La réflexion sur la création, aussi féconde soit-elle, porte le plus souvent soit sur les oeuvres, soit sur l'attitude créatrice, mais la passerelle est rarement établie entre ces deux axes de questionnement. Notre tâche consiste précisément à réfléchir au lieu qui unit un créateur à son oeuvre. Nous souhaitons montrer que créer une oeuvre peut avoir une incidence existentielle. Nous nous demanderons à quelles conditions la création permet précisément à un sujet de se construire et nous dirons en quoi peut consister cette construction du sujet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2007.

This thesis aims to examine if and how Value Co-Creation works online, and what interactions the customers believe to be of importance to continue a relationship with a company. The problem of the thesis is how to create value in order to establish long-term relationships with customers in an online environment where the element of face to face interactions is absent, and switching costs facing the customers are non-existent. There is little research made about Value Co-Creation in an online setting, further how Co-Creation of Value affects the ability to establish and maintain Customer Relationships. This paper utilized a qualitative research approach and was executed through a case study built up by a thorough analysis of a marketing plan and the value creating activities of Company X, and semi-structured interviews with twelve customers of Company X to investigate how these activities are perceived. The conclusion of the research in this paper is that Company X performs activities that allows Co-Creation of Value. Further, it was concluded that the services provided by Company X contributes with important factors when trying to establish and maintain relationships with their customers.

M.Comm. / Henry Ford once said: "work does more than get us our living; it gets us our life..." Taking this to heart, unemployment is one of the biggest problems facing the South African social and economic environment and is in many cases the cause of violence, poverty and crime. The unemployment rate for South Africa for the year 2000 is 37.7%, one of the highest in the world and is primarily the result of high population growth, low economic growth and outdated technology. Despite the highest growth in GDP since 1996, 3% for the year 2000, the loss in jobs increased from 1.9% for 1999 to 2.7% for the year 2000. Nearly all sectors suffered job losses in the period March 1996 to March 1999. Thus, currently more jobs are lost than being created in a jobless growth economy. All over the world job creation and job creation programmes are receiving more attention. But business, government and labour are looking at this issue from different angles. In order to create jobs all of the parties mentioned need to simulate their energies and work together. Therefore the National Economic Forum (NEF) set out to allocate funds to viable job creation programmes in the provision and maintenance of urban and rural infrastructure and the enhancing of skills. The goal of the study was to research the potential of these job creation programmes to create jobs and to evaluate the success of current job creation programmes in combating unemployment. The study also sets out to show that certain development initiatives could be promoted by these projects. At the end of the study guidelines are offered which are seen to be crucial to the success of job creation programmes. The main conclusions reached through the research were that job creation programmes create jobs for thousands of workers over the long and the short run using labour intensive methods to provide infrastructure in urban and rural areas. These projects create sustainable jobs by coordinating the demand for better infrastructure as well as the commercial demand for waste products. The goal of these projects - to combat poverty in rural and urban areas by asset creation, training and to provide single parents, youth and the disabled with a lifeline - is what makes these projects worthwhile. But the most important spin-off of job creation programmes is that previously unemployed people are becoming economically active and independent, learning basic life skills while becoming self-confident and employable. Of the many guidelines presented the most crucial one for the success of such a programme is a clear goal, focus and vision. For one thing is certain, job creation programmes creates jobs. And South Africa needs jobs urgently. Therefore in the words of Thomas Carlyle: "Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness."

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Background: The rise of AI in the context of the fourth industrial revolution has captured the public’s attention. Given the potential for transformative change in business at an unprecedented scale and pace, it is imperative for stakeholders to ensure that technological advancements bring benefits to humanity and address societal challenges. With the potential to create value, as well as to destroy value, the implications of AI are substantial. Despite growing scholarly interest, there re- mains a lack of research on how AI can utilised to create shared value.  Purpose: This study explores the utilisation of AI by firms to create shared value. Specifically, it examines the underlying dynamics involved in striving to create shared value whilst utilising AI. In doing so, the study enhances the comprehension of how firms can employ this technology to create shared value, both theoretically and in practice.  Method: This study is conducted from a relativist ontology and social constructionism epistemology as philosophical standpoint. The study has adopted an inductive approach to generating theory through qualitative research. Data was collected through qualitative interviews with 12 business leaders and managers from practice. The gathered data has been analysed using thematic analysis.  Conclusion: The study indicates that companies must be driven to go beyond simply creating economic value and instead focus on creating shared value. This motivation can arise from either intrinsic- or extrinsic sources. Additionally, companies striving to create shared value must overcome barriers and exploit catalyst to extract value from utilising AI. Moreover, the potential to destroy value with AI through risks and consequences must be mitigated through a combination of self-regulation and external regulation to maximise value creation and minimise value destruction as a result of utilising AI, pointing at a shared responsibility for individuals, firms, and regulators.

This research describes the relationship between several social network characteristics and knowledge creation outputs in the form of patented intellectual property of researchers by investigating the case of the University of Waterloo. Based on a literature review in the domains of social networks and knowledge creation, this research focuses on the position of knowledge creation between social closure theory and structural hole theory. These are the two seminal theories of the creation of social capital through social networks. From this body of literature, this thesis develops the research question involving five hypotheses. These hypotheses test whether network density, strength of relationships, diversity of relationships, and amount of research funding have a positive correlation with the number of patents held by the researcher, and whether network size has a negative correlation with number of patents held by a researcher. The data for this research comes from a variety of secondary sources including the University's Office of Research, UWDIR online directory, NSERC research awards search engine, and CIPO patent database. Using a combination of social network analysis and statistical regression analysis, this research shows that network density, diversity of relationships, and amount of research funding have a positive correlation with knowledge creation outputs, while network size has a negative relationship with knowledge creation outputs. Understanding the relationship that these social network factors have with the knowledge creation outputs can help the University develop strategies to help improve their knowledge creation processes, thereby putting the University in a stronger position to facilitate the development of patentable ideas and innovations by encouraging the development of research centres and institutes that intersect disciplinary boundaries.

This creative project has explored intuitive/spontaneous drawing from one individual's point of view. The study yielded well over one hundred drawings of which six were chosen for discussion. The artist explained his concept of intuitive/spontaneous drawing and discussed his experimentation with various technics and materials. The study explored new drawing media and their relationship to the intuitive/spontaneous process. Three original examples (Figures I, II, and III) were included in the study. These demonstrated some of the materials and technics. The project presents the artist's ideas and feelings about drawing in general and intuitive/spontaneous drawing in particular.

Si capital social es una fuente de desarrollo económico, es importante crear mecanismos de inversión social que sean capaces de alimentar el Si capital social es una fuente de desarrollo económico, es importante. En la tercera parte se evalúa el rol del capital social en la educación capital social, particularmente en países en vías de desarrollo económico,superior en lo concerniente a la formulación de políticas publicas en el sector educación.

This thesis investigates the presence and significance of creation imagery in the Gospel of John. This is an issue that Johannine scholars have been discussing for nearly a century, since Edwin Hoskyns’ 1920 article “Genesis I–III and St John’s Gospel,” but it is still by no means a settled question. Many scholars continue to insist that John employs creation imagery in this Gospel by making numerous subtle allusions to Genesis 1–3. Others find this imagery in what they consider to be the creation-like structure of the text or parts of it. By contrast, this thesis argues that John has intentionally included only a limited number of instances of creation imagery and that he has positioned them carefully to highlight their significance. The thesis establishes the actual instances of creation imagery in the Gospel, demonstrating that a number of allusions that scholars have suggested to Genesis 1–3 are actually questionable. It contends that John has included direct references to the creation of the world specifically in 1:10; 17:5; and 17:24; and that only in 1:1–5; 5:17, 20, 36; 6:19; 9:3–4, 6; 17:4; and 20:22 has he also drawn on and creatively deployed terms and images stemming from Genesis 1–2 and other creation discourses found in the Old Testament. Although John uses these limited instances of creation imagery in varying contexts, this thesis argues that they function collectively in a threefold way that is consonant with John’s overall argument. First, John uses them to portray Jesus in close relationship with his Father, existing apart from and prior to the created order. This relationship authorizes his participation in divine activities. Second, John uses creation imagery to assert the primal and universal significance of Jesus and the message about him, and to privilege him over other important figures in the story of Israel. Third, John uses creation imagery to link past reality with present and future reality, portraying Jesus as the agent of creation whom the reader should regard as the primal agent of revelation and salvation. The thesis concludes by underscoring how these findings may inform our understanding of John’s Christology and Johannine dualism.