Esta pesquisa lança mão do conceito de Capacidades de Governo Relacionadas a Utilização de TICs em Processos de Participação Social (CGTPS) e investiga o caso de produção do aplicativo digital da 3a. Conferencia Nacional de Juventude para compreender quais capacidades estatais foram demandadas pelo Estado e como foram mobilizadas da Sociedade, contribuindo para o debate sobre capacidades estatais e governança digital para a coprodução de tecnologias governamentais digitais / This research makes use of the concept of Government Capabilities Related to the Use of ICTs in Social Participation Processes (CGTPS) and investigates the case of production of the 3rd National Youth Conference\'s digital application to understand what state capacities were demanded by the state and how they were mobilized from the Society, contributing to the debate on state capabilities and digital governance for the co-production of digital government technologies

Discogs  is  a crowdsourced  online  discography  that  has  become  one  the  largest music databases   and   marketplace   used   by   collectors   and   enthusiasts. To   learn   about   what motivates Discogs community users to contribute, the answers provided by the respondents(n=135)   to an   online   survey with   Likert-scaled   items   measuring different types   of motivations  and  some  open-ended  questions were analysed.  The  results  suggested that Discogs contributors are primarily driven by altruistic reasons (intrinsic motivation) followed by  pragmatism  (extrinsic  motivation).   While  sellers  contributed to  the  database mostly  to sell in the Marketplace, they were equally motivated by intrinsic factors, with similar rates to respondents who  did  not  have  economic  interests  in  the  website. Open-ended  questions indicated  that  conflicts  with  other  users  could  decrease  the  motivation  to  contribute.  In addition,   respondents   revealed   that during   their   trajectory   ascontributors,   intrinsic motivation increased over time. Also, experience and expertise were the reasons why some contributors had roles recognised by other members in the Discogs community

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The primary objective of this dissertation is to examine the theoretical and practical implications of the collaborative consumption phenomenon for individuals, businesses and society. To accomplish this goal, a research approach at three levels of analysis is used to explore how market institutions and consumer practices negotiate a social order that combines the social domain of peers with the economic domain of market exchange. The first essay of the dissertation approaches this objective from a macro level to examine how social order is produced and sustained through the systemic interactions of service firms and peers. This essay provides a framework to understand the emergent business models by developing a typological theory that explains how platforms can be configured for higher value creation. The second essay approaches our understanding of the phenomenon from a meso level analysis to examine how peers interact with the social order of collaborative consumption markets to negotiate key existential tensions between consumer resistance and market appropriation. This essay explores the metaphors that peers use to construe the field of collaborative consumption. Through the interpretive analysis of participant-generated images, this research uncovers the prevailing use of a liberation metaphor that reveals a new way of thinking about resource circulation. Lastly, the third essay employs a micro level of analysis to examine how participation in collaborative consumption practices provokes intrapersonal dynamics leading to moral decay. By relying on a social cognitive framework that considers how behaviors impact personal and environmental factors in a recursive fashion, this essay scrutinizes when and how prolonged participation can erode moral identity and negatively impact prosocial behaviors. Together, this holistic approach advances our theoretical understanding of the collaborative consumption phenomenon and provides practical implications for managerial practice and public policy.

Introduction: British Pakistani women have exceptionally high rates of obesity and yet are seldom heard in a research priority setting concerning weight management. The objectives of this study were (i) to ascertain what multisectoral professionals perceive to be the most pressing unmet obesity needs or topic areas that need more research in relation to Pakistani women living in deprived areas of Bradford and (ii) to determine the top 10 obesity health priorities for this group to develop an obesity research agenda. Methods: A two‐step process was adopted using the following: (i) a survey of a wide range of multisectoral professional stakeholders (n= 159) and (ii) a ranking exercise involving Pakistani women living in deprived areas of Bradford (n= 32) to select and prioritize their top 10 obesity health concerns and unmet needs from a list of 31statements identified in the survey and previous research. Survey data were analysed using inductive content analysis and themes were identified. Themes were translated into statements to be ranked by Pakistani women. The ranking exercise was conducted by telephone either via voice or video call. Data were analysed using a reverse scoring system. Results: Survey responses were grouped into statements reflecting the following three categories: education needs; healthy behaviour barriers and mental well‐being. The highest rankings were given by Pakistani women to statements on mental health and the need for education. The top 10 prioritized statements were developed with members of the public into an obesity research agenda that reflected the target population. Conclusion: Actively engaging British Pakistani women in setting research priorities provided a unique opportunity to understand the key areas they think are important for future research. The culminating research agenda can be used by researchers to advance the field of obesity research in Pakistani communities, thus producing research outputs that are relevant to and have impact in this population. Patient or Public Contribution: Participants in the ranking exercise collected data. Public contributors were involved in developing the prioritized statements into are search agenda. / NIHR, Grant/Award Number: NIHR200166;UKPRP, Grant/Award Number:MR/S037527/1

Yes / The importance of involving members of the public in the development, implementation and dissemination of research is increasingly recognised. There have been calls to share examples of how this can be done, and this paper responds by reporting how professional and lay researchers collaborated on a research study about falls prevention among older patients in English acute hospitals. It focuses on how they worked together in ways that valued all contributions, as envisaged in the UK standards for public involvement for better health and social care research. The paper is itself an example of working together, having been written by a team of lay and professional researchers. It draws on empirical evidence from evaluations they carried out about the extent to which the study took patient and public perspectives into account, as well as reflective statements they produced as co-authors, which, in turn, contributed to the end-of-project evaluation. Lay contributors' deep involvement in the research had a positive effect on the project and the individuals involved, but there were also difficulties. Positive impacts included lay contributors focusing the project on areas that matter most to patients and their families, improving the quality and relevance of outcomes by contributing to data analysis, and feeling they were 'honouring' their personal experience of the subject of study. Negative impacts included the potential for lay people to feel overwhelmed by the challenges involved in achieving the societal or organisational changes necessary to address research issues, which can cause them to question their rationale for public involvement. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for working together effectively in research. These cover the need to discuss the potential emotional impacts of such work with lay candidates during recruitment and induction and to support lay people with these impacts throughout projects; finding ways to address power imbalances and practical challenges; and tips on facilitating processes within lay groups, especially relational processes like the development of mutual trust. / Funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme (Project Number NIHR129488).

Många patienter med obstruktivt sömnapnésyndrom (OSAS) som behandlas med Continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) avbryter sin behandling i ett tidigt skede. Att inte vara följsam behandlingen kan innebära olika hälsorisker för patienten som kan få allvarliga konsekvenser. Kommunikationssituationen vid det initiala utprovningsbesöket kan därför påverka huruvida patienten inte blir följsam och fullföljer behandlingen. Syftet med denna studie var att belysa hur vårdpersonal beskriver sina erfarenheter av kommunikationssituationen vid det initiala utprovningsbesöket av CPAP. En kvalitativ intervjustudie genomfördes med 23 personer som alla möter denna grupp av patienter.  Som analysmetod användes induktiv innehållsanalys. Vid analysen av materialet framkom tre kategorier; Bygga en relation, Inta ett pedagogiskt förhållningssätt samt Stödja patientens delaktighet. Dessa tre kategorier mynnade ut i ett tema som visade på hur kommunikationssituationen beskrevs Skapa förutsättning för lärande hos patienten. Studien belyser vikten av en samskapande vård och ett personcentrerat förhållningssätt där patienten ses som en partner i de beslut som tas samt hur vårdpersonalens pedagogiska förhållningssätt påverkar kommunikations-situationen på olika sätt. Erfarenheterna som beskrevs i studien upplevdes påverka patientens möjligheter till lärande i situationen för en ökad följsam till sin CPAP-behandling. / Many patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) treated with Continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) interrupt their treatment at an early stage. Not having adherence to the treatment implies various health risks for the patient that can have serious consequences. Therefore, the communicationsituation at the initial testing visit may affect whether the patient does not follow up and completes the treatment. The purpose of this study was to illustrate how healthcare professionals describe their experiences of the communicationsituation at the initial visit testing CPAP. A qualitative interview study was conducted with 23 people who all meet this group of patients. As an analytical method, inductive content analysis was used. In the analysis of the material three categories was revealed; Build a Relationship, Take an Educational Approach and Support the Patient's Participation. These three categories emerged in a theme that demonstrated how the communication situation was described as Creating a prerequisite for learning for the patient. The study highlights the importance of a person-centered approach, a co-productive care where the patient is seen as a partner in the decisions and how the healthcare professionals' pedagogical approaches affect the communicationsituation in different ways. The experiences described in the study were perceived to affect the patient's ability to learn in the situation for an increased adherence to the CPAP treatment.

D´après sa déjà longue carrière professionnelle, l´auteur s´interrogea sur le sens du management de la connaissance dans les entreprises de services informatiques où on avait traditionnellement tendance à appréhender les connaissances plutôt comme des objets au lieu de les penser en termes de processus. Au travers de trois expériences successives de recherche-intervention – à la tête d´une software house, orientant un éditeur de logiciel ou dirigeant un centre de services partagés – l´auteur a démontré qu´en privilégiant le knowing sur le knowledge, ainsi que son articulation avec les processus stratégiques et organisationnels, il est possible de donner un contenu au KBV (Knowledge-Based View) dans le secteur des sociétés de services informatiques.En effet, la première de ces expériences montrait qu´en articulant la stratégie et les processus organisationnels d´Eurociber de façon adéquate le partage de la connaissance contribuait pour un vrai contenu du KBV tandis que lors de la deuxième expérience - chez I2S - ce contenu se concrétisait par la coproduction en étroite interaction avec les clients. Finalement, au CA Serviços on a reconnu l´importance de la création de connaissance comme un outil pour le changement stratégique étant donné le besoin fondamental de générer des connaissances sur les interfaces requises par le développement d´une nouvelle vision partagée. / Based on his already long professional career the author asked himself what knowledge management would mean for the knowledge-intensive business services firms where there was a traditional tendency to view knowledge as an object instead of a process of knowing.Through three successive experiments of intervention-research – managing a software house, leading a supplier of packaged software or running a shared services centre – the author has proved that privileging the knowing over the knowledge and ensuring a correct articulation with the strategic and organizational processes it is possible that the KBV (Knowledge-Based View) will make sense in the knowledge-intensive business services sector.In fact, during the first experiment it was shown that articulating appropriately the strategy and the operational processes of Eurociber the KBV made sense through knowledge sharing while during the second experiment at I2S that was achieved through the coproduction in close interaction with the customers. Finally, at CA Serviços it was recognized the importance of knowledge creation as a tool for strategic management assuming the fundamental need to generate knowledge about the interfaces required by the development of a new shared vision.

Service quality and customer satisfaction are becoming increasingly important in today‟s business environment which is characterised by fierce competition between the service providers. In this regard it is very imperative that companies assess themselves by measuring service quality. Consequently, areas of the service with low service quality would be identified and improved. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the effectiveness of SERVQUAL in measuring service quality and reveals the positive impact technology has on customer satisfaction in public transportation. To do this, we developed a questionnaire within the framework of the SERVQUAL dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangible. With a scale of 1 to 7, respondents of our questionnaire who are users and customers of the public bus companies; Karlstad city bus which we labelled business level 1(B1) and intercity buses like Swebus and Värmland Trafik which we labelled business level 2 (B2) were able to evaluate the service quality of these companies by grading them. Based on the results of our research in which we asked respondents to mention some of the areas of the service process in which they had encountered unfavourable service experiences, we were able to determine the areas of the service process from which the customer complaints came from. We compared these results with the customer complaints received by the management of the public Bus Company and noticed that they were similar. Majority emerged from areas of the service process whereby the customer came in contact with the employees or the service failure could be directly associated with the employee. After comparing these complaints with the results of questions in our questionnaire developed within the framework of the SERVQUAL dimensions, we noticed that those questions with larger GAP 5 implying lower service quality were actually a reflection of the areas of the service process from which customer complaints came from. In this regard, we were able to conclude that SERVQUAL was effective in measuring the service quality in public transportation. In addition, we ranked the questions in the questionnaire and noticed that those areas of the service process whereby the employees and the customers interact (come in contact) or whose service failure can be directly associated with an employee had low grades and ranked below the mean and median of all the questions in the various dimensions, whereas those areas of the service process where technology is used or customers had the opportunity to make use of Self Service Technology ranked above the mean and median. This was a clear indication that technology is a service quality driver and positively impacted customer satisfaction in public transportation.

International film co-productions are sometimes thought of by the Americans as a form of financing providing the U.S. with the ability to sell works to its most important export market, Europe. Europe prefers thinking of it as way to provide its market with works that reflect European culture and ideals. This thesis questions the reality of such a statement, using the examples of the EU, the U.S. and Canada. / The author first explains the mechanism of co-production within the framework of a presentation of the methods of film financing. Follows a twofold discussion on the current nature of international co-productions, on both the international and national levels. / A considerable portion of this work examines the terms of the debate about the interplay between culture and trade. As an instrument used in the audiovisual industry, therefore strongly connected to cultural industries, international co-production is indeed an ideal model to represent the tensions existing between culture and global trade. This thesis sets international co-production up as a symbol of the interface between culture and trade. / Follows a debate on the congruity of the existing global and regional trade agreements for the protection of a culture always weaker in its diversity and propagation. With the prospect of the imminent phasing out of the sectoral exemptions allowed by the GATS, the inadequacy of the NAFTA cultural exemption and current quota policy systems, what would be best to calm down the tensions between culture and trade? Three solutions are discussed here: the New International Instrument on Cultural Diversity; a powerful competitor to the American majors such as Vivendi-Universal, and the technique of co-ventures.