In one man's life; being chapters from the personal & business career of Theodore N. Vail,

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Hugo Bettarello e a Agabê: da modernidade almejada aos calçados made in Brazil (1945-1980)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Los pasos previos : Apuntes sobre la radicalización política y cultural a partir de la trayectoria empresarial de Jorge Alvarez (1963 - 1970)

En este artículo se reconstruye la trayectoria del empresario y productor cultural Jorge Alvarez entre los años 1963 y 1970. El objetivo es plantear algunos aspectos referidos a la relación establecida entre ciertos modelos de intelectualidad ligados a la versión argentina de la "nueva izquierda" cultural y las resonancias que las tendencias globales ligadas a un amplio proceso de contestación juvenil alcanzaron en nuestro país durante aquellos años. Como en buena parte del mundo occidental, la consolidación en la Argentina de la juventud como actor social significativo se alimentó de un heterogéneo universo de elementos que circulaban a través de renovados mecanismos de la industria y la cultura de masas. El artículo se presenta como un aporte para la incorporación de aspectos relativamente desatendidos en las lecturas existentes sobre el fenómeno de radicalización juvenil ocurrido en nuestro país en la intersección de las décadas del '60 y '70

Los pasos previos : Apuntes sobre la radicalización política y cultural a partir de la trayectoria empresarial de Jorge Alvarez (1963 - 1970)

En este artículo se reconstruye la trayectoria del empresario y productor cultural Jorge Alvarez entre los años 1963 y 1970. El objetivo es plantear algunos aspectos referidos a la relación establecida entre ciertos modelos de intelectualidad ligados a la versión argentina de la "nueva izquierda" cultural y las resonancias que las tendencias globales ligadas a un amplio proceso de contestación juvenil alcanzaron en nuestro país durante aquellos años. Como en buena parte del mundo occidental, la consolidación en la Argentina de la juventud como actor social significativo se alimentó de un heterogéneo universo de elementos que circulaban a través de renovados mecanismos de la industria y la cultura de masas. El artículo se presenta como un aporte para la incorporación de aspectos relativamente desatendidos en las lecturas existentes sobre el fenómeno de radicalización juvenil ocurrido en nuestro país en la intersección de las décadas del '60 y '70

Los pasos previos : Apuntes sobre la radicalización política y cultural a partir de la trayectoria empresarial de Jorge Alvarez (1963 - 1970)

En este artículo se reconstruye la trayectoria del empresario y productor cultural Jorge Alvarez entre los años 1963 y 1970. El objetivo es plantear algunos aspectos referidos a la relación establecida entre ciertos modelos de intelectualidad ligados a la versión argentina de la "nueva izquierda" cultural y las resonancias que las tendencias globales ligadas a un amplio proceso de contestación juvenil alcanzaron en nuestro país durante aquellos años. Como en buena parte del mundo occidental, la consolidación en la Argentina de la juventud como actor social significativo se alimentó de un heterogéneo universo de elementos que circulaban a través de renovados mecanismos de la industria y la cultura de masas. El artículo se presenta como un aporte para la incorporación de aspectos relativamente desatendidos en las lecturas existentes sobre el fenómeno de radicalización juvenil ocurrido en nuestro país en la intersección de las décadas del '60 y '70

Modelo conceptual de desarrollo empresarial basada en competencias

La formación de un empresario es un proceso en el cual intervienen un sinnúmero de variables sociales, culturales, psicológicas y económicas que contribuyen, con un conjunto de conocimientos específicos, a desarrollar una serie de competencias que buscan lograr que este empresario en formación tenga altas probabilidades de convertirse en un empresario exitoso, capaz de generar riqueza y desarrollo social a lo largo de su vida. Esta investigación, cuyo objetivo principal es plantear un modelo de formación empresarial teniendo en cuenta el ciclo de carrera empresarial ha tomado en cuenta diversos elementos de la teoría general de Entrepreneurship y las experiencias que el CDEE (Centro de Desarrollo de Espíritu Empresarial) ha tenido en sus veintiún años de actividad en el área, con diversos públicos. Como resultado de este análisis, la investigación propone un modelo de formación empresarial fundamentado en dos tipos de competencias: las competencias de conocimiento (CC) relacionadas con los conocimientos requeridos para el desarrollo de la empresa, y las competencias personales entendidas como las habilidades, comportamientos, actitudes y valores necesarios para convertirse en un empresario exitoso a lo largo del tiempo. Adicionalmente el modelo contiene seis etapas en el proceso: la de formación en espíritu empresarial la de formación en generación y evaluación de ideas de negocio, la de evaluación de oportunidad de negocio, la de elaboración del plan de negocio, la del proceso de arranque y la de crecimiento y desarrollo, cada una de ellas apoyadas en un proceso educativo y con recursos especialmente asignados, y todas interrelacionadas.

The Corrosion of Career? - Occupational Trajectories of Business Economists and Engineers in Switzerland

Achievement careers are regarded as a distinctive element of the post-war period in occidental societies. Such a career was at once a modal trajectory of the modern parts of middleclass men and a social emblem for progress and success. However, if the achievement career came to be a biographical pattern with great normative power, its precise sequential course remained vague. Theories of the 1960s and 1970s described it as an orderly advancement within large firms. By the 1990s, scholars postulated an erosion of the organizational structures that once contributed to the institutionalization of careers, accompanied by a weakening of the normative weight of the achievement career by management discourse. We question the thesis of the corrosion of achievement career by analysing the trajectories of 442 engineers and business economists in Switzerland in regard to their orderliness, loyalty, and temporal rhythm. An inspection of types of careers and cohorts reveals that even if we face a decline of loyalty over time, hierarchical orderliness is not touched by those changes. Foremost, technical-industrial careers fit the loyal and regular pattern. Hence, this trajectory-type represents only a minority and is by far the slowest and least successful in terms of hierarchical ascension.

The corrosion of career? Occupational trajectories of engineers and business economists in Switzerland

This doctoral thesis deals with the rise and potential fall of achievement career as an institutional biographical pattern. I start with the assumption that the achievement career, as a result of the spread of large-scale bureaucratic companies, the male-breadwinner family model, and meritocratic ideals, came to life in the first half of the twentieth century. During the so-called 30 glorieuses, it became even a normatively dominant and also politically significant male biographical pattern. But the structural changes that announced the end of the post-war golden age seemed also to threaten and-according to certain scholars-erode this type of occupational trajectory. In order to understand this dynamic I will try to reconstruct the achievement career in Switzerland empirically. I examine (1) the structural changes of the economic field from 1970 to 2000, (2) the transformations of the trajectories during this period, and (3) ways in which the concerned individuals interpret and react to these changes.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Career Choice Intentions of Students with Family Business Background

Personal and motivational patterns of intentional founders have been researched in great depth; however, antecedents to career choices of intentional successors have been conspicuously missing in entrepreneurship research. By drawing on theory of planned behavior, we investigate how intentional founders, successors, and employees differ in terms of locus of control and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as independence and innovation motives. We find that transitive likelihood of career intent depends on degree of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the independence motive. Unexpectedly, we see that high levels of internal locus of control lead to a preference of employment, which challenges traditional entrepreneurship research and suggests that the feasibility of an entrepreneurial career path does not automatically make it desirable. Our findings suggest that students with family business background are pessimistic about being in control in an entrepreneurial career, but optimistic about their efficacy to pursue an entrepreneurial career.

Preparing for a career in business education.

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Business administration as a career.

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The doctor, is career, his business, his human relations.

"Principles of medical ethics of the American Medical Association": p. 136-146.

Success attitudes of young ophthalmologists in the first decade of their career

PURPOSE: To describe the main success attitudes of young ophthalmologists in the first decade of their career. METHODS: This descriptive study comprised subjects selected from a sample of ophthalmologists who were participating in a congress, using a semi-structured questionnaire. The inclusion criteria were as follows: ophthalmologists under the age of 40 years, within 5-10 years from ophthalmology residency conclusion. The subjects were asked about the three main success attitudes in their personal experience during the first years of ophthalmology practice. After the initial results, the 10 most frequently mentioned attitudes were listed and volunteers were again interviewed to choose, within the latter list, the three main attitudes. RESULTS: Forty-eight ophthalmologists were interviewed, 24 (50%) were male; the mean age was 37 years (SD: 2 years, range: 33-40 years) and the mean time from ophthalmology residency conclusion was 8 years (SD: 1 year, range: 5-10 years). The frequency of such mentioned success attitudes were as follows: to invest in professional updating (22.9%), to have a good relationship with patients and professional partners (18.8%), to prioritize individual and family happiness (12.5%), initially to work in an established group (11.1%), to work in public service (9.7%), to have their own business with a homogeneous group (7.6%), to save money (7.6%), to be ready to resume work (4.2%), to get business administration skills (4.2%), and to have professional insurance (0.7%). CONCLUSIONS: The three main success attitudes consisted in investing in professional updating (22.9%), maintaining a good relationship with patients and professional partners (18.8%), and prioritizing individual and family happiness (12.5%). Although these results should not be generalized, they are helpful not only for those ophthalmologists at the beginning of a career but also those who want to reflect on what to prioritize in their professional practice.

The Extent and Cyclicality of Career Changes: Evidence for the UK

Using quarterly data for the U.K. from 1993 through 2012, we document that the extent of worker reallocation across occupations or industries (a career change, in the parlance of this paper) is high and procyclical. This holds true after controlling for workers' previous labour market status and for changes in the composition of who gets hired over the business cycle. Our evidence suggests that a large part of this reallocation reflect excess churning in the labour market. We also find that the majority of career changes come with wage increases. During the economic expansion wage increases were typically larger for those who change careers than for those who do not. During the recession this is not true for career changers who were hired from unemployment. Our evidence suggests that understanding career changes over the business cycle is important for explaining labour market ows and the cyclicality of wage growth.