Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-311).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Management and Marketing, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205)

Nationalism prevails both inside and outside of what is known to be the geographic boundaries of the nation, as seen by immigrants in the United States, for instance, who recreate sociocultural environments that remind them of home. This study focuses on one such case: Cuban nationalism. How is it that nationalism is found among Cubans born and raised in the island and those born and raised outside? What is at the core of this nationalism that connects persons of different national upbringings? It has something to do with a love for the people, but such a hypothesis needed further explanation. Thus, I collected surveys from 46 Cuban Americans and 48 Cubans in the island who answered basic national history and cultural questions, and engaged in thought experiments. Each respondent was assigned a nationalist score (1 to 4) based on their responses, and the mean score values of both samples were calculated. The responses confirmed that Cuban nationalism is indeed an admiration not only for the people, but more for their sociocultural way of being. Moreover, nationalism is thought to be influenced by domestic factors, but it is equally impacted by international ones. Cuba’s involvement in Angola from 1975 to 1989, where more than 500,000 Cubans served, demonstrates this. As it impacted so many Cubans, it is important to ask: to what extent did this foreign affair affect national identities? To address this question, I interviewed 27 internationalists and examined how this event informed national identities among those involved. Overall, the following study provides an in-depth account of Cuban nationalism as a case study to better understand nationalism as a concept.

L'Association internationale des travailleurs, fondée en 1922, est la principale fédération d'organisations anarcho-syndicalistes, un courant important du mouvement ouvrier, essentiellement en Europe et en Amérique latine entre les années 1910 et 1930. Les collectivisations révolutionnaires en Espagne au cours de la guerre civile constituent sa plus grande réalisation, tandis qu'un déclin du mouvement s'est déjà amorcé dans les autres pays. Confrontés à leur propre mise en pratique, les principes, tactiques et finalités anarcho-syndicalistes commencent alors à être mis en question. Cette thèse étudie les causes et manifestations de la crise qui commence à ce moment, et dure tout au long du XXe siècle, entraînant sa division et sa marginalisation ; en même temps que ses résurgences multiformes. Elle permet d'entrevoir les transformations de l'AIT, du courant et de la culture qu'elle représente, ainsi que les raisons de leur persistance. / The International Workers Association was founded in 1922, and is the historical and largest organisation of anarcho-syndicalism, one of the major working class currents, mainly in Europe and Latin America between the 1910 and 1930 decades. The collectivizations in Spain during the civil war represent its biggest fulfillment, while in the other countries the movement allready started to decline. The practical application of the anarcho-syndicalist principles, tactics and aims leads to various re-assessments and internal conflicts. This thesis studies the causes and manifestations of the long term crisis which starts at this moment and goes on throughout the whole XXth century. At the same time as anarcho-syndicalism divides and marginalizes itself, multiform resurgences occurs. This overview enables to discern the transformations of the IWA, of the current and the culture it embodies, and the reasons of their persistence.

Submitted by Marlene Santos (marlene.bc.ufg@gmail.com) on 2016-09-09T20:34:24Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fagner Enrique Fonseca de Oliveira - 2016.pdf: 2373277 bytes, checksum: 85b8655aac9744dc9e614ca81181969f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2016-09-12T14:22:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fagner Enrique Fonseca de Oliveira - 2016.pdf: 2373277 bytes, checksum: 85b8655aac9744dc9e614ca81181969f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-12T14:22:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fagner Enrique Fonseca de Oliveira - 2016.pdf: 2373277 bytes, checksum: 85b8655aac9744dc9e614ca81181969f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research has as its object Mário Pedrosa's political work from 1925 to 1966. The study makes use of the theoretical and methodological model proposed by João Bernardo, and follows Pedrosa's course through several social groups, seeking to understand the intellectual evolution of the author from the ideologies expressed by such groups. The work's objective is to present and provide an explanation to Pedrosa's transition from proletarian internationalism to the Third World nationalism. That explanation centers on the author's institutional trajectory, first through social groups linked to the working class, then through social groups linked to various classes, which is interpreted as the gateway to the Third World nationalism. This study comes to fill a gap in academic research on the author, bringing unknown writings from Pedrosa, mostly from the 1950's, that set him within the field of Brazilian anti-imperialist nationalism, alongside intellectuals linked for instance to the ISEB and other institutions. Pedrosa is best known for his trajectory within the ambit of the arts, the ambit of culture. And his best known political work, and for there is a satisfactory historiographic production, is that one of the 1920's. Thus, through this thesis, we intend to present an intellectual evolution that is unknown in the academic ambit. / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto a obra política de Mário Pedrosa de 1925 a 1966. O estudo faz uso do modelo teórico-metodológico proposto por João Bernardo, e acompanha o percurso de Pedrosa por diversos grupos sociais, buscando compreender a evolução intelectual do autor a partir das ideologias expressas por tais grupos. O objetivo da obra é apresentar e fornecer uma explicação para a transição de Pedrosa do internacionalismo proletário para o nacionalismo terceiro-mundista. Essa explicação é centrada na trajetória institucional do autor, primeiro passando por grupos sociais vinculados à classe trabalhadora, depois passando por grupos sociais vinculados a várias classes, o que é interpretado como a porta de entrada para o nacionalismo terceiro-mundista. Este estudo vem para preencher uma lacuna na produção acadêmica sobre o autor, trazendo textos desconhecidos da autoria de Pedrosa, sobretudo dos anos 1950, que o situam no campo do nacionalismo anti-imperialista brasileiro, ao lado de intelectuais vinculados por exemplo ao ISEB e outras instituições. Pedrosa é mais conhecido por sua trajetória no âmbito das artes, no âmbito da cultura. E sua obra política mais conhecida, e para a qual há uma historiografia satisfatória, é a dos anos 1920. Assim, por meio desta dissertação, pretendemos apresentar uma evolução intelectual desconhecida no âmbito acadêmico.

Submitted by Miriam Lucas (miriam.lucas@unioeste.br) on 2017-09-01T17:23:11Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Sandra_Severo_Kasper_2017.pdf: 9517391 bytes, checksum: f1f561f5dffc998681ee3dd8e114f48d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-01T17:23:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Sandra_Severo_Kasper_2017.pdf: 9517391 bytes, checksum: f1f561f5dffc998681ee3dd8e114f48d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-09 / This máster thesis delimits the comparative study of the structures of formal organization of unions in education of the Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina border, with the general objective of verifying if there is evidence of internationalist articulation among unions of public education workers in this region. The cut of the comparative study occurred in the formal organizational structures of the National Union of Educators, National Union, Ciudad del Este-Alto Paraná-Paraguay Base Committee (hereinafter UNE-SN-CDE), APP- Union of workers in education (hereinafter referred to as APP-FI) and the Union of Teachers of the Province of Misiones (hereinafter UDPM-PI), the Trade Union Department of Puerto Iguazú-Misiones-Argentina. The central question of this study was: do the formal structures of these unions reveal evidence of internationalist initiatives among workers' unions in the education of the Foz do Iguaçu-Brazil, Ciudad del Este-Paraguay and Puerto Iguazú-Argentina frontiers? What are the similarities and differences in the formal organizational structures of these unions? The initial understanding is that these unions had in common the territorial proximity, given by the Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina border. We chose as method of research the Historical Dialectical Materialism, the general categories that guided the study were praxis, totality and contradiction. We analyze the categories of content: nationalism, proletarian internationalism, I, II, III and IV editions of the International Workers' Association (1st chapter), the Brazilian scientific production on proletarian internationalism, currently (2nd chapter). Through the methodological resources of interviewing and documentary analysis, we performed the comparative analysis of oral histories, formal organization structures and union documents UNE-SN-CDE, APP-FI and UDPM-PI evidencing the internationalist articulations found (3rd chapter). The results of the study show that there are few, occasional, individualized, discontinuous and sparse internationalist articulation initiatives, materialized in the form of meetings, meetings and participation in seminars and congresses. / Nesta dissertação de mestrado delimitamos o estudo na comparação das estruturas de organização formal de sindicatos em educação da fronteira Brasil-Paraguai-Argentina, com o objetivo geral de verificar se há indícios de articulação internacionalista dentre sindicatos dos trabalhadores da educação pública nesta região. O recorte do estudo comparado se deu nas estruturas de organização formal da Unión Nacional de Educadores, Sindicato Nacional, Comité de Base Ciudad del Este-Alto Paraná-Paraguai (doravante denominada UNE-SN-CDE), da APP-Sindicato dos trabalhadores em eduacação pública do Paraná-núcleo sindical de Foz do Iguaçu-Paraná-Brasil (doravante denominada APP-FI) e da Unión de docentes de la província de Misiones (doravante denominada U.D.P.M.-PI) Departamento Sindical de Puerto Iguazú-Misiones-Argentina. Os questionamentos centrais deste estudo foram: as estruturas formais desses sindicatos revelam indícios de iniciativas internacionalistas entre sindicatos de trabalhadores em educação da fronteira Foz do Iguaçu-Brasil, Ciudad del Este-Paraguai e Puerto Iguazú-Argentina? Quais as semelhanças e quais as diferenças nas estruturas organizativas formais desses sindicatos? A compreensão inicial é que estes sindicatos tinham em comum à proximidade territorial, dada pela fronteira Brasil-Paraguai-Argentina. Elegemos como método de pesquisa o Materialismo Histórico Dialético, as categorias gerais que nortearam o estudo foram a práxis, a totalidade e a contradição. Analisamos mediante uma revisão de literatura, as categorias de conteúdo: nacionalismo, internacionalismo proletário, as I, II, III e IV edições da Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores (1º capítulo), a produção científica brasileira sobre internacionalismo proletário, na atualidade (2º capítulo). Através dos recursos metodológicos de entrevistas e análise documental, realizamos a análise comparativa: das histórias orais, das estruturas de organização formal e de documentos dos sindicatos UNE-SN-CDE, APP-FI e U.D.P.M.-PI evidenciando as articulações internacionalistas encontradas (3º capítulo). Os resultados do estudo demonstraram que existem poucas, eventuais, individualizadas, descontínuas e esparsas iniciativas de articulação internacionalista, materializadas na forma de reuniões, encontros e participação em seminários e congressos.

O trabalho investiga a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo na obra de Paul Otlet (1868-1944), com foco particular no papel do internacionalismo sobre a formação das problemáticas e soluções em torno do documento. Adotaram-se como procedimentos metodológicos levantamento, revisão e análise bibliográfico-documental, constituindo-se um corpus da produção de Otlet e de textos de seus intérpretes. Observa-se a centralidade da Primeira Guerra Mundial na argumentação de Otlet quanto ao funcionamento da vida social, e os modelos descritivos baseados na biologia, na físico-química industrial e no racionalismo pelos quais ele compreende a dinâmica social. Expõe-se seu diagnóstico de crise de crescimento e adaptação das estruturas sociopolíticas frente à internacionalização - a insuficiência do Estado-nação, a proliferação das associações internacionais, a necessidade de uma Sociedade das Nações -, e aponta-se como o internacionalismo se manifesta em seu pensamento tanto como fato quanto como posição política. Discute-se o entendimento de Otlet quanto à documentação como um fenômeno sociotécnico, observando como sua construção fundamenta e fundamenta-se sobre uma visão evolucionária do homem e da sociedade. Observa-se sua articulação das figuras de matéria e força para descrever a ação da documentação sobre o pensamento humano, expondo o documento como condição material para as possibilidades de comunicação duradoura, construção de conhecimento objetivo e em última instância de coesão social. Demonstra-se o contexto do entre-guerras como o momento em que Otlet buscara viabilizar institucionalmente a relação entre documentação e internacionalismo por meio de uma nova estrutura organizacional, o Palais mondial (mais tarde Mundaneum), e pela demanda de reconhecimento pela Liga das Nações das demandas sociais por cooperação intelectual internacional. Expõe-se como Otlet conectaria assim o desenvolvimento de consenso e a possibilidade de ação democrática ao desenvolvimento do conhecimento e à organização dos documentos. Aponta-se, por fim, a interdependência entre documentação e internacionalismo em Otlet como exemplo da necessidade de se considerar os elementos políticos e sociais subjacentes às concepções teóricas e técnicas na Ciência da Informação. / This research investigates the relationship between documentation and internationalism in Paul Otlet\'s (1868-1944) thought, focusing specifically in how internationalism informs the problematics and solutions surrounding the document. The methods employed were bibliographic and documentary survey, review and analysis of a corpus of Otlet\'s texts, as well as texts form his interpreters. It observes the centrality of the First World War in Otlet\'s reasoning concerning the workings of social life, and the descriptive models based on biology, industrial physics and chemistry, and rationalism through which he understood social dynamics. It exposes his diagnosis of a crisis of social growth and adaptation to internationalization - the insufficiency of the Nation-State, the proliferation of international associations, the need for a Society of Nations -, and it establishes how internationalism manifests in his thought both as a fact and as a political position. It discusses Otlet\'s understanding of documentation as a sociotechnical phenomenon, following how its construction supports and is supported by an evolutionary view of man and society. It observes how he employs the images of matter and force to describe the effect of documentation on human thought, pointing out the document as the material condition for the possibilities of sustained communication, the development of objective knowledge and ultimately social cohesion. It demonstrates how in the years between the World Wars Otlet aimed to establish institutionally the connection between documentation and internationalism, both by conceiving a new organizational structure, the Palais mondial (later Mundaneum), and by arguing for the League of Nations\' recognition of the social demands for international intellectual cooperation. It exposes how Otlet connected thus the development of social consensus and the possibility of democratic action to the development of knowledge and the organization of documents. Finally, it points out the interdependence between documentation and internationalism in Otlet\'s thought as an example of the need to consider the political and social elements underlying theoretical and technical conceptions in Information Science.

This doctoral dissertation is an intellectual biography which discusses the projects and utopian visions of Paul Otlet (1868-1944). Paul Otlet formulated the concept of ‘documentation’, a field incorporating both study and practice that evolved out of bibliography before developing into information science. He was also a sociologist, an internationalist and indefatigable promoter of his conception of ‘universalism’ or ‘mondialism’, and of the Mundaneum and the Cité Mondiale. The major source that is used to throw new light on Otlet as a utopian thinker is an impressive collection of thousands of unpublished schemas. By means of an historical analysis of his schemas and writings, this thesis aims to identify the fundamental universalistic character of his utopian vision of knowledge organization and international organization. Universalism was a phenomenon incorporating complex personal ideals and social objectives, assuming different meanings in the fields of science, culture and politics, and reflecting the historical circumstances and undertakings of the time. By exploring how Paul Otlet and others dealt with the issue, this dissertation aims to contribute to the history of the idea of ‘universalism’. / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The internationalisation of multinationals from emerging markets has increased remarkably over the last two decades which has caused a fundamental shift in the global economy whereby more focus is now being directed to the foreign expansion strategies pursued by these firms. There is a growing debate amongst IB scholars about the applicability of existing theories and frameworks in explaining the rise of emerging market multinationals. The objective of this research was to explore internationalisation strategies of multinationals from emerging countries to provide more insights and understanding into the foreign expansion approaches employed by these multinational companies (MNCs) when investing in other emerging economies with the focus on foreign expansion of South African chemical companies into the rest of Africa. A qualitative exploratory study was followed where 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior managers and executives across four South African chemical companies. The findings indicate how the rising competition in the domestic market due to the introduction of international competition and the increase of local market competitors led to the successful internationalisation of South African companies from the chemical. The study also shows that chemical companies from South Africa adopt a gradual internationalisation approach when expanding into the rest of Africa and these companies based their foreign expansion on firm-specific advantages that were shaped by the unique history South Africa. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / zkgibs2015 / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / Unrestricted

In and amongst the institutional chaos of Africa lies a wealth of business potential for multinational corporations (MNCs) worthy of entry. This research study investigated the effect of political, regulatory and societal norm aspects of institutions on internationalising MNC, base-of-the-pyramid (BoP), strategies across various emerging economies in Africa. Although there is an abundance of literature on the BoP markets in emerging economies, literature is limited on the construct of strategy internationalisation across African countries through the institutional lens. A qualitative research methodology was used for this study to understand the institutional variables. Individual depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight managers having cumulative experience across ten MNCs. The focus of the study was on the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. However, to give the data variance five of the interviewees were employed in the FMCG industry while the others were employed in the consumer electronics, pulp and paper, and mobile telecommunications industries. The research data were analysed using an inductive approach to explore the themes discovered. These themes were: political ties and history, consumer insight, and information and communication technology (ICT). This study confirmed the importance of institutional aspects on BoP strategy internationalisation in Africa. Also, the study discovered a new and remarkable finding that acknowledges the BoP as non-traditional MNC shareholders rather than viewing the market as consumers or business partners alone. This progressive understanding of the BoP will encourage close, long-term interaction and mutualistic relationships, and foster shared commitment through embeddedness, as well as increase market penetration through creative channels and inclusive networks. From the findings above, a functional framework was developed for MNCs exploring the BoP space in Africa. The framework builds upon and advances the BoP 2.0 protocol developed by Stuart Hart, and will enable MNCs to anticipate challenges and risks associated with BoP markets in Africa. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lmgibs2015 / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / Unrestricted