Silent partnership - rights and obligations of the contracting parties ABSTRACT This thesis deals with a silent partnership while focusing on the rights and obligations of the contracting parties. It is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the author at first presents the general characteristics of the silent partnership agreement, including a brief historical excursion. Great scope is given to comparing a silent partnership and a partnership. The conclusion that a silent partnership is a special kind (lex specialis) of partnership is reflected in the following chapters. Next two chapters describe the mutual rights and obligations of the contracting parties; the second chapter deals with the rights and obligations of the silent partner and the third chapter deals with the rights and obligations of the entrepreneur. These are the most significant chapters of the thesis, in which the individual rights and obligations of the contracting parties are analysed while the author identifies some problematic aspects that can lead to interpretative and application difficulties and then offers possible solutions. The fact that silent partnership is a special kind of partnership causes that the contracting parties are (as well as partners of the partnership) bound by duty of loyalty. However, the duty of...

abstract: Smart technology is now pervasive in society and has partnered with people on every level, yet its social and cultural implications are easily overlooked by the majority. In this thesis, I work on building a silent partnership between humans and smart technology and creating smart devices/systems as silent partners by revealing the complexity of smart technology and tackling the current issues of unilateral transparency, a lack of negotiation, and the dynamic of the sense of control. This work draws on varied fields such as critical cultural studies, science and technology studies (STS), media studies, information studies, sociology, psychology, and design and consists of three main themes: materiality, politics, and affect. In addition, I utilize theoretical frameworks such as posthumanism, actor-network theory (ANT), assemblage, materialism, and affect theory to analyze the underlying factors and relationships among human and nonhuman actors such as technology companies, governments, engineers, designers, users, as well as infrastructure, algorithms, and smart devices/systems. Finally, I offer four roles to rethink smart technology (an actor, a fluid, a peer, and a silent partner) and propose 15 design principles to redesign smart devices/systems as silent partners. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Communication Studies 2020

Submitted by Mariana Campos de Souza (maricam.souza@uol.com.br) on 2017-09-14T17:12:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Campos-versão depositada.pdf: 1103540 bytes, checksum: f43798145953edc8809c800afa419854 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Thais Oliveira (thais.oliveira@fgv.br) on 2017-09-14T17:50:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Campos-versão depositada.pdf: 1103540 bytes, checksum: f43798145953edc8809c800afa419854 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-15T12:56:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Campos-versão depositada.pdf: 1103540 bytes, checksum: f43798145953edc8809c800afa419854 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-11 / The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze the possibility of using the Silent Partnership in order to organize private interests in the scope of public contracting. However, it is possible to observe in the research that such use is indeed applied in practice, as well as the rules which such use is subject to. Based upon the identification of the rules, the need for the Public Administration authorization for the constitution of the Silent Partnership in the context of public contracts is discussed, the subjective and objective limits of its application, and other relevant aspects - notably tax, labor rights, which, together with the benefits linked to the silent partnership, should be considered by legal practitioners and companies in the prior assessment of the suitability of the use of silent partnership, and in the preparation of the incorporation contract of that partnership. The relevance of the present study can be specially justified by the fact that silent partnerships are sui generis partnerships, whereas being a clearly established institute in the Civil Code. This peculiarity comes from the fact that the silent partnership does not have all the characteristics that are common in other companies, such as legal personality and compulsory requirement of its constitutive acts in public records. In the regulations governing public bidding and contracting, the silent partnership may be classified, in contracts governed predominantly by Law No. 8.666, of 1993, as the figure of the ‘association’ of the contracted party with third parties (provided for in article 78, VI , Law No. 8,666 of 1993) and, in the area of concessions and permissions of public services, and public-private partnerships, in contracting with third parties (in accordance with Article 25, §1, of Law No. 8,987 of 1995). As a consequence, silent partnerships may be applied in the context of public contracts, subject to the applicable norms to association and contracting with third parties, respecting each context, in particular those regarding the subjective and objective limits of participation in public contracts, from third parties who are not related, to the relationship between the Public Administration and the contracted party (ostensive partner in the silent partnership). / O objetivo do trabalho é o de identificar e analisar a possibilidade do uso da sociedade em conta de participação para organizar interesses privados no âmbito das contratações públicas, apesar de ser possível observar na pesquisa trazida no trabalho que tal uso se aplica na prática, bem como as regras a que tal uso está submetido. A partir da identificação das regras, discute-se a necessidade de autorização da Administração Pública para a constituição da sociedade em conta de participação no contexto dos contratos públicos, os limites subjetivos e objetivos do seu emprego, e outros aspectos relevantes - notadamente, tributários, trabalhistas, referentes à atestação e à responsabilidade assumidas pelos sócios - que, juntamente com os benefícios atrelados à sociedade em conta de participação, merecem ser considerados pelos operadores do direito e pelas empresas na avaliação prévia da pertinência da utilização da sociedade em conta de participação e na formatação do contrato de constituição dessa sociedade. A relevância do tema tratado justifica-se, especialmente, por se tratar a sociedade em conta de participação de uma sociedade sui generis, conquanto seja um instituto expressamente previsto no Código Civil. Essa natureza decorre do fato de a sociedade em conta de participação não possuir todas as características que são comuns nas demais sociedades, tais como personalidade jurídica e obrigatoriedade do arquivamento dos seus atos constitutivos nos registros públicos. Nas normas que regem as licitações e contratações públicas, a sociedade em conta de participação pode ser enquadrada, nos contratos regidos predominantemente pela Lei nº 8.666, de 1993, na figura da ‘associação’ do contratado com terceiros (prevista no art. 78, VI, da Lei nº 8.666, de 1993) e, no universo das concessões e permissões de serviços públicos, e parcerias público-privadas, na contratação com terceiros (disposta no art. 25, §1º, da Lei nº 8.987, de 1995). Consequentemente, as sociedades em conta de participação podem ser empregadas no âmbito das contratações públicas, atendidas as regras aplicáveis à associação e à contratação com terceiros, cada uma no seu contexto, principalmente, aquelas referentes aos limites subjetivos e objetivos da participação, nos contratos públicos, de terceiros estranhos à relação entre Administração Pública e contratado (sócio ostensivo na sociedade em conta de participação).