A presente pesquisa objetivou identificar quais são os fatores determinantes para a adoção de práticas ambientais responsáveis em um empreendimento agrícola. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, foi realizado um estudo de caso em um empreendimento agrícola de grande porte, o Condomínio Agrícola Santa Izabel (Jaboticabal-SP), cuja atividade principal está centrada na produção de cana-de-açúcar e pode ser considerado exemplo para outras organizações do meio rural, já que adota a rotação de culturas (com soja), o plantio direto, o manejo integrado de pragas e o controle biológico, a aplicação de corretivos e fertilizantes em taxa variável, a recomposição de APPs e o tratamento adequado dos resíduos gerados na produção. Entre as características do produtor, foram identificados como determinantes a escolaridade, a cultura e experiência, a adesão às cooperativas ou associação de produtores, a renda familiar, a orientação para o lucro e a consciência ambiental. Entre as características da prática, a testagem tecnológica, o custo de oportunidade, a compatibilidade e especificidade, a observabilidade, a complexidade e a credibilidade. Entre as características do negócio, o que é produzido, o tamanho da área de produção, o capital humano, o capital financeiro, a estrutura organizacional, os valores e políticas organizacionais, a rentabilidade, a renda adicional e a qualidade da produção. E, entre as características do ambiente externo, os cuidados com os recursos naturais, o relacionamento com fornecedores, o relacionamento com a comunidade/sociedade, a concorrência, o acesso a agentes de extensão e universidades, a cooperação, a imagem corporativa e o incentivo dos acionistas. O maior entendimento dos determinantes ajudou a identificar quais são os desafios para adoção destas práticas e, a partir disso, podem ser elaboradas estratégias de ação que incentivem uma maior adoção destas práticas entre os empreendimentos agrícolas do país. / This research aimed to identify the determinants for adoption of responsible environmental practices in an agricultural enterprise. To achieve the proposed objectives, a case study was conducted in a large agricultural enterprise, Condomínio Agrícola Santa Izabel (Jaboticabal- SP), whose main activity is focused on the production of sugarcane and can be considered as an example to other organizations in the rural areas, since adopting crop rotation (with soybean), conservation system, integrated pest management and biological control, application of fertilizers in variable rate, recovery of riparian forests and the treatment of waste generated in the production. Among the characteristics of the producer were identified as determinants: schooling, culture and experience, membership of the cooperative or association, family income, the guidance for profit and environmental awareness. Among the features of the practice: technology testing, cost of opportunity, compatibility and specificity, observability, complexity and credibility. Among the characteristics of the business: what is produced, the size of the area of production, human capital, financial capital, organizational structure, organizational values and policies, profitability, additional income and quality of production. And among the characteristics of the external environment: care with natural resources, supplier relationships, community/society relationship, competition, access to extension agents and universities, cooperation, corporate image and encouragement of shareholders. A better understanding of the determinants helps to identify what are the challenges to adoption of these practices and the development of strategies that encourage greater adoption among agricultural enterprises in Brazil.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:44:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_leandro_munaretto_granella.pdf: 204428 bytes, checksum: 0457f8c911627898fddf3bcd7a06da1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-30 / Each company in the field of seed production, within its own peculiarities, has a final cost to deliver its customer a product of quality. The objective of the current work was to analyze and discuss the fundamentals of how the items that, make up the final cost of the seed product of KESOJA SEED. It s important for the company, not only from the profitability aspect, but, mainly, the management of the analysis of the weight of these items. The components of fixed costs were appraised, taking as most relevant aspects, machinery depreciation, facilities improvements, followed by fixed labor costs. Considering variable costs and sales expenses, eighteen items in the total were evaluated. Besides the cost of raw material which is responsible for 70% of the final product sale, Royalties, also, had significant impact, reaching 10% and energy costs, technical responsibility , bagging and unrecoverable breake had an impact of 3% each, in the final product cost of the company. The cost analysis issued by the company, compared to the real cost obtained through this work, showed some distortions and this was considered, either, higher or lower, in many items, as well as the suppression of others. It is possible to determine that the seed production activity is profitable for the company. / Cada empresa do ramo de produção de sementes, dentro de suas particularidades, tem um custo final para entregar ao seu cliente um produto com qualidade. O presente trabalho objetiva a análise e discussão, no ambiente particular da empresa KESOJA SEMENTES, dos fundamentos e da formação dos itens que compõem o custo final do produto Semente. É importante para a empresa, não só do ponto de vista de rentabilidade, mas principalmente gerencial, da análise do peso desses itens. Foram avaliados os componentes do custo fixo, sendo o item de maior relevância a depreciação de máquinas e benfeitorias, seguido da mão de obra fixa. No que tange ao custo variável e ás despesas de venda, foram avaliados dezoito itens no total, sendo que, além do custo da matéria-prima, que é responsável por aproximadamente setenta por cento do custo final de venda do produto, tiveram peso importante os Royalties, que chegaram próximo a dez por cento. Já as fontes de energia, o Responsável Técnico, a sacaria e a quebra irrecuperável, tem um impacto aproximado de 3% cada um, no custo final de venda do produto Semente da empresa. Ao comparar o custo elaborado pela empresa e o real, elaborado neste trabalho, pode-se observar distorções, tanto para maior como para menor, em muitos itens, bem como a supressão de outros. Pode-se constatar que a atividade Produção de Sementes é rentável para a empresa.

Littéralement « petite soeur travaillant pour un patron », le terme dagongmei désigne la main d’œuvre chinoise féminine salariée non qualifiée composée de jeunes filles non mariées souvent originaires de milieux ruraux, et migrant hors de leur village, parfois hors de leur province pour trouver un emploi. Les dagongmei représentent une catégorie de travailleuses précaires, main d’œuvre occasionnelle facilement interchangeable produite par les politiques de développement économique de la Chine au cours des quatre dernières décennies. Depuis les années 90, la médiatisation de scandales sur les conditions de travail des sujets dagong retentit en Chine et au niveau international, appelant les entreprises à repenser leur rôle social. D’autre part, face aux inégalités socio-économiques et politiques qui déterminent les parcours actuels des Chinoises, le gouvernement adopte un positionnement s’affichant comme résolument en faveur de l’empowerment des femmes. Cette thèse porte sur un groupe de jeunes femmes issues de villages ruraux de la province du Yunnan et employées à Kunming dans une entreprise à capitaux étrangers se définissant comme fonctionnant de manière socialement responsable et pourvoyeuse d’empowerment pour ses employées. Si le projet de modernité et de mondialité de la Chine a façonné de nouveaux sujets-travailleurs dagongmei et dagongzai, par la transformation de corps de migrants ruraux en corps de travailleurs industriels, quels sujets dagongmei un projet d’entreprise socialement responsable se propose-t-il de contribuer à produire ? Comment penser les processus d’individualisation au sein de groupes subalternes selon une perspective prenant en compte les rapports sociaux de sexe ? / Literally "little sister working for a boss", the term dagongmei refers to the unskilled, unmarried, often coming from rural areas female labor force, migrating out of their villages, sometimes out of their province to find a job. The dagongmei represent a category of precarious workers easily interchangeable produced by China's economic development policies over the past four decades. Since the 1990s, the media coverage of scandals on working conditions of dagong subjects increased in China and internationally, calling on companies to rethink their social role. On the other hand, considering the socio-economic and political inequalities that determine the current paths of Chinese women, the government adopts a positioning that is resolutely in favor of women's empowerment. This thesis focuses on a group of young women from rural villages in Yunnan province who are employed in Kunming in a foreign-owned enterprise that defines itself as socially responsible and empowering its employees. If the project of modernity and globality of China has shaped new subjects-workers dagongmei and dagongzai, by the transformation of bodies of rural migrants into bodies of industrial workers, what subjects dagongmei a socially responsible enterprise project to contribute to produce? How can we think of the processes of individualisation within subaltern groups from a perspective that takes into account the gendered relations?

The sustainability of Social Responsible Investments (SRI) markets is highly dependent on the accuracy of social and environmental information. Surprisingly, and in contrast to financial information, there exists no methodological standard for gathering social and environmental information in SRI markets. This work is a first contribution to the understanding of how SRI-analysts verify the accuracy of social and environmental information. A second aim of this thesis is to evaluate if SRI-analysts can produce an accurate output with their respective methodologies. To do so, a case study was performed comparing the assessment of social and environmental information at SRI-screening firms to the more regulated financial auditing process, using legal a categorization of evidence strengths as a model. The findings of this study suggest that practices are not standardized amongst SRI-analysts. Therefore, investors are unlikely to receive an equal degree of information accuracy from one analyst to the next. Moreover, when comparing SRI-screening and financial auditing using the legal categorization of evidence, it was found that screening firms tend to produce outputs that are less carefully verified than seen in their financial counterparts. Nevertheless, the findings also reveal that SRI-analysts generally acknowledge the importance of assessing sources of evidence when controlling information accuracy. In conclusion, a standardized methodology should be welcomed by SRI-analysts, and the legal categorization of evidence strengths could be a good starting point to manage information accuracy in their screening process.

Cette thèse de doctorat en Sciences de Gestion s’effectue en contrat CIFRE au sein d’un Bureau d’Etudes Techniques, B.E.T., situé en région Languedoc-Roussillon, depuis septembre 2013. Le terrain de recherche concerne le secteur du bâtiment. La question de recherche s’oriente vers le secteur du bâtiment et porte plus particulièrement sur l’impact des réseaux informels sur la coordination et la gestion des coûts de transaction dans les activités liées à l’aménagement et à la construction. / This PhD in Management Science is done by contract CIFRE within a Technical Study Bureau, BET, located in Languedoc-Roussillon area since September 2013. The field research concerning the building sector. The research question is directed towards the construction sector and more particularly to the impact of informal networks on the coordination and management of transaction costs in activities related to the development and construction.

Depuis quelques années, les usages numériques se sont significativement développés au sein des pratiques sociales. Leur maitrise s’inscrit comme un objectif de formation dans le parcours des collégiens français. Cette recherche propose un support de réflexion sur l’engagement des enseignants de collège dans le projet de formation au numérique responsable ainsi que sur la dimension collective qui en découle et participe à leur développement professionnel. La double analyse proposée permet de disposer d’éléments déclaratifs significatifs en ce qui concerne les actions menées, les caractéristiques disciplinaires et les diversités de fonctionnement en établissement. Ces éléments sont complétés par une observation des collectifs d’enseignants dans le cadre d’échange de pratiques. Notre travail tente de mettre en évidence l’apport du travail collectif dans le développement professionnel des enseignants, constate la diversité de ressources en établissement et fait ressortir la nécessité de pilotage de ces types de projets par des cadres formés et sensibilisés au sujet. / For several years, the uses of the new digital technologies have grown up in the social practice. Their command appears as an aim to train the French students’ career. This search proposes both an aid to think of the secondary school teachers’ commitment in the project to attend a session course on the digital technology and also on the public dimension which follows on from and which participates in their professional development. The double analysis that is proposed allows to get declarative and meaningful elements in relation to the actions which are carried out, some specific features linked to the subjects and the variety of ways to run schools. These elements are completed by an observation of groups of teachers communicating about their practice. Our report tries to focus the advantages of the work in groups in the teachers’ professional development and it shows the diversity of resources in schools. It emphasizes that these types of projects have to be guided by well-trained managers who are conscious of the different issues.

Board gender diversity has been on the corporate agenda for several years, despite numerous gender diversity initiatives around the EU-Member States, women remain underrepresented in the boardroom. There is an intense debate and the problem is frequently raised and discussed by politicians, journalists, shareholders and investors. The thesis examines if gender diversity in the boardroom has any significant effects on firm performance and stock volatility based on 318 firm-year observations with firms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Copenhagen Stock Exchange and Helsinki Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2015. The authors find no significant relationship between gender diversified board and firm performance for the overall sample at any conventional level. However, the authors find a positive and statistically significant relationship between gender diversified board and firm performance for only Swedish firms, measured by Tobin’s q. Furthermore, the empirical findings from the relationship between board gender diversity and stock volatility using 1 272 firm-quarter observations, are statistical significant and shows that firms with high gender diversified board have lower stock volatility compared to firms with low gender diversified board.

The aim of this thesis is to propose a socially responsible activities, which could a smaller company, like Liho Blanice, deals with and implement them in practice. The theoretical part focuses on the introduction of the concept of CSR, its basic features and principles, as well as the methodology of Standard Responsible Company, and some concepts related to CSR. The next part deals with the application of CSR practices, from initial planning to its measurement. CSR strategies of three global producers of alcohol are compared. The practical part introduces the current activities of the company, the results of research to costumers, and based on them are then designed individual activities within CSR.

What are the key antecedents, factors and moderators that influence environmentally friendly and socially responsible consumer behaviour? Individual consumers buy products and services not only for their intrinsic satisfactory functionalities. They make their consumption choices also because of specific extrinsic products/service abilities to affirm their lifestyle choice, i.e. enhance their self-concepts and satisfy their psychological needs. Given that despite the recent increase of interest in sustainable consumer behaviour, little is known on sustainable consumer aspirations, this study aims at filling the research gap in this area of academic research. This study investigates ad hoc literature in Lifestyle Strategic Marketing, Branding, Social Psychology and Self-Concept Theory applicable in Green and Fair Trade Operational Marketing . Mixed research methods are used in three distinct studies: (a) laboratory experiment, (b) SurveyMonkeyTM online questionnaire analyzed quantitatively, and (c) SPSS and SEM software data management and analysis. They are conducted in France and based on the common research models, i.e. the Theory of reasoned action (TRA) founded by Fishbein & Ajzen (1975) and the Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) coined by Ajzen (1991). Specific attitudes towards environmentally friendly and fair-trade products and services are derived from Value sets, Awareness of Consequences beliefs and Environmental Concern evaluations; therefore in the third partial study we adapt the research model proposed by Hansla et al. (2008). In all of them is employed a convenience sampling method that allows to gather between 109 and 350 respondents. Results allow for identification of salient factors influencing consumer purchasing intention and willingness to adopt and pay for both environmentally friendly and socially responsible products and/or services.

Orientador: Jane Megid / Resumo: Foi realizada uma campanha de vacinação contra a cinomose no período de 2013 a 2014, em bairros periféricos da região de Botucatu, SP, a fim de imunizar os cães contra cinomose devido às elevadas taxas de morbimortalidade, ampla disseminação e prognóstico reservado da enfermidade. O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar a situação de saúde dos cães por meio da avaliação da soropositividade para agentes infecciosos, verificar a proteção induzida contra parvovirus canino pela vacina comercial utilizada e o perfil de práticas de guarda responsável dos tutores.Foram realizados os testes sorológicos de reação de imunofluorescência indireta, soroaglutinação microscópica, soroneutralização e inibição da hemaglutinação, respectivamente, para: Toxoplama gondii e Ehrichia canis; Leptospira spp.; Virus Canino da Cinomose (CDV) e Parvovirus canino (CPV). A avaliação da parasitemia por E. canis foi realizada por meio da PCR. A proteção vacinal induzida contra parvovirose foi avaliada por meio da soroconversão de anticorpos anti- CPV. Foi observada sororreatividade nos testes sorológicos para Lepstospira spp. (43,33%), T.gondii (52,97%), E. canis (72,14%), CDV (17,24%) e CPV (91,86%). A parasitemia por Ehrlichia canis foi confirmada em 13,33% das amostras. O aumento percentual médio da soroconversão foi de 1545,65%. Maior percentual de práticas de guarda responsável foi observada entre os tutores que afirmaram conhecer a cinomose e entre os que confirmaram realização de vacina antirrábi... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: A vaccination campaign against canine distemper was carried out between 2013 and 2014, in peripheral districts of the Botucatu region, SP, aiming to immunize dogs against distemper due to the high rates of morbidity and mortality, widespread dissemination and reserved prognosis of the disease. The objective of the present study was to analyze the participating dogs health status by seropositivity evaluation for infectious agents, to verify the induced protection against Canine Parvovirus by the commercial vaccine used during the campaign and the profile of responsible pet ownership practices of the tutors. The following tests of indirect immunofluorescence, microscopic sero-agglutination, seroneutralization and haemagglutination inhibition were performed for: Toxoplasma gondii, Leptospira spp., Canine Canine Virus (CDV) and Canine Parvovirus (CDV). Indirect immunofluorescence reaction and PCR were performed for ehrlichiosis. . Vaccine protection induced against parvoviruses was evaluated by seroconversion of antibodies to Canine Parvovirus. Seroreactivity was observed in the serological tests performed with the following percent of positivity: Leptospira spp. (43.33%), T. gondii, (52.97%), E. canis (72.14%), CDV (17.24%%) and CPV (91.86%%). Ehrlichia canis was detected in 13.33% (28/210) of the samples by PCR in blood. The mean percentage variation of seroconversion was 1545.65%. A higher proportion of responsible pet ownership practices was observed among the tutors who conf... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre