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[pt] O café é hoje o segundo maior gerador de riquezas no planeta, ficando atrás apenas do petróleo. Dentre os US$ 91 bilhões movimentados anualmente pelo mercado do café, apenas 9% ficam com os países produtores. No Brasil, maior país produtor e exportador de café verde, os pequenos produtores buscam, através do cultivo de cafés especiais (como o café orgânico) e da produção de cafés industrializados, a valorização do produto exportado, melhorando assim a rentabilidade das exportações. No entanto, são poucas as empresas brasileiras desse porte que conseguem se consolidar no mercado internacional, principalmente no segmento de cafés industrializados. Diante desse cenário, tornar-se relevante analisar as empresas desse perfil, que já exportam, para identificar as estratégias adotadas para a comercialização do produto no mercado internacional e os resultados obtidos através delas. Para isso, um estudo de caso foi realizado com 2 empresas exportadoras de café orgânico, ambas objetivando atuar tanto no segmento de cafés verdes quanto no de industrializados. O resultado da análise aponta que, apesar de embora a estrutura pequena e familiar afete negativamente os negócios, principalmente no que diz respeito ao comprometimento financeiro e gerencial do negócio, e do fato de adotarem estratégias diferentes, ambas conseguem ser bem sucedidas na exportação do produto in natura. Ainda assim, não há como identificar qual das duas é mais bem sucedida nesse segmento. Já no segmento de cafés industrializados essa dúvida é eliminada, pois apenas uma das empresas consegue exportar seu produto. Por fim, constatou-se que, independentemente das estratégias adotadas pelas empresas, o ambiente externo às organizações é consideravelmente mais vantajoso para a exportação de café verde do que de café industrializado. / [en] Coffee is the world`s second biggest wealth producer, but only 9% remain with the coffee producers. In Brazil, world`s major producing country and exporter of green coffee, the small and medium producers, through the harvesting of special coffees (such as the organic) and through the production of industrialized coffee, try to increase the value of their exported products. By doing so, they expect to increase their profitability. However, few small and medium size Brazilian organizations are able to successfully establish themselves in the international marketplace, especially in the industrialized coffee segment. Given this situation, it becomes relevant to analyze the companies with this profile, that already export, in order to identify the strategies adopted by them for commercializing the product in the international marketplace, and also to identify the outcomes obtained by the adoption of these strategies. In order to do that, a case study was conducted with two Brazilian organic coffee exporter companies, both aiming at both coffee segments, green and industrialized. The analysis` outcomes indicate that, although the small and family-run business characteristics affect the export business in a negative way, especially when regarding the necessary financial and managerial compromises, and the fact that each adopts different international marketing strategies, both are successful in exporting the green coffee. Still, it cannot be determined which company has the best performance in this segment. This doubt does not exist when analyzing the industrialized coffee segment, since only one of the studied companies is successful in exporting its product in this segment. Lastly, it was revealed that, independently from the strategies adopted by the companies, the external environment, which surrounds the studied organizations, present far more advantages for the export of the green coffee, rather than the industrialized.

This study examines the role public libraries play in creating social capital within communities. Two sets of public libraries were selected based on their being geographically located in areas of high or low social capital. These libraries were then contacted by phone to determine whether they had wireless Internet or a café on the premises. Libraries which possessed these traits were totaled according to their level of social capital. The data was then compared to population and circulation information for the areas served by each library or library system. The results indicate that having a café and/or wireless Internet can significantly impact a community’s use of the library, though in some cases this relationship is weaker.

[pt] O presente trabalho teve por objetivo discutir as características do sistema produtivo de cafés especiais da região serrana do estado do Espírito Santo, a adoção do modelo da exportação como estratégia de negócio das empresas incumbentes e a dinâmica da difusão de conhecimento intra-cluster. Para tanto, os principais conceitos teóricos de clusters industriais, de difusão e adoção de inovações intra-rede e internacionalização de empresas que compõem um mesmo arranjo produtivo são apresentados no capítulo dois. A pesquisa caracterizou-se como exploratório-descritiva. Tratou-se, também, de uma pesquisa qualitativa, ao valer-se de um estudo de caso. Dados primários e secundários foram utilizados para a realização da pesquisa, e para a obtenção de dados primários, realizaram-se entrevistas semiestruturadas. Das informações coletadas, foi possível identificar características que classificariam o sistema produtivo estudado segundo alguns modelos apresentados no segundo capítulo. Foram consignadas recomendações de novas ações estratégicas que poderiam ter um impacto positivo sobre o desempenho das empresas incumbentes. Finalmente, sugestões para trabalhos futuros foram apresentadas. / [en] This paper aimed to discuss the characteristics of the specialty coffee cluster from the mountainous region of the state of Espírito Santo, the adoption of the model of exporting as business strategy and the dynamics of knowledge dissemination intra-cluster. Accordingly, the main theoretical concepts of industrial clusters, diffusion and adoption of innovations within cluster and internationalization of firms of a same industry are presented in chapter two. This research was characterized as exploratory and descriptive. Also, it was a qualitative research, as the analysis of a case study was performed. Primary and secondary data were used for the research, and to obtain primary data, semistructured interviews were conducted. With the information collected, it was possible to identify characteristics that classify the production system studied according to some models presented. Recommendations were assigned as new strategic actions which could have a positive impact on performance of incumbent firms.Finally, suggestions for future work were presented.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas de Vasconcelos Teixeira.pdf: 30069920 bytes, checksum: 7e644d5de1b68f899254e06965368c86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-17 / The theme of this academic research is the Cafés, as communicational environments of sociability and consumption of memories and experiences. Its theoretical object is the consumption of memories and experiences, spatialities and temporalities of Cafés in the city of São Paulo, while the empirical objects are Café Girondino and Coffee Lab, which allow us to observe a variety of cultural scenes involving the universe of coffee. The general objective of this study is to examine the phenomenon of cultural scenes in the city of São Paulo, originated from the consumption of memories and experiences in communicational spaces and sociability, as observed at the Cafés mentioned above. One of its specific objectives is to analyze to what extend Café Girondino, nowadays, operates as a space organized by communicative strategies, enabling to revisiting memories and histories that took place at the beginning of modernity in the city of São Paulo, mainly at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the following century. In addition to that, to identify how Coffee Lab disseminates the culture of specialty coffees, counting on a pedagogy of consumption, and becomes an obligatory destination for coffee lovers. Furthermore, we aim to problematize similarities and differences involving these cultural scenes including here the consumption of memories and experiences in these two Cafés. The guiding issue is to understand how these cultural scenes rise and structure with the consumption of memories and experiences in these iconic Cafés in the city of São Paulo. The corpus of this study includes the physical spaces of both Cafés, their objects, interviews and courses. For a deeper investigation into these communicational environments, we employed the flânerie methodology, as proposed by McLaren (2000), grounded on bibliographical and documentary researches. Among the theoretical references, authors as Will Straw, Norval Baitello, Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, Walter Benjamin, Iúri Lótman, Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Mike Featherstone, Mônica Nunes, Cláudia Pereira, Vander Casaqui, Ana Luiza Martins and Nicolau Sevcenko, not to mention other thinkers that have contributed to our discussions. The results show there is a media strategy in these spaces, and the symbolic meaning that brings reasoning and value to consumptions is the fruit of sociabilities that go beyond market studies, characterizing these cultural scenes as a symptomatic phenomenon. / Esta pesquisa tem como tema os Cafés como ambiências comunicacionais de sociabilidade e de consumo de memórias e experiências. O objeto teórico diz respeito ao consumo de memórias e experiências, de espacialidades e temporalidades em cafeterias paulistanas, enquanto que os objetos empíricos são o Café Girondino e o Coffee Lab, que permitem observar variadas cenas culturais envolvendo o universo do café. O objetivo geral é examinar o fenômeno das cenas culturais paulistanas originadas do consumo de memórias e experiências em espaços comunicacionais e de sociabilidade, como nas referidas cafeterias. Os objetivos específicos são: analisar em que medida o atual Café Girondino opera como um espaço que se organiza através de estratégias comunicativas que proporcionam revisitar memórias e histórias do início da modernidade paulistana, mais precisamente do final do século XIX e início do seguinte; identificar as formas pelas quais o Coffee Lab dissemina a cultura dos cafés especiais por meio de uma pedagogia do consumo e se converte em destino obrigatório para os apreciadores da bebida; problematizar as semelhanças e diferenças entre as cenas culturais e também entre os consumos de memórias e experiências nas duas cafeterias. A questão que norteou a pesquisa pretende responder de que modo são constituídas as cenas culturais que se articulam em torno do consumo de memórias e experiências nestas cafeterias paulistanas icônicas. O corpus de pesquisa inclui os espaços físicos de ambas as cafeterias, seus objetos, entrevistas e cursos. Para melhor explorar estas ambiências comunicacionais, utilizamos a flânerie de McLaren (2000) como a metodologia aplicada, alicerçada por pesquisas bibliográfica e documental. O referencial teórico inclui autores como Will Straw, Norval Baitello, Mary Douglas e Baron Isherwood, Walter Benjamin, Iúri Lótman, Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Mike Featherstone, Mônica Nunes, Cláudia Pereira, Vander Casaqui, Ana Luiza Martins e Nicolau Sevcenko, entre outros pensadores que contribuem para as discussões. Os resultados indicam que há uma estratégia midiática de construção desses espaços ao mesmo tempo em que as apropriações que dão sentido e valor ao que é consumido são fruto de sociabilidades que ultrapassam o que é mercadologicamente planejado, sendo as cenas culturais seu fenômeno sintomático.

The thesis presents a vision of the development of the unused area of the former military complex in the context of the development of the territory and its wider connection with the maximum possibility of utilization of the potential of the place. According to the land use plan, 50% of the housing was proposed on the land, the second part consists of shops, administration, kindergarten with children's center and sports. Emphasis was placed on the overall inner well-being of the users and the potential of the area located near the city center. The newly designed object functions together correspond in a balanced way to fill in the missing article in the neighborhood. Designed buildings form a block area typical for this area with indoor atrias for leisure time and a new square that complements the function of the business and office part.

Dissertation thesis discusses the consumption of cocoa, coffee, tea and chocolate in the interwar period in the Czechoslovakia. On the basis of statistical data and examination of archival sources comes with the definition of the middle classes of the population, which those commodities consumed. The thesis shows the distribution of consumption of commodities based on the survey in blue-collar and white-collar families. Furthermore provides insight into the lives of families, distribution of their spending and the size of income. It refers to the representation of cocoa, coffee, tea and chocolate in the consumer basket and shows the elasticity of the mentioned commodities. For the central part of the research of the dissertation thesis chose the Czech territory only, because here were without difficulty accessible data sources. The Dissertation thesis clarifies the causes of consuming cocoa, coffee, tea and chocolate and concludes that each was consumed from another purpose, which resulted status of these commodities. Tea consumption has been designed especially for the higher classes of the population, chocolate bought mostly white-collar family, but over twenties speared consumption of chocolate products also among the middle and lower classes into the population. The chocolate products were subject to early 20s of the luxury tax. Cocoa was used in connection with cooking and baking, but families didnt use this product frequently. Coffee drank all layers of the population, but consumption was based on the social status of the consumer. Very frequently families consume rye coffee and chicory coffee. Dissertation thesis also highlights the regional differences between the classes, which were further intensified. Thesis examines in detail the amount of the duties of the commodity, which in the interwar period varied widely, and concludes that the duty to disproportionately increase the price of products and made it impossible for consumers to buy more of cocoa, coffee, tea and chocolate.

The subject of the thesis is an architectural study of the reconstruction and extension of the "Centrum" department store in Brno. It is a dominant building designed by the famous czech architect Vladimir Karfík, which is located at the Urban Conservation Area Brno. Object wasn´t realized with the full extent of the original proposal, so in the project is planned a completion of it. The new solution respects the historical quality of Urban Conservation Area Brno with a concurrent view of the location on the lucrative land in the city center. The architectural concept is based on a return to the original idea of the architect and the addition of my own creative contribution within the extension of the new floors. Draft of the extension is intended so that the individual parts of an object communicate with each other, but they are easily recognizable as well. This idea was filled by both parts linked together visually by horizontal lines and ripple, which is used on balconies of the extension and behind the facade of the current building by shielding walls. However it is emphasized the contrast between an enclosed mass and a free-flowing space. The existing part of the building is used especialy as a leasable area of trade and services. On the upper floors there are areas of administration. Furthermore, there will be a restaurant and cafe with exhibition galleries and apartments are designed on the new added floors. The building is adapted to use by person with limited mobility. Newly added uses in the object will increase the attractiveness of the building and its surroundings.