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Valli, Mariana Veronezi [UNESP]. "O processo de organização tópica em dissertações escolares: da análise à emergência de uma abordagem para o ensino do gênero." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151983.

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Submitted by Mariana Veronezi Valli null (ma_valli@hotmail.com) on 2017-10-23T13:20:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO MARIANA VERONEZI VALLI REPOSITÓRIO.pdf: 4159141 bytes, checksum: eb07e8f9d908c28f2eae0d84002fada5 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-10-26T16:08:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 valli_mv_me_sjrp.pdf: 4159141 bytes, checksum: eb07e8f9d908c28f2eae0d84002fada5 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-26T16:08:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 valli_mv_me_sjrp.pdf: 4159141 bytes, checksum: eb07e8f9d908c28f2eae0d84002fada5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-30<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Considerando a realidade das produções textuais dos alunos de Ensino Médio, suas dificuldades e as exigências da escola e do concurso vestibular, verificamos a necessidade de analisar os processos de construção textual dos quais se valem esses alunos a fim de diagnosticar e dirimir essas dificuldades. Este trabalho, inserido no quadro teórico-metodológico da Gramática Textual-Interativa, uma vertente da Linguística Textual, ocupa-se do estudo do processo de organização tópica em dissertações escolares. Especificamente, o presente trabalho tem os seguintes objetivos: (i) analisar a organização tópica de dissertações consideradas padrão (aqui representadas por textos que obtiveram nota máxima em edições do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio – ENEM), demonstrando, no nível intertópico, a existência de complexidade hierárquica e o grau dessa complexidade, bem como o tipo de linearização predominante, e, no nível intratópico, a existência de um padrão de estruturação; (ii) comparar a organização tópica de dissertações padrão com a organização tópica de dissertações produzidas por alunos do terceiro ano do ensino médio de escolas públicas da cidade de São José do Rio Preto (SP), identificando possíveis diferenças e similaridades entre esses dois grupos de textos. Para tanto, a investigação segue o método da análise tópica (JUBRAN, 2006), que prevê a análise textual por meio da categoria analítica do tópico discursivo. Nossos resultados mostraram mais similaridades do que diferenças: todos os textos do corpus são compostos de mais de um tópico discursivo e a transição entre tópicos se dá por continuidade. Além disso, há um padrão de organização interna dos enunciados nos segmentos tópicos, que perpassa a maioria dos textos: a alternância entre unidades de posição e suporte. Diante desses resultados e apoiados em Travaglia (2011), propomos uma abordagem para o trabalho de ensino e aprendizagem de leitura, compreensão e produção de texto com o gênero textual dissertação escolar a partir da categoria da organização tópica.<br>Considering the reality of text production developed by High School students, the difficulties presented to them and to the professors and the demands of school and the admitance exam (vestibular), we verified the necessity of analyzing the processes of text construction in order to diagnose and diminish these difficulties. The general purpose of this study, developed within the framework of Textual-Interactive Grammar, a dimension of Text Linguistics, is to investigate the process of topic organization in school essays. More specifically, this study aims to (i) analyze the topic organization of school essays, demonstrating, in the intertopic level, the existence of hierarchy complexity and its degree, as well as the predominant kind of linearization and, in the intratopic level, the existence of a general rule of organization and (ii) compare the topic organization of essays considered to be the pattern (published by the media due to the achievement of highest grades on the High School National Exam (ENEM)) and essays produced by public High School students from São José do Rio Preto (SP, Brazil), in order to identify potential differences and similarities between these two groups of texts. To that end, the investigation follows the method of topic analysis (Jubran, 2006), which provides textual analysis based on the analytical category of discourse topic. Our results have shown more similarities than differences: the whole set of texts collected are structured by more than one discourse topic and the transition between each topic is given by continuity. Furthermore, there is a pattern for internal organization of topic segments, which covers most of them: the alternation between the units of Position and Support. In the light of these results and based on Travaglia (2011), we proposed an approach for teaching and learning of reading, comprehension and text production of the text genre of school essay through the topic organization category.
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Wang, Xuerui. "Structured Topic Models: Jointly Modeling Words and Their Accompanying Modalities." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/58/.

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Ghanem, Amer G. "Identifying Patterns of Epistemic Organization through Network-Based Analysis of Text Corpora." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1448274706.

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Cui, Licong. "Ontology-guided Health Information Extraction, Organization, and Exploration." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1401709795.

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Garcia, Aline Gomes. "Estudo do processo de Organização Tópica em editoriais de jornais paulistas do século XXI." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154381.

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Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-06-26T18:17:53Z (GMT)<br>Submitted by Aline Gomes Garcia (aline.ggarcia@yahoo.com) on 2018-06-26T20:24:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação pós-defesa - versão final com ficha corrigida.pdf: 2201244 bytes, checksum: c77c97726e44ac0c1519356841905ab6 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Elza Mitiko Sato null (elzasato@ibilce.unesp.br) on 2018-06-27T11:18:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_ag_me_sjrp.pdf: 2201244 bytes, checksum: c77c97726e44ac0c1519356841905ab6 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-27T11:18:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_ag_me_sjrp.pdf: 2201244 bytes, checksum: c77c97726e44ac0c1519356841905ab6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-02<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>Com base no quadro teórico-metodológico da Gramática Textual-Interativa, no presente trabalho, apresentamos um estudo do processo de Organização Tópica em editoriais de jornais paulistas do século XXI. Abordamos os dois níveis de funcionamento desse processo – o intertópico e o intratópico. No que diz respeito ao primeiro nível, analisamos a complexidade intertópica dos editoriais a partir de três aspectos: (i) quantidade de tópicos discursivos específicos por editorial; (ii) grau de complexidade hierárquica; (iii) formas de linearização tópica. Quanto ao segundo nível, investigamos a existência de uma regra geral de estruturação interna de Segmentos Tópicos mínimos (SegTs) nos editoriais paulistas atuais. Na análise desses dois níveis do processo de Organização Tópica, procuramos discutir em que medida particularidades da Organização Tópica no gênero editorial estariam vinculadas a aspectos da finalidade sociocomunicativa do gênero. O material de análise compreende editoriais dos jornais Folha de S. Paulo e O Estado de S. Paulo, publicados ao longo do mês de agosto de 2016, e a investigação segue o método de análise tópica, que possibilita a análise textual com base na categoria analítica abstrata do tópico discursivo e na unidade de análise chamada de Segmento Tópico. Os dados revelam que os editoriais paulistas podem apresentar dois, três ou quatro tópicos discursivos mais específicos, organizados, no que diz respeito à complexidade hierárquica, em um ou dois Quadros Tópicos. Além disso, nossas análises mostram que o gênero editorial se caracteriza por apresentar a continuidade como a forma de linearização tópica predominante. Nosso estudo também demonstra que, no gênero editorial, o SegT mínimo organiza-se internamente segundo a combinação potencialmente recursiva de duas unidades de organização intratópica – posição e suporte, ou seja, nosso trabalho mostra que, no gênero em estudo, a estruturação interna de SegTs mínimos envolve a combinação potencialmente recursiva de grupos de enunciados que constroem referências centrais e agrupamentos de enunciados que constroem referências subsidiárias relativamente ao tópico discursivo do SegT. Defendemos que o funcionamento do processo de Organização Tópica em editoriais de jornais paulistas do século XXI está bastante relacionado com a finalidade sociocomunicativa de defesa de posicionamento crítico do gênero editorial e assumimos ainda que o caráter bastante fixo do editorial e a restrição quanto ao espaço ocupado pelo gênero no jornal determinam características da Organização Tópica nos editoriais paulistas atuais<br>In this work, based on the theoretical framework of Textual-Interactive Grammar, we present a study of the Topic Organization process in newspaper editorials in the state of São Paulo of the 21st century. We broach the two levels of functioning of this process – the intertopic and intratopic levels. With regard to the first level, we analyze the intertopic complexity of editorials from three aspects: (i) quantity of specific discourse topics for each editorial; (ii) degree of hierarchical complexity; (iii) forms of topic sequencing. As for the second level, we investigate the existence of a general rule of internal structuring of minimal Topic Segments (SegTs) in current São Paulo editorials. In the analysis of these two levels of the Topic Organization process, we tried to demonstrate to what extent particularities of Topic Organization in the editorial genre would be related to aspects of the sociocommunicative purpose of the genre. The corpus includes editorials from Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo newspapers, published during August 2016, and the research follows the method of topic analysis, which enables textual analysis based on the abstract category of discourse topic and on the unit of analysis called the Topic Segment. The data show that newspaper editorials from São Paulo can present two, three or four more particularizing discourse topics, organized, in terms of hierarchical complexity, in one or two Topic Frames. Furthermore, our analyzes show that the editorial genre is characterized by presenting continuity as the predominant topical linearization form. Our research also shows that, in the editorial genre, the minimal SegT is organized internally according to the potentially recursive combination of two units of intratopic organization – position and support, that is, our work shows that, in the genre studied, the internal structuring of minimal SegTs involves the potentially recursive combination of groups of utterances the construct central references and groupings of statements that construct subsidiary references to the discourse topic of SegT. We argue that the functioning of the Topic Organization process in editorial of São Paulo newspapers of 21st century is closely related to sociocommunicative purpose of critical position defense of editorial genre. We also assume that the very fixed character of the editorial and restriction regarding the space occupied by the genre in the newspaper determine features Topic Organization in the current editorials of the state of São Paulo.<br>2016/09046-1
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Mouzouni, Charafeddine. "Topic in mean field games theory & applications in economics and quantitative finance." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEC006.

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Les systèmes de jeux à champ moyen (MFG) décrivent des configurations d’équilibre dans des jeux différentiels avec un nombre infini d’agents infinitésimaux. Cette thèse s’articule autour de trois contributions différentes la théorie des jeux à champ moyen. Le but principal est d’explorer des applications et des extensions de cette théorie, et de proposer de nouvelles approches et idées pour traiter les questions mathématiques sous-jacentes. Le premier chapitre introduit en premier lieu les concepts et idées clés que nous utilisons tout au long de la thèse. Nous introduisons le problème MFG et nous expliquons brièvement le lien asymptotique avec les jeux différentiels N-joueurs lorsque N → ∞. Nous présentons ensuite nos principaux résultats et contributions. Le Chapitre 2 explore un modèle MFG avec un mode d’interaction non anticipatif (joueurs myopes). Contrairement aux modèles MFG classiques, nous considérons des agents moins rationnels qui n’anticipent pas l’évolution de l’environnement, mais observent uniquement l’état actuel du système, subissent les changements et prennent des mesures en conséquence. Nous analysons le système couplé d’EDP résultant de ce modèle, et nous établissons le lien rigoureux avec le jeu correspondant à N-Joueurs. Nous montrons que la population d’agents peut s’auto-organiser par un processus d’autocorrection et converger exponentiellement vite vers une configuration d’équilibre MFG bien connue. Les Chapitres 3 et 4 concernent l’application de la théorie MFG pour la modélisation des processus de production et commercialisation de produits avec ressources épuisables (ex. énergies fossiles). Dans le le Chapitre 3, nous proposons une approche variationnelle pour l’étude du système MFG correspondant et analysons la limite déterministe (sans fluctuations de la demande) dans un régime où les ressources sont renouvelables ou abondantes. Nous traitons dans le Chapitre 4 l’approximation MFG en analysant le lien asymptotique entre le modèle de Cournot à N-joueurs et le modèle de Cournot MFG lorsque N est grand. Enfin, le Chapitre 5 considère un modèle MFG pour l’exécution optimale d’un portefeuille d’actifs dans un marché financier. Nous explicitons notre modèle MFG et analysons le système d’EDP résultant, puis nous proposons une méthode numérique pour calculer la stratégie d’exécution optimale pour un agent étant donné son inventaire initial, et présentons plusieurs simulations. Par ailleurs, nous analysons l’influence de l’activité de trading sur la variation intraday de la matrice de covariance des rendements des actifs. Ensuite, nous vérifions nos conclusions et calibrons notre modèle en utilisant des données historiques des transactions pour un pool de 176 actions américaines<br>Mean Field Game (MFG) systems describe equilibrium configurations in differential games with infinitely many infinitesimal interacting agents. This thesis is articulated around three different contributions to the theory of Mean Field Games. The main purpose is to explore the power of this theory as a modeling tool in various fields, and to propose original approaches to deal with the underlying mathematical questions. The first chapter presents the key concepts and ideas that we use throughout the thesis: we introduce the MFG problem, and we briefly explain the asymptotic link with N-Player differential games when N → ∞. Next we present our main results and contributions, that are explained more in details in the subsequent chapters. In Chapter 2, we explore a Mean Field Game model with myopic agents. In contrast to the classical MFG models, we consider less rational agents which do not anticipate the evolution of the environment, but only observe the current state of the system, undergo changes and take actions accordingly. We analyze the resulting system of coupled PDEs and provide a rigorous derivation of that system from N-Player stochastic differential games models. Next, we show that our population of agents can self-organize and converge exponentially fast to the well-known ergodic MFG equilibrium. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with a MFG model in which producers compete to sell an exhaustible resource such as oil, coal, natural gas, or minerals. In Chapter 3, we propose an alternative approach based on a variational method to formulate the MFG problem, and we explore the deterministic limit (without fluctuations of demand) in a regime where re- sources are renewable or abundant. In Chapter 4 we address the rigorous link between the Cournot MFG model and the N-Player Cournot competition when N is large. In Chapter 5, we introduce a MFG model for the optimal execution of a multi-asset portfolio. We start by formulating the MFG problem, then we compute the optimal execution strategy for a given investor knowing her/his initial inventory and we carry out several simulations. Next, we analyze the influence of the trading activity on the observed intra-day pattern of the covariance matrix of returns and we apply our results in an empirical analysis on a pool of 176 US stocks
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Cheng, Gary. "Mindfulness and the Toxic Triangle| Reducing the Negative Impact of Toxic Leadership in Organizations." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841008.

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<p>Toxic leadership costs organizations millions at a time in lost employees, lost customers, lost productivity, and even lost health. The literature shows toxic leadership extends beyond just leaders into an interconnected ?toxic triangle? of destructive leaders, conducive environments, and susceptible followers. This study explored, ?Can a free, online mindfulness-based stress reduction course reduce the negative impact of toxic leadership on the organization?? Ten volunteers self-identified as currently working under a toxic leader. The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to measure resistance, compliance, and core self-evaluation along with interviews and journals. The results indicated mindfulness did reduce the negative impact: conducive environments were less conducive and susceptible followers were less susceptible. Additionally, mindfulness had influence on the entire toxic triangle and resulted in unique Toxic Triangle Influence Maps for each situation. Finally, family systems theory was found to be particularly useful for understanding leadership in a toxic triangle.
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Lenhard, Katie Marie. "The Historical Debate Among Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the Topic of the United Nations." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4875.

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Since the inception of the United Nations in 1945, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made public statements regarding the international peace and security organization. To the confusion of many Church members, who often look to their leaders for prophetic guidance on numerous spiritual and temporal topics, these statements have been conflicting. Some Church leaders have clearly opposed the United Nations and others have openly supported it, offering various ideological explanations for their beliefs. Yet, it is evident that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never made an official position on the topic of the United Nations. Church members are free to exercise their agency and either oppose or support the organization as they deem necessary. Regardless of personal opinions, a relationship has emerged between the Church and the United Nations in the past few decades through joint humanitarian efforts, as well as official and unofficial interactions. Since the United Nations is most likely a permanent fixture of the political world, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is concerned with topics of international importance, it appears this relationship will continue to blossom throughout the future.
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Zanin, Isa Caroline Aguiar. "O processo de organização tópica em cartas de redatores de jornais paulistas do século XIX." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/157192.

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Submitted by Isa Caroline Aguiar Zanin (isa-zanin@hotmail.com) on 2018-10-01T14:17:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação para defesa PDF - corrigida.pdf: 842491 bytes, checksum: 92a3aa91fea5306a299f8110ffbc8e6d (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Elza Mitiko Sato null (elzasato@ibilce.unesp.br) on 2018-10-01T14:45:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 zanin_ica_me_sjrp.pdf: 842491 bytes, checksum: 92a3aa91fea5306a299f8110ffbc8e6d (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-01T14:45:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 zanin_ica_me_sjrp.pdf: 842491 bytes, checksum: 92a3aa91fea5306a299f8110ffbc8e6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-31<br>O presente trabalho é parte de um projeto maior, intitulado “Projeto de História do Português Paulista” (ALMEIDA, 2006), também conhecido como Projeto Caipira, que estuda diferentes aspectos da história do português utilizado no estado de São Paulo, dentre eles a evolução de processos de construção textual, como a organização tópica. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do trabalho é analisar o processo de organização tópica de cartas de redatores de jornais paulistas do século XIX. Os dois níveis de constituição desse processo são analisados: a organização intertópica, que consiste na combinação entre Segmentos Tópicos (SegTs) mínimos; e a organização intratópica, que é a estruturação interna de SegTs mínimos. O quadro teórico-metodológico é constituído por uma integração entre a Perspectiva Textual-Interativa (JUBRAN; KOCH, 2006) e a Teoria dos Atos de Fala (AUSTIN, 1962; SEARLE, 1969). As cartas de redatores analisadas são extraídas de Barbosa e Lopes (2002), que, como parte do material usado pelo Projeto Caipira, reúnem cartas de redatores e cartas de leitores publicadas em diferentes jornais do estado de São Paulo durante o século XIX. O resultado do trabalho mostra que as cartas estudadas se caracterizam, no nível da organização intertópica, pela propriedade da unicidade intertópica, isto é, cada carta, via de regra, desenvolve um único tópico discursivo. No nível da organização intratópica, as cartas de redatores apresentam uma regra geral, que consiste na construção de uma unidade de Elaboração Tópica (na qual o redator dirige uma mensagem aos leitores/assinantes), a qual pode ser antecedida por uma unidade de Contextualização Tópica (que introduz o tópico da carta) e/ou seguida por uma unidade de Expansão Tópica (em que se discute a mensagem dirigida aos leitores/assinantes). Os resultados mostram também que, para distinguir uma unidade intratópica da outra, as cartas lançam mão de um mecanismo que envolve o uso de diferentes tipos de atos de fala em diferentes unidades. Além disso, as unidades se diferenciam umas das outras em termos da presença/ausência de verbos performativos.<br>This thesis is part of a broader research project named “Projeto de História do Português Paulista” (Almeida, 2006), also known as “Projeto Caipira”, which has studied different aspects of the history of Portuguese spoken in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. One of these aspects is the evolution of a set of text construction processes, including the process of topic organization. In this way, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the topic organization process in editor’s letters published in newspapers of the State of São Paulo during de 19th century. Both levels of such process are analyzed: intertopic organization, which is the combination of minimal Topic Segments (SegTs); intratopic organization, which is the internal organization of minimal SegTs. The theoretical framework consists in an articulation between Textual-Interactive Grammar (Jubran and Koch, 2006) and Speech Act Theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969). The editor’s letters analyzed are selected from Barbosa and Lopes (2002). These authors, as part of Projeto Caipira, have provided a set of editor’s letters and reader’s letters published in different newspapers of São Paulo during the 19th century. The results show that the letters under consideration are characterized, at the intertopic level, by intertopic unicity, that is, each letter normally has a single topic. At the intratopic level, the letters follow a general rule, which predicts the construction of a unit called Topic Elaboration (through which the editor directs a message to readers/subscribers); according to the rule, this unit may be preceded by a unit called Topic Contextualization (which presents the topic of the letter) and/or it my be followed by a unit named Topic Expansion (where the editor discusses the message elaborated before). The data also show that, as a mechanism to distinguish intratopic units, the letters use different types of speech acts in different units. In addition, these units are differentiated to each other based on the presence/absence of performative verbs.
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Alvim, Nuno. "Topics in Industrial Organization." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96354.

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La Organización Industrial trata sobre la interacción estratégica entre empresas. ¿Cómo toman las decisiones las empresas cuando tienen en cuenta la reacción del resto de empresas? El objetivo es comprender mejor la decisión de las empresas y las consecuencias de éstas en la competencia del mercado. En el capítulo 2, investigo la interacción estratégica entre cooperación en investigación y desarrollo (I+D) y las fusiones posteriores. Se presenta un modelo teórico que relaciona redes estables de cooperación en I+D con decisiones de fusión, seguido por la competición en el mercado de productos. El resultado es que las fusiones y la cooperación en I+D son complementarias. Esto significa que hay fusiones que sólo existen porque las empresas construyen ciertas redes de cooperación en I+D. Si las cooperaciones no fueran permitidas, entonces las empresas elegirían no fusionarse. Otro resultado que obtengo es que hay cooperación entre empresas que no existirían si las empresas no se anticiparan a las posteriores fusiones. También encuentro que la cooperación con las empresas que no se fusionan son las relaciones claves, contradiciendo la intuición de que las empresas crean relaciones que se sustituirán por una fusión en un estado posterior. La consecuencia es que las empresas no fusionadas ganan poder de veto sobre la fusión y sólo permitirán ésta si la empresa resultante de la fusión no es demasiado competitiva. En el capítulo 3 presento un modelo para entender mejor cómo compiten las empresas de Capital de Riesgo con diferente acumulación de experiencia, y porque cooperan en los estadios iniciales de la financiación de riesgo. Considero que la decisión a cooperar la toman las empresas financiadoras, pero debe ser aprobado por el dueño del proyecto. Los resultados dicen que hay ganancias de bienestar resultantes de la cooperación porque las uniones de Capitalistas de Riesgo evalúan proyectos más efectivamente y proveen servicios con mayor valor añadido. Cuando se toma en cuenta al empresario, los Capitalistas de Riesgo no pueden apropiarse todas las ganancias derivadas del proyecto. El empresario se queda con parte del proyecto porque tiene la alternativa de no fusionarse. Así que presento un modelo de cooperación sin colusión. Otro resultado que encuentro es que los proyectos con mayor potencial son más probables de llevar a uniones, y que las mayores inversiones no llevan necesariamente a mayor cooperación. A través de un análisis empírico realizo un test para comprobar las conclusiones teóricas y obtengo que proyectos con tanto un mayor potencial como una mayor inversión tienen mayor probabilidad de resultar en una unión de capitalistas de riesgo. Finalmente, en el capítulo 4 se analizan las decisiones de las empresas sobre el momento de entrada de éstas en el mercado. Específicamente, analizo como estas decisiones se ven afectadas por las creencias de las empresas sobre la situación de la demanda y de la competencia. Otra contribución del artículo es estudiar si las empresas tienen incentivos para distorsionar las creencias y ser más optimistas sobre el estado de la demanda. Este capítulo considera un modelo de decisión sobre el momento de entrada endógeno con información incompleta sobre la demanda. Muestro que con empresas Bayesianas existe un único equilibrio Bayesiano perfecto donde las empresas con creencias optimistas producen en el primer periodo, mientras que las empresas con creencias pesimistas sólo producen en el segundo periodo. También encuentro que cuando las empresas pueden elegir ser demasiado confiadas, eligen no serlo. Sin embargo, les produce una ligera mejora tener la opción de elegirlo.<br>Industrial Organization concerns the strategic interaction between firms. How do firms take decisions when the reactions of others are taken into account? The goal is to better understand firms' decisions and their consequences in market competition. In chapter 2, I investigate the strategic interaction between research and development (R&D) cooperations and subsequent mergers. I present a theoretical model linking stable R&D cooperation networks with the decisions to merge, followed by the product market competition. I find that mergers and R&D cooperations are complements. This means that there are mergers that only exist because firms construct certain R&D cooperation networks. If cooperations were not allowed, then firms would choose not to merge. I also find that there are cooperations among firms that would not exist if the firms did not anticipate subsequent mergers. I also find that cooperations with non-merging parties are the key links, contradicting the intuition that firms create links to substitute for a merger at a later stage. The consequence is that the non-merging firm gains veto power over the merger and will only enable it if the resulting merged company is not too competitive. In chapter 3 I present a model that sheds light on how differently experienced Venture Capital firms compete and why they cooperate in the early stages of venture financing. I consider that the decision to cooperate is made by the financiers, but it must be approved by the owner of the project. I find that there are welfare gains from cooperating because syndications of Venture Capitalists evaluate projects more effectively and provide more value-added services. When the entrepreneur is taken into account, Venture Capitalists cannot appropriate all the gains from a venture. The entrepreneur retains part of the project by keeping the competition outside option. Therefore I present a model of cooperation without collusion. I also find that projects with greater potential are more likely to be syndicated and that larger investments do not necessarily lead to more cooperation. I test these two implications in an empirical analysis and find that projects with both a larger potential and a larger investment are more likely to be syndicated. Finally chapter 4 analyzes firms' decisions about the entry timing in markets. Specifically, I analyze how these decisions are affected by firms' beliefs about the state of the world. A second contribution of the paper is to study whether firms have incentives to distort beliefs and to become optimistic about the state of demand. The paper considers an endogenous timing model with incomplete information about demand. I show that with Bayesian firms there exists a unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium where firms with optimistic beliefs produce in the first period while firms with pessimistic beliefs only produce in the second period. I also find that when firms could choose to be overconfident they choose not to be. Nevertheless, they are weakly better by having the option to do so.
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Medalho, Pereira Isabel Maria. "Topics on the (Re)organization of Knowledge." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4080.

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Mi trabajo de investigación se centra en el estudio de problemas organizacionales en situaciones de colaboración. En particular, esta tesis se compone de tres capítulos en los que analizo problemas de incentivos en la investigación interdisciplinar y en acuerdos de colaboración entre empresas y universidades. <br/>El primero capitulo de mi tesis, "Incentives for Interdisciplinary Research", es (hasta el momento y según mi conocimiento) el primero trabajo que caracteriza formalmente la investigación interdisciplinar a través de complementariedad en la producción y desventaja innata en los costes para el desarrollo de una nueva área científica. Mi trabajo demuestra que cuando los objetivos de la investigación son suficientemente exigentes, la investigación interdiciplinar es preferible a la investigación especializada. <br/>En el segundo capítulo de la tesis, "Business-Science Research Collaboration under Moral-Hazard", analizo cómo las características de acuerdos de colaboración son el resultado de un contrato óptimo entre las partes contratantes. Además, el tipo de acuerdo puede ser un importante instrumento de incentivo cuando algún (algunos) de los recursos importantes para la colaboración no son contratables. El análisis se hace en dos dimensiones: de la estructura del gobierno del acuerdo (descentralizada o centralizada), y de los problemas de información que esa estructura enfrenta. Aunque una estructura descentralizada siempre elije proyectos que están más cercanos a los intereses de la parte gobernante, las dos estructuras podrán utilizar el proyecto como mecanismo para reducir el efecto de riesgo moral. <br/>El tercero capítulo de la tesis, "Patents and Business-Science Research Partnership" (escrito en conjunto con Walter Garcia-Fontes), presenta un estudio empírico que relaciona las características de patentes con el proceso de investigación que las precedieron. Utilizando datos de patentes europeas, los resultados de este capítulo están de acuerdo con las predicciones teóricas del capítulo anterior de esta tesis: la identidad institucional de las organizaciones que hacen la investigación se hacen visibles en las características de las patentes.<br>The research of my PhD dissertation focuses on the study of organizational problems, in the context of collaborative relations. In particular, the dissertation is composed by three chapters, in which I analyze incentives problems in interdisciplinary research and in collaboration agreements between firms and universities. <br/>The first chapter of the thesis, "Incentives for Interdisciplinary Research", is (up to the moment and to my knowledge), the first article that formally characterizes interdisciplinary research: through the presence of complementarities in the production and through an innate cost disadvantage, when developing a new scientific area. My work shows that when the goals for the research are sufficiently demanding, interdisciplinarity is preferred to specialization. <br/>In the second chapter of the thesis, "Business-Science Research Collaboration under Moral-Hazard", I analyze on how the characteristics of a research agreement can be the optimal outcome of a contract between the parties. Furthermore, the type of project can also be an importance incentive tool when some of the resources that are important for the success are non-verifiable and non-contractibe. The analysis is developed in two dimensions: the structure of partnership governance (decentralized and centralized), and the informational constraints that such structures may face. Even if a decentralized structure chooses a type of project that is closer to the interests of the governing party, both structures may optimally use the project as a mechanism to reduce the impact of moral-hazard. <br/>In the third chapter of the thesis, "Patents and Business-Science Research Partnership" (jointly written with Walter Garcia-Fontes), I present an empirical study that relates the characteristics of the patents with the research process that lead to the inventions. Using data from the European Inventors Survey, PatVal-EU, the results of this chapter are aligned with the theoretical predictions of the previous chapter of the thesis: the institutional identity of the research organizations are associated with different basicness levels of the patens.
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Sturluson, Jon Thor. "Topics in the industrial organization of electricity markets." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.] (EFI), 2003. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/614.htm.

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Beermann, Peter. "Topics in multinational banking and international industrial organization." Diss., kostenfrei, 2008. http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8521/.

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Larrieu, Thomas. "Topics in industrial organization applied to competition policy." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLX058/document.

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Les notions de plateforme, de marché bifaces ou même multi-faces sont aujourd’hui au cœur des discussions économiques du fait de l’explosion du e-commerce lié à l’essor des nouvelles technologies de l’information. Ces plateformes en lignes offrent de nouvelles opportunités et soulèvent de nombreuses questions (stratégie tarifaire, règlementation, etc.). Les deux premiers chapitres de cette thèse s’intéressent aux plateformes de réservation en ligne et plus particulièrement à l’impact concurrentiel des clauses de parités tarifaire. Ces dernières, mises en place par les plateformes, imposent aux vendeurs de proposer son bien ou service via la plateforme au meilleur prix disponible sur tous les autres canaux de ventes. Dans le premier chapitre, je montre que, d'un point de vue théorique, l'effet concurrentiel des clauses de parité est majoritairement négatif mais peut devenir positif en fonction du pouvoir de négociation de chacun des acteurs. Dans un second temps, une analyse empirique reposant sur une base de données unique de plus de 6 millions de prix, me permet de montrer que la suppression des clauses de parité à Paris a engendré une baisse tarifaire moyenne des hôtels de -3,1% à - 4,5%. Cette baisse peut en partie s'expliquer par une augmentation des stratégies de discrimination tarifaire. En effet, les hôtels ont augmenté de 1,4 à 2,3% la discrimination entre plateformes et ils ont augmenté de 2,1% à 3,6% leurs stratégies de discrimination inter-temporelle. Le dernier chapitre de cette thèse est dédié à l'analyse des amendes décidées par l'Autorité de la Concurrence entre 2006 et 2018 pour des pratiques de cartels. Nous montrons que ces amendes sont sous optimales car elles ne satisfassent pas les critères de dissuasion et de compensation<br>The Internet technology and the web economy create new types of markets and new relationships between market players. The majority of these new markets can be associated to platforms where two or more sides of the same market meet. Such “multi-sided” industries raise specific issues. Determining the optimal pricing strategy for both the platform and the users selling goods through the platform is one of the main challenges of this new economy. The first two chapters of my thesis analysis Price Parity Agreement (PPA) from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. I first study the effect of Price Parity Agreements from a theoretical perspective. I demonstrate that PPAs on the online booking market are detrimental to consumers if platforms have most of the bargaining power. They attenuate competition between platforms, lead to higher commission fees and higher hotel rooms’ prices. However, MFN clauses may also be welfare improving when hotels own the bargaining power and competition between them is high. The second chapter is dedicated to an empirical analysis of the effects of PPAs. Using a before-after design and controlling for external shocks, I demonstrate that the end of Price Parity Agreements imposed by public authorities to OTAs causes a decrease of about 3.1% to 4.5% in the average level of prices set by hotels. This decrease may be explained by an increase of price discrimination. I show that the level of price discrimination across OTAs increases by 2.3% to 1.4% after the drop of Price Parity Agreements and that the degree of inter-temporal price discrimination also increases by 3.6% to 2.1%. The last chapter of my thesis is focused on the analysis of the financial fines imposed by the French Autorité de la Concurrence to cartels in France between 2006 and 2018. We show that the level of these fines is sub-optimal and doesn’t meet the deterrence objective in the majority of the cases
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Sharma, Alok. "Enabling knowledge management of organizational memory for groups through shared topic maps." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1475938.

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Du, Toit P. Jacques. "Determining key intelligence topics for Old Mutual (S.A.)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85167.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2006.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Making sense of the competitive environment has become an essential condition for organisational survival and growth. The nature of the competitive environment has evolved to a state that all companies in an industry have more or less the same access to information. It is the companies that translate that information into actionable intelligence that will have the best chance of a competitive advantage. However, few organisations have the resources to study every aspect of the competitive environment. Prioritisation is required to ensure that only those aspects of the competitive environment that will really contribute to the performance of a company are studied. Translating information into intelligence requires both a process and a focus. This study was used to derive a conceptual competitive intelligence process model to guide the operations of Old Mutual’s Competitive Intelligence (CI) function. The conceptual model presented is based on a literature study and details the required steps in translating available information into actionable intelligence. The literature study firstly defines the concept of competitive intelligence. Secondly, it describes the conceptual model. Finally, the literature study describes in more detail the first phase of the intelligence process, i.e. the identification of intelligence needs of the organisation, and the translation of those needs into topics that can be prioritised and operationalised for collection and analysis by the CI function. This process is referred to as the Key Intelligence Topics (KITs) process. The identification of needs was done by means of an empirical study and entailed personal interviews with members of the senior management team of Old Mutual. The most significant need identified in the interviews is for forward-looking analysis of industry trends and competitor strategies. The products of these analyses should suggest potential actions to the recipients or users. The interviews and business documentation on strategic and tactical initiatives were used to determine the key intelligence needs of Old Mutual. The process and framework of interpreting the intelligence needs into prioritised KITs is described in Chapter 4. However, on Old Mutual’s request, specifics pertaining to strategic initiatives and intelligence requirements derived from the empirical study have not been documented in this study.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Om sin te maak van die mededingende omgewing het ‘n noodsaaklike voorwaarde vir ‘n maatskappy se oorlewing en groei geword. Die aard van die mededingende omgewing het ontwikkel tot ‘n vlak waar al die maatskappye in ‘n industrie merendeels toegang tot dieselfde inligting het. Dit is slegs dié maatskappye wat beskikbare informasie kan omskakel in bruikbare intelligensie wat die beste kans op ‘n mededingende voordeel sal hê. Nogtans, weinig maatskappye het die beskikbare hulpbronne om elke aspek van die mededingende omgewing te kan bestudeer. Prioritisering word dus benodig om te verseker dat slegs die aspekte van die mededingende omgewing wat werklik ‘n bydrae sal lewer tot die welslae van die maatskappy, bestudeer sal word. Omskakeling van informasie na intelligensie benodig beide ‘n proses en ‘n fokus. Hierdie studie dien om ‘n konseptuele prosesmodel van mededingende intelligensie af te lei vir die gebruik in die Mededingende Intelligensie (MI) afdeling van Ou Mutual. Die voorgestelde model is gebaseer op ‘n literatuurstudie en beskryf die nodige stappe om beskikbare informasie om te skakel in bruikbare intelligensie. Eerstens beskryf die literatuurstudie die konsep van mededingende intelligensie. Tweedens beskryf dit die konseptuele prosesmodel. Laastens beskryf die literatuurstudie die eerste fase van die intelligensieproses in meer besonderhede, d.i. die identifisering van intelligensiebehoeftes van die maatskappy en die verwerking van daardie behoeftes tot onderwerpe wat geprioritiseer en in werking gestel kan word vir insameling en ontleding van informasie deur die MI afdeling. Dié omskakelingsproses is bekend as die “Key Intelligence Topics (KITs)”-proses. Die identifisering van behoeftes is deur middel van ‘n empiriese studie verkry, en behels die voer van persoonlike onderhoude met lede van die senior bestuurspan van Ou Mutual. Gedurende die onderhoude was die behoefte aan toekomsgerigte ontledings van industrieneigings en mededingerstrategieë geïdentifiseer as die grootste huidige tekorte. Voorts moet die ontledings voorgestelde optredes aan die ontvangers van die intelligensie bied. Die onderhoude, tesame met strategiese en taktiese dokumentasie, is gebruik om die sleutel intelligensiebehoeftes van Ou Mutual te bepaal. Die proses en raamwerk om die intelligensie behoeftes te vertolk in geprioritiseerde KITs word beskryf in Hoofstuk 4. Op versoek van Ou Mutual is spesifieke inligting soos deur die empiriese studie afgelei en met betrekking tot Ou Mutual se strategieë en intelligensiebehoeftes nie weergegee in hierdie studie nie.
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Brown, Courtney P. "The Employee Perspective| A Phenomenological Approach to the After Effects of Toxic Leadership." Thesis, Sullivan University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13810500.

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<p> Toxic leadership harms people and, eventually, the company as well through the poisoning of enthusiasm, creativity, autonomy, and innovative expression. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the decisions made by employees who were exposed to the actions of a toxic leader, and to explore the lived experiences of employees who were affected by toxic leadership within their organizations. The study explored the lived experiences of 13 participants who experienced and were affected by toxic leadership. This study used the modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen phenomenological method of data analysis to examine the participants&rsquo; transcripts. Analysis of the data gathered during the interviews developed five themes: 1) Flight: Leave the toxic environment; 2) Hope: Stay within the toxic environment; 3) Damage: Physical &amp; psychological health issues; 4) Trust: Lack of trust at the workplace; and 5) Development: A positive outlook after experiencing toxic leadership. Findings from the study recommended that obtaining the employees&rsquo; perspectives whenever conducting research on the after effects of toxic leadership was significant. The results of this study suggested that the adverse effects of toxic leadership may continue past the immediate and adverse physiological and psychological responses. This study was intended to add value to the existing body of knowledge concerning toxic leadership for both the practitioner and scholar communities.</p><p>
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Asgari, Elham. "The Impact of Varied Knowledge on Innovation and the Fate of Organizations." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102034.

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In my dissertation, I examine varied types of knowledge and how they contribute to innovation generation and selection at both the firm and the industry level using the emerging industry context of small satellites. My research is divided into three papers. In Paper One, I take a supply-demand perspective and examine how suppliers of technology—with their unique knowledge of science and technology—and users of technology—with their unique knowledge of demand—contribute to innovation generation and selection over the industry lifecycle. Results show that the contributions of suppliers and users vary based on unique aspects of innovation, such as novelty, breadth, and coherence – and also over the industry life cycle. In Paper Two, I study how firms overcome science-business tension in their pursuit of novel innovation. I examine unique aspects of knowledge: scientists' business knowledge and CEOs' scientific knowledge. I show that CEOs' scientific knowledge is an important driver of firms' novel pursuits and that this impact is higher when scientists do not have business knowledge. In the third paper, I further examine how scientists with high technological and scientific knowledge—i.e., star scientists—impact firm innovation generation and selection. With a focus on explorative and exploitative innovation, I develop theory on the boundary conditions of stars' impact on firm level outcomes. I propose that individual level contingencies—i.e., stage of employment—and organizational level contingencies—explorative or exploitative innovation—both facilitate and hinder stars' impact on firms' innovative pursuits.<br>Doctor of Philosophy
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Alvarado, Claudia. "ENVIRONMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR DISASTER: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING THE ALVARADO WORK ENVIRONMENT SCALE OF TOXICITY." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/406.

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Leadership has been a much studied area within industrial and organizational psychology. Recently, scholars have begun to focus on the negative side of leadership; however, a lack of research has limited our understanding of toxic leadership. One step forward in this domain has been the development of the toxic triangle, which posits that toxic leaders are aided by toxic followers with a toxic environment. Although the leader has been studied within this triangle, relatively little has been researched regarding the follower or the environment. Specifically, that there has been a lack of research in the organizational environment that allows the rise of toxic leaders is concerning. In this study, a toxic work environment scale was developed to help capture pieces of organizational environments that contribute to the rise of toxic leadership. A refined scale was used along with a qualitative piece. Four other scales were used to establish convergent and divergent validity. From the results of this study, although refinement is needed, support for three of the dimensions was found: favoritism, perceived threat, and overall organizational climate. Additionally, through the qualitative portion, additional themes that emerged (e.g., bullying) could be utilized in future use of measures to help assess toxic work environment features. Finally, I recommend that researchers interested in the toxic triangle endeavor to conduct studies that examine all elements simultaneously.
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Henrickson, Kevin E. "Labor and industrial organization topics in transportation economics : wages and deregulation, spatial demand and competition, and intermodal rates /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192186851&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-109). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Hitchcock, Melanie J. "The Relationship Between Toxic Leadership, Organizational Citizenship, and Turnover Behaviors Among San Diego Nonprofit Paid Staff." Thesis, University of San Diego, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3713773.

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<p> Toxic leadership is associated with a number of negative consequences to the long-term health and welfare of people in organizations. Destructive leader styles redirect employee efforts from mission accomplishment to self-protection and survival behaviors, undermining the organization. Increased demand and decreased funding are characteristic of the nonprofit sector. Therefore, successful nonprofit organizations tend to rely on creativity and innovation to ensure their communities are appropriately and sufficiently sustained. Supportive, not toxic, leadership helps foster organizational environments that encourage prudent risk-taking and innovation. </p><p> This concurrent mixed methods study explored the relationship between toxic leadership and organizational citizenship and turnover behaviors among 471 survey respondents from a sample of San Diego nonprofit paid staff, and considered the influence commitment has on those relationships. An open ended question for those who reported experiencing toxic leadership provided additional context and depth as to why employees stayed in an organization in spite of abusive supervision. The findings of the study are of interest to leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations to develop policies and training processes as they strive to recruit, retain and develop talented employees. </p><p> Toxic supervision was found to exist in San Diego nonprofit organizations. However, its effect on organizational citizenship (OCB) and turnover behaviors was inconclusive, as was the influencing effect of commitment, in this study. However, both commitment and OCB-like ideas emerged as stated reasons that participants did not leave the organization, as did career, resilience and opportunity concepts. These identified variables suggest complex relationships that act in concert to influence staff retention indicating possible important opportunities for future research.</p>
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Singh, Kanika. "Under the Toxic Dome: An Analysis of China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization and its Impact on Ambient Air Pollution." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1651.

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For the average Chinese citizen, waking up under a sky blanketed with smog is no longer a surprise: since the rise of industrial capitalism, changes in trade policy, consumer preferences and the overall magnitude of industry have resulted in crippling levels of ambient air pollution. Though growth in the manufacturing realm was prevalent in the post-Mao Industrial Revolution era, China’s accession to the World Trade Organization resulted in the proliferation of trade on a grand scale, and due to low manufacturing and production costs, resulted in China assuming its seat in the global market. Unfortunately, this economic success was accompanied by an unhealthy increase in ambient air pollution levels, and has since posed a significant threat to public welfare. This study surveys the impact of different aspects of trade volumes in the 31 provinces of China on the state of ambient air pollution. Findings include that as a result of increased trade due to China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the volume of sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from provincial industries is positively correlated with the exports of products manufactured in industrial operating units within China. This study also finds a positive relationship between the imports of products manufactured outside of China, as there is an increase in pollution from road dust due to traveling vehicles with these imported products. Though exports and imports of goods produced in foreign nations contribute significantly to the emissions patterns in Chinese provinces, an analysis of the data indicates that there is a stronger correlation between domestically produced units that are traded, as opposed to those units that are produced outside of the country.
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Kan, Hongjun. "Does the Medicare principal inpatient diagnostic cost group model adequately adjust for selection bias?" Santa Monica, CA : RAND Graduate School, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50711061.html.

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Morris, Jr Jerry A. "Understanding Coping Strategies and Behaviors of Employees Affected by Toxic Leadership." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6359.

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Toxic leaders affect nearly half of the U.S. employee base and create environments in which followers, peers, and staff might be less effective due to stress, devaluation, and potential job loss. A multiple case study approach was used to understand what coping strategies employees use to reduce the negative effects of toxic leadership on themselves, other employees, and the overall workplace; and to understand the behaviors that result from these strategies. The purposeful and snowball sample consisted of 29 participants within the United States, ages 30 to 65, who worked within two or more organizations and who either directly experienced a toxic leader or observed someone who did. The theoretical framework was based on betrayal trauma theory, conservation of resources theory, and the cognitive theory of trauma. Research questions focused on how affected employees coped during and after the toxic event and any coping differences between sample groups. Data were collected via one-on-one telephone interviews. Data were analyzed via data organization, acquaintance, classification, coding, and interpretation. The major themes that emerged were emotional reaction, coping strategies used, effects at work and home, and resulting health issues for both person and family. Seeking resource help was identified as the most effective coping strategy when dealing with a toxic leader. Toxic leadership can have lasting negative effects on both organizations and employees that can extend beyond the workplace. Organizations have an organizational and social responsibility to address toxic leader behaviors and provide resources to employees to counteract toxic leadership to create a more positive work environment where employees can find work rewarding and fulfilling.
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Sun, Yixing. "Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/226.

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Stories, themes, concepts and references are organized structurally and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schank’s Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing memory structures is essential to cognition and learning. Pirolli and Card emphasized the need to provide people with an independent and improved ability to access and understand information in their information seeking activities. Through a review of users’ reading behaviours and of existing e-Book user interfaces, we found that current e-Book browsers provide minimal support for comprehending the content of large and complex books. Readers of an e-Book need user interfaces that present and relate the organizational and narrative structures, and moreover, reveal the thematic structures. This thesis addresses the problem of providing readers with effective scaffolding of multiple structures of an e-Book in the user interface to support reading for comprehension. Recognising a story or topic as the basic unit in a book, we developed novel story segmentation techniques for discovering narrative segments, and adapted story linking techniques for linking narrative threads in semi-structured linear texts of an e-Book. We then designed an e-Book user interface to present the complex structures of the e-Book, as well as to assist the reader to discover these structures. We designed and developed evaluation methodologies to investigate reading and comprehension in e-Books, in order to assess the effectiveness of this user interface. We designed semi-directed reading tasks using a Story-Theme Map, and a set of corresponding measurements for the answers. We conducted user evaluations with book readers. Participants were asked to read stories, to browse and link related stories, and to identify major themes of stories in an e-Book. This thesis reports the experimental design and results in detail. The results confirmed that the e-Book interface helped readers perform reading tasks more effectively. The most important and interesting finding is that the interface proved to be more helpful to novice readers who had little background knowledge of the book. In addition, each component that supported the user interface was evaluated separately in a laboratory setting and, these results too are reported in the thesis.
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Vignoli, Jacqueline Costa Sanches [UNESP]. "Os alunos não sabem escrever: a (des)organização tópica de redações escolares." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86597.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-14Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:48:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 vignoli_jcs_me_sjrp.pdf: 1219435 bytes, checksum: 616ec96df3d296bc6af6cf7ec0528071 (MD5)<br>Seed - Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo<br>A presente dissertação filia-se à Lingüística Textual, mais precisamente a uma abordagem sociocognitiva-interacionista, elegendo para objeto de estudo o texto, entendido como lugar de interação. Justificamos nosso recorte teórico pela opção de analisarmos, de maneira comparativa, as condições de produção e os textos delas resultantes, conjugando, portanto, o processo e seu produto. Nosso objetivo, então, é encontrar pistas nas produções escolares que remetam às orientações dadas em sala de aula, isto é, buscamos nos textos marcas que sinalizem as informações fornecidas em aulas de redação. Para tanto, observamos aulas em duas escolas particulares de São José do Rio Preto, ambas de terceiro ano do Ensino Médio, e relatamos os encaminhamentos dados para a produção textual. Essa descrição se baseou nos quatro sistemas cognitivos necessários para a produção textual – lingüístico, interacional, enciclopédico e sobre modelos textuais globais – descritos pela corrente sociocognitivista da Lingüística Textual, aos quais nós acrescentamos um outro saber - o conhecimento sobre organização tópica, pautado pelas propriedades da centração e da organicidade. Os textos coletados foram analisados a partir da categoria de tópico discursivo, com o intuito de observarmos a (des)organização tópica existente nas redação escolares. Quanto aos textos reescritos, além das aulas de orientação, levamos em conta as correções efetuadas pelos professores nos textos originais, a fim de verificar se esses novos direcionamentos contribuíam para a obtenção de textos organizados topicamente. Como resultado, percebemos que, apesar de algumas diferenças quanto ao modo de as aulas serem dadas nas duas salas informantes, a maioria dos textos não se apresentou dotado de organização tópica, fato que pôde ser explicitado pela natureza das orientações dadas em sala de aula.<br>The current dissertation joins to the Textual Linguistics with a sociocognitive – interacting approach, choosing as study goal the text, seen as the interaction place. The theoretical clipping is justified by the comparative analysis of the production conditions and the resulting texts, therefore joining the process and the product. The goal is to find clues in the school productions that rely on the classroom orientation, that is, we seek for signs from the composition classes. So that we observed classes in two private school groups in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, both in the third year of High School, and enrolled the directions given to textual production – linguistics, interactive, encyclopedic and about the global textual models – as described by the sociocognitivist running of Textual Linguistics, to which we added another knowledge – about topical organization, regulated by the properties of “centration” and “organicity”. The collected texts were analysed in the category of discursive topic, with the intention of observing the topical (dis)organization in the school compositions. As for the rewritten texts, besides the orientation classes, the corrections made by the teachers into the original texts were taken into account, in order to verify if the new orientations contributed in obtaining texts with topical organization. As a result, it was noticed that, in spite of some differences in the way the classes were given in the two observed groups, most of the texts weren’t endowed with topical organization and this result could be explained by the nature of orientation that were given in the classes.
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Vignoli, Jacqueline Costa Sanches. ""Os alunos não sabem escrever" : a (des)organização tópica de redações escolares /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86597.

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Orientador: Clélia Cândida Abreu Spinardi Jubran<br>Banca: Anna Christina Bentes<br>Banca: Maria Izabel de Oliveira Massoni<br>Resumo: A presente dissertação filia-se à Lingüística Textual, mais precisamente a uma abordagem sociocognitiva-interacionista, elegendo para objeto de estudo o texto, entendido como lugar de interação. Justificamos nosso recorte teórico pela opção de analisarmos, de maneira comparativa, as condições de produção e os textos delas resultantes, conjugando, portanto, o processo e seu produto. Nosso objetivo, então, é encontrar pistas nas produções escolares que remetam às orientações dadas em sala de aula, isto é, buscamos nos textos marcas que sinalizem as informações fornecidas em aulas de redação. Para tanto, observamos aulas em duas escolas particulares de São José do Rio Preto, ambas de terceiro ano do Ensino Médio, e relatamos os encaminhamentos dados para a produção textual. Essa descrição se baseou nos quatro sistemas cognitivos necessários para a produção textual - lingüístico, interacional, enciclopédico e sobre modelos textuais globais - descritos pela corrente sociocognitivista da Lingüística Textual, aos quais nós acrescentamos um outro saber - o conhecimento sobre organização tópica, pautado pelas propriedades da centração e da organicidade. Os textos coletados foram analisados a partir da categoria de tópico discursivo, com o intuito de observarmos a (des)organização tópica existente nas redação escolares. Quanto aos textos reescritos, além das aulas de orientação, levamos em conta as correções efetuadas pelos professores nos textos originais, a fim de verificar se esses novos direcionamentos contribuíam para a obtenção de textos organizados topicamente. Como resultado, percebemos que, apesar de algumas diferenças quanto ao modo de as aulas serem dadas nas duas salas informantes, a maioria dos textos não se apresentou dotado de organização tópica, fato que pôde ser explicitado pela natureza das orientações dadas em sala de aula.<br>Abstract: The current dissertation joins to the Textual Linguistics with a sociocognitive - interacting approach, choosing as study goal the text, seen as the interaction place. The theoretical clipping is justified by the comparative analysis of the production conditions and the resulting texts, therefore joining the process and the product. The goal is to find clues in the school productions that rely on the classroom orientation, that is, we seek for signs from the composition classes. So that we observed classes in two private school groups in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, both in the third year of High School, and enrolled the directions given to textual production - linguistics, interactive, encyclopedic and about the global textual models - as described by the sociocognitivist running of Textual Linguistics, to which we added another knowledge - about topical organization, regulated by the properties of "centration" and "organicity". The collected texts were analysed in the category of discursive topic, with the intention of observing the topical (dis)organization in the school compositions. As for the rewritten texts, besides the orientation classes, the corrections made by the teachers into the original texts were taken into account, in order to verify if the new orientations contributed in obtaining texts with topical organization. As a result, it was noticed that, in spite of some differences in the way the classes were given in the two observed groups, most of the texts weren't endowed with topical organization and this result could be explained by the nature of orientation that were given in the classes.<br>Mestre
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Atmadja, Titin S. "Workplace Toxicity, Leadership Behaviors, and Leadership Strategies." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6516.

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Workplace toxicity may negatively influence the well-being and work performance of employees. Best practices of successful leadership approaches and behaviors have been unidentified when addressing low-toxicity work environments. The purpose of this qualitative narrative case study was to develop a deeper understanding of how leaders selected and applied specific leadership strategies and behaviors in nontoxic workplace environments. Data were collected from 10 participants in New Hampshire using a purposive sampling technique and semistructured interviews based on Alvarado's triangular model of workplace toxicity. This study was structured using a narrative approach to explore ways positive leaders practically implemented styles and behaviors to mitigate workplace toxicity. All participants met this study's qualification parameters; they had past experiences with toxic leaders that shaped their personal leadership styles. NVivo was used to compare and analyze data from all interview transcripts entered for recurring themes. These themes were coded according to how answers connected to a specific research question, and findings were collated across interviews to form results. Three major themes emerged from the data: experience with toxic leadership, leadership approaches to toxicity, and leadership behaviors toward toxicity. Insights from this study may help company leaders avoid lawsuits, low productivity levels, and high staff turnover due to toxic workplace elements left unattended or ineffectively managed. The study may contribute to positive social change by generating practical models of and suggestions for creating a less toxic work environment, thereby creating healthier and happier employees, which increases public wellbeing and company success.
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Chen, Shun-Chuan, and 陳舜全. "Initial Studies on Chinese Spoken Document Analysis - Topic Segmentation, Title Generation and Topic Organization." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00145646226748995382.

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Tseng, Shu-Yan, and 曾淑燕. "Research topic: how organization politics affect overall HR infrastructure." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39585472398142742516.

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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>人力資源管理研究所<br>98<br>In order for corporations to survive today’s ever changing business climate, enterprises must tailor overall business operational infrastructure; HR is something have to be focused on and fine-tuned. Centralization HR works best when dealing with small to medium size firms; when organizations gradually grow larger, the centralization HR must be shift to service and proficiency oriented. Companies can be benefited, only by mastering and orchestrating centralization and localization HR functions. Corporation tends to revolutionize its HR structure, headquarter HR has been transformed to Shared Services Center, SSC which carries some innovational and creative concepts. Localization HR has been transformed to Account Services Team, AST. However, company politic still influences HR infrastructure greatly. Pros for passive and localization HR structure. 1. Recruiting. Company can find right employee when it sees fit. 2. Cultivation. Company can tailor orientation and classes for novice workers. 3. Utilization. Company can make use of each employee promptly. 4. Sustain. A career path can be mapped out to curb turnover rate. Cons for passive and localization HR structure. 1. Hard to orchestrate headquarter and local HR functions 2. Local HR has very overall limited authority and ability to manage even daily routine and recruiting. 3. HR itself has the propensity to have high turnover rate . 4. Supervisors tend to practice nepotism to the teeth.
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Huang, Xiaoli. "Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Typology of Topical Relevance Relationships as the Basis for a Topic-Oriented Information Architecture." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106495.

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This submission reports on a cross-disciplinary inquiry into topicality and relevance, involving an in-depth literature analysis and an inductive development of a faceted typology (containing 227 fine-grained topical relevance relationships arrayed in three facets and 33 types of presentation relationships). This inquiry reveals a large variety of topical connections beyond topic matching (the common assumption of topical relevance in the field), renders a closer look into the structure of a topic, and induces a generic topic-oriented information architecture that is meaningful across topics and domain boundaries. The findings from the analysis contribute to the foundation work of information organization, metadata development, intellectual access / information retrieval, and knowledge discovery. The typology of topical relevance relationships is structured with three major facets: * Functional role of a piece of information plays in the overall structure of a topic or an argument; * Mode of reasoning: How information contributes to the userâ s reasoning about a topic; * Semantic relationship: How information connects to a topic semantically. This inquiry demonstrated that topical relevance with its close linkage to thinking and reasoning is central to many disciplines. The multidisciplinary approach allows synthesis and examination from new angles, leading to an integrated scheme of relevance relationships or a system of thinking that informs each individual discipline. The scheme resolving from the synthesis can be used to improve text and image understanding, knowledge organization and retrieval, reasoning, argumentation, and thinking in general, by people and machines.
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Lee, Ming-Han, and 李明翰. "Topic Analysis and Organization for Spoken Documents with Efficient Retrieval and Browsing - Chinese Broadcast News as an Example including System Integration." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07829202998497779190.

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Long, T., C. Hale, L. Sanderson, P. Tomlinson, and K. Carr. "Evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents in England." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6959.

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This paper reports the findings of a study which was carried out to evaluate the educational preparation of cancer and palliative care nurses in England. The study was carried out in three stages and covered the following areas; documentary analysis of curriculae, assessment of practice, patients and professionals views of threshold and expert practice. The findings suggested that although there was widespread compliance with a national standard for cancer nursing, this was not the case for palliative care nursing. There was uncertainty about what should be assessed in practice and ambiguity about what was actually assessed. Partnership with children and their parents, clinical skills, multi-disciplinary working, and personal attributes were the main foci for expectations of threshold practice but an expert panel had difficulty in describing the attributes of higher level practice. The paper also describes how some of recommendations from the study are being taken forward in current policy and practice.
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Henriques, João Pedro Sousa. "Searching for associations between social media trending topics and organizations." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22220.

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This work focuses on how micro and small companies can take advantage of trending topics for marketing campaigns. Trending topics are the most discussed topics at the moment on social media platforms, particularly on Twitter and Facebook. While the access to trending topics is free and available to everyone, marketing specialists and specific software are more expensive, therefore small companies do not have the budget to support those costs. The main goal is to search for associations between trending topics and companies on social media platforms and HotRivers prototype is designed to accomplish this. A solution that aims to be inexpensive, fast, and automated. Detailed analyses were conducted to reduced the time and maximize the resources available at the lowest price. The final user receives a list of the trending topics related to the target company. For HotRivers were tested different pre-processing text techniques, a method to select tweets called Centroid Strategy and three models, an embedding vectors approach with Doc2Vec model, a probabilistic model with Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and a classification task approach with a Convolutional Neural Network used on the final architecture. The Centroid Strategy is used on trending topics to avoid unwanted tweets. In the results stand out that trending topic Nike has an association with the company Nike and #World- PatientSafetyDay has an association with Portsmouth Hospitals University. HotRivers cannot produce a full marketing campaign but can point out to the direction to the next campaign.<br>Este trabalho foca-se na forma como as micro e pequenas empresas podem tirar partido dos trending topics para as suas campanhas de marketing. Os trending topics são os tópicos mais discutidos em cada momento nas redes sociais, particularmente no Twitter e no Facebook. Enquanto o acesso aos trending topics é gratuito e generalizado, os especialistas em marketing e o software especifico são dispendiosos, pelo que as pequenas empresas não têm o orçamento para suportar esses custos. O principal objetivo é procurar associações entre trending topics e empresas nas redes sociais e para isso foi criado um protótipo chamado HotRivers. Uma solução que pretende ser acessível, rápida e automatizada. Foram realizadas análises detalhadas para reduzir o tempo e maximizar os recursos disponíveis a preço baixo. O utilizador final recebe uma lista dos trending topics relacionados com a empresa alvo. O HotRivers foi testado com diferentes técnicas de pré-processamento de texto, um método para selecionar tweets chamado Estratégia Centroid e três modelos, uma abordagem de vectores embedding com o modelo Doc2Vec, um modelo probabilístico com Alocação de Dirichlet Latente, e uma abordagem de classificação com uma Rede Neural Convolucional, selecionada para a arquitetura final. A Estratégia Centroid é utilizada nos trending topics para evitar tweets indesejados. Nos resultados destacam-se o trending topic "Nike" que tem uma associação com a empresa Nike e #WorldPatientSafetyDay que tem uma associação com a Universidade dos Hospitais de Portsmouth. Embora o HotRivers não possa produzir uma campanha de marketing completa, pode apontar a direção para a campanha seguinte.
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Beermann, Peter [Verfasser]. "Topics in multinational banking and international industrial organization / vorgelegt von Peter Beermann." 2008. http://d-nb.info/989365832/34.

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Kong, Sheng-Yi, and 宮嵊益. "Unsupervised Semantic Analysis and Organization of Spoken Documents Based on Parameters Derived from Latent Topics." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82730786103173525935.

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Correia, Ana Rita da Silva. "A evolução da investigação em contabilidade de gestão nos últimos cinco anos: Accounting, organization and society e the accounting review." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/6617.

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A investigação em contabilidade, quer de forma geral quer especificamente na vertente de contabilidade de gestão, é relativamente vasta, dada a sua diversidade de temas abordados, metodologias utilizadas, teorias e contextos de investigação. Neste sentido, o presente estudo vem contribuir para a caracterização da investigação em contabilidade de gestão, de forma a ajudar na clarificação do que tem sido feito nesta área, do que falta fazer e do que pode ser ainda mais aprofundado. Procurou-se que essa caracterização fosse o mais recente possível e que recaísse sobre as publicações mais influentes na área de contabilidade de gestão. Daí a escolha dos últimos cinco anos como período de análise e das revistas Accounting Organization and Society e The Accounting Review como fontes dos artigos que compõem o universo de estudo. Foram analisados os temas abordados nos artigos, os métodos de recolha de dados utilizados e as seguintes características dos autores: número de artigos publicados, género, universidades de afiliação, continentes e países de afiliação. Posto isto, pretendeu-se encontrar relações entre essas mesmas variáveis. Os resultados mostraram que as publicações da Accounting Organization and Society e da The Accounting Review são distintas, que o tema mais abordado na investigação em contabilidade de gestão foi a avaliação de desempenho e os métodos de recolha de dados mais utilizados foram a experimentação e o estudo de caso, o primeiro foi mais utilizados por autores do género masculino e afiliados no continente americano e o segundo por autores do género feminino e afiliados na Europa.<br>The field of accounting research, either generally or specifically in management accounting, is vast, given its diversity of topics, methodologies, theories and research settings. This study contributes to the characterization of research in management accounting, in order to assist in clarifying what has been done in this area, what remains to be done and what can be further deepened. The period of analysis is the last five years and Accounting Organization and Society and The Accounting Review are the journals that served as sources of articles. The articles’ topics are analyzed, and the research methods. Next, the following specifications about the authors are examined: number of published articles, gender, schools of affiliation, continents and countries of affiliation. It was subsequently examined some relationships between these variables. The results showed that publications of the Accounting Organization and Society and The Accounting Review are distinct, the most frequent topic in management accounting research is performance measure and the predominant research methods were experimental and case study, the first was most used by male authors and affiliates in America and the second by female authors and affiliates in Europe.
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Hui, Chang Li, and 張俐慧. "Effects of Survey Organizations, Poll Topics and the Media Channels on the Credibility of Public Opinion Polls." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47869506063838831220.

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"International environmental non-governmental organizations in local politics: comparing the different structures of greenpeace networks in solid toxic waste campaign in the Philippines and China." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896905.

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Wong, Wai Man Natalie.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-128).<br>Abstract also in Chinese.<br>Notes --- p.vii<br>Lists of Figures and Tables --- p.viii<br>Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1<br>Chapter 1.1 --- Background of the Study - Transboundary movement of electronic waste (e-waste) --- p.1<br>Chapter 1.2 --- Definition of Structure of NGOs Networks --- p.8<br>Chapter 1.3 --- Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs) --- p.11<br>Chapter 1.3.1 --- Variables in TANs --- p.12<br>Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of this Study --- p.18<br>Chapter 1.5 --- Methodology --- p.18<br>Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- REVIEWING TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORKS IN TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM --- p.20<br>Chapter 2.1 --- Overview: Expansion of INGOs --- p.20<br>Chapter 2.1.1 --- Debates: State-centric vs. Non State-centric in World Politics --- p.22<br>Chapter 2.2 --- Transnational Activism in World Politics --- p.25<br>Chapter 2.3 --- Networks in Transnational Activisms --- p.28<br>Chapter 2.3.1 --- Linkages in Transnational Activism between the North and the South --- p.30<br>Chapter 2.3.2 --- NGOs Networking: Two Levels Analysis --- p.32<br>Chapter 2.4 --- TANs in Transnational Activisms --- p.34<br>Chapter 2.5 --- Transnational Activism in Asia --- p.43<br>Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- WHAT HAS THE GREENPEACE DONE IN ANTI TOXIC E-WASTE CAMPAGINS IN CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES? --- p.49<br>Chapter 3.1 --- Problems of e-waste --- p.49<br>Chapter 3.2 --- The Greenpeace China in Anti-toxic e-waste Campaign --- p.54<br>Chapter 3.3 --- The Greenpeace Philippines in Anti-toxic e-waste Campaign --- p.64<br>Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- COMPARISON OF THE STRUCTURE OF GREENPEACE NETWORKS IN CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES --- p.76<br>Chapter 4.1 --- History of INGOs in China and the Philippines --- p.76<br>Chapter 4.1.1 --- History of INGOs in China --- p.76<br>Chapter 4.1.2 --- History of INGOs in the Philippines --- p.79<br>Chapter 4.2 --- Greenpeace - National Government Relationship --- p.92<br>Chapter 4.3 --- Greenpeace - Local Governments Relationship --- p.95<br>Chapter 4.4 --- Greenpeace - Local NGOs Relationship --- p.96<br>Chapter 4.5 --- Greenpeace - Others INGOs and Greenpeace International Relationship --- p.101<br>Chapter 4.6 --- Unique factor: “Clan´ح in the operation of TANs --- p.105<br>Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONCLUSION --- p.108<br>Appendixes --- p.118<br>Bibliography --- p.120
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Elmore, Joshua. "Impact of Gendered Topics in Letters of Recommendation on Perceived Importance for Making a Hiring Decision in Geosciences." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-5gc1-7q70.

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Scientific fields are perceived of as more masculine than feminine and stereotypes of scientists are more closely associated with stereotypes of men than of women (Carli et al., 2016). Supporting this point, Elmore, Block, Bowers and Dutt (2019) uncovered 31 topics from letters of recommendation for post-doctoral applicants in the geosciences and found that these topics described male and female applicants differently and, in a manner consistent with gender stereotypes. As the number of women in the geosciences declines further up the academic ladder (National Science Foundation, 2017) and as letters of recommendation play an important role in academic hiring (Abbott et al. 2010), it is important to understand if the use of gendered topics in these letters may reduce the likelihood of female advancement. Thus, in the present study we gathered questionnaire data from 250 geoscience researchers and scientists asking them to rate and rank the topics uncovered by Elmore et al. (2019) in terms of their importance when making hiring decisions. Results showed geoscientists valued research productivity and publishing over being a teacher, student, or department citizen. Topics expressed more in letters for male applicants in Elmore et al. (2019) were rated as significantly more important when making a hiring decision than topics expressed more in letters for female applicants. Further, the male topics identified in Elmore et al. (2019) were ranked more often as the most important topics and less often as least important topics when making a hiring decision compared to the female topics. Finally, 68% of participants indicated they attribute 50% or more of their hiring decision to information found in letters of recommendation, underscoring the importance of letters of recommendation to career advancement in the geosciences.
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Sun, Cheng-Hui, and 孫承惠. "RISK APPETITE AUTHORITARIAN LEADERSHIP, BENEVOLENT LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANXIETY FOR SMALL BUSINESS EMPLOYER RESEARCH TOPIC: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF STRUCTURE CLIMATE AND THE RISK OF CLIMATE." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03769866765730577630.

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碩士<br>元智大學<br>管理碩士在職專班<br>100<br>In recent years, the global economic environment has been changed rapid. Enterprises need to face the competition more intense, and organizations also need to face more unpredictable challenge and competition. So to how stabilize the business and continued to grow up will be crucial point by its leadership performance and decision-making. This also means that leaders need to understand and right itself in which the roles and decisions made modest correction in response to changes in the environment. Therefore, the purpose of this research will explore the small businesses employer in Taiwan about their risk preference, leadership behavior and organizational relationship between anxiety and to adjust the organizational structure of the climate and organizational risk climate change. This research used a questionnaire survey, issued a total of 80 teams, and collect of an effective team of 60 teams (237) questionnaires using SPSS software, descriptive statistical analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, analysis of variance and regression analysis to verify the assumptions of this research. 1.The risk preferences of organizational anxiety was not significant. 2.Authoritarian leadership have a positive impact on organizational anxiety. 3.The benevolent leadership has a positive impact on organizational anxiety. 4.The organizational structure of climate risk appetite, authoritarian leadership, benevolent leadership and organizational anxiety, some moderating effect. 5.Climate of organizational risk in risk appetite, authoritarian leadership, benevolent leadership and organizational anxiety, some moderating effect.
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Chen, Yu-Ting, and 陳禹廷. "The influence of web site performance on needs for crisis communication in the case of toxic milk powder: The mediation effect of organization-public relationship." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25960556874417050888.

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碩士<br>世新大學<br>公共關係暨廣告學研究所(含碩專班)<br>97<br>In the past, most literatures regarding Internet public relations (PR) assumed that “the viewpoint of traditional PR can be applied to Internet PR”. However, this assumption lacks empirical evidence and validity. This article is a case study on the crisis of toxic milk powder in 2008, focusing on three research questions: (1) What is the relationship between corporate web site design and its target publics? (2) What is the relationship between corporate web site design and its crisis communication messages on web site? (3) What is the influential mechanism of corporate web site performance on the needs for crisis communication? 　Moreover, for exploring the mediation effect of organization-public relationships (OPR) on influence of web site performance on needs for crisis communication, the current research attempts to link the view of web site design and public perception, which led to the conduction of two studies in an attempt to explore possible answers. 　Based on the side of web site design, in view of the role of web site designs in the crisis of toxic milk powder, website content analysis was done in study 1. Findings suggest that stockholder-targeting website performed better than non-stockholder-targeting website in relationship establishment. But in the phase of crisis communication, no significant association was found between the public and crisis communication messages. Despite the fact that individual web site designs had an influence over crisis communication messages, they were not strong predictors overall. 　According to findings of study 1, researcher expect that the factors of public perception will mediate the relationships between web site design and crisis communication. In order to investigating the relationship between web site performance and the needs for crisis communication, an online experiment (N=402) was conducted in study 2. Study 2 added the factors of public perception (e. g., crisis responsibility and self-efficacy) and combined several web site designs to form a factor of web site performance. The research findings suggest that the effect of corporate web site performance on the needs for crisis communication was mediated by a set of mediator variables (i. e., OPR, crisis responsibility and self-efficacy) , with OPR being the most critical mediator in the multiple mediation model. Also, the proposed two-step multiple mediation model reflects the findings from previous studies, yielding the best overall model fit indexes. 　The results support the assumption that the viewpoint of traditional PR can be applied to Internet PR: Web site performance improves the relationship between organization and publics. Through the mediation of OPR, and the effect of website extends to field of crisis communication. The importance of relationship management in both traditional PR and Internet PR is made evident as a result of this research.
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Almeida, Maria Leonor Sanches Morais de. "Identification of determinants leveraging workplace innovation." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/31440.

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Purpose: There is a gap in knowledge we aim to fill to describe Workplace Innovation, through the understanding of its determinants and their interdependencies. To cover it, the main objectives of this thesis are (a) to convey a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), which will underpin the analysis of the main determinants and topics/themes addressed that support WI; b) based on this SLR, to propose a framework of main determinants and their interdependencies, which leverage WI and will underpin the empirical research; c) based on the analysis of several case studies enriched by the observation of the daily work in the companies studied, to assess the pertinence and usefulness of the topics/determinants proposed in the framework; d) to propose a framework complementing previous frameworks assessed in the literature on WI; and e) to propose a new definition of Workplace Innovation. Methodology: This is an exploratory study, initiated with a systematic literature review, complemented by an empirical qualitative study. The constructivism paradigm is used. The empirical study uses the case study method, and the selection of the companies is based on purposive sampling technique to fit the purpose of this research. Cross-case analysis is used to inductively derive and propose the construction of new theory. Main results: The findings indicate that there are 41 topics relevant for Workplace Innovation and that those have interdependencies. The topics interdependencies are represented in a diagram. The cross case-analysis was used to inductively derive a new definition of Workplace Innovation as the result achieved by implementing practices and their interdependencies in the areas Knowledge, Human Resources, Organizational, enabled by information and technology tools that ensure efficiency and connectivity, and by corporate strategy. The 41 topics and their interdependencies produced an enhanced framework, being the topics aggregated in five determinants: Organizational Dynamics, Human Resources, Collaboration, IT infrastructures and Other Facilitators. Contributions: This study contributes to the Academy with a new definition on Workplace Innovation by bringing new knowledge and complementing all the frameworks and definitions on WI of the research from the performed systematic literature review. This study contributes to the Industry at the levels of the Company, their employees, and the workplaces. It can be used as guideline for Workplace Innovation implementation, increasing Innovation and supporting the increase of the competitiveness of the companies, it brings advantages for the Industry either through training or consulting or collaboration with the Academy, in this last case combining benefits for both Industry and Academy and approaching both worlds. The 41 topics uncovered are a base for implementation of Workplace Innovation in the Industry and point intuitively in which company department might have implications. Finally, this study highlights its limitations and suggests future areas of research to be explored on related topics.<br>Propósito: Há um gap no conhecimento que pretendemos investigar para descrever a Inovação no Local de Trabalho, nomeadamente na compreensão dos seus determinantes e das suas interdependências. Para abrangê-lo, os principais objetivos desta dissertação são: (a) fazer uma Revisão Sistemática da Literatura (RSL), que servirá de base para a análise dos principais determinantes e tópicos / temas abordados que alavancam a Inovação no Local de Trabalho; b) com base nesta RSL, propor um framework dos principais determinantes e das suas interdependências, que alavanquem a Inovação no Local de Trabalho e que servirá de base para a pesquisa empírica; c) com base na análise de vários estudos de caso enriquecidos pela observação de trabalho nas empresas estudadas, avaliar a pertinência e utilidade dos temas / determinantes propostos no framework; d) propor um framework enriquecido face ao anterior baseado na literatura sobre Inovação no Local de Trabalho; e e) propor uma nova definição de Inovação no Local de Trabalho. Metodologia: Este estudo exploratório, utiliza uma RSL, complementada por um estudo empírico qualitativo. O paradigma construtivista é usado. O estudo empírico utiliza o método de estudo de caso e a seleção das empresas é baseada na técnica de purposive sampling para adequar a escolha das empresas ao objetivo desta pesquisa. A análise cross-case foi utilizada para derivar e propor indutivamente a construção de uma nova teoria. Principais resultados: Os resultados indicam que existem 41 tópicos relevantes para a Inovação no Local de Trabalho e que estes apresentam interdependências. As interdependências dos tópicos são representadas na forma de diagrama. A análise cross-case foi utilizada para construir indutivamente uma nova definição de Inovação no local de Trabalho – Workplace Innovation – como resultado alcançado através da implementação de práticas e das suas interdependências nas áreas de Conhecimento, Recursos Humanos, Organização suportadas por ferramentas de tecnologias de informação que garantem eficiência e conectividade; e pela estratégia corporativa. Os 41 tópicos e as suas interdependências permitiram elaborar um framework enriquecido, sendo os tópicos agregados em cinco determinantes: Dinâmica Organizacional, Recursos Humanos, Colaboração, Infraestruturas de Tecnologias de Informação e Outros facilitadores. Contribuições: Este estudo contribui para a Academia com uma nova definição sobre Inovação no Local de Trabalho, trazendo novos conhecimentos e complementando todas definições e frameworks da pesquisa anteriormente feita na revisão sistemática da literatura realizada. Este estudo contribui para a Indústria ao nível da Empresa, dos seus colaboradores e dos locais de trabalho. Pode ser utilizado como linhas orientadoras para implementação da Inovação no Local de Trabalho, aumentando a Inovação e apoiando o aumento da competitividade das empresas. Este estudo traz vantagens para a Indústria quer através de formação ou consultoria ou colaboração com a Academia, neste último caso combinando benefícios para a Indústria e a Academia, aproximando os dois mundos. Os 41 tópicos descobertos são uma base para a implementação da Inovação no Local de Trabalho na Indústria e apontam intuitivamente em quais departamentos da empresa podem ter implicações. Por fim, este estudo refere as suas limitações e sugere futuras áreas de pesquisa a serem exploradas em tópicos relacionados.<br>Programa Doutoral em Marketing e Estratégia
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Caetano, Nuno Maria Risques Pereira Lupi. "Nike marketing plan: the launch of Nike Academy in Portugal." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19885.

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In this master project, the objective is to develop a strategic and operational marketing plan to support the launching of a football academy, designed to ensure the physical, psychological and emotional welfare of its athletes. This football academy will be launched in Portugal, by Nike, during the summer of 2021. In this project, we have identified the potential participants, sponsors and fans, and studied the advantages that this initiative may bring to Nike. To achieve these conclusions, we made a strategic and operational study, that will allow to evaluate the impact the new service for the brand and what resources will be needed to implement this project. We studied the reality in which the current football academies are being developed, to construct terms of comparisons between them, and to understand what the good practices are, and what can be improved in this industry. We defined a marketing strategy and designed marketing-mix components, with the goal of creating a football academy that fulfills the young athletes’ needs, and not only the agents’ and managers’ needs. Our goal was to construct a model of an academy that could be followed by other football clubs, demonstrating the importance that the mental wellbeing of the players has for themselves and for their futures, but also for the clubs where they play in.<br>Este projeto de mestrado tem como objetivo, desenvolver um plano estratégico e operacional de marketing, para apoiar o lançamento de uma academia de futebol, desenvolvida com o intuito de garantir o bem-estar físico, psicológico e emocional dos seus atletas. Esta academia de futebol será lançada em Portugal, pela Nike, durante o verão de 2021. Neste projeto, identificamos os potenciais participantes, patrocinadores e fãs, e estudamos as vantagens que esta iniciativa pode trazer para a Nike. Para chegar a estas conclusões, realizamos um estudo estratégico e operacional, que permitirá avaliar o impacto do novo serviço para a marca e quais os recursos necessários para implementar este projeto. Estudamos a realidade em que as atuais academias de futebol estão a ser desenvolvidas, para elaborar termos de comparação entre elas e para entender quais são as boas práticas e o que pode ser melhorado neste setor. Definimos uma estratégia de marketing e projetamos componentes de marketing-mix, com o objetivo de criar uma academia de futebol que atenda às necessidades dos jovens atletas, e não apenas às necessidades dos agentes e diretores desportivos. O nosso objetivo passou por construir um modelo de academia de futebol que pudesse ser seguido por outros clubes de futebol, demonstrando a importância que o bem-estar mental dos jogadores tem para o presente e para o futuro deles, mas também para os clubes onde jogam.
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Bollette, Maxime. "Two sides of the same industry: an analysis of the relationship between hotels and online travel agencies." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18329.

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Nowadays most people know brands like Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb. When someone wants to book an accommodation, they usually book through an intermediary, known as Online Travel Agency or OTA. However, it is not well-understood what is the true influence that OTAs have on hotels, the core strength of their business, nor is it known what the impacts are on consumers. This dissertation tries to define the scope of influence that they have over hotels’ booking channels and the impact on consumers. Since OTAs’ ramifications span the entire world, this paper only defines their influence in Belgium, so as to reduce the scope of this research. This academic paper starts with an analysis of the background of OTAs. Then gives an explanation of OTA business models, pros and cons and what can be expected in the future. The analysis of different types of OTA or related businesses offers an understanding as to how they impact consumers. Next, an overview of the hospitality industry in Belgium is provided with data from 2007 to 2017. Changes in legislation throughout the European Union which are relevant to the subject are explained and the impacts on hotels and OTAs are analysed. After that, a quantitative survey about Belgian consumers is presented, from the way they book accommodations to what services they expect. Lastly, qualitative interviews with hotel managers complete the study. They provide an understanding as to how OTAs influence hotels and how hotel managers cope with this relationship.<br>Hoje em dia, marcas como Booking.com, Expedia e Airbnb são conhecidas por grande parte da população. Quando alguém pretende fazer uma reserva de acomodação, a tendência é optar por reservar através de um intermediário, sendo mais conhecido no léxico do turismo como Online Travel Agency ou OTA. No entanto, não é verdadeiramente percetível a influência que as OTAs exercem sobre os hotéis- que são a sua principal força, nem é conhecido os impactos nos consumidores. Esta tese académica pretende, assim, definir o âmbito de influência que as OTAs têm sobre os canais de reserva da indústria hoteleira e o seu impacto nos consumidores. Ainda que, os ramos das OTAs abrangem todo o mundo, de forma a reduzir o âmbito da pesquisa, o foco desta dissertação apenas se debruçará sobre a sua influência no mercado belga. Esta tese académica começa por analisar o contexto das OTAs, apresentando os modelos de negócios das OTAs, os seus prós e contras, e o que é expectável no futuro acerca desta matéria. Será ainda analisado os diferentes tipos de OTAs e negócios relacionados, propondo ainda uma explicção de como impactam o consumidor. Em seguida, é apresentada uma visão geral da indústria da hotelaria na Bélgica, entre 2007 a 2017. Incluindo ainda, uma análise sobre as mudanças na legislação na União Europeia, assim como o seu impacto nos hotéis e OTAs. Seguidamente, é apresentada uma pesquisa quantitativa sobre os consumidores belgas, desde a forma como reservam acomodações e serviços relacionados e as suas expectativas. Por fim, é apresentado entrevistas qualitativas com gerentes de hotéis de modo a completar o estudo, explicando como os OTAs influenciam os hotéis e como os gerentes de hotéis lidam com esse relacionamento.
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Couto, Maria Margarida Cardoso de Lucena e. Vale. "The food and beverage industry in a pandemic context." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21801.

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The pandemic has been a serious concern since its arrival in early 2020 around the globe. The aim of this dissertation is to study the decay of the Food & Beverage Industry, facing the pandemic of Covid-19. Throughout this research we have studied the classification of our sample, the fears and discomforts of our respondents regarding the new reality faced and the routine alteration of inquiries and by extension the impacted in the industry. In order to respond to these questions, we have based our investigation in the conception of a survey we have distributed and analyzed, a predictive model and clustering analysis. The findings drawn in this study were meaningful and lead us to the confirmation of the biggest fears and discomfort reasons when attending restaurants in a pandemic context but also the causes that make individuals reconsider their attendance in restauration establishments.<br>A pandemia tem vindo a tornar-se uma preocupação séria desde a sua chegada no início do ano de 2020. O principal objetivo desta dissertação é o estudo do declínio da Indústria de Comidas e Bebidas, face à pandemia de Covid-19. Através desta investigação estudámos a classificação da nossa amostra, os medos e a adaptação pela qual os inquiridos estão a passar e por fim a alteração de rotina e por consequente o impacto na indústria. Com a finalidade de responder a estas questões, baseámos a nossa investigação debruçando-nos no desenvolvimento de um questionário que distribuímos e analisámos, um modelo de preditivo e análise de "Clusters". As constatações que retirámos deste estudo foram relevantes e levaram-nos à confirmação dos medos e desconfortos mais impactantes quando frequentamos um estabelecimento de restauração num contexto pandémico, mas também às causas que levam os inquiridos a reconsiderar a decisão de frequentar estes estabelecimentos.
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Jaishil, Jessica. "Business plan for a food service platform for travelers "YummyTrip"." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21421.

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The incredible growth of Tourism boosted national economy development and shaped the country strategy in the past decade, which was elected in 2018, the best global destination. Inspired by two great areas of interest of mine – Tourism and Hospitality areas – and stimulated by the year I lived abroad, this project was born. The following business plan is entitled YummyTrip, a digital platform - available on desktop and mobile app - conceived to save time and offer convenience and thus, promoting optimal gastronomic experiences. The services provided by the YummyTrip answer to the question “Where to eat” while presenting two alternative solutions: (1) a food delivery service and (2) a referrals and online restaurants reservation system. The business plan has the purpose of analysing the sustainability of the business and structuring a strategic plan for its implementation. It takes account of a literature review focused on Entrepreneurship, E-Business and Tourism, followed by the explanation of the business idea and the brand identity. Furthermore, a key part of the plan conjunction is the strategic chapter, which includes a market and competition analysis, the deliberation of the strengths and weaknesses of the new business and the development of the canvas business model. At last, a financial consideration to confirm the viability of the enterprise.<br>O exponente crescimento do Turismo, em Portugal, impulsionou o desenvolvimento da economia e marcou a estratégia do país na última década, sendo reconhecido como melhor destino mundial em 2018. Fruto da inspiração do ano que vivi no estrangeiro e de duas grandes áreas de interesse pessoal – o Turismo e a Restauração – nasce o projeto YummyTrip. Este plano de negócios tem como fundamento a criação da YummyTrip, uma plataforma digital desenhada e pensada para turistas – disponível em desktop e mobile app – com o propósito de trazer valor acrescentado à experiência do turista, mais especificamente, a experiência gastronómica. Os pilares da plataforma são a rentabilização do tempo e a conveniência dos serviços oferecidos. Os serviços oferecidos pela plataforma respondem à questão “Onde comer?”, propondo duas soluções: (1) um serviço de entrega de refeições com um modelo alternativo ao existente e (2) um sistema de sugestões e reservas de restaurantes online. O plano de negócios tem o propósito de analisar a sustentabilidade do negócio e de estruturar a estratégia para a sua implementação. Como parte integrante deste documento, consta a revisão de literatura que se desencadeia com os conceitos de Empreendedorismo, e-Business e Turismo. Segue-se a problematização e a explicação da solução e da ideia que argumenta a criação da startup YummyTrip. Esta secção inclui, ainda, a descrição da identidade da marca. O capítulo de Estratégia tem grande relevância no plano, considerando a análise do Mercado e da concorrência, a ponderação das oportunidades e desafios que a organização pode vir a enfrentar e a implementação do modelo canvas. Por último, um estudo financeiro que avalia a viabilidade da empresa.
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Braga, Beatriz Sardinha. "A educação para o desenvolvimento na visão das ONGD portuguesas: estudos de caso." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17286.

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A presente dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos de Desenvolvimento analisa as conceções práticas e teóricas de três Organizações Não Governamentais para o Desenvolvimento portuguesas, em torno da temática da Educação para o Desenvolvimento. Esta análise pretende responder à pergunta: “Como tem sido implementada a Educação para o Desenvolvimento pelas ONGD portuguesas nos últimos três anos (2014-2017)? Assim, como é possível observar nas várias dinâmicas mundiais, também a Educação para o Desenvolvimento tem sofrido mudanças profundas nas suas várias vertentes, em particular, em Portugal. Por essa razão é proposto tratar este tema, considerado uma problemática atual do vasto universo do Desenvolvimento. Através de um modelo de estudo qualitativo assente num estudo múltiplo de casos, conhecemos três casos distintos de práticas em Educação para o Desenvolvimento, nas ONGD portuguesas. Esta dissertação procura fornecer uma visão empírica das abordagens conceptuais, as formas de atuação e a relação institucional destas com o Estado português. Desta forma, foi possível concluir sobre os novos desafios que esta temática enfrenta. A informação recolhida foi complementada pela análise documental, incluindo bibliografia, fontes e relatórios de avaliação das práticas das ONGD. Concluímos que a ED atravessa, na atualidade, uma fase de mudanças, onde se afirmam novos atores de Desenvolvimento e sobre os quais as ONGD não querem ficar atrás, encontrando todas as oportunidades para deixar uma marca significativa do seu trabalho junto do público.<br>The present master’s dissertation in Development Studies seeks to analyze the practical and theoretical conceptions of three Portuguese Non-Governmental Development Organizations, about the theme of Development Education. This analysis intends to answer the question: "How has Development Education been implemented by the Portuguese NGDOs in the last three years (2014-2017)? Thus, as it is possible to observe in the worldwide dynamics, also the Development Education has undergone profound changes in its various aspects, in Portugal. For this reason, it is proposed to treat this theme, considered a current problem of the vast universe of Development. Through a qualitative research, the present multiple case study, planned to identify three distinct cases of practices in Development Education in the Portuguese NGDOs. This dissertation seeks to provide an empirical view of the conceptual approaches, the work procedures and the institutional relationship with the Portuguese State. Accordingly, it was possible to conclude on the new challenges that this theme faces. The information collected was complemented by documentary analysis, including bibliography, sources and evaluation reports of the practices of the NGDOs. This work concluded that Development Education is currently experiencing a phase of change, where new development actors are affirmed and on which the NGDOs do not want to stay behind, finding all the opportunities to leave a meaningful mark with the public.
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Afonso, Joana Patrícia Fernandes. "Service recovery strategies to negative online reviews on restaurant business: A case study on Zomato." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21263.

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The occurrence of a service failure can take consumers to easily publish negative comments on social media platforms as review websites, which leads to the need for service providers to adopt service recovery strategies. In the online environment these strategies commonly take the form of management responses given by companies to negative reviews. Also, by analysing these comments, companies are able to identify failures and adopt actions and changes in the business to correct them. However, there is a scarcity of studies that explored how restaurants use service recovery strategies to deal with negative reviews. To fill this gap, an exploratory and qualitative analysis was conducted on 531 responses given by the management of 14 restaurants regarding negative comments on Zomato and interviews were carried out with some of these restaurant’ managers. The findings identify 12 management response strategies to deal with negative reviews: thanking, apology, invitation for a new visit, self-promotion, promise of change, explanation, standard reply, express feeling, request a new contact, suggest, deny problem and offer compensation. It was possible to conclude that most of the restaurants use these strategies in a similar way, as well as negative reviews led to business improvements classified in 11 recovery strategies: information update, information sharing, reviews database maintenance, environment adaptation, food quality improvement, packaging quality improvement, change in food and drinks confection, recipes innovation, change in booking procedure, staff training and staff supervision. In relation to these strategies, it was found that restaurants use them in a more diversified way.<br>A ocorrência de falhas no serviço pode levar os consumidores a publicarem comentários negativos em plataformas de social media como os websites de reviews, pelo que as empresas necessitam de adotar estratégias de recuperação do serviço. No contexto online estas estratégias tomam comumente a forma de respostas gerenciais. Também pela análise destes comentários é possível identificar falhas e adotar ações para as corrigir. Contudo, existe uma escassez de estudos que exploraram a forma como os restaurantes usam estratégias de recuperação do serviço para lidar com os comentários negativos. Para preencher esta lacuna realizou-se uma análise exploratória e qualitativa a 531 respostas gerenciais de 14 restaurantes a comentários negativos no Zomato e foram realizadas entrevistas com alguns dos gerentes desses restaurantes. Os resultados identificam 12 estratégias de respostas dadas aos comentários negativos: agradecimento, pedido de desculpa, convite para nova visita, auto-promoção, promessa de mudança, explicação, resposta padrão, mostrar sentimento, solicitação de novo contacto, sugestão, negação do problema e oferecer compensação. Concluiu-se ainda que no geral a maioria dos restaurantes usam estas estratégias de forma semelhante e as reviews negativas levam a alterações nos restaurantes, classificadas em 11 estratégias: atualização de informações, partilha de informações, manutenção de base de dados de comentários, adaptação do ambiente, melhoria da qualidade da comida, melhoria da qualidade da embalagem, mudança na confecção dos alimentos e bebidas, inovação de receitas, mudança nos procedimentos de reservas, formação dos empregados e supervisão dos empregados. Em relação a estas estratégias verificou-se que os restaurantes as usam de forma mais diversificada.
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Gruden, Tin Barbo. "Business plan for a surf company." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17866.

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Portugal has become a high ranked European place to visit in last couple of years. The project Surf Company has been growing slowly but steady since 2012 with humble starts in times of recession. In last two years the amount of business has grown drastically and so did the project. To understand fully where does the Surf Company come from and where it can go, an analysis and a business plan had to be delivered. Implementing economic and financial factors and real data from the business conducted, this document represents the viability of the project and gives understanding where the project might be heading in the future. The document will present the feasibility of current operations in the Surf Company.<br>Portugal tem sido classificado positivamente como um sítio para visitar nos últimos anos. O projeto Surf Company tem crescido de forma lenta e estável desde o ano de 2012 com um começo humilde na época da recessão. Nos últimos dois anos o volume de negócios e o projeto cresceram drasticamente. Para ter um entendimento completo das origens e também do destino da Surf Company, é necessário fazer uma análise e um plano de negócios, implementando nestes, fatores financeiros e económicos, assim como também dados reais sobre os negócios até à data realizados. Este documento representa a viabilidade do projeto e dá também um entendimento da direção em que o mesmo poderá chegar no futuro. O documento irá apresentar a viabilidade das operações decorrentes na Surf Company.
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