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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Internationalisation of South African SMMEs: the role of capital factors.

Shree, Sanam. 18 February 2013 (has links)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of capital factors on the internationalisation of South African Small Medium and Micro-Enterprises (SMMEs). These capital factors are Financial, Social and Human capital. The study concentrates on determining how various levels of capital act as a preventative factor when a firm internationalises. The low levels of Financial capital is accentuated as it prohibits South African SMMEs from internationalising. Social capital emphasises that few social ties and networks prevent South African SMMEs from globalising. Lastly, the focal point of Human capital are the low levels of international knowledge and experience of management, which prohibits South African SMMEs from expanding internationally. To address these issues, this study draws upon a sample of 136 South African internationalised and non-internationalised SMMEs studied via an online questionnaire. The major theories underlying this research include the Resource-based theory, the Social Network theory and the Organisational Learning theory. Multivariate statistical analysis were used to test the results and confirmed that Financial Funding had an influence on an organisation’s ability to internationalise. Results from this study can potentially provide policy-makers and practitioners with additional insights into the key constraints to internationalisation of South African SMMEs.
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Exploring local economic activities in reconstruction and development programme housing: case study of Mapleton Township

Nkadimeng, Patike Moffat 26 March 2009 (has links)
Economic activities are lacking in many townships around South Africa. The newly developed Reconstruction and Development Programme townships are also facing the problem of encouraging economic activities. These townships are always criticized for being overcrowded by the people who are unable to support economic activities because of lack of capacity to be employed. This study adopted assets pentagon method to find the assets which the people have in the township which they can use to support and encourage economic activities in the area. Assets Pentagon method includes social and political capital, human capital, physical capital, financial capital and natural capital. The availability of these assets in the township will be vital to encourage and support economic activities
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Modo capitalista de produção e agricultura: a construção do conceito de agronegócio / Agriculture in the capitalist mode of production: the construction of the agribusiness concept

Mendonça, Maria Luisa Rocha Ferreira de 03 June 2013 (has links)
Esta tese investiga fatores que exerceram influência na construção da imagem da agricultura no modo capitalista de produção e sua representação através do conceito que passou a ser difundido como agronegócio. O uso deste termo se propagou tanto nos círculos acadêmicos, quanto nos meios políticos e de comunicação. A chamada industrialização da agricultura ocorre principalmente a partir dos anos 1950, em um contexto de crise de superacumulação de capital em nível mundial. No Brasil, este modelo ganha força principalmente a partir dos anos 1960 e combina a grande exploração agrícola com o estímulo ao uso de insumos industriais. É no período marcado pelo caráter monopolista ou imperialista do capital que se observa o processo de industrialização da agricultura, conhecido popularmente como agronegócio. A propriedade monopolista pressupõe a incorporação de todos os momentos da chamada cadeia produtiva, desde o controle sobre matérias primas até a circulação das mercadorias, considerando-se o papel essencial do capital financeiro. A internacionalização deste modelo através da exportação de capitais aprofundou a especialização dos monocultivos em determinados países e a divisão internacional do trabalho, a partir da herança colonial. A função do Estado como principal agente facilitador de financiamento para o agronegócio serve de alavanca para as determinações do capital financeiro. Observamos que a criação do conceito de agronegócio, como forma de gerar uma moldura ideológica para a intensificação da industrialização da agricultura, ocorre em um contexto determinado pela reprodução crítica do capital. Tal análise nos leva a entender a relação dialética entre acumulação e crise, como elementos simultâneos e permanentes na lógica do capital, mesmo que sua manifestação apareça de forma polarizada e cíclica. Desta forma, consideramos que na atual conjuntura de predominância do capital financeiro, ou seja, de dependência do agronegócio em relação ao mercado de dinheiro, seu o principal produto seria a própria dívida. / This thesis investigates factors that influenced the construction of the image of agriculture in the capitalist mode of production and its representation by the concept that was disseminated as agribusiness. The use of this word became common in academic and political spheres, as well as in the media. The so-called industrialization of agriculture was more prevalent particularly after 1950s, in a context of a crisis of over-accumulation of capital internationally. In Brazil, this production model was supported especially after 1960, and combined large plantations with the use of industrial inputs. The historical period identified as imperialist and characterized by monopolist capital coincides with the process of agriculture industrialization. Monopolist property includes all elements of the production chain, from the control over raw materials until commodity circulation, considering the role of financial capital. The internationalization of this system through capital export increased monocropping in some countries and the international division of labor, based on their colonial history. The role of the State as the main instrument to provide subsidies to agribusiness functioned as a stimulus to the predominance of financial capital. The concept of agribusiness was created as an ideological framework to intensify the industrialization of agriculture, in a context determined by the critical reproduction of capital. This analysis leads us to understand the dialectical relation between accumulation and crisis, as simultaneous and permanent elements in the logic of capital, even if they appear in a polarized and cyclical form. Therefore, in the current context of predominance of fictional capital, in other words, when agribusiness depends on financial markets, its main product is debt.
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Capital financeiro, o imperialismo norte-americano e sua hegemonia: 1990-2010 / Financial capital, US imperialism and its hegemony: 1990-2010

Ferreira, Paulo Sergio Souza 27 April 2017 (has links)
A argumentação desenvolvida nesse trabalho gira em torno da ideia de que a partir da fase imperialista do capital, a especulação encontrou solo fértil para o seu pleno desenvolvimento. A estreita conexão existente entre a esfera monetária e financeira, e a esfera real e produtiva no imperialismo capitalista deu origem ao capital financeiro. Com o domínio das sociedades anônimas sobre a estrutura da economia capitalista deu-se grande impulso ao sistema de crédito (devido à necessidade de financiamento das sociedades por ações por intermédio da Bolsa de Valores), o que propiciou as condições para o desenvolvimento do capital fictício. / The argument developed in this paper revolves around the idea that from the imperialist phase of capital, speculation has found fertile ground for its full development. The close connection between the monetary and financial sphere and the real and productive sphere in capitalist imperialism gave rise to financial capital. With the dominance of corporations on the structure of the capitalist economy, the credit system was given great impetus (due to the need to finance stock companies through the Stock Exchange), which provided the conditions for the development of fictitious capital.
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Sob mesmo teto: pobreza e globalização na periferia de São Paulo / Under the same roof: poverty and globalization in Sao Paulo\'s periphery

Santos, Kauê Lopes dos 18 July 2011 (has links)
Em tempos de globalização, o capital financeiro tornou-se um aspecto essencial no estudo da pobreza urbana brasileira, uma vez que a expansão da disponibilidade e do acesso ao crédito viabilizou a aquisição de bens eletrônicos modernos por parte daqueles que vivem nas periferias metropolitanas. Em São Paulo, a particularidade desse processo reside no fato de que não houve uma mudança significativa na renda familiar tampouco nos índices de desemprego da população. Além disso, apesar das fortes mudanças no padrão de consumo nas periferias, seus habitantes continuam vivendo sob situação precária em bairros marcados pela falta de investimento em infraestruturas e serviços básicos. A partir desses contrastes na vida da população de baixa renda, procuramos entender em que medida o capital financeiro esta transformando a pobreza urbana e o espaço periférico. / In the Globalization Era, the financial capital has become an essential aspect to explain the Brazilian urban poverty, once the increasing availability and access to credit have allowed the acquisition of modern eletronic by those who live in the metropolitan periphery. In São Paulo City, the particularity of this process lies in the fact that there have been no much change in the familial income neither in the unemployment rate. Despite the consumption standard changing in peripheries, people still live under precarious situation at neighborhoods that lack investment in their basics infrastructures and services. Given these contrasts in the lives of low income population, we aim to understand to what extent financial capital is transforming urban poverty and the peripherical space.
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Modo capitalista de produção e agricultura: a construção do conceito de agronegócio / Agriculture in the capitalist mode of production: the construction of the agribusiness concept

Maria Luisa Rocha Ferreira de Mendonça 03 June 2013 (has links)
Esta tese investiga fatores que exerceram influência na construção da imagem da agricultura no modo capitalista de produção e sua representação através do conceito que passou a ser difundido como agronegócio. O uso deste termo se propagou tanto nos círculos acadêmicos, quanto nos meios políticos e de comunicação. A chamada industrialização da agricultura ocorre principalmente a partir dos anos 1950, em um contexto de crise de superacumulação de capital em nível mundial. No Brasil, este modelo ganha força principalmente a partir dos anos 1960 e combina a grande exploração agrícola com o estímulo ao uso de insumos industriais. É no período marcado pelo caráter monopolista ou imperialista do capital que se observa o processo de industrialização da agricultura, conhecido popularmente como agronegócio. A propriedade monopolista pressupõe a incorporação de todos os momentos da chamada cadeia produtiva, desde o controle sobre matérias primas até a circulação das mercadorias, considerando-se o papel essencial do capital financeiro. A internacionalização deste modelo através da exportação de capitais aprofundou a especialização dos monocultivos em determinados países e a divisão internacional do trabalho, a partir da herança colonial. A função do Estado como principal agente facilitador de financiamento para o agronegócio serve de alavanca para as determinações do capital financeiro. Observamos que a criação do conceito de agronegócio, como forma de gerar uma moldura ideológica para a intensificação da industrialização da agricultura, ocorre em um contexto determinado pela reprodução crítica do capital. Tal análise nos leva a entender a relação dialética entre acumulação e crise, como elementos simultâneos e permanentes na lógica do capital, mesmo que sua manifestação apareça de forma polarizada e cíclica. Desta forma, consideramos que na atual conjuntura de predominância do capital financeiro, ou seja, de dependência do agronegócio em relação ao mercado de dinheiro, seu o principal produto seria a própria dívida. / This thesis investigates factors that influenced the construction of the image of agriculture in the capitalist mode of production and its representation by the concept that was disseminated as agribusiness. The use of this word became common in academic and political spheres, as well as in the media. The so-called industrialization of agriculture was more prevalent particularly after 1950s, in a context of a crisis of over-accumulation of capital internationally. In Brazil, this production model was supported especially after 1960, and combined large plantations with the use of industrial inputs. The historical period identified as imperialist and characterized by monopolist capital coincides with the process of agriculture industrialization. Monopolist property includes all elements of the production chain, from the control over raw materials until commodity circulation, considering the role of financial capital. The internationalization of this system through capital export increased monocropping in some countries and the international division of labor, based on their colonial history. The role of the State as the main instrument to provide subsidies to agribusiness functioned as a stimulus to the predominance of financial capital. The concept of agribusiness was created as an ideological framework to intensify the industrialization of agriculture, in a context determined by the critical reproduction of capital. This analysis leads us to understand the dialectical relation between accumulation and crisis, as simultaneous and permanent elements in the logic of capital, even if they appear in a polarized and cyclical form. Therefore, in the current context of predominance of fictional capital, in other words, when agribusiness depends on financial markets, its main product is debt.
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Sob mesmo teto: pobreza e globalização na periferia de São Paulo / Under the same roof: poverty and globalization in Sao Paulo\'s periphery

Kauê Lopes dos Santos 18 July 2011 (has links)
Em tempos de globalização, o capital financeiro tornou-se um aspecto essencial no estudo da pobreza urbana brasileira, uma vez que a expansão da disponibilidade e do acesso ao crédito viabilizou a aquisição de bens eletrônicos modernos por parte daqueles que vivem nas periferias metropolitanas. Em São Paulo, a particularidade desse processo reside no fato de que não houve uma mudança significativa na renda familiar tampouco nos índices de desemprego da população. Além disso, apesar das fortes mudanças no padrão de consumo nas periferias, seus habitantes continuam vivendo sob situação precária em bairros marcados pela falta de investimento em infraestruturas e serviços básicos. A partir desses contrastes na vida da população de baixa renda, procuramos entender em que medida o capital financeiro esta transformando a pobreza urbana e o espaço periférico. / In the Globalization Era, the financial capital has become an essential aspect to explain the Brazilian urban poverty, once the increasing availability and access to credit have allowed the acquisition of modern eletronic by those who live in the metropolitan periphery. In São Paulo City, the particularity of this process lies in the fact that there have been no much change in the familial income neither in the unemployment rate. Despite the consumption standard changing in peripheries, people still live under precarious situation at neighborhoods that lack investment in their basics infrastructures and services. Given these contrasts in the lives of low income population, we aim to understand to what extent financial capital is transforming urban poverty and the peripherical space.
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Capital financeiro, o imperialismo norte-americano e sua hegemonia: 1990-2010 / Financial capital, US imperialism and its hegemony: 1990-2010

Paulo Sergio Souza Ferreira 27 April 2017 (has links)
A argumentação desenvolvida nesse trabalho gira em torno da ideia de que a partir da fase imperialista do capital, a especulação encontrou solo fértil para o seu pleno desenvolvimento. A estreita conexão existente entre a esfera monetária e financeira, e a esfera real e produtiva no imperialismo capitalista deu origem ao capital financeiro. Com o domínio das sociedades anônimas sobre a estrutura da economia capitalista deu-se grande impulso ao sistema de crédito (devido à necessidade de financiamento das sociedades por ações por intermédio da Bolsa de Valores), o que propiciou as condições para o desenvolvimento do capital fictício. / The argument developed in this paper revolves around the idea that from the imperialist phase of capital, speculation has found fertile ground for its full development. The close connection between the monetary and financial sphere and the real and productive sphere in capitalist imperialism gave rise to financial capital. With the dominance of corporations on the structure of the capitalist economy, the credit system was given great impetus (due to the need to finance stock companies through the Stock Exchange), which provided the conditions for the development of fictitious capital.
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The role of cooperative societies in rural finance : evidence from Ogun State, Nigeria

Onafowokan, Oluyombo January 2012 (has links)
The study assess the roles played by cooperative societies’ savings and loans services on members’ economic condition, standard of living and in meeting participants financial needs in rural locations where there is no bank nor other formal financial providers. Using a combination of interview, focus group discussion and questionnaire techniques, the study covers the activities of cooperative societies located in rural communities and villages outside the state capital and local government headquarters where there is no electricity, water and tarred road in Ogun State, Nigeria. From its findings, this study identified and discussed potential areas for the improvement of cooperative societies that could be of benefit to rural finance providers and the cooperative members. The study is the first empirical investigation in Nigeria that focuses on the relevance of cooperative societies on members’ standard of living in rural communities and villages. The study shed light on how rural communities function – how their relationships develop, how individual esteem is increased, how interdependence grows, how hierarchies are maintained – and how this is facilitated in part by the loan-making of members promoted cooperatives. It has also provided more evidence on the importance of land ownership, and how this is enhanced when rural communities have access to cheap and affordable loans. It has also provided insights into the development of rural businesses, how complex they are, and how they require more input than the financing received through cooperative loans. The study breaks new ground in informal cooperative functioning, community development and rural finance research by providing a distinction between standard of living and quality of life variables in measuring the economic condition of rural dwellers, and the production of circle of social capital theory that the role of cooperatives to the members involve financial capital, physical capital and social capital which are interrelated. This helps to appropriately identify the roles of cooperative societies in rural finance to increase in household income, ownership of household assets and acquisition of enterprise assets. However, participation in the cooperative does not lead to enterprise profitability, while rural financial needs are more accessible from cooperatives than other sources.
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Imperialismo e o capitalismo monopolista dependente no Brasil

Silva, Cristiano Monteiro da 28 April 2010 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:23:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristiano Monteiro da Silva.pdf: 1497290 bytes, checksum: d67f14f6f983161df5e9c57d31028890 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-28 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / From the crisis of the post-war boom, the dominant group of imperialist countries faced many contradictions in international relations. The election of Margaret Thatcher (1979), in England, and Ronald Reagan (1980), in United States marked the beginning of a new political strategy. Liberalism was presented by the dominant group as the strategic solution for the contradictions of capitalism. The internationalization of financial capital has led to changes in economic, social, political and ideological order in many regions of the world. In case of Brazil, the internationalization of financial capital in recent years caused a broad process of centralization of capital. In accordance with strictly economical terms, noted that there was not substantial investment rate. This study aims to analyze relations between the internationalization of financial capital, in the context of the structural crisis of capital in the middle of 70 years, and the process of centralization of capital, observed on the Brazilian economy, especially in the 1990s. For both, using original theoretical sense of categories of Marxist theory of imperialism that explain the capitalist from their breeding social relations and politics, under the vision of middle class organization of monopolies, and about the world system of exploratory nature States. The central hypothesis is that the Brazilian economy is experiencing a structural situation of dependent monopolistic capitalism, on which the capitalist accumulation leans against tendencies, with highlight to centralization of capitals / A partir da crise do Boom do Pós Guerra, o grupo dominante dos países imperialistas passou a enfrentar muitas contradições no plano das relações internacionais. As eleições de Margaret Thatcher (1979), na Inglaterra, e Ronald Reagan (1980), nos Estados Unidos, marcaram o início de uma nova estratégia política. O neoliberalismo foi apresentado pelo grupo dominante como a solução estratégica para as contradições do capitalismo. A internacionalização do capital financeiro provocou mudanças na ordem econômica, social, política e ideológica em vários cantos do mundo. No caso brasileiro, a internacionalização do capital financeiro ocorrida nos últimos anos provocou um amplo processo de centralização de capitais. Em termos estritamente econômicos, nota-se que não houve um crescimento substancial da taxa de investimento. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo central analisar as relações entre a internacionalização do capital financeiro, no contexto da crise estrutural do capital verificada em meados da década de 70, e o processo de centralização de capitais, observado na economia brasileira, sobretudo a partir dos anos 90. Para tanto, faz-se uso do sentido original das categorias da teoria marxista clássica do imperialismo que explica a reprodução capitalista partindo de suas relações sociais e políticas, sob a ótica da organização burguesa dos monopólios, e a montagem de um sistema mundial de Estados de caráter exploratório. A hipótese central é que a economia brasileira vive uma situação estrutural de capitalismo monopolista dependente, na qual a acumulação capitalista apóia-se em contratendências, com destaque maior para as centralizações de capitais

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