Ao se visualizar o mundo organizacional nas últimas duas décadas, nos deparamos com um conjunto de organizações que aparecem em posição de destaque. As empresas de consultoria organizacional despontam como uns dos setores mais dinâmicos do período. Assim sendo, o presente estudo pretende contribuir com o entendimento do processo de crescimento do mercado de consultorias, suas formas de atuação e o relacionamento com as demais organizações, a partir de três pontos de referência. Num primeiro momento, enfocando o mercado de consultoria internacional, procurando identificar suas características, principais mudanças nas últimas décadas e as especificidades do setor no Brasil. Na segunda parte, enfoco as mudanças no espaço empresarial e gerencial no decorrer do período. O conjunto tem a função de ser uma forma de visualizar a atuação dos quadros gerenciais frente às novas configurações e demandas organizacionais, formadas a partir dos anos oitenta, e um contraponto ao ideário oriundo das consultorias. Como outro elemento componente da construção desta pesquisa, busca-se discutir as formas e os mecanismos de difusão de idéias gerências e os diversos setores envolvidos no processo, focalizando a atuação das empresas de consultoria e sua ligação com demais setores do campo de venda de novidades organizacionais, em especial a imprensa de negócios. A escolha pretende contribuir para o entendimento das relações empresas – consultorias, partindo da questão da difusão de novas referências gerenciais. / When visualizing the world organizational in the last two decades, we came across a group of organizations that appear in prominence position. The consulting firms blunt as some of the most dynamic sections of the period. Like this being, the present study intends to contribute with the understanding of the process of growth of the consulting market, your forms of performance and the relationship with the other organizations, starting from three point of reference. In a first moment, focusing the market of international consulting, trying to identify your characteristics, main changes in the last decades and the specificities of the section in Brazil. In the second it leaves, I focus the changes in the managerial and managerial space in elapsing of the period. The group has the function of being a form of visualizing the performance of the pictures managerial front to the new configurations, formed starting from the eighties, and a counterpoint to the ideas originating from of the consulting firms. As other component element of the construction of this research, is looked for to discuss the forms and the mechanisms of diffusion of ideas managements and the several sections involved in the process, focalizing the performance of the consulting firms and your connection with other sections of the field of sale of organizational innovations, especially the press of businesses. The choice intends to contribute for the understanding of the relationships companies – consulting firms, leaving of the subject of the diffusion of new managerial references.

Ao se visualizar o mundo organizacional nas últimas duas décadas, nos deparamos com um conjunto de organizações que aparecem em posição de destaque. As empresas de consultoria organizacional despontam como uns dos setores mais dinâmicos do período. Assim sendo, o presente estudo pretende contribuir com o entendimento do processo de crescimento do mercado de consultorias, suas formas de atuação e o relacionamento com as demais organizações, a partir de três pontos de referência. Num primeiro momento, enfocando o mercado de consultoria internacional, procurando identificar suas características, principais mudanças nas últimas décadas e as especificidades do setor no Brasil. Na segunda parte, enfoco as mudanças no espaço empresarial e gerencial no decorrer do período. O conjunto tem a função de ser uma forma de visualizar a atuação dos quadros gerenciais frente às novas configurações e demandas organizacionais, formadas a partir dos anos oitenta, e um contraponto ao ideário oriundo das consultorias. Como outro elemento componente da construção desta pesquisa, busca-se discutir as formas e os mecanismos de difusão de idéias gerências e os diversos setores envolvidos no processo, focalizando a atuação das empresas de consultoria e sua ligação com demais setores do campo de venda de novidades organizacionais, em especial a imprensa de negócios. A escolha pretende contribuir para o entendimento das relações empresas – consultorias, partindo da questão da difusão de novas referências gerenciais. / When visualizing the world organizational in the last two decades, we came across a group of organizations that appear in prominence position. The consulting firms blunt as some of the most dynamic sections of the period. Like this being, the present study intends to contribute with the understanding of the process of growth of the consulting market, your forms of performance and the relationship with the other organizations, starting from three point of reference. In a first moment, focusing the market of international consulting, trying to identify your characteristics, main changes in the last decades and the specificities of the section in Brazil. In the second it leaves, I focus the changes in the managerial and managerial space in elapsing of the period. The group has the function of being a form of visualizing the performance of the pictures managerial front to the new configurations, formed starting from the eighties, and a counterpoint to the ideas originating from of the consulting firms. As other component element of the construction of this research, is looked for to discuss the forms and the mechanisms of diffusion of ideas managements and the several sections involved in the process, focalizing the performance of the consulting firms and your connection with other sections of the field of sale of organizational innovations, especially the press of businesses. The choice intends to contribute for the understanding of the relationships companies – consulting firms, leaving of the subject of the diffusion of new managerial references.

ABSTRACT Eighty per cent of small companies without a comprehensive crisis plan vanish within two years of suffering a major disaster—a remarkable and ominous statistic. Crises are occurring more often in all organizations, and when they occur, they are leaving a wake of financial, operational, and reputational damage. Why this trend, now? There are five important reasons: 1) a more volatile workplace involving financial, legal, or management issues within the organization; 2) an extreme production mentality often obscuring the conditions under which crises might otherwise be recognized, addressed, or mitigated; 3) enhanced technological platforms for information delivery, such as the Internet, generating a revolving information door thus promoting organizational stress and crisis; 4) fast-paced and invasive journalism practices that eliminate invisibility for decisionmaking or reaction; and, 5) lack of strategic planning for crisis. There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that crises in an organizational environment, whether created by act-of-God or manmade circumstances, have defined and predictable characteristics often relating to communication problems in the discourse community. It is also evident that solutions exist to reduce the incidence and the intensity of crisis within this discourse community. Approaches include organizational vulnerability assessments, messaging strategies, forensic media tactics, and dedicated efforts to build relationships with important stakeholders. Each of these has as its foundation a vigorous strategic communication plan. Crisis plans are necessary in today’s business environment, and effective communication is an essential element of any crisis plan. This dissertation will focus on communication methodology as a means of crisis avoidance and crisis mitigation.

La mondialisation, l’ouverture des marchés et l’avènement de la nouvelle économie favorisent le développement d’un nouveau paysage géo-socio-économique au sein duquel l’entreprise doit se positionner. En réponse à ces mutations, l’internationalisation s’impose comme un élément de développement de l’entreprise. Les PME marocaines nesont plus en mesure d’opérer de façon indépendante. L’ouverture de l’économie les oblige à mieux se préparer pour faire face aux défis de l’avenir. Cette thèse cherche, à étudier l’internationalisation des PME de la région de Fès Meknès, en identifiant les différences et les cohérences entre le processus d’internationalisation et le processus organisationnel.Les analyses statistiques réalisées à l’aide des régressions logistiques multinomiales et par la méthode d’«analyse par enveloppement des données » ont permis de souligner l’importance de la dynamique relationnelle, stratégique et d’innovation dans la dynamique du processus d’internationalisation dans le contexte précis des PME de la région de Fès-Meknès. Dans un essai de taxonomie, les entreprises observées ont été classées en trois catégories : entreprises apathiques, entreprises intermédiaires et entreprises agiles.Ce travail a enfin permis de dégager des conclusions utiles pour promouvoir le réflexe de l’internationalisation auprès des PME marocaines. La thèse a bénéficié du soutien du programme de recherche de la COOPERATION SCIENTIFIQUE MAROCOFRANÇAISE qui a financé une partie des activités de l'équipe impliquée dans ce projet. / Globalization, open markets and the new global economy foster new dimensions of a new geo-socio-economic system. Among these changes, internationalization becomes an essential element of a company development. Therefore, Moroccan SMEs are no longer able to operate independently, as the new global economy obliges them to seek the needsof future challenges. Thus, this thesis focuses on describing the current situation of Moroccan SMEs, which have already reached the international level. It also aims at studying deeply their internationalization process, in order to identify the differences and correspondences between the internationalization and organizational process.The conducted statistical analyses, using the “multinomial logistic regressions” and "Data Envelopment Analysis" method, emphasize the importance of strategic, relational dynamics and innovation within the influence of the internationalization process in the SMEs context of Fez-Meknes region. The taxonomy approach was applied to classify the companies under the study into three categories: apathetic companies, intermediate companies and then agile companies.In fact, the target of this research is to cover and identify the relevant results in order to promote the connotation of the internationalization of the Moroccan SMEs. The thesis has benefited from the support of the Moroccan-French Scientific Cooperation research program which funded a part of the team activities involved in this project.

Importance of leadership in fostering cohesion within organizations has received increased scholarly attention. Researchers have shown that leadership can lose its legitimacy by pursuing unpopular policies or negating the common interest of the group. However, researchers have not yet been able to establish the leadership issues that shaped the 2016 Republican primaries as President Trump's victory (despite not having the support of any living past United States president both Republican and Democrat), was indicative of masses' frustration with the political establishment, and desire for change. Using complex leadership theory as a focal lens, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of members of the Republican Party pertaining to the leadership issues that shaped the outcome of the 2016 Republican primaries. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 12 registered members of the Dallas Texas Republican Party who supported President Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries. Data emanated from the central research question of what leadership issues shaped the outcome of the 2016 Republican primaries, and were transcribed verbatim, inductively coded, and thematically analyzed. Key findings suggest that disconnect between the leadership and membership of the Republican Party, ineffective leadership, and lack of effective communication strategies, were some of the leadership issues that shaped the outcome of the 2016 Republican primaries. The implication for social change for this study is that the Republican Party may benefit from the results of this study by highlighting the importance of effective, responsive, and inclusive leadership in navigating the dynamic challenges faced by the party.

Increasingly, researchers on strategy are turning away from the highly abstracted and de-humanized components that seem to typify the macro approach to strategy. This movement is at least partially brought about by a philosophical recognition that the emergent and unpredictable nature of organizational life is fast exposing the constraints of an approach to strategy that is based on the values of rationality, predictability and control. In this thesis I argue that organizational change in general and the act of strategizing in particular can be thought of as a social, transformative and emergent process as opposed to the overly orderly, rational, formative and/or humanistic views on strategy presented by systemically oriented theorists. I draw on the theory of complex responsive processes of relating as espoused by Stacey, Griffin and Shaw (2000) and specifically on Stacey’s (2003, 2007) substantial contribution to the field of strategic management. By utilizing a reflexive research methodology I describe the arduous social and emergent process of transformation in my practice and identity (observable in subtle changes in disposition, language and assumptions) as I begin to act into the understanding of strategizing as an ongoing, incomplete, social process. In doing this, I am suggesting that the narrated accounts of our shifts in practice due to us knowing differently are important contributions in the process of transforming our theories on and beliefs around strategy. These accounts should not be seen as premature attempts at methodological frameworks, but rather as explorative participation in the emergent transformation of a radical, social approach to strategizing. I engage critically with the notion of strategy-as-practice and suggest a review of the fundamentally rational and formative assumptions still prevalent in the work of researchers like Johnson, Melin and Whittington (2003) and Samra- Fredericks (2003). Whilst acknowledging the role of culturally mediated dispositions in the ongoing transformation of organizations advocated by Chia and Holt (2006) and Chia and MacKay (2007), I argue for the paradoxical and therefore simultaneous occurrence of habitual and mindful actions by people strategizing as opposed to the authors’ suggestion of a predominantly mindless experience of organizational change. Finally, I turn to Stacey’s (2007) question as to why people continue to make long-term forecasts if their usefulness is so obviously limited. Whilst understanding his frustration, I argue that there is value nevertheless in engaging in strategy making albeit not for the rationalist reasons usually stated. In my view the real value of strategising is to be found in two areas: first in the social activity that goes into creating these documents, and second: the documents not only serve as markers in an ongoing process of strategising; they also give us a way of ‘going on’ and taking the next step.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:53:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KODA_Carlos_2013.pdf: 1506195 bytes, checksum: 5079eec95e7f3cc5d10bf1ac851ce798 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-03 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This research is based on the concepts of the social structure theory by Pierre Bourdieu and total production management, which pretends to analyze the process of social reproduction during the application of the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) in a cable manufacturing company following the action research steps. The results shows how the process of social reproduction occurs and the impact of the OEE data, including specific information about the inside rules and the strategies of the involved agents to maintain or look for a new position in the organization. The other part of the results shows how the opportunities of improvements have been identified and the increase of the OEE at the extruder process as a consequence of the execution of the action plan, which is based on the information provided from this tool. / Esta pesquisa, elaborada a partir dos conceitos da teoria estruturalista construtivista social de Pierre Bourdieu e da manutenção produtiva total, tem como objeto o estudo do processo de reprodução social mediante a aplicação do OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) em uma empresa de cabos de telecomunicações. O estudo consiste em analisar a dinâmica organizacional no processo de implementação e utilização de uma ferramenta de medição de eficiência na fábrica de cabos ópticos por meio da pesquisa-ação. Os resultados mostram como ocorrem as relações de reprodução social e o impacto da utilização do OEE, incluindo as regras de conduta internas e as estratégias dos agentes para manter ou melhorar a sua posição no ambiente investigado. A outra parte da pesquisa mostra como foram identificadas oportunidades de melhoria e o aumento do OEE do processo investigado.

Les Centres communaux d’Action sociale (CCAS), outils principaux des politiques de solidarité mises en œuvre par les municipalités, dispensent ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler une "aide facultative", en regard de l’aide traditionnelle des Conseils départementaux, chefs de file en ce domaine sur leurs territoires. À Besançon, depuis 1972, le CCAS est reconnu comme très en avance et très innovant. Mais, depuis quelques années, le sentiment d’un amenuisement de son champ d’action et de son influence se fait sentir : c’est dans ce contexte d’incertitude que l’institution a fait vœu de disposer d’un travail d’analyse et d’expertise prenant appui sur la sociologie des politiques sociales. L’organisation interne (les relations entre directions, les liens entre élus et techniciens…) et l’environnement externe (les rapports avec la mairie, le département, et l’ensemble des partenaires) posent la question de la place de l’intervention communale, en termes de prérogatives et de frontières. En partant de l’exemple bisontin, un regard plus général permet de mettre au jour les similitudes et les contrastes de structures comparables. Cette étude, appuyée par un financement CIFRE et reposant sur un paradigme interactionniste, allie à la fois approche technique et point de vue scientifique : elle propose des préconisations pratiques et des perspectives théoriques. / The Municipal Centers of Social Action (MCSA), main tools implemented and used by municipalities in promoting solidary policies, is providing what is well known under the name of a "facultative assistance", regarding the traditional help of Departmental councils, the leader in this domain on their territories. In Besançon, since 1972, the MCSA is recognize as well advanced and innovative. However, in the last couple of years, the MCSA usage has declined and its influence has been increasing. In this context of doubt, the institution has made the wish to provide the framework for the analysis and an expertise expanding on the sociology of social policies. The nature of the working relationships within the internal organization (relationships between the team Management, relationships between the elected officials and the technicians…) and the external environment (Relationships with the City, the Department, and the whole partner’s assembly), raise the question about the status of the municipal intervention, regarding the prerogatives and the boundaries. Referring to Bisontin’s example, a general vision allows enlightening of the similarities and the contrasts of comparable structures. This study, approved by an "ICFR" (Industrial Convention of Formation by the Research), and laying on an interactional paradigm, allies at the same time technical approach and scientific point of view: it suggests practical recommendations and theoretical perspectives.

The study of how social organizations work, change and develop is central to sociology and to our understanding of the social world and its transformations. At the same time, the underlying principles of organizational dynamics are extremely difficult to investigate. This is partly due to the difficulties of tracking organizations, individuals and their interactions over relatively long periods of time. But it is also due to limitations in the kinds of quantitative methods used to tackle these questions, which are for the most part based on regression analysis. This thesis seeks to improve our understanding of social organizing by using models to explore and describe the logics of the structures and mechanisms underlying organizational change. Particular emphasis is given to the modeling process, the use of new concepts and analogies, and the application of interdisciplinary methods to get new insights into classical sociological questions. The thesis consists of an introductory part and five studies (I-V). Using Swedish longitudinal data on employment in the Stockholm Region, the studies tackle different dimensions of organizational dynamics, from organizational structures and growth processes to labor mobility and employment trajectories. The introductory chapters contextualize the studies by providing an overview of theories, concepts and quantitative methods that are relevant for the modeling of organizational dynamics.  The five studies look into various aspects of organizational dynamics with the help of complementary data representations and non-traditional quantitative methods. Study I analyzes organizational growth statistics for different sectors and industries. The typically observed heavy-tailed statistical patterns for the size and growth rate distributions are broken down into a superposition of interorganizational movements. Study II models interorganizational movements as a labor flow network. Organizations tend to be more tightly linked if they belong to the same ownership sector. Additionally, public organizations have a more stable connection structure. Study III uses a similarity-based method called homogeneity analysis to map out the social space of large organizations in the Stockholm Region. A social distance is then derived within this space, and we find that the interorganizational movements analyzed in Studies I and II take place more often between organizations that are closer in social space and in the same network community. Study IV presents an approach to organizational dynamics based on sequences of employment states. Evidence for a positive feedback mechanism is found for large and highly sequence-diverse public organizations. Finally, Study V features an agent-based model where we simulate a social influence mechanism for organizational membership dynamics. We introduce a parameter analogous to a physical temperature to model contextual influence, and the familiar growth distributions are recovered as an intermediate case between extreme parameter values. The thesis as a whole provides suggestions for a more process-oriented modeling approach to social organizing that gives a more prominent role to the logics of organizational change. Finally, the series of methodological tools discussed can be useful for the analysis of many other social processes and more broadly for the development of quantitative sociological methods. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.</p><p> </p>