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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.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Promoting Sustainable Entrepreneurship Through Competition: The Case of Investment and Development Agency of Latvia

Mežaraups, Rihards January 2022 (has links)
The aim of this research is to analyse and describe the promotion of sustainable entrepreneurship by governmental organizations to new entrepreneurs. The thesis looks into the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) which is the main governmental body for organizing business idea competitions in Latvia. The desired outcome of this study is to provide insight into sustainability education to new entrepreneurs and point out issues on state level that hinder transition to sustainability. A qualitative research technique was selected as it offers a way to conduct a comparative research for analysing different points of view for case studies. The results showed that, among other findings, that there is too little emphasis on sustainability at national level, resulting in little interest from the public and a correspondingly narrow range of offerings from LIAA. Consequently, the excessive volume of work and functions is hindering the agency's work, which is reflected in delayed development at sustainability context. The fact that Latvia is lacking a clear national image could be perceived as the result of inability to define values for several decades and failure to implement innovative, sustainability-oriented education system.
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[en] THE IMPACT OF A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY: THE CASE OF THE REDE NACIONAL DE ENSINO E PESQUISA (RNP) / [pt] A INFLUÊNCIA DE UMA ORGANIZAÇÃO SOCIAL NA POLÍTICA EXTERNA BRASILEIRA: O CASO DA REDE NACIONAL DE ENSINO E PESQUISA (RNP)

VANESSA RODRIGUES DE MACEDO 28 February 2008 (has links)
[pt] A partir do governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso começou a ser adotado no Brasil um modelo de administração de serviços públicos de caráter público/privado, conhecido como Organização Social (OS). As OS são organizações privadas sem fins lucrativos que administram os mais variados serviços públicos nacionais. Atualmente existem cerca de 200 OSs nos planos municipal, estadual e federal, dentre elas a Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP, organização que cuida da operação bem como das questões estratégicas da Internet acadêmica brasileira. O objetivo desta dissertação é desenvolver uma análise do caso RNP visando a compreensão de sua atuação internacional e sua contribuição para a política externa brasileira. Minha hipótese pretende demonstrar que a atuação dupla da RNP, nas esferas pública e privada, potencializa sua influência na composição da agenda de política externa brasileira para a sociedade da informação e integração regional na medida em que possibilita a este ator participar simultaneamente de diferentes loci do processo decisório que influenciam na política externa. A partir de uma atuação burocrática, a RNP transita com facilidade pelas instâncias hierárquicas da burocracia e assume um papel análogo ao de uma minoria burocrática. Por meio de estratégias de influência tão, e em alguns casos até mais, capazes quanto às utilizadas pelos principais atores burocráticos, essas minorias asseguram seu espaço na arena do processo decisório de política externa. Em outro diapasão, a atuação não-estatal da RNP insere esta organização na rede horizontal de atores não-estatais em sua área de atuação. Face à relevância destes atores observada no bojo da revolução tecnológico-informacional, os mesmos vêm demonstrando efetiva participação na elaboração da política externa brasileira. / [en] Since Fernando Henrique Cardoso´s administration, Brazil started to adopt a public / private way for public services management, known as Social Organization (SO). The SOs are not-for-profit organizations that operate a variety of national public services. Currently, there are around 200 SOs operating at the local, estate and federal levels, among them Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP, the organization in charge of the Brazilian academic Internet operation and its strategic matters. The goal of this dissertation is to develop an analysis on RNP case, aiming at understanding its international actorness and its contribution for the Brazilian foreign policy. My hypothesis intends to show that RNP´s double actorness in the public and private realms, leverage its influence in the Brazilian foreign policy agenda for the information society and regional integration. This fact enables RNP to take part simultaneously in the different decision process loci that impact the country foreign policy. From bureaucratic acting, RNP moves with relative ease among the realms of the bureaucratic hierarchy and takes over a role analogous of a bureaucratic minority. By using influence strategies as capable as those used by the major bureaucratic actors, these minorities are able to conquer their space in the foreign policy decision process realm. On the other hand, the non-state RNP acting allows it to participate on the non-state actor network. On the forefront of the relevance of these non- state actors, observed on the realm of the information technology revolution, have been actively taking part in the construction of the Brazilian foreign policy agenda.

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