Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:22:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Hummel Mungai.pdf: 4386470 bytes, checksum: ca219ba135089a85d3f55cf4179b89b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-04 / The research deals with possibilities of developing urban projects in São Paulo through public-private partnerships, drawing a parallel with those implemented in the socioeconomic context of the central countries. When browsing for some urban instruments used by various municipal administrations of São Paulo since the late eighties, which are based on public-private partnerships and that led to the consolidation of the district of Vila Olímpia in an important business center of the capital, the work questions this mode of producing the city only by normative view regarding the construction of urban spaces. Thus, the impacts on that area are evaluated here. Then, when analyzing a project developed by the private sector for urban improvements in the neighborhood, the work provides insight into the positioning of the business elites in urban governance and its role in relation to changes in urban form that have been occurring in the region. / A pesquisa trata de possibilidades de desenvolvimento de projetos urbanos em São Paulo por meio das Parcerias Público-Privadas, traçando um paralelo com aqueles implementados no contexto socioeconômico dos países centrais. Ao percorrer por alguns instrumentos urbanísticos aplicados por diversas gestões municipais paulistanas desde o final da década de 1980, que são baseados em Parcerias Público-Privadas e que levaram à consolidação do bairro da Vila Olímpia em um importante centro de negócios da capital, o trabalho questiona o modo de produzir a cidade apenas pela visão normativa em relação à construção de espaços urbanos. Sendo assim, os impactos causados sobre aquele território também são aqui avaliados. Em seguida, ao analisar um projeto elaborado pelo setor privado para melhorias urbanas no bairro, o trabalho oferece uma visão sobre o posicionamento das elites empresariais na governança urbana e sua atuação nas transformações em relação à forma urbana que vêm ocorrendo na região.

Mental illness is not only the leading cause of disability among adults, but there is also an emerging public health crisis in childhood mental illness. A majority of parents do not recognize symptoms of psychological disorder in their children, and current policies and programs for mental health service delivery are not sufficiently responsive to the early help-seeking dynamics of families. Using a concurrent mixed methods design, this study explored how parents in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado learned to recognize their child's mental illness. Phenomenological interviews, augmented by poetic inquiry and quantitative measurements, were used to discover factors that inhibited or enhanced five mothers' recognitions. These factors were then evaluated using a frequency distribution analysis and a rank-order correlation. The phenomenon of recognition was, for these mothers, a process of waiting to hear that 'normal' had stopped, wherein they miscategorized symptoms as normal behaviors in a passing developmental phase. Prior experience with mental illness appeared to significantly decrease both the length of time and the level of distress necessary for recognition. Ultimately, recognition did not occur until someone in their social network validated their concerns and provided explicit confirmation, which galvanized them to seek treatment. Governance network collaborations can facilitate positive social change by standardizing guidance on how to differentiate symptoms of a disorder from normal childhood development. Public policies and programs such as universal mental health screening, mental health literacy, and more supportive and responsive school policies can foster dialogue for parental recognition in Colorado and throughout the country.

Cette thèse propose une étude de la transformation de l’État et de l’exercice du pouvoir à partir de l’observation des instruments politiques utilisés pour construire les grandes centrales solaires marocaines. Ce travail s’appuie sur deux longues observations participantes, consistant en une double ethnographie du développement dans l’institution publique bénéficiaire de l’aide ainsi que dans les institutions qui contrôlent cette aide. Je mobilise simultanément la sociologie de l’action publique et les études en sciences de gestion et en sociologie économique sur la finance et les Partenariats Public-Privé. La contractualisation des Partenariats Public-Privé semble devenir un nouveau mode d’action publique pour l’aide au développement. Or, le choix d’un type de contrat, d’un type de mode de financement, sont également des choix politiques. Les politiques euro-méditerranéennes pour les énergies renouvelables étudiées dans cette thèse illustrent un glissement des politiques publiques stato-centrées vers une action publique multiacteurs. L’analyse de la fabrication des outils et instruments du Plan Solaire Méditerranéen met en lumière un mode de gouvernance basé sur le consensus et sur l’expertification. La charpente de l’action publique pour les énergies renouvelables au Maroc est édifiée autant par les acteurs privés que publics et entraîne la diffusion des formalités issues des grandes entreprises et du marché financier. Sous l’impulsion de ces acteurs, le secteur de l’énergie solaire du Maroc s’institutionnalise à partir des années 2009 en s’inscrivant dans un processus de bureaucratisation néolibérale. Lors de cette institutionnalisation, les bailleurs de fonds et les consortiums privés véhiculent, à travers leurs expertises et leur participation à l’action publique, plusieurs instruments politiques. Cette instrumentation passe par les appels d’offres concurrentiels et internationaux, les prêts d’aide au développement économique ou issus des fonds de lutte contre le changement climatique, et enfin les solutions contractuelles comme le Partenariat Public-Privé. La synergie entre les instruments de l’aide au développement et les politiques pour les énergies renouvelables entraîne une transformation des modes de gouvernement et du rôle de l’État. L’utilisation de ces instruments de l’aide au développement et de l’expertise privée permet la régulation et le contrôle bureaucratique, au sens wébérien, du marché de l’énergie solaire. La politique de transition énergétique marocaine participe au renforcement des monopoles dans le secteur de l’énergie marocain et à sa centralisation. / This thesis proposes a study of State transformation and of the exercise of power from the observation of political instruments used to develop the big Moroccan solar power plants. This work is based on two long participative observations, which consist of a double ethnography of development in the public institution beneficiary of the aid as well as in the institutions that control this aid. I summon up both public policy sociology and studies in management and in economic sociology on finance and Public - Private Partnerships. The Public – Private Partnership contractualisation seems to become a new mode of public policy in favour of aid to development. Besides, the choice of a type of contract, of a type of mode of financing, are political choices as well. Euro-Mediterranean policies for the renewable energy studied in this thesis illustrate a shift of state-centered public policies towards a multilevel public policy. The analysis of the making of tools and instruments of the Mediterranean Solar Plan highlights a mode of governance based on consensus and expertification. The framing of the public policy for renewable energy in Morocco is erected by private and public actors and leads to the diffusion of the formalities coming from big companies and from the financial market.Compelled by these actors, the Moroccan solar energy market has been institutionalized since 2009, in keeping with a process of neoliberal bureaucratization. In this institutionnalisation, international financial institutions and private consortiums convey, through their expertise and their participation to public policy, many political instruments. This instrumentalization goes through competitive and international calls for tender, loans for economic development aids, or climate change funds, and at last contractual solutions such as Public-Private Partnership. The synergy between aid to development instruments and the policies in favour of renewable energylead to a transformation of the modes of government and of the role of State. The use of these aids to development and private expertise instruments allows bureaucratic regulation and control, as Weber says, of the solar energy market. The Moroccan energetic transition policy takes part to the strengthening of monopolies in Moroccan energy and to its centralization.

Inom företag sker en mängd olika logistiska aktiviteter. Det kan bland annat handla om inköp av råmaterial, produktion, materialhantering, lagerhållning eller distribution av varor till slutkund. Producerande företag måste ta ställning till flera olika alternativa logistiklösningar för att genomföra dessa aktiviteter. Ett av alternativen som företag kan använda sig utav är outsourcing. Företag kan förutom att utföra aktiviteter inom företaget även välja att ta beslutet att outsourca vilket innebär att vissa av deras aktiviteter läggas över på externa parter som överlåts ett visst ansvar. Outsourcing kan ske i olika grad samt utformas på olika sätt. När ett företag väljer att outsourca en eller flera logistikfunktioner uppstår ett partnerskap mellan det egna företag och företaget som erbjuder tjänsten. Syftet med rapporten är att skapa en djupare förståelse över hur samarbetet kan se ut mellan ett producerande företag som outsourcar delar av sin distribution och företaget som erbjuder tjänsten. Avsikten är att genomföra en jämförelse mellan vad litteraturen samt vad företag i praktiken visar samt utifrån det genomföra en analys. Intervjustudien som genomförs ska visa hur samarbeten utformas mellan de intervjuade företagen och deras outsourcingleverantörer för att sedan kunna beskriva vilka typer av samarbeten som kan utformas vid dessa typer av outsourcingrelationer. Resultatet av rapporten visar att företag som outsourcar baserar sitt val av leverantör på finansiell stabilitet, att leverantören har rätt utrustning och kapacitet, speciell kunskap om det gods som ska hanteras, hållbarhet, kostnad, kvalitetskrav (leveranssäkerhet) samt ryktet som leverantören har.  De vanligast förekommande samarbetet är det som sker på armlängdsavstånd/ kostnadsstadiet. Det förekommer även samarbeten i form av partnerskap på grundnivå och semi-utvecklat partnerskap/ resursstadiet. Det finns även fulltutvecklat partnerskap/ partnerskapsstadiet, Joint ventures/ partnerskapsstadiet samt vertikal integration men dessa går inte att uppnå vid outsourcing av enbart transport och/eller lager.  Faktorer som bidrar till att samarbeten blir lyckade är tydligt utformade kontrakt, tydlig och öppen kommunikation, bygga partnerskap, tydliga mått och en kontinuerlig utvärdering av leverantörens prestation. / Within companies, a variety of logistic activities take place. This may include purchasing raw materials, production, material handling, warehousing or distribution of goods to customers. Producing companies must take a stand on several different alternative logistics solutions to carry out these activities. One of the options that companies can use is outsourcing. Companies can, in addition to carrying out activities within the company, also choose to take the decision to outsource, which means that some of their activities are transferred to external parties who are assigned a certain responsibility. Outsourcing can take place in varying degrees and be designed in different ways. When a company chooses to outsource one or more logistics functions, a partnership arises between the company that is outsourcing and the company that offers the service. The purpose of the report is to develop a deeper understanding of how the collaboration can look between a producing company that outsources parts of its distribution and the company that offers the service. The intention of the study is to make a comparison between what the literature and what Swedish companies indicate and then conduct an analysis. The interview study conducted will show how collaboration is formed between the interviewed companies and their outsourcing suppliers in order to be able to describe what types of collaborations can be designed in these types of outsourcing relationships. The result of the report indicates that companies that outsource base their choice of supplier on financial stability, that the supplier has the right equipment and capacity, special knowledge of the goods that will be distributed, sustainability, cost, quality requirements (delivery reliability) and the reputation of the supplier. The most common cooperation is that of arm's length distance/ cost stage. There are also collaborations in the form of partnerships at the basic level and the semi-developed partnership/ resource stage. There is also a fully developed partnership/ partnership stage, the joint ventures/ partnership stage and vertical integration, but these cannot be achieved when outsourcing only transport and/or warehouse functions. Factors that enables a successful collaboration are clearly designed contracts, clear and open communication, building partnerships, clear measures, and continuous evaluation of vendor performance.

Local festivals and cultural events, signage and streetscape improvements, and regional marketing efforts indicate that tourism is present in some Business Improvement Areas (BIAs). However, the extent and form of this relationship has never before been examined in the North America context. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the involvement of Ontario’s BIAs in tourism. It reports on the findings of a 2008 province-wide survey of approximately 260 BIAs, touching on a variety of topics, including: the proportion of BIAs that are involved in tourism, the factors prompting them to attract tourists, the ways that they promote themselves to tourists, the types of tourism experiences that they offer, the positive and negative impacts of their tourism efforts, and whether they partner with other stakeholders in tourism promotion efforts. The data are then used to propose a typology of Business Improvement Areas showing differing levels and forms of tourism involvement. The thesis concludes by considering four case studies of successful tourism-oriented BIAs (Downtown Kingston, Downtown London, Downtown Yonge and Creemore), which are examined to identify the characteristics that have led to their success. The findings show that the majority of Ontario’s Business Improvement Areas are involved in tourism, using diverse methods to promote themselves as destinations. Their tourism offering usually includes special events and festivals, but can also involve investments in other attractions. Although BIAs are aware of both positive and negative impacts from tourism, tourism management efforts are uncommon. Seven characteristics of successful tourism-oriented BIAs are identified: innovation, self-awareness, appearance, attractions, partnerships, experiences, and planning. BIAs that strongly manifest these characteristics are believed to be likely candidates to benefit from the tourism industry.

Local festivals and cultural events, signage and streetscape improvements, and regional marketing efforts indicate that tourism is present in some Business Improvement Areas (BIAs). However, the extent and form of this relationship has never before been examined in the North America context. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the involvement of Ontario’s BIAs in tourism. It reports on the findings of a 2008 province-wide survey of approximately 260 BIAs, touching on a variety of topics, including: the proportion of BIAs that are involved in tourism, the factors prompting them to attract tourists, the ways that they promote themselves to tourists, the types of tourism experiences that they offer, the positive and negative impacts of their tourism efforts, and whether they partner with other stakeholders in tourism promotion efforts. The data are then used to propose a typology of Business Improvement Areas showing differing levels and forms of tourism involvement. The thesis concludes by considering four case studies of successful tourism-oriented BIAs (Downtown Kingston, Downtown London, Downtown Yonge and Creemore), which are examined to identify the characteristics that have led to their success. The findings show that the majority of Ontario’s Business Improvement Areas are involved in tourism, using diverse methods to promote themselves as destinations. Their tourism offering usually includes special events and festivals, but can also involve investments in other attractions. Although BIAs are aware of both positive and negative impacts from tourism, tourism management efforts are uncommon. Seven characteristics of successful tourism-oriented BIAs are identified: innovation, self-awareness, appearance, attractions, partnerships, experiences, and planning. BIAs that strongly manifest these characteristics are believed to be likely candidates to benefit from the tourism industry.

La concurrence entre professionnels pour la délivrance de leurs services dans l'économie est très importante. D'une part, la société de professionnels désire protéger ses intérêts économiques et, d'autre part, le professionnel a le droit de gagner sa vie. C'est ainsi que les clauses de non-concurrence visent à protéger ces deux intérêts divergents. La jurisprudence portant sur les clauses de non-concurrence en matière de contrats de travail et de contrats de vente d'entreprise est bien établie. Il s'agit de déterminer si la clause est raisonnable selon les critères de la limitation dans le temps et dans l'espace. Cependant, tant la jurisprudence que la doctrine s'est très peu penchée sur le défi particulier que présente les clauses de non-concurrence dans les sociétés de professionnels. En effet, l'ordre public se veut plus exigeant vis-à-vis les professionnels étant donné que ces derniers sont régis par codes de déontologie qui prévoient le droit du public de choisir un professionnel. Dans le cas des avocats, ce droit se trouve également dans les chartes canadiennes et québécoises. Il s'agit donc de facteurs qui s'appliquent uniquement aux professionnels. Notre objectif est de proposer un cadre d'analyse propre aux clauses de non-concurrence dans les sociétés de professionnels qui privilégient la liberté contractuelle des professionnels, particulièrement à la lumière de la définition de la notion d'entreprise prévue au Code civil du Québec depuis 1994. Les tribunaux reconnaissent que les clauses de non-concurrence consenties entre professionnels d'égale valeur sont valides. Ces clauses doivent être raisonnables afin de respecter l'ordre public. Dans le cas particulier des professionnels, les tribunaux doivent tenir compte du droit du public de choisir son professionnel. Ce droit est tributaire de la relation intuitu personae qui existe entre le professionnel et son client. Afin de respecter ce droit, les tribunaux ont été réticents à ordonner des injonctions contre le professionnel-quittant et ont plutôt choisi de lui imposer des sanctions économiques. En donnant effet aux clauses pénales contre le professionnel-quittant, les intérêts économiques de la société de professionnels sont protégés et l'équilibre entre les droits du professionnel et de l'entreprise rétabli. Finalement, qu'ils soient salariés ou associés, les professionnels ont un devoir de loyauté envers leur employeur. Cette obligation est prévue à l'article 2088 du Code civil du Québec. À ce devoir s'ajoute le devoir de tenir le secret professionnel prévu dans les codes de déontologie qui régissent les professionnels de sorte que le professionnel a non seulement un devoir de loyauté envers son employeur mais aussi un devoir de loyauté vis-à-vis son client. Le statut particulier du professionnel dans le marché du travail est donc le résultat des obligations qui lui sont imposées par la déontologie professionnelle. / Professional parlnerships offer services to the public and in the services industry the most valuable asset to an enterprise is its clients. Due to the nature of competition in the marketplace, an entreprise wishes to protect its most valuable asset. Professionals have a right to work and wish to protect their clients. Non-competition clauses are thus designed to strike a balance between the deparling professional's right to work and the parlnership's right to protect its clients. Although the caselaw in matters of restrictive convenants as they apply to employment contracts and sales of enterprises is well-established, more consideration is needed in matters relating to non-competition clauses between professionals and the parlnerships in which they worked given the Iimited caselaw and doctrine on the subject. In fact, non-competition clauses as they relate to professionals must take into account factors such as the public's right to choose a professional provided for in specifie Codes of Ethics and, with respect to attorneys, present in the Canadian and Quebec Charlers. Our objective is to bring to light these factors as they apply to professionais and professional parlnerships. Our analysis emphasizes freedom to contract between professionals given the commercial nature of professional services confirmed by the Civil Code of Quebec in 1994 in its definition of the notion of enterprise. The caselaw demonstrates that Courts have generally recognized that non-competition clauses entered into by competent professionals are valid insofar as they are reasonable. The clauses must therefore respect the traditional criteria of limitation in time and space. However, public order considerations with respect to professionals dictate that clients have a right to choose their professionals given the intimate nature that often characterizes professional client relationships. In order to respect this right Courts have been reluctant to impose injunctions on the professionals that compete for the clients with their former firm. However, the balance between the interests of the professional partnership and those of the professional and the client is struck by enforcing penal clauses against the departing professional thus imposing monetary sanctions that serve to protect the economic interests of the partnership. Final/y, the obligation of loyalty and trust that an employee owes to his employer provided for in article 2088 of the Quebec Civil Code also applies to professionals whether they are salaried or partners in the partnership. In addition, all professionals are subject to the obligations contained in their respective Code of Ethics such as professional secrecy. Therefore, the obligation of loyaltyand trust (fiduciary obligations) of the professional extend not only to the employer but to the client thus confirming the unique status of professionals in the workplace. / "Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître en droit (LL.M.)"

Ce mémoire est une étude de cas dans le domaine des politiques publiques, et porte sur la lutte à la pauvreté et à l’exclusion sociale en Irlande. L’Irlande a réussi l’exploit de diminuer de façon spectaculaire la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale durant la décennie 1997-2006 et bien que son développement économique fut sans doute tout aussi spectaculaire, celui-ci n’explique pas entièrement ce résultat, tout comme il ne rend pas compte de l’engagement politique qui a amené le gouvernement irlandais à faire de la réduction de la pauvreté un objectif important. Le mémoire cherche à définir et à identifier les facteurs qui ont contribué à l’émergence de cette orientation politique. Comme il s’agit d’une étude de cas, la démarche de recherche se situe dans l’horizon des méthodes qualitatives. La variable dépendante est donc la conception et la mise en œuvre d’un nouvel ensemble de politiques sociales, centrées sur la réduction de la pauvreté. L’explication proposée met l’accent sur les idées, les intérêts et les institutions. / This master thesis is a case study in the field of public policies and deals with policies to fight against the poverty and social exclusion. Ireland succeeded in diminishing poverty and social exclusion during the 1997-2006 decade and even though if economic development was also spectacular, it did not explain completely this result, neither could it explain the political engagement that brought the Irish government to make the reduction of the poverty a major objective. This thesis tries to define and identify the factors that have contributed to the emergence of this political orientation. As it is a case study, the research mostly qualitative. The dependant variable is then the conception and the implementation of a new set of social policies, centered on poverty reduction. The proposed explanation places the emphasis on ideas, interests and institutions.

Det här är en fallstudie av hur integrationspolitiska mål översätts tvärsektoriellt inom den regionala utvecklingspolitiken: i en rad olika sammanhang på nationell, regional och kommunal nivå. I studien beskrivs och analyseras hur idén om integration genom mainstreaming översätts till den regionala utvecklingspolitiken, för att fortsätta med en fördjupad analys av det regionala tillväxtpartnerskapet i Östergötland samt olika lokala kommunala tillväxtpartnerskap. Avslutningsvis jämförs resultaten från Östergötland med utvecklingen i landets övriga 20 regionala tillväxtpartnerskap. I avhandlingen visas att det fanns höga ambitioner om att genomföra en mainstreaming, bland annat med hjälp av nätverksstyrning. Så skedde också i olika målsättningstexter och beslut. Men när dessa målsättningar och beslut skulle omvandlas till aktiviteter, fullföljdes inte mainstreamingen. Man avstod helt från att göra något inriktat mot invandrare eller så genomfördes olika former av säråtgärder för invandrare. Avhandlingen visar dock på stora skillnader mellan olika aktörer och sammanhang. I vissa fall var man nära på att uppfylla kraven på en mainstreaming, i andra valde man att inte försöka. I avhandlingen visas också att hinder för genomförandet varit föreställningar om invandrare och invandrarfrågor som ej bidragande i ekonomiska tillväxtsammanhang, brist på styrningskompetens och resurser samt ett bristande kunnande om hur man skulle mainstreama integration. / This is a case study of how the Swedish migrant policy is cross-sectorally translated into the regional development policy area: at national, regional and municipal levels. The study describes and analyzes first how the idea of integration through mainstreaming is translated into the regional development policy. Secondly it conducts an in-depth analysis of the Regional Growth Partnership in the region of Östergötland as well as various municipality based growth partnerships. Finally, the results are compared with the development of other Regional Growth Partnerships (21 in total) in Sweden. The thesis shows that there were high ambitions for implementing the idea of mainstreaming integration, including the use of network governance. This also was reflected in other objectives and decisions. But when these goals and decisions were to be transformed into activities, the mainstreaming they were not completed. All actors refrained from implementing the proposed mainstreaming model; but some did implement various forms of side-stream measures for migrants. The thesis reveals large differences between different actors and contexts. In some cases, they were close to meeting the requirements of mainstreaming, in others they chose not to try at all. The thesis also shows that hindrances to translations were negatively related to the categorizations of immigrants, lack of management skills and resources and a lack of knowledge about how to mainstream integration of immigrants.

As a full-time Professor of Mathematics Education, as well as a part-time eighth grade (13 and 14 year olds) mathematics teacher, I have the opportunity to experience the teaching profession from “both sides of the fence.” My university courses are enhanced by my work in the field, while my eighth graders’ learning is strengthened by educational principles studied at the university. In this paper (and presentation), I will explain this partnership and the benefits to both audiences.