This thesis seeks to explain the evolution of non-state welfare provision in the People’s Republic of China under Xi Jinping and his recent predecessors. In particular, it examines the emergence, spread and institutionalization of a policy of government contracting services to non-governmental organizational (NGOs) and related political dynamics at the national, local, and state-NGO interaction levels. This thesis makes several theoretical claims regarding the causes and process of institutional change and the political implications of these transformations. I contend that decentralization, international influences, and authoritarian consolidation have combined to produce gradual institutional change characterized by processes of layering, conversion, and drift. These incremental changes have led to local institutional frameworks and practices of government contracting that remain incomplete and beset by unequal power dynamics between party-state and NGO actors. Notwithstanding the intent to increase the supply of services and promote state-NGO collaboration at local levels, purchase-of-service contracting policies are inseparable from strategies of political control, consent making, and governing techniques deployed by the ruling party-state. This dissertation reveals the presence of informal rules and power relations between purchasers and regulators (local governments) and service providers (NGOs) behind the façade of increasingly institutionalized state-NGO partnerships and of market-based standardized bidding competition processes. In this context, NGOs have adopted mitigating and adaptive strategies in order to cope with new opportunities and constraints. This thesis draws on interviews with NGO leaders and subject matter experts conducted during fieldwork in Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing. It also leverages policy documents, media sources, and an extensive review of distinct bodies of scholarly literature.

Intersectoral collaboration has been established as essential in the work on climate change adaptation at the municipal level, but the municipalities face several institutional constraints to working across sectors. Because climate change adaptation is situated in a multilevel governance system, the national level has a role to play in institutional change at the municipal level. This thesis focuses on knowledge as an influential tool and sets out to investigate the potential of the national level to support collaborative action at the municipal level that challenges current institutions characterised by working in separate sectors. This is done by analysing the work of the National Knowledge centre for Climate Change Adaptation as they play a central role in the knowledge production on climate change adaptation at the national level. The findings of this thesis contribute to a better understanding of the barriers and opportunities that faces a national authority when supporting the municipalities through knowledge. These are mainly connected to the efficiency of the multilevel governance system, where increased horizontal and vertical interaction could facilitate the knowledge production to better support institutional change. The findings indicate that the regional level have a key role to play in enabling interaction across the system. Furthermore, national authorities must find ways to support collaborative municipal action without encroaching on the municipal autonomy. The findings give indications on what form knowledge could take to achieve this.

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Partant d’une part, du constat selon lequel tous les travaux sur le gouvernement des entreprises considèrent que la propriété de l’entreprise (actionnariale ou symbolique) est le fondement de la souveraineté et donc de la légitimité du dirigeant et d’autre part, du fait que trois définitions de la propriété coexistent au Sénégal, ce travail cherche à établir comment un dirigeant légitime-t-il ses pratiques en matière de gouvernement des entreprises dans le contexte sénégalais de multi-références à la notion de propriété. En effet, sa position de carrefour des civilisations du monde donne au Sénégal une pléthore de mécanismes de régulation des affaires et un large éventail de sources de droits de propriété. Compte tenu de ces multiples références à la propriété comment peut-on définir le gouvernement des entreprises au Sénégal? L’objectif est d’observer la rationalité qui est en œuvre dans les pratiques de gouvernement des entreprises sénégalaises en particulier et africaines en général. Pour ce faire, l’évolution des pratiques de gouvernement des hommes dans les entreprises africaines est questionnée et suivie pas à pas pour identifier, décrypter, décrire et analyser les référentiels sur lesquels les dirigeants des entreprises africaines s’appuient pour justifier leurs pratiques des entreprises. Nous avons privilégié l’analyse des représentations des dirigeants des entreprises sénégalaises. Les données du terrain ont montré que les pratiques au Sénégal sont le résultat de bricolages que les dirigeants des entreprises effectuent en puisant dans les différents modèles de gouvernance se référant à des formes de propriété différentes, les éléments qui les arrangent. Cet « arrangement » institutionnel définit des hybridations par emprunts sans aboutir à un modèle hybride unique. C’est un bricolage qui concilie l’efficacité économique et la solidarité communautaire ou clanique en formalisant les pratiques fondées sur la confiance et le contrôle (la première n’excluant pas le dernier). On est non pas en présence d’un nouveau modèle de gouvernement d’entreprises mais d’une matrice de pratiques de gouvernement d’entreprises qui se voit assigner un rôle paradoxal. D’une part, il en émerge un champ de pratiques inédites, d’autre part, cette matrice fait entrevoir le maintien de pratiques s’appliquant souvent de manière isolée selon les situations de gestion. / Based on the one hand, the observation that all work on corporate governance believe that ownership of the company (ownership or symbolic) is the basis of sovereignty and therefore the legitimacy of the leader and the other, that three definitions of ownership coexist in Senegal, this work seeks to establish how a legitimate leader, he practices in corporate governance in the context of Senegalese multi-references to the concept of ownership. Indeed, its position as a crossroads of civilizations in the world gives Senegal a plethora of mechanisms for regulating business and a wide range of sources of property rights. Given these multiple references to the property how can we define corporate governance in Senegal? The objective is to observe the rationality that is implemented in the practices of corporate governance in Senegal particularly and in Africa in general. To do this, the evolution of governance practices of men in African enterprises is questioned and followed step by step to identify, decipher, describe and analyze the benchmarks on which the leaders of African companies rely to justify their business practices. We have emphasized analysis of representations of leaders of Senegalese companies. The field data showed that the practices in Senegal are the result of tinkering that leaders of companies engaged in drawing the different governance models referring to different types of property, elements that settle. This "arrangement" defines institutional hybridizations by borrowing without producing a unique hybrid model. It is a craft that combines economic efficiency and community solidarity in clan or formalizing practices based on trust and control (excluding the first not the last). We are not in the presence of a new model of corporate governance but an array of practices of corporate governance which is assigned a paradoxical role. On the one hand, there emerges a field of new practices and on the other hand, that array hinted maintenance practices often applied in isolation by management situations.

A partir d'une étude empirique sur la manière dont les universitaires ont adopté ou non de nouvelles pratiques après la réforme des écoles doctorales en France, ma thèse étudie comment une réforme organisationnelle par le haut peut changer les pratiques de professionnels autonomes. Les pratiques nouvelles ne sont effectivement adoptées que lorsqu'elles font sens par rapport à l'identité professionnelle. Or,celle-ci n'évolue pas en réponse à un pilotage précis des réformateurs,mais à la définition, par les professionnels, de problèmes nouveaux justifiant une modification des manières de faire. Par conséquent, un changement radical (impliquant une évolution de l'identité) ne peut être piloté par le haut, mais seulement favorisé à travers la structure de l'organisation : des interactions régulières entre groupes professionnels,et avec les autres parties prenantes de l'organisation (usagers, citoyens,financeurs) créent un terrain favorable à ce changement. Cette thèse discute la marge de manœuvre des réformateurs dans le contexte des organisations professionnelles publiques, ainsi que les leviers de changement à leur disposition. / Based on an empirical study of how academics did or did not adopt new practices after the reform of doctoral school in France, my PhD thesis studies how a top-down organizational reform can change practices among autonomous professionals. New practices are effectively adopted only when they make sense relatively to extant professional identities. The latter do not evolve in response to a precise steering by the reformers, but to new problems definition by the professionals, leading to new ways of doing. Consequently, a radical change of practice implying an evolution of identity cannot be steered from top-down, but only supported by the organizational structure. Regular contacts between professional groups and with other stakeholders (users, citizens, funders) create a favorable context for such a change. My thesis discusses the possible scope of action for reformers in professional public organizations and the levers of change they might rely on.

La presse de hard news connaît les prémices d’un changement institutionnel qui se traduit en particulier par un processus de managérialisation des modes de gestion des rédactions et des pratiques professionnelles journalistiques. En mobilisant la théorie néo-institutionnelle, nous appréhendons ce phénomène à travers l’analyse de conflits entre logiques institutionnelles définies par des sous-logiques institutionnelles. On peut ainsi constater une érosion de la robustesse de la logique éditoriale dominante (depuis 1944) dans la gestion des rédactions et des activités journalistiques au profit de la logique business ou d’une nouvelle logique hybride managériale (qui combine des éléments des logiques éditoriale et business). A travers principalement des études ethnographiques menées au sein des rédactions de La Croix, de 20 Minutes et du Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France (entre 2007 et 2009), nous proposons une description des profils des journalistes-managers et une analyse de leur pratiques quotidiennes pour montrer le rôle substantiel rempli par ces JM dans ce processus de managérialisation. Par ailleurs, nous identifions les trois situations majeures dans lesquelles se trouvent aujourd’hui les groupes de PQN relativement à ce processus de managérialisation : des rédactions gouvernées par la logique éditoriale qui reste dominante, des rédactions qui connaissent un changement de logique dominante – passant de la logique éditoriale à la logique business – et des rédactions engagées dans une voie médiane caractérisée par la recherche d’une logique institutionnelle hybride en voie de pré-institutionnalisation. Notre analyse socio-historique de ce changement institutionnel de la presse de hard news (entre 1944 et 2010) conduit enfin à proposer une lecture prospective de la lutte sous-jacente pour la détention du pouvoir de direction des groupes de presse que se livrent actionnaires, managers et journalistes et au sein de laquelle nous identifions le rôle central rempli par les JM dans la définition et l’orientation à donner au processus de managérialisation / Hard news press faces the early beginnings of a deep institutional change through a managerialization process of newsrooms’ and journalistic practices management. Using the new institutionalism theory we assume to scrutinize this change through studying emerging conflicts between institutional logics – and underlying institutional logics – Inside newsrooms. We particularly notice that the strength of the dominant logic (since 1944 in France) – the editorial logic – that traditionally shapes and governs the newsroom and journalistic practices’ management is eroding; thus sometimes the competitive logic – the business logic –appears dominant or a new hybrid logic – combining elements from editorial and business logics – comes up. We have done extensive ethnographic studies inside newsrooms of three French major national newspapers, La Croix, 20 Minutes, and Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France (from 2007 to 2009). As a result we offer a first deep description of the characteristics of journalist-managers and analysis of their daily practices, and we show the major role played by these journalist-managers in the managerialization process. We also identify the three major situations that face the French Press groups regarded to managerialization: some newsrooms are still ruled and shaped by the editorial dominant logic; some that face a shift in the dominant logic – from the editorial to the business one; some that experience the attempt to define a hybrid institutional logic that only appears at a proto-institutionalization stage. Our socio-historical analysis of this deep institutional change process that affect the hard news press (from 1944 to 2010) finally invites to consider the evolution of the underlying struggle for power to run the Press firms involving shareholders, managers, and journalists; we assume journalist-managers play and will play the major role in shaping the orientation and content of managerialization process

Abstract Digitalization is a megatrend that also drives public sector reforms toward improved citizen service processes by adopting digital technologies. The digitalization of the public sector, also referred to as e-government transformation, is a strenuous institutional change process that starts with strategy and policy formation and is eventually carried out through individual information and communication (ICT) development projects and programs. ICT projects in the public sector still struggle due to challenges and complexities such as technological uncertainty. These project-level struggles impair e-government efforts that are already facing strategic and regulative difficulties, which, again, affect ICT project performance. How a temporary project is connected and contributes to the strategic objectives of a more permanent structure is the focus of project governance. In e-government context it can be applied to describe and elaborate on the ICT project alignment and control practices in and between different organizations within the e-government transformation. The underlying academic motivation for this research is to improve the current understanding of project governance in e-government: how ICT project governance can be applied to enact the institutional change of public sector digitalization. The dissertation study follows a constructive research approach, using multiple qualitative methods on empirical data from the Finnish central government. By synthesizing the results from four individual research publications, this dissertation explores the ICT project governance practices and tensions that take place in different levels within the e-government transformation. The study contributes to the literature by elaborating how project governance is perceived in and affected by the e-government transformation and by providing new information on how flexible and collaborative project models, namely agile models and project alliances, are applied in the context. The dissertation proceeds to construct a multi-level model that indicates how the perceived challenges and tensions could be remedied, thus enabling managers and practitioners in the field to conduct the right ICT projects properly and, hence, support the e-government transformation. / Tiivistelmä Digitalisaatio on yksi megatrendeistä, joka vaikuttaa myös julkisen sektorin reformaatioihin, joilla tavoitellaan tehokkaampia asiakaspalveluprosesseja hyödyntämällä digitaalisia teknologioita. Julkisen sektorin digitalisoituminen, tai e-hallinnon muutos, on vaativa institutionaalinen muutosprosessi, joka alkaa strategisten ja poliittisten linjausten määrittelyllä ja toteutetaan lopulta yksittäisten informaatio- ja kommunikaatioteknologia (ICT) projektien ja ohjelmien kautta. Julkisen sektorin ICT projekteja haastaa edelleen muun muassa tekniset epävarmuustekijät. Nämä projektitason haasteet vaikuttavat myös e-hallintoon, johon liittyy jo valmiiksi strategisia ja hallinnollisia vaikeuksia. Tämä taas vastavuoroisesti vaikeuttaa yksittäisten projektien toimintaa. Projektihallintoa käytetään kuvaamaan, miten kertaluontoinen projekti liittyy ja vaikuttaa pysyvämpiin rakenteisiin ja niiden strategisten tavoitteiden toteutumiseen. E-hallinnon digitaalisen muutoksen yhteydessä projektihallinnon kautta voidaan esittää ICT projektien ohjaus- ja kontrollointikäytäntöjä eri organisaatiotasoilla. Tämä tutkimuksen akateeminen motivaatio on parantaa nykyistä tietämystä projektihallinnosta e-hallinnon kontekstissa tarkastelemalla, miten ICT projektihallintoa voidaan käyttää julkisen sektorin digitalisoitumisen toteuttamiseen. Tämä väitöstyö noudattaa konstruktiivista tutkimusotetta, käyttäen useita laadullisia menetelmiä Suomen valtionhallinnosta kerätyn empiirisen datan analysointiin. Syntetisoimalla neljän osajulkaisun tulokset tämä väitös perehtyy ICT projektihallinnon käytänteisiin ja jänniteisiin eri organisaatiotasoilla digitalisoitumisen yhteydessä. Tämä väitös tuottaa uuttaa tietoa esittämällä, miten projektihallinto näyttäytyy ja vaikuttaa e-hallinnon muutoksessa, sekä kuvaamalla miten joustavia projektimalleja, kuten ketterä ja projektiallianssi, voidaan käyttää tässä kontekstissa. Väitöstutkimus luo lisäksi monitasoisen mallin, jonka avulla havaittuja haasteita ja jännitteitä voidaan lieventää. Täten tutkimus auttaa käytännössä alan asiantuntijoita johtamaan oikeita ICT projekteja oikealla tavalla ja siten edesauttaa julkisen sektorin digitalisointia.

Dans des contextes institutionnels complexes, la mise en oeuvre d'innovations nécessite la collaboration d'une grande variété d'acteurs. Cette recherche propose d'enrichir la notion émergente et très peu conceptualisée d'entrepreneuriat institutionnel collectif. Guidés par des ouvrages et des articles de référence, elle enrichit la grille de lecture de l'entrepreneuriat institutionnel en la transposant dans un contexte d'action collective, grâce aux notions de leadership pluriel et d'équipe de travail. Elle porte ainsi un regard sur les micros dynamiques de l'action entrepreneuriale, en ce qu'elles relèvent d'un caractère structuré et organisé, impliquant l'action de plusieurs individus agissant sous l'égide d'une seule entité, le collectif. Le terrain de la recherche a consisté en une recherche-action menée auprès d'un dispositif collectif (EPSP, Espace Partagé de Santé Publique) qui prône une approche novatrice en termes de nouvelle santé publique depuis sa création en 2007 dans le sud de la France. Les éléments relatifs à la structure de l'action entrepreneuriale permettent de saisir les différents aspects de la collaboration d'un ensemble d'acteurs. Le collectif, mêlant l'hétérogénéité des compétences et permettant la distribution des rôles sur différents niveaux de structuration, constitue une plateforme d'échanges et de mise en commun de tout un ensemble de ressources, partagées dans un effort collaboratif. Le pilotage de l'action entrepreneuriale s'opère à différents niveaux de structuration dévoilant notamment l'émergence de leaders (formels et informels), une vision commune travaillée et partagée favorisant l'accès aux ressources rares réparties dans le champ. / In complex fields, change requires cooperation from numerous dispersed actors with divergent interests. Guided by reference works and articles, we draw on complementary insights from institutional and plural leadership in team theories to enrich the emerging notion of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship. In this sense, this work focuses on the micro mechanisms by which actors engage collectively in entrepreneurial actions and highlights the structural and organized character involving the action of many individuals acting under the same entity: the "Collective". Our research is based on a case study called the "Espace Partagé de Santé Publique", which has been established in 2005 to favor social innovations targeting disabled individuals. Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship takes many forms varying from the institutional work in witch actors are involved. It shows how collective institutional entrepreneurship relies on shared competencies and on the sharing of multiple resources derived from a diversity of actors working in a collaborative effort. This case study shows how experiments such as EPSP are conducive to the emergence of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship involved in the design and implementation of a social innovation. The platform provides a large set of various resources, and institutional entrepreneurs can use its to establish a social innovation project. Regarding the structure and dynamics of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship, the main results of this study invite future investigations to consider the richness of collective dynamics to apprehend complex institutional changes.

James Mahoney & Kathleen Thelen (2010) desenvolveram um modelo teórico que permite observar e classificar os padrões de mudança institucional gradual e comparar os casos empíricos observados. A teoria liga modelos particulares de mudança institucional incremental a características do contexto político e às propriedades das instituições, que permitem estabelecer tipos específicos de agentes e de estratégias de mudança. De acordo com os autores, a mudança institucional gradual frequentemente ocorre quando há problemas de interpretação e execução de regras, criando a lacuna necessária para os atores interpretarem as normas existentes e implementarem a política pública de novas maneiras. Esta dissertação pretende demonstrar, de acordo com Mahoney & Thelen (2010), o processo de conversão institucional em curso nas Guardas Municipais brasileiras após a indução promovida pelo Governo Federal, na esteira de reformas da Política Nacional de Segurança Pública, iniciada nos anos 2000. A relevância do trabalho reside na tentativa de entender a evidência trazida pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), na pesquisa do Perfil dos Municípios Brasileiros realizada em 2006 (MUNIC 2006), de que as Guardas Municipais extrapolam suas funções na medida em que exercem atividades típicas de polícia ostensiva, em desacordo com o Artigo 144 da Constituição Federal, que estrutura a política de Segurança Pública brasileira. / James Mahoney & Kathleen Thelen (2010) developed a theoretical model that allows us to observe and classify the patterns of gradual institutional change and compare the observed empirical cases. The theory conect particular models of incremental institutional change to political context characteristics and properties of institutions that allow the establishing of specific types of agents and strategies of change. According to the authors, the gradual institutional change often occurs when there are problems of interpretation and enforcement of rules, creating the necessary gap for the actors to understand the existing standards and implement public policy in new ways. This thesis intends to demonstrate, according to Mahoney & Thelen (2010), the process of \"institutional conversion\" taking place in Brazilian Municipal Guards after the induction promoted by the Federal Government in the row of reforms of the National Public Security, which began in the years 2000. The relevance of the work lies in trying to understand the evidence brought by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - in the research profile of Brazilian counties held in 2006 (MUNIC 2006) that the Municipal Guards go beyond their duties when they perform typical ostensible police activities, in discordance with Article 144 of the Constitution, which structures the Brazilian Public Security Policy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Euzebio Jorge Silveira de Sousa.pdf: 5605701 bytes, checksum: d49a9afa71b2e4ad6d4076512161019c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-11 / Technological change is a key variable in the inherent accumulation process of the capitalism system. Every major transformation leads to qualitative and quantitative changes in the way the labor force is inserted on the production process. Even before the first industrial revolution there is controversy whether or not technological advancement creates structural unemployment, this debate pervaded by classical economics, still present today among structuralists and neo-Schumpeterian economists. In this paper, we analyzed the three major technological transformations of capitalism system, and if such changes are responsible for substantial changes on the employment levels. We identified that unemployment arising from technological progress assumes a cyclical character, but also follows non-economic variables. There were found different institutional arrangements and unemployment levels for similar technological standards, thus suggesting that the high level of unemployment, with low growth and productivity - seen in the post-Fordism - can be caused by factors that transcend the new technologies. By analyzing the new economic environment in Brazil, it was found that the traditional sectors generate more jobs and growth to the country, but are unable to sustain this growth in the medium and long term due to low productivity and competitive advantage. The most dynamic and technological sectors tend to generate more indirect jobs and by the income effect, diverges its technological advances to other sectors of the economy, allowing more investments and job generation / A mudança tecnológica é uma variável chave no processo de acumulação capitalista. A cada grande transformação das forças produtivas ocorrem mudanças qualitativas e quantitativas da inserção do homem na produção. Desde antes da primeira revolução industrial existe a polêmica se o avanço tecnológico cria ou não desemprego estrutural, este debate perpassou pela economia clássica, estando presente até os dias de hoje, sobretudo nos pensamentos estruturalista e neoschumpeteriano. Neste trabalho, analisamos as três grandes transformações tecnológicas do capitalismo, para verificar se tais mudanças são responsáveis por substanciais modificações nos níveis de desemprego. Verificamos que o desemprego proveniente do progresso tecnológico assume um caráter cíclico, mas também obedece a variáveis não econômicas. Foram detectados diferentes arranjos institucionais e níveis de desemprego no mesmo padrão tecnológico, sugerindo assim que o elevado nível de desemprego, com baixo crescimento e produtividade - verificado no pós-fordismo - pode ser causado por fatores que transcendem às novas tecnologias. Ao analisar a economia brasileira na nova economia verificou-se que os setores tradicionais geram mais empregos e crescimento no Brasil, mas que não são capazes de sustentar esta expansão no médio e longo prazo por possuírem baixa produtividade e vantagens competitivas. Os setores de maior dinamismo e conteúdo tecnológico tendem a gerar mais empregos indiretos e por efeito renda, irradia seus avanços tecnológicos em outros setores da economia, possibilitando mais investimentos e geração de empregos