Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 382-394).

This thesis entitled "Use of didactical games in teaching mathematics at the lower secondary level" deals with the use of educational games in math classes at secondary schools. This work is composed of two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part introduces the concepts of the game, didactic game, math games. More specifically focus on the modification of the board game Monopoly. The practical part is devoted to quantitative research, which determines what is the attitude of mathematics teachers of lower secondary school teaching to the use of games in education, as well as focus on the views and experiences of students with didactic game. Also, the work compares the written test of the curriculum for the class that graduated mathematical hour with the inclusion of educational games monopolies and class that this teaching not undergone.

In this thesis, the author examines the theory that competition in the oil industry is "unworkable" and looks at the development and current status of monopoly in the oil industry to determine whether or not monopoly is workable.

A revision of the author's thesis, MIT, 1967. / Bibliography: p. [109]-115.

A history of tobacco and its use by the Indians of South, Central, and North America is discussed and its gradual spread of use to Spain, England, and the Continent is given. The formation of a monopoly by James B. Duke in establishing the American Tobacco Company, and the price policies, product differentiation, and advertising expenditures used in the development of the Trust is discussed. The Sherman and Clayton Anti-trust Acts are presented and their use in the dissolution of the trust and the establishment of an oligopoly are covered extensively. The Lexington, Kentucky Case of 1940-1946 shows the tobacco industry again prosecuted by the government for conspiracy in restraint of trade, monopoly, and attempts to monopolize resulting in a decision against the eight companies indicted and the assessment of fines totaling $255,000. The companies developed business practices after this trial that would enable them to stay within the letter of the law and have successfully avoided prosecution from 1946 to 1962. The current financial positions of the major tobacco companies is given and the long-run prospects of the tobacco industry are those of gradual growth and expansion based on an increase in population and the growth of national income as regard domestic sales and expansion of foreign trade by nearly all of the major producers. Finally, some general observations concerning monopoly and oligopoly are given and their relationship to the tobacco industry as a whole are explained. / Master of Science

Cette thèse explore l’histoire des entreprises coopératives dans l’État du Wisconsin entre les années 1870 et les années 1930 et les manières dont différents groupes d’acteurs les ont mobilisées afin de défendre leurs intérêts. En croisant les questionnements de l’histoire des entreprises et ceux de l’histoire politique, elle étudie le recours aux coopératives à travers trois grands moments de réforme dans l’histoire des États-Unis – les luttes antimonopolistes du Gilded Age, le progressisme et le New Deal. Ce travail montre que les coopératives font partie de l’horizon réformateur américain de manière continue dans ces décennies. Bien que les coopérateurs ne parviennent pas à construire un « mouvement », ou un « système » économique qui permettrait de servir d’alternative au capitalisme industriel dominé par les grandes entreprises, ils dessinent avec succès les contours d’une forme d’entreprise différente, plus démocratique et dont le modèle est relativement bien identifié à la fin des années 1930. Afin de comprendre les mécanismes d’institutionnalisation de cette forme d’entreprise, on observe les différentes manières dont elle est mobilisée et appropriée au cours du temps – en premier lieu par les fermiers, mais également par les consommateurs, et dans une moindre mesure par les ouvriers. Le rôle de l’État, dont les agents sollicitent les coopératives et en font des outils de politique publique, fait également l’objet d’une attention particulière. L’analyse de ces mobilisations est constamment replacée dans l’environnement au sein duquel les coopérateurs évoluent : en mesurant l’écart qui distingue les coopératives des formes d’organisation économique contre lesquelles elles se forment, celles qui leur servent de référence, ou celles avec lesquelles elles sont en concurrence. Penser les coopératives dans leur environnement signifie également interroger l’importance des territoires dans lesquelles elles s’inscrivent, et en particulier la spécificité des zones rurales, lieu privilégié du développement des coopératives américaines à cette période. / This dissertation explores the history of cooperative businesses in the state of Wisconsin between the 1870s and the 1930s, and the ways various groups resorted to those organizations in order to protect their interests. My study involves both business history and political history, and looks at the uses of cooperatives through three important reform movements in US history: the antimonopolist struggles of the Gilded Age, the Progressive era and the New Deal. I show that cooperatives were continuously part of the American reform horizon in those decades. Although cooperators did not succeed in creating a “movement” or an economic “system” that would serve as an alternative for an industrial capitalism dominated by big corporations, they were able to build a specific and more democratic form of business enterprise, whose model was easy to identify at the end of the 1930s. In order to understand the mechanisms that led to the institutionalization of this form of business, I observe the various ways farmers, consumers, and, to a lesser extent, workers used and understood cooperatives over time. The role of the state, whose agents called upon cooperatives and turned them into public policy tools, is also a subject of inquiry. The analysis of the uses of the cooperative form of business is constantly replaced in the environment in which their members operated, especially by measuring the distance that separated them from the economic organizations against which they were formed, those that were their models, or those against which they competed. Understanding cooperatives in their environment also means questioning the importance of the territories where they were created, and more specifically the characteristics of rural areas, where cooperatives were especially successful.

Este estudo de Geografia analisa o processo de territorialização dos monopólios no setor sucroenergético e discute a formação dos grupos econômicos agroindustriais monocultores territorializados. Seu intuito é compreender a concentração econômica e territorial, característica da agricultura mundializada, nesta etapa monopolista do capitalismo. As fusões territoriais monopolísticas que se constituem na expressão objetiva da territorialização dos monopólios são reveladas por todo o Estado de São Paulo, onde a agroindústria canavieira realiza o cultivo e o processamento da cana-deaçúcar. No caminho da análise, as contradições próprias do desenvolvimento capitalista tornam-se evidentes e a noção de exploração da força de trabalho neste setor, bem como a compreensão das formas de apropriação da renda da terra pelo capital, contribuem para explicar a relação entre agricultura e indústria e desvendar as especificidades dessas distintas atividades. Por tudo isso, destacam-se as alianças de classes e frações de classes (capitalistas industriais/ agrícolas/proprietários de terras) que são centrais no processo de territorialização dos monopólios no setor sucroenergético. / This Geography study analyzes the process of territorialization of monopolies in the sugar cane energetic sector and discusses the formation of territorially monoculture agribusiness conglomerates. Your goal is to understand the economic and territorial concentration, characteristic of globalized agriculture, in the monopoly stage of capitalism. The monopolistic territorial fusions that constitute the objective expression of territorialization of monopolies are revealed throughout the state of São Paulo, where the sugarcane agribusiness holds the cultivation and processing of sugar cane. In the way of analysis, the contradictions of capitalist development become evident and the notion of exploitation of the workforce in this sector, as well as understanding of the forms of ownership of land rent by capital, help to explain the relationship between agriculture and industry and reveals the specificities of these different activities. For all that, there are the alliances of classes and fractions of classes (capitalist industrial / agricultural / land owners) that are central to the process of territorialization of monopolies in the sugar cane energetic sector

Business-to-business relationships within sustained monopolies, such as those within Defence Procurement, have received limited attention by Management Researchers. This is unusual because under these market circumstances typically there appear to be few incentives to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes despite their strategic policy importance. The purpose of this thesis is therefore, to determine the influential relationship factors between the UK Ministry of Defence and its Industrial partners within a predominantly monopolistic Defence Procurement business. The approach adopted for this research project is exploratory and inter-subject area. It uses quantitative and supportive qualitative data to examine the problem through an economic model using Supply Chain Management, Relationship Marketing and Transaction Cost Economics. A self-selected census of 54 business relationships is carried out from both the buyer and supplier perspectives through staff questionnaires and team leader semi-structured interviews. The findings from this research show, contrary to the expectation of the theoretical model, a positive relationship success situation with a spectrum of both positive and negative behavioural factors present. However, a significant adversarial influence is a suite of issues that are endemic to the business in question such as old products, obsolescence, staff and organisational upheavals, poor end-customer visibility and lack of investment in modern procedures and systems. Within the monopoly environment these accentuate managers’ frustrations due to lack of freedom of action. The primary contribution of this research is therefore, an increased understanding of the business-to-business relationship dynamics within long-term, closely coupled, collaborative, business-to-business arrangements as exemplified by UK Defence and the results are likely to be of interest to both academics and managers.

Thesis (doctoral)--Heidelberg, Universiẗat, 2006. Zugl.: Heidelberg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-298).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 9, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-389).