Orientador: Rogério Gomes / Banca: Luciana Togeiro de Almeida / Banca: Fernando Sarti / Resumo: O número de estudos que tratam da internacionalização de empresas tem aumentado nos últimos anos. Esse aumento é verificado, em grande medida, devido à adequação das teorias que tratam do tema à dinâmica do setor de serviços, tendo sido elas elaboradas originalmente para explicar o investimento estrangeiro de empresas industriais. Tal fenômeno ocorre em função do crescimento da importância do setor terciário na economia mundial e, principalmente, pela incorporação de diversos serviços em todas as cadeias produtivas da indústria. Essas estruturas de produção acompanham a divisão internacional do trabalho, com etapas específicas distribuídas pelos países segundo suas competências produtivas. Essa distribuição foi possibilitada, entre outros fatores, pela diminuição dos custos de transporte internacional, que levou a um aumento não apenas nos fluxos de comércio mundial, mas também na atividade turística internacional. O turismo, por sua vez, é uma atividade que necessita de diversos serviços, dentre eles os de hotelaria. As grandes empresas que prestam serviços hoteleiros também adotaram a estratégia de expansão internacional nos últimos anos, mas sua dinâmica difere de outras empresas de serviços em função da heterogeneidade do setor terciário. Visto isso, este trabalho tem o intuito de explorar a capacidade explicativa das teorias de internacionalização, bem como a possibilidade de adapta-las à dinâmica real do mercado, considerando as estratégias das redes hoteleiras internac... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The number of studies concerning companies' internationalization has increased in the past years. This increase occurs largely due to the adequacy of theories that deal with the subject to the dynamics of the service sector, and these were originally designed to explain the foreign investment of industrial companies. Such phenomenon occurs due to the growth of the importance of the tertiary sector in world economy and, mainly, the incorporation of several services in all the productive chains of the industry. These production structures accompany the international division of labor, with specific stages distributed by countries according to their productive competencies. This distribution was made possible, among other factors, by the decrease in international transportation costs, which led to an increase not only in world trade flows, but also in international tourism activity. Tourism, in turn, is an activity that requires several services, such as hospitality. The large companies that provide hotel services have also adopted the strategy of international expansion in recent years, but their dynamics differs from other service companies due to heterogeneity of the tertiary sector. Thus, this work intends to explore the explanatory capacity of internationalization theories, as well as the possibility of adapting them to the real market dynamics, considering the strategies of international hotel chains in Brazil. It is verified that the internationalization theories have lim... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

abstract: On May 12, 2009, hundreds of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) raided Agriprocessors, a meat packing plant in the sleepy town of Postville, Iowa, and arrested 389 workers. These workers, primarily Spanish speaking immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico, were charged with felony aggravated identity theft. This criminalization of immigration is a critical point in immigration policy in the United States, representing a ritual performance of the exclusion of immigrants from American society. In stark juxtaposition to the raid itself, the community of Postville was working to welcome the very immigrants that were targeted by ICE. In attempts at inclusion, Postville had created an adult soccer league that provided a sense of community and identity for immigrants. Using the classic anthropological method of ethnography, this research draws on extensive time immersed in the community of Postville to conduct a qualitative case study of the day-to-day meanings of immigration in the United States. This dissertation examines the adult soccer league and the ICE raid as examples of cultural performances of inclusion and exclusion by using anthropological concepts of nation, sport, and performance. Performance is used to mark national identity in both instances--a shifting, hybrid `transnational' identity in the case of the immigrants playing in the soccer league--and a clearly delineated `American' identity in the case of the ICE raid. Moreover, national identity is tied to other aspects of identity, such as gender. As the performances create national `imagined communities,' they also gender their participants and nations themselves. Ultimately this reveals the way that immigration itself is gendered, and the way in which American immigration policy is designed to promote an American national identity. These efforts are not only to the detriment of immigrants in the United States as laborers but also to the communities with jobs that draw these workers. The case study of Postville provides a lens to examine the meanings of immigration policy from the ground up and in the lives of those it impacts most--immigrants and the communities in which they reside. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Anthropology 2010

The purpose of this study was to find out how Korean newspapers covered women's professional golf tournaments held in Korea and the United States. Additionally, an attempt was made to ascertain any trends in the newspapers' coverage of players and activities associated with both tours. This study focused on one daily sport newspaper (Ilgan Sports) and one general newspaper (Chosun Ilbo) from 2004 through 2008. The two newspapers produced 1,699 stories related to the LPGA (n=1,234 articles) and the KLPGA (n= 465 articles). Thus, the newspapers covered the LPGA (72.6%) much more frequently than then KLPGA (27.4%). The newspapers covered the LPGA more in all three categories, with the LPGA receiving 79.4% of the large articles, 74.1% of the medium stories, and 68.7% of the small articles. In addition, the newspapers provided the LPGA more feature story coverage (83.9%) and more photographic coverage (75.7%). It is notable that this study's principal innovation is the finding of changes in the overall approach of the Korean media over the five-year analysis. Specifically, the coverage devoted to the KLPGA tour increased from 21.9 % (2004) to 36.13 % (2008) of the total coverage given to women's golf by the selected newspapers.

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Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratório-descritiva que tem como objetivo entender como os executivos expatriados e executivos itinerantes estão vivenciando uma nova realidade cultural no âmbito profissional e pessoal. O problema de pesquisa constitui-se em identificar e analisar os entraves e os facilitadores com os quais os executivos expatriados e os executivos itinerantes se defrontam ao iniciarem suas atividades profissionais em outro país e utilizar este conhecimento para desenvolver meios para facilitar o contato intercultural, focando no executivo itinerante. Os dados foram coletados através de questionários abertos com quarenta executivos da empresa transnacional (quatorze executivos expatriados, onze executivos expatriados retornados e quinze executivos itinerantes). Para a análise das respostas às perguntas do questionário, utilizou-se a metodologia de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados são apresentados em três conjuntos de categorias: vinte categorias iniciais, posteriormente reagrupadas em nove categorias intermediárias e, por último, sintetizadas nas categorias finais: A preparação para o contato com outras culturas, O contato com outras culturas e Desenvolvendo a interculturalidade. Os resultados obtidos apontam para a importância de não só executivos expatriados receberem treinamento intercultural, mas também os executivos itinerantes, que transitam entre as diferentes culturas das diversas localidades da empresa transnacional, necessitam de um treinamento cultural para embasar o contato intercultural. A pesquisa também indica características necessárias em um executivo itinerante e a importância do conhecimento prévio do idioma da localidade. / This is an exploratory-descriptive research, with the objective to understand how the expatriate and itinerant executives are experiencing a new cultural reality in a professional and personal ambit. The researched problem consist in identify and analyze the barriers and facilitators that the expatriate and itinerary executives are exposed to when performing professional activities in other countries, and use this knowledge to develop ways to facilitate the intercultural contact, focusing on the itinerate executive. The data was collected using an open questionnaire with forty executives from a transnational company (fourteen expatriates’ executives, eleven returned expatriate executives and fifteen itinerant executives). Content analyze methodology was used to analyze the answers given to the questionnaire. The results are presented in three groups of categories: twenty initial categories, posterior rearranged in nine intermediary categories and, at last, synthesize in three final categories, which are: the preparation for the contact with other cultures, the contact with other cultures and developing interculturality. The obtained results indicate the importance that not only expatriate executives should receive intercultural training, but also itinerant executives, which transit the different cultures of the various transnational company localities, need a cultural training to base the intercultural contact. This research also indicates needed characteristics of the itinerant executives and the importance of the previous knowledge of the local idiom.

This dissertation addresses the central question- How are parenting methodologies across the sending and receiving nations shaped by larger macro forces embedded in economy and labor market forces? In order to answer this key question this project analyzes interviews with 59 middle-class mothers in Edison, New Jersey and Kolkata, India. This project contributes to the larger scope of immigration and transnational studies while placing them at the cross section of globalization of economy, labor market and education. The first chapter examines extensively the schooling systems in Edison and Kolkata and the ways it shapes parenting methods in these two locations. The key argument in this chapter focuses on the influence of the education system upon mothers in Edison and Kolkata and the ways they maneuver the schools. In the subsequent chapters I compare and contrast between support groups and community networks that help mothers in Edison and Kolkata navigate everyday child rearing challenges. The central puzzle that these chapters solve is: why immigrant mothers in an individualistic society resort to community and on the contrary mothers in Kolkata that belong to a more traditional society resort to commercial parenting schools instead of extended family to support everyday child rearing? The primary reason is embedded in the globalization of the labor market and economy. The immigrant mothers in Edison, who immigrated to the US as spouses of elite professionals in a globalized economy were confronted with the challenges of parenting in a foreign country. They resorted to community support to help them negotiate everyday parenting challenges. On the other hand in Kolkata the rapid changes in the field of employment an education had forced mothers to resort to commercial agencies for parenting support. Finally the dissertation concludes by returning to the central research questions and briefly states the central findings along with raising avenues for future research.

Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratório-descritiva que tem como objetivo entender como os executivos expatriados e executivos itinerantes estão vivenciando uma nova realidade cultural no âmbito profissional e pessoal. O problema de pesquisa constitui-se em identificar e analisar os entraves e os facilitadores com os quais os executivos expatriados e os executivos itinerantes se defrontam ao iniciarem suas atividades profissionais em outro país e utilizar este conhecimento para desenvolver meios para facilitar o contato intercultural, focando no executivo itinerante. Os dados foram coletados através de questionários abertos com quarenta executivos da empresa transnacional (quatorze executivos expatriados, onze executivos expatriados retornados e quinze executivos itinerantes). Para a análise das respostas às perguntas do questionário, utilizou-se a metodologia de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados são apresentados em três conjuntos de categorias: vinte categorias iniciais, posteriormente reagrupadas em nove categorias intermediárias e, por último, sintetizadas nas categorias finais: A preparação para o contato com outras culturas, O contato com outras culturas e Desenvolvendo a interculturalidade. Os resultados obtidos apontam para a importância de não só executivos expatriados receberem treinamento intercultural, mas também os executivos itinerantes, que transitam entre as diferentes culturas das diversas localidades da empresa transnacional, necessitam de um treinamento cultural para embasar o contato intercultural. A pesquisa também indica características necessárias em um executivo itinerante e a importância do conhecimento prévio do idioma da localidade. / This is an exploratory-descriptive research, with the objective to understand how the expatriate and itinerant executives are experiencing a new cultural reality in a professional and personal ambit. The researched problem consist in identify and analyze the barriers and facilitators that the expatriate and itinerary executives are exposed to when performing professional activities in other countries, and use this knowledge to develop ways to facilitate the intercultural contact, focusing on the itinerate executive. The data was collected using an open questionnaire with forty executives from a transnational company (fourteen expatriates’ executives, eleven returned expatriate executives and fifteen itinerant executives). Content analyze methodology was used to analyze the answers given to the questionnaire. The results are presented in three groups of categories: twenty initial categories, posterior rearranged in nine intermediary categories and, at last, synthesize in three final categories, which are: the preparation for the contact with other cultures, the contact with other cultures and developing interculturality. The obtained results indicate the importance that not only expatriate executives should receive intercultural training, but also itinerant executives, which transit the different cultures of the various transnational company localities, need a cultural training to base the intercultural contact. This research also indicates needed characteristics of the itinerant executives and the importance of the previous knowledge of the local idiom.

Orientador: João Carlos Soares Zuin / Banca: Renata Medeiros Paoliello / Banca: Carla Gandini Gianni Martelli / Banca: Maria José de Rezende / Banca: Fábio Lanza / Resumo: Norteado pelo método analítico e interpretativo da Sociologia do Conhecimento de Karl Mannheim, o presente trabalho defende enquanto hipótese central que, no caso especificamente brasileiro do século XXI, as igrejas evangélicas neopentecostais apresentam um maior poder competitivo e de flexibilização adaptativa às profundas e radicais transformações socioculturais desencadeadas pela radicalização dos processos de modernização em tempos de globalização contemporânea do capitalismo, agindo nas subjetividades humanas (no "ego"), ao dar-lhes exatamente aquilo que lhes falta enquanto agentes competitivos: a força motivacional da fé para o agir social como potencial empreendedor "homem de negócios" bem sucedido, assim como da força do ânimo para ser virtuoso e vitorioso nos mercados concorrenciais cada vez mais acirrados, devido, sobretudo, ao sentido radical da ideia de conversão presente nas comunidades evangélicas neopentecostais. A força e o poder do sentido da noção paulina de conversão presente entre os neopentecostais oferecem aos seus fiéis um conjunto de respostas utilitárias e pragmáticas aos seres humanos que se encontram imersos e submersos nas sociedades narcísicas e hipercompetitivas do "ego". Trata-se do poder de nascer de novo, do desejar ser outro, concedendo aos fiéis convertidos às expectativas com relação ao desenvolvimento dos sensos de autoconfiança no próprio "eu". Logo, tratando-se de formas de religiosidades interessadas em contribuírem para a felicidade do... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Based on the analytical and interpretative method of the Sociology of Knowledge of Karl Mannheim, the present work defends as central hypothesis that, in the specifically Brazilian case of the 21st century, the neo-Pentecostal evangelical churches present a greater competitive power and adaptive flexibilization to the deep and radical socio-cultural transformations Unleashed by the radicalization of modernization processes in times of contemporary globalization of capitalism. Acting on human subjectivities (in the "ego"), by giving them exactly what they lack as competitive agents: the motivational force of faith for social action as a successful entrepreneurial "business man", as well as for strength of mind To be virtuous and victorious in increasingly competitive markets, due above all to the radical sense of the idea of conversion present in Neo-Pentecostal evangelical communities. The power and power of the sense of the Pauline notion of present conversion among NeoPentecostals offer their believers a set of utilitarian and pragmatic responses to human beings who are immersed and submerged in the narcissistic and hypercompetitive societies of the "ego." It is the power to be born again, to wish to be another, by giving the converted faithful the expectations of developing self-confidence in self. Therefore, these are forms of religiosities interested in contributing to the happiness of the individual in this world, and no longer in an outer world beyond. And, for this ve... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Submitted by Olavo Negrão Pereira Barreto null (1295659@fclar.unesp.br) on 2017-07-14T22:17:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 O Medo e a Política Antiterror do Ocidente no Processo de Globalização.pdf: 1194416 bytes, checksum: 452a58284ad6d8b41de7c3f2cb85e141 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by LUIZA DE MENEZES ROMANETTO (luizamenezes@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-07-18T20:39:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 barreto_onp_me_arafcl.pdf: 1194416 bytes, checksum: 452a58284ad6d8b41de7c3f2cb85e141 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-18T20:39:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 barreto_onp_me_arafcl.pdf: 1194416 bytes, checksum: 452a58284ad6d8b41de7c3f2cb85e141 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-26 / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo contemplar uma análise sociológico histórica sobre o fenômeno do terrorismo. Focalizando o espaço temporal no cenário de globalização pós-fim da Guerra Fria, seguindo-se da reconfiguração da geopolítica global, até os dias atuais onde o terrorismo, assim como a guerra, se fazem presentes na vida de todos os cidadãos, direta ou indiretamente, cotidianamente. Buscou-se uma reconstituição histórica do fenômeno, assim como os processos que foram transformando o terrorismo em um instrumento de manipulação de massa através da dispersão do medo global. Medo este que possibilitou um contexto de militarização da vida social e da desconstrução da soberania nacional e do universo do Direito. / The present work aims to contemplate a historical sociological analysis of the phenomenon of terrorism. Focusing the temporal space in the scenario of globalization after the end of the Cold War, followed by the reconfiguration of global geopolitics, to the present day where terrorism, as well as war, are present in the lives of all citizens, directly or indirectly, every day. We sought a reconstruction of the history of the phenomenon, as well as the processes that were transforming terrorism into an instrument of mass manipulation through the dispersion of global. Fear this that allowed a context of militarization of social life and deconstruction of national sovereignty and of the universe of the Right.

Orientador: Alberto Albuquerque Gomes / Resumo: A associação de professores em uma cooperativa de prestação de serviços é algo original e resulta das transformações pelas quais tem passado o mundo do trabalho. Conhecer como se deu esta trajetória foi o objetivo da pesquisa. É amplamente sabido que o processo de globalização está definitivamente instalado e peremptoriamente comprometido com a reestruturação do mundo do trabalho, implicando em novas formas de organização, execução e valorização do trabalho. O grupo pesquisado, pela especificidade de sua condição - cooperado -, permitiu uma reflexão bastante significativa sobre a interface existente entre a globalização e o desenraizamento do professor/trabalhador. A conclusão, possível e provisória, aponta a insatisfação e o alheamento como sintomas das mudanças sobre o plano da subjetividade do professor/trabalhador. Desencadeando, por um lado, a sensação de desenraizamento da categoria profissional e da cultura local e, por outro lado, uma forte disposição para enfrentar as mudanças construindo uma identidade profissional, enraizando-se. / Abstract: The association of teachers into a service cooperative is something peculiar and it results from work in a globalized world. The main purpose of my research was to understand how this process is happening. It's widely known that globalization course is definitely settled and it's deeply engaged to the reestructuring of the working world, bringing new organization, execution and work valorization patterns. The researched group, who had a unique condition - was part of a cooperative system -, permitted a very significant analysis about the interactivity between globalization and teacher/worker linkless. The provisory possible outcome indicates a displeasure sensation and an absent behaviour as a symptom of the changes on the teacher/worker level of subjectivity. It breaks out, on one hand into, a professional class and local culture linkless feeling but, on the other hand, it starts a powerful disposition to face up the changes building a rooted professional identity. / Mestre