SOCIAL BUSINESS DILEMMAS IN BRAZIL: REDE ASTACASE

ABSTRACTSocial businesses seek financial, social and even environmental results. Academic knowledge on how such organizations operate, however, has emerged more recently. This article sought to investigate qualitatively the main tensions and dilemmas occurring throughout the history of Rede Asta, a pioneer social business in direct catalog sales of artisanal products in Brazil. Results indicate the Rede Asta managers have experienced tensions and dilemmas in three of the four categories identified by Smith, Gonin, and Besharov (2013): social and financial performance, organizational aspects and learning. One of the dilemmas involves organizational aspects and learning, since Asta achieves feasibility with two organizations: a nonprofit association and a for-profit corporation. On perceptions of belonging, stakeholders declared they felt they were a part of the organization’s social and environmental goals; some even as activists.

Entre o ocaso do império e a afirmação da República no Brasil: mudança institucional gradual e transformativa

Este ensaio descreve o processo de consolidação da República no Brasil, demonstrando que o caso ilustra a mudança transformativa das instituições políticas por meio da ação de grupos de interesse. Pretende-se contribuir para preencher duas importantes lacunas teóricas. Por um lado, a escassez de teorização sobre a administração pública brasileira com enfoque histórico e não instrumental. Por outro lado, o atual debate no Novo Institucionalismo acerca dos processos de mudança institucional. Assim, o trabalho apresenta como principais resultados a identificação e classificação das estratégias das elites republicanas que rotinizaram a administração pública brasileira, ao mesmo tempo que consolidaram o novo regime político.

Mecanismos de gestão municipal e a promoção dos direitos humanos

O objetivo da pesquisa consistiu em avaliar a implementação de mecanismos e ações para a promoção e garantia dos direitos humanos no âmbito da administração pública municipal. A descentralização do poder federal, intensificada a partir da Constituição Federal de 1988, trouxe novas atribuições para estados e municípios, com uma transferência de responsabilidades que influencia diretamente as políticas de direitos humanos. Nesse cenário de natureza neoliberal, observa-se um ambiente difuso onde as competências não são claras e emergem lacunas de conhecimento, especialmente sobre o papel do município na construção de uma sociedade inclusiva. A partir da análise de indicadores de gestão municipal publicados pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística foi possível traçar um panorama de gestão municipal dos direitos humanos no Ceará que evidenciou a omissão das prefeituras.

Fisioterapia no transplante hepático: da necessidade ao bem-estar

A intervenção do fisioterapeuta processa-se de modo holístico com vista à obtenção da máxima funcionalidade do indivíduo portador de doença. Objectivo do estudo – Mostrar e contextualizar os cuidados de saúde prestados pela equipa de fisioterapia no Hospital de Curry Cabral aos utentes submetidos a transplante hepático, fundamentados numa experiência de 4 anos de intervenção específica nesta área.

Conhecimento genérico do funcionamento de uma empresa de construção civil e obras públicas e acompanhamento de uma obra

O presente relatório diz respeito ao estágio por mim realizado na empresa de construção HCI, no âmbito do 2º Ano do Mestrado em Engenharia Civil – ISEL, e procura descrever sumariamente e de forma clara o trabalho desenvolvido no período em que o mesmo decorreu (9 de Março de 2009 e 9 de Setembro de 2009). Durante os 6 meses de estágio surgiram várias oportunidades de estar e colaborar com os diferentes sectores que constituem uma empresa de construção. Nomeadamente no que diz respeito ao trabalho de planeamento e execução de obras, desenvolvido na sede/escritório da empresa, e trabalho desenvolvido em campo, tratando-se, neste caso, da Fase II da Obra Center for the Unknown, da Fundação Champalimaud, um centro de investigação que pretende desenvolver estudos inovadores na área da Oncologia. Indo ao encontro dos meus objectivos profissionais, com a realização deste estágio e elaboração do presente trabalho pude consolidar os conhecimentos aprendidos em ambiente académico, bem como adquirir novas aprendizagens, fundamentais para o crescimento do saber no sentido de acompanhar uma área em constante mudança.

Surge damping analysis in pipe systems: modelling and experiments

The current study focuses on the analysis of pressure surge damping in single pipeline systems generated by a fast change of flow, conditions. A dimensionless form of pressurised transient flow equations was developed. presenting the main advantage of being independent of the system characteristics. In lack of flow velocity profiles. the unsteady friction in turbulent regimes is analysed based on two new empirical corrective-coefficients associated with local and convective acceleration terms. A new, surge damping approach is also presented taking into account the pressure peak time variation. The observed attenuation effect in the pressure wave for high deformable pipe materials can be described by a combination of the non-elastic behaviour of the pipe-wall with steady and unsteady friction effects. Several simulations and experimental tests have been carried out. in order to analyse the dynamic response of single pipelines with different characteristics, such as pipe materials. diameters. thickness. lengths and transient conditions.

Constructing good deals in discrete time arbitrage-free dynamic pricing models

Recent literature has proved that many classical pricing models (Black and Scholes, Heston, etc.) and risk measures (V aR, CV aR, etc.) may lead to “pathological meaningless situations”, since traders can build sequences of portfolios whose risk leveltends to −infinity and whose expected return tends to +infinity, i.e., (risk = −infinity, return = +infinity). Such a sequence of strategies may be called “good deal”. This paper focuses on the risk measures V aR and CV aR and analyzes this caveat in a discrete time complete pricing model. Under quite general conditions the explicit expression of a good deal is given, and its sensitivity with respect to some possible measurement errors is provided too. We point out that a critical property is the absence of short sales. In such a case we first construct a “shadow riskless asset” (SRA) without short sales and then the good deal is given by borrowing more and more money so as to invest in the SRA. It is also shown that the SRA is interested by itself, even if there are short selling restrictions.

SmallPower, Energias Renováveis, Lda.: tradução e gestão de conteúdos

Relatório de estágio realizado por: Tiago André Nogueira da Cruz Trabalho orientado pela Mestre Célia Sousa

Evaluation of alcohol outlet density and its relation with violence

OBJECTIVES: The current study set out to investigate alcohol availability in a densely populated, residential area of suburban São Paulo associated with high levels of social deprivation and violence. Gun-related deaths and a heavy concentration of alcohol outlets are notable features of the area surveyed. Given the strong evidence for a link between alcohol availability and a number of alcohol-related problems, including violent crime, measures designed to reduce accessibility have become a favored choice for alcohol prevention programs in recent years. METHODS: The interviewers were 24 residents of the area who were trained for the study. It was selected an area of nineteen streets, covering a total distance of 3.7 km. A profile of each alcohol outlet available on the area was recorded. RESULTS: One hundred and seven alcohol outlets were recorded. The number of other properties in the same area was counted at 1,202. Two measures of outlet density may thus be calculated: the number of outlets per kilometer of roadway (29 outlets/km); and the proportion of all properties that sold alcohol (1 in 12). CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study is compared with others which are mainly from developed countries and shown that the area studied have the highest density of alcohol outlet density ever recorded in the medical literature. The implication of this data related to the violence of the region is discussed. By generating a profile of alcohol sales and selling points, it was hoped to gain a better understanding of alcohol access issues within the sample area. Future alcohol prevention policy would be well served by such knowledge.

Abordagem ao risco de crédito no âmbito do acordo de Basileia III em Portugal

Dissertação para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Contabilidade e Finanças Orientador: Mestre Adalmiro Álvaro Malheiro de Castro Andrade Pereira

NCRF 21 – provisões, passivos contingentes e activos contingentes: suas implicações fiscais e de auditoria

Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP) para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Auditoria Docente orientador: Mestre Domingos da Silva Duarte

Fatores influenciadores da gestão da qualidade e independência do auditor: um estudo de caso

Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Contabilidade para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Auditoria Orientada por: Doutora Alcina Dias

Alianças estratégicas: análise do sector exportador de produtos português

Dissertação de Mestrado em Finanças Empresariais

An heuristic approach for optimal location of gas supply units in transportation system

The best places to locate the Gas Supply Units (GSUs) on a natural gas systems and their optimal allocation to loads are the key factors to organize an efficient upstream gas infrastructure. The number of GSUs and their optimal location in a gas network is a decision problem that can be formulated as a linear programming problem. Our emphasis is on the formulation and use of a suitable location model, reflecting real-world operations and constraints of a natural gas system. This paper presents a heuristic model, based on lagrangean approach, developed for finding the optimal GSUs location on a natural gas network, minimizing expenses and maximizing throughput and security of supply.The location model is applied to the Iberian high pressure natural gas network, a system modelised with 65 demand nodes. These nodes are linked by physical and virtual pipelines – road trucks with gas in liquefied form. The location model result shows the best places to locate, with the optimal demand allocation and the most economical gas transport mode: by pipeline or by road truck.

Natural Gas location design and operation

A major determinant of the level of effective natural gas supply is the ease to feed customers, minimizing system total costs. The aim of this work is the study of the right number of Gas Supply Units – GSUs - and their optimal location in a gas network. This paper suggests a GSU location heuristic, based on Lagrangean relaxation techniques. The heuristic is tested on the Iberian natural gas network, a system modelized with 65 demand nodes, linked by physical and virtual pipelines. Lagrangean heuristic results along with the allocation of loads to gas sources are presented, using a 2015 forecast gas demand scenario.