Em um ambiente extremamente competitivo, baseado na globalização dos mercados, o Brasil reforça sua vocação no desenvolvimento dos agronegócios, como meio de melhor se inserir na economia mundial. Como as empresas brasileiras, ligadas a este setor, poderão continuar competindo, diante da atração de capitais e empresas internacionais em seus mercados tradicionais ? Parte-se da premissa que uma das possibilidades refere-se à formação de alianças estratégicas, do tipo consórcios de exportação, garantindo maiores oportunidades de sobrevivência, diante deste cenário. O estudo identifica quais os fatores estão presentes na formação destas alianças, a partir do acompanhamento da constituição de consórcios de exportação na cadeia de produção de suínos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Definido como um estudo exploratório descritivo combinado, baseado em estudo de caso, o trabalho consistiu na revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa documental a fontes primárias, entrevistas de campo e pesquisa-ação. Analisando os resultados obtidos pela cadeia de produção de suínos, nos últimos anos, percebe-se que o desempenho do setor é bastante satisfatório no RS, principalmente com o aporte de investimentos internacionais recentes, utilizados na aquisição de empresas locais, tradicionalmente produtoras no Estado. Sendo assim, a pressão competitiva vem aumentando paulatinamente sobre as empresas nacionais remanescentes, sobretudo para as cooperativas de produção que, pouco a pouco, vêm perdendo posições nos mercados. A grande limitação do estudo foi não poder acompanhar a constituição formal do consórcio agroexportador, em função do ressurgimento da Febre Aftosa que impediu o fluxo internacional de carne suína e bovina procedente do Estado. Enfim, apesar dos entraves encontrados, verifica-se que a promoção dos consórcios poderá elevar a competitividade e a autonomia dos agronegócios do Brasil e do Rio Grande do Sul, principalmente naquelas cadeias de produção, cujos fatores críticos de sucesso são mais favoráveis. / Inside the competitive environment based on the market globalization, Brazil reinforces its capacity to develop agribusiness, as a better way to get in the world economy. But, how the Brazilian’s Agrifirms will be competitive in the future, when the international assets are arriving in its territory, nowadays? Its necessary to make good strategic alliances, like exportation’s consortia to guarantee better opportunities of business. This research reveals which factors are present in these alliances formations, studying the behavior of the pork’s chain in Rio Grande do Sul. This research is classified as an exploratory – descriptive combined study, based in a case methodology, distinguished in four sections: literature review; documental research; firm’s interview and action-research. The results showed that the pork chain in Rio Grande do Sul (South of Brazil) is globally competitive, mainly because of the improve of international assets, that are buying many local enterprises. However, for the traditional firm, including rural cooperatives, only through the strategic alliances constitution, keeping independent partners, it will be possible for the Brazilian’s firms to survive. The use of the international market, by these companies, reduce the transactional costs along this process. Because the return of foot and mouth disease fever contamination, in some regions in the south State, all meat exports were interrupted by the international markets. In spite of this situation, that caused a great damage to maintain the international flow of pork meat proceeded from Rio Grande do Sul, it was possible to observe that the consortia promotion can improve the competitivity, and autonomy, between the partners, specially for the Brazilian’s and south Brazilian’s Agribusiness.

Em um ambiente extremamente competitivo, baseado na globalização dos mercados, o Brasil reforça sua vocação no desenvolvimento dos agronegócios, como meio de melhor se inserir na economia mundial. Como as empresas brasileiras, ligadas a este setor, poderão continuar competindo, diante da atração de capitais e empresas internacionais em seus mercados tradicionais ? Parte-se da premissa que uma das possibilidades refere-se à formação de alianças estratégicas, do tipo consórcios de exportação, garantindo maiores oportunidades de sobrevivência, diante deste cenário. O estudo identifica quais os fatores estão presentes na formação destas alianças, a partir do acompanhamento da constituição de consórcios de exportação na cadeia de produção de suínos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Definido como um estudo exploratório descritivo combinado, baseado em estudo de caso, o trabalho consistiu na revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa documental a fontes primárias, entrevistas de campo e pesquisa-ação. Analisando os resultados obtidos pela cadeia de produção de suínos, nos últimos anos, percebe-se que o desempenho do setor é bastante satisfatório no RS, principalmente com o aporte de investimentos internacionais recentes, utilizados na aquisição de empresas locais, tradicionalmente produtoras no Estado. Sendo assim, a pressão competitiva vem aumentando paulatinamente sobre as empresas nacionais remanescentes, sobretudo para as cooperativas de produção que, pouco a pouco, vêm perdendo posições nos mercados. A grande limitação do estudo foi não poder acompanhar a constituição formal do consórcio agroexportador, em função do ressurgimento da Febre Aftosa que impediu o fluxo internacional de carne suína e bovina procedente do Estado. Enfim, apesar dos entraves encontrados, verifica-se que a promoção dos consórcios poderá elevar a competitividade e a autonomia dos agronegócios do Brasil e do Rio Grande do Sul, principalmente naquelas cadeias de produção, cujos fatores críticos de sucesso são mais favoráveis. / Inside the competitive environment based on the market globalization, Brazil reinforces its capacity to develop agribusiness, as a better way to get in the world economy. But, how the Brazilian’s Agrifirms will be competitive in the future, when the international assets are arriving in its territory, nowadays? Its necessary to make good strategic alliances, like exportation’s consortia to guarantee better opportunities of business. This research reveals which factors are present in these alliances formations, studying the behavior of the pork’s chain in Rio Grande do Sul. This research is classified as an exploratory – descriptive combined study, based in a case methodology, distinguished in four sections: literature review; documental research; firm’s interview and action-research. The results showed that the pork chain in Rio Grande do Sul (South of Brazil) is globally competitive, mainly because of the improve of international assets, that are buying many local enterprises. However, for the traditional firm, including rural cooperatives, only through the strategic alliances constitution, keeping independent partners, it will be possible for the Brazilian’s firms to survive. The use of the international market, by these companies, reduce the transactional costs along this process. Because the return of foot and mouth disease fever contamination, in some regions in the south State, all meat exports were interrupted by the international markets. In spite of this situation, that caused a great damage to maintain the international flow of pork meat proceeded from Rio Grande do Sul, it was possible to observe that the consortia promotion can improve the competitivity, and autonomy, between the partners, specially for the Brazilian’s and south Brazilian’s Agribusiness.

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The thesis identifies the role of e-business and ICT in the economy of the present European Union and their function in increasing EU's competitiveness in the world's economy. It maps and evaluates help of the public sector of the European Union for this important component of modern economy. The thesis also describes current state of e-business and ICT both in the European Union and the world and outlines their probable future development.

This thesis examines how employability and the employable as a discursive subject was constructed through a Swedish labor market policy measure called “datortek”. The datortek was a form of combined computer lab and activity center that was set up in collaboration between local governance and the National market labour board. People who were registered as unemployed could be sent to the local datortek to learn how to use a computer. In this way, they would be made employable in the new, knowledge based society and Sweden would be well on its way to become a leading nation in the field of IT-technology and expertise. At least, that was the idea. In the 1990’s there was a shift in Swedish, as well as european, labour policy discourse. The politically defined problem of “unemployment” changed towards being an issue of the individual’s ability to make oneself “employable”. On a large extent, employability depends on certain individual properties, such as “flexibility”, “entrepreneurship” and being “active”. Earlier research have mainly focused on employability as a policy concept. In this view, employability is seen as something that is enforced through public policy onto the workers. This study is taking a somewhat different approach. Here, employability will be seen as a concept that takes form in a process of negotiation and articulation. A process that takes place in the interpersonal meeting, in the intercept between man and machine, in formal documents as well as through the design of the datortek itself. Thus, the datortek can serve as a study object that allow us to investigate how employability was articulated. It is this articulation, the process of becoming-employable through the datortek, which is at the heart of this study. The thesis shows that the datortek functioned as a simulated work place where the participants were made to stage and perform “teamwork” and learn “social competence”. The computer was given the role of an instrument for bringing out certain feelings amongst the participants. This emotive discipline can be understood as a way to achieve “emotional competence”. The thesis also shows a different way on how a concept such as employability can be studied. By looking into the very practical aspects of the datortek, the abstract idea of employability is made comprehensible. This gives us, not only deepened knowledge of the notion of modern labor, but also a better understanding of how ideology is (re)produced.

La variété des situations auxquelles sont confrontés les acteurs de la vie des affaires, et l’importance des sommes en jeu, constituent un aiguillon particulièrement stimulant pour la réflexion des spécialistes dans le domaine financier et juridique. Un engouement s’enracine également dans la tendance des marchés financiers à exiger une plus grande transparence dans la gestion des groupes diversifiés, dont la lisibilité financière est souvent réduite. Une telle exigence de lisibilité est au cœur de la définition des actions traçantes. Apparues outre-Atlantique au début des années 80, elles ont bénéficié, avec l’avènement de la nouvelle économie, d’un regain d’intérêt notable et d’un volume d’émission élevé sur le marché financier américain depuis les années 90. L’émission d’actions traçantes, mis à part leur nature hybride, constitue une mesure de restructuration assez particulière qui vient compléter la base d’études déjà constituée sur le thème de la restructuration de capitaux. Cette recherche a pour ambition de montrer comment introduire les actions traçantes sur le marché financier français et plus particulièrement, elle permettra d’élargir le choix des formes de restructuration qui seront présentés pour des entreprises souhaitant chercher de nouvelles sources de financement, se procurer de nouveaux moyens d’acquisition et atteindre l’objectif fondamental qui est celui de la création de valeur. De ce fait, l’émission d’actions traçantes se trouvera en concurrence avec d’autres formes de restructuration (scission et apport partiel d’actif). Par conséquent, on présentera les facteurs dont les entreprises devront tenir compte dans le choix des restructurations envisagées. / The variety of situations faced by actors of the business concerning their field, and the importance of the amount of money involved, is considered as a mind moving element particularly for specialists in financial and legal matters. Enthusiasm is also rooted in the financial markets which tend to require greater transparency from groups, including financial visibility that is often reduced. Such a requirement is highly recommended in the definition of tracking stock. Emerged across the Atlantic in the early 80s, they have benefited, with the advent of the new economy, a noticeable income of interest and have increased since the early '90s until now through a large number of issuances on the U.S. financial market. The issuance of tracking stock, apart from its hybrid nature, contains a certain measure of restructuring rather special that completes the basis of studies already made on the subject of capital restructuring. This research also aims to show how to introduce tracking stock on the French financial market, and more particularly to expand the choice of forms of restructuring that will be presented to companies in hope to seek new funding sources, to obtain new ways of acquisition and achieve a fundamental objective which is the creation of value. Therefore, the issuing of tracking stock will have to compete with other forms of restructuring (spin-off, equity carve-out). Thus, we present the factors that companies should deem when choosing the restructuring proposed.

Due to the changing demographics of South African organisations after the 1994 elections and the subsequent sub-cultural diversification, the working environment is becoming the primary place where the different South African sub-cultural groups, with their different value systems, are in interaction with each other. The consequent lifting of sanctions exposed South African organisations to globalisation and international competition. This forced managers to improve organisational processes and operations, not only to protect their own domestic markets, but also to become internationally competitive. At the same time, they had to adhere to newly created labour legislation, which dramatically changed the face of the South African labour market. The complex combination of several sub-cultures in the South African work environment can adversely affect organisational effectiveness if not properly understood and managed by effective transformational leaders. The concept of cultural values was used to explore the differences, as well as the similarities, between the various sub-cultural groups in the South African environment. This study examined cultural differences and similarities between 477 junior and middle managers in the financial services sector, who belonged to the four South African sub-cultural groups (Black, Coloured, White, and Indian), and between South African male and female managers. It also investigated whether cultural values change indiscriminately during the acculturation process, or whether certain cultural values, labelled peripheral values, change easier or before other cultural values, labelled core values. Due to the importance of transformational leadership in the work environment, this study also explored the differences and similarities of South African managers on Bass and Avolio’s Full Range Model of Leadership. (Avolio&Bass, 1999; Bass, 1985, 1997). A moderate social constructionist theory was used as a framework for this study, to analyse and describe quantitative results obtained with the various measuring instruments. Firstly, it was found that although there were statistically significant differences between most of the cultural value dimensions of the various sub-cultural groups, not all of these differences were practically significant. Results indicated that these groups could often be clustered together on specific cultural value dimensions, sometimes consisting of a Black, White, and Coloured cluster, sometimes as a Black, Coloured, and Indian cluster, and so forth. Secondly, independent variables other than sub-cultural group, gender, and age also showed practically significant relationships with some of the cultural value dimensions. Thirdly, the results indicated that the cultural values are very stable, even in the dynamic and multi-cultural South African environment, and as such, no core or peripheral values could be identified. Finally, the results also indicated that the transformational-transactional leadership model is cross-culturally endorsed within the South African financial services sector. It pointed out that irrespective of gender, junior or middle management level, age, educational level, number of years full-time work experience, number of years as manager, or having been exposed to formal Western management training, all managers evaluated themselves as more transformational than transactional. / Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Psychology / unrestricted

(in English): The main goal of diploma thesis is to describe the internet business specifics with focus of identifying the causes of success or failure of companies on the Internet. At the theoretical level in context of thesis is to characterize the influence of the Internet on business principles and give to the reader a complete picture of its impact on current business. Following the main aim of the theses will need a virtually explore the possibilities which offer 21st century in the integration of modern business tools that allows smoother access to corporate infomation and knowledge and If their effective optimatization is the key to a uccessful business on the internet. The contribution of this thesis is to evaluate the practical challenges for companies which brings continual development of information and communication technologies that can be used for support of decision making in selecting an appropriate combination of business tools.

It is generally acknowledged that human capital intangibles are major value drivers in the new economy characterised by information and technology. The main purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange disclose information on human capital related issues. The study combined both qualitative (literature reviews and content analysis) and quantitative (survey questionnaire) methods to collect data of 60 corporate annual reports (CARs) of listed companies in South Africa from survey questionnaires administered on various categories of preparers and users of these CARs. The study made use of 91 human capital disclosure checklists developed from literature reviews for the purpose of data collection. The data analysis was done with the aid of Atlasti-a qualitative data analysis software and SPSS- a quantitative data analysis software. The findings show that majority of the items on the disclosure checklist are not yet disclosed in the CARs even though most of the items on the checklist are adjudged to be useful for organisational value creation. In view of the initial findings of this study, a human capital disclosure framework is recommended. / Business Management / D. Accounting Science

This dissertation examines effects of globalization on language, identity, and education through the case of four Korean jogi yuhak (early study abroad) students attending Toronto high schools. Resulting from a 2.4-year sociolinguistic ethnography on the language learning experiences of these students, the thesis explores how globalization--and the commodification of language and corporatization of education in the new economy, in particular--has transformed ideas of language, bilingualism, and language learning with respect to the transnational circulation of linguistic and symbolic resources in today‘s world. This thesis incorporates insights from critical social theories, linguistic anthropology, globalization studies, and sociolinguistics, and aims to propose a "globalization sensitive" Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory. To better grasp the ways in which language learning is socially and politically embedded in new conditions generated by globalization, this new SLA theory conceives of language as a set of resources and bilingualism as a social construct, and examines language learning as an economic activity, shaped through encounters with the transnational language education industry. The analysis examines new transnational subjectivities of yuhaksaeng (visa students), which index hybrid identities that are simultaneously global and Korean. In their construction of themselves as "Cools" who are wealthy and cosmopolitan, yuhaksaeng deployed newly-valued varieties of Korean language and culture as resources in the globalized new economy. This practice, however, resulted in limits to their acquisition of forms of English capital valued in the Canadian market. As a Korean middle class strategy for acquiring valuable forms of English capital, jogi yuhak is caught in tension: while the ideology of language as a skill and capital to help an individual‘s social mobility drives the jogi yuhak movement, the essentialist ideology of "authentic" English makes it impossible for Koreans to work it to their advantage. The thesis argues that in multilingual societies, ethnic/racial/linguistic minorities‘ limited access to the acquisition of linguistic competence is produced by existing inequality, rather than their limited linguistic proficiency contributing to their marginal position. To counter naturalized social inequality seemingly linguistic in nature, language education in globalization should move away from essentialism toward process- and practice-oriented approaches to language, community, and identity.