Cette thèse porte sur la mise en place d’un ERP (Enterprise Resource planning) dans un groupe de petites filiales à travers une recherche action canonique multi-cycles menée par le chercheur, directeur de projet ERP durant deux ans. Les filiales sont confrontées à de multiples défis : déployer un ERP standard tout en préservant leur flexibilité, concilier les contraintes groupe et contraintes locales, faire avec les moyens du bord vu les ressources limitées. Ce contexte constitue une opportunité pour approfondir la théorie du bricolage, peu mobilisée dans la littérature ERP. Les résultats montrent des processus de bricolage collectif multi-niveaux : intra-filiales, inter-filiales et groupe. Ces processus de bricolage permettent une amélioration continue de l’ERP et son appropriation, et conduisent au final à la conception et l’usage de solutions difficiles à imiter, ce qui génère un avantage compétitif. Ces processus de bricolage collectif supposent des conditions initiales propices, et une évolution d’une symbolique contraignante (ERP standard, best practices) vers une symbolique habilitante. Chemin faisant, le bricolage contribue à développer le réservoir et les capacités créatives, ce qui décuple en retour le potentiel du bricolage, favorisant simultanément les innovations technologiques et managériales. / This PhD thesis focuses on the implementation of an ERP in a group of small subsidiaries through a multi-cycle canonical action research conducted by the researcher, ERP project manager for two years. Subsidiaries face multiple challenges : deploying a standard ERP while preserving their flexibility, reconciling the group constraints and local constraints, making do with means at hand given the limited resources. This context is an opportunity to deepen the theory of bricolage, little mobilized in the ERP literature. The results show multilevel collective bricolage processes: intra-affiliates, inter-affiliates and group. These bricolage processes allow continuous improvement of the ERP and its appropriation, and ultimately lead to the design and use of solutions that are difficult to imitate, which generates a competitive advantage. These collective bricolage processes assume favorable initial conditions and an evolution from a constraining symbolic (standard ERP, best practices) to an enabling symbolic. Along the way, bricolage contributes to developing thecreative reservoir and capacities, which in turn increases the potential of bricolage, while simultaneously promoting technological and managerial innovations.

Bricoleur, digitala varelser och brus utgör tre viktiga noder, runt vilka mitt konstnärliga arbete rör sig. Parallellt med ett antal av mina verk beskrivs dessa begrepp kortfattat. / Bricoleur, digital beings and noise are three important nodes, making up cornerstones of my artistic work. These ideas are explained briefly parallel to a selection of my artworks.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NaraCP.pdf: 2693677 bytes, checksum: 224a815dc1d39b2f583fb65969ed49a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / This work was developed from the research field in the Museu C?mara Cascudo (MCC) and the theoretical research in Museum Studies, enlarging the idea of museum while ambience of culture. We believe that the MCC, located in the city of Natal RN, is a relevant sociocultural institution because it is a university museum, because it was created two years after the foundation of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, and because it develops researches and studies about man on his physical and cultural aspects. Thus, this work is made up by a reflection on the transient and mobile aspect of culture living culture to understand the role of the museum in contemporary society. The MCC analysis, including its history, its functioning, its main activities, and its expositions, illustrates one part of our investigation. The other part is composed by theoretical consideration made from the reading of authors such as Bauman, L?vi-Strauss, Morin, Kristeva, Foucault, Le Goff, among others / Esta disserta??o desenvolveu-se a partir da pesquisa de campo no Museu C?mara Cascudo (MCC) e da pesquisa te?rica em museologia, aprofundando a id?ia de museu como ambi?ncia da cultura. Acreditamos que o MCC, localizado na cidade do Natal RN, ? uma institui??o s?cio-cultural de grande relev?ncia por ser um museu universit?rio, por ter sido criado dois anos ap?s a exist?ncia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte e por realizar pesquisas e estudos sobre o homem em seus aspectos f?sicos e culturais. Assim, este trabalho ? composto por uma reflex?o sobre o aspecto transit?rio e m?vel da cultura cultura viva para compreendermos o papel do museu na sociedade contempor?nea. A an?lise feita no MCC, incluindo sua hist?ria, seu funcionamento, suas principais atividades e suas exposi??es, ilustram uma parte da nossa pesquisa. A outra parte ? composta por considera??es te?ricas feitas a partir da leitura de autores como Bauman, L?vi-Strauss, Morin, Kristeva, Foucault, Le Goff, entre outros

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The major focus of this thesis is the role of feelings and emotions in moral thinking/knowing, ethical conduct and, in particular, moral distress in nursing. Research has consistently found that the moral decisions nurses must make can sometimes lead to distress. However, such experiences are overly individualised in the literature. An alternative view of the person, drawing on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (e.g. 1927-8/1978) and the recent work of Paul Stenner (e.g. 2008), sees human subjectivity or mind as processual and always embodied and in-the-world. The emphasis upon the body draws attention to the role of felt experiences this thesis views feelings as integral to both sense-making knowing and thinking and sensibility or emotionality. The emphasis in-the-world highlights that subjectivity is embedded within social contexts, which include relations of power and organisations of material and symbolic capital aligned with those relations. Influenced by deep empiricism (e.g. Stenner, 2011a), this thesis develops a novel bricolage methodology based on a metaphor of diffraction to explore nurses experiences of moral distress. Nurses feelings of discomfort, a particular form of feelings of knowing , appear to be the seeds of moral distress. Various situations seem to be important antecedents for these seeds to bloom into full moral distress, including certain clinical issues, ethical conflict with colleagues, and issues of competency. Nurses also experience some aspects of their job as systemic barriers to high standards of care, which can also be morally distressing. Such distress sometimes affects nurses relationships, their physical health, and their mental health. Participants have found several strategies useful in coping with their distress. It is argued that these strategies are about altering one s feelings through changing one s activities and/or environment. Additionally, past distress may remain a dormant part of a person s subjectivity and re-emerge or become (re)enacted in the narrations of those past distressing experiences. It is suggested that subjectivity entails an organisation of past experiences in the present, for present purposes and in anticipation of the future. Six dominant thematic patternings, which recurred throughout the analyses, are discussed: (i) the centrality of feelings; (ii) the relationality of felt experiences; (iii) the complexity of morality, moral conduct, and moral distress moral/ethical issues become entangled with identity, power, professional competency, and social relations; (iv) the prominence of power and interest; (v) nurses' lives as afflicted by moral distress; and (vi) life-as-process. Discussion of these motifs leads to a rethinking of moral distress. Implications for nursing practice, moral distress research and the study of feelings, emotions, and affect are discussed.

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This thesis will explore the proposal that Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is, as Gaiman describes it in its epilogue, a “story about stories” (The Wake, epilogue). Its particular focus will be on Gaiman’s conception of humans as essentially narrative beings, who use narratives to interact with the world around them, to impose order on information, to provide interpretive paradigms, and as models for their behaviour. Gaiman has not only explored this idea, but used the fantastic mode to create a universe in which these types of ‘interpretive narratives’ directly affect physical reality. Gaiman’s ideas about the way narratives work have been heavily influenced by both postmodern and Jungian legacies. The thesis will propose that the dynamic between postmodern intertextuality and the Jungian idea of the archetypes is a driving force in The Sandman. While Gaiman embraces a playful, bricoleur intertextuality, he also retains a belief that humans can invoke the archetypes to access profound meanings, which transcend the particularities of their expression in any individual instances. Under these influences, Gaiman concieves of a postmodern, Jungian approach to mythology. We will see that Gaiman’s interactions with narrative, postmodernism and Jungianism eventually lead him to formulate an ethic for the contemporary world, and that he encodes it in his own mythology. This ethic both empowers individuals and demands that they take responsibility for their power. It also focuses on how the individual can productively and tolerantly interact with a heteroglossic world. Instead of a fact to be sought out, meaning becomes a process of active creation.

This research enquiry is a positional paper that locates the context in which sports coaching research is undertaken. Embracing a physical cultural studies sensibility, the research enquiry raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualisation for research in the ‘field’. Deploying the theory and method of articulation (Hall, 1996) and Foucault’s (1969) genealogical method, this research enquiry maps out the critical history of the sports coaching present through consideration of the social forces that comprise our conjunctural moment (Grossberg, 2006). By doing so, the impact of the liberal capitalist order prevalent in higher education in the United Kingdom – termed the ‘proto-fascist / pernicious present’ (Giroux, 2005a; Silk and Andrews, in press) – is unpacked. Within this context, the research enquiry explicates how these various social forces congeal at, meet at, and frame the practice of sports coaching research. Through mapping sports coaching research within a corporatised higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematised.

Based on an ethnography conducted between 2013-2015 within a religious community in Brazil, this thesis investigates the meanings of a growing worldwide religious movement fusing beliefs and identity claims deriving from Judaism and Charismatic Evangelicalism. Unlike Messianic Judaism, where Jewish-born people identified as believers in Jesus remain faithful to their Jewish traditions while observing Charismatic Evangelical practices or Christian Zionism, Evangelicals who emphasise the theological and eschatological importance of Jews living in Israel, this thesis addresses a different dimension of this trend. Focusing particularly on women's conversion narratives, this study investigates the reasons why Charismatic Evangelical Brazilians are actively embracing a version of Judaism that requires them to follow the strict dress codes and purity laws of Orthodox Jews while believing in Jesus as the Messiah. My analysis concluded that the emergence of these communities should be understood as a revival aiming to restore some Charismatic Evangelical practices. Pointing to the moral permissiveness, materialism, individualism, and petitionary rhetoric enforced in their former Charismatic Evangelical churches-influenced by Neo-Pentecostal tenets-they embrace an austere religious style characterised by self- cultivation centred in Jewish ritual and ethos. This pious revival also involves recovering a collective past. References to a hidden Jewish heritage and a 'return' to Judaism are mobilised for justifying the community's strict adherence to Jewish practices. Drawing upon a socio-cultural and gender-sensitive analysis, this study examines the historical, religious and subjective reasons behind this emerging 'Judaising' trend in Charismatic Evangelicalism. This thesis also engages with the literature of religious conversion, morality, cultural change and debates examining hybridisation processes.

L'objet se place en opposition. Il est une ponctuation déroutante, un point de diffraction dans notre monde. Il induit un éclatement du réel entre plusieurs alternatives.L'apparition de l'objet constituerait un "entre-deux" : un point singulier dédoublant notre monde entre plusieurs lignes de fuites possibles. Cet entre-deux est un embranchement où émergent des lignes tangentes et insoupçonnées au quotidien. L'objet s'inscrit dans un processus interférant extrayant l'ordinaire de son ordinarité, le propulsant vers sa singularité.Au cours de notre thèse, nous cherchons à répondre à cette question: Comment l'objet et le design font-ils du quotidien un événement ? Nous interrogeons les modalités de ce passage de la banalité à l'événementialité du réel.Entre-deux, le design n'impose pas une réalité totalement autre, il propose des chemins un peu décalés, des itinéraires "bis" à notre monde. Des procédures rhizomiques sont initiatrices de percées entre ce réel-ci et des versions inédites. Le design constitue une zone schizophrène : une localité de bascule vers une variante inattendue du réel, mais envisageable de lui-même. Les entre-deux, creusés par le designer sont des accès à des mondes possibles, la révélation d'un envers utopique de ce monde-ci. Le design et l'objet ont pour dessein de dévoiler ce qu'on ne saurait voir autrement. Ils discutent les frontières du réel. Ils projettent d'explorer des prolongations éventuelles, d'ouvrir des perspectives nouvelles à notre monde commun. Ils font apparaître un mi-lieu prospectif au sein duquel des alternatives permettraient d'engager un débat, et d'opérer des choix sur le monde dans lequel nous souhaitons vivre. / The object places itself in opposition. It is a diverting punctuation, a point of diffraction within our world. It introduces a bursting of the reality between several alternatives.The object's appearance constitutes a "between-two" : a singular point where our world duplicate between several possible lines of flight. This between-two is a junction where emerge tangent and unsuspected lines to everyday life. The object is inscribed in an interfering process extracting the ordinary from its ordinarity, propelling it towards its singularity.We seek to answer to this essential question : "How the design and the object do they make of the everyday an event ?". From the analysis of our practice of the design and contemporary designer's ones, we question the modalities of this passage from reel's commonness to its evenementiality.Between-two, the design doesn't impose a completely different reality but, it proposes little-shifted ways, alternative ways in our world. The rhizomic procedures we set-up are initiating passages or breakthroughs between this reality and unheard versions. The design constitutes a schizophrenic zone : a tip-over locality to a reality's unexpected variant, but conceivable of itself. The between-two, dug by the designer whom we are, are accesses to possible worlds, perhaps even, the revelation of this world's utopian other-side.The design and the object have the intention to reveal what we couldn't see otherwise. They unceasingly discuss the reality's boundaries. They seem to plan to investigate possible extensions, to open new perspectives in our common world. They aim to make appear a prospective mid-place within which proposed alternatives should engage a debate, and to make choices about the world in which we wish to live.