação entre a porcentagem do delta de alteração da CK e da LDH com os padrões de deslocamento no jogo simulado. Conclui-se no Capítulo 2 um aprimoramento significativo nos índices das capacidades motoras dos futebolistas estudados, além de um expressivo aproveitamento de pontos na competição alvo. No Capítulo 3 sintetiza-se que houve aumento do desempenho em alta intensidade no jogo, no rendimento tático e redução da atividade dos marcadores bioquímicos relacionados ao dano muscular. Em relação ao Capítulo 4 conclui-se que indicadores indiretos de dano muscular possuem grande associação com padrões de deslocamento em jogo realizado em condições de treino por jovens futebolistas / The purpose of the present dissertation was to verify the effects of 22 weeks of training, emphasizing the technical-tactical ability, on the behavior of motor capacities, indirect skeletal muscle damage markers [creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)] and field performance of young soccer players (Chapters 2 and 3). Furthermore, it was aimed to compare the first and second halves of a simulated match regarding displacement patterns and tactical variables; and identify potential associations between the CK and LDH with the displacement patterns within the simulated match (Chapter 4). Twenty volunteers accepted to participate in this study (age 15.1 ± 0.3 years; height 171.5 ± 6.1 cm; body weight 60.4 ± 5.5 kg; body fat % 11.5 ± 2.8; peak height velocity 1.42 ± 0.5 years; VO2max 48.68 ± 4.67 ml.kg-1.min-1). The motor capacities were assessed by the motor tests: vertical jump and horizontal hump; adapted T-40; Shuttle Run Test and Running Anaerobic Sprint Test (RAST). To determine CK and LDH plasmatic activity, vein blood samples were collected (10ml). The field performance was assessed by displacement patterns kinematic two-dimensional analysis (total distance; average velocity; number of sprints; % on each intensity zone) e tactical variables (team occupation zone; players field distribution) on a simulated match, recorded by two cameras covering the whole area of the match. The performance on matches within the target competition were analyzed by earned points during the period. All the assessments mentioned were performed in four distinct moments: before preparatory stage (T0); after preparatory stage (T1); after competitive stage I (T2); and after competitive stage II (T3). When comparing moments T0 (before training program) and T3 (after training program), significant differences were found for all results regarding motor tests (p 0.05), in the direction of gain/improvement (Chapter 2). On matches performance, 83.33% of the contested points were achieved (Chapter 2). Regarding the behavior of the displacement patterns and tactical variables over the periodization, it was verified a significant improvement (p 0.05) on games intensity and tactic performance when comparing moments T0 and T3. This fact is proved by an increase of the variables: percentage of sprinting total covered distance, in high intensity, in maximal intensity, occupation and field distribution (Chapter 3). Concerning the plasmatic activity of CK and LDH, it was observed a significant reduction (p 0.05) (Chapter 3). On the Chapter 4, it is noticed on the results an significant improving (p 0.05) of total distance, average velocity, number of sprints, high intensity activities and tactical variables. Additionally, it is possible to verify a significant decreasing of low intensity total distance covered percentage on the second half. Moreover, it can be observed a large association between the percentage of CK and LDH delta variation with the displacement patterns on the simulated match. Through the Chapter 2 evidences, it is possible to conclude a significant enhancement of the motor capacities rates of the studied soccer players, besides an expressive earned points on the target competition. On Chapter 3 it is evident the performance gains during high intensity efforts along the match, on tactical performance and the reduction on biochemical markers for skeletal muscle damage. Yet, by the Chapter 4 outcomes, it is allowed to conclude that indirect skeletal muscle damage markers have large association with displacement patterns during a match performed on training conditions by young soccer players

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3940319 bytes, checksum: 76efc1b33ddbf7b70de45b9b33fbd377 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / After about sixteen years since the publication of Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, we can say that we are experiencing a transitional period in the teaching of Portuguese language marked mainly by theoretical and methodological contradiction with regard to the relationship between the classes of textual production, primarily from the perspective of genres of text and grammar lessons in a prism essentially theoretical and classificatory. We recognize and check that this contradiction has been reflected in the texts of the vestibular candidates, thereby this paper aims, firstly, to evaluate how the candidates are mobilizing linguistic aspects in the text considering the communicative situation and, secondly, it aims to prepare proposals for activities in a epilinguistic perspective that work the possible difficulties encountered in the analyzed texts. Therefore, the Applied Linguistic emerges as a magnified reflection about the teaching of language and society (MOITA LOPES, 2009), and Interactionism Socio discursive (ISD) as theoretical and methodological base that sets up the concept of language that underlies us to understand the role of linguistic knowledge mobilized in textual constitution and the text as communicative action of human (BRONCKART, 2006; SCHNEUWLY e DOLZ, 2004; CRISTOVAO, 2007; PEREIRA, 2009; among others). Considering this paper as qualitative, documentary, interpretative and explanatory research, we seek in twenty-two textual productions of Selection Process Series 2012 of the Federal University of Paraíba the representative corpus of our issue, observing variables of courses and proposals of writing to order to locate the analysis. In conclusion, we certificate that large number of candidates had difficulty articulating structures of subordination and we elaborated, among other activities, that some could be alternative to work them. / Após cerca de dezesseis anos da publicação dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, podemos dizer que estamos vivenciando um período de transição no ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil marcado principalmente pela contradição teórica e metodológica no que se refere à articulação entre as aulas de produção textual, prioritariamente na perspectiva dos gêneros de texto, e as aulas de gramática, em um prisma essencialmente teórico e classificatório. Reconhecendo e mesmo verificando que essa contradição tem sido refletida nos textos dos candidatos a vestibulares, ou seja, dos estudantes, este trabalho pretende, por um lado, avaliar de que modo os candidatos estão mobilizando os conhecimentos linguísticos no texto com vistas à situação comunicativa e, por outro, elaborar propostas de atividades, que trabalhem as possíveis dificuldades encontradas nos textos analisados, em uma perspectiva epilinguística. Para tanto, a Linguística Aplicada surge como direcionamento à uma reflexão ampliada sobre ensino de língua e sociedade (MOITA LOPES, 2009), e o Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (ISD), como base teórico-metodológica que configura toda a noção de língua que nos embasa para compreender o papel dos conhecimentos linguísticos mobilizados na constituição textual e do texto como agir comunicativo do humano (BRONCKART, 2006; SCHNEUWLY e DOLZ, 2004; CRISTOVAO, 2007; PEREIRA, 2009; dentre outros). Tratando-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa documental de cunho interpretativo/explicativo, buscamos, em vinte e duas produções textuais do Processo Seletivo Seriado 2012 da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, o corpus representativo da nossa problemática, observando variáveis de curso e de proposta de redação a fim de melhor localizarmos a análise. Atestamos, em conclusão, que grande número dos candidatos apresentou dificuldades em articular estruturas por subordinação e elaboramos, dentre outras atividades, algumas que poderiam ser alternativa para trabalhá-las.

Orientador: Aguinaldo Gonçalves / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T03:56:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DelVecchio_FabricioBoscolo_D.pdf: 1815432 bytes, checksum: 150bd19d1b5f49251d43816cd5def2a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Introdução: O efeito do potencial genético na atuação motora tem ganhado destaque na Educação Física e no Esporte. São conhecidas interações do êxito esportivo com indicadores biológicos de rendimento (IBR), dentre eles a razão entre o segundo e quarto dedo (R2D:4D) e as corrugações dermo-papilares dígito-palmares. Sabendo que lutadores de alto nível têm aptidão física (ApF) acima da média e configuração diferenciada das cristas epidérmicas, exploram-se relações entre componentes biológicos e da ApF. Objetivos: Buscou-se, entre praticantes de judô de elite: (1) Registrar as distribuições de variáveis dígito-palmares, a saber: R2D:4D e dermatóglifos, e compará-las aos valores de referência disponíveis; (2) Quantificar o desempenho em avaliações antropométricas, fisiológicas e motoras gerais e específicas; (3) Correlacionar indicadores biológicos de rendimento com capacidades biomotoras. Materiais e Métodos: A partir de estudo observacional transversal, 21 membros titulares e reservas das equipes masculina e feminina, que representaram o Brasil nos Jogos Olímpicos de Atenas, foram avaliados quanto a respectivos dermatóglifos, antropometria manual e ApF. Os dados são trazidos de modo tabular e gráfico, com medidas descritivas de tendência central e dispersão. O plano analítico identificase por: i) correlação canônica entre IBR e ApF, ii) análise fatorial dos IBR e, iii) regressão múltipla entre os caracteres genéticos eleitos e variáveis selecionadas da ApF. Para todos os procedimentos, o nível de significância adotado foi de 5%. Assinala-se a aprovação do estudo pelos Comitês de Ética em Pesquisas com Seres Humanos da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (protocolo 864/2005) e da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, sob parecer n° 250/2007. Resultados: O grupo, adulto jovem, é prioritariamente descendente de brasileiros e, nos padrões digitais, portam percentual de verticilos superior a 40%. Dentre as medidas dos IBR, para homens e mulheres se constatou, respectivamente, mediana de 144 e 97 linhas para o TRC, índice de ulnaridade de 0,73 em ambos os lados neles e de 0,78 a 0,80 nelas. Para a R2D:4D, a média encontrada para os dois hemicorpos foi 0,938±0,02 no masculino e 0,975±0,02 no feminino, e, junta a outros IBR, é diferente (p<0,05) das informações de base populacional. Na ApF, eles exibem 12,45%, ao passo que elas, 18,05% de gordura corporal, a força isométrica de preensão manual foi maior que 50 kgf nos primeiros e de 40 kgf nas mulheres, VO2max de 48,28 e 47,2 ml·kg-1·min-1, no teste de Wingate para membros superiores, potência pico relativa de 6,86 W/Kg e 5 W/Kg, por fim, no Special Judo Fitness Test, índices de 12,09 e 13,03, respectivamente. Obteve-se correlação significante entre os conjuntos de IBR e ApF (r= 0,999, p<0,05). Na análise fatorial, com estruturação de três componentes se explicou quase 70% da variância dos IBR e, nos modelos de regressão múltipla, 54% do desempenho do salto vertical pôde ser estimado por IBR identificados previamente. Conclusões: Os marcadores genéticos apresentam valores diferentes dos populacionais e a ApF é semelhante a de outros competidores de elite. Na perspectiva multivariada, ambas as séries de dados se mostraram relacionadas, alguns caracteres hereditários são mais relevantes na análise discriminante e podem, nas condições estudadas, predizer a performance dos atletas. / Abstract: Introduction: The effect of genetic potential in the motor performance has gained prominence in Physical Education and Sports. Interactions of sports success with biological markers of performance (BMP) are recognized, amongst them the ratio between second-to-fourth finger (R2D:4D) and dermatoglyphics. Knowing that high level judo players have physical fitness (PF) above the mean and differentiated fingerprints, relations between BMP and PF are explored. Objectives: The aim was: (1) To registry dermatoglyphics and R2D:4D frequencies, and to compare them it the available reference values; (2) To apply physiological, general and motor specific tests and; (3) To investigate the relationship of the previous points. Materials and Methods: Started with transversal observational study, 21 regular members of male and female teams, that had represented Brazil in the Olympic Games of Athens'04, were evaluated about dermatoglyphics, hand anthropometrics and PF. The data are brought in tabular and graphical forms, with descriptive measures. The analytical plan is identified for: i) canonic correlation between BMP and PF, ii) factorial analysis of the BMP and, iii) multiple regressions between selected PF variables and identified BMP characters in step (ii). For all the procedures, the adopted significance level was 5%. This study was approved by Ethical Committees of Research with Human from Presbyterian Mackenzie University (protocol 864/2005) and State University of Campinas, under seeming nº 250/2007. Results: The group, young adult, is priority descending of Brazilians and, in the digital patterns, carries superior percentage of wheels, 40%. Amongst the measures of BMP, for men and women it evidenced, respectively, median of 144 and 97 lines for TRC, index of ulnaridade of 0,73 on both sides in male and 0,78 to 0,80 in female. For the R2D:4D, the average found for the two sides was 0,938±0,02 in the men and 0,975±0,02 in women, and, together with other BMP, is different (p<0,05) of populational reference values. In the PF, male show 12.45% of fat, and women, 18.05%, handgrip was greater that 50 kgf in the first ones and of 40 kgf in the women, VO2max of 48,28 and 47,2 ml·kg-1·min-1, in Wingate test for arm crank, relative power peak of 6,86 W/kg and 5 W/kg, and finally, in the Special Judo Fitness Test, index was 12,09 and 13,03, respectively. Significant association was gotten between BMP and PF data (r=0,999, p<0,05). In factorial analysis, with three components structure, almost 70% of the BMP variance was explained, in multiple regression models, 54% of vertical jump performance could be estimated by BMP identified previously. Conclusions: The genetic markers present different values of the population and PF are similar of other elite competitors. In the multivariated analysis, both data series (BMP and PF) had shown related, some hereditary characters are more adequate in factorial analysis and can, in these study conditions, to predict the athletes' performance. / Doutorado / Ciencia do Desporto / Doutor em Educação Física

This thesis focuses on a central behavioral paradox in the asset management community. Recent decades have brought an upsurge in initiatives throughout the investment community to voluntarily integrate sustainability issues into investment decisions. The financial crisis has however revealed behavioral inconsistency and deepening irresponsibility. Today, sustainable investments represent USD 10.7 trillion, or 7% of the entire market, of assets under management and it is growing steadily. <p>One important driver of this growth was the emergence of specialized research agencies that standardized measurement of companies’ environment, social, and governance (ESG) performance and sold such information as a tool to evaluate or pressure corporate conducts. More recently, sell-side research, financial news, and market-index providers joined the ESG information market, where they aim to support more mainstream asset managers in integrating ESG information into investment decisions. <p>A dominant assumption has taken hold in a large part of the investment and regulatory circles: asset managers’ use of ESG information will induce a behavioral change so that they automatically integrate companies’ sustainability to investment return concerns. Understandings of what constitutes sustainable investment have been largely practitioner-driven. The academic community took little interest to challenge the assumption. Remarkably, more scholars have come to assume that conformance to institutional pressures to add ESG information to investment strategies will induce more sustainable and long-term behavior of investors and companies. ESG information integration is believed to be a behavioral enabler for mainstream investors to systematically embed sustainability in investment strategies. Because of the assumption, theory building of asset manager intrinsic motivations to engage in sustainable investment remains unexplored. Main contribution of this research is to generate a deep theoretical understanding of asset manager non-conformance to the ESG pressure to engage in sustainable investment. <p>The research starts by questioning the dominant assumptions made in the sustainable investment field. While working in the industry, I witnessed some asset managers’ practices of replacing the externally defined ESG information with their own research based on narratives to better understand investee companies. The research question came out of this experience: why do some asset managers use ESG information to engage in sustainable investment while others do not? Do pressures to integrate ESG information really induce more sustainable behaviors on the part of asset managers? These self-inquiries led to a wide array of literature review to search for conformance and non-conformance drivers. Surprisingly, non-conformance was an under-researched theme. Given the scarcity of the research, I sought a method that would enable grounded theorizing based on asset managers’ own experience and interpretations. <p> Grounded theory research draws on asset manager interviews, archival documents, expert and practitioner consultations and feedback during 2007 and mid-2011. To reflect the global nature of sustainability, I focused on global equity asset managers working in thirteen institutions in three lead markets with most geographically diversified sustainable investment, UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. <p>Theory building from the ground up does not happen in vacuum. I developed a framework to study conformance and non-conformance drivers to facilitate the concept elicitation. The question of conformance and non-conformance has been studied by institutional, resource-based view of the firm, behavioral finance, cognitive and sensemaking theorists but in a disintegrated manner. I enhanced insights by way of aggregating and exploring the drivers. The framework illuminates the viability of both conformers and non-conformers in sustainable investment practices. Both are leadership activities of asset managers based respectively on explicit and implicit motivations. It illustrates short-term and opportunistic motivations of conforming managers, as opposed to long-term and substantial motivations of non-conforming managers to integrate sustainability and return-making in their investment decisions. <p>The research results presented hereafter provide a significant theoretical and empirical contribution. Drawing from insights and perspectives from the practitioners, a grounded theory model of asset manager conformance and non-conformance highlights a pivotal concept of sensemaking capacities. It reveals a counter intuitive pattern of asset manager learning. Non-conforming asset managers have developed a distinctive capacity to integrate sustainability and investment return concerns regardless of public pressures to do so. This distinctive sensemaking capacity, founded on behavioral integration of external expectations with own motivation, goal, competence and know-how, was the strategic resource for the organization. Their behavioral integration of sustainability and return generation is so highly developed, that adding the ESG information in their investment strategy would actually impair their capacity to make sense of sustainability. Indeed, I find that non-conforming asset manager teams have sustained consistent returns and increased client assets throughout the financial crisis. In absence of such behavioral integration and sensemaking capacities, conforming managers failed to sustain consistency or suffered from under-funding. To stay competitive, the latter managers have fervently demonstrated the ESG information use in their investment strategies. However, such explicit demonstration of leadership has not been accompanied by distinctive sensemaking capacities. I find that conforming managers were less capable of integrating sustainability and return-generation, which subsequently reinforced their short-termism and opportunism. <p>The finding of this thesis points to the importance of ‘behavioral integration’ instead of ‘explicit conformance’ of asset managers. The academic community may need to shed a more critical eye on ESG integration by asset managers. Institutional pressures to adopt such information may not induce more sustainable behavior, as ESG know-how is likely to deprive a chance to develop distinctive sensemaking capacities. Furthermore, it may even hurt the sensemaking capacities of managers who have behaviorally integrated sustainability and return-generation. While I hope to trigger a re-think amongst academics how to promote sustainable investment, my findings has theoretical and empirical contributions. The most important theoretical contribution is identification of non-conformance variables to engage intrinsically in sustainable investment. Empirical evidence on non-conformers, corroborated with resource-based view of the firm, also enhances the understanding of non-conformers’ motivation to sustain competitive advantage. <p>Findings also lead to managerial and policy implications. I carried out this research in the midst of the financial crisis, a time of mounting European policy debates how to build investor capacity to induce long-term and sustainable behaviors. The European Commission’s Internal Market Directorate-General is set to publish a directive proposal that mandate ESG information disclosure to companies and ESG reporting by investors. This adds weight to already published procedural measures to strengthen corporate governance at financial institutions. These policy initiatives emerged largely because of expert consultation and anecdotal evidences. In addition to recommendations to specific pieces of legislative proposals, this research makes an overarching policy proposal. The EU Commission needs to reexamine if the current policy measures lead to further symbolic demonstrations of ESG usage without accompanying sustainable behavior at the cost of real economy. EU equally needs to pay more attention to non-conforming asset managers’ distinctive capacities and enabling mechanisms. Reporting burdens may inadvertently impair non-conforming managers’ capacities to sustain long-term performance and may induce a contradictory policy consequence of increased public distrust. <p> / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

O conjunto de serviços que compõem o setor de políticas de limpeza urbana, tal como ele existe hoje, é produto de uma série de decisões, disputas e interesses entre diferentes atores. O trabalho trata da construção dessas políticas no município de São Paulo, com especial interesse pelo arcabouço institucional formado do século XIX ao XXI, bem como pela estruturação do mercado e da economia política que se ancorou para a provisão de serviços de interesse público via empresas privadas no município. O principal fato analisado é o de que, no contexto de um sistema que envolve uma multiplicidade de atores e interesses, o Estado abriu mão do papel de executor dos serviços, gradativamente cedendo-o a empresas privadas cada vez maiores e mais dominantes no âmbito da entrega dos serviços; ao mesmo tempo, ele veio procurando fortalecer suas capacidades regulatórias, desde o final do século XX, mas, sobretudo, no início do século XXI, com a criação de um modelo de concessão em que as empresas concessionárias assumam os riscos financeiros e os investimentos em equipamentos que serão revertidos em benefício do município. O capítulo 1 caracteriza empiricamente o setor de políticas de limpeza urbana de São Paulo tal como é configurado atualmente, oferecendo as definições necessárias à compreensão do universo empírico. O capítulo 2 explora a construção de capacidades estatais para a provisão, a regulação e a fiscalização do sistema de limpeza urbana, e dialoga diretamente com a tese do capitalismo regulatório, para a qual a divisão de trabalho entre Estado e mercado não necessariamente representa o enfraquecimento do Estado, mas também não necessariamente significa seu fortalecimento. Identificam-se quatro fases de construção do arcabouço institucional: (i) origens e primeiros serviços (até 1913), (ii) modernização e execução direta (1914 a 1966), (ii) execução indireta (1967 a 2002) e (iv) concessão dos serviços (pós-2002). O capítulo 3 discute a organização do mercado da limpeza urbana, examinando a organização dos nichos de mercado e a existência de entidades associativas para reunir empresas e setor público. Identificam-se três fases de constituição do mercado: (i) estabelecimento das primeiras empresas no setor e processos fechados de contratação (1966-1987), (ii) crescimento do mercado, regulação sobre compras mais robusta, entrada de capital estrangeiro e surgimento de instabilidades (1987-2004) e (iii) formação de consórcios, saída do capital estrangeiro, aumento da regulação federal sobre o setor e inclusão de novos atores. Todos os elementos expressam relações e processos de coordenação e intermediação entre agentes públicos e privados, de forma que o Estado governa, mas não governa tudo, e nem sozinho, de forma comparável com outros casos de concessões públicas. Ainda que a Prefeitura seja a principal responsável pela regulação sobre o sistema, o setor privado responde por boa parte dos insumos tecnológicos, da experiência no planejamento dos serviços e pela gestão cotidiana dos equipamentos, bem como é o principal investidor no modelo de concessão. Todavia, essa divisão de tarefas nem sempre é clara ou bem definida. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir da análise de documentos oficiais e documentos produzidos pelas entidades associativas do setor, além de entrevistas com agentes públicos e privados. / The set of services that make up the solid waste management policies, as it exists today, is the product of a series of decisions, disputes and interests among different actors. The work deals with the construction of these policies in São Paulo, with special interest in the institutional framework formed from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, as well as the structure of the market and the political economy that anchored the provision of public services via private companies in the municipality. The central fact of analysis is that, in the context of a system that involves a multiplicity of actors and interests, the State gave up the role of executor of services, gradually granting it to private companies which grew bigger and more dominant in the delivery level; meanwhile, the State have been attempting to strengthen its regulatory capacity, since the late twentieth century, but especially in the early twenty-first century with the creation of a concession model in which the concessionaires assume the financial risks and investments in equipment which will be reversed in favor of the municipality. Chapter 1 empirically characterizes the solid waste management sector of São Paulo as it is currently configured, providing concepts for the understanding of the empirical universe. Chapter 2 addresses the construction of state capacities for the provision, regulation and supervision of the waste management system, and interacts directly with the thesis of regulatory capitalism according to which the division of labor between State and market does not necessarily weaken the State, but also does not necessarily mean its strengthening. The chapter identifies four phases of construction of the institutional framework: (i) origins and first services (until 1913), (ii) modernization and direct execution by State (1914-1966), (ii) indirect execution (1967-2002) and (iv) concession of services (post-2002). Chapter 3 discusses the organization of the waste management market, examining the organization of niche markets and the existence of associative entities to bring together companies and public sector. The chapter identify three phases: (i) establishment of the first companies (1966-1987), (ii) market growth, more robust regulation, foreign capital inflows and the emergence of instabilities (1987-2004) and (iii) formation of consortiums, foreign capital outflow, increased federal regulation of the sector and inclusion of new actors. All elements express relationships, coordination and intermediation processes between public and private actors, so that the State governs but does not govern everything, nor alone, in a comparable manner to other cases of public concessions. Although City Hall is mainly responsible for the regulation of the system, the private sector accounts for much of the technological inputs, experience in planning and daily management of equipment and services, and is the main investor in the concession model. However, this division is not always clear or well defined. The research employed analysis of official documents and documents produced by the associative entities of the market, as well as interviews with public and private actors.