Property theory has long explored the meaning and content of private property. Similarly, one finds no shortage of analysis of common or communitarian property. In the theoretical literature, however, one finds very little writing about public property, a third, very significant, type of property. This lack of attention is not due to a lack of examples; on the contrary, examples abound. This thesis offers a theoretical analysis of one such example: Crown land in Australia. Crown land is a largely forgotten and therefore under-analysed aspect of Australian real property law. This lack of analysis has produced significant confusion in recent judicial developments concerning Australian common law native title. In order to alleviate the potential for confusion, this thesis fills a long-standing gap in the literature of Australian real property law. In order to fill this gap and to provide a much-needed analytical account, it is necessary to make use of working definitions of private, public and communitarian property. This thesis provides each. First, using JW Hams' Property and Justice, it constructs a working definition of private property. From that, by way of contrast, a working definition of public property is offered. Finally, by way of contrast to both private and public property, a working definition of communitarian property is also developed. Armed with working definitions of private, public and communitarian property, the thesis provides an analytical account of Crown land in Australia. It describes Crown land as the quasi-ownership use-privileges and control-powers which the Crown, by virtue of its prerogative power over land, enjoys in Australian land. The Crown enjoys differently packaged bundles of such privileges and powers over many different sorts of land, such as those which have never been allocated for any use, specific natural resources such as minerals or petroleum, those over which Australia's Aboriginal peoples enjoy native title, and even those over which private persons hold freehold estates or statutory leases. All such lands, due to the Crown's quasi-ownership privileges and powers therein, can be called Crown land, which embraces a continuum of locations, each defined by a unique package of such privileges and powers over the relevant type of land. The thesis calls this the Crown land continuum, which, in its totality, is a working example of public property.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper proposes to perform an analysis of communication strategies of a community TV, seeking to the community identification that is present on TV Santa Maria, as it is a community channel, but limited to the transmission system within the cable television broadcasting. When considering the specificity of the Brazilian community TV, which are currently restricted to the existence of this paid access system, we understand being necessary a further deepening about the setting of this communication, which led to the following proposition problematic: how the communitarian is present on TV Santa Maria? To answer the question raised in the study it is that the objective to analyze how the communitarian is present on TV Santa Maria from the communicational strategies of management and television programming. For this it sought as specific objectives to map the program schedule of TV Santa Maria in 2012 and 2013; identify the communication strategies present in the management and programming of community channel and, and in the end to undestand the importance of the presence of the communitarian on the TV Santa Maria inte the local context. The theorical review began with the concept of community, community participation and community communication. Still sought to contextualize the history of community communication vehicles and role played by communities and community media. To conclude the theoretical part of the research, we suggest a look at the communication strategies that are necessary in the development of projects in this conception. In the methodology as qualitative research , we used the method of case study. The analysis of the empirical corpus comprised by 28 editions of programs of the grid station was made through textual analysis of audiovisual material, supplemented by interviews in depth and documentary analysis. The method allowed the identification of the composition of the TV program schedule, as well as knowledge of the community channel managers. From the analysis undertaken on the collected material was noted that the community TV located in the city of Santa Maria lends itself to the role of being a alternative vehicule to hegemonic media being promoter of the culture and the local sport by taking roofing of relevant facts to the community. In this sense according to the programming, the interviews and analysed documents, we can consider that the communitarian is present on TV Santa Maria through the different spaces that open to unknown artists, to the coverage of amateur and professional football, to the interviews with the population, to the spaces of cultural support of small businesses, but mainly in the placement of varied grid programming and broad theme focusing on local events. / Este trabalho se propõe a realizar uma análise das estratégias comunicacionais de uma TV comunitária, buscando a identificação do comunitário que se faz presente na TV Santa Maria, visto ser um canal que é comunitário, porém limitado à transmissão dentro do sistema a cabo de difusão televisiva. Ao considerarmos a especificidade das TVs comunitárias brasileiras, que hoje se encontram restritas à existência nesse sistema de acesso pago, entendemos ser necessário um maior aprofundamento sobre a configuração dessa comunicação, o que levou a proposição da seguinte problemática: como o comunitário se faz presente na TV Santa Maria? Para responder ao questionamento levantado é que o estudo tem por objetivo geral analisar como o comunitário se faz presente na TV Santa Maria a partir das estratégias comunicacionais de gestão e de programação televisiva. Para isso buscou-se, como objetivos específicos, mapear a grade de programação da TV Santa Maria no ano de 2012 e 2013; identificar as estratégias comunicacionais presentes no canal comunitário e, ao final, entender a importância da presença do comunitário da TV Santa Maria no contexto local. A revisão teórica iniciou com o conceito de comunidade, participação comunitária e comunicação comunitária. Ainda buscou contextualizar a história dos veículos de comunicação comunitária e o papel ocupado pelas comunidades e o comunitário na mídia. Para finalizar a parte teórica da pesquisa, propomos um olhar sobre as estratégias comunicacionais que se fazem necessárias no desenvolvimento de projetos nessa concepção. Na metodologia, como pesquisa qualitativa, utilizou-se do método de estudo de caso. A análise do corpus empírico, formado por 28 edições de programas da grade da emissora foi realizada através da analise textual de material audiovisual, complementada pelas entrevistas em profundidade e análise documental. O método possibilitou a identificação da composição da grade de programação da TV, assim como o conhecimento dos gestores do canal comunitário. A partir da análise empreendida no material coletado, observou-se que a TV comunitária, instalada na cidade de Santa Maria, presta-se ao papel de ser veículo alternativo à mídia hegemônica, fomentador da cultura e do esporte local, procedendo a coberturas de fatos relevantes para a comunidade. Nesse sentido, em função da programação, das entrevistas e dos documentos analisados, o que podemos considerar é que o comunitário se faz presente na TV Santa Maria a partir dos diferentes espaços que se abrem para os artistas desconhecidos, para a cobertura do futebol amador e profissional, para as entrevistas com a população, para os espaços de apoio cultural das pequenas empresas, mas principalmente na veiculação de grade de programação variada e temática ampla, com foco nos acontecimentos locais.

This project focusses on the idea of how the person as developed by Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) is a departure from a common understanding of the person. Mounier's concept of the person is simultaneously singular and relational. Furthermore, the person is a spiritual being who represents the highest form of humanity that one can become. The idea of the person contains liberal and communitarian elements: the person understands herself as a unique subject whilst ontologically requiring the other to fully flourish as a person. It is incoherent for the person to conceive of herself as fundamentally separate of the other, which is why the person joins with the other to form a nous. This draws a stark line between Mounier and liberal individualist thought that conceives of the person as an isolated subject. The liberal element of Mounier's thought is that the state protects the person and her communities against actions that impinge upon the person's fundamental rights so that the person can maximise her freedom to flourish. Moreover, the institutions that form the personalist state are inspired by liberal thought. This means that Mounier's project begins from a communitarian standpoint and finishes by offering a liberal communitarianism. -- Ce projet se concentre sur l'idée de la personne qu'a développée Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) et comment elle dévie d'une compréhension courante de la personne. Le concept de la personne de Mounier est simultanément singulier et relationnel. De plus, la personne est un être spirituel qui représente la plus honte forme de l'humanité que l'on pourrait devenir. Cette idée de la personne comprend des éléments libéraux et communautaires : la personne se perçoit comme un sujet unique alors qu'elle requiert ontologiquement autrui, afin de s'épanouir en tant que personne. Il est incohérent que la personne se conçoive comme être fondamentalement séparé d'autrui, ce qui est pourquoi la personne se joint à autrui pour qu'ils forment un nous. Cela établit une distinction nette entre Mounier et la pensée individualiste libérale qui conçoit de la personne comme un sujet isolé. L'élément libéral de la pensée de Mounier est que l'État protège la personne et ses communautés contre des infractions contre ses droits fondamentaux, afin que la personne puisse maximiser sa liberté de s'épanouir. En outre, les institutions qui forment l'État personnaliste s'inspirent de la pensée libérale. Cela veut dire que le projet de Mounier commence d'une perspective communautaire et se termine en proposant un communautarisme libéral.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:20:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalSarah.pdf: 6387522 bytes, checksum: 82207ee4c67e4d5ceca8b69797a7f90a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main objective of this case study was the understanding of the dynamics of the local organization process in favor of the creation of the Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico. Regarding the specific objectives, they were delimited to: 1) to describe how the social organization process of São Rafael community has been structured; 2) to identify historical references on how São Rafael community was built; 3) to characterize the role, resources and interests of the actors, internal and external to the community, for the implementation of the Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico; 4) to analyze the social interaction dynamics among the different actors, during the organization process for the opening of the Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico. The theoretical referential was built based on three axles: 1) the solidarity economy; 2) the constitutive elements of the communitarian organization; 3) the communitarian development banks. The methodology of the research was based on qualitative research, with a social constructivist epistemological approach, by using an ideographic classification. The option for the action research demanded the use of the speech analysis, as the focus of the research included a set of subjective aspects related to the experience of São Rafael community in the organization of the Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico. / O estudo de caso teve como objetivo geral compreender a dinâmica do processo de organização local favorável à criação do Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico. Quanto aos objetivos específicos, delimitamos: 1) Descrever como tem se estruturado o processo de organização social da comunidade São Rafael; 2) Identificar informações históricas de como se constituiu a comunidade São Rafael; 3) Caracterizar o papel, os recursos e os interesses dos atores internos e externos à comunidade São Rafael para a implantação do Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico; 4) Analisar a dinâmica da interação social, entre os diferentes atores, durante o processo de organização para a inauguração do Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico. O referencial teórico foi construído a partir de três eixos: 1) A economia solidária; 2) Os elementos constitutivos da organização comunitária; 3) Os bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento. A metodologia da pesquisa fundamentou-se na pesquisa qualitativa, com uma postura epistemológica construcionista social, usando a classificação ideográfica. A escolha pela pesquisa ação demandou o uso da análise do discurso, haja vista que o foco da pesquisa contemplou um conjunto de aspectos subjetivos relacionados à experiência da comunidade São Rafael na organização de seu Banco Comunitário de Desenvolvimento Jardim Botânico.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore contemporary communitarian thinker Michael J. Sandel¡¦s political philosophy concerning one that realizes the importance of ¡§virtue¡¨ and ¡§ends¡¨ in citizenship and the state. I argue that although Sandel is often known as one of the most compelling critics of John Rawls¡¦ justice theory, his more ambitious commitment since 1984 is to provide a vision about the nature and aim of political life through insights of civic republicanism. The goal of this essay is to sort out Sandel¡¦s perspectives on these normative statements. Introducing from the debates between justice and the good in ethics, I explain what motivates me to write this essay and briefly describe the framework and approach of the thesis. In the second chapter, I elaborate Sandel¡¦s philosophical anthropology. Different from Rawls¡¦ the conception of human, Sandel¡¦s version is one with moral disposition¡X¡Xthat is to say, at the moment when we ask ourselves ¡§ who am I¡H¡¨, it comes to the answer that we are constitutive beings, rather than unencumbered selves from nowhere. Only when an agent is capable of self-reflection and recognizing how self is situated can self-knowledge and political practices possible. In short, only in a political community can spirit of citizenship be realized. In chapter three, I trace Sandel¡¦s argument and point out the fact that the theory and practice of contemporary liberalism has practically become a synonym to procedural republic. It is presented not only the ideas of ¡§rights as trumps¡¨ and neutral state, but also revealed by the erosion of community and the loss of self-government. Therefore, how to rebuild moral life in modern democratic practices has become an important task for people of our time. Following the political tradition of republicanism in American history, Sandelian republicanism, inherence of Aristotlian perfectionism, stresses the importance of political community as a whole to cultivate civic virtue. So I discuss the meaning of freedom/liberty and self-government. Through above discussions, I try to reveal Sandel¡¦s idea of democracy that insists conserving certain conceptions of the good, common ends and substantial moral contents in political life. In chapter four, I deal with how Sandel respond to the tension between republicanism and liberalism. From communitarianism to republicanism, I am persuaded that the core of Sandel¡¦s philosophy lies in the idea of citizenship and the ends of state. Civic virtues are so intrinsic to political life and will help to lead us to a good life. State or government shouldn¡¦t just be neutral but should play a role in developing good citizens. In final chapter, I concluded that Sandel¡¦s concerns to community and citizen and his republican ideals revive an yet long forgotten tradition in democratic thoughts.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-06-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:20:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 donini_am_me_bauru.pdf: 1417622 bytes, checksum: caa4b0ada5c4e9ab0ecc575ccc3a469e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Esta dissertação consiste no estudo da recepção de reportagens e notícias relacionadas à temática ambiental veiculadas pelos programas Balanço Geral, Tem Notícias, Jornal Nacional e Jornal da Band exibidas a integrantes do Programa de Horta Comunitária de Botucatu. Para tal, adotamos como referencial teórico os estudos de recepção latino-americanos, considerando prioritariamente os conceitos e ideias de Jesús Martín-Barbero e Guilhermo Orozzo Goméz, além de interpretação de textos desses pesquisadores realizadas por outros autores como Nilda Jacks e Ana Carolina Escosteguy. Quanto à metodologia, a pesquisa contemplou aplicação de questionários, método de pesquisa participante e utilização de grupo focal. Por meio dessa última técnica, identificamos as percepções e produções de sentidos estabelecidos pelos participantes em relação aos conteúdos a que assistiram, bem como compreensão e aplicabilidade dos assuntos no cotidiano deles e as mediações preponderantes no processo. Ainda procuramos investigar se o conhecimento básico sobre as etapas envolvidas em uma produção televisiva tem interferência na maneira como os trabalhadores das horas comunitárias recebem e interpretam as mensagens / This dissertation is to study the reception of members at Botucatu's Communitarian Vegetable Garden Program in respect to the news articles about environment transmitted by the programs Balanço Geral, Tem Noticias, Jornal Nacional e Jornal da Band. For this, we adopted as referential theorethical studies of reception in Latin America, primarily considering the concepts and ideas of Jesus Martin-Barbero and Guilhermo Orozco Gómez, and interpretations of these texts carried out by other authors as Nilda Jacks and Ana Carolina Escosteguy. As methodology, the research included questionnaires, used the participant search method and the focal group. By this latter technique, we identify the perceptions and productions of meaning established by the participants in relation to the content they witnessed, as well as understanding and applicability of them in everyday affairs. Even we investigate if the basic knowledge about the steps involved in a television production has interference in how workers in communitarian vegetable gardens receive and interpret messages

Si l’étude de la mouvance dite « communautarienne » semble si digne d’attention, c’est précisément parce que ses arguments ne sont pas avancés au nom de communautés closes et régressives mais au nom de la démocratie elle-même. Le « communautarisme philosophique » qui nous intéresse ici se distingue radicalement d’une vision ethnique ou holistique du lien politique. De façon synthétique, l’argument communautarien soutient la priorité du bien sur le juste (right), priorité au double sens d’un primat politique et d’une antériorité morale et culturelle, c’est-à-dire du contenu du bien sur les procédures garantissant l’équité. Inversement, pour les « libéraux », la priorité du juste sur le bien signifie que les droits individuels ne peuvent pas être sacrifiés au nom d’un bien commun, et que les principes de justice (les droits fondamentaux) ne peuvent être dérivés d’une conception du bien et doivent au contraire être établis indépendamment de toute conception du bien. Libéral, John Rawls, situe le malaise de la tradition démocratique par l’incapacité de cette dernière à articuler de manière équitable les notions de liberté et de l’égalité. S’amorce ainsi un débat, pour les communautariens, autour de la définition de l’identité démocratique : le politique et le culturel précèdent-t-ils le droit ou les droits subjectifs libéraux l’emportent toujours par leur priorité ? / If the study of the movement known as ‘‘communitarianism’’ seams worthy of attention, this is precisely because its arguments are not advanced on behalf of regressed and closed communities but in the name of democracy itself. The ‘‘philosophical communitarianism’’ that interests us here is radically different vision of holistic ethnic or political link. In brief, the communitarian argument supports the priority of the good on the right, priority in the double meaning of a primate politic and has a prior moral and cultural anteriority, that is to say, the content of the course procedures guaranteeing fairness. Conversely, for the liberals, priority of the right over the good means that individuals rights can’t be sacrified in the name of a common good, and that the principles of justice (human rights) cannot be derived from a conception of the good and instead must be established independently of any conception of the good. Liberal, John Rawls, situates the discomfort of the democratic tradition by the inability of the latter was handed manner to articulate the concepts of liberty and equality. Begins as a debate, for communitarians, around the definition of democratic identity : do the political and the cultural define the right or are the liberal subjective rights won by their priority?

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / A Terapia ComunitÃria Integrativa (TCI) à uma abordagem de atenÃÃo à saÃde comunitÃria, criada pelo Prof. Dr. Adalberto Barreto da Universidade Federal do Cearà em 1987, no Pirambu, bairro de periferia do municÃpio de Fortaleza-CE. Surgiu em um contexto pontual, e ganhou capilaridade por meio da constituiÃÃo de uma rede integrada de 42 polos de formaÃÃo em TCI em todas as regiÃes do paÃs, com aproximadamente 33 mil terapeutas comunitÃrios capacitados no Brasil. A abordagem tem visibilidade nacional e internacional, reconhecimento em polÃticas pÃblicas municipais, estaduais e federais. O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever e analisar o processo de expansÃo da Terapia ComunitÃria Integrativa no Brasil e sua inserÃÃo em polÃticas pÃblicas nacionais. A pesquisa foi de carÃter exploratÃrio-descritivo-analÃtico e utilizou a metodologia qualitativa por meio de revisÃo bibliogrÃfica, anÃlise documental, entrevista semiestruturada, questionÃrios e registro em caderno de campo. Representantes de 23 polos de formaÃÃo em TCI, da diretoria da AssociaÃÃo Brasileira de Terapia ComunitÃria, da Secretaria Nacional de PolÃticas sobre Drogas, do MinistÃrio da SaÃde e do Programa Vira Vida, do ServiÃo Social da IndÃstria, totalizaram os 28 sujeitos da pesquisa. Para a anÃlise dos dados, a tÃcnica utilizada foi a anÃlise de conteÃdo. Os princÃpios Ãticos foram respeitados em consonÃncia com a ResoluÃÃo n 196, de 1996, do Conselho Nacional de SaÃde. O estudo identificou, em torno da TCI, um movimento institucional, que favoreceu sua inserÃÃo em polÃticas pÃblicas (saÃde, educaÃÃo, assistÃncia social, entre outros), em instituiÃÃes privadas e no terceiro setor, os quais a identificaram como uma boa prÃtica de saÃde comunitÃria, o que resultou no investimento em capacitaÃÃes e na criaÃÃo de espaÃos para a realizaÃÃo das rodas. A pesquisa reconheceu, igualmente, a existÃncia de um campo favorÃvel à expansÃo da TCI, na presenÃa de atores chaves no processo, tais como, a AssociaÃÃo Brasileira de Terapia ComunitÃria e os polos de formaÃÃo em TCI, pela sua capilaridade e integraÃÃo em rede no Brasil. Os dados levantados no estudo, todavia, suscitaram um debate sobre a efetividade da implantaÃÃo da TCI, na medida em que identificaram uma fragilidade no monitoramento do referido processo de implantaÃÃo, dada a inexistÃncia de mecanismo de acompanhamento e avaliaÃÃo dessa inserÃÃo, pelas polÃticas que a efetivaram. / The Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) is an approach of health attention, created in 1987 by Professor Doc. Adalberto Barreto in the Federal University of Cearà in Pirambu, suburb of Fortaleza â CE. It was raised in a punctual context, getting well known by the constitution of a integrative net of 47 centers of formation in ICT all abroad the country with proximally 33 thousand communitarian therapists trained in Brazil. This approach has national and international visibility, being recognized in all counties, states and countryâs public policies. The goal of this research is to describe and analyze the expansion process of the Integrative Communy Therapy in Brazil and their inclusion in national policies. The research was exploratory-descriptive-analytic used qualitative methodology by the bibliographic revision, documentary analyzes, semi-structured interview, questionnaires, and registers of field observation. Members of 23 formation centers in ICT, including the 1 of the direction of Brazilian Association of Community Therapy, 1 of the National Bureau of DrugÂs Policies, the Health Ministry, the program Vira Vida, and the Social Service of Industries, totalized 28 subjects of this research. To the data analysis, the chosen technique was content analysis. The ethic principles were respected, as it is defended by the National Council of Health, in the resolution nÂ196, of 1996. This research identified, about ICT, one institutional movement that made easier the insertion of it in public policies (health, education, social assistance, and others), in private institutions, and in the third sector, which identified it as a good practice of communitarian health, resulting in the investment in training and in the creation of places to perform the meetings. The research recognized, equally, the existence of a favorable field to the expansion of ICT, with the presence of important actors in this process, as the Brazilian Association of Community Therapy and the formation centers in ICT, by being spread out and integrated as a net in Brazil. However, the data achieved in this research created a debate about the efficiency of ICTâs implantation, as it has identified the fragility in the monitoring of this process of implementation seen that there isnÂt mechanisms to evaluate and escort this insertion by policies that they conducted.

The purpose of our study was to explore multi-faceted connections between corporate welfare strategies (CWs) and local development. Although there are a large number of studies on the topic of CSR and CW, to this day, the plausible connection between CWs and local development has been largely overlooked from an academic viewpoint. Our original hypotheses assumed that there is a plausible relationship between CWs implementation and socio-economic development. In particular, CWs are likely to foster local economic diversification in related and unrelated sectors through knowledge and entrepreneurship spill-overs, as well as to strengthen local communitarian ties. Before investigating those plausible relations, we tried to put forth an acceptable, although non- conclusive, definition of corporate welfare, mainly relying on the CSR academic literature and the local development corpus of studies. Moreover, we referred to a multifaceted group of academic contributions and relied on social capital literature, Evolutionary Economic Geography’s concept of “related” and “unrelated” variety, as well as on local development studies. The mix of these three academic literatures allowed us to develop an interpretative schema that frames CWs within local development processes. In chapter 2, our analysis focused on Olivetti’s history and Adriano Olivetti’s political thought. We were inspired to dwell on this specific case for many reasons: 1) the Olivetti company is widely considered, by Italian academic literature, the ante litteram socially responsible enterprise. Therefore, for the sake of our study on CW and CSR, we could not avoid analyzing this paradigmatic case; 2) a more obvious hint came from Becattini’s comment on Porter and Kramer’s shared value (2011). Becattini’s reference to Olivetti led us to detect, what were so far, unexplored connections between Olivettian thought and Italian local development literature. Becattini’s reference to Olivetti’s case suggested an intellectual line of thought that, sometimes outwardly and often implicitly, connects AO’s social and political ideas to the local development literature. Hence, we went down this path of an ideal intellectual line of thought and reviewed Giorgio Fuà’s work (one of the few masters that Giacomo Becattini acknowledged), the theoretical cornerstones of Giacomo Becattini up to Porter and Kramer's shared value. We then proposed, relying on Olivetti’s, Becattini’s, Porter’s and Kramer’s works, a reassessment of the original concept of shared value, and called it "communitarian" shared value. We then analysed the implementation of CWs in a specific territorial context. We focused on the effects of CWs implemented by Ferrero and Miroglio, two Albese multinationals in the province of Cuneo. As aforementioned, by investigating the possible “external” effects that stem from larger enterprises’ CW policies - such as rising levels of local entrepreneurship, a growth in the number of firms operating in related and unrelated sectors, an increase in the levels of local trust relationships - our goal was to better understand this connection (that had never been fully explored academically) and add an original contribution to the subject of “internal” CSR with external effects. Lacking general research and quantitative data on the subject, we relied mostly on a qualitative/ethnographic approach based on a deep analysis of literary and historical works, on the results of a web-survey that we administered to 28,759 enterprises in the province of Cuneo and on approximately 80 in-depth interviews. The original hypotheses of research have not been confirmed directly. It is instead the “entrepreneurial style” of local multinationals to condition, in a sort of spurious relation, both the independent CW variable and the dependent variable “local socio-economic development”. Additionally, empirical research led us to better describe the “Cuneo system”, a macro productive system that encompasses a variety of LPSs and that present hybrid socio-economic features which we have defined as a “polycentric system of local productive systems”.