This study explores the creation of the control system in a hi-tech corporation that seeks to be modern and efficient, to see how managers create a new managerial system by combining Western theories with the Chinese context. All social action is constituted by a multiplicity of discourses and meanings. Understanding this action requires knowledge of the ways in which people in specific circumstances connect these discourses and negotiate their complex meanings. Here the concept of organizational culture is seen as a process rather than a stable structure or system. This case study views corporate management as a complex and uneven historical process that entails heterogeneous cultural practices shaped by diverse meanings, sentiments, and representations. In the study I find the managerial practice is presented and constructed through the manipulation, interpretation, and discourse of socio-cultural meanings. Thus it concludes that the managerial practice in the hi-tech company actually involves the integration of a constructed cultural tradition with an idealized managerial modernity. / This study explores the socio-cultural meanings behind the managerial behavior of the hi-tech corporation and how it is presented and practiced in people's daily-life. As a kind of social phenomenon, managerial control and management's attempt to seek the commitment of employees towards the organizations is universal, but in daily practice, it takes on different forms and content due to the different cultural context. This study can help better understand how China's socio-cultural traditions influence the managerial practice and the cultural discourse in contemporary Chinese corporations. / This thesis is an ethnographic study of the organizational behavior and managerial culture in China's Silicon Valley, Zhongguancun Hi-Tech Park, located in northwestern Beijing. It focuses on one corporation to explore how a scientific, effective and standardized managerial system is being created, interpreted and practiced. The study is based upon nearly one year of fieldwork in two corporations that manufacture mobile communication equipment. / 田宏亮. / Adviser: Joseph Rosco. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Tian Hongliang.

In South Australia, overabundant kangaroo populations are managed through commercial harvest. Kangaroo harvest rates over the past decade have averaged only 40% of the harvest quota despite strong demand for the product. With kangaroo populations increasing, the problem of low kangaroo harvest rate in South Australia requires research attention. Previous research regarding kangaroo harvest has focused on questions of biology and ecology and little attention has been directed towards advancing understanding of the human dimensions of kangaroo management. This research sought to fill this gap in knowledge. Qualitative research methods were most appropriate due to the focus on social and institutional dimensions of kangaroo management. Data were collected during interviews with people involved in commercial kangaroo harvest: landholders, harvesters and meat processors. The main topics covered were regnlations and policy, economic issues, the rights and interests of various industry stakeholders and South Australian harvest rates. The views of Aboriginal people were also sought including the significance of kangaroos to Aboriginal people, access to kangaroos for subsistence harvest, kangaroo management and the kangaroo industry. The main findings of this research are presented as a series of peer-reviewed articles: • Article I introduces the research topic and presents preliminary findings of this study. • Article 2 establishes that an increase in South Australia's low harvest rate is needed if kangaroo harvest is to make greater contributions to regional communities, and recommends institutional reform to meet this goal. • Article 3 examines the management regime for kangaroos in South Australia and shows how the informal rules in use are often incongruent with the formal rules established by management administrators. • Article 4 describes the undervalued position of landholders in the kangaroo industry and the obstacles to landholders deriving income from kangaroo harvest. • Article 5 discusses the cultural basis of Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo harvest and includes suggestions for appropriate ways for Aboriginal people to contribute to kangaroo management. The main findings of this research were applied in a comparative study of kangaroo management with that of moose management in Finland. This study found that similar social and institutional factors impact on the management of moose and kangaroos. The broad lessons for wildlife management drawn from the comparative study are: • mobile wildlife resources require flexible management systems • stakeholder involvement is critical to management • hunters/harvesters are conservative of their resource base • declining harvester numbers need to be addressed through support, incentives and training. These lessons can be applied in part, or in whole, to other overabundant and mobile wildlife species. Thus this thesis makes contribution to kangaroo management by making specific recommendations for the industry, but also contributes to wildlife management in a broader sense through the application of findings to other species. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1298303 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2007

In South Australia, overabundant kangaroo populations are managed through commercial harvest. Kangaroo harvest rates over the past decade have averaged only 40% of the harvest quota despite strong demand for the product. With kangaroo populations increasing, the problem of low kangaroo harvest rate in South Australia requires research attention. Previous research regarding kangaroo harvest has focused on questions of biology and ecology and little attention has been directed towards advancing understanding of the human dimensions of kangaroo management. This research sought to fill this gap in knowledge. Qualitative research methods were most appropriate due to the focus on social and institutional dimensions of kangaroo management. Data were collected during interviews with people involved in commercial kangaroo harvest: landholders, harvesters and meat processors. The main topics covered were regnlations and policy, economic issues, the rights and interests of various industry stakeholders and South Australian harvest rates. The views of Aboriginal people were also sought including the significance of kangaroos to Aboriginal people, access to kangaroos for subsistence harvest, kangaroo management and the kangaroo industry. The main findings of this research are presented as a series of peer-reviewed articles: • Article I introduces the research topic and presents preliminary findings of this study. • Article 2 establishes that an increase in South Australia's low harvest rate is needed if kangaroo harvest is to make greater contributions to regional communities, and recommends institutional reform to meet this goal. • Article 3 examines the management regime for kangaroos in South Australia and shows how the informal rules in use are often incongruent with the formal rules established by management administrators. • Article 4 describes the undervalued position of landholders in the kangaroo industry and the obstacles to landholders deriving income from kangaroo harvest. • Article 5 discusses the cultural basis of Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo harvest and includes suggestions for appropriate ways for Aboriginal people to contribute to kangaroo management. The main findings of this research were applied in a comparative study of kangaroo management with that of moose management in Finland. This study found that similar social and institutional factors impact on the management of moose and kangaroos. The broad lessons for wildlife management drawn from the comparative study are: • mobile wildlife resources require flexible management systems • stakeholder involvement is critical to management • hunters/harvesters are conservative of their resource base • declining harvester numbers need to be addressed through support, incentives and training. These lessons can be applied in part, or in whole, to other overabundant and mobile wildlife species. Thus this thesis makes contribution to kangaroo management by making specific recommendations for the industry, but also contributes to wildlife management in a broader sense through the application of findings to other species. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1298303 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2007

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Lincoln University, 2008. / Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Financial literacy is a topic of the day which concerns all the categories of the population in their everyday life. The thesis titled Financial Literacy of Refuge Clients tries to describe the theme of financial literacy from two points of view. On one hand, from the viewpoint of people who, for various reasons, have become clients of refuge and on the other hand, from the viewpoint of social workers who work in refuge. The theoretical part is divided into four subchapters which describe a given issue. An explanation of the basic terminology related to the topic is followed by a subchapter on financial education of children and adults and activities in the field of education. The third subchapter deals with potential effects of financial literacy and the end of the theoretical part focuses on social work with refuge clients. The practical part describes a research which consists of two parts. To achieve the defined goal, a qualitative research has been employed in both parts, using the survey method and the semi-structured interview technique. The document contents analysis was used in the second part of the research. The survey research was carried out in five refuge of Diaconia of the Evangelical Church of the Czech Brethren. The first part of the survey involved fifteen communication partners, users of the refuge as a social service. The second part of the survey involved five communication partners, social workers in refuge. Both survey samples were created by a special-purpose selection. The data gathered in the interviews were evaluated by means of the open coding method. The main goal of the thesis was to find out how refuge clients view their own financial literacy and a potential for improvement in this respect. A sub-goal of the thesis focused on learning viewpoints of the social workers regarding the potential for improving financial literacy of the refuge clients. The survey results have shown that the category of financial literacy within the meaning as defined in literature is not represented in the refuge clients. With regard to their generally difficult situation which also includes their financial situation, the category of financial literacy narrowed to the efforts to make both ends meet at the end of the month and to the question whether or not to deal with financial claims, debts or distraints. This is the setting which has to be the basis for work of social workers in refuge as well. There exists a wide-ranging offer of potential paths leading to financial literacy for all categories of the population, regardless their address. Leaving aside education at school, getting further information is optional, conditioned by everybody's own interest. To increase financial literacy of the clients, social workers may choose from many options, or use their own knowledge and skills. The main prerequisite for success is to adapt themselves to the clients' interest and capabilities. The thesis describes attitudes of refuge clients to financial literacy issues which are identical to the attitudes of this specific category of the population to addressing their difficult financial situation. Social workers become aware of additional possibilities of financial literacy improvement which they can use when working with their clients. Based on the survey results obtained, a comprehensible leaflet has been prepared, containing the essential information about financial literacy. The leaflet in both electronic and printed version will be available for those interested in it, i.e. refuge clients, social workers as well as the general public.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:51:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThiagoFD_TESE.pdf: 4233067 bytes, checksum: bf4ceba488d0f7c5668f2bee183e6a07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-26 / The central research question was to search for data to ratify the theory and discourse of the so-called practitioners of economic solidarity, by defending the substantive rationality should guide the principles of economic solidary, designing the space economy incidental and not the primacy of relations in determining social as well, reflecting the predominance of dimensions of social management in administrative practices of ESS's. For both analyzed the theoretical dimensions of social management - sociopolitical, economic, organizational and environmental - manifested in organizational practices supportive of economic organization Potiguar West. For the success of the research realized the triangulation involving a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. At first the research will use a quantitative approach, from the cluster analysis, to verify the behavior of the sample chosen for this study. In the second stage of the qualitative study was carried out focus group technique (FLICK, 2002) for further analysis of the dimensions of social management on organizational practices supportive of economic organization, related to the principles of Solidary Economy, established in a quantitative approach. In quantitative analysis, the socio-political dimension, it was clear that the more equity instruments of internal and external, from the purposeful living in public spaces, the best monetary results. Another point worth stressing concerns the economic dimension, with the practice reciprocity prevailing in market. Thus, the qualitative approach was possible to understand the processes of exchange of product or service. Rural enterprises surveyed in the allocation of the agro-ecological products have the following scale of priority, sequentially: self-consumption (domestic), market and exchange. The research leads to the fact that training and practices that enhance the socio-political dimension (knowledge, empowerment, sense of belonging) become the guiding principle for the strengthening of the social management in the context of other dimensions, leading to gains sociopolitical, economic, organizational and environmental. Despite the weaknesses found in the organizational dimension and environment, both in a quantitative as in qualitative, we determined that the practices of ESS's Potiguar West incorporate predominantly elements of social management and economic solidarity, with a preponderance of substantive rationality in the primacy of the instrumental. Finally, research has brought information that the participants of the ESS's do not give the money economy primacy in determining social relations, which in turn leads to the confirmation that, in practice the solidarity economy, prevailing the dominance of substantive rationality, as a guide for organizational practices / A quest?o central da pesquisa foi ? busca por dados que ratificassem a teoria e o discurso dos ditos praticantes da economia solid?ria, quando defendem que a racionalidade substantiva deve nortear os princ?pios da economia solid?ria, concebendo a economia espa?o incidental e n?o a primazia na determina??o das rela??es sociais, assim, refletindo na predomin?ncia de dimens?es da gest?o social nas pr?ticas administrativas dos EES s. Para tanto analisei as dimens?es te?ricas da gest?o social sociopol?tica, econ?mica, organizacional e ambiental manifestas em pr?ticas organizacionais de empreendimentos econ?micos solid?rios do Oeste Potiguar. Para o ?xito da pesquisa realizei da triangula??o envolvendo a combina??o de abordagens metodol?gicas quantitativas e qualitativas. Num primeiro momento da pesquisa ser? utilizada uma abordagem quantitativa, a partir da an?lise de cluster, a fim de verificar o comportamento das vari?veis para amostra escolhida neste estudo. Na segunda etapa da pesquisa de car?ter qualitativo foi realizada a t?cnica de grupo focal (FLICK, 2002) para aprofundar a an?lise das dimens?es da gest?o social nas pr?ticas organizacionais de empreendimentos econ?micos solid?rios, relacionadas aos princ?pios da Economia Solid?ria, constatadas na abordagem quantitativa. Na an?lise quantitativa, na dimens?o sociopol?tica, ficou n?tida que quanto mais instrumentos de participa??es internas e externas, a partir da viv?ncia em espa?os p?blicos propositivos, melhores os resultados monet?rios. Outro ponto que merece relevo diz respeito ? dimens?o econ?mica, com a pr?tica reciprocit?rias prevalecendo na comercializa??o. Assim, na abordagem qualitativa foi poss?vel compreender os processos de trocas de produtos ou servi?o. Nos empreendimentos rurais pesquisados a destina??o dos produtos agroecol?gicos tem a seguinte escala de prioridade, sequencialmente: autoconsumo (domesticidades), comercializa??o e troca. A pesquisa leva ao fato de que forma??es e pr?ticas que fortalecem a dimens?o sociopol?tica (conhecimento, apoderamento, senso de pertencimento) tornam-se o fio condutor para o robustecimento da gest?o social no ?mbito das demais dimens?es, conduzindo a ganhos sociopol?ticos, econ?micos, organizacionais e ambientais. Apesar das debilidades constatadas na dimens?o organizacional e ambiental, tanto na abordagem quantitativa como na qualitativa, foi poss?vel constatar que pr?ticas dos EES s do Oeste Potiguar incorporam, predominantemente, elementos da gest?o social e da economia solid?ria, com preponder?ncia da racionalidade substantiva em primazia a instrumental. Por fim, a pesquisa trouxe informa??es de que os participantes dos EES s n?o concedem ? economia monet?ria primazia na determina??o das rela??es sociais, o que consequentemente conduz ? confirma??o de que, nas pr?ticas da economia solid?ria, prevalecem a predomin?ncia da racionalidade substantiva, como guia das pr?ticas organizacionais

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SilvanaMC.pdf: 1007352 bytes, checksum: 07067f838d112b9fbc5e697ed5eac284 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-28 / In this work we have analyzed the political commitment of the social assistance sponsored by the Bradesco Foundation in Jo?o Pessoa. This Foundation is a private institution of public interest that provides social assistance to low income populations all over Brazil. This kind of work is one of the oldest management initiatives in what is actually referred to as managers` social responsibility. This thesis assumes that managers who are in fact socially responsible should guide their actions by the principles of social democracy, so that everyone can enjoy citizens` social freedom, and guarantee their rights as well as the political awareness of social actors. Analysis of documents and a qualitative approach have been applied to the pedagogical Project of the Foundation, as well as phenomenology to study the social profile of their students. The analysis of the pedagogical project as well as the students` standpoint towards life reveals that the Bradesco Foundation is indeed committed to the social efficacy of its students. The educational proposal of the organization includes those elements that are required for teenagers` education envisaging participative citizenship. The teenagers` speech reveals that they have developed the project identity, being therefore able to take part in the process of political transformation of our time. The results indicate that the Bradesco Foundation not only guarantees some of the basic social rights for the healthy development of those who attend their courses, but also sponsors a high level education providing both a technical and a political formation / Neste trabalho analisamos o compromisso pol?tico do servi?o social prestado pela Funda??o Bradesco na cidade de Jo?o Pessoa. A Funda??o ? uma institui??o privada de interesse p?blico que presta um servi?o social para popula??es de baixo poder aquisitivo em todo o Brasil. A Funda??o ? uma das mais antigas iniciativas empresariais no ramo do que hoje se denomina Responsabilidade Social Empresarial. Esta tese elege como marco te?rico o pensamento de autores que problematizam o compromisso pol?tico dos empres?rios que atualmente investem em a??es sociais. Parte do pressuposto de que os empres?rios socialmente respons?veis devem nortear seus investimentos pelos princ?pios da democracia social, para que todos desfrutem da liberdade social dos cidad?os, pela garantia dos direitos e a forma??o pol?tica dos atores sociais. Metodologicamente fizemos uso da an?lise documental, adotando uma abordagem qualitativa para analisar o Projeto Pedag?gico da Funda??o, e da fenomenologia para analisar o perfil social dos seus alunos. A an?lise do Projeto Pedag?gico, bem como da postura dos alunos frente ? vida, revela que a Funda??o Bradesco est? comprometida com a efic?cia social de seus educandos. A proposta educativa da organiza??o contempla os elementos necess?rios ? forma??o dos jovens para a cidadania participativa. Os depoimentos dos jovens revelam que eles desenvolveram a identidade de projeto, tornando-se capazes de participar do processo de transforma??o pol?tica de nosso tempo. Os resultados encontrados indicam que a Funda??o Bradesco garante alguns dos direitos sociais b?sicos para o desenvolvimento saud?vel das crian?as que l? estudam, e uma educa??o de qualidade em que s?o contempladas forma??o t?cnica e pol?tica

The responsibility of industry towards society and the environment is a much discussed topic, both in academia and in business. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has recently emerged as a new concept with the potential to advance this discourse in light of two major challenges industry is facing today. The first relates to the accelerating race to innovate in order to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world. The second concerns the need to maintain public trust in industry through innovations that generate social value in addition to economic returns. This Special Issue provides empirical and conceptual contributions that explore corporate motivations to adopt RRI, the state of implementation of concrete RRI practices, the role of stakeholders in responsible innovation processes, as well as drivers and barriers to the further diffusion of RRI in industry. Overall, these contributions highlight the relevance of RRI for firms of different sizes and sectors. They also provide insights and suggestions for managers, policymakers and researchers wishing to engage with responsibility in innovation. This editorial summarizes the most pertinent conclusions across the individual articles published in this Special Issue and concludes by outlining some fruitful avenues for future research in this space.

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