Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Helen de Montille Ferreira.pdf: 3880375 bytes, checksum: 5e00b4027d62f1629c7a7f3517903bce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-13 / A service club is a voluntary association of individuals, professionals with a common goal. It is an area of civic and political socialization where its members implement citizenship. Rotary International is one of the largest service club in the world with 105 years of existence. It has been conducted a quantitative and qualitative research to verify the characteristics of a service club of Rotary International, Rotary Club São Paulo Avenida Paulista, which develops social projects in various areas relevant to society. It is presented the socio-economic relations of the associates and relationships that they lay in the formulation and implementation of social projects. The analysis of network and social capital is the pillar of support of the members for the existence of social relevance. It discusses the importance of partnerships in the implementation of projects. The donation system, that permeates the club, brings an understanding for the commitment of the volunteers involved. Through network analysis it has been verified the internal and external relationships of the club, as well as the movement of capital by reciprocity and the motivations of volunteers. The research has revealed that the associate profile is a well established businessman, interested in using their profession to improve the quality of life of society. The internal network between members, reveals a leadership based on knowledge. The leadership does not follow the hierarchical structure of the club. The national and international network has proved to be small without large amounts of bonds. There are subgroups where the members participate in several at once. Social capital highlights the cooperation and trust between members of the international organization. The associates use the individual networks to implement the projects. There is a retribution of volunteer work performed, proving the theory of giving supports and motivates members / Um clube de serviço é uma associação voluntária de pessoas, profissionais, com um objetivo comum. É um espaço de socialização política e cívica onde seus associados implementam a cidadania. O Rotary Internacional é um dos maiores clubes de serviços no mundo, com 105 anos de existência. Foi feita uma pesquisa quantitativa e qualitativa para verificar as características de um clube de serviço do Rotary Internacional, o Rotary Club São Paulo Avenida Paulista, que elabora projetos sociais relevantes em diversas áreas para a sociedade. É apresentado o perfil sócio-econômico dos associados e as relações que eles estabelecem na formulação e execução dos projetos sociais. A análise da rede e do capital social constitui o pilar de sustentação dos associados para existência de projetos sociais de relevância. Discute-se a importância das parcerias na execução dos projetos. O sistema de dádiva que permeia o clube traz um entendimento sobre o comprometimento dos associados voluntários. Mediante a análise da rede, verificaram-se os relacionamentos internos e externos do clube, assim como a circulação do capital social pela reciprocidade e pelas motivações dos voluntários. A pesquisa revelou que o perfil do associado é o de um empresário já bem estabelecido, interessado em realizar por meio de sua profissão a melhoria de qualidade de vida da sociedade. A rede interna entre os associados revela uma liderança baseada no conhecimento e não na estrutura hierárquica do clube. A rede nacional e internacional revelou-se pequena, sem grande quantidade de laços. As motivações formam subgrupos nos quais os associados podem participar em vários ao mesmo tempo. O capital social evidencia a cooperação e a confiança existente entre os membros da organização internacional. Os associados se utilizam de suas redes individuais para implementar os projetos. Existe uma retribuição do trabalho voluntário efetuado, comprovando a teoria da dádiva como sustentação da motivação dos associados

Although healthy relationship initiatives are becoming more common, relatively little is known about the processes and outcomes of these initiatives. This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach to examine the experiences of Family and Consumer Science (FCS) extension agents in the implementation of couple and relationship education in the Utah Healthy Relationship Initiative. Data were collected through quarterly report forms submitted by extension agents describing successes and barriers to their work. Successes in the project related to collaborative partnerships, attendance/participation, and positive outcomes for participants. Collaborative partnerships were instrumental in reaching more participants and finding cultural resources. The challenges that agents reported included constraints for participants and agents' difficulties with resources. The findings underscore the benefits of creating flexible, low-intensity, and low-cost activities that attract participants and reduce some of the barriers to participation, as well as teaming up with community organizations to implement couple and relationship education programs.

A tese propõe a análise dogmática da exclusão de sócio por falta grave na sociedade limitada, prevista nos arts. 1.030, 1.085 e 1.058 c/c 1.004 do Código Civil, tema que, apesar da enorme relevância e da existência de muitos estudos, comporta grandes dificuldades teóricas e práticas, carecendo a doutrina brasileira de uma análise sistemática e detalhada dos seus diversos aspectos. Assim, busca-se a sistematização da matéria e a construção de um modelo hermenêutico compatível com a nossa realidade normativa, além de tratar de questões pouco (ou nada) debatidas, pautando critérios a fim de que tal instituto tutele adequadamente o interesse e a funcionalidade da sociedade limitada e os direitos dos sócios. Para tanto, analisa-se, no primeiro capítulo, o pressuposto material (falta grave) da exclusão de sócio diante do descumprimento de seus deveres. Já no segundo capítulo são estudados os procedimentos possíveis (exclusão judicial ou extrajudicial) para a exclusão de sócio que comete uma falta grave. Finalmente, o terceiro capítulo aborda as consequências da exclusão de sócio por falta grave na sociedade limitada (perda do status socii, apuração e pagamento dos haveres, tratamento dado às quotas do excluído e alteração do nome social). / This thesis examines the expulsion, for serious fault, of partners from limited liability companies, provided for in articles 1030, 1085, and 1058 read with 1004 of the Brazilian Civil Code. Despite the subjects enormous importance, and the various studies that exist, the expulsion of partners presents many theoretical and practical difficulties, and there has been no systematic, detailed study of the subject in its various aspects by Brazilian legal scholars. Thus, this work seeks to present a systematic analysis of the subject, constructing an interpretative model that is consistent with the reality of Brazils legal system, addressing questions that have been the subject of little (if any) debate, and suggesting criteria that will ensure that expulsion of partners adequately protects the interests and functionality of the limited liability company and the partners rights. The first chapter analyzes the substantive premise (serious fault) for expulsion of a partner that has breached his duties. The second chapter studies the possible procedures (judicial and non-judicial) for expelling a partner that has committed a serious fault. Lastly, the third chapter addresses the consequences of expulsion of a partner from a limited liability company for serious fault (loss of status socii, calculation and payment of the value of the expelled partners equity interest in the company, treatment given to the quotas held by the expelled partner, and change of the companys name).

This thesis seeks to understand and improve the effectiveness of partnerships formed by industry, community and government members of natural resource management (NRM) groups. The increasing popularity of partnership-based approaches to NRM is reflected in the rise of landcare, catchment management and other social mobilisation approaches throughout Australia and overseas. This thesis uses critical ethnographic methods to identify the characteristics of effective NRM partnerships and the factors influencing their effectiveness. This research also investigates appropriate methods for evaluating the effectiveness of such relationships and for determining when working in partnership with others may be the most appropriate response to a given NRM problem and context. The critical intent of the study means that it sought not only to understand the nature of such issues but also sought to enlighten and empower participants to improve the practice of partnerships in natural resource management. These characteristics and factors are analysed from three perspectives: the coordinators employed to broker and facilitate community-based NRM groups, the groups themselves and individual group members. This was done in order to reflect the importance of the continuous (re)negotiation of power that characterises long-term group relationships. It also enabled theories of power, cultural transformation, citizen participation, social capital and social learning to be used in the analysis of the NRM partnerships investigated in this study. These concepts were used to develop three tools for analysing NRM partnerships: a pendulum of citizen participation, an NRM citizen participation decision tree, and an NRM partnership typology. The study is based upon the analysis of nineteen cases, predominantly in South East Queensland, which were selected as examples of successful and effective NRM partnerships on the basis of referrals from regional managers and coordinators from State and Local Government. The research design was 'T' shaped, with Phase 1 of the study providing breadth through the analysis of fifteen partnerships. Depth was achieved in Phases 2 and 3. Phase 2 was a long-term ethnographic case study of one catchment management group while Phase 3 comprised a detailed analysis of three issue-specific partnerships formed by this group. These three phases concentrated on the viewpoint of coordinators, NRM groups and participants, respectively. Data on each of the nineteen cases were collected through interviews, field observations, workshops, document analyses and a short questionnaire. Data were analysed qualitatively. All data records were systematically coded to reveal themes and concepts relating to the research objectives from the viewpoints of coordinators, NRM groups and participants. Coding also revealed implications for governments seeking to enter into or to facilitate partnerships with others. The coding and interpretation of this data revealed a suite of twelve characteristics typical of effective natural resource management partnerships. These fell into five groups: (i) definitional characteristics (relating to effectiveness and shared power and responsibility) (ii) relationship characteristics (focusing on social capital building processes; communication; processes for knowledge acquisition and social learning; shared values, intent, action and risk-taking) (iii) participant characteristics (high levels of motivation and realistic expectations); (iv) a context characteristic (that the context is appropriate for a partnership) and (v) an 'outsider' perception characteristic (that the partnership is perceive positively by outsiders). A comparative analysis of cases reveals that only one of the nineteen cases exhibited all twelve characteristics. Importantly, three of these characteristics are not mentioned in the literature reviewed for this thesis. Two of these, share values and shared intent are relationship characteristics. Study findings emphasise that effective NRM partnerships are built on good personal relationships, based on shared values and intent. The third new characteristic is that people outside the partnership should perceive the relationship favourably. Since funds and other resources may be under the control of people outside a partnership, it is important that participants are able to effectively communicate their shared values and intent to others. Five factors were found to be significant in the development of effective partnerships (i) the need for participants and those brokering partnerships to realize that effective partnerships are built on positive personal relationships in which (ii) participants have high levels of motivation for being involved, particularly early in the relationship. The study further revealed that such relationships: (iii) need to be supported by a continuity of adequate funding and resources and (iv) the services of skilled, enthusiastic coordinators who (v) enjoy and are skilled at working in 'grey areas', the constantly changing social and organizational environment that is typical of NRM groups. These findings of the study are synthesized through a critical ethnography which depicts three years in the life of a typical, yet hypothetical, NRM group, the Armstrong Narrows-Yarooba Catchment Management Group (ANY Group). Based on the literature review and the analysis of results from this study, this composite story protects the anonymity of those who have participated in this research. Each of the three vignettes that make up this story contains two sections -As it was and As it could be. This 'double take approach' highlights the critical nature of the ethnography, emphasising how the development of collaborations and partnerships among members of NRM groups may be improved and evaluated. Coordinators, NRM group members and agencies supporting their efforts may use this ethnography as a basis for reflection and deliberation on the development of effective partnerships in natural resource management. Recommendations for how different stakeholders in NRM partnerships may develop the effectiveness of the partnerships they form are provided.

The Chinese inbound tourism market to Australia has been acknowledged as an emerging market and a major export earner. However, Australian inbound tour operators experience difficulties in establishing and developing viable partner relationships with Chinese travel agents. Recognising the size, importance and complexity of this market, the major purpose of this research is to explore and investigate the crucial process of developing Sino-Australian partnership relationships in the tourism industry, and to educate Australian tourism operatives about this process to facilitate the establishment of business relationships with Chinese travel agents. Hence, the principal research question posed in this thesis is: How might Australian tourism product suppliers and marketers establish and maintain partnership relationships with Chinese travel agents to help Australia become a preferred tourist destination for Chinese tourists? This study is exploratory in nature and draws on applied marketing, management and cross-cultural theories on networking to explore the process of developing partnership relationships in the Chinese inbound tourism market to Australia. The literature on networking, and the development of networking relationships, has been theorised drawing principally on the marketing and management literature. The impact of cross-cultural differences and the effect of guanxi (connection), a key feature of Chinese business networking, on partnership relations between Chinese travel agents and Australian inbound tour operators, is also reviewed and discussed. One of the main contributions of this research is its multidisciplinary nature, drawing on relationship marketing and network theories and applying them to tourism research. Little research has been undertaken into tourism-based partnership relations in the cross-national context. Given the limited research conducted on this topic and its cross-cultural nature, a qualitative research method was adopted for this study. Specifically, this study utilised in-depth interviewing techniques to explore the relationships between Australian inbound tour operators and Chinese travel agents. This study identifies that the process of developing partnership relationships between Chinese travel agents and Australian inbound tour operators is, as expected, highly culturally embedded but in unexpected ways. Although all the Australian inbound tour operators in the study are of Chinese descent, they have adapted to Australian culture and business ethics, giving rise to communication problems that affect partnership relationships. A new stage model of the development of partnership relationships between Australian inbound tour operators and Chinese travel agents is therefore developed by incorporating cross-cultural factors into Western theories on networking and relationship marketing. In particular, the thesis identifies important factors in each stage of the process of developing business relationships. For example, resilient trust and mutual commitment, the pricing issue, word-of-mouth, and quality of services are all considered crucial in attaining long-term stable partnership relationships. Disproving popular myths about guanxi in some of the previous literature, the findings from this research demonstrate that, in China's economic transition period, guanxi plays a significant, but not decisive role in the process of developing partnership relationships between Chinese travel agents and Australian inbound tour operators. However, guanxi relationships can provide added value to the partnership relationships of Australian operators.

<p>Abstract</p><p>The research investigates the sustainability and effectiveness of the projects that are funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in Kenya. SIDA is the Swedish central state agency responsible for planning, implementing and managing Aid. The research applies both the absorptive capacity and the institutional theory to explain the phenomenon of Aid projects failures in Kenya. The research has used a qualitative research method, a literature study that blend with structured open-ended interview questions which we have formulated.</p><p>By studying the various Actors involved in Swedish foreign Aid, their operations and deliverance, it will facilitate our study to establish the major causes and origins of development projects failures in Kenya. The main and current Swedish development goals are “improving the standard of living for poor people”, the sub goals are Economic growth, Economic and social equality, Economic and Political Independence, Democratic Development and Protection of human rights, Sustainable use of natural resources, protection of Environment Conflict management and Security. The reason why Aid projects are not producing the intended results could be divided into two parts; the planning problem that emanate from the donors side. The irony is that development partners are viewed to be aiming at alleviating poverty without proper planning and even their priorities are not always right. The other major reason is attributed to the recipients’ side and could be summarized as lack of democracy, corruption, weak institutions, lack of absorptive capacity and mismanagement.</p>

<p>As the Chinese rate of growth has accelerated, China is increasingly considered as an important market for a diverse range of goods and services, including the advancedand complex. This has caught the attention of foreign firms in general and Swedish multinational companies in particular (Demir & Söderman 2007). This thesis focuses on a Chinese perspective of Chinese partners' decision making in SFJV, which is lacking in previous research. Six variables which are related to Chinese partners'decision making in SFJV are founded on a theoretical background. Then these six variables are compiled into a Chinese partners' decision making model. Each of these six variables is further divided into several factors. Data is then collect by a case study in which several SFJVs and their Chinese parents-Chinese partners are interviewed.This data is later used to verify and improve the original model which is founded on theoretical background. Finally an updated Chinese partners' decision making modelis created. The thesis concludes with the important findings and a discussion of the applicability of this model, contribution of the research, and future possible research orientation.</p>

Abstract The research investigates the sustainability and effectiveness of the projects that are funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in Kenya. SIDA is the Swedish central state agency responsible for planning, implementing and managing Aid. The research applies both the absorptive capacity and the institutional theory to explain the phenomenon of Aid projects failures in Kenya. The research has used a qualitative research method, a literature study that blend with structured open-ended interview questions which we have formulated. By studying the various Actors involved in Swedish foreign Aid, their operations and deliverance, it will facilitate our study to establish the major causes and origins of development projects failures in Kenya. The main and current Swedish development goals are “improving the standard of living for poor people”, the sub goals are Economic growth, Economic and social equality, Economic and Political Independence, Democratic Development and Protection of human rights, Sustainable use of natural resources, protection of Environment Conflict management and Security. The reason why Aid projects are not producing the intended results could be divided into two parts; the planning problem that emanate from the donors side. The irony is that development partners are viewed to be aiming at alleviating poverty without proper planning and even their priorities are not always right. The other major reason is attributed to the recipients’ side and could be summarized as lack of democracy, corruption, weak institutions, lack of absorptive capacity and mismanagement.

<p>HIV poses considerable social and health challenges in South Africa, particularly among young people aged 15-24. Research indicates a strong link between risky sexual behaviour and alcohol and illicit drugs. In the Western Cape drug-related behaviours is a growing concern among young people because of relatively high prevalence rates of drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine. Previous South African studies have tended to focused on the link between substance use and risky sexual behaviour among commercial sex workers. The theoretical approach of this study is the information motivation behavioural skills model. Participants were selected using non-probability sampling of 279 first year students registered for Psychology I at the University of the Western Cape. This study employed a quantitative research approach using a survey design. Results: Forty-six percent of students do not believe that the use of illicit drugs has an impact on a person&rsquo / s sexual behavior. However, the findings also showed that only 45% of students believed that there was a difference between illicit drug users correctly using condoms when compared to non-users. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Conclusion: Prevention is our best and most effective means of decreasing risk-taking behaviours associated with HIV infection. Information is the first line of intervention that is necessary to reduce risk-taking behaviours / however prevention strategies and interventions of risk-taking behaviours should aim to increase motivation and help young people integrate information in a way that it is personally relatable. This is vital to address the inconsistencies between perceptions of risk and the realities of risk-taking behaviour.</p>

As the Chinese rate of growth has accelerated, China is increasingly considered as an important market for a diverse range of goods and services, including the advancedand complex. This has caught the attention of foreign firms in general and Swedish multinational companies in particular (Demir &amp; Söderman 2007). This thesis focuses on a Chinese perspective of Chinese partners' decision making in SFJV, which is lacking in previous research. Six variables which are related to Chinese partners'decision making in SFJV are founded on a theoretical background. Then these six variables are compiled into a Chinese partners' decision making model. Each of these six variables is further divided into several factors. Data is then collect by a case study in which several SFJVs and their Chinese parents-Chinese partners are interviewed.This data is later used to verify and improve the original model which is founded on theoretical background. Finally an updated Chinese partners' decision making modelis created. The thesis concludes with the important findings and a discussion of the applicability of this model, contribution of the research, and future possible research orientation.