This thesis explores the state-labour nexus emerging out of the processes through which governing authorities have attempted to maintain or regain political stability and rates of accumulation in Malay(a)sia. Existing studies usefully highlight the extent to which repressive industrial relations legislation and ethnic communalism have weakened the trade union movement and segmented the labour force delivering the relative industrial peace attractive to foreign investors. Some suggest labour’s discontent at this repression has been successfully contained by Malaysia’s relatively strong economic performance. These approaches, however, only partially acknowledge the extent to which labour’s social reproduction under capitalist relations generates political and economic contradictions. After an initial failure to address these contradictions in the early post-colonial era, the Malay-dominated government has since developed avenues through which to deliver economic and cultural concessions in a selective and paternalistic fashion. This economic paternalism has contributed to social stability but has diverted funds from economic development and now runs contrary to structural reforms that seek to address Malaysia’s declining international competitiveness. The transition towards a knowledge-based economy, referred to locally as the k-economy, therefore embodies efforts by the political elite to contain political and societal tensions emerging out of the reform process. This thesis demonstrates and analyses the dynamic, contingent and uneven nature of these efforts as the government seeks to establish new bases of legitimacy more closely linked to household consumption concerns than ethnicity. Despite the relative absence of industrial disputation, labour’s location in Malaysia’s system of capitalism remains a contradictory one. Politically motivated social policies, although under pressure and likely to take new forms, will nonetheless remain pivotal in the attempt to resolve the tensions that threaten accumulation and political stability.

It is generally acknowledged that economic activity continues apace and at the expense of social and ecological integrity while the course of economic development remains far from any approximation of sustainability. Few would dispute the fact that since 1992 little has been accomplished in practical terms to meet Agenda 21 objectives. Many would agree that Agenda 21-inspired local visions and goals have not translated into actual local change in part because of the complex and the multi-faceted nature of the issues involved. Policy work on ecological modernization and sustainability needs to be explicit on the question of scale and the role of governments. The central challenge for policy makers, action takers, and researchers is to determine the appropriate territorial (physical, social, economic, and political) scale at and through which government power needs to be deployed to effect transition to sustainable modes of regulation. This question is particularly relevant given the current discourse on regionalization / globalization. Adopting a 'post-disciplinary' approach this thesis examines how institutional inter-relations shape the outcome of plans to meet policy objectives on sustainable development at the local (municipality) scale. In-depth analysis of interview and secondary data reveals that numerous factors 'regulate' what occurs at local and other scales in relation to sustainable development. This thesis concludes with exploring the policy and future research implications of the findings.

It is generally acknowledged that economic activity continues apace and at the expense of social and ecological integrity while the course of economic development remains far from any approximation of sustainability. Few would dispute the fact that since 1992 little has been accomplished in practical terms to meet Agenda 21 objectives. Many would agree that Agenda 21-inspired local visions and goals have not translated into actual local change in part because of the complex and the multi-faceted nature of the issues involved. Policy work on ecological modernization and sustainability needs to be explicit on the question of scale and the role of governments. The central challenge for policy makers, action takers, and researchers is to determine the appropriate territorial (physical, social, economic, and political) scale at and through which government power needs to be deployed to effect transition to sustainable modes of regulation. This question is particularly relevant given the current discourse on regionalization / globalization. Adopting a 'post-disciplinary' approach this thesis examines how institutional inter-relations shape the outcome of plans to meet policy objectives on sustainable development at the local (municipality) scale. In-depth analysis of interview and secondary data reveals that numerous factors 'regulate' what occurs at local and other scales in relation to sustainable development. This thesis concludes with exploring the policy and future research implications of the findings.

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This thesis uses a staples-based political economy approach, supplemented with regulation theory, to investigate why Canadian governments pursued interventionist or non-interventionist approaches to oil export policies over the years 1949-2002. Three distinct paradigms over this time period are identified and examined at multiple levels of analysis, with a focus on power relations as causal factors. Structural biases of the Canadian economy, namely staples dependence and continentalism, combined with entrenched political cleavages of national identity and federalism to influence the success or failure of paradigms of oil export policy. External crises and power shifts precipitated the creation and destruction of these paradigms. In between these transformations, hegemonies formed based upon social, political, and economic arrangements that mutually supported the negotiation of major structural cleavages. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the role of labour as a catalyst for the development of a new interventionist, anti-continentalist paradigm in oil policy.

Orientador: Paulo Sergio Fracalanza / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T12:12:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Miranda_TatianaConceicaode_M.pdf: 880679 bytes, checksum: e979b463b3705cdbc2208f8552220ef3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O presente trabalho visa apresentar numa perspectiva histórica as principais transformações ocorridas no plano da governança corporativa americana desde o princípio do século XX até os dias de hoje. Cabe mencionar que além dos recursos históricos, a dissertação traz importantes elementos teóricos que contribuem para o melhor entendimento do tema em questão, como é o caso do tratamento que a Teoria da Regulação Francesa dá às transformações ocorridas no capitalismo no curso do século XX e aos fundamentos teóricos oferecidos pela abordagem da Teoria da Agência. Identificam-se dois modelos de gestão empresarial neste período: um que foi típico do capitalismo gerencial até a década de 1970 e um outro que prevalece desde então até os dias de hoje, caracterizado pela centralidade das finanças. No primeiro modelo de governança, as decisões gerenciais voltadas ao crescimento e longo prazo e ao desenvolvimento de inovações assumiam grande importância, ao passo que no segundo, são os desígnios dos acionistas motivados pelo objetivo da maximização do capital aplicado nas firmas que ocupam uma posição primordial / Abstract: The present work aims to present in a historical perspective the main transformations ocurred on American corporate governancefrom the beginning of the century XX until nowadays. In order to accomplish this task, besides the use of historical sources, the dissertation brings important theoretical elements to the best understanding of the issue. In this regard, it is useful to mention the use of Régulation Theory that helps to understand the changes in capitalism during the twentieth century and theoretical foundations offered by Agency Theory's approach Two models of business administration are identified in this period: one that was typical of the managerial capitalism until the decade of 1970 and another that prevails until present time, characterized by the centrality of financial decisions. In the first corporate governance model, the managerial decisions aiming growth in the long run wereassumed to depend extensively on innovations in a Schumpeterian perspective, while in the second, the primary motivation of shareholders tends to move to maximizing the applied capital in the short run / Mestrado / Historia Economica / Mestre em Ciências Econômicas

This project focuses on the renovation of Union Station (VIA Rail) located at 123 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, into a hotel. The purpose of designing a hotel at Union Station will be to link users to the historical and cultural context that the building sits in. The facility will be a place that addresses the needs of VIA Rail’s travellers while creating a location where locals can visit. It will be an establishment unique from other hotels within the vicinity because of its strong literal ties to the rail industry being that it is attached to a train station, serving the clientele of the train station and that it reflects the inherent historical value of the site for Winnipeg. An investigation into Regulation Theory and place and interaction theories, a precedent analysis on typologies related to the one presented and a detailed programme will influence the design of the proposed hotel. / October 2016

La thèse interroge la possibilité d'une régulation unique du secteur des services à la personne tel qu'il a été institutionnellement délimité par le Plan Borloo de 2005. Nous y défendons l'idée que, si le Plan Borloo n'a pas permis de générer un secteur unifié, (au sens que lui donne les approches en termes de régulation sectorielle), les dispositifs visant la construction d'un marché des services à la personne, qu'il a introduit, sont mobilisés à la fois par les nouveaux entrants et par les acteurs historiques du champ, mais de façon non homogène et différente de ce que le Plan anticipait.Il en résulte une situation de double crise (crise des enseignes et crises des associations autorisées) que les conclusions de la thèse permettent d'éclairer. / My thesis tests the existence of a unique sectorial-based regulation for lifestyle and domiciliary care services as it was institutionally delimited and thought by the French Plan Borloo (2005). I defend the idea that the Plan Borloo has not generated a unified sector configuration (as defined by sectorial-based regulation approaches). The Plan Borloo has introduced institutional arrangements that aim to constructing a market for lifestyle and home care services. Theses arrangements are mobilised both by new players and by historical suppliers but non-homogenously and differently than expected by the Plan. The consequence is a double crisis (crisis of the new player “brand names” and crisis of the historical third sector actors) that my conclusion explains.

Aufbauend auf neuen Zugängen zu der Ende der 1970er Jahren entstandenen Regulationstheorie, die die Strukturen und Prozesse kapitalistischer Funktionsweise mit Elementen von Akkumulationsregimen, Regulation und Krise erklärt, werden von der Autorin sowohl der klassische Zugang als auch dessen Adaptionen auf verschiedene andere sozialwissenschaftliche Theorieansätze - wie z. B. dem Neo-Gramscianismus - kritisch hinterfragt. Aus dem Blickwinkel der Entwicklungsforschung und unter Hinzuziehung verschiedener Beispiele gegenwärtiger gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse und emanzipatorischer Experimente in Lateinamerika wird aufgezeigt, dass die Regulationstheorie nach wie vor eine wertvolle Analysegrundlage für den gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus darstellt, jedoch einer Schwerpunktverlagerung bedarf. / By building on new approaches to regulation theory, that emerged in the late 1970s and explained the functioning of capitalist structures and processes through accumulation regimes, regulation, and crisis, the author critically questions the classical approach as well as its adaptation to various other social science theory approaches, such as the neo-Gramscian. From the perspective of development research and by considering different examples of contemporary processes of social transformation and emancipatory experiments in Latin America, the author points out that regulation theory remains a valuable basis for analysing contemporary capitalism; however, a shift of emphasis is necessary.

Dans cette thèse, nous avons cherché à mimer la gouvernance du système de régulation des relations interétatiques de l’Espace croate, dans le respect des propriétés structurelles des systèmes sociaux adaptatifs régis par les lois naturelles, en particulier les principes d’auto-organisation et de complexité. La modélisation de l’organisation des relations interétatiques dans l’Espace croate nous a permis d’étudier la complexité de la gouvernance qui est en jeu entre les parties et le tout, dans les interactions entre trois niveaux de régulation (national, régional, international). Elle nous a amenée aussi à définir les risques systémiques comme des défauts de capacité de régulation des relations interétatiques qui menacent la stabilité (la sécurité) de l’Espace croate. Nous sommes parvenue à la conclusion que la première source de risques est le projet géopolitique et géoéconomique de l’expansion de l’Alliance atlantique vers l’Est eurasiatique et l’absence de projets de politiques extérieures autonomes aux échelles nationale et européenne. La seconde source de risques est l’imbrication inter/transnationale entre les organisations, licites ou illicites : politiques, financières, économiques, juridiques, médiatiques, les services de sécurité et de renseignement selon le projet de mondialisation néolibéral dont est doté le système de régulation des relations interétatiques. L’étude du cas de la transition croate a débouché sur le constat qu’elle a été une émergence de cette imbrication, dont l’objectif principal n’était pas l’indépendance politico-économique nationale, mais une privatisation privilégiée au prix de la précarisation par la dévastation économique et démographique de l’Espace croate et de la mise en position de dépendance du jeune État croate par rapport aux intérêts de cette imbrication inter/transnationale. / In this thesis we have tried to mimic the governance of the Croatian interstate relations regulation system in compliance with the structural properties of adaptive social systems that are directed by natural laws, in particular the principles of self-organization and complexity. Modelling the organization of interstate relations in the Croatian area enabled us to study the complexity of governance expressed in the dynamic between the whole and the parts, in relation to the interactions between three regulation levels (national, regional, international). It also led us to define systemic risk as regulation capacity defect of interstate relations that threaten the stability (security) of the Croatian space. We reached the conclusion that the primary source of risk is the geopolitical and geo-economic project of the expansion of NATO to the Orient, as well as lack of autonomous foreign policies on national and European levels. The second source of risk is the inter / transnational nesting between organizations, legal or illegal: political, financial, economic, media, justice, security and intelligence services according to the neoliberal globalization project that animates the interstate relations regulation system. The case study of the Croatian transition led to the conclusion that it was an emergence of this nesting whose main objective was not national political and economic independence but a privileged privatization which price to pay is economic and demographic devastation, a precarious Croatian contemporary society and the young Croatian state’s position of dependence to the interests of inter / transnational nesting.