L’objet de la présente recherche vise à donner un éclairage théorique, empirique et pratique de l’après-transmission du point de vue du cédant, qui a transmis sa PME saine ou apparemment saine, pour un motif autre que la retraite. A la suite de l’étude d’un cas pilote, la recherche s’oriente vers l’investigation de l’après-transmission volontaire du cédant mature en PME, comme opportunité de rebond pluridimensionnel. Le cadre conceptuel procède des théories du développement psychosocial à mi-vie, du développement du style cognitif de l’adulte, des stratégies de réinvestissement et du concept d’identité plurielle. Fondés sur une étude de cas multiples composée de huit unités d’analyse, les résultats résident dans la compréhension de la dynamique de rebond du cédant mature en PME (1), la modélisation du processus de rebond associé à l’évolution du statut du cédant-réinvestisseur (2) et la formulation d’une taxonomie des trajectoires individuelles de rebond (3). Au final, l’après-transmission du cédant mature en PME se révèle être un rebond au singulier pluriel. / The aim of the present research is to provide a theoretical, empirical and practical exploration of post- succession, from the perspective of the transferor who has transferred a healthy or apparently healthy SME for a reason other than retirement. Following a pilot case study, the research focused on the investigation of the voluntary post-succession of the mature SME transferor, as an opportunity for pluridimensional rebound. The conceptual framework emerges from theories of midlife psychosocial development, adult cognitive style development and reinvestment strategy and the concept of multiple identities. Based on a study of multiple cases, using eight units of analysis, the results lead to the understanding of the rebound dynamics of the mature SME transferor (1), modelling of the rebound process associated with the development of the status of transferor/reinvestor (2) and the formulation of a taxonomy of individual rebound trajectories (3). Finally, the post- succession of the mature SME transferor is revealed to be a “singular-plural” rebound.

Governments around the world have pursued ICT based initiatives including the provision of infrastructure to assist regional areas to develop economically (Beckinsale et al. 2006). There has been considerable interest in exploiting ICT to develop high technology clusters and support innovative networks (Lawson & Lorenz 1999). However, these initiatives have met with mixed success. It is clear that such development depends on more than providing appropriate technology Attention to social and organisational factors is crucial if regional areas are to realise the potential of ICT as a tool for regional development (Gengatharen & Standing 2005). It is important to understand the nature of business networking as well as the perspective of those participating in such networks if successful initiatives are to be established. The aim of this research is to identify how ICT can be used for knowledge sharing among businesses in regional areas and how the online networks through which knowledge is shared can contribute to the development of the region. This research investigates the question of what value small businesses in those regions derive from knowledge sharing networks using ICT. It also seeks to identify the value creation potential of those networks for their region. Previous research has shown that large organisations have achieved significant value from virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) as a structure for sharing knowledge and supporting innovation (Wenger 2004). The concept of Communities of Practice and Virtual Communities of Practice provided a useful point of departure for this research. The investigation comprised interpretive case studies of two Australian regional areas and their local business networks which incorporated SMEs in a variety of industries. Each case study was conducted in three stages. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with regional economic development leaders. Second, 192 small and medium business owners were surveyed about their business activities and their participation in local business networks. Third, in-depth interviews were conducted with 23 small business owners to gain a richer understanding of their participation in knowledge-sharing networks and the value they realised or anticipated from various knowledge-sharing activities. A combined analysis of the two cases was conducted as well as the individual analyses. The research adopted a modified Structured Case method (Carroll & Swatman 2000). The analysis of the two case studies revealed: a.) There was a significant difference between the majority of SMEs who traded within the region and those trading largely beyond the region. The latter’s more proactive online sharing knowledge and seeking of business opportunities would enable them to access most value from VCoEs. b.) The participating SMEs operated in a number of industries and what they had in common was an interest in improving their enterprises. Consequently they used their regional networks which were not aligned to any one industry to make connections and share knowledge. They did not necessarily seek to access specific information. c.) A necessary prerequisite of VCoEs is having vibrant CoEs where face-to-face interaction enhances the development of trust and social capital. This appeared as an important factor facilitating the move to incorporate online knowledge sharing. d.) Younger businesses appeared to gain the most value from knowledge sharing in CoEs as they were using their networks to determine how to grow their firm. e.) The value of VCoEs to the SME participants is primarily in their general connection to other businesses in the region. Since the participants operate in a number of industries, what they have in common is an interest in their enterprises. The main value appears to come from the potential of the VCoEs to add to this connection and to social capital. This study found that successful management of VCoEs must: i) Ensure the network website is actively used by members before attempting to incorporate online knowledge sharing. ii) Monitor and stimulate online forum interaction rather than rely on interaction to occur naturally. iii) Not rely on email as a mechanism for stimulating knowledge sharing. Email is seen as more appropriate for formal documentation than for candid exchange of views. The concept of virtual communities of practice was found to be somewhat inappropriate for the diverse SMEs in the regional networks. Because of their diversity, they do not necessarily see value in sharing knowledge about practice but they do see value in sharing more general information and in providing support, connection and ideas that facilitate the strategic direction of their business. To address this issue, the concept of virtual communities of enterprise (VCoEs) is proposed as recognition of what the participating SMEs had in common: an interest in their individual businesses as part of the region. The original contribution of this research consists of its identification of the issues in linking SMEs across industries. It provides new insights on the business practices of regional SMEs and developed the concepts of Community of Enterprise (CoE) and Virtual Community of Enterprise (VCoE) to capture the special nature of knowledge sharing in regional multi-industry business networks. New perspectives are revealed on the ways that value could be derived from knowledge sharing by these regionally networked SMEs, as such it adds to the body of knowledge in an area where there has been little systematic investigation. This research reinforces the importance of social capital as an essential pre-requisite for accessing the value of intellectual capital in regions. Social capital emerges as vital when establishing and maintaining face-to-face knowledge sharing in regional networks and a necessary pre-condition for successfully establishing online knowledge sharing. Trust is a key factor and this research extends understanding of the role of social capital and the importance of trust in regional networks and online interaction. Its findings have significant implications for the development and management of CoEs and VCoEs as it outlines the key elements that need to be addressed when establishing and maintaining them, the appropriate applications for this context and the issues involved in management of the networking and online contexts. These findings not only increase our understanding of the management dynamics of online networks, they can also provide guidance to those seeking to establish successful VCoEs.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om samtalet i musikterapi, ett ämne som är sparsamt beskrivet i litteraturen. En kort beskrivning av musikterapi som klinisk och aka- demisk disciplin ges, och en litteraturgenomgång görs av några böcker kring sam- talsmetodik och det lilla som finns skrivet om samtal i musikterapi. Studien byg- ger på tre musikterapisessioner arrangerade speciellt för studien och intervjuer med de tre musikterapeuterna. Sessionerna filmades och intervjuerna spelades in och skrevs ut. Det är en kvalitativ studie upplagd som en experimentell, instru- mentell, flerfaldig fallstudie. Det teoretiska perspektivet är hermeneutik och ana- lysmetoden hermeneutisk tolkningsanalys. Analysen av filmerna är inspirerad av fenomenologi. I uppsatsen ges en beskrivning i kondenserad form av de tre mu- sikterapisessionerna och intervjuerna sammanfattas. Därefter redogörs för analys- resultatet som framstår som tvådelat. Första delen är en tematisering av de verbala interventioner som förekommer under de studerade sessionerna. Interventionerna tematiseras som frågor, andra interventioner, tystnad, paradoxer och omformule- ringar, metaforer och tolkningar. Hur de talar om musik lyfts fram i ett särskilt avsnitt. Andra delen är ett utforskande av vilka funktioner samtalen tycks ha un- der dessa sessioner. Tanken prövas att de kan; leda till ökad trygghet, som i sin tur kan leda till att ett verkligt möte kan uppstå; fördjupa klientens upplevelse; tyd- liggöra klientens livsberättelse. / This thesis is about verbal dialogue in music therapy, a subject which is seldom discussed in the literature. A short description of music therapy as a clinical and academic discipline is presented, and a survey is made of some of the literature on methodology in professional dialogues and what little has been written about dia- logue in music therapy. The study is based on three music therapy sessions ar- ranged especially for the purpose and interviews with the three therapists. The sessions were filmed and the interviews were recorded and copied out. It is a qualitative study, constructed as an experimental, instrumental, multiple case study. The theoretical perspective is hermeneutic and the method of analysis used was hermeneutic interpretation analysis. The method used to analyze the films was inspired by phenomenology. In the thesis the three music therapy sessions are described in condensed form and the interviews are summarized. This is followed by an analysis of the result which appears to fall into two parts. The first section is a thematisation of the verbal interventions that occur during the sessions. The interventions are thematised as questions, other interventions, silence, paradoxes and rephrasings, metaphors and interpretations. A special section is devoted to theway the therapists talk about music. The second part of the analysis explores the functions that the verbal dialogues seem to have had during the sessions. The the- ory tested is that they can; lead to a greater feeling of security, which in its turn can lead to a genuine encounter; deepen the client’s experience; clarify the cli- ent’s life story.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-05-30T16:58:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FernandRM.pdf: 1137422 bytes, checksum: 38f2c80a16247223b7be04502a17b2cc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-30T16:58:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FernandRM.pdf: 1137422 bytes, checksum: 38f2c80a16247223b7be04502a17b2cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Organizational learning studies aim to describe and analyze forms and reasons of knowledge creation, development and using in companies, and how these processes help an organization to generate value and competitiveness in their markets. Emphasis was given to organizational learning practices in order to determine initiatives made by companies to generate an learning favorable ambience, while knowledge management practices acts to support and complement organizational learning practices, since they’re related to activities developed in consulting companies, who were focus of this study and composed the cases here described. Discussion contained in this dissertation taken as basis an qualitative and interview-based approach, using content analysis and document analysis, with two cases analyzed individually and in a cross-sectional way, and was conducted between November 2016 and January 2017 in two big consulting companies, based in São Paulo city. When comparing perceptions and statements to the companies’ public documents and to literature-based references, it concludes that the identified practices aim to give workers a set of capabilities suited to their acting in organizations, using previous experiences, best practices mapping and knowledge transferring. Clients’ diversity of profiles and acting areas demand from studied organizations a workforce who simultaneously shows certain quality standards and singularities that gives advantages to these consulting companies and, consequently, to their clients. / O estudo da aprendizagem organizacional visa descrever e analisar as formas e motivos pelos quais ocorre a geração, aprimoramento e utilização do conhecimento dentro das empresas, e como tais processos as ajudam a gerar valor e competitividade em seus mercados de atuação. Foram enfatizadas práticas de aprendizagem organizacional, para determinar as iniciativas adotadas pelas organizações na geração de ambiência propícia ao aprendizado, enquanto as práticas de gestão do conhecimento suportam e complementam aquelas de aprendizagem organizacional, por estarem relacionadas à atividade das empresas de consultoria, alvo deste estudo e que compuseram os casos descritos neste artigo. A discussão realizada utilizou uma abordagem qualitativa baseada em entrevistas, análise de conteúdo e análise documental, com dois casos analisados individualmente e de forma cruzada, sendo realizada entre novembro de 2016 e janeiro de 2017 em duas organizações de consultoria de grande porte, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo. Ao comparar percepções e depoimentos colhidos com documentos públicos das organizações estudadas e referências constantes na literatura, concluiu-se que as práticas identificadas buscam proporcionar aos colaboradores um conjunto de capacidades adequado à atuação destes nas empresas, com aproveitamento de experiências anteriores, mapeamento de melhores práticas e transferência de conhecimentos. Os múltiplos perfis de clientes e suas áreas de atuação exigem das organizações estudadas um quadro funcional que apresente simultaneamente perfis padronizados de conhecimentos por cargo ou nível hierárquico, e especialistas em determinadas vertentes do conhecimento, para atingir padrões de qualidade e singularidade e oferecer um diferencial a estas organizações de consultoria e, consequentemente, seus clientes.

Submitted by Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse (msalusse@gmail.com) on 2014-03-31T16:50:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 (@DISSERTAÇÃO_VERSAO FINAL_31.03.14).pdf: 9682404 bytes, checksum: 74f2c344694c9eae81d4e672f1c1af51 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by PAMELA BELTRAN TONSA (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2014-03-31T16:53:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 (@DISSERTAÇÃO_VERSAO FINAL_31.03.14).pdf: 9682404 bytes, checksum: 74f2c344694c9eae81d4e672f1c1af51 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-03-31T16:58:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 (@DISSERTAÇÃO_VERSAO FINAL_31.03.14).pdf: 9682404 bytes, checksum: 74f2c344694c9eae81d4e672f1c1af51 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-27 / O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender como professores ao redor do mundo ensinam empreendedorismo com fundamento na teoria effectuation. A pesquisa utiliza a metodologia de estudo de caso múltiplo para análise de cinco experiências em educação empreendedora em nível universitário, realizadas em cinco instituições de ensino de quatro países diferentes com intuito de compreender o contexto dessas experiências, a estrutura dos cursos, as metodologias de ensino utilizadas e as percepções de docentes e alunos sobre essas experiências. O estudo traz inicialmente um breve histórico sobre a evolução do ensino de empreendedorismo nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil. Ato contínuo, o estudo faz uma análise da evolução das perspectivas teóricas utilizadas para compreensão do fenômeno empreendedor e relaciona essas perspectivas às metodologias de ensino utilizadas para o ensino de empreendedorismo, com destaque para a recente discussão sobre a perspectiva do empreendedorismo como método. A teoria effectuation é apresentada em seguida e introduz seus os princípios norteadores e as teorias que deram origem à sua formulação. A análise dos casos resulta em contribuições teóricas referentes à estruturação de perguntas de pesquisa que relacionam a utilização da teoria effectuation no ensino de empreendedorismo ao aumento da intenção dos alunos em empreender e que analisam a influência da cultura e da formação dos alunos no processo de ensino e aprendizado. As contribuições práticas, por sua vez, referem-se à identificação do elemento integrador das metodologias de ensino de empreendedorismo com fundamento na teoria effectuation, da identificação de metodologias de ensino emergentes e da contribuição da teoria para o desenvolvimento do ensino de empreendedorismo no Brasil. Assim, os resultados desta pesquisa contribuem para aumentar o conhecimento existente sobre a utilização da teoria effectuation no ensino de empreendedorismo e sobre os efeitos dessa introdução, bem como por meio da formulação de perguntas de pesquisa para direcionamento de esforços de pesquisa futuros. / This research aims at understanding how professors around the world teach entrepreneurship using effectuation theory. The research utilizes the multiple case study methodology to analyze five entrepreneurship education experiences at the university level, performed at five institutions from four different countries in order to understand the context of these entrepreneurship education experiences, the structure of the courses, the teaching methodologies used and the perceptions from both students and professors regarding their experiences. The study initially presents a brief history on the evolution of entrepreneurship education in the United States and Brazil. Thereafter, the study analyzes the evolution of the theoretical perspectives used to understand the entrepreneurial phenomenon and relate these perspectives to the methodologies used for teaching entrepreneurship, highlighting the recent discussion about the entrepreneurship as method perspective. The effectuation theory is presented in sequence and it guiding principles and theories that led to its formulation are presented. The theoretical contributions from the study relate to the structuring of research questions that analyze the relationship between effectuation teaching and the increase on intention of the students to become entrepreneurs, and the influence of culture and educational background in the teaching and learning process. The practical contributions refers to the identification of the integrating element of effectual teaching methodologies, the identification of emerging teaching methodologies in the field and the contribution from effectuation theory to the development of entrepreneurship education in Brazil. Thus, this research contributes to increase the existing knowledge on effectuation teaching and the effects on introducing effectuation to teach entrepreneurship, as well as through the structuring of research questions for future research efforts.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese para Doutorado de Marcelo Martins de Sa - POI - Gestao de Operacoes.docx: 1180675 bytes, checksum: b76fcb8e6a4d002490e67834e3041a4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-30 / A crise hídrica é apontada em levantamentos globais realizados na última década como um risco com alto potencial de severidade (WEF, 2007, 2016), considerado o desastre natural que mais causa mortes em todos os países (BELOW; GROVER-KOPEC; DILLEY, 2007) e provoca forte impacto no fornecimento de alimentos, acarretando em prejuízos para saúde, educação, força produtiva e economia das regiões afetadas. Esta tese encontrou na crise hídrica ocorrida na Região Sudeste brasileira nos anos de 2013 a 2015, em especial no Estado de São Paulo, uma oportunidade única de estudar a ocorrência de um fenômeno com características de início lento, explorar a maneira como foi percebida por gestores, bem como as decisões consideradas para Gerenciamento de Riscos e Resiliência em Cadeias de Suprimentos. O objetivo principal desta tese foi investigar o desenvolvimento de capacidades de resiliência em cadeias de suprimentos em um contexto de desastre natural. Para explorar este contexto traz a seguinte questão de pesquisa: como as empresas desenvolvem capacidades de resiliência em cadeia de suprimentos frente a um desastre natural? Esta tese possui natureza qualitativa, por meio da utilização de estudos de casos em duas cadeias de suprimentos relacionadas ao setor de alimentos e bebidas (oriundas das commodities cana-de-açúcar e laranja) como unidades de análise. Os resultados apontam a percepção ao risco como responsável pelo desenvolvimento das capacidades de flexibilidade, colaboração, visibilidade e velocidade. Após a percepção ao risco, os respondentes investiram fortemente em tecnologias para enfrentar os fenômenos climáticos a que estão expostos, evidenciando capacidade de visibilidade sobre o evento, principalmente por meio de compartilhamento de informações úteis entre os elos da cadeia para enfrentamento da crise. Outro resultado indica que a velocidade e a colaboração são necessárias nas fases de resposta e recuperação para alcançar resiliência. No entanto, a presente pesquisa mostrou que estas capacidades não estão presentes em todas as empresas de acordo com os casos estudados e que as cadeias buscam caminhos diferentes para tentarem alcançar a resiliência necessária para normalização ou aprimoramento de seus processos. Conclui-se que a cadeias estudadas não desenvolveram resiliência para enfrentar futuras crises hídricas em todos os elos. As contribuições teóricas desta tese residem em três pontos: o primeiro, a análise das capacidades de resiliência de forma conjunta (como um “conjunto de recursos”), considerando o contexto das fases de uma ruptura de início de lento. Segundo, são raros os estudos com evidências empíricas do ambiente de crise ou pré-ruptura em cadeias de suprimentos que analisem em profundidade as fases de resposta e recuperação, especialmente por desastres naturais com início lento. Terceiro, a análise deste fenômeno além das díades (fornecedores-compradores) pode ser considerada contribuição empírica-teórica para disciplina de cadeia de suprimentos. A partir deste conhecimento é possível adotar estratégias de preparação, tais como aumento de flexibilidade e redundância, investimentos em sistemas integrados de comunicação entre os elos da cadeia para aumentar a visibilidade e velocidade de resposta, entre outras ações que envolvam as capacidades de resiliência estudadas. São necessárias novas ações voltadas para o agronegócio que visem ampliação dos protocolos agroambientais existentes, além de novas pesquisas, compartilhamento de resultados, estudos de casos e ensino nas universidades e debates, para manter o nível adequado de percepção ao risco e foco voltado para recuperação de áreas de preservação e relevantes para melhor gerenciamento dos recursos hídricos. / The water crisis is pointed out in global surveys carried out in last decade as a risk with high severity potential (WEF, 2007, 2016), considered the natural disaster that causes most deaths in all countries (BELOW; GROVER-KOPEC; DILLEY, 2007), and has a strong impact on food supply, resulting in damages for health, education, labor and economy of the affected regions. This thesis has found a unique opportunity to study the occurrence of a phenomenon with slow on-set characteristics, to explore the way in which it was perceived by managers, as well as the decisions that were considered for Risk and Resilience in Supply Chain Management. The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the development of supply chain resilience capabilities in a natural disaster context. To explore this context has the following research question: how do firms develop resilience supply chain capabilities when face a natural disaster? This thesis had a qualitative approach, through multiple case studies and the unit of analysis was the food and beverage supply chains (sugar cane and orange commodities). The results point to risk perception as responsible for the development of flexibility, collaboration, visibility and velocity capabilities. After risk perception, the respondents invested heavily in technologies to face the climate change phenomena to which they are exposed, evidencing the visibility capability on the event, mainly through sharing of useful information between the links of the supply chain members who faced the crisis. Another result indicates that velocity and collaboration are necessary in the response and recovery phases to achieve resilience. However, the present research showed that these capabilities are not present in all firms according to the cases studied. Both supply chains seek different paths to try to achieve the resilience necessary for normalization or improvement of their processes. It is concluded that the supply chains studied did not develop resilience to face future water crises in all links. The theoretical contributions of this thesis reside in three points: the first, the analysis of resilience capacities in the same study (as a “bundle of resources”), considering the context of the phases of a disruption with slow on-set characteristics. Second, studies with empirical evidence of the crisis environment or pre-rupture in supply chains that analyze in depth the response and recovery phases, especially for natural disasters with slow on-set, are rare. Third, the analysis of this phenomenon beyond dyads (suppliers-buyers) can be considered empiricaltheoretical contribution to supply chain discipline. From this knowledge, it is possible to adopt preparation strategies, such as increased flexibility and redundancy, investments in integrated communication systems between supply chain links to increase visibility and velocity of response, among other actions that involve the resilience capabilities studied. New agribusiness actions are needed to expand the existing agrienvironmental protocols, as well as new research, information sharing and debates, to maintain the adequate level of risk perception and focus on the recovery and conservation of relevant areas to improve water resources management.

This study explores neoliberalism and its influence on the undergraduate Economics curricula at selected South African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Neoliberalism is a theory embracing political economic practices that propose that human well-being can be advanced by liberating individuals, entrepreneurial freedom and skills within an institutional framework, characterised by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade. However, little is known about the influence of neoliberalism on undergraduate Economics programmes. Researchers either criticise neoliberalism or they reserve some components of neoliberalism and concentrate on those per se. Research has revealed that, students exposed to neoliberalism have a desire for life-long learning and are in need of the following skills: analytical, social, entrepreneurial, accountability and employability skills. To survive in this forever-changing environment graduates need to be equipped with flexible skills so that they will be employable and remain employed. Neoliberalism is still accepted as the only possible economic and social order that is available to us. This is in agreement with the opinions of seasoned rulers such as Margaret Thatcher who maintains there is no alternative to neoliberalism. In support neoliberalists argue that global capitalism is promoted, because welfare states are costly, overburdened, inefficient, and incapable of eliminating poverty and are overly oriented to cash entitlements rather than empowering citizens.The importance of curriculum research and the development of the neoliberal theory motivated the researcher to undertake this study. A qualitative multiple case study design was utilised, because it is useful when not much is known about the phenomenon and when in-depth study is needed. Triangulation of data collection tools was employed in this study for validity and reliability of data. The researcher made use of document analysis and structured interviews. The data collected reveal that neoliberalism is attached to politics and that it is a higher stage of capitalism. However, there is a strong sentiment that neoliberalism has good development policies, but these policies should not be implemented as if they are one-size-fits-all. The study findings also reveal that inequality should not be blamed on neoliberalism, as the shift now should be towards how to deal with inequality and also the effects of technology, as technology is replacing human labour at an alarming rate. Pertinent aspects like cultural, environmental and religious issues should be included in the tertiary curricula. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

Les TPE sont des acteurs importants du dynamisme économique français. Chaque année, des milliers d’entre elles sont transmises. Ce phénomène n’est pas nouveau, mais l’évolution démographique des dirigeants de TPE françaises tend à en faire une préoccupation de premier plan pour les décideurs politiques et économiques. La majorité d’entre elles et, pour une part croissante, sont reprises par des repreneurs personnes physiques externes sans aucun lien avec l’entreprise. Le développement de ce type de transmission n’est pas sans poser de problèmes. La méconnaissance de l’entreprise, de son environnement par le repreneur accentue les difficultés déjà grandes de la reprise (Deschamps et Paturel, 2009). L’arrivée dans l’entreprise d’un repreneur externe est souvent vécue par les salariés comme une interruption, un changement organisationnel majeur pouvant mettre en péril la poursuite de l’activité. Le fait que l’entreprise soit saine au moment du rachat interfère sur la manière dont le changement est appréhendé par les salariés. Ce dernier pouvant être interprété comme une menace, la possibilité de perdre une situation antérieure jugée satisfaisante. Les spécificités caractérisant la TPE rendent l’événement particulièrement intense sur le plan émotionnel et relationnel. La présente étude s’attache à explorer l’entrée en fonction du repreneur, dernière étape du processus repreneurial, à travers les interactions entre acteurs. Basés sur une étude de cas multiples (10 cas analysés, 31 entretiens), les résultats mettent en évidence un processus dénommé reconstruction collective de sens post-reprise. Ils montrent également l’existence de plusieurs facteurs individuels, organisationnels et contextuels exerçant une influence notable sur le processus. / TPE are playing an important role in the French economic dynamism. Each year, thousands of them are transmitted. This phenomenon is not new, but the demographic evolution of French TPE leadership tends to create a major concern for political and economic decision makers. The majority of them and, for a growing share ours times by external individuals buyers with no connection to the company. The development of this type of transmission is not coming without its problems. Ignorance of the company, its environment by the buyer increases the already great difficulties of the recovery (Deschamps and Paturel, 2009). The arrival in the company of an external buyer is often experienced by employees as an interruption, a major organizational change that could jeopardize the continuation of the activity. The fact that the company is healthy at redemption interfere with the way the change is apprehended by the employees. This can be interpreted as a threat, the possibility of losing a satisfactory situation before. The specificities characterizing the TPE make the event particularly intense emotional and relational. This study aims to explore the inauguration of the buyer, the last step repreneurial process, through interaction between actors. Based on a multiple case study (10 cases analyzed, 31 interviews), the results show a process called collective reconstruction of post-recovery direction. They also show the existence of a number of individual, organizational and contextual factors with significant influence on the process.

Many of the technological and social systems our society has come to depend on can be classified as complex adaptive systems (CAS). These systems are made of many individual parts that self-organize to respond and adapt to changing outside and inside influences affecting the system and its actors. These CAS can be placed on a spectrum ranging from loosely- to tightly-coupled, depending on the degree of interrelatedness and interdependence between system components. This research has explored how the process of collaboration occurs in both a loosely- and tightly-coupled setting using one exemplar of each system. The loosely-coupled exemplar related to disaster risk reduction in two Canadian communities while the tightly-coupled one involved the implementation of a surgical information management system in a Canadian hospital. A list of core elements of collaboration that should be considered essential to the success of all collaborative endeavours was developed as a result: Engagement, Communication, Leadership, Role Clarity, Awareness, Time, and Technical Skills and Knowledge. Based on observing how the core elements of collaboration interacted with one another within each of these example systems, two models were created to represent their relationships. A list of considerations that collaborative tool designers should consider was also developed and the implications of these considerations were discussed. As businesses and other organizations increasingly incorporate team-based work models, they will come to depend more heavily on technology-based solutions to support collaboration. By incorporating collaborative technologies that properly support the activity of these teams—based on the specific type of complex adaptive system in which their organization exists—organizations can avoid wasting time and resources developing tools that hinder collaboration.

The thesis deals with undergraduate training of kindergarten teachers. The aim is to compare the issue of preparation for the profession of kindergarten teacher from different perspectives in historical and international comparisons and reflect and analyze the needs of the profession towards initial training kindergarten teachers on the basis of theoretical concepts and statements from practice. The reaserch aims to analyze the curriculum of initial training kindergarten teachers at selected faculties of education in the Czech Republic, analyze and reflect on meeting the needs of the profession in these faculties and learn how to evaluate their students' level of development of their professional competence at the beginning of undergraduate training and at the end. Research design is a multi-case study. Working with reaserch respondents has a longitudinal character. Methods were used quantitative and qualitative methodology - questionnaire, rating scales, content analysis of documents, interview and focus group. The thesis analyzes the curriculum of undergraduate training at Faculty of Education Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and Faculty of Education University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the context of the model of the...