The impact of negative social environmental events on the market value of supply chain partners

The present work analyzes the impact of negative social / environmental events on the market value of supply chain partners. The study offers a contextualized discussion around important concepts which are largely employed on the Operations Management and Management literature in general. Among them, the developments of the literature around supply chains, supply chain management, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and sustainable supply chain management are particularly addressed, beyond the links they share with competitive advantage. As for the theoretical bases, the study rests on the Stakeholder Theory, on the discussion of the efficient-market hypothesis and on the discussion of the adjustment of stock prices to new information. In face of such literature review negative social / environmental events are then hypothesized as causing negative impact in the market value of supply chain partners. Through the documental analysis of publicly available information around 15 different cases (i.e. 15 events), 82 supply chain partners were identified. Event studies for seven different event windows were conducted on the variation of the stock price of each supply chain partner, valuing the market reaction to the stock price of a firm due to triggering events occurred in another. The results show that, in general, the market value of supply chain partners was not penalized in response to such announcements. In that sense, the hypothesis derived from the literature review is not confirmed. Beyond that, the study also provides a critical description of the 15 cases, identifying the companies that have originated such events and their supply chain partners involved.

The art of being together: a social constructionist perspective on dialogic methods in the organizational context

The purpose of this project is to understand, under a social constructionist approach, what are the meanings that external facilitators and organizational members (sponsors) working with dialogic methods place on themselves and their work. Dialogic methods, with the objective of engaging groups in flows of conversations to envisage and co-create their own future, are growing fast within organizations as a means to achieve collective change. Sharing constructionist ideas about the possibility of multiple realities and language as constitutive of such realities, dialogue has turned into a promising way for transformation, especially in a macro context of constant change and increasing complexity, where traditional structures, relationships and forms of work are questioned. Research on the topic has mostly focused on specific methods or applications, with few attempts to study it in a broader sense. Also, despite the fact that dialogic methods work on the assumption that realities are socially constructed, few studies approach the topic from a social constructionist perspective, as a research methodology per se. Thus, while most existing research aims at explaining whether or how particular methods meet particular results, my intention is to explore the meanings sustaining these new forms of organizational practice. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 25 people working with dialogic methods: 11 facilitators and 14 sponsors, from 8 different organizations in Brazil. Firstly, the research findings indicate several contextual elements that seem to sustain the choices for dialogic methods. Within this context, there does not seem to be a clear or specific demand for dialogic methods, but a set of different motivations, objectives and focuses, bringing about several contrasts in the way participants name, describe and explain their experiences with such methods, including tensions on power relations, knowledge creation, identity and communication. Secondly, some central ideas or images were identified within such contrasts, pointing at both directions: dialogic methods as opportunities for the creation of new organizational realities (with images of a ‘door’ or a ‘flow’, for instance, which suggest that dialogic methods may open up the access to other perspectives and the creation of new realities); and dialogic methods as new instrumental mechanisms that seem to reproduce the traditional and non-dialogical forms of work and relationship. The individualistic tradition and its tendency for rational schematism - pointed out by social constructionist scholars as strong traditions in our Western Culture - could be observed in some participants’ accounts with the image of dialogic methods as a ‘gym’, for instance, in which dialogical – and idealized –‘abilities’ could be taught and trained, turning dialogue into a tool, rather than a means for transformation. As a conclusion, I discuss what the implications of such taken-for-granted assumptions may be, and offer some insights into dialogue (and dialogic methods) as ‘the art of being together’.

A infância brasileira e a história das ideias pedagógicas: rastros e traços de uma construção social do ser criança

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A influência da liderança na participação dos pais no contexto pré-escolar: estudo de um caso de um grupo de pais numa escola suburbana do Funchal

O presente trabalho de investigação, que resulta de um estudo de caso realizado numa escola pública do 1º Ciclo na RAM, numa área suburbana do Funchal, pretende contribuir para uma análise/reflexão sobre a importância da influência do líder escolar no quotidiano específico do estabelecimento de ensino, bem como aferir da sua capacidade de influenciar e promover a participação dos pais num contexto escolar mais específico, isto é, numa sala do Pré-Escolar. Este trabalho procura questionar o sentido da influência da liderança na participação dos pais, encarando a escola e a família como actores educativos dotados de legitimidades distintas. Assim, torna-se pertinente questionar qual o sentido dessa influência quando se consagra a participação dos pais no contexto escolar. Simultaneamente, este trabalho assume-se como um olhar sobre uma realidade escolar e social, realizando uma reflexão em torno de uma experiência empírica conduzida no terreno e a sua correspondente análise. Os objectivos a atingir com o presente trabalho de investigação são:  identificar a influência da liderança no envolvimento dos pais;  identificar e analisar factores que favorecem ou não a participação dos pais no envolvimento escolar;  definir algumas estratégias de intervenção no envolvimento dos pais na vida escolar. Deste modo, procuraremos ter em consideração, na interpretação dos dados: - verificar a opinião dos pais sobre o (s) modo (s) de participação dos mesmos nas organizações escolares; - aferir as diferenças significativas entre os pais, equipa disciplinar e líder escolar em relação à satisfação geral da participação dos encarregados de educação na organização escolar em estudo; - analisar o grau de satisfação dos encarregados de educação relativamente à facilidade de participação no contexto escolar dos seus educandos; - identificar os indicadores de maior satisfação dos pais em relação ao líder escolar; - verificar se existem diferenças significativas entre pais, equipa da sala e líder escolar, no que respeita aos motivos ou razões que justificam a participação activa ou passiva dos encarregados de educação na organização escolar; - apurar e comparar as opiniões sobre a participação de um grupo de pais na educação pré-escolar.A metodologia aplicada englobou inicialmente, pela sua natureza, algumas concepções fundamentais da literatura sobre a família e a escola e, simultaneamente, conceitos teóricos acerca do que significa líder e liderança (análise documental). Conscientes da importância deste cenário e tendo em conta os objectivos pretendidos, optámos pela elaboração e distribuição de questionários à equipa disciplinar (2), aos docentes das actividades de enriquecimento curricular (4), ao líder escolar (1) e aos encarregados de educação (23). Equacionando no total 3 questionários distintos, distribuídos pelo universo de 30 indivíduos, este instrumento revelou-se valioso, dado que a sua concepção contribuiu para o cruzamento da informação recebida. Registe-se que todos os questionários foram devolvidos. A avaliação dos dados sugere o grau de interacção dos pais e do líder escolar e a cumplicidade existente entre estes dois intervenientes em prol do sucesso educativo dos educandos, num ambiente que deverá ser harmonioso no seio da instituição, perspectivando igualmente a valorização de cada membro no meio escolar e no seio familiar. Sabemos que o sucesso de qualquer organização depende da equipa que a integra e como realça Katzenbach & Smith (1993), citado por Carapeto & Fonseca (2006), “pessoas com competências complementares que estão unidas por uma tarefa em comum, partilham dos mesmos objectivos…e são solidariamente responsáveis”. É sublime a importância da participação dos pais, reconhecendo-a como um direito e, sobretudo, como um dever na promoção do sucesso educativo dos seus educandos. Segundo a Lei de Bases do Sistema Educativo, é reconhecido aos pais o legítimo direito de participar nas escolas, no entanto, verifica-se que, por vezes, esta operacionalização tem sido centrada exclusivamente nos líderes e gestores escolares. Torna-se pertinente que haja uma reflexão sobre a temática da democracia e a cultura de participação dos pais nas instituições escolares, exigindo cada vez mais o desenvolvimento de novas práticas de intervenção, para que, efectivamente, este assunto possa ser posto em prática, de uma forma mais eficiente, num clima de cumplicidade e harmonia. A realização deste estudo resulta fundamentalmente da necessidade de identificar os vários modos de participação dos pais, apontando directrizes no sentido de identificar o grau de satisfação, de envolvimento e motivação dos pais no meio escolar e, sobretudo, a influência do líder escolar face à incrementação efectiva de um modelo consistente de participação. Denota-se que, embora haja tendências participativas positivas, há ainda muito por fazer. Deparamo-nos com um cenário que evidencia o consenso na necessidade de promover a participação entre a escola/família. A escola nunca poderá ignorar...terá de inovar!

O programa de integração e formação como meio de inclusão social e inovação pedagógica: um olhar etnográfico

Esta investigação inserida no mestrado em Ciências da Educação- Inovação Pedagógica tem como objetivo conhecer a cultura escolar, designadamente, as práticas pedagógicas no âmbito do programa, Plano Integrado de Educação e Formação (PIEF), num estabelecimento de ensino do Funchal. A procura de uma eventual mudança de paradigma, assim como, de inovação pedagógica, poderá comprovar e reforçar a necessidade de alterar os trilhos que levam a Escola atual a afastar-se do lugar-comum. Nesta perspetiva, o rumo a seguir passará pela Mudança, podendo o foco da mesma estar numa pequena comunidade (cultura) ou num programa, cujo estudo particular permitirá conhecer como atuam os seus agentes de aprendizagem. O desafio central da investigação emana da seguinte questão: Será o PIEF um meio de inclusão e, em simultâneo, de inovação pedagógica? Com vista a evidenciar a pertinência desta questão, foram desenvolvidos conceitos temas e abordadas teorias de aprendizagem contemporâneas que ao se concretizarem como suporte teórico de fundamentação, contextualizam o estudo e constituem a base de orientação para o trabalho de investigação no campo. A metodologia de investigação privilegiada apresenta um carácter etnográfico, uma vez que particulariza o conhecimento dos fenómenos sociais, a microanálise e a visão holística sobre a comunidade local. A definição do seu foco associado a um programa e a sua delimitação no tempo e no espaço classifica-o de estudo de caso etnográfico. O objetivo final será compreender e analisar a cultura da Escola Vila Mar através da observação participante e das narrativas dos seus intervenientes, de modo a aferir da veracidade ou logro da questão basilar. A necessidade de implementação do programa PIEF nesta escola foi a resposta encontrada face à inadequação do currículo nacional, no entanto, não se verificou no seu estudo o ímpeto suficiente para criar a metamorfose necessária.

Cooperação e competição entre políticas no Brasil: os cursos da governabilidade no presidencialismo da catalização

Public policies have been studied in the various fields of humanities and social sciences, from different theoretical and technical aspects. However, there is still a lack of studies that incorporate the dimension that encompasses the political action and its interference in such actions, also recognizing the importance of the institutional setting of the Brazilian presidential model in implementing these policies. This fragmented and multiparty system has led to power heterogeneous sets of political parties. Thus, the ministerial offices, more than assisting the President´s government project, manage particularized agendas, which are party biased and have the influence of interest groups in hegemonic themes addressed by government agencies. When these agendas operate in sectoral and specialized policies, the friction level is apparently low. However, when this occurs in intersectoral actions, such as in regional development, there is evidence of strong signs of competition among government agencies, which in theory, should operate in an integrated manner. Although this is not a specific feature of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva´s government- the period to be studied- there was similar behavior in Fernando Henrique Cardoso´s presidency, one realizes that the expansion of coalition on behalf of governance is increasingly interfering in the outcome of intersectoral public policies, due to these multiple arguments in action. In order to understand these processes, this study focused on the Sustainable and Integrated Development Programme for Differentiated Meso-Regions (PROMESO), part of the National Policy for Regional Development (NPRD). The program provides interface with various government agencies and their public policies in a clear intersectoral design. The research sought to identify and analyze the relationships between government agencies and their programs with interest groups, whether political parties or other segments of civil society, highlighting the logic of favoritism, which poses in second place the integration of actions in the intersectoral policies. Therefore, besides the theoretical debate that incorporates several categories of political science, public administration, public policy, geography and economics, the study focused on secondary sources, using different government agencies databases in order to raise information. It was observed that the interference of partisan politics has been disastrous for some public policies. Thus, the research confirms that cooperative character is fragile within government agencies, often limited to official documents, and that there is indeed, a striking feature of competition, especially when it comes to transversalized policies

Controle social do espaço público: uma análise do conselho turístico pólo costa das dunas

The managing Conselho of public politics constitute one of the main experiences of democracy in Brazil contemporary representing a conquest for construction of a democratic institutionalism. The historical newness consists of the intensification and the institutionalization of the dialogue between government and society - in public and plural canals - as condition for an allocation more efficient joust and of the public resources. In this context the present study it objectified to understand from readings of the performance of represented group of bencheses the dynamics of functioning of the Tourist Conselho Pólo Costa das Dunas while space of participation and social control. The bibliographical research contemplated diverse sources in order to compile knowledge of credential authors in the quarrel of inherent subjects to the civil society and the public sphere to the construction of the citizenship to the conception formation and dynamics of the social control through Conselho of public politics. A qualitative perspective the case study was adopted as research method and for attainment of the data interviews with the members of the Conselho had been carried through beyond consultation the referring documents the dynamics of functioning of the Conselho. The profiles capacities and limitations of the members of the Conselho had been identified constitution social and dynamic organization of functioning of the Conselho and the readings of the members of the Conselho concerning the power to decide instances and participation. The results had shown that the allotment of being able in the Conselho does not occur of equal form. The functions of coordination of the activities of the Conselho are assumed by the representatives of the public agencies. Level of qualification of council members also if presents as difficulty to development of activities of Conselho since the majority of the interviewed ones disclosed unreliability and unfamiliarity when thematic specific that runs away from its organizacional reality they are boarded in the assemblies. Of this form the Conselho if presents more as half of institutional legitimation of what half of characterization of the creation of a public sphere properly said. Finally he could himself be concluded that a democratic culture inexists that inside crosses practical the institutional ones of the Conselho thus limiting the possibility to reach the effective social control of the public politics of tourism in the Rio Grande do Norte

Círculos ao invés de linhas: em busca de valores e princípios estruturantes da gestão social. Projeto juventude, participação e autonomia (Instituto Universidade Popular - UNIPOP)

The organizations are characterized as dynamic spaces, they are being revisited and redefined, because they constitute structural human spaces and new vain outlines won expression. As it begins, of the non consensus in its conception, it is explicit the complexity degree that is identified in the plurality and diversity, brought by the people that compose them, characterizing it as accomplishment space, of happiness and also of conflict, of relationships of power and organizational limits and from birth and burial of faiths, values, norms, symbols, knowledge and rituals, therefore, deeply human. In that way, to know the administration of the organization is preponderant condition for the format of the human relationships to be delineated in its living. Like this the work makes an option in knowing the social administration, this work tries to know and analyze the values and beginnings of the social administration; revealling characteristics and specificities of the organizational performance of UNIPOP that contribute to the formation of the conception of Social Administration, it tends as source of the information the managers of the institution; to identify the formative values of UNIPOP that contribute to the youths' partner-political action in the community, tends for reference the current students of the organization and last to evaluate values structurates and supporting that interconnection between the organizational Administration, formation youth's program, participation and autonomy and attendance, starting from the existences gained by the exits, of that program. This way, the research will be qualitative, looking for understanding starting from their documents, the existence of those values

GÊNERO E RELAÇÕES DE PODER NO PENTECOSTALISMO: ESTUDO COMPARATIVO ENTRE A IGREJA DE CRISTO NO BRASIL E A COMUNIDADE EVANGÉLICA SARA NOSSA TERRA

Based on the empirical comparative study between two churches from Pentecostal guidance - both located in Parnamirim/RN - and supported on a dialogic interaction between my interlocutors and theoretical references, I proposed me to reflect about how this protestant segment represents and articulates questions such as gender and power relationships, and the daily impact of that in their followers life. In other words, this dissertation aims to understand the reason of the asymmetry attributed to male and female, especially in what concerns the distribution of ecclesiastic works and the authority given to male, as well as the implication of this reality in the reconfiguration of morality and religious praxis in daily life of individuals and involved groups. From this perspective, this work was divided in three chapters, in which I investigate the tension/relationship between faith and secularism, for from this question on concessions and/or prohibitions related to the limits and involvement of the followers with the world and with the very Pentecostal ethos arise. I also analyze here aspects concerning to both ecclesiastic hierarchy and power, with the objective of elucidating how it occurs, what kind of criteria and implications they consider as well as about the nature of the religious labor division between men and women and, finally, I try to understand how the conversion/adhesion of members is reflected in the redefinitions of gender and its relationship between the ecclesiastical and domestic spaces. The diligence and energy spent in this work is in the hope that its fruits can corroborate in the expansion of anthropological knowledge which, in this particular case, involves the Brazilian Pentecostal phenomenon

Saudosa Maloca, Maloca querida: um estudo morfológico da relação forma/usos do espaço em moradias autoconstruídas e construídas pelo poder público após um ano de ocupação

This study intends to enhance the existing knowledge concerning the patterns of the uses of space for low cost housing in Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, by way of comparative morphological studies in spatial arrangements and articulations regarding three distinct, however inter-related, sets of social housing: (1) a development comprising 21 self-built houses erected on public routes and illegal plots within a tract of land originally designed to be an industrial development: (2) architect-designed houses built by the public authority in order to accommodate the previous 21 (plus a few additions) families occupying the self-built dwellings, and (3) modifications performed by dwellers on a total of those 24 houses built by the public authority after an occupation period of one year. The predominant uses of each room within the self-built and modified houses were represented in ground plan, based on empirical observation, surveys with dwellers and the use of analytical procedures of morphologic analysis of nature predominantly geometric (specific) and topology (space syntax analysis). A scale of priorities was identified in relation to the uses of each room, its geometrical arrangement (adjacency, front/back relations etc), and underlying structures (connectivity, depth and spatial integration) in order to establish congruencies and non-congruencies between a social-cultural order embedded in the self-built domestic space and the design logic contained in the houses offered by official agencies. The comparative analysis points towards the convivial existence of two tendencies: one that seems to reinforce a design logic inasmuch as the additions and modifications performed by the dwellers do not alter but even emphasize the original configuration of the designed houses, and another one in which those patterns are subverted in accordance with a logic which, to a lesser or greater degree, coincides with that of the self-built dwellings

Do acesso clássico à comercialização: especificidades do mercado imobiliário informal na área especial de interesse social de Mãe Luiza, Natal/ RN.

This study presents research regarding affordable housing and their effects on the spatial reconfiguration of Natal/ RN, aiming to identify the specificities of the informality of urban land. This study aims to understand how informal housing market operates housing provision for the population located in popular informal settlements, through buying and selling market and rental market of residential properties irregular / illegal. This understanding will be through the neighborhood of Mãe Luisa, Special Area of Social Interest (SASI), located between neighborhoods with a population of high purchasing power and inserted into the tourist shaft of seaside of town. The characterization of informal housing market in Mãe Luiza, from buyers, sellers and renters, will help to understand how these informal transactions operate on SASI and housing provision for public policy development and implementation of housing programs and land regularization for low-income population, adequate to dynamic and reality of housing of informal areas

Associação entre as narrativas em saúde bucal e condições socioeconômico-culturais: a dentição como reflexo da desigualdade social

This anthropological study investigates the lived-experience of oral diseases in the context of poverty in Northeast Brazil. During six months in 2004???, ethnographic interviews, narratives and participant-observation with 31 residents of the low-income community, Dendê, located in Fortaleza, Ceará were conducted and analyzed utilizing a hermeneutic-dialetic method. It is revealed that precarious life conditions make prioritizing caretaking a difficult task. Despite suffering tooth pain, seeking a dentist's care is perceived as "a luxury" not a citzens' right. Difficulties in accessing services and poor quality restorations, favor tooth extractions as the most effective intervention. The deterioration of one's oral health is lamented by community members who seek help from popular clinics, politicians and traditional healers. The experience of dental disease differs according to social class, leaves oral scars of inequity, harms self-esteem and inhibits social inclusion. In this context, "treating" the Teeth of Inequity demands that we deepen our comprehension of the social determinants of health, reduce injustice in the access to quality care, remove demoralizing stigmas and empower the community to confront structural forces which affect its life

Repercussões sociais da violência contra crianças e adolescentes: deliqüência

This research is responsible for the investigation and problematization of the violence production process in children and teenagers through deviant behaviour, especially the drug s use and traffic, given that the deviant behaviour named juvenile criminality is something built and that can t be disassociated from the social and institutional relations that are ideological and violent, as well as the construction of, social and individual, positive identities can become important instruments for the process of democratization and the effective juvenile citizenship. In relation to the teorical referential, the work was developed from readings beyond the social science camp, without getting far from it, searching for support in other scientific camps and making your bases on Manuel Castells formulations about the power of the identity, and on Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth in relation to the recognition struggle. In the empiric field, the discourses and graphic representations from twenty four children and teenagers that attend a social project were privileged, and compared to those shown at the documentary and the book Falcão Meninos do Tráfico produced by MV Bill, in relation to the social profile and life trajectory. From the study subjects' perspective, the data suggest that the children and the teenagers conceive violence as a natural thing, either as victims or persecutors. However, the research shows that, despite the subjects of the two studied groups reveled in your discourses the influence of the violent relations in their daily lives, the subjects got recognition during the process of identity construction by the groups with which they maintained the sense of belonging, either it being the family, the community or the school, they were positively influenced and established a positive representation of themselves and didn t show any deviant and violent tendency or behaviour. Therefore, we demonstrate the role of the school for an education for peace, as well as the participation of the family, the community and the stimulation of the juvenile protagonism as transforming practices, capable of awaking the citizenship and avoiding the construction of people that reproduce deviant and violent behaviour