CONTRIBUTIONS OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TO THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE BRAZILIAN ELECTRONICS SECTOR

The objective of this paper is to identify and analyze various aspects of the internal and external operations management of Brazil's electronics sector and to consider the opportunities for and the threats to increasing the competitiveness of its participation in the global supply chain. To address this shortage in the literature, a survey of Brazilian Electric and Electronic Industry Association (ABINEE) companies was conducted. The collected data were complemented with secondary data to establish an overall view of the electronics sector in Brazil. The results suggest that electronics product assembly companies have the opportunity to invest more in information technology to expand process integration, plan and develop products, integrate customers, and maintain rather than expand their supply chain practices. The alignment between internal and external operations management becomes important in this context. The originality of this paper lies in its clarification of operations management in an economically important sector and the insight it provides to academics, practitioners and policy makers involved in the domestic and international electronics sector.

Construction of the dispositions of institutional habitus in the academic field

This paper describes the main phases of development of an Institute of Chemistry in relation with national policy from the academic field. Its history begins with a proposal to meet the demand for chemistry teacher education and goes on to become a major center for research, education and extension. Throughout its 50 years of history, the Institution has faced numerous challenges by adopting strategies that have established and revealed its institutional habitus. To this end, we use some of René Kaës’s concepts about the development of groups and institutions, highlighting mainly the origins, expectations and covenants that underpinned its foundation, and the entire process of its expansion and institutionalization. Our main focus, also interpreted based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and followers, is the establishment of its institutional habitus, i.e., how it interprets and organizes its institutional teaching, research and extension activities within the context of the academic field. The peculiarity of the process has been the mismatch between internal and external pressures. Even though presenting the results of a case study, in general, our methodology can improve the understanding of institution’s development in relation with educational policy.

A presença brasileira na América do Sul: ações e instrumentos de política externa

In this paper, the performance of Brazilian foreign policy in South America during the governments of Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and Rousseff (2011-2014) is discussed. It is showed that this activity has expanded in areas of greater consensus in the internal and external contexts. Thus, although with contradictions, initiatives to implement the infrastructure integration of transport, communications and energy into a political project, expansion of the role of the BNDES in the region and improvement of regional technical cooperation have been increasing.

Gestão escolar: a prática pedagógica administrativa na política de educação inclusiva

The paper presents the results of a doctoral dissertation that covered the analysis of knowledge involving the everyday teaching and administrative practices of school managers who worked with the proposed construction of a citywide system of inclusive e ducation, while an educational policy. The aim was to follow the school management towards the proposed inclusive educationin three elementary schools in a medium-sized city in the state of São Paulo. The data were collected at the earlier school, a middle-aged one and another recently opened. The stages of the study were: 1) review of literature on: a) qualitative ethnographic research applied to education, b) principles of autonomy, planning, decentralization, c) the education of the school manager and d) relationship between school management and inclusive school; 2) data collection in schools, 3) description and categorization of data and 4) analysis and interpretation of results. To develop the methodology were used observations of the participants, semi-structured interviews, analysis of official documents of the school (internal and external). It was concluded that there is a lack of political-pedagogical project collectively built, a difficulty in developing coordinated actions aimed at the realitiy, problems in interpersonal relationships; a gap gulf between the proposed policy, the discourse about it and the daily practice. The school management is responsible for the construction of an inclusive school, but in the reality studied it was directed at administrative issues at the expense of the pedagogic ones.

A importância da gestão da comunicação e da informação nas empresas socialmente responsáveis

This paper studies the communication and information management in the perspective of corporate social responsibility. We assume that a company becomes socially responsible when it’s necessary implementing a communication and information policy able to align their business management processes to social responsibility policies, thus creating the necessary, fundamental synergy to their audiences. We raised the hypothesis that corporate social responsibility, in order to be incorporated on a business process management, necessarily involves a transformation in the form of information management and communication - understood as strategic skills which enable the generation of knowledge creation value and the acquisition of awareness of ethical conduct and company's corporate organizational culture as a mirror, reflected to its internal and external audiences. Therefore, this study was supported by a case study in a retail company in Bauru city, regarded as a socially responsible company. Thus, we proceeded to develop a descriptive-exploratory field research, by using the technique of structured interviews which were conducted with the most representative considered leaders of the company - management, store managers, responsible CSR department and advertising agency

Sviluppo economico e qualità istituzionale: il ruolo di disuguaglianza e corruzione

Nell'ambito delle teorie dello sviluppo, un filone di studi, originato dai lavori di North (1973) e consolidatosi negli ultimi anni, individua nelle istituzioni, definite come le regole del gioco o i vincoli disegnati dagli uomini per disciplinare i loro rapporti, i fattori fondamentali dello sviluppo economico. Le istituzioni, nel modello elaborato da Acemoglu, Johnson e Robinson (2004), sono il frutto di interazioni dinamiche tra potere politico de jure, determinato dalle istituzioni politiche, e potere politico de facto, determinato dalla distribuzione delle risorse economiche. Sulla base di questa prospettiva teorica, questa tesi propone uno studio di carattere quantitativo sulla qualità istituzionale, la traduzione operativa del concetto di istituzioni, composta dalle tre fondamentali dimensioni di democrazia, efficienza ed efficacia del governo e assenza di corruzione. La prima parte, che analizza sistematicamente pro e contro di ciascuna tipologia di indicatori, è dedicata alla revisione delle misure quantitative di qualità istituzionale, e individua nei Worldwide Governance Indicators la misura più solida e consistente. Questi indici sono quindi utilizzati nella seconda parte, dove si propone un'analisi empirica sulle determinanti della qualità istituzionale. Le stime del modello di regressione cross-country evidenziano che la qualità istituzionale è influenzata da alcuni fattori prevalentemente esogeni come la geografia, la disponibilità di risorse naturali e altre caratteristiche storiche e culturali, insieme ad altri fattori di carattere più endogeno. In quest'ultima categoria, i risultati evidenziano un effetto positivo del livello di sviluppo economico, mentre la disuguaglianza economica mostra un impatto negativo su ciascuna delle tre dimensioni di qualità istituzionale, in particolare sulla corruzione. Questi risultati supportano la prospettiva teorica e suggeriscono che azioni di policy orientate alla riduzione delle disparità sono capaci di generare sviluppo rafforzando la democrazia, migliorando l'efficienza complessiva del sistema economico e riducendo i livelli di corruzione.

Integration of external and internal dosimetry in Switzerland

Individual monitoring regulations in Switzerland are based on the ICRP60 recommendations. The annual limit of 20 mSv for the effective dose applies to the sum of external and internal radiation. External radiation is monitored monthly or quarterly with TLD, DIS or CR-39 dosemeters by 10 approved external dosimetry services and reported as H(p)(10) and H(p)(0.07). Internal monitoring is done in two steps. At the workplace, simple screening measurements are done frequently in order to recognise a possible incorporation. If a nuclide dependent activity threshold is exceeded then one of the seven approved dosimetry services for internal radiation does an incorporation measurement to assess the committed effective dose E(50). The dosimetry services report all the measured or assessed dose values to the employer and to the National Dose Registry. The employer records the annually accumulated dose values into the individual dose certificate of the occupationally exposed person, both the external dose H(p)(10) and the internal dose E(50) as well as the total effective dose E = H(p)(10)+E(50). Based on the national dose registry an annual report on the dosimetry in Switzerland is published which contains the statistics for the total effective dose, as well as separate statistics for external and internal exposure.

Koproduktion von Wissen in der Entwicklung des Biolandbaus - Einflüsse von Marginalisierung, Anerkennung und Markt

The empirical analysis of the historical development of transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge (CPK) in organic agriculture (OA) in Switzerland has revealed three distinct phases. The initial phase shows various characteristics of transdisciplinary CPK and a high importance of experiential knowledge. The 2nd and 3rd phases involve an in-creasing segregation of farmers’, extension agents’, and scientists’ knowledge, caused by internal and external impacts, i.e. foundation of independent research institutions, changes in agriculture policy, and new market strategies. These developments strikingly represent an ambiguous trend: the growing societal and political recognition of OA and the increasing market, which are positive achievements, are associated by a gradual loss of very precious forms of CPK. A successful re-establishment of CPK processes and re-integration of experiential knowledge would help to resolve this dilemma and thus improve future research in OA and sustainability research in general.

Resistance to Temptation: The Interaction of External and Internal Control on Alcohol Use During Residential Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder

Background: There is evidence that drinking during residential treatment is related to various factors, such as patients’ general control beliefs and self-efficacy, as well as to external control of alcohol use by program’s staff and situations where there is temptation to drink. As alcohol use during treatment has been shown to be associated with the resumption of alcohol use after discharge from residential treatment, we aimed to investigate how these variables are related to alcohol use during abstinenceoriented residential treatment programs for alcohol use disorders (AUD). Methods: In total, 509 patients who entered 1 of 2 residential abstinence-oriented treatment programs for AUD were included in the study. After detoxification, patients completed a standardized diagnostic procedure including interviews and questionnaires. Drinking was assessed by patients’ selfreport of at least 1 standard drink or by positive breathalyzer testing. The 2 residential programs were categorized as high or low control according to the average number of tests per patient. Results: Regression analysis revealed a significant interaction effect between internal and external control suggesting that patients with high internal locus of control and high frequency of control by staff demonstrated the least alcohol use during treatment (16.7%) while patients with low internal locus of control in programs with low external control were more likely to use alcohol during Treatment (45.9%). No effects were found for self-efficacy and temptation. Conclusions: As alcohol use during treatment is most likely associated with poor treatment outcomes, external control may improve treatment outcomes and particularly support patients with low internal locus of control, who show the highest risk for alcohol use during treatment. High external control may complement high internal control to improve alcohol use prevention while in treatment. Key Words: Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol Use, Locus of Control, Alcohol Testing.

Los extranjeros de Buenos Aires en los albores del siglo XIX : Algunos rasgos de su composición

Para el período colonial tardío, Buenos Aires era una ciudad diferente del resto de Hispanoamérica, tanto en términos de su cultura como en sus manifestaciones sociales y en su crecimiento poco común. Bastaron poco más de tres décadas para que la pequeña aldea se transformara en una pujante ciudad hispanoamericana. La clave de esta transformación estuvo dada a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII, dado que éste fue un período de profundos cambios político-sociales y Buenos Aires no fue la excepción. La ciudad comenzó a cambiar en todos sus aspectos. En primer lugar el conflicto de la España Borbónica con Inglaterra y Portugal llevó a introducir cambios profundos en la política española para el control estricto de las colonias en los bordes del imperio. La creación del Virreinato del Río de la Plata en 1776 y la extensión de la ordenanza de libre comercio dos años más tarde otorgaron un gran empuje a la ciudad. De este modo, Buenos Aires pasó a ser un activo polo de atracción tanto para los migrantes internos como para los externos del imperio español. Estos motivos provocaron mutaciones a nivel político, social y arquitectónico, dando lugar a un crecimiento único para una ciudad hispanoamericana entre 1750 y 1810

Colonización y política agraria en la provincia de Buenos Aires : Demandas sectoriales y respuestas oficiales durante la primera mitad el siglo XX

Las cambiantes condiciones internas y externas que comenzaron a afectar el desarrollo del modelo agroexportador, durante las décadas iniciales del siglo XX, pusieron la "cuestión agraria" en el centro de discusión sobre el modelo de país deseable. Si la concentración de la propiedad de la tierra comenzaba a ser visualizada como causa de los mayores males que inquietaban a la sociedad, la colonización agraria era planteada como el camino para superar las contradicciones que afectaban el crecimiento del sector. Hemos buscado en este trabajo dar cuenta de algunas de las expresiones a favor de la implementación de ese tipo de políticas agrarias, poniendo particular atención en el caso bonaerense

Colonización y política agraria en la provincia de Buenos Aires : Demandas sectoriales y respuestas oficiales durante la primera mitad el siglo XX

Las cambiantes condiciones internas y externas que comenzaron a afectar el desarrollo del modelo agroexportador, durante las décadas iniciales del siglo XX, pusieron la "cuestión agraria" en el centro de discusión sobre el modelo de país deseable. Si la concentración de la propiedad de la tierra comenzaba a ser visualizada como causa de los mayores males que inquietaban a la sociedad, la colonización agraria era planteada como el camino para superar las contradicciones que afectaban el crecimiento del sector. Hemos buscado en este trabajo dar cuenta de algunas de las expresiones a favor de la implementación de ese tipo de políticas agrarias, poniendo particular atención en el caso bonaerense

Los extranjeros de Buenos Aires en los albores del siglo XIX : Algunos rasgos de su composición

Para el período colonial tardío, Buenos Aires era una ciudad diferente del resto de Hispanoamérica, tanto en términos de su cultura como en sus manifestaciones sociales y en su crecimiento poco común. Bastaron poco más de tres décadas para que la pequeña aldea se transformara en una pujante ciudad hispanoamericana. La clave de esta transformación estuvo dada a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII, dado que éste fue un período de profundos cambios político-sociales y Buenos Aires no fue la excepción. La ciudad comenzó a cambiar en todos sus aspectos. En primer lugar el conflicto de la España Borbónica con Inglaterra y Portugal llevó a introducir cambios profundos en la política española para el control estricto de las colonias en los bordes del imperio. La creación del Virreinato del Río de la Plata en 1776 y la extensión de la ordenanza de libre comercio dos años más tarde otorgaron un gran empuje a la ciudad. De este modo, Buenos Aires pasó a ser un activo polo de atracción tanto para los migrantes internos como para los externos del imperio español. Estos motivos provocaron mutaciones a nivel político, social y arquitectónico, dando lugar a un crecimiento único para una ciudad hispanoamericana entre 1750 y 1810

Colonización y política agraria en la provincia de Buenos Aires : Demandas sectoriales y respuestas oficiales durante la primera mitad el siglo XX

Las cambiantes condiciones internas y externas que comenzaron a afectar el desarrollo del modelo agroexportador, durante las décadas iniciales del siglo XX, pusieron la "cuestión agraria" en el centro de discusión sobre el modelo de país deseable. Si la concentración de la propiedad de la tierra comenzaba a ser visualizada como causa de los mayores males que inquietaban a la sociedad, la colonización agraria era planteada como el camino para superar las contradicciones que afectaban el crecimiento del sector. Hemos buscado en este trabajo dar cuenta de algunas de las expresiones a favor de la implementación de ese tipo de políticas agrarias, poniendo particular atención en el caso bonaerense

Los extranjeros de Buenos Aires en los albores del siglo XIX : Algunos rasgos de su composición

Para el período colonial tardío, Buenos Aires era una ciudad diferente del resto de Hispanoamérica, tanto en términos de su cultura como en sus manifestaciones sociales y en su crecimiento poco común. Bastaron poco más de tres décadas para que la pequeña aldea se transformara en una pujante ciudad hispanoamericana. La clave de esta transformación estuvo dada a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII, dado que éste fue un período de profundos cambios político-sociales y Buenos Aires no fue la excepción. La ciudad comenzó a cambiar en todos sus aspectos. En primer lugar el conflicto de la España Borbónica con Inglaterra y Portugal llevó a introducir cambios profundos en la política española para el control estricto de las colonias en los bordes del imperio. La creación del Virreinato del Río de la Plata en 1776 y la extensión de la ordenanza de libre comercio dos años más tarde otorgaron un gran empuje a la ciudad. De este modo, Buenos Aires pasó a ser un activo polo de atracción tanto para los migrantes internos como para los externos del imperio español. Estos motivos provocaron mutaciones a nivel político, social y arquitectónico, dando lugar a un crecimiento único para una ciudad hispanoamericana entre 1750 y 1810