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Supportive work programs for people with disabilities have historically included sheltered workshops; while social enterprises are now more commonly found in policies and programs providing opportunities to address social, environmental, or economic challenges through revenue generating activities for this group. I began this thesis as a person who works at Haley Street Adult Services Centre Society in Nova Scotia, Canada and who is part of the changing provision from sheltered workshops to social enterprises. My primary research question is what is a non-profit, community-based organization working with people with disabilities, and a history of sheltered workshops, response to the current social enterprise movement? The study provides a case study analysis on Haley Street Adult Services Centre Society and its woodshop and thrift store programs for people with disabilities. The research includes interviews and focus groups with 19 participants (7 staff, 12 program participants) that work in the agency social enterprises as well as an organizational financial analysis. A thematic analysis of the interview and focus group transcripts resulted in the emergence of four themes that explore different aspects of social enterprises that support persons with people with disabilities. The themes included community engagement, demonstrating individual and agency capabilities, improved individual well-being, and agency social-economic tensions. Social enterprise at Haley Street is an integral part of its identity and emergence in the community. The profitability of social enterprise at Haley Street appears to be secondary to the social well-being and engagement of participants. The current research found that sheltered work and social enterprises are comparable entities, with sheltered work a subgroup of social enterprise. / Graduate

BATISTA, José Glayson Nogueira. Uma contribuição à implantação do orçamento empresarial em um sistema integrado de gestão. 2006. 206 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Atuária, Contabilidade e Secretariado, Fortaleza-CE, 2006. / Submitted by Dioneide Barros (dioneidebarros@gmail.com) on 2016-12-22T12:14:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_jgnbatista.pdf: 2510623 bytes, checksum: 90dd17865508491d1013438d1eb8be13 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Dioneide Barros (dioneidebarros@gmail.com) on 2016-12-22T17:18:11Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_jgnbatista.pdf: 2510623 bytes, checksum: 90dd17865508491d1013438d1eb8be13 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-22T17:18:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_jgnbatista.pdf: 2510623 bytes, checksum: 90dd17865508491d1013438d1eb8be13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / In the present competitive scenary, information is the most valuable product of organizations. Based on it, decisions are made about what to do, how to do, where to do and when to do. It’s the managers’ responsibility to use a system of information that provides the receiving of those pieces of information opportunely. To do so, it’s necessary to invest in instruments that allow the built of this system of information. Within the universe of available instruments, two of them are object of study of this research: business budget and integrated management system, better known as ERP system. The general goal of this study is to present a contribution to the implantation of the business budget within an integrated management system. The research is based on the presupposition that nowadays the integrated management systems are not satisfactoryly structured to the receival of the budget tool, therefore needing some adjustments to make this function available. The research was made from the study of a case in a capital stock company in the state of Ceara. The methodological reference presents the main characteristics involved both in budget and ERP system. The contribution of the research was developed through a model of implantation of the business budget in the integrated management system, based on the reality of the company in the case study. The model enabled, through a simulation, the use of the ERP system in the creation and maintenance of the tool of business budget, creating, in that way, a larger perspective of integration, if properly adjusted, between these two management tools, therefore bringing about to the managers more agility and credibility of the information necessary to the making of decisions in companies. / No cenário competitivo atual, a informação é o produto mais valioso das organizações. A partir dela são originadas as tomadas de decisão sobre o que fazer, como, onde e quando fazer. Cabe então aos gestores a utilização de um sistema de informações que lhes permita oportunamente à recepção dessas informações. Para tanto, faz-se necessário investir em instrumentos que possibilitem a montagem desse sistema de informações. No universo de instrumentos, dois são objetos de estudo desta pesquisa: O orçamento empresarial e o sistema integrado de gestão, mais conhecido no mercado como sistema ERP. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é apresentar uma contribuição, por meio de um modelo, à implantação do orçamento empresarial dentro de um sistema integrado de gestão. A pesquisa parte do pressuposto de que atualmente os sistemas integrados de gestão encontram-se carentes de estruturação para receber a ferramenta do orçamento, necessitando, assim, de algumas adaptações para disponibilizar essa funcionalidade. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de um estudo de caso em uma empresa fabricante de bens de capital do Estado do Ceará. O referencial metodológico apresenta as principais características envolvidas, tanto com o orçamento quanto com o sistema ERP. Foi desenvolvida a contribuição da pesquisa mediante um modelo de implantação do orçamento empresarial no sistema integrado de gestão, tomando-se por base a realidade da empresa do estudo de caso . O modelo possibilitou, por intermédio de simulação, a utilização do sistema ERP na elaboração e manutenção da ferramenta do orçamento empresarial, abrindo assim uma perspectiva de maior integração entre as duas referidas ferramentas de gestão, acarretando aos administradores maior agilidade e credibilidade das informações necessárias à tomada de decisão nas empresas.

This purpose of the research is to investigate the relationship between the implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and corporate governance within the public sector. Furthermore, the study focused on the role of internal audit in ERM implementation as well as the relationship between ERM and risk communication. Questionnaires designed to collect data were e-mailed to risk managers; internal auditors and senior managers. The survey confirmed a positive association between the implementation of an ERM framework and corporate governance as well as risk communication. The majority of respondents further confirmed that corporate governance concerns were the main driving force behind the implementation followed by the impact of HIV/AIDS on their respective organisations. Of those surveyed 38% confirmed that their ERM process is embedded and they have also created the position of chief risk officer or similar. However, it is important to note that the role of internal audit in ERM implementation is not fully integrated.