This thesis studies the determinants and outcomes of the skill systems in Mexico and Turkey, two crucial cases of middle-income countries (MICs). Despite the similarities in their previous institutional environments and links to the global economy, Turkey has experienced higher economic growth and better social development compared to Mexico. This PhD project focuses on the Mexican and Turkish skill systems, which have been significant institutions that affect the (different) economic and social characteristics of advanced industrialised countries in the literature on comparative capitalisms (CCs). This study builds its theoretical approach on the arguments of CCs literature and the claims of globalisation, where it draws from the studies on global value chains (GVCs). It scrutinises the patterns of convergence due to globalisation and ongoing divergence because of the variation of institutional structures. It examines the complementarities and outcomes of the skill systems, which will then help to understand the divergence of development experiences between Mexico and Turkey. This PhD project carries out a multi-level research and focuses the empirical study on auto parts-automotive value chains (AACs), which is an important industry for many MICs including Mexico and Turkey. The multi-level research first includes a macro-level study of local institutions in Mexico and Turkey, as well as the convergence patterns through the AACs. This is complemented with a micro-level analysis of firms' strategies to find workers with technical skills in production functions. The findings show that while there is some convergence in the Mexican and Turkish auto parts producers' skill needs, firms from these two countries adopt different strategies to address their needs. The distinctive national institutions in Mexico and Turkey, which are shaped by the differences in the state's involvement, are the main reasons for this divergence. The differences between the Mexican and Turkish skill systems have created different outcomes for both the firms and workers in these countries, and hence are expected to have contributed to their diverging development paths.

Esta tese apóia-se em um estudo de caso realizado na Grande Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, para discutir a categoria analítica mercado de trabalho. Restrições ao conceito emergem em um tratamento teórico inspirado na nova sociologia econômica e se evidenciam na abordagem empírica. O trabalho de campo desenvolveu-se em 2002 e, a seguir, entre 2006 e 2007. Foram realizadas observações de inspiração etnográfica e entrevistas em profundidade; dados censitários, registros administrativos e pesquisa de documentação histórica constituíram-se em fontes complementares. Na região autodenominada o Berço Nacional da Soja, expressando o peso econômico e simbólico do produto , a elevada participação da agricultura familiar na ocupação, a grande parcela de trabalho não-remunerado e as pequenas populações dos municípios que a integram seriam características suficientes para interpelar o caráter mercantil do uso do trabalho, bem como as ferramentas analíticas consagradas nas pesquisas sobre mercados de trabalho. O quadro regional, entretanto, se torna ainda mais desafiador pois abriga um setor industrial moderno, nucleado por duas empresas multinacionais, que empregam grande número de trabalhadores, influenciam fortemente a vida institucional da região e a inserem em circuitos de interações globais. A interconexão entre essas duas formas de circulação e uso do trabalho não sustenta uma interpretação dualista, e só adquire coerência quando se traz a problemática espacial para o centro da análise. Os nexos, historicamente tecidos, entre os múltiplos fatores - sociais, culturais e institucionais -, tão pertinentes na análise sociológica de um mercado de trabalho, associam-se às especificidades de uma configuração espacial concreta, atravessada pelas múltiplas escalas (local, nacional, global) que se sobrepõem e se articulam para constituí-la. / This thesis explores a case study in the Grande Santa Rosa region (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) aiming to contribute to recent discussions on the pertinence and heuristic value of labor market as an analytical tool in sociological analysis. Weaknesses of this concept grow from both a theoretical approach inspired in the new economic sociology, and the empirical results. Field research has been conducted in two periods: 2002 and 2006-2007 based upon ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews; census and administrative data as well as primary documents and historical information completed the collection of data sources. In this region known as the National Cradle of Soya Beans, evidence of the economic and symbolic importance of the product some characteristics like the high labor force engagement on family based agriculture, the weight of non-paid work and the very small size of population in the municipalities would confront interpretations on the mercantile character of work relations and would challenge the pertinence of analytical tools currently used on sociological analysis of labor market. The nature of its social reality, however, looks even more challenging due to the presence of a modern industrial sector, driven by two large transnational corporations, employing a significant contingent of regional workers; those firms are major players on regional institutional life, brokering Grande Santa Rosa connections with global circuits. The links between those two different forms of labor circulation and economic insertion do not stand for dualistic interpretation. Coherence to be reached requires the spatial dimension to be brought to the center of analysis. The historical intertwine of social, cultural or institutional factors, crucial for the sociology of labor markets, requires the analysis to be grounded in the uniqueness of concrete spatial configuration, taking into account the overlapping and interaction of its multiple scales (local, national and global).

Esta tese é um estudo sobre mediações de natureza política e cultural que facultam o ambiente de funcionamento do universo empresarial. Almejo atingir pontos de entrecruzamento entre as atividades econômicas, a política e a cultura no percurso de uma parcela de imigrantes japoneses de São Paulo. Examino o repertório de motivações dos agentes que, em períodos distintos, ocuparam os principais cargos de comando em uma empresa: a Cooperativa Agrícola de Cotia. Avalio se, e sob quais condições, certos fundamentos sociais condicionaram as ações desses agentes. São analisadas as suas percepções sobre acontecimentos e momentos históricos específicos, bem como as respostas por eles formuladas ao sistema de alocação de direitos e oportunidades oferecidos aos estrangeiros na sociedade brasileira ao longo do século XX. Argumento que processos sociais inseparáveis da experiência migratória dos japoneses no Brasil como a busca pelo reconhecimento de suas diferenças e a formulação de estratégias de incorporação social reverberam, em muitos casos, no repertório de motivações desses gestores. / This thesis is a study on the cultural and political mediations that affect the operating environment of the business world. I seek to reach points of intersection between economic activities, politics and culture of a small fraction of São Paulo\'s Japanese immigrants. I examine the repertoire of motivations of agents that, at different period of times, were at the top leadership in a firm: the Cooperativa Agrícola de Cotia. I examine whether and under what conditions certain social foundations conditioned the actions of these agents. I analyze their perceptions of events and specific historical moments, as well as the responses made by them to the allocation system rights and opportunities offered to the foreigners in Brazilian society throughout the twentieth century. I argue that inseparable social processes of the migratory experience of the Japanese in Brazil such as the search for recognition of their differences and the formulation of social incorporation strategies reverberated on the repertoire of motivation from the firms top managers.

A presente pesquisa tomou por objeto os investidores pessoa física no mercado de ações brasileiro. Este universo de investidores comumente denomina-se e é igualmente denominado - pelas demais instâncias e agentes do mercado financeiro como \'pequenos investidores\', independentemente do capital de que dispõe para seus investimentos acionários, da experiência ou do conhecimento que possuem sobre a bolsa de valores. A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise sobre como fatores sociais, culturais e tecnológicos modelam, afetam e influenciam a ação e a cognição econômica neste universo particular de investidores. Onze entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram realizadas com pequenos investidores, duas com profissionais que atuam na área de \'educação\' do pequeno investidor, acompanhamos igualmente palestras e work-shops destinados a este público, bem como sites, fóruns de Internet e palestras virtuais frequentados por este público investidor. A análise deste material empírico conjugada ao estudo da bibliografia própria à área da Sociologia Econômica resultou na identificação e no estabelecimento de cinco instâncias de modelação da ação econômica, cinco espaços de mediação nos quais os indivíduos desenvolvem e exercem seus modos de operação prática neste mercado a partir de fatores ou dimensões sociais, culturais e tecnológicas. Estas cinco instâncias podem ser resumidas da seguinte maneira: 1. influência dos agentes e das iniciativas voltadas à educação do pequeno investidor em bolsa de valores, 2. o impacto das redes sociais para a operação prática dos pequenos investidores, 3. a conformação de estilos de operação e de tomada de riscos na bolsa ( grosso modo, \'conservadores\' ou \'arrojados\') a partir de identidades ou papeis sociais reivindicados e assumidos pelos pequenos investidores, 4. o papel de softwares e tecnologias que assessoram e equipam o pequeno investidor e, finalmente, 5. a constante associação entre o investimento em bolsa e o universo cultural dos jogos. Em oposição ao paradigma neoclássico das ciências econômicas, o estudo concluí que, em suas tentativas de cálculos e maximizações racionais, os indivíduos não são unidades auto-referenciadas e/ou auto-suficientes, ao contrário, seus cálculos e maximizações são constituídos a partir de fatores ou dimensões sociais, culturais e tecnológicas. / The present research centers its focus upon the natural person that trades stocks in the Brazilian stock market. This universe of investors is generally acknowledged as \'small investors\', regardless to the capital one has for stock investment, his experience or knowledge about the stock exchange. The research carries out an analysis on the social, cultural and technological factors that shape, affect and influence the economic agency among such investors. Eleven semi-structured interviews with small investors and two interviews with professionals that work on the education of these investors have been conducted. Moreover, I have attended several work-shops dedicated to this investment public, as well as analyzed sites, electronic forums and virtual lectures aimed at this public. The investigation of this empirical data associated to the study of the economic sociology bibliography have brought about the identification of five mediation spaces, through which small investors shape their concrete modes of economic agency on social, cultural and technological grounds. These five mediation spaces may be summed up as it follows: 1. the influence of educational initiatives and agents on small investors, 2. the impact of social networks on the economic agencies of such investors, 3. the shaping of investment styles ( either \'conservative\' or \'aggressive\') based on social identities and roles these investors vindicate, 4. the impact of technologies and softwares that ground the economic agencies of small investors and, finally, 5. the constant association between stock investment and the cultural universe of games among this universe of investors. As a conclusion, opposed to the orthodox financial economics, we argue that economic agency is a complex process along which individuals shape their rational calculations according to social, cultural and technological factors or dimensions.

Submitted by Rosivalda Pereira (mrs.pereira@ufma.br) on 2017-10-17T21:55:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EvaristoLima.pdf: 4186670 bytes, checksum: 83283f7432d91813bbfcc344da875ca7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-17T21:55:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EvaristoLima.pdf: 4186670 bytes, checksum: 83283f7432d91813bbfcc344da875ca7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-04 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão / This theory has as objective to study the milk-producing region’s transformations in the micro-region of Imperatriz-MA, generated by the implementation of the Normative Instructions 51 and 62, of the Ministry of the Agriculture and Provisioning - MAPA, trying to verify how cattle farmers, family farmers, informal cheese dairies and dairy products are positioned at that market, working their own criteria on what they consider as the quality of the milk and the cheese that is produced. Edited respectively in the years of 2002 and 2011, these normative instructions constituted in the main devices of sanitary regulation for the section, establishing technical criteria for the production, identity, quality, collects and transport of the milk. In Imperatriz's micro-region, the largest milk-producing region of Maranhão, the effects of those Normative Instructions were felt indeed starting from the year of 2012, when the State’s Public Ministry-MPE began a interinstitutional campaign to combat to the "clandestine" milk and cheese, produced in establishments without formal registration in the organs of sanitary inspection. As a consequence of this campaign a rearrangement of the market of regional milk was observed, with the modification of the commercial relationships between the primary producers of milk and the formal (industries of dairy products) and informal (cheesemakers) units of improvement, when the dairy products assumed a position of defenders' to the implantation of the Normative Instructions, while the other actors seek to loosen up the application of those. Located in the field of the Economical Sociology, this study tried to approach the problem in subject being guided by the ideas that the processes of establishment of quality criteria constitute a preliminary moment to the establishment of the mercantile exchange and, that the quality of a product is not defined starting from an universal reference, but starting from values socially shared ruled in different notions of "justice" and “common good." Starting from the model of cités, elaborated by Boltanski and Thevénot (1991) it was possible to identify in the area studied two production models and improvement of milk in dispute, corresponding conceptually to the models of the conventions of the domestic world and of the industrial world, represented, respectively, by producers identified as artisanal cheesemakers and by the industry of dairy products. In this sense, these two worlds were described and analysed being looked for to apprehend the principles and evaluation criteria, mobilized by the actors involved in situations characterized by disputes around the quality patterns. In a more specific way, the milk, the actante (CALLON 2006) more present in the studied chain, was followed in its path to be transformed in cheese, when taken by the hands of the industry of dairy products, or by the hands of the artisanal cheesemakers, revealing in these courses the attributes of the human and non-human actantes involved in the improvement processes, the justifications and the ideological debates that emerge in these contexts, the differences in the verification forms and control inherent to each one of them, and the elements the factors that will compose the cognitive pictures in each world. These procedures allowed, finally, to summarize the main impacts and consequences of the dispute process for the quality and the establishment of a new configuration to the market of milk in Imperatriz’s MRH. / Esta tese tem como objetivo estudar as transformações da bacia leiteira na Microrregião de Imperatriz-MA, provocadas pela implementação das Instruções Normativas 51 e 62, do Ministério da Agricultura e Abastecimento - MAPA, procurando verificar como pecuaristas, agricultores familiares, queijarias informais e laticínios se posicionam nesse mercado, acionando critérios próprios sobre o que consideram como a qualidade do leite e do queijo produzido. Editadas respectivamente nos anos de 2002 e 2011, estas normativas se constituíram nos principais dispositivos de regulamentação sanitária para o setor, estabelecendo critérios técnicos para a produção, identidade, qualidade, coleta e transporte do leite. Na Microrregião de Imperatriz, a maior bacia leiteira do Maranhão, os efeitos dessas Instruções Normativas se fizeram sentir efetivamente, a partir do ano de 2012, quando o Ministério Público Estadual-MPE iniciou uma campanha interinstitucional de combate ao leite e queijo “clandestinos”, produzidos em estabelecimentos sem registro formal nos órgãos de fiscalização sanitária. Como consequência desta campanha, observou-se uma reconfiguração do mercado de leite regional, com a modificação das relações comerciais entre os produtores primários de leite e as unidades de beneficiamento formais (indústrias de laticínios) e informais (queijarias), tendo, os laticínios, assumido a posição de defensores da implantação das Instruções Normativas, enquanto os demais atores procuram flexibilizar a aplicação das mesmas. Situado no campo da Sociologia Econômica, este estudo buscou abordar a problemática em questão, orientando-se pelas ideias de que os processos de estabelecimento de critérios de qualidade constituem um momento preliminar ao estabelecimento do intercâmbio mercantil, e que, a qualidade de um produto não se define a partir de uma referência universal, mas a partir de valores socialmente compartilhados, pautados em diferentes noções de “justiça” e “bem comum”. A partir do modelo das cités, elaborado por Boltanski e Thévenot (1991), foi possível identificar na região estudada, dois modelos de produção e beneficiamento de leite em disputa, correspondendo conceitualmente aos modelos das convenções do mundo doméstico e do mundo industrial, representados, respectivamente, pelos produtores identificados como queijeiros e pela indústria de laticínios. Neste sentido, estes dois mundos foram descritos e analisados, buscando-se apreender os princípios e critérios de avaliação mobilizados pelos atores envolvidos em situações caracterizadas por disputas em torno dos padrões de qualidade. De modo mais específico, o leite, o actante (CALLON, 2006) mais presente na cadeia estudada, foi seguido em sua trajetória para se transformar em queijo, ora quando levado pelas mãos da indústria de laticínios, ora pelas mãos das queijarias, revelando nestes percursos, os atributos dos actantes humanos e não humanos envolvidos nos processos de beneficiamento, as justificativas e os debates ideológicos que emergem nestes contextos, as diferenças nas formas de verificação e controle inerentes a cada uma delas, e os fatores que compõem os quadros cognitivos em cada mundo. Estes procedimentos permitiram, por fim, sumariar os principais impactos e consequências do processo de disputa pela qualidade e o estabelecimento de uma nova configuração para o mercado de leite, na MRH de Imperatriz.

A presente pesquisa tomou por objeto os investidores pessoa física no mercado de ações brasileiro. Este universo de investidores comumente denomina-se e é igualmente denominado - pelas demais instâncias e agentes do mercado financeiro como \'pequenos investidores\', independentemente do capital de que dispõe para seus investimentos acionários, da experiência ou do conhecimento que possuem sobre a bolsa de valores. A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise sobre como fatores sociais, culturais e tecnológicos modelam, afetam e influenciam a ação e a cognição econômica neste universo particular de investidores. Onze entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram realizadas com pequenos investidores, duas com profissionais que atuam na área de \'educação\' do pequeno investidor, acompanhamos igualmente palestras e work-shops destinados a este público, bem como sites, fóruns de Internet e palestras virtuais frequentados por este público investidor. A análise deste material empírico conjugada ao estudo da bibliografia própria à área da Sociologia Econômica resultou na identificação e no estabelecimento de cinco instâncias de modelação da ação econômica, cinco espaços de mediação nos quais os indivíduos desenvolvem e exercem seus modos de operação prática neste mercado a partir de fatores ou dimensões sociais, culturais e tecnológicas. Estas cinco instâncias podem ser resumidas da seguinte maneira: 1. influência dos agentes e das iniciativas voltadas à educação do pequeno investidor em bolsa de valores, 2. o impacto das redes sociais para a operação prática dos pequenos investidores, 3. a conformação de estilos de operação e de tomada de riscos na bolsa ( grosso modo, \'conservadores\' ou \'arrojados\') a partir de identidades ou papeis sociais reivindicados e assumidos pelos pequenos investidores, 4. o papel de softwares e tecnologias que assessoram e equipam o pequeno investidor e, finalmente, 5. a constante associação entre o investimento em bolsa e o universo cultural dos jogos. Em oposição ao paradigma neoclássico das ciências econômicas, o estudo concluí que, em suas tentativas de cálculos e maximizações racionais, os indivíduos não são unidades auto-referenciadas e/ou auto-suficientes, ao contrário, seus cálculos e maximizações são constituídos a partir de fatores ou dimensões sociais, culturais e tecnológicas. / The present research centers its focus upon the natural person that trades stocks in the Brazilian stock market. This universe of investors is generally acknowledged as \'small investors\', regardless to the capital one has for stock investment, his experience or knowledge about the stock exchange. The research carries out an analysis on the social, cultural and technological factors that shape, affect and influence the economic agency among such investors. Eleven semi-structured interviews with small investors and two interviews with professionals that work on the education of these investors have been conducted. Moreover, I have attended several work-shops dedicated to this investment public, as well as analyzed sites, electronic forums and virtual lectures aimed at this public. The investigation of this empirical data associated to the study of the economic sociology bibliography have brought about the identification of five mediation spaces, through which small investors shape their concrete modes of economic agency on social, cultural and technological grounds. These five mediation spaces may be summed up as it follows: 1. the influence of educational initiatives and agents on small investors, 2. the impact of social networks on the economic agencies of such investors, 3. the shaping of investment styles ( either \'conservative\' or \'aggressive\') based on social identities and roles these investors vindicate, 4. the impact of technologies and softwares that ground the economic agencies of small investors and, finally, 5. the constant association between stock investment and the cultural universe of games among this universe of investors. As a conclusion, opposed to the orthodox financial economics, we argue that economic agency is a complex process along which individuals shape their rational calculations according to social, cultural and technological factors or dimensions.

Ever since the inception of market economy, competition is the propellant of such economic systems. This is most notably so at present with global economies on the verge of a so called ‘new’ market logic. Competition nevertheless remains an elusive phenomenon, something holding true in particular when it is said to coexist with cooperation. Common knowledge has it that competition can be grasped by focusing the sheer number of suppliers and/or the level of product differentiation in a market. This dissertation instead claims that by looking at competition as subject to the impact of customers, phenomena are seen which are not otherwise readily apparent in the scrutiny of markets. By approaching markets as networks of interconnected relationships which result from human interaction this theoretical thesis, inspired by economic sociology and Austrian economics, furthers the idea of competition as indirect and hence geared by the customer. An explanatory model is formulated where competition emerges as a function of ‘inducing customer alertness’ (the customer’s exercise of entrepreneurship in the supply market) on the one hand, and ‘impeding social capital’ (the social ties that prevail between the customer and suppliers) on the other. One crucial insight gained, with particular impact for competition policy, is that consumers are to be seen not only as beneficiaries, but also as agents, of competition. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögsk., 2001

Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. Over 600 male and female farmers were surveyed, and qualitative data from interviews and observations was used to interpret and analyze the results. The thesis is in four parts: Part I introduces the research questions, and presents the theory and research methodology. The thesis posits that women’s access to resources is mediated via men, making it difficult for them to head their own households. Part II links the theoretical concepts to conditions in the field, showing how the the less valued activities are assigned to women, and develops a resource index that establishes the inequality in resource access. Part III proves that gender structures local markets and that the inequality in access to resources is reproduced in these. Yet trading offers an important livelihood for women, challenging their isolation and expanding their choices and markets are arenas in which they can exercise their agency. Part IV shows that local forms of sociability are also structured by gender and influence access to other resources. Density of social network ties and access to rural resources are strongly linked, particularly for female household heads. The final chapter shows how the gendered structure of local markets and sociability allows men to capitalize on resources more effectively than women. But women can carve out space and authority for themselves, lead local organizations and become active traders, and are actually less embedded in communities and more embedded in markets than men. The thesis problematizes the livelihood options open to female household heads, and how they balance these between markets and communities. The thesis concludes that future attempts to strengthen local markets and institutions must acknowledge that women and men face different constraints and opportunities. Women's room for maneuver could then translate into real empowerment.

Abstract This thesis is both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of tax-compliance by taxi-operators and drivers. The exploratory case-study adopts a critical sociological perspective in assessing the limits of both the currently dominant academic literature and the industry-specific legislation on tax conformity, including the most recent strategies and explicit tax-compliance measures from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) with regard to Australian cab-drivers. The core premise of this thesis is that the social and economic activities (both legal and illicit) of cab-drivers are embedded within unique networks of social relations. The study utilises focus-group interviews to explore cabbies’ views on taxation, their perceptions of fairness and trust, and to elucidate how individual taxi-workers justify circumvention of Australian tax laws and regulatory measures in their actual work-practices. This exploration is achieved by analysing the verbal accounts and conversations among cab-drivers that involve their guilt-free justifications for non-compliance. The analysis presents further insights into their “vocabulary of motives” and “aligning actions” vis-à-vis non-compliant tax behaviour. The respondents’ views and perceptions about trust, and distributive and procedural justice, are compared and contrasted against the tax-regulator’s views and the ATO’s current enforcement measures. This study is semi-grounded and qualitative in approach, and is a first contribution to a field of inquiry that appears to be dominated by quantitatively-oriented criminological and social-psychological approaches. In contrast, the case-study presents a sociologically-inspired inquiry, by emphasising that cab-drivers are subjected to a multitude of structural arrangements and social control mechanisms, which influence their attitudes and actions with regard to non-compliance. Moreover, current regulatory initiatives towards diminishing non-compliance in the taxi-industry tend to neglect the concept of “mixed-embeddedness” and the inter-relatedness between tax rules, concomitant enforcement practices, and the nation’s broader legislative framework. The state’s regulation of tax-compliance behaviour of taxi-drivers cannot strictly be detached from other laws and regulatory measures in areas such as taxi-cab licensing, occupational health & safety (OH&S) or industrial & workplace relations, which affect every taxi-operator and contracted driver, albeit in different ways. A social-action approach that grasps more comprehensively the rich contexts and complexities involved in the informal behaviours of cabbies may be regarded as an additional and powerful information tool in the governance of modern taxation systems. The study will demonstrate how serious tensions and contradictory forces arise when tax regulators attempt to enforce a National Compliance Model which is, of itself, inherently mal-integrated and underpinned typically by a bureaucratic ‘one-size-fits-all’ enforcement approach in regard to local networks of taxi-drivers. It will be argued that legislative changes to the (legal) employment status of Australian taxi-drivers may produce a far more expedient and cost-effective way for curtailing the enduring and deeply imbued tax non-compliant modus operandi within this particular sector of Australia’s transport-services industry.

Submitted by Alison Vanceto (alison-vanceto@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-13T17:56:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseWAD.pdf: 2641811 bytes, checksum: 524b02589d278a1728151d891deb6c86 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-18T17:56:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseWAD.pdf: 2641811 bytes, checksum: 524b02589d278a1728151d891deb6c86 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-20T13:56:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseWAD.pdf: 2641811 bytes, checksum: 524b02589d278a1728151d891deb6c86 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-20T13:56:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseWAD.pdf: 2641811 bytes, checksum: 524b02589d278a1728151d891deb6c86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / BNDES PARTICIPAÇÕES (BNDESPAR) started in 1974 as an integral branch from BNDES (Brazilian National Bank for Development). In this dissertation, the journey of this branch will be analyzed throughout Brazilian capitalism History. The main goal is to verify how BNDESPAR performance changed over time. Thereunto, the relationships of power over the strategy on how the branch should perform will be commentated. For this study, the methodological tools from Economic Sociology will be used, mainly the ones related to institutional analysis of organizations. Based on Neil Fligstein, Economics will be seen as a space for dispute, in which transformation, crisis and stability play roles. Therefore, the performances of the social groups that helped building the operation strategies from BNDESPAR will be mapped, since the beginning to nowadays. We will analyze the symbolic actions took by these social actors, and how they resignified BNDESPAR’s tactics. The data was obtained through research over the annual reports provided by BNDES, as well as news articles. / A BNDES PARTICIPAÇÕES (BNDESPAR) surgiu em 1974 como uma subsidiária integral do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento (BNDES). Neste trabalho, as atenções estarão voltadas para a trajetória dessa subsidiária ao longo da história do Capitalismo brasileiro. O objetivo geral consiste em verificar como o formato de atuação da BNDESPAR se transformou através do tempo. Para isso, serão analisadas as relações de forças ocorridas em torno da definição da estratégia de atuação da subsidiária. Para o estudo, será utilizado o ferramental metodológico da análise institucional das organizações e da sociologia econômica. Será entendido, amparado em Neil Fligstein, o espaço econômico como um ambiente de disputas, no qual se passa por momentos de transformações, estabilização e crises. Dessa forma, serão mapeadas as atuações dos grupos sociais que contribuíram para construir as estratégias de atuação da BNDESPAR desde o seu surgimento até o período atual. Serão analisadas as ações simbólicas desses atores e como eles ressignificaram os entendimentos acerca do funcionamento da BNDESPAR. Os dados foram obtidos através de pesquisa documental em relatórios anuais do BNDES e mapeamento da mídia do negócio.