Fougerolles est la capitale française du kirsch. Sa production s’est semi-industrialisée dès le début du XIXe siècle. D’abord activité complémentaire de l’agriculture fougerollaise, la distillation va se développer en faisant émerger, au milieu du XIXe siècle, de véritables entrepreneurs qui vont marquer le marché des alcools de bouche en France jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle.L’industrie de la distillation à Fougerolles s’est développée dans un marché des alcools de bouche très concurrentiel subissant régulièrement des contraintes économiques législatives et sociales et surtout , marqué par la confrontation entre les spiritueux et les boissons fermentées représentées par la boisson nationale, le vin. Cette confrontation aboutit à l’interdiction de la liqueur d’absinthe en 1915 et des liqueurs anisées au début des années 1940.Dans ce contexte et à travers l’étude historique des trajectoires socio-économiques de deux firmes familiales rurales qui ont su tirer profit du savoir-faire local et de l’évolution des techniques de distillation, nous apportons un éclairage sur leur émergence, leur stratégies de développement, leur résistance, leur résilience et la pérennisation de leurs activités industrielles et commerciales entre 1839, année de l’installation dans la commune du précurseur de l’industrie de la distillation en Haute-Saône, Abel BRESSON, et 1940 avec l’instauration du régime de Vichy qui va durcir la lutte antialcoolique en interdisant, entre autres, les liqueurs anisées et la publicité sur les alcools de bouche.Outre la dimension proprement théorique, notre thèse pourrait aussi s’inscrire dans une stratégie de redynamisation d’un territoire à travers la valorisation de son patrimoine industriel et de ses produits qui ont fait sa renommée au niveau national et international. / Fougerolles is the French capital of kirsch. Its production became semi-industrialized at the beginning of the 19th century. Distillation was first a complementary activity of agriculture in Fougerolles, then, in the middle of the 19th century, this activity grew to become a business which was to influence the market of alcoholic beverages in France until the middle of the 20th century.This distillation industry in Fougerolles grew in a highly competitive market of alcoholic beverages, which regularly suffered from economic, legislative and social constraints and, mostly, was influenced by the confrontation between spirits and fermented beverages represented by wine, the national drink. This confrontation led to the prohibition of the absinthe liqueur in 1915 and aniseed liquors in the early 1940s.In this context, and through the study of the socio-economic trajectories of two rural family firms that could take advantage of the local know-how and the evolution of distillation techniques, we highlight their emergence, their development, their resistance and their resilience and the sustainability of their industrial and commercial activities between 1839, when Abel BRESSON the pioneer of the distillation industry from Haute-Saône settled in Fougerolles, and 1940 with the establishment of the Vichy regime which toughened the anti-alcohol fight by prohibiting, among others, the sale of aniseed liquors and the advertising of alcoholic beverages.In addition to the theoretical dimension, our thesis could also be part of a strategy to revitalize a territory through the promotion of its industrial heritage and products, which have made it nationally and internationally renowned.

本研究乃基於塑化原料價格維持高檔下，且中國政策改變營運成本大幅增加，如何提升營運成效的背景動機而投入進行。而本研究的目的，乃期瞭解企業生命周期與策略管理之關連、確認大陸台商塑膠製品公司之產品方向、掌握大陸台商塑膠製品公司各階段之成長策略與管理控制。 為促使本研究的周延，乃從企業生命週期面、企業策略管理面、企業成長面之能力與管控企三方面進行文獻探討，藉以獲得正確的研究知識與並啟發基礎的研究觀念，進而奠立本研究的研究架構與實施步驟，以促研究的有序進行。 另外，基於本研究議題之敏感，且願意公開的大陸台商塑膠製品公司家數甚少，再加上本研究主題乃台商塑膠製品公司前往大陸發展自然演變而產生，故本研究採取探索性的個案研究。而研究架構，乃以公司生命周期階段、公司策略架構、公司管理控制設計三方面為主發展。而研究方法，主要採行文獻探討與個案研究。 對於個案公司的分析，首先從個案內部現況進行分析、其次針對個案階段發展進行分析、再者就個案的外部環境、策略模型、成長發展進行分析、最後，再從個案管理控制投入分析。 經過上述的個案研究，本研究提出如下的結論： (一)個案公司成長階段的確認。 (二)個案公司產業競爭的分析。 (三)個案公司成長策略的訂定。 (四)個案公司管理控制模式的發展。 本研究對個案公司提出如下的建議： (一)人力資源的培育 (二)營運模式的調整 (三)核心能耐的掌握 至於，對未來研究的建議： (一)研究個案的增加 (二)研究方法的改變 (三)研究方向的拓展 / The background of the study was the plastic-material price was high, the Chinese policy was changing and the operating costs was increasing. The motivation of the study was how to enhance operate effectively of the industry. The purpose of the study was listed as follow, to understand the connecting the business life cycle with strategic management, to confirm the product direction of Taiwanese plastics companies, to grasp the growth strategy and management control of the companies at all stages. The analysis architecture of the study based on 6 directions of the case: the operation situation, the development strategy, the external environment, strategic model, growth development and management &control. Because the issue of the study was sensitive and the industry was unique, the study approach was the case study. The conclusion of the study presented 3 directions: 1.To confirm the growth stage of the case. 2.To analysis the industry competitiveness of the case. 3. To plan the growth strategy of the case. 4.To development the management control model of the case. The suggestion of the study presented 2 directions: 1. To the case: The case had to cultivate the human resource, adjust the operation model, grasp the core competence. 2.To the future study: a. To increase the research data- to help comparing kinds of study results. b. To change the research method- to help verifying the theory and physical situations. c. To explore new research directions- to help building the concepts of the acquiring & merging for our business.

The thesis deals with small and medium businesses, their actual situation, but also history in the Slovakia and in the region of Eastern Europe, eventually EU. It is focused also at the field of national and international support of small and medium enterprises. The practical part of the thesis analyses functioning of small enterprise in the Slovakia with concrete example -- firm Thomas Sluis Slovakia, s.r.o. It describes its history, the process and consequences of the joint with foreign partner, the actual situation and strategic basis for future activities of the firm.

In northeast of Brazil, the Methodist Church, as an evangelical mission church, entered the Brazilian religious field through evangelism, either performed by itinerant missionaries, in its beginning, or by proselytism in the communities where it was present through social or educational works, after its consolidation in the country. However, since the 1990s, with significant changes in the Brazilian religious field, notably the growth of neopentecostal churches, the Methodist Church saw its number of members stagnate and, in some cases, even decline. This rapid growth of neopentecostal churches transformed the Brazilian religious field in a way that promoted changes in forces and resulted in greater competition among religious institutions, which led some religious leaders to a redefinition of their competitive models and strategies. In the case of the Methodist Church in northeastern lands, it is known that some strategies were aimed at a numerical increase of members and, at least, at the maintenance of its space in the religious field. Among the researched strategies are: a) the use of the media; b) the use of marketing and management concepts; c) specialization of religious goods and services; d) changes in liturgies and worship spaces; e) emphasis on tithing. This study aims to investigate the causes and consequences of incorporating competition strategies – business or neopentecostal strategies – in order to maintain the space of the Methodist Church in the religious field, in a church whose doctrines and theological bases are consolidated and point to the movement of the Protestant Reformation. / No Nordeste brasileiro, a Igreja Metodista, por ser uma igreja evangélica de missão, teve como característica de adentramento no campo religioso brasileiro o evangelismo, seja realizado por missionários itinerantes, logo em seu início; seja com o proselitismo junto às comunidades em que estava inserida por meio de um trabalho social ou educacional, após sua consolidação no país. No entanto, desde a década de 1990, com as significativas mudanças no campo religioso brasileiro, notadamente o crescimento dos neopentecostais, viu seu número de fiéis estagnar e, em alguns casos, até decrescer. Este incremento rápido dos neopentecostais transformou o campo religioso brasileiro de um modo que promoveu uma mudança de forças e resultou numa competição maior entre as instituições religiosas, o que ocasionou uma redefinição nos modelos e estratégias de competição de alguns atores religiosos. No caso da Igreja Metodista em terras nordestinas, temos que algumas estratégias objetivaram um aumento numérico de seus fiéis e, pelo menos, a manutenção de seu espaço no campo religioso. Dentre as estratégias pesquisadas estão: a) utilização de meios de comunicação; b) utilização de marketing e conceitos da administração; c) especialização dos produtos e serviços religiosos; d) mudanças nas liturgias e nos locais de culto; e) ênfase nos dízimos. Este trabalho objetiva investigar as causas e consequências da adoção pela Igreja Metodista de estratégias de competição, algumas empresariais e, outras, advinda de denominações neopentecostais, com vistas à manutenção do espaço no campo religioso, em uma igreja de doutrinas e bases teológicas consolidadas, que remontam ao movimento da Reforma Protestante. / São Cristóvão, SE

Diversos escrits consideren l’entorn com un element important en l’obtenció d’un acompliment organitzatiu superior i, en aquesta relació, hi inclouen la innovació organitzativa com una variable mediadora. Alguns autors sostenen que no hi ha prou evidències d’aquesta mediació i, per tant, no es pot comprovar (Tidd, 2005; Han, Kim i Srivastava, 1998). En aquest context, aquesta tesi presenta un model conceptual de la innovació organitzativa com a variable mediadora entre l’entorn i l’acompliment organitzatiu, i sosté les característiques organitzatives i les estratègies de negoci com a variables moderadores entre la innovació organitzativa i l’acompliment organitzatiu. L’estudi es va realitzar a partir d’una mostra d’empreses de serveis. Els resultats indiquen que hi ha evidències d’una mediació parcial de la innovació, i es comprova que la innovació tècnica influeix significativament en l’acompliment organitzatiu –però no en la innovació administrativa–, cosa que reforça el plantejament que les empreses han de millorar la baixa percepció que tenen de la importància de la innovació administrativa per aconseguir un acompliment organitzatiu superior. / Diversos escritos consideran al entorno como un elemento importante en la obtención de un desempeño organizacional superior, e incluyen en esta relación a la innovación organizacional como una variable mediadora. Algunos autores sostienen que no hay suficiente evidencia de esta mediación y, por tanto, que no puede ser comprobada (Tidd, 2005; Han, Kim & Srivastava, 1998). En este contexto, esta tesis presenta un modelo conceptual de la innovación organizacional como variable mediadora entre el entorno y el desempeño organizacional, e incluye a las características organizacionales y estrategias de negocio como variables moderadoras entre la innovación organizacional y el desempeño organizacional. El estudio se realizó a partir de una muestra de empresas de servicio. Los resultados indican que existen evidencias de una mediación parcial de la innovación; y se comprueba que la innovación técnica influye significativamente en el desempeño organizacional, pero no así la innovación administrativa, lo que refuerza el planteamiento de que las empresas deben mejorar la baja percepción de la importancia de la innovación administrativa para conseguir un desempeño organizacional superior. / A number of authors contend that the environment is a significant element in obtaining superior organizational performance and include organizational innovation as a mediating variable in this relation. Others assert that there is not enough evidence that this mediation exists and as such, the relation cannot be proven (Tidd, 2005; Han, Kim & Srivastava, 1998). In this context, this thesis presents a conceptual model of organizational innovation as a mediating variable between the environment and organizational performance and includes organizational characteristics and business strategies as moderating variables between organizational innovation and organizational performance. The study was based on a sample of service companies. The results indicate that there is evidence that innovation generates partial mediation and technical innovation significantly influences organizational performance. This, however, is not the case of administrative innovation, which strengthens the assertion that companies should improve the low perception of the importance of administrative innovation to achieve superior organizational performance.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Entrepreneurship is recognized as an instrument of development and economic growth, especially in emerging economies such as Brazil, where women entrepreneurs already represent most of the initial enterprises (GEM, 2016), but on the other hand the literature of female entrepreneurship has been raising, based on in predominantly quantitative studies, that women's companies have a slower growth compared to their male counterparts, and there are still few studies that examine growth from their strategies and qualitative differences. Thus, this research sought to analyze the strategies of growth built by women entrepreneurs in companies that presented high growth period and, with this, to increase the understanding of the phenomenon. To achieve this goal, an analytical model was built based on the theoretical framework aiming to guide the analysis in three dimensions: individual, enterprise and environment. The study is of a qualitative nature, the research strategy was the study of multiple cases, the evidences were collected through semi-structured interviews with the owners, documents and direct observation. The analysis was carried out using a technique called cross-case analysis, used to examine similarities and differences between cases. The main results are: in the individual dimension, the entrepreneurial intensity is not related to the time in hours, but to the efficiency of the use of this time achieved by a high degree of professionalism in management, self-knowledge and emotional intelligence; in the enterprise dimension, more strategy-oriented women entrepreneurs have promoted, more peculiar ways of combining resources; in the environment dimension, constant monitoring promoted innovations for the company and especially for the market. It was also emphasized that the forms of analysis of a potential growth opportunity were predominantly intuitive and subjective factors such as risk of affecting reputation, legacy, emotion, and spirituality influenced the decision to explore the growth opportunities around the firm. Finally, in a noneconomic perspective, business growth, for them, does not dissociate the personal growth, the quality of life of workers and the social welfare. / O empreendedorismo é reconhecido como um instrumento de desenvolvimento e crescimento econômico, principalmente em economias emergentes como a brasileira, onde as empreendedoras já representam maioria dos empreendimentos iniciais (GEM, 2016), mas por outro lado a literatura do empreendedorismo feminino vem suscitando, com base em estudos predominantemente quantitativos, que empresas de mulheres têm um crescimento inferior em comparação a seus homólogos masculinos, sendo ainda escassos estudos que examinem o crescimento a partir de suas estratégias e diferenças qualitativas. Assim, esta pesquisa buscou analisar as estratégias de crescimento construídas por empreendedoras em empresas que apresentaram período de alto crescimento e, com isso, ampliar a compreensão do fenômeno. Para atingir esse objetivo foi construído um modelo analítico com base no referencial teórico visando nortear a análise em três dimensões: indivíduo, empresa e ambiente. O estudo é de natureza qualitativa, a estratégia de pesquisa foi o estudo de casos multiplos, as evidências foram coletadas por meio de entrevistas semiestrutadas com as proprietárias, documentos e observação direta. A análise se procedeu por meio da técnica denominada cross-case analysis, utilizada para examinar semelhanças e diferenças entre os casos. Como principais resultados, destacam-se: na dimensão indivíduo, a intensidade empreendedora não relacionada ao tempo em horas, mas sim à eficiência do uso desse tempo alcançada por um alto grau de profissionalismo na gestão, autoconhecimento e inteligência emocional; na dimensão empresa, as empreendedoras mais orientadas para a estratégia promoveram formas mais peculiares de combinar os recursos; na dimensão ambiente, o monitoramento constante promoveu inovações para a empresa e, principalmente, para o mercado, sublinhando-se ainda, que as formas de análise de uma potencial oportunidade de crescimento foram predominantemente intuitivas e fatores subjetivos como risco de afetar a reputação, senso de legado, emoção e espiritualidade influenciaram na decisão por explorar as oportunidades de crescimento no entorno da firma. Por fim, em uma perspectiva não econômica, o crescimento empresarial, para elas, não se dissocia do crescimento pessoal, da qualidade de vida dos trabalhadores e do bem-estar social. / São Cristóvão, SE

This study sought to establish the business strategies employed by Mobile Company X Zimbabwe (MCXZ) for it to survive the challenging economy. A qualitative research and a case-based approach involving MCXZ were used. Semi-structured interviews and secondary data were used to produce qualitative data and for triangulation of findings. Data was analysed and managed through qualitative coding and Atlas.ti program. The findings of the study showed that MCXZ employed growth business strategies through market penetration, product development, market development and strategic alliances. In addition, the study found that banking crisis, high competition, rapid technological changes, consumer preferences, shrinking markets and unfavourable government policies are the main threats in the challenging economy. However, MCXZ managed to survive and grow due to the integration of business strategies and the key success factors (KSF) in the industry. The KSF are organisational agility, research and development, quality and affordable mobile phones and effective after sales service and accessories. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)