[pt] O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar até que ponto as boas práticas de governança corporativa estão sendo adotadas pelas empresas brasileiras, em especial as do setor de telecomunicações, bem como quais são as percepções dos gestores destas empresas com relação ao uso de boas práticas de governança corporativa como ferramenta de criação de valor para os acionistas. O estudo inclui pesquisa de campo, com dados coletados por meio de desenvolvimento e levantamento de questionários junto aos sujeitos da pesquisa. Dos questionários enviados, foram respondidos o equivalente a 33% do total da amostra, representando 85% das empresas do setor de telecomunicações com ações negociadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Os dados coletados foram trabalhados de forma essencialmente qualitativa, sendo apresentados de forma estruturada e analítica. Os resultados encontrados fundamentam a aplicabilidade e a relevância de boas práticas de governança corporativa no setor de telecomunicações brasileiro. / [en] The aim of this study is to investigate to what extent the best practices of corporate governance are being adopted by Brazilian companies, especially in the telecommunications sector. The perceptions of the managers of these companies are studied as well, in relation to the use of best practices of corporate governance as a tool to create value to shareholders. The study includes field research, collecting data with specially developed questionnaires. Of the questionnaires sent, 33% were answered. They represent 85% of the companies of the telecommunications sector with shares traded on the Brazilian Stock Exchange. The data were qualitatively analyzed and are presented in an analytic and structured form. The results justify the application and relevance of the best practices of corporate governance in the Brazilian telecommunication sector. / [es] EL presente trabajo tiene por objetivo investigar hasta que punto las buenas prácticas corporativas de gobierno están siendo adotadas por las empresas brasileras, en especial las del sector de telecomunicaciones, y cuales son las percepciones de los gestores de estas empresas en relación al uso de buenas prácticas corporativas de gobierno como herramienta de creación de valor para los accionistas. El estudio incluye uma investigación de campo, con datos recolectados por medio de cuestionarios. De los cuestionarios enviados, fueron respondidos el equivalente a 33% del total de la muestra, que representaba el 85% de las empresas del sector de telecomunicaciones con acciones negociadas en la Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Los resultados encontrados fundamentan la aplicabilidad y la relevancia de las buenas prácticas corporativas de gobierno en el sector de telecomunicaciones brasilero.

This thesis uses an exploratory case study design to chronicle the shifts, recognition, and implementation of programs, tools and policies designed for high need federally sentenced women in Canada that were created after 1990, in accordance with or opposed to the gender specific principles outlined in the Creating Choices (1990) report. The body lens is used as an analytic tool to deconstruct eleven of the most pertinent documents regarding policy and strategy for high need women offenders that were implemented by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) personnel and the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) over the past twenty years. Coding of a wide range of documents reveals that despite appearing to be rhetorically progressive, CSC’s attempt at creating a women-centered mental health strategy uses contradictory disciplinary techniques that control and restrain the bodies of federally sentenced women in hopes of normalizing the behaviours of high need women. The policies imposed by CSC for high need women offenders fail to make any substantial changes in women’s prison reform and resulted in a different form of regulation and control. High need women offenders are imprisoned in their own bodies.

This diploma thesis deals with the social responsibility of a selected large banking institution, GE Money Bank, a.s., which since the beginning of its work in the Czech Republic has engaged in a wide range of socially responsible activities. First of all, it presents an analysis of the current situation, describes socially responsible projects and activities, including their strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It then gives a more detailed analysis and defines the positive and negative sides of the aspects in question. Based on an evaluation of the current state of the concept of CSR, it recommends practical and feasible improvements that should be applied to the communication of CSR activities in the future in order to boost awareness of the bank amongst current and potential clients and the general public. It then proposes ways in which GE Money Bank, a.s. could help in resolving issues relating to the significant deterioration of drinking water for the city of Plzeň, resulting from poor landscape management in the basin of the Úhlava river.

This Master thesis deals with a topic of Corporate Social Responsibility as a part of a corporate strategy. In the theoretical part a CSR concept with implementation process is explained. The practical part is focused on Thimm Packaging. For evaluation of Thimm Social Responsibility the EFQM method modified for the CSR is used and a questionnaire survey is applied. The aim of this work is to evaluate TSR and to propose options for improvement of company social strategy.

The diploma thesis is focused on the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities and evaluates the CSV (Creating Shared Value) activities of the brand producing Slovak cheese and cheese specialties. The aim is to analyse and evaluate them properly, propose the right communication and future goals, that are in line with the current ones. The first part is centred on the description of CSR concept, its establishment, history in the world and in the Czech Republic. The concept of CSV is described next. This is followed by the trends in the communication of CSR on social media and other on-line media. The second part is mostly about the particular brand, its history and main attributes. Already existing activities are analysed, their communication is proposed together with the activities, that should supplement the contemporary ones in the future.

This thesis investigates conditions under which the activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) impact upon innovation performance in host-country firms. Three specific sub-questions are addressed: 1) Do MNE subsidiary characteristics influence FDI spillovers on host-country firms? 2) Does the external technological environment in individual industries influence spillover effects? 3) Do such technology spillovers follow a linear relation with the scale of FDI? Individual empirical analyses, using firm-level data extracted from two waves (2002 and 2005) of the Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), are used to examine these questions. The first finding is that FDI spillovers vary depending on the subsidiary’s heterogeneous role. In this regard, we build on recent theoretical contributions made by the network-based view of MNEs, distinguishing heterogeneous subsidiary roles into either competence-creating (CC) or competence-exploiting (CE). Our results show that CC subsidiaries generate negative horizontal and positive backward spillovers, but no forward spillovers. Against this, CE subsidiaries generate positive horizontal and forward spillovers and negative backward spillovers. The second finding concerns the moderating role assumed by the type of business environment in the host country during foreign entry, especially in terms of environment velocity. We build on strategic management literature that the behaviour and performance of a firm is influenced by environment velocity, finding that environment velocity affects backward (negatively) and forward spillovers (positively), but not horizontal spillovers. The third finding concerns non-linear (linear) impacts of FDI spillover across different scales of FDI in a sector, building on existing studies predicting a changing marginal effect of horizontal spillovers. We took this a step further by comparing horizontal spillovers on local rivals and vertical spillovers on local partners, either suppliers or clients. The key contributions are two-fold: firstly, this thesis proposes revising implicit assumptions in the extant literature by identifying conditions of FDI spillovers concerning subsidiary heterogeneity and business environment type, and also by confirming the non-linear effect of horizontal and backward FDI spillovers. Secondly, it provides a glimpse of FDI spillovers in a technologically capable host country in East Asia. The findings stress various implications, including the usefulness of international business theories for assessing the role of MNE activities in host economies.

[pt] Nas últimas décadas, a economia mundial vem assistindo a um movimento continuado de fusões e aquisições de empresas, o que demonstra uma tendência crescente à concentração e centralização do capital. Embora no passado recente esses processos tenham sido mais acentuados nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, os chamados mercados emergentes, dentre os quais se destaca o Brasil, têm observado o crescimento do número de operações desse tipo, em virtude, principalmente, do processo de liberalização econômica e da consolidação democrática e social por que passaram. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar se as operações de fusões e aquisições brasileiras resultaram, efetivamente, em maior eficiência para a empresa resultante e em maiores benefícios para seus acionistas. Para isso, foi realizada uma análise quantitativa dos indicadores de criação de valor e operacionais de empresas brasileiras não financeiras de capital aberto que participaram de operações de fusão ou aquisição entre janeiro de 2005 e dezembro de 2010. A contribuição deste estudo consiste em aumentar a compreensão acerca de um tema controverso e relevante tanto para a área acadêmica quanto no meio empresarial, além de auxiliar na identificação, através de evidências empíricas, de alguns dos resultados gerados pela adoção desta estratégia empresarial no Brasil. / [en] In recent decades, the world economy has seen a continued movement of mergers and acquisitions, which shows an increasing trend towards concentration and centralization of capital. Although in the recent past these processes have been most pronounced in the United States and Europe, emerging markets, among which Brazil stands out, have noted the growing number of such operations, due mainly to the economic liberalization process and the social democratic consolidation they have endured. In this context, this paper aims to examine whether mergers and acquisitions in Brazil resulted effectively in greater efficiency for the resulting company and in greater benefits for its shareholders. For this purpose, a quantitative analysis of value creation and operational indicators was performed for Brazilian traded non-financial companies, which participated in a merger or acquisition between January 2005 and December 2010. The contribution of this paper is to increase understanding of this controversial and relevant topic to both the academic and the business community, and help to identify, through empirical evidence, some of the results generated by adopting this business strategy in Brazil.

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