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Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-191).

Dans un cadre mondial, les relations commerciales peuvent être soumises à la compétence d'une pluralité de juridictions, aussi, les outils juridiques permettent-ils la conclusion de conventions de juridiction. Pour autant, ils ne les qualifient pas. Ces conventions peuvent pourtant être rattachées à la matière contractuelle ainsi qu'à la matière procédurale et cette nature duale ressort de la jurisprudence nationale. La doctrine ne s'accorde pas non plus sur la qualification adéquate à retenir. Enfin, malgré l’entrée en vigueur du Règlement 1215/2012 et de la Convention de La Haye de 2005, ce caractère hybride emporte des conséquences en termes de loi applicable. Afin d'améliorer l'efficacité des conventions de juridiction et d'assurer une plus grande sécurité juridique, la thèse envisage une approche téléologique de ces conventions. Elle consiste à s'interroger sur la finalité des outils relatifs à ces dernières : de protection et de promotion des rapports commerciaux. Sur cette base, l'adoption de solutions matérielles et leur cadre juridique peuvent être envisagés.Matériellement, il s’agit de l'intérêt d'une qualification téléologique des conventions de juridiction et du choix de la qualification adéquate. Intimement liée à la qualité des parties, elle fournit l'occasion de redéfinir les critères de distinction de ces acteurs. Le cadre juridique consiste à démontrer l'intérêt d'adopter un instrument international portant une telle qualification et celui de cette qualification autonome. / In international contracts, there are many potential competent jurisdictions. This leads to insecurity for contractors and can discourage the formation of international contracts altogether. Given this concern, the legal instrument will provide an agreed upon jurisdiction. However, in many instances the instrument does not specify how these jurisdictional agreements should be characterized. Such provisions could be characterized as contractual or as procedural. As a result, national jurisdictions do not all appreciate such agreements in the same way. What’s more, the legal scholars, will agree on the relevant legal characterization of these jurisdictional agreements. This problem persists despite the express statement by the Convention of 2005, and Regulation 1215/2012, that the lex fori designated by the agreement should be used in determining the substantial validity of such jurisdictional agreements. Indeed, because of this difficult characterization that influences the applicable law, in practice these jurisdictional agreements cannot produce consistent and uniform results amongst all nations. This work aims to analyze the approach of international legislation as well as European legislation. This analysis highlights the two important policy goals underlying the legislation: (1) protection of the weaker contracting party; and, (2) promotion of successful formation and enforcement of international contracts between professionals. In others words, a teleological approach. The analysis also highlights potential weaknesses in the legislative approaches discussed, and proposes potential solutions. One possible solution is material, and consists of characterizing jurisdictional agreements in accordance with the ultimate aim of international and European law. This solution should also include a new way to determine the quality of the contractors involved, since it is essential to be able distinguish and establish the quality of the contractors in these agreements. The second potential solution concerns the appropriate tool for the designation of the jurisdictional territory. This solution also proposes the best way for such designation to be made: autonomously.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1930. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Diss.--Rechtwissenschaftlicher Fachbereich--Frankfurt am Main--Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 1993. / Bibliogr. p. 287-311.

In evaluating the International Conference on Foreign Student Affairs at the University of British Columbia, an attempt was made to develop instruments for assessing the achievement of objectives, to determine if differences existed in individual and group methods of evaluation, and to determine if there were differences in evaluative responses between those who took part in a pre-conference survey on personal objectives and those who did not. Pre-conference data consisted of participants' personal objectives in attending. Data collected at the end of the conference included personal and socio-economic characteristics of participants; Kropp-Verner Attitude Scale measures; and evaluative measures of components of the conference. The twelve factors extracted from the attitudinal measures by factor analysis confirmed the original partitioning of the evaluation instrument. The occurrence of two factors within the Kropp-Verner Attitude Scale indicated that it was not unidimensional when applied to the population studied. To determine the effects of individual and group methods of evaluation, participants were assigned to one of three experimental conditions. Those in the Individual Non-Cooperative Condition filled out the evaluation form by themselves; those in the Individual Cooperative Condition were permitted to converse with others; and those in the Group Cooperative Condition publicly stated their evaluation. Significant differences were found between the Individual Non-Cooperative and Individual Cooperative Conditions and between the Individual Non-Cooperative and Group Cooperative Conditions. The Group Cooperative Condition produced the greatest consensus of opinion and the Individual Cooperative Condition had the highest response means. Two discriminating variables, "communications" and "controls and influences" were extracted by stepwise discriminant analysis for the first administration of group process questions. The variables "communications" and "process" were discriminators in the second administration. In comparing the evaluative responses of participants who received and returned the pre-conference survey on objectives, those who received but did not return the survey, and those who did not receive it, the only statistically significant difference was found between those who received but did not return the questionnaire and those who did not receive it. The objectives pertaining to "Intra-NAFSA Affairs" and "Government Policies" were extracted in stepwise discriminant analysis. The 3 x 3 x 10 factorial analysis was carried out to test the combined influence of the group process questions, the experimental conditions, and the pre-conference survey conditions on the amount of change in responses. Significant F ratios were obtained on the pre-conference survey conditions and on the interaction of the survey conditions with the group process questions. Linear hypothesis testing showed a significant difference between those who received and returned the pre-conference questionnaire and those who received but did not return or did not receive the questionnaire. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

Cette thèse analyse le fonctionnement du marché des services de l’aide à domicile caractérisé par l’incertitude sur la qualité. Elle s’inscrit dans la lignée des travaux sur les problèmes de l’information sur la qualité en suivant l’approche par les conventions. L’analyse est effectuée à partir d’une enquête auprès de 530 personnes âgées complétée par une enquête auprès de quatorze prestataires de ces services et de quatre structures coordinatrices de l’offre. La première partie présente les difficultés de coordination du marché, les facteurs à l’origine de son développement et les enjeux autour de la qualité. La deuxième partie propose une analyse économique de l’incertitude. Elle présente les apports et les limites de la théorie économique à l’analyse du choix en incertitude et définit les notions de la qualité et de l’incertitude qualitative dans ces services. La troisième partie reprend les principaux résultats de l’enquête. Son objet consiste à montrer comment les usagers opèrent leur choix dans un marché sans différenciations des qualités. À l’aide d’une série d’analyses factorielles, elle propose des typologies de comportements et de choix en incertitude. La quatrième partie synthétise les parties précédentes. Elle propose une représentation du fonctionnement du marché en mettant en lumière le rôle de la réputation et du réseau d’échange dans la coordination. En croisant les démarches de prestation de service, cette partie propose des modèles d’organisations associés à des conventions de qualité. L’analyse de leur stabilité montre que les services de l’aide à domicile se singularisent par un modèle de qualité pluri-conventionnelle. / This dissertation analyses the functioning of domiciliary eldercare, a market mainly characterised by uncertainty on quality. Drawing on the economics of information, quality and conventions, the analysis is based on a questionnaire-based inquiry among 530 older people and a surve of 14 suppliers and 4 coordinating structures. The first part presents the difficulties concerning the coordination on the market, the sources of development of the market and the main issues about quality. The second part offers an economic analysis of uncertainty, through a discussion of the interest and limits of economic theories of choice under uncertainty. Definitions of quality and qualitative uncertainty are proposed. The main results of the survey among elder people are presented in the third part. The goal of this empirical research was to understand how people make choice in a market with no differentiation of suppliers’ qualities. Resulting from several factor analyses, typologies of behavior and choice under uncertainty are proposed. The fourth part illustrates the role of trust and networks in the coordination of this market. Some organisational models associated to quality conventions are analysed further. The analysis of the stability of these models emphasises the existence of a multi-conventional quality model at the core of domiciliary eldercare services.

Thèse de doctorat--Droit public--Clermont 1, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 389-426. Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150).

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