O estudo é dedicado à análise da eficácia do reconhecimento das convenções coletivas de trabalho e dos acordos coletivos de trabalho como garantia fundamental diante da outorga constitucional encerrada no inciso XXVI do art. 7º da Constituição Federal. A importância da abordagem construída está na ponderação do status representativo desse destaque na Lei Fundamental como aperfeiçoamento da tríade francesa da liberdade, igualdade e fraternidade (solidariedade), de modo a prevalecer nas relações individuais de trabalho a normatividade incorporada ao ordenamento jurídico por essas fontes de direito, decorrentes do exercício da autonomia privada do cidadão-trabalhador em assembleia participativa e direta. Para tanto, o trabalho percorre um itinerário em três movimentos. O primeiro, mediante abordagem histórica e resgate das motivações jurídicas de modelação da convenção coletiva de trabalho, em curso espaço de tempo igualmente designada por contrato coletivo de trabalho, e dos movimentos associativo-sindicais. No segundo, a inicial definição de premissas válidas relativas aos direitos fundamentais permissiva, por consequência, permissivas da catalogação constitucional do direito ao trabalho e das garantias constantes no art. 7º da Constituição Federal. O terceiro e último, com enfoque centrado na irradiação de eficácia e repercussão nas relações de trabalho dos convênios coletivos de trabalho nas relações individuais de trabalho em prevalência à lei. / This study intentd analyzing the effectiveness of the recognition of collective labor conventions and collective bargaining agreements as a fundamental guarantee before the Constitutional granting assured by Article 7, line XXVI of the Brazilian Federal Constitution. The importance of the built approach is in taking account the representative status about this emphasis in the Basic Law as an improvement of the French slogans: freedom, equality and brotherhood (solidarity), in order for prevail in the individual employment relationships the regulations incorporated into the legal system by these source of laws, resulting from the exercise of the citizen (workers) private autonomy in Shareholders. To do so, three approaches were employed: the first, by historical approach and surrenders the legal motives of the Collective Labor Convention deployment, in short period of time also referred to as collective employment contract, and the associative movement. In the second, the start definition of valid premises report on fundamental rights permissive, as a result, of the constitutional cataloguing of the right to work and the guarantees contained in the Article 7 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution. The third and final point focusing on irradiation of the efficiency and repercussion in the work relationships of the collective labor agreements in the individual employment relations prevails over the law.

Le projet de recherche vise à observer et comprendre les choix d'options comptables effectués par les groupes français lors de la première application des normes IAS/IFRS. Afin d'acquérir une vision globale du phénomène, nous adoptons une démarche multi-méthodes associant : constitution et analyse d'une base de données, étude économétrique, analyse lexicale, questionnaires et entretiens semi-directifs. Les données empiriques sont analysées au regard d'un cadre conceptuel multi-théorique conjuguant les théories politico-contractuelle, des conventions et néo-institutionnelle sociologique. <br />Nous mettons en évidence l'homogénéité des choix d'options retenus, ainsi qu'une volonté marquée de minimiser les effets du changement de normes en maintenant, dans la mesure du possible, les pratiques antérieures. Nous identifions également les facteurs explicatifs des choix d'options comptables lors de la première application des normes IAS/IFRS. En période d'incertitude radicale, les pressions exercées par les institutions comptables et la profession sont décisives pour le processus de choix. Par ailleurs, compte tenu de ses capacités cognitives limitées et de son souci de légitimer ses choix, le préparateur des comptes adopte un comportement mimétique

Cette thèse pose la question de la représentation économique du comportement des consommateurs, lorsque ces derniers affichent un certain degré de sensibilité vis-à-vis de l'environnement. Nous nous intéressons en particulier à la production de déchets des ménages, que nous proposons d'aborder d'un double point de vue : comme conséquence de l'activité de consommation, d'une part, comme activité économique à part entière, dans laquelle les individus doivent effectuer des choix, d'autre part.<br />La problématique centrale de cette thèse est donc la suivante : peut-on représenter économiquement le phénomène ‘déchet' dans l'acte individuel de consommation ? Dans la première partie de ce travail, nous proposons de représenter la sensibilité des consommateurs vis-à-vis de l'environnement, en général, et des déchets en particulier. Le postulat est que les individus peuvent intégrer la variable ‘environnement' dans leurs choix de consommation, dès l'achat de produits sur le marché : ceci définit ce que nous proposons d'appeler la rationalité environnementale continue des agents économiques.<br />Dans une seconde partie, nous caractérisons le comportement d'un individu qui choisit de trier ses déchets. A partir d'une enquête qualitative que nous avons réalisée, nous recherchons dans les discours et les pratiques des agents à définir ce qu'est le comportement du consommateur-producteur (-trieur) de déchets. Il apparaît, lors de cette enquête, que la sensibilité écologique des agents économiques, lorsqu'elle existe, ne se traduit pas prioritairement dans leurs choix de consommation. Les préoccupations vis-à-vis des déchets ménagers, postérieures aux décisions d'achat de biens, définissent une rationalité environnementale discontinue et nous conduisent à élargir le cadre d'analyse traditionnel du consommateur.

Thesis (M.A. (Tourism))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Kiel, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-lxii).

The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.

The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.

During negotiating process of drawing up global environmental conventions or protocols, negotiating parties to form different negotiation coalitions can be observed. However, few existing academic literature or studies have taken a systematic approach to explore the elements that contribute to the formation of these coalitions and to the changes of coalitions in the middle stage of negotiating process. Through examining the negotiating process of several selected conferences for the establishment of global environmental treaties which are representative in nature and from different international environmental domains, this study is to find the core elements and sub-elements which contribute to the formation of negotiation coalitions. This study shows that the composition of negotiation coalitions is dynamic. The timing of reorganizing the negotiating coalitions falls on the stage in which negotiation proceeds from principle issues to substantive ones. In other words, when the issues under negotiation begin to involve legally binding substantive commitments to State parties, the reorganization of negotiation coalitions emerges. Furthermore, this study also finds that common elements do exist in the formation of negotiation coalitions. The core elements are ¡§the source of threat¡¨ and ¡§enhanceing the influence of a State¡¨; they are not affected by the change of negotiating issues. The other two sub-elements are: ¡§the same experience of participating in the same international organizations¡¨, the factor for forming negotiation coalitions during the stage of negotiation on principle issues, and ¡§domestic economic structure¡¨ during the stage of substantive issues negotiation for the formation of negotiation coalitions.

Across the globe, people are everyday audiences of advertising images, which have become integrated in our life worlds. Advertising images are entangled with interesting moral conflicts. This study analyses the decision-processes of advertising self-regulators, who are in the midst of such moral conflicts, with the purpose of showing how and why they decide if advertising images are acceptable or not. Two organizations based in different countries are included in the study; The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the United Kingdom and The Trade Ethical Council against Sexism in Advertising (ERK) in Sweden. The empirical material consists of interviews with 38 people, images and text documents, from the two mentioned self-regulatory bodies, and some (participant) observation. The study focuses on cases of potentially offensive advertisements. The material is primarily analysed using the theory of worlds of worth, developed by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot. The thesis argues that advertising self-regulation is about ascertaining, and making compromises between, conventions of morality. The study demonstrates the pattern of how the contextual circumstances influence the moral decisions that are made. It is shown that a decisive feature of the decisions is to conceptualize the general public in a justified way. This means that decision-makers picture the public as types of people who hold one or a combination of moral logics, and assume that they use these to interpret and evaluate advertising images. How these publics are defined depends on how the settings of the different advertising images are collectively interpreted by the decision-makers. The thesis argues more generally that to understand people’s values we must look at conflict situations in which current morals surface, such as the ways they appear in relation to advertising images.

The social transmission of social behaviours in nonhuman primates has been understudied, experimentally, relative to instrumental, food-related behaviours. This is disproportional in relation to the comparatively high percentage of potential social traditions reported in wild primates. I report a systematic survey of the social learning literature and provide quantitative evidence of the discrepancy (Watson and Caldwell, 2009). Addressing the identified deficit in experimental work on social behaviours, I also report three empirical studies investigating the contagious nature of affective states in captive, socially housed marmosets. I carried out an observational study, to determine whether marmosets are influenced by spontaneously produced neighbour calls to perform a range of behaviours associated with similar affect. My results supported a neighbour effect for anxiety in marmosets. Consistent with previous findings for chimpanzees (Baker and Aureli, 1996; Videan et al., 2005), I also found evidence for neighbour effects for aggression and affiliation (Watson and Caldwell, 2010). Through experimental playback, I investigated contingent social contagion in the auditory and visual modalities. The playback of pre-recorded affiliative (chirp) calls was found to be associated with marmosets spending increased time in a range of affiliative behaviours. Playback of video showing conspecifics engaged in a positive affiliative behaviour (allogrooming) also appeared to cause marmosets to spend longer performing various affiliative behaviours. My results indicate that social contagion of affiliation is a multi-modal phenomenon in marmosets and also represent the first evidence that allogrooming is visually contagious in primates. Sapolsky (2006) conceptualised culture as the performance of species-typical behaviours to an unusual extent, termed ‘social culture’. Researchers have yet to directly investigate a transmission mechanism. I investigated whether a social culture of increased affiliation could be initiated in marmosets through the long-term playback, of positive calls, or of video of positive behaviour. The results were consistent with a relatively long-lasting influence of the playback of affiliative calls across several affiliative behaviours. The effect appeared to last substantially beyond the specific hours of playback, between playbacks, and after playback had ceased, potentially indicating a temporary shift in social culture. These results are preliminary but provide some support for the proposal that auditory social contagion may be a transmission mechanism for social culture. The long-term video playback of allogrooming appeared to result in a transitory shift in performance of the identical behaviour (increased allogrooming) after playbacks had ceased. In addition to theoretical implications for social cognition and social culture, my findings have potential practical application for the enhancement of welfare in captive marmosets through sensory, and non-contact social, enrichment.