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41	Das razões da utilização do EBITDA por profissionais de mercado: uma contribuição prática Carvalho, Vinícius José Ribeiro de 03 February 2015 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:32:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vinicius Jose Ribeiro de Carvalho.pdf: 508933 bytes, checksum: 35f5bc3268f8eb84a3d4d15678926b51 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-03 / This study seeks to understand the utilization of EBITDA by Brazilian market professionals. EBITDA, which emerged in the 1970s in the United States as a tool to measure the operating performance of companies with heavy capital investments and / or highly leveraged companies, due to its success quickly spread throughout the world as an important proxy for cash flows. However, over the years the academic and professional community, as well as regulators and standard-setting bodies, raised a number of criticisms and warnings on its use, possibly greater than its virtues. Thus, was born the motivation of this work: why and how highly skilled and qualified professionals continue utilizing EBITDA in their daily work, despite its conceptual weaknesses? Additionally, there was the motivation to discuss an issue lacking depth in Brazil. This is a qualitative and exploratory study, conducted through interviews with a sample of professionals selected by convenience and the data analyzed by the content analysis technique, with ATLAS.ti software support. The results show that the professionals of the sample continue using EBITDA mainly for ease of use and calculation, and deem it a good measure of operating performance. However, in addition to several criticisms, also showed us that they continue to utilize EBITDA due to the lack of a good proxy for cash flow that has a similar cost-benefit relation. Finally, we identified that one of the probable reasons for its mass utilization lies in Mimetic Isomorphism, as analyzed by the New Institutional Sociology, or Neo-institutionalism. / Este trabalho buscou entender a utilização do EBITDA por profissionais atuantes no mercado profissional brasileiro. O EBITDA, que despontou na década de 1970 nos Estados Unidos da América como uma ferramenta para medir o desempenho operacional de empresas com pesados investimentos em capital intensivo e/ou empresas altamente alavancadas, devido ao seu sucesso rapidamente se disseminou por todo o mundo como uma importante proxy para fluxos de caixa. No entanto, ao longo dos anos a comunidade acadêmica e profissional, assim como órgãos reguladores e normatizadores, levantaram uma série de críticas e ponderações quanto ao seu uso, possivelmente maiores que suas virtudes. Assim, nasceu a motivação deste trabalho: por que e como profissionais tão gabaritados continuam utilizando o EBITDA em seu dia a dia, apesar de suas fragilidades conceituais? Também teve-se a motivação de discutir um tema pouco aprofundado no Brasil. Trata-se de um trabalho de cunho qualitativo e exploratório, realizado através de entrevista com amostra de profissionais selecionados por conveniência e com os dados analisados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo, com suporte do software ATLAS.ti. Os resultados apontaram que os profissionais da amostra continuam utilizando o EBITDA principalmente pela facilidade de uso e de cálculo, além de entenderem ser uma boa medida de desempenho operacional. No entanto, além das diversas críticas tecidas, apontam também que o utilizam devido a falta de uma boa proxy para fluxo de caixa que tenha custo benefício de utilização semelhante. Por fim, identificamos que uma das razões para sua utilização reside no Isomorfismo Mimético, conforme analisado pela Nova Sociologia Institucional, ou Neo-institucionalismo. EBITDA valuation finanças múltiplos BR GAAP IFRS CVM SEC teoria institucional nova sociologia institucional isomorfismo mimético EBITDA valuation finance multiples BR GAAP IFRS CVM SEC institutional theory neo-institutionalism mimetic isomorphism
42	The politicization and depoliticization of ethnicity : a constructivist approach to power-sharing Raffoul, Alexandre 01 1900 (has links) Depuis les années 1990, le partage du pouvoir est l’option favorisée pour la consolidation de la paix dans les sociétés multi-ethniques. Or, une importante littérature a remis en cause sa capacité à consolider la paix sur le long terme. Ce mémoire questionne l’approche de l’ethnicité, des institutions et des relations peuple-élites dans la théorie du partage du pouvoir. Il propose de la réapprocher en se basant sur la théorie constructiviste de l’ethnicité, qui reconnaît la multiplicité et la relative fluidité des identités ethniques, sur une approche néo-institutionnaliste, qui étudie les interactions des institutions avec leur environnement, et en accordant une attention particulière au lien entre peuple et élites. Ce mémoire développe trois arguments principaux. 1–La politisation du clivage ethnique nuit au bon fonctionnement d’un système démocratique, menace la durabilité de la paix et transforme la nature de la violence. Le « succès » du partage du pouvoir peut donc être défini comme la dépolitisation de ce clivage. 2–La politisation du clivage ethnique n’est pas naturelle, mais résulte d’un processus dans lequel les institutions formelles et informelles ainsi que la violence jouent des rôles clés. 3–La dépolitisation du clivage ethnique est possible si des garanties pour représentation politique et la sécurité des catégories ethniques sont mises en place, et si des incitatifs pour la mobilisation d’identités non-ethniques sont apportés. Ces principes peuvent guider l’élaboration d’accords de partage du pouvoir. Ce mémoire théorique est complémenté par une étude de plausibilité qui se focalise sur le cas crucial du Burundi. / Since the 1990s, power-sharing has become the favoured option for peacebuilding in multi-ethnic societies. An important literature has however shed light on the limits of this approach and put into question its capacity to establish sustainable peace. This thesis questions three elements of powersharing theory: its approach of ethnicity, institutions and its elite-bias. It proposes to approach power-sharing theory through the lenses of a constructivist theory of ethnicity, which acknowledges the multiplicity and limited fluidity of ethnic identities; a neo-institutionalist approach of institutions, which pays attention to the interaction of institutions with their environment; and in paying attention to citizen-elite linkages. Three main arguments are developed: 1-The politicization of the ethnic cleavage is problematic since it hinders the good functioning of a democratic system, threaten the sustainability of peace, and transform the nature of violence. “Success” of power-sharing is thus defined as the depoliticization of ethnicity. 2-The politicization of ethnicity is not natural but results from a process in which formal and informal institutions as well as violence pay a key-role. 3-The depoliticization of the ethnic cleavage is, at least theoretically, possible if sufficient guarantees for the political representation and the security of the groups are established, and incentives are provided for the mobilization of non-ethnic identities. These principles may guide the design of power-sharing systems. This “theory proposing” thesis is complemented by a plausibility probe which focuses on the crucial case of Burundi. Ethnicity Ethnicité Power-sharing Constructivism Constructivisme Partage du pouvoir Neo-institutionalism Néo-institutionalisme Burundi Ethnic conflict Conflit ethnique Ethnic violence Violence ethnique
43	L’invention de la gouvernance managériale des associations-gestionnaires du secteur du handicap : une approche sociohistorique de la construction d’un modèle institutionnel / The invention of managerial governance of non profit organisation in the disability sector : a socio-historical approach to building an institutional model Jaubert, Guillaume 08 December 2014 (has links) La thèse a pour but de décrire, dans une perspective sociohistorique, la construction du modèle institutionnel de la grande association-gestionnaire du secteur du handicap. La problématique de la thèse consiste à rendre compte de la genèse et de la stabilisation de la gouvernance de ces associations.Les associations-gestionnaires sont présentées comme des formes d’action collective qui hésitent entre l’idéaltype de l’association et celui de l’entreprise. Deux corpus théoriques concurrents et antagonistes se disputent la légitimité de rendre compte des problèmes de gouvernance. Les théories de l’économie sociale et solidaire considèrent l’association comme un système de gouvernance spécifique opposé à celui de l’entreprise. Pour cette théorie, la gouvernance associative a pour fonction de protéger les associations des logiques économiques et managériales susceptibles de détruire la spécificité des associations. Le second corpus des théories de la gouvernance s’intéresse en priorité à l’entreprise et considère que seules les organisations aux systèmes de gouvernance les plus efficients perdurent. Au regard de ces deux corpus, la thèse a pour objectif de rendre compte de l’émergence de la gouvernance managériale des grandes associations-gestionnaires du secteur du handicap.Du point de vue de la méthode, la thèse s’appuie sur l’étude approfondie de deux études de cas longitudinales. Les cas sélectionnés sont deux grandes associations-gestionnaires - l’ADAPEI du Rhône et l’OVE – l’une et l’autre de grande taille (budgets annuels de l’ordre de 100 ME et regroupant chacune environ 1 500 professionnels). La méthode d’analyse utilisée est celle des « monographies historiques », comportant plusieurs phases : (1) analyse des archives (environ 1 000 pages de notes sur archives), (2) entretiens semi-directifs avec les acteurs internes (43 entretiens semi-directifs, (3) entretiens complémentaires avec les partenaires (55 entretiens semi-directifs avec les pouvoirs publics, d’autres associations, etc.).Ce travail de thèse remet en question la pertinence des thèses de l’économie sociale et solidaire sur la gouvernance associative. Quelles que soient les valeurs originelles défendues par les associations étudiées, ces dernières réalisent leurs projets associatifs en militant pour la création et la gestion d’établissements de prise en charge des personnes handicapées et participent activement à la construction d’un secteur économique à part entière.Les processus de structuration et de professionnalisation du management sont engagés en interne par les instances militantes des associations, lesquels introduisent les premiers outils de gestion. Les directions générales formalisent progressivement la gouvernance des associations et participent à renforcer et à réaffirmer les projets associatifs. L’instauration de principes de gouvernance permet de lutter contre l’appropriation du pouvoir par un petit groupe de bénévoles et de mettre en œuvre une gouvernance cognitive favorisant les débats entre dirigeants autour des grandes orientations stratégiques.L’étude historique de la gouvernance des associations-gestionnaires rompt avec l’opposition défendue par l’économie sociale et solidaire entre un premier « âge d’or » reposant sur une solidarité « héroïque » de quelques militants, et le temps de l’efficience où les associations sont considérées comme de simples organisations économiques sans âme et sans morale. / The purpose of this thesis is to describe, from a sociohistorical perspective, the development of the institutional model of the large managing association in the disability sector. The thesis statement is to report on the origin and stabilisation of the governance in these entities.Managing associations are often depicted as sorts of collective actions hesitating between the ideal model of the association and the ideal model of the enterprise. Two competing and antagonistic theoretical corpora are fighting over the legitimacy of governance issues analysis. The theories of social and solidarity economy regard the association as a specific governance system in contradiction with the corporate one. According to these theories, associative governance aims to protect associations from economic and managerial approaches likely to destroy their specific character. The second corpus of governance theories, primarily focused on the enterprise, considers that the organisations with the most efficient governance systems are the only lasting ones. In the light of these two corpora, the thesis aims to report on the emergence of managerial governance in large managing associations in the disability sector.As regards the method, the thesis is based on a comprehensive analysis of two longitudinal case studies. Two managing associations – the ADAPEI du Rhône and the OVE – both of large size (annual budgets in the range of EUR 100m and gathering each about 150 professionals) – were chosen for the case studies. The analytical method, based on “historical monographs”, included several phases: (1) archive analysis (about 1,000 pages of notes on these archives); (2) semi-structured interviews conducted with internal stakeholders (43 semi-structured interviews); and (3) additional interviews conducted with partners (55 semi-structured interviews with public authorities, other associations, etc.).This thesis calls into question the relevance of the theories of social and solidarity economy when it comes to associative governance. Regardless of the original values promoted by the studied organisations, these achieve their associative projects by advocating for the establishment and management of care facilities for people with disabilities, and they actively participate in the development of a full-fledged economic sector.Management structuring and professionalization processes, deployed internally by the entities’ activist authorities, introduce the first management tools. Managing directors, who gradually formalise the governance of the associations, contribute to the strengthening and reaffirmation of associative projects. The implementation of governance principles offers better protection against the appropriation of power by a small group of volunteers, and it also allows the application of a cognitive governance, which facilitates discussions on major strategic focuses between managers.The historical study of the governance of managing associations breaks with the theories of social and solidarity economy, which support an opposition between a first “golden age”, based on a “heroic” solidarity from a few activists, and the age of efficiency, where associations are considered as simple economical organisations void of heart and morals. Économie sociale et solidaire Gouvernance d’entreprise Théories des organisations, Histoire du management Stratégie Néo-Institutionnalisme Sociologie des organisations Non-Profit sector Governance of non-Profit organisations Corporate governance Theories of organisation History of management Strategy Neo-Institutionalism Organizational sociology 650
44	Hazard Mitigation Element Quality in Coastal Comprehensive Plans in a State with Strong Requirements for Hazard Mitigation Plan Elements Astray-Caneda, Evelio E, III 25 March 2013 (has links) This dissertation examines the quality of hazard mitigation elements in a coastal, hazard prone state. I answer two questions. First, in a state with a strong mandate for hazard mitigation elements in comprehensive plans, does plan quality differ among county governments? Second, if such variation exists, what drives this variation? My research focuses primarily on Florida’s 35 coastal counties, which are all at risk for hurricane and flood hazards, and all fall under Florida’s mandate to have a comprehensive plan that includes a hazard mitigation element. Research methods included document review to rate the hazard mitigation elements of all 35 coastal county plans and subsequent analysis against demographic and hazard history factors. Following this, I conducted an electronic, nationwide survey of planning professionals and academics, informed by interviews of planning leaders in Florida counties. I found that hazard mitigation element quality varied widely among the 35 Florida coastal counties, but were close to a normal distribution. No plans were of exceptionally high quality. Overall, historical hazard effects did not correlate with hazard mitigation element quality, but some demographic variables that are associated with urban populations did. The variance in hazard mitigation element quality indicates that while state law may mandate, and even prescribe, hazard mitigation in local comprehensive plans, not all plans will result in equal, or even adequate, protection for people. Furthermore, the mixed correlations with demographic variables representing social and disaster vulnerability shows that, at least at the county level, vulnerability to hazards does not have a strong effect on hazard mitigation element quality. From a theory perspective, my research is significant because it compares assumptions about vulnerability based on hazard history and demographics to plan quality. The only vulnerability-related variables that appeared to correlate, and at that mildly so, with hazard mitigation element quality, were those typically representing more urban areas. In terms of the theory of Neo-Institutionalism and theories related to learning organizations, my research shows that planning departments appear to have set norms and rules of operating that preclude both significant public involvement and learning from prior hazard events. Disaster Disasters Natural Hazard Natural-Hazards Land Use Planning Land-Use Planning Comprehensive Planning Hurricanes Floods Vulnerability Social Vulnerability Neo-Institutionalism New Institutionalism Florida County Counties Coast Coastal Resilience Urban Planning Mitigation
45	Implementering av mänskliga rättigheter i kommunal förvaltning : En fallstudie av Malmö stad / Implementation of Human Rights in Municipal Administration : A Case Study of the City of Malmö Nielsen, Isabella January 2024 (has links) The purpose of this essay is to examine how human rights are implemented in a municipal context. The essay is based on a case study of the City of Malmö and analyzes the work of the city office, the high school and adult education administration and the service administration in incorporating the city’s human rights policy into their respective operations. To analyze the administrations’ work with human rights, central concepts from neo-institutionalism, Lennart Lundquist’s three aspects for successful implementation and Michael Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats have been applied to the collected material. The collected material mostly consists of regulatory documents such as budget and operational plans, publications from SKR, public documents and previous research and literature on human rights in public administration. In addition, five interviews with civil servants from the various administrations have been conducted. The results show that the committees’ budgets contain political guidelines which are then concretized into focus goals and evaluated using indicators. The goals are specified in relation to indicators that make out an increase compared to previous years. Based on municipal council goals and goals set for the operation, the administrations make various contributions in the form of activities. Based on the interviews it emerged that there was a lack of understanding about how to work rights-based. At the same time, the human rights work was prioritized. With that in mind, my conclusion is that there is a certain inertia within the administrations. Due to reasons such as high workload and a lack of resources the human rights policy has not been able to be fully implemented in the investigated administrations, which reasonably indicates that a de-coupling from higher to lower levels of governance has occurred. / Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur man i en kommunal kontext implementerar mänskliga rättigheter. Uppsatsen baseras på en enfallsstudie av Malmö stad och analyserar stadskontoret, gymnasie- och vuxenutbildningsförvaltningen och serviceförvaltningens arbete med att införliva stadens policy för mänskliga rättigheter i sina respektive verksamheter. För att analysera förvaltningarnas arbete med mänskliga rättigheter har centrala begrepp från nyinstitutionalismen, Lennart Lundquists tre aspekter för lyckad implementering och Michael Lipskys teori om gräsrotsbyråkrater applicerats på det insamlade materialet. Det insamlade materialet består till största del av styrdokument såsom budget- och verksamhetsplaner, publikationer från SKR, offentliga dokument samt tidigare forskning och litteratur om mänskliga rättigheter i offentlig förvaltning. Till detta har fem intervjuer med tjänstepersoner från de olika förvaltningarna genomförts. Resultatet visar att nämndernas budgetar innehåller politiska riktlinjer som sedan konkretiseras i inriktningsmål och utvärderas med hjälp av indikatorer. Målen specificeras i förhållande till indikatorer som handlar om en ökning jämfört med tidigare år. Utifrån kommunfullmäktigemål och mål satta för verksamheten gör förvaltningarna olika insatser i form av aktiviteter. Utifrån intervjuerna framkom att det fanns en avsaknad för förståelse kring hur man arbetar rättighetsbaserat. Samtidigt prioriterades MR-arbetet. Mot bakgrund av detta är min slutsats att det finns en viss tröghet inom förvaltningarna. På grund av anledningar såsom hög arbetsbelastning och en avsaknad av resurser har inte policyn för mänskliga rättigheter kunnat implementeras fullt ut i de undersökta verksamheterna, vilket någorlunda tyder på att en särkoppling från högre till lägre styrningsnivåer skett. Human rights City of Malmö neo-institutionalism implementation street-level bureaucrats SKR rights-based work Mänskliga rättigheter Malmö stad nyinstitutionalism implementering gräsrotsbyråkrater SKR rättighetsbaserat arbete Public Administration Studies Studier av offentlig förvaltning
46	Le rôle de la technologie dans la construction des représentations et des pratiques de la relation client : le cas des progiciels CRM / The role of technology in the construction of customer relationship representations and practices : the case of CRM software packages Grall, Bénédicte 10 November 2014 (has links) Alors que les outils de gestion envahissent les organisations, nous en savons encore très peu sur la manière dont ils agissent sur les habitudes de penser, sur les façons de faire et sur les comportements.Cette thèse s'intéresse au rôle des progiciels CRM dans la construction des représentations et des pratiques de la relation client. Ces progiciels sont étudiés à deux niveaux: celui de l'espace professionnel des Directeurs commerciaux et celui d'une organisation. Tout d'abord, à partir de l'analyse, entre 1990 et 2009, d'une revue professionnelle destinée aux Directeurs commerciaux, nous montrons l'institutionnalisation des progiciels CRM et que cette institutionnalisation s'est accompagnée d'un déplacement des représentations relatives à ce qui est considéré comme une "bonne" gestion de la relation client. Parallèlement, nous avons mené une étude de cas en profondeur sur dix ans, rendant compte de la mise en oeuvre et de l'utilisation d'un progiciel CRM particulier. Nous montrons que la mise en oeuvre d'un progiciel CRM requiert un processus de traduction continu. Puis, nous mettons en évidence plusieurs transformations des pratiques dont certaines n'étaient pas attendues. Les transformations touchent la connaissance client et son partage, ainsi que les modes de contrôle à l'oeuvre dans l'organisation. Au-delà des transformations des pratiques en matière de contrôle hiérarchique, le progiciel CRM a notamment favorisé la mise en place de deux nouveaux modes de contrôle: un contrôle latéral (entre pairs) et un contrôle transversal (entre fonctions). Notre recherche s'inscrit dans la lignée des travaux qui considèrent que les outils de gestion, et plus globalement les artefacts, méritent qu'on leur accorde une attention plus grande. Nous illustrons plus largement dans ce travail l'intérêt d'aborder les processus organisationnels en prenant au sérieux les objets techniques indissociables de l'action. En les prenant comme points d'entrée, il est possible de documenter des phénomènes jusqu'alors peu explorés / Though management tools are more and more present in organizations, little is known on how they act on mindsets, on habits and on behaviours.This dissertation focuses on the role of CRM software packages in the construction of customer relationship representations and practices. These software packages were studied at two different levels: the sales director community and an organization. First of all, a professional journal analysis between 1990 and 2009 was conducted. The results show that CRM software packages were institutionalized and that this institutionalization comes with a shift in the representations of what is considered as "good" customer relationship management. Then, a ten year in-depth case study of the implementation and the use of a CRM software package was conducted.The results show that the implementation of a CRM software package requires a continuous translation process. They also highlight some changes in practices, of which some are unintended. The changes are related to customer knowledge, its sharing and the modes of control inside the firm. Beyond changes in hierarchical control, the CRM software package leads to the implementation of two new modes of control: a lateral control(between peers) and a transversal control (between functions). This research is in line with the literature that considers that more attention has to be paid to management tools, and more generally to artefacts. We illustrate more broadly in this dissertation the interest of addressing organizational processes by taking seriously the technical objects indissociable from action. Taking them as a starting point for research could be a mean to inform currently underexplored phenomena Technologie Outils de gestion Représentations Pratiques Logiques institutionnelles Modes de contrôle ANT (Actor Network Theory) Théories néo-Institutionnalistes CRM software packages Technology Management tools Representations Practices Institutional logics Modes of control ANT (Actor Network Theory) NIT (Neo Institutionalism Theory)
47	Nationalising Culture : The Reorganisation of National Culture in Swedish Cultural Policy 1970–2002 / Kulturens nationalisering : Reorganiseringen av nationell kultur i svensk kulturpolitik 1970-2002 Harding, Tobias January 2007 (has links) By comparative analysis of Swedish cultural policy (including art policy, heritage policy and Church policy) during the Riksdag periods of 1970-73, 1991-94, 1994-98 and 1998-2002 the relationship between cultural policy and the concept of the nation as a homogenous cultural community (defined by either an ethnic or a state-framed concept) is explored. Neoinstitutional analysis of cultural policy as an organisational field is combined with analysis of how the nation is conceived as an imagined community, and what values it strives to uphold to show how these values and concepts are institutionalised in its cultural policy and how this supports the legitimacy of the State as a nation-state. In the early seventies, when a general cultural policy was first established in Sweden, most of its fields were already institutionalised and bound by strong path dependencies, binding art policy to protecting universal aesthetic values within the state-framed nation and heritage policy to ethnic particularism while Church policy stood between universalism and ethnic particularism (which infected the relationship between Church and State). These contradictions were managed by strong borders between the fields. In the early seventies these were overlaid with a general cultural policy focused on universal civil values within the state-framed nation. Since then the conflict between Church and State has been defused and the norms of heritage policy have become closer to those of cultural policy at large by the claim that cultural heritage should be used to uphold civil values (e.g. democracy and tolerance). In the late nineties cultural policy has again become less integrated by new government initiatives with specific goals. Civil universal values remain dominant while concepts of the nation are increasingly multi-ethnic. / Genom jämförande analys av svensk statlig kulturpolitik (inklusive konstpolitik, kulturarvspolitik och religionspolitik) under riksdagsperioderna 1970-73, 1991-94, 1994-98 and 1998-2002 undersöks relationen mellan kulturpolitiken och föreställningen om nationen som en homogen kulturell gemenskap som i vissa fall tänks inkludera dess innevånare och i andra fall en etnisk grupp. Nyinstitutionell analys av kulturpolitik som organisatoriskt fält kombineras med analys av hur nationen konceptualiseras som en föreställd gemenskap och vilka värderingar den upprätthåller för att visa hur dessa värden och koncept institutionaliseras i statens kulturpolitik och hur denna bidrar till att upprätthålla nationalstatens legitimitet. När en enhetlig kulturpolitik etablerades i Sverige i början av 1970-talet var de flesta av de ingående fälten redan låsta i sedan länge etablerade stigberoenden som band konstpolitiken till upprätthållandet av estetiska värden inom ramarna för en med utgångspunkt i staten definierad nation samtidigt som kulturarvspolitiken bundits vid etniskt partikularistiska nationskoncept och kyrkopolitiken slets mellan universalism och etnisk partikularism (vilket komplicerade kyrka-stat-relationen). Motsättningar hanterades genom kraftiga institutionella gränser mellan fälten. Till dessa fogades en övergripande kulturpolitik baserad på universella civila värden inom ramarna för den statsdefinierade nationen. Sedan dess har konflikten mellan kyrka och stat lösts upp och kulturarvspolitiken integrerats i den generella kulturpolitiken bl.a. genom organisatoriska reformer. I slutet av 1990-talet tycks trenden mot en allt mer integrerad kulturpolitik dock ha vänt bl.a. genom direkta men begränsade regeringsinitiativ. Den domineras fortfarande av universella civila värden, men också av alltmer mångetniska föreställningar om nationen. cultural policy Sweden nation-state imagined communities neo-institutionalism path dependency separation of church and state universal values particular values ethnic nations state-framed nations kulturpolitik Sverige nationalstat föreställd gemenskap nyinstitutionalism stigberoende kyrka-stat-frågan universella värden partikulära värden etnisk nationsuppfattning statsinramad nationsuppfattning Kulturarv och kulturproduktion
48	A região metropolitana de São Paulo e o Estatuto da Metrópole : o processo de (re)construção da governança metropolitana Freitas, Reinaldo de January 2018 (has links) Orientador: Prof. Dr. Jeroen Johannes Klink / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão do Território, São Bernardo do Campo, 2018. / A Região Metropolitana de São Paulo é o principal polo de riqueza nacional. Por ela passam os grandes fluxos de capital, de pessoas e de informações do Brasil, em uma rede complexa de bens e serviços. Face às peculiaridades e à escala dos problemas enfrentados pela RMSP, coloca-se a questão da governança em uma região metropolitana tão grande e tão complexa. Em efeito, uma vez que a RMSP não é um ente da federação e, portanto, não possui um governo único e dedicado exclusivamente para sua gestão, surge a necessidade de articulação entre os atores governamentais que têm atribuições e competências sobre seu território. As questões relacionadas aos modelos e formatos institucionais das regiões metropolitanas vêm sendo objeto de debate há décadas, tanto no mundo acadêmico quanto entre os profissionais e gestores que lidam diariamente com os desafios impostos pela gestão destes territórios. Por isso alguns conceitos e ferramentas de análise são fundamentais para a compreensão do fenômeno metropolitano. Ao mesmo tempo, a evolução histórico-legal da governança metropolitana no Brasil e em São Paulo nas últimas décadas mostra uma alternância entre períodos de maior e menor centralização e contribui para o entendimento do cenário atual. Com a aprovação do Estatuto da Metrópole (EM), no início de 2015, a imposição legal ao governo do estado e aos municípios da elaboração conjunta de um Plano de Desenvolvimento Urbano Integrado (PDUI), com a participação da sociedade civil, abrese uma nova fase para a governança metropolitana brasileira e da RMSP. Este processo ainda em curso explicita alguns conflitos e abre novas possibilidades de articulação entre os entes federativos envolvidos. / The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP) is the main centre of national wealth in Brazil. Great flows of capital, people and information, pass through it in a complex network of goods and services. In view of the singularities and scale of the problems faced by the MRSP, the question of governance in such a large and complex metropolitan region is raised. In fact, as the MRSP is not an entity of the federation and therefore does not have a government structure exclusively dedicated to its management, there is a need of articulation among the governmental actors that have attributions and responsibilities over the same territory. Issues related to the institutional models and formats of the metropolitan regions have been the subject of debate for decades, both in the academic world and among professionals and managers who deal daily with the challenges imposed by the management of these territories. For this reason, some concepts and tools of analysis are fundamental for the understanding of the metropolitan phenomenon. At the same time, the historical-legal evolution of metropolitan governance in Brazil and São Paulo in the last decades shows an alternation between periods of greater and lesser centralization and contributes to better understand the current scenario. A new phase of metropolitan governance has been opened up for Brazil and the MRSP with the approval of the Metropolis Statute, in early 2015, and the legal obligation of the joint elaboration of an Integrated Urban Development Plan, with the participation of civil society. This process, which is still underway, has made explicit some conflicts and has created new possibilities for articulation for the federative entities involved. REGIÕES METROPOLITANAS REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE SÃO PAULO GOVERNANÇA METROPOLITANA ESTATUTO DA METRÓPOLE NEO-INSTITUCIONALISMO RELAÇÕES INTERGOVERNAMENTAIS METROPOLITAN REGIONS SÃO PAULO METROPOLITAN REGION METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE METROPOLIS STATUTE INTEGRATED URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN NEO-INSTITUTIONALISM INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
49	IT för hållbart samhälle : Drivkrafter till strategisk Corporate Social Responsibility hos IT-företag i Sverige Brädefors, Maja, Kihlman, Therése January 2020 (has links) Vikten av strategisk Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) har ökat under de senaste åren då intressenter ställer krav på företag att agera ansvarsfullt gentemot samhället. För att möta dessa krav är en fungerande CSR-strategi en nödvändighet, och för att företag på lång sikt ska kunna få ökat förtroende hos sina intressenter är kommunikationen av CSR-arbetet en angelägenhet. Informationsteknologi (IT) kan ha en stor negativ påverkan på samhället, men IT-företagens produkter och tjänster kan vara avgörande verktyg för att lösa många av dagens och morgondagens samhällsproblem. Det finns en brist inom den tidigare forskningen gällande strategisk CSR inom IT-branschen. Därför ämnar denna studie belysa hur företag inom den svenska IT-branschen uppfattar det ansvar de har för samhället och hur de möter sina intressenters krav. Genom att besvara frågeställningarna (1) Vilka är drivkrafterna till det strategiska arbetet med CSR hos IT-företag i Sverige? och (2) Hur kommunicerar IT-företag i Sverige sitt strategiska CSR-arbete till sina intressenter? ämnar uppsatsen därmed besvara vad det är som driver företagen till att arbeta strategiskt med CSR och hur detta arbete kan bidra till värde för dess primära intressenter. Med hjälp av den nyinstitutionella teorin har drivkrafter till det strategiska CSR-arbetet kunnat belysas och för att undersöka hur IT-företag kommunicerar har denna studie använt Morsing och Schultz, tre CSR-kommunikationsstrategier. Denna uppsats har sin utgångspunkt i strategiskt CSR-arbete ur ett ledningsperspektiv och har utförts genom att intervjua CSR- och hållbarhetschefer samt analysera hållbarhetsrapporter från sju erkända aktörer i den svenska IT-branschen. Resultaten har visat att de största drivkrafterna till företagens strategiska CSR-arbete är legitimitet, anseende och konkurrenskraft. Resultaten har även visat att kommunikationen av det strategiska CSR-arbetet styrs av den målgrupp kommunikationen är ämnad för och att företagen tillämpar kommunikationsstrategin därefter. / The importance of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increased in recent years as stakeholders demand companies to act responsibly towards the society. In order to meet these demands, a functioning CSR strategy is a necessity, and in order for companies to gain trust from their stakeholders in the long term, communication of the CSR strategy is essential. Information technology (IT) can have a major negative impact on society, but IT companies' products and services can be crucial tools to solve many of today's and tomorrow's societal problems. There is a shortage in previous research on strategic CSR in the IT sector. Therefore, this study aims to shed light on how companies in the Swedish IT sector perceive the responsibility they have for society and how they meet the demands of their stakeholders. By answering the questions (1) What are the drivers of the strategic work with CSR in IT companies in Sweden? and (2) How do IT companies in Sweden communicate their strategic CSR to their stakeholders?, this paper aims to answer what drives the companies to work strategically with CSR and how this work can add value for its primary stakeholders. By applying the neo-institutional theory, driving forces for strategic CSR have been highlighted, and in order to investigate how IT companies communicate their strategic CSR, this study has applied Morsing and Schultz’ three CSR communication strategies. This paper studies strategic CSR from a management perspective by interviewing Sustainability Managers and analysing Sustainability Reports from seven recognized actors within the swedish IT sector. The results have shown that the main drivers of strategic CSR for IT companies are legitimacy, reputation and competitiveness. Additionally, the results have shown that the communication of the strategic CSR is dependent on the stakeholder group the communication is intended for and that the companies apply the communication strategy thereafter. Corporate Social Responsibility CSR strategic CSR communication drivers IT companies sustainability Neo-institutionalism Corporate Social Responsibility CSR CSR-strategi kommunikation drivkrafter IT-företag hållbarhet nyinstitutionalism Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Communication Studies Kommunikationsvetenskap Business Administration Företagsekonomi Media Studies Medievetenskap
50	Licence to Talk : Sustainability Managers and their Managerial Realities within the Corporate Sustainability Paradox El hajjari Borg, Mounia, Sundberg, Elin January 2021 (has links) While sustainability-dedicated managers and related titles represent a profession that has hardly existed for more than a decade, it is not surprising that the field of research concentrating on these professionals is in itself relatively new. With an increasing demand for corporations to take their social and environmental responsibility, and a corporate sustainability characterized by tension and paradox, we found it of importance to explore the role and entanglements of these professionals. By analysing 17 in-depth interviews with sustainability-dedicated professionals from the private sector in Sweden, our interpretation is that sustainability managers hold the function of selling sustainability, with talk as their main weapon. Expressly, in the intersection between business-case logics and sustainability logics, sustainability managers have to, above all, make a convincing case for sustainability, inwards and outwards. Therefore, they draw dynamically on different narratives which we conceptualise in three roles: the chameleon, the pragmatic, and the nagging manager. Through these roles, we intend to capture the fluidity with which the managers relate and engage with sustainability, and hence we do not mean to ossify a role’s dynamics within a single, static or stereotypical category. We discuss these findings and concepts to the background of previous studies and existing literature. Sustainability managers sustainability-dedicated professionals sustainable development sustainable management corporate sustainability corporate paradox CSR stakeholders governance sustainability strategies communication strategic communication sustainability reporting non-financial disclosure private sector in Sweden paradox approach paradox perspective business case social and environmental responsibility organizations multinationals MNC Nils Brunsson organizational theory organizational hypocrisy neo-institutionalism organizational individuals decision-making action business operations isomorphism institutional logics market logics reporting frameworks GRI global reporting initiative walk the talk change making change agent systemic change behaviour and human resources identity work organizational sociology legitimacy Hållbarhetschefer hållbarhetsrelaterade roller hållbar utveckling hållbar ledning hållbarhet paradox CSR intressenter styrning hållbarhetsstrategier kommunikation strategisk kommunikation hållbarhetsrapportering icke-finansiell information privat sektor i Sverige paradox perspektiv affärsstrategi socialt och miljöansvar organisationer multinationella företag MNC Nils Brunsson organisationsteori organizational hypocrisy hyckleri neo-institutionalism organisatoriska individer individnivå beslutsfattande affärsverksamhet isomorfism institutionell logik marknadslogik rapporteringsramverk GRI global reporting initiativ walk the talk förändringsarbete förändringsagent systemförändring beteende och mänskliga resurser identitetsarbete organisatorisk sociologi legitimitet externa och interna påtryckningar. Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap

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