Dissertations / Theses: 'Collective action organization'

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Dowding, K. M. "Collective action, group organization and pluralist democracy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381821.

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Stiver, Dustin Cory. "Catalyzing Collective Action| A Grounded Theory of Network Leadership." Thesis, Eastern University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10603631.

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Networks are the connective tissue tying together individuals and organizations working toward shared aims. Increasingly, communities are adopting network-based strategies to collaboratively contend with society’s most vexing challenges and create lasting community change. This often occurs when addressing problems that are more complex and entangled than any one individual or organization can tackle on their own, such as education reform, affordable housing, or income inequality.

Individuals who assume leadership roles within networks—the researcher refers to these people as network leaders—must identify effective strategies to activate network members and unlock agency within stakeholders to empower them to contribute to a shared mission. This study specifically focused on research subjects who were professionally engaged as network leaders, and sought to uncover characteristics that network leaders exhibit and strategies that network leaders employ when performing their unique role.

The findings of this Constructivist Grounded Theory study center around the primary research question: How do network leaders catalyze collective action? The theory of network leadership proposed herein is derived from data collected from 27 network leaders. The model creates a framework for understanding the phenomenon of network leadership. The Phases and Critical Tasks of network leadership are moderated by the Network Leadership Core Engagement Process and the Network Culture, which is in turn influenced by the Characteristics of the Network Leader Profile and collaboratively developed Network Agreements . The theoretical model is grounded in the data and designed to be an accessible framework for understanding how network leaders catalyze collective action.

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Rintala, Maja. "Democratic participation on digital conditions : communication challenges and opportunities for collective action organizations." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185462.

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This thesis examines how communication technology is used for creating a democratic and committed participation within collective action organizations (CAOs). This is achieved by illuminating how organizations' structure and culture relate to their communication. It’s done by in-depth interviews with network-based movements and association-based organizations, and analyses of their digital newsletters. The analysis is based on affordance-driven theory, capturing the interaction between organizations and their digital platforms. The focus lies on how internal democracy and collective action are afforded or constrained to some degrees. Degrees of deliberation for creating common ground and active participation are made visible by using the concept of communicative action. Theories within social movement studies, such as collective action, broaden the understanding of how the perception of digital tools shapes and is shaped by their structure and culture. The results show that the usage and coordination of communication channels is essential for the practice of internal democracy in everyday work, beyond annual meetings and board meetings. Independent chat-based platforms enable an increased control of conversations, cooperation and coordination, while information overload and effective decision- making processes can hinder democratic participation. Commercial social media platforms such as Facebook enables new flows of engagement and connectivity but constrains coordination and control of the framing process within Facebook groups. Additionally, unpredictable algorithms and advertising policy on Facebook makes it difficult to reach out. Overall, the study suggests a broadened view of communication, where communication and usage of digital media should not be considered as instrumental entities. Rather, it is strongly related to how channels are being coordinated, how organizations are organized and the view of participation. Formal structures can both hinder and enable increased communicative action that contributes to democratic participation.

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Capdepuy, P. "Informational principles of perception-action loops and collective behaviours." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5199.

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Living beings, robotic and software artefacts can all be seen as agents acting and perceiving within an environment. When observed under that perspective, a new concept is accessible: information in the sense of Shannon. It has long been known that information and control are interrelated concepts. However it is only recently that this perspective has been better understood and used in order to study cognition. In this thesis, we build upon such an information-theoretic perspective and add some biologically motivated assumptions. They introduce various constraints on the capture, the processing, or the storage of information by an agent. Using such constraints it is possible to understand some limits on the control abilities of agents, and to derive algorithms that optimize these abilities. More specifically this thesis uses the recently introduced concept of empowerment, i.e. the ability to act upon the environment and perceive back the changes through the sensors. Maximizing this quantity leads to a wide range of cognitively interesting properties. This work studies some of these properties. One of them, the ability to capture information that is relevant for the perception-action loop of the agent, is deeply investigated and algorithms for exploiting this ability are presented. The second part of the thesis deals with the use of the information-theoretic framework when multiple agents are interacting with each other. Empowerment maximization in this context leads to two phenomena: the generation of complex structures, and the emergence of synchronised and potentially cooperative interactions. In this thesis, the first phenomenon is empirically investigated through various spatial scenarios in order to understand the kind of structures that are generated and under which conditions they appear. Connections are made between the second phenomenon and the concept of the multiple-access channel. Using recent developments of this information-theoretic model, it is possible to precisely study the kind of interactions that can occur, and the situations that lead to synchronised or cooperative behaviour. The general aim of this work is to give a comprehensive picture of the information-theoretic framework for studying the perception-action loop, bringing both single and multi-agents aspects together. The concepts presented in this thesis allows one to study some fundamental aspects of cognition, to engineer self-motivated robotic systems, or to drive self-organization in multi-agents systems.

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Msulwa, Rehema. "Organizing for collective development in pluralistic settings : theory and evidence from planning the UK's High Speed 2 railway." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/organizing-for-collective-development-in-pluralistic-settings-theory-and-evidence-from-planning-the-uks-high-speed-2-railway(a2fe0e8f-afce-43f4-a8c7-3fd8bfef5984).html.

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In capital-intensive organizations formed to plan new infrastructure development projects, the promoter of the project (as a single organization or as part of a coalition) rarely controls all of the critical resources required to achieve the system-level goal. Instead, the direct control of interdependent resources is diffused across multiple legally independent stakeholders (Lundrigan, Gil and Puranam, 2015). As such, the core structure in these so-called 'megaproject' meta-organizations is a classic empirical instantiation of a pluralistic setting (Denis, Langley and Rouleau, 2007). In pluralistic settings, the authority to make strategic decisions is diffused across actors with heterogeneous objectives, interests, values and expertise. Hence, to achieve the goal, the promoter needs to cooperate with multiple stakeholders. Since some critical resources are not transactional or measurable, the cooperation problem is not a 'buy' problem. Instead, resolving the cooperation problem necessitates a search for mutually consensual solutions that reconcile conflicting interests. Moreover, this search unfolds without recourse to top-down authority characteristic of unitary organizations. Therefore, the promoter has to play a coordinating role that traverses organizational boundaries to coalesce competing preferences into a one-off plan. Against this backdrop, this doctoral research investigates how designed rules and structures influence consensus-building during the collective development process. We conduct the research by drawing on two cognitive lenses consolidated in two vast bodies of literature that have remained largely disparate: organization design (Puranam, Alexy and Reitzig, 2014; Burton & Obel, 1984; Lawrence & Lorsch, 1967; March & Simon, 1958; Mintzberg, 1979) and collective action (Ostrom 1990, 2005). Combining these two research streams allows us to investigate how to resolve the coordination and cooperation problems inherent in pluralistic settings. Our research method is a single case study with embedded units of analysis. This method allows us to probe deeply into operational details while maintaining the holistic features of the focal phenomena (Yin, 2009; Yin, 2013; Siggelkow, 2007; Eisenhardt & Graebner, 2007). Our focal case is the planning stage of High Speed 2 (HS2), a new multi-billion-pound cross-country railway project in the UK. The scheme is promoted by the UK Government. However, the planning effort has required that the Government share local decision rights for planning choices related to the stations along the route with multiple local authorities. These local authorities are independent, resource-rich stakeholders who are impacted by local choices, and they have deep knowledge of local needs and constraints. Thus, in the HS2 case, organizing for collective action is a prerequisite for achieving the system-goal. Our research presents two major theoretical contributions. First, we contribute to organizational design literature by advancing our knowledge of how organizations can be designed to achieve system-level goals when decision-making authority is diffused across multiple organizational boundaries. Specifically, we advance our conceptual understanding of polycentric systems--a form of organizing that distributes decision-making authority across multiple local groups of independent stakeholders. As such, we illuminate the designed processes and structures that enable the core actors in a polycentric system to integrate effort and reconcile their differences over time. Organization design choices are about designing governance structures that enable and constrain collective action. Hence, we also contribute to the project management literature with insights on the governance of the planning stage of megaprojects. Specifically, we offer a deeper understanding of how to organize an inter-organizational setting to make planning decisions and manage interdependencies with the environment. Furthermore, we reveal that ambiguous evaluations of megaproject performance are rooted in collective efforts to resolve coordination and cooperation problems. Our research is grounded in the planning effort for the HS2 project and thus embedded in the UK context. We, therefore, encourage future studies to investigate the generalizability of our claims on organizing for collective action in other institutional contexts.

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Dembeck, Terri L. "Dynamics of Collective Sensemaking and Social Structuring Action Nets| An Organizational Ethnography Within the Military Health System's Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557559.

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Organizational perception and conception of interactions and relationships vary over time and space. This study focused on the capacity within and between healthcare organizations to collectively make sense of ambivalent and ambiguous environments in the context of social structuring actions (Czarniawska, 2008; Johnson, 2009; Weick, 1995). The purpose was to develop narrative frames from which a deeper understanding could be developed of how collective sensemaking is enacted through reciprocal and reflective interorganizational relationships during the final phases of an intended multiorganizational integration endeavor (Barki & Pinsonneault, 2005; Oliver, 1990). This study explored and described collective sensemaking as recognizable patterned social structuring actions that surfaced during integration efforts within the Military Health System's Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.

A narrative approach illustrated emergent social processes. In the process of collaboration, ongoing generative conversations (Taylor & Van Every, 2000; Hardy, Lawrence, & Grant, 2005; Weick, 2004) affected the relationships between collective sensemaking and social structuring. An interpretive constructionist perspective revealed practices involving the interplay of assignment of meaning (signification), reducing equivocality and integration; formation of a sense of community, establishing structures and norms (legitimation); and the effects of collaboration and power (domination) distribution (Giddens, 1984; Weick, Sutcliffe, & Obstfeld, 2005).

More than 24 months of embedded observation aided the researcher's awareness of ongoing narrative dynamics of collaborative actions setting the conditions for the emergence of interorganizational relationships (Harquail & King, 2010; Hatch, 1997; Hatch & Schultz, 2002) and embodied practices (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991). Throughout experiences of collective sensemaking, organizations interpose mini-narratives as evidence of reciprocal patterns of social structuring revealing cooperative behaviors interweaving coordinated actions and setting conditions for the structuring of collaborative integrating nets of collective action. This supports both Carniawska's (2008) and Weick's (1995) theory of organizing during collective sensemaking as enacted processes within relational conceptualizations and perceptions. These findings contribute to understanding the dynamics of collective sensemaking and social structuring; moreover, they incorporate the new paradigm of enaction (Kuhn, 1996; Stewart, Gapenne, & Di Paolo, 2010) as embodied sensemaking into organizational theory.

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Neilson, Lisa A. "Collective Action and the Institutionalization of Corporate Social Responsibility in the United States, 1980-2010." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345224780.

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Escoffier, Martínez Simón. "Mobilisational citizenship : identity and collective action in Santiago de Chile's underprivileged neighbourhoods." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6cf06a69-8265-4342-9300-9ba86e584559.

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The Chilean urban poor led crucial mobilisation throughout most of the 20th century. Scholars argue that different factors explain the demobilisation of that sector during the democratic transition (the early 1990s). Through an ethnographic comparative approach, this thesis compares two neighbourhoods. Their similitudes cannot explain why while one of them sustained contentious collective action in time, the other became demobilised as most other neighbourhoods. As in many other studies, what explains the survival of contentious collective action is a mobilisational identity. This research moves beyond those accounts to explain why mobilisational citizenship emerges in some communities and not in others. The interaction between four dimensions explains mobilisational citizenship: agentic memory, belonging, boundaries, and decentralised leadership. The sustainability of mobilisational citizenship depends on grassroots activists' capacity to transmit collective identity as political capital. The Chilean case shows that autonomy is crucial for mobilisational citizenship. In cases in which political parties establish networks of loyalty and clientelism promoting the monopoly of political capital at the grassroots level, communities cannot develop and sustain a mobilisational identity.

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Kornberger, Martin, Stephan Leixnering, Renate Meyer, and Markus Höllerer. "Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis." AOM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138.

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Our paper focuses on a non-standard sharing example that harbors the potential to disrupt received wisdom on the sharing economy. While originally entering the field to analyze, broadly from a governance perspective, how the 2015 refugee crisis was handled in Vienna, Austria, we found that the non-governmental organization Train of Hope - labeled as a "citizen start-up" by City of Vienna officials - played an outstanding role in mastering the crisis. In a blog post during his visit in Vienna at the time, and experiencing the refugee crisis first-hand, it was actually Henry Mintzberg who suggested reading the phenomenon as part of the "sharing economy". Continuing this innovative line of thought, we argue that our unusual case is in fact an excellent opportunity to discover important aspects about both the nature and organization of sharing. First, we uncover an additional dimension of sharing beyond the material sharing of resources (i.e., the economic dimension): the sharing of a distinct concern (i.e., the moral dimension of sharing). Our discovery exemplifies such a moral dimension that is rather different from the status quo materialistic treatments focusing on economic transactions and property rights arguments. Second, we hold that a particular form of organizing facilitates the sharing economy: the sharing economy organization. This particular organizational form is distinctive - at the same time selectively borrowing and skillfully combining features from platform organizations (e.g., use of technology as an intermediary for exchange and effective coordination, ability to tap into external resources) and social movements (e.g., mobilization, shared identity, collective action). It is a key quality of this form of organization to enable the balancing of the two dimensions inherent in the nature of sharing: economic and moral. Our paper contributes to this Special Issue of the Academy of Management Discoveries by highlighting and explaining the two-fold economic and moral nature of sharing and the organization of sharing between movement and platform.

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Slaten, Kevin Richard. "Obscure Terrain: The Rights Defense of Qingdao Internal Migrant Workers." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337959111.

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Asterlund, Kent. "The Gezi Protest : A study of different processes behind the mass mobilization." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35231.

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Pinheiro-Croisel, Rebecca. "Innovation et éco-conception à l'échelle urbaine : émergence et modèles de pilotage pour un aménagement durable." Phd thesis, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00823446.

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Les études urbaines (Urban Studies) et organisationnelles (Organization Studies) sur la ville durable ont focalisé leur attention sur la question de la gouvernance, en particulier sur la participation des citoyens et des stakeholders. Très peu de travaux ont étudié, en revanche, la naissance des projets urbains durables sous l'angle de la conception et de son pilotage. La conception de la ville durable ou de morceaux de ville (les quartiers durables) pose pourtant des questions multiples. La première touche à la naissance et à l'évolution de nouveaux objets de conception associés à de nouvelles fonctions (mixité sociale, mixité fonctionnelle, fonctions écologiques et écosystémiques). Tracer la transformation successive des objets intermédiaires de conception (programme, plans masse, réception du quartier ou des bâtiments, vie en marche) qui jalonnent et cristallisent ce processus de création collective dans le cadre de projets innovants constitue un premier objectif de la thèse. Ce travail permet de mettre en évidence les ruptures et les discontinuités dans les processus de conception qui tiennent aux différentes modélisations de ces objets. La deuxième question est relative aux instruments et aux langages (ingénieriques, comme l'écoconception, économiques et juridiques) qui constituent des supports cognitifs pour l'action des concepteurs. Ainsi nous caractérisons les nouveaux instruments et langages mobilisés dans le cadre de ces projets urbains innovants et analysons la façon dont ils permettent de doter les concepteurs de nouvelles capacités de conception. Enfin, nous abordons la question des conditions d'une cohésion au sein des collectifs d'acteurs engagés dans les projets urbains durables. L'émiettement et l'hétérogénéité des acteurs des projets urbains rendent, en effet, cette recherche de cohésion particulièrement difficile à obtenir. Dans cette perspective, nous avons identifié des situations innovantes où émerge un rôle collectif de conception qui dépasse les intérêts et les identités professionnelles particuliers des acteurs. Cette découverte ouvre un nouveau champ d'interaction à l'interface entre Organization Studies, Urban Studies et le Pragmatism.

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Ngoumou, Mbarga Hubert. "L'action collective locale et la gestion des forêts communautaires : cas des communautés rurales de Djoum au Sud Cameroun." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30012/document.

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La recherche porte sur l’action collective locale et la gestion des forêts communautaires à Djoum au Sud Cameroun. Elle analyse l’approche gouvernementale d’octroi et de gestion communautaire des ressources forestières, afin de responsabiliser et d’autonomiser les communautés villageoises dans la prise en charge des activités de production économique pour réduire la pauvreté, améliorer les conditions de vie et assurer le développement local. L’objectif est de rendre compte de la capacité des forêts communautaires à fournir des avantages économiques pour répondre à ce défi. C’est aussi pour rendre compte des territoires villageois, vus comme l’échelle de référence pour la gouvernance des forêts communautaires et de l’influence de l’identité spatiale sur l’organisation communautaire de cette gestion. La méthodologie mise en œuvre est pluridisciplinaire. Les résultats de notre étude montrent plusieurs faiblesses structurelles. Les forêts communautaires étudiées sont des espaces spécialisés en plusieurs zones, correspondant chacune à des usages particuliers. Cette perspective exclue l’exploitation du bois d’œuvre sur toute la surface de l’espace forestier. Pourtant toutes les forêts communautaires sont divisées en secteurs quinquennaux, eux-mêmes divisés en parcelles annuelles d’exploitation de bois. Ensuite, ces forêts ont été fortement perturbées dans le passé, un indicateur qui devrait les destiner plus à la conservation qu’à l’exploitation. Mais ce n’est pas le cas, toutes les communautés ou presque, ayant opté pour leur exploitation. De même, les volumes de bois exploités dans ces forêts sont très faibles, ce qui atteste clairement que les possibilités qu’on leur attribue dans les plans simples de gestion sont fausses. Au plan des réalisations socioéconomiques et des emplois créés, le bilan est très loin des espoirs engendrés. Les quelques emplois créés sont de type temporaire, précaires et non qualifiés. Par ailleurs, l’exploitation du bois d’œuvre n’a généré jusqu’ici, aucune infrastructure ni réalisation socioéconomique collectives, puisque les revenus ex post générés restent largement inférieurs aux prévisions financières ex ante. Enfin, ces forêts sont assises sur des espaces appropriés. Cette situation soulève des équivoques sur leur statut supposé de biens communs et pose la question du partage de leurs retombées économiques. D’autres faiblesses dites conjoncturelles existent et expliquent la léthargie dans laquelle sombre l’organisation communautaire de la gestion des forêts. Nos résultats ont montré la défaillance des acteurs communautaires à se situer par rapport à leur objectif. Leurs capacités à s’approprier un projet et à mettre en œuvre une vraie stratégie de mobilisation collective sont également défaillantes. Le manque de solidarité communautaire et la non valorisation des savoirs et savoir-faire locaux rendent les communautés vulnérables dans les partenariats qu’ils nouent et renforcent le poids et l’influence des acteurs extérieurs. Sur les territoires villageois comme échelle de référence pour la gouvernance des forêts communautaires, l’étude a montré que ceux-ci apparaissent comme des lieux d’expression des divisions, des dissensions, de fabrique des soupçons et gouvernés par l’individualisme. Les organisations communautaires sont à leur tour décrites comme des dispositifs de mise à distance, minés par les pressions exercées par les acteurs porteurs de logiques différentes, des stéréotypes et des représentations qui inhibent plutôt l’action collective communautaire. Ce sont aussi des dispositifs contrôlés par l’appât du gain. Les forêts communautaires produisant peu ou pas d’argent, la démobilisation collective ici prend alors tout son sens.L’étude s’achève avec les perspectives à envisager pour faire de l'action collective locale l'outil sans lequel l’atteinte des objectifs d’amélioration des conditions de vie, de réduction de la pauvreté et les perspectives de développement local, n'est pas envisageable
The research focuses on local collective action and management of community forests in southern Cameroon, at Djoum. It analyzes the government’s approach for granting and community management of forest resources, in order to empower and empowering village communities in the management of economic production activities to reduce poverty, improve living conditions and ensure local development. The objective is to realize the capacity of community forests to provide economic benefits to meet this challenge. It is also to account for village territories, seen as the reference scale for the governance of community forests and the influence of the spatial identity on community organization of this management. The implementation methodology is multidisciplinary. The results of our study show several structural weaknesses. First, it appears that the studied community forests are spaces specialized in several areas, each corresponding to particular uses. This perspective excludes timber exploitation on the entire surface of forest area. Yet all Community forests are divided into five-year sectors, themselves divided into annual surfaces of timber exploitation. Then, these forests have been heavily disturbed in the past, an indicator that should send these more to conservation than the exploitation. But this is not the case, all communities or almost, having opted for their exploitation. Similarly, the volumes of wood exploited in these forests are very low, which clearly demonstrates that the possibilities that ascribed to them in the management simple plan are false. In terms of socio-economic achievements and jobs created, the balance sheet is very far from begotten hopes. The few jobs created are temporary, precarious and unqualified. Moreover, the exploitation of timber has generated so far here, neither infrastructure nor collective socio-economic achievement, since ex post generated incomes remain far below ex-ante financial forecast of timber exploitation. Finally, these forests are sitting on appropriate spaces. This raises ambiguities about their supposed status of common goods and raises the question of sharing of their benefits. Others cyclical said weaknesses exist and explain the lethargy into which sinks community organization of forest management. Our results showed the failure of community actors to position themselves in relation to their objective. Their capacities to take a project and to implement a genuine strategy of collective mobilization are also failing. The lack of Community solidarity and the not valorization of local knowledge make vulnerable communities in the partnerships they formed and strengthen the weight and influence of external actors. On village territories as reference scale for the governance of community forests, the study showed that these appear as places of expression of divisions, conflict, and factory of the suspicions and governed by individualism. Community organizations are in turn, described as devices remotely, undermined by pressures from actors of different logics, stereotypes and representations that inhibit rather community collective action. They are also devices controlled by the lure of profit. Community forests producing little or no money, the collective demobilization here makes sense then. The study ends with the perspective to consider for making the local collective action the tool without which the achievement of the objectives of improving the living conditions, poverty reduction and the prospects for local development, is not possible

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Fröberg, Klara. "From a hashtag to a movement : From MeToo to being rightless in 2020's Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447526.

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This thesis investigates the continuance of the MeToo movement in the Swedish context via the digitalplatform Instagram, collective action and feminist organizations that are engaged to end sexual violence.It illuminates how the sisterhood impacted by the practice of challenging the rape script a conceptused to describe the discourse on how sexual violence should be like, and how victim-survivors should behave, how the engagement is made among the activists that engage to challenge the rape script and lastly, how since the MeToo movement started a discourse of rightlessness have been exposed through the sharing of experiences that the MeToo movement initiated. The ethnographic study is based on participant observation of feminist actions in real life and on Instagram as well as interviews with 13 activists from feminist organizations and with background as organisers of collective actions. It is found that the MeToo movement in Sweden is commonly practiced through an engagement in Feminist organizations that serve to keep the movement alive through continuous work to keep sexual violence on the agenda by keeping it visible, and that the engagement is driven by an experience of anger towards the societal discourse that sets the discourse on rape which affects the possibility to be recognized by the legal system. The thesis will overall suggest that there is a sisterhood built on a collective identity, and that the shared identity and oppression between non-men with an aspiration to support one another in the experience of oppression as well as organize safety nets for those who are sentenced for defamation as a consequence of speaking out.

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Ellison, Thomas A. "Toward Transforming Health Systems: A Practice Study of Organizing and Practical Inquiry in Academic Medicine." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1445818686.

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Shen, Qianqian. "La production de la métropole transfrontalière : le cas de l'agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST1048/document.

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Si la question de l'organisation de l'action collective, qui constitue un problème autant scientifique que public, a été largement étudiée notamment en sociologie et en sciences politiques, elle a été peu analysée dans des contextes socio-urbains transfrontaliers. Pourtant, sur le plan opérationnel, la question de l'organisation se situe au coeur de l'aménagement du territoire transfrontalier, en particulier en Europe occidentale. Un travail scientifique sur ce sujet semble d'autant plus pertinent que la question de l'organisation est rendue beaucoup plus complexe par la présence de frontières : démultiplication des acteurs et des échelles,conflits de positionnement, etc. Nous verrons que loin de disparaître, ces frontières sont en mutation et jouent un rôle essentiel dans la manière dont l'action s'organise. Dans cette perspective, ce travail explore de manière fine les mécanismes de coopération entre acteurs institutionnels d'une part, et s'interroge d'autre part sur le rôle des frontières dans la production d'une métropole transfrontalière, à travers le cas de l'agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise
If the question of the organization of collective action, which constitutes a problem at once public and scientific, was largely studied particularly in sociology and political sciences, it remains poorly studied in transfrontier socio-urban contexts. However, operationally, the question of the organization is at the heart of the transfrontier urban planning, especially in Western Europe. A scientific research on this subject seems even more pertinent that the question of the organization is made more complex by the presence of frontiers: multiplication of actors and scales, conflict of positioning, etc. Far from disappearing, these frontiers are changing and play a crucial role in the way that the action is organized. In this perspective, this thesis explores precisely the mechanisms of cooperation between institutional actors on the one hand, and questions the role of frontiers in the production of a transfrontier metropolis on the other hand, through the case of agglomeration franco-valdo-genevoise

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Jung, Kyujin. "Sources of Organizational Resilience During the 2012 Korean Typhoons: an Institutional Collective Action Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801952/.

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The objective of this proposed research is to test whether interorganizational collaboration contributes to the ability of an organization to bounce back swiftly from disasters. The research questions are examined from the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) perspective. The general argument of this dissertation is that organizational resilience can be explained by interorganizational collaboration. The ICA framework, specifically, identifies two general network structures to explain strategies that can be adopted to minimize collaboration risks: bonding and bridging structures. This dissertation focuses on how governmental and nongovernmental organizations in South Korea collaborated. The data was collected from the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula in August of 2012, and January of 2013. The 2012 Typhoons devastated the area after the first data set was collected in August 2012, causing the loss of estimated US$ 730 million and 29 fatalities. Afterward, the second survey was administrated in January of 2013 to gauge respondents’ views on how organizations responded to the disasters. This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay presents a brief overview and assessment of the current research on resilience. The second essay empirically tests the sources of organization resilience. The third essay examines the dynamic nature of interorganizational ties by employing stochastic actor-based models. The findings show how organizations prefer to not coordinate with other organizations even though this could reduce their strains during a disaster. The findings also suggest that organizations that operate in higher risk areas or participate in joint full-scale exercises before a disaster form interorganizational ties afterward.

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Carruth, Paul. "Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity: The Effects of Collective Action on Worker-Recovered Businesses." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483656651672824.

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Iceri, Vanessa. "Actions collectives alimentaires en territoires ruraux : un regard sur la diversité, une quête pour le développement territorial : regard croisé entre Brésil et France." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne‎ (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAL022.

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Avec l’émergence diffuse et spontanée de nombreuses actions collectives alimentaires (Amaps, supermarchés coopératifs, lutte contre le gaspillage, etc.), un mouvement de fond s’opère au sein des territoires. Ma thèse s’inscrit dans ce contexte en interrogeant la façon dont les actions collectives alimentaires, notamment celles qui sont portées par les agriculteurs dans les territoires ruraux, participent au développement territorial. Les principales pistes d’investigation se situent entre la coordination des acteurs et leur interaction avec l’espace. Afin d’y répondre, deux cas d’études ont été mobilisés de façon croisée. Le premier concerne un magasin de producteurs situé à Ambert (France) ; le deuxième consiste en un projet de développement d’une communauté traditionnelle située à Sao Mateus do Sul (Brésil). Sur ces terrains, j’ai réalisé principalement des entretiens qui m’ont fourni des données pour une analyse à partir de trois points de vue : social, spatial et temporel. La question sociale a été principalement abordée à travers l’analyse de la coordination entre individus / collectifs et le commun qui leur permet d’agir ensemble. La question spatiale a été instruite par l’analyse des objets matériels qui révèlent les dimensions matérielles / idéelles / organisationnelles du territoire. Enfin la question temporelle a été traitée par les analyses des trajectoires individuelles / collectives mais aussi par l’interaction dialectique entre ancrage / ouverture territoriale, innovation / tradition, articulant le temps passé, présent et futur. Finalement l’étude croisée entre ces deux terrains a permis de mettre en évidence les nombreuses interactions entre espace, société et temps, discutées en termes de circularités. La thèse aboutit également à la production d’outils et de cadres d’analyse qui permettent de rendre visibles ces interactions et d’engager le débat quant à la participation des actions collectives alimentaires aux processus de développement territorial
Following the spontaneous and widespread rise of food collective actions (community supported agriculture (CSA), cooperative supermarkets, fight against waste, ...) a deep change has been happening within territories. This thesis/dissertation falls within this new tendency and explores how the food collective actions, especially the one initiated by farmers in rural areas, participate in territorial development. Coordination between actors and its interaction with space constitute the main sources of investigation. This research benefits from two case studies operated in a crossed way. The first one relates to a farm shop located in Ambert (France) whereas the second consists in a development project from a traditional community in Sao Mateus do Sul (Brésil). On these fields, I implemented interviews that gave birth to data for a three-dimensions analysis: social, space an time. The social matter has mainly been discussed through the assessment of coordination between individual/collective and the common acting together. The space horizon has been examined through the lens of physical objects which illustrate material/ideational/organizational of the territory. Lastly, the time dimension stems from analyzing individual and collective trajectoriesand from the dialectic relationship between anchoring / territorial opening, innovation / tradition gathering past, present and future together. Eventually, the crossed study from the two fields disclosed plenty of interactions between space, time and society, linked by circularity. The dissertation results in original tools and frameworks that raise the profile of these interactions and opens the door to discussions regarding the role of food collective actions in territory development

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Bengtsson, Berit. "Kampen mot § 23 : Facklig makt vid anställning och avsked i Sverige före 1940." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economic History, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6318.

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The aim of this thesis is to use a power perspective to describe the workers’ struggle for co-determination in the Swedish labour market during the period 1890–1939. The study explores how trade unions in general attempted to limit article 23, which asserted employers’ control over hiring and dismissal. At the same time the study clarifies differences in union power between various groups of workers. The prevalent historical view regarding the distribution of power in the labour market is thus questioned.

The study shows that workers were not powerless before the Saltsjöbaden agreement in 1938. In certain areas workers, through their unions, already at the beginning of the 20th century had fairly good possibilities of influencing both hiring and dismissal. Collective agreements that were entered into before the defeat of the workers in the great conflict in the Swedish labour market in 1909, as well as collective agreements signed during the 1920s and 1930s, can make both the Saltsjöbaden agreement and present-day regulations look “hostile to workers”. In collective agreements workers achieved considerable limitations of employers’ arbitrary freedom to hire and dismiss workers. Certain unions could control their labour market efficiently by means of a labour exchange of their own. The development, however, varied over time and between different trade unions. Business cycles generally influenced how much power unions could exert. Access to power resources and other conditions varied between different workers’ groups. While some attained considerable power over hiring and dismissal, others had no possibilities of taking part in decision-making.

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Essman, Carl. "Social preconditions of collective action among NGO:s : A social network analysis of the information exchanges between 55 NGO:s in Georgia." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118567.

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Individual shortcomings and the need for resources stimulates organizations desire to establish collaborative relations with each other. An organization tends to prefer to collaborate with other familiar organizations. The information available to an organization about its peers is necessary for its ability to appreciate the suitability of potential partners as well as their capabilities and ability to contribute to a successful collaborative relation. In a three stage analytical process, social network analysis and statistical network modelling is applied to investigate the correlation between patterns of communication and the extent to which organizations establish collaborative relationships. With a theoretical framework of resource dependence theory and social capital, data on information exchanges, resource exchanges and common advocacy among humanitarian 55 organizations is mapped. The first analytical stage explicates the structures of the collected information exchanges and evaluates the prevalence of coordination facilitating communication structures. The second stage appreciates the extent of inter-organizational involvement in collaborative relationships. The third step combines these results to demonstrate the covariance between the prevalence of coordination facilitating structures and extent of collaborative relations. The results indicate that the collected information exchanges exhibit few coordination facilitating structures and the organizations are only to a very limited extent engaged in collaborative relationships with each other. While consistent with previous research on the importance of communication for coordination, these observations illustrate the negative consequences of lacking communication. This analysis contributes with added empirical experiences to solidify our understanding of organizational behavior in inter-organizational interaction and tendencies to establish collaborative relations.

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Kowler, Laura F. "Collective action and conservation behavior a comparison of two coffee organizations in the Peruvian Amazon Basin /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024635.

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Schmidgall, Darci. "Creating Moral Authority and Collective Action Frames| Christian Pulpit Monologues in the Ex-Gay Movement." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1549839.

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The Christian ex-gay movement was born in 1973 with the founding of Exodus International, which would soon become an international umbrella ministry purporting reparative "ex-gay" therapies as a viable method of dealing with "unwanted same-sex attractions". In 2012, then-president of Exodus, Alan Chambers, renounced reparative therapies in recognition of the wide-spread harm they had caused. In June of 2013, Chambers announced his intention to close Exodus' doors. Aspects of minority discrimination inherent to the broader Christian sex prescription and mirrored in the Christian ex-gay movement are discussed, along with the influence of the Post-Victorian conceptualization of sexuality on ex-gay ideology, the social movement ideologies driving the reparative therapeutic model, and the ex-gay and pro-gay Christian hermeneutics of the queer-relevant Biblical canon. In its final days, Exodus International served as a methodological tool to discern ex-gay collective action frames. The present research purposively sampled Exodus Association member churches and qualitatively analyzed the framing work performed by Exodus Association pastors in sermons addressing homosexuality. The data was coded according to the core collective action framing tasks conceptualized by David Snow and Robert Benford: diagnosis, prognosis, and motivation. A clear division among the churches emerged as themes from the "pulpit discourse" unfolded, one faction emphasizing truths and objectifying the issue of homosexuality, and the other faction emphasizing grace and humanizing homosexuals as people. The division of member churches of the now-dead Exodus Association into truth and grace perspectives is discussed as a reflection of the splintering of the larger ex-gay movement.

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Regmi, Ashok Raj. "The role of group heterogeneity in collective action a look at the intertie between irrigation and forests : case studies from Chitwan, Nepal /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. 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:3274239.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Dept. of Political Science, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 3130. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 28, 2008). Adviser: Elinor Ostrom.

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MORAES, EMERSON AUGUSTO PRIAMO. "THE ACTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES AND COLLECTIVE COMPETENCES: CASE STUDY OF A FEDERAL PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=36251@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
As rotinas organizacionais constituem um elemento central nas organizações; uma grande parte do trabalho é realizada por meio de rotinas (FELDMAN, 2000). As rotinas impactam na performance das organizações, e são uma importante fonte de mudança endógena (CACCIATORI, 2012). Uma série de artefatos podem ser associados às rotinas organizacionais. Muitos desses artefatos são denominados artefatos tecnológicos, e estão relacionados à tecnologia da informação, como os sistemas ERP s (Entreprise Resource Planning) (D ADDERIO, 2003). As rotinas organizacionais podem ser estudadas por meio de seus aspectos ostensivos (padrões abstratos), performativos (ações específicas) e artefatos (manifestações físicas das rotinas) (PENTLAND e FELDMAN, 2005). O papel da tecnologia também pode ser percebido na construção e no desenvolvimento das competências coletivas, por meio da aprendizagem e interações dentro das comunidades de prática (HSIAO et al., 2006), ou pela transferência das competências na gestão da mudança tecnológica (BARBAROUX e GODÉ, 2012). Retour e Krohmer (2006) oferecem uma proposta para o estudo das competências coletivas, por meio da articulação entre quatro atributos constituintes (referencial comum, linguagem compartilhada, memória coletiva e engajamento subjetivo). Outros trabalhos trazem a dentificação das competências coletivas por meio destes atributos (PAUVERS e BIENFAIT, 2011; COLIN e GRASSER, 2011), mas não se relacionam à ação direta ou indireta do componente tecnológico. Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar, a influência de um artefato tecnológico sobre as rotinas organizacionais e em decorrência, sobre os atributos das competências coletivas da organização. Com isso, tem-se a pergunta de investigação: como a inserção de um artefato tecnológico pode (re)configurar as rotinas organizacionais e por consequência impactar os atributos das competências coletivas em uma organização.? A proposta metodológica consiste em um estudo de caso (YIN, 2010), baseado em uma instituição pública federal de ensino. Trata-se de uma organização complexa, regulamentada, distribuída e com uma formação histórica heterogênea de suas unidades, e que passa por um momento único, com a implantação de um artefato tecnológico de grande porte (denominado Projeto Conecta), ocasionando mudanças em toda estrutura organizacional. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de 25 entrevistas semiestruturadas, obtidas em cinco unidades da instituição, localizadas em quatro diferentes cidades em Minas Gerais no período de março a maio de 2016. A delimitação foi dada a partir de um projeto de implantação de um novo artefato tecnológico, abrangendo toda a instituição. Os dados foram analisados sob uma abordagem qualitativa, interpretativa, com a técnica de análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 1977). Os resultados evidenciaram não somente uma modificação, mas também uma ressignificação das rotinas a partir da inserção do novo artefato tecnológico. Essa ressignificação das rotinas também trouxe impactos em níveis diferentes para cada atributo das competências coletivas, sugerindo também uma possível ressignificação destas competências. As relações entre os elementos analisados configuram um mapa conceitual, construído a partir das seguintes categorias gerais: descrição das rotinas do estudo, normatização das rotinas, artefato na ação das rotinas, reconfiguração das rotinas pelo artefato, ação das rotinas no referencial comum, ação das rotinas na linguagem compartilhada, ação das rotinas na memória coletiva, ação das rotinas no engajamento subjetivo.
Organizational routines are a central element in organizations; a large part of the work is performed through routines (FELDMAN, 2000). Routines impact organizational performance, and are an important source of endogenous change (CACCIATORI, 2012). A number of artifacts can be associated with organizational routines. Many of these artifacts are referred to as technological artifacts, and are related to information technology, such as ERP systems (Entreprise Resource Planning) (D ADDERIO, 2003). Organizational routines can be studied through their ostensive (abstract), performative (specific actions) and artifacts (physical manifestations of routines) (PENTLAND and FELDMAN, 2005). The role of technology can also be perceived in the construction and development of collective competences, through learning and interactions within the communities of practice (HSIAO et al., 2006), or by transferring skills in the management of technological change (BARBAROUX and GODÉ, 2012). Retour and Krohmer (2005) offer a proposal for the study of collective competences, through the articulation between four constituent attributes (common referential, shared language, collective memory and subjective engagement). Other works bring the identification of collective competences through these attributes (PAUVERS and BIENFAIT, 2011; COLIN and GRASSER, 2011), but are not related to the direct or indirect action of the technological component. This study aims to investigate the influence of a technological artifact on organizational routines and, as a result, on the attributes of the collective competencies of the organization. Thus, the research question is: how can the insertion of a technological artifact (re) configure organizational routines and consequently impact the attributes of collective competencies in an organization.? The methodological proposal consists of a case study (YIN, 2010), based on a federal public institution of education. It is a complex organization, regulated, distributed and with a heterogeneous historical formation of its units, and that goes through a unique moment, with the implantation of a large technological artifact (named Projeto Conecta), causing changes in every organizational structure. The research was carried out from 25 semi-structured interviews, obtained in five units of the institution, located in four different cities in Minas Gerais from March to May 2016. The delimitation was given from a project of implantation of a new artifact The whole institution. Data were analyzed using a qualitative, interpretive approach using the content analysis technique (BARDIN, 1977). The results evidenced not only a modification, but also a re-signification of the routines from the insertion of the new technological artifact. This re-signification of routines also brought impacts at different levels for each attribute of collective competencies, also suggesting a possible re-signification of these competencies. The relationships between the analyzed elements constitute a conceptual map, constructed from the following general categories: description of the routines of the study, normalization of the routines, artifact in the action of the routines, reconfiguration of the routines by the artifact, action of the routines in the common reference, action of the routines in the shared language, action of the routines in the collective memory, action of the routines in the subjective engagement.

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Bouyer, Timothee Francois Marie Andre. "Rent seeking and business organizations: an explanatory study of business organization’s role during Brazil’s trade liberalization era." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18189.

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Brazil partially shifted from state-led development to market economy following its switch to democracy. This affected the economy in two ways: first the state initiated a wave of privatization in the wake of the fiscal crisis under President Collor. Second, the economy started opening up to international competition through the enactment of certain trade reforms. However, the economy still displays erratic levels of protectionism. The literature on rent seeking argues that organized interest groups devote resources to capture and try to influence and neutralize the liberalization of the economy, which would endanger the rents they benefit from under existing rules. After decades of state nurturing under the ISI model, the business sector in Brazil was crucial to shaping the path for a new growth model. However, their role in promoting trade openness was far more nuanced. The present work looks at business groups in Brazil since the second half of the twentieth century and the role they played before and during the transition and how their opposition to trade reforms suggests potential rentseeking behaviors. The transition to democracy witnessed the emergence of new business organizations with independent actions that I will account for in this paper. Business organizations were not united at the time of economic reforms and thus reacted differently according to the interests of their members. Institutional factors, amongst which the rise of a new civil society, as well as conjectural factors further constrained the path of economic reforms.
O Brasil sofreu uma parcial mudança, do desenvolvimento estatal à economia de mercado, em seguimento à sua transição à democracia. A economia abriu-se para o comércio internacional, mas ainda hoje apresenta níveis erráticos de protecionismo. O fenômeno da rent-seeking (“busca de renda”) destaca a tentativa de grupos organizados em captar recursos estatais para atividades improdutivas. Como consequência direta, este fenômeno dificulta a realização de reformas comerciais, como grupos de pressão organizados (lobbies), com o fim de proteger os seus próprios interesses. Depois de décadas de modelo de industrialização via substituição de importações (ISI model) incentivado pelo Estado, o setor de negócios no Brasil demonstrou-se crucial para moldar o caminho em direção a reformas econômicas. O presente trabalho analisa o papel desenvolvido pelos grupos empresariais, antes e durante esta transição, e examina como a sua oposição a abertura econômica sugere provável busca de renda. Este trabalho argumenta que as limitações da estrutura corporativa combinadas com o surgimento de novos grupos de pressão, concorrentes entre si, fragmentou a intermediação de interesses. Paradoxalmente, essa fragmentação de interesses e fraqueza coletiva de grupos de pressões limitou os obstáculos as reformas econômicas. O surgimento de uma nova sociedade civil e os fatores institucionais do regime democrático são outros fatores quem dificultaram a criação de reformas econômicas.

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Renou, Sandra. "Enquête sur les dispositifs d’action collective des entreprises." Thesis, Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020IPPAX074.

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La dimension collective est devenue une réalité stratégique centrale pour les entreprises, notamment aujourd’hui en matière de développement durable et de transition. Ces actions reposent principalement sur dispositifs d’action collective. Ces organisations, situées à l’interface entre les entreprises et l’État, mènent des stratégies hors-marché, et soutiennent les stratégies de RSE et les activités politiques des firmes qui en sont membres. Sur le plan empirique, elles peuvent prendre des formes multiples, traditionnelles ou plus modernes, ce qui complique notre compréhension du phénomène. Des concepts théoriques, comme celui de méta-organisation, définie comme une organisation dont les membres sont des organisations, permettent d’appréhender ces formes organisationnelles d’action collective entre entreprises. Si ces concepts peuvent aider à comprendre certaines propriétés de l’objet d’étude de cette thèse, ils ne sont néanmoins pas suffisants pour en refléter la grande diversité, en expliquer la dynamique ou encore en saisir le fonctionnement interne. C’est l’objectif de ce travail doctoral, qui porte sur l’étude de dispositifs d’action collective des entreprises, notamment les syndicats professionnels. Les cas présentés dans cette thèse se rapportent à deux secteurs, les énergies renouvelables et l’agroalimentaire biologique.S’inscrivant dans une démarche compréhensive, et aussi interdisciplinaire (histoire, économie, sciences politiques, théorie des organisations), ces études de cas visent à donner une vue synoptique du phénomène et à élaborer les éléments d’une théorie des dispositifs organisant l’action collective entre entreprises. Elle montre que ces dispositifs reposent sur une gouvernance originale, qui mêle principes de hiérarchie et d’hétérarchie ; elle analyse leur dynamique (émergence, croissance, mise en sommeil, scissions) à partir d’un modèle de coûts ; elle étudie leurs modes d’action, qui articulent savoir et pouvoir, et participent de la construction d’un secteur et de son action en lien avec les pouvoirs publics
The collective dimension has become a central strategic reality for firms, particularly nowadays ragarding sustainable development and transition. These actions are mainly based on firms’ collective action devices. These organizations, located at the interface between firms and the State, carry out nonmarket strategies, and support the CSR strategies and the corporate political activities of their member firms. Empirically, they can take multiple forms, traditional or more modern, which complicates our understanding of the phenomenon. Theoretical concepts, such as meta-organization, defined as an organization whose members are organizations, make it possible to apprehend these organizational forms of firms’ collective action. Although these concepts can help to understand some properties of the object of study of this thesis, they are nevertheless not sufficient to reflect its great diversity, to explain its dynamics or to grasp its internal functioning. This is the objective of this doctoral research, which deals with firms’ collective action devices, especially trade associations. The cases presented in this thesis relate to two sectors, renewable energy and organic food.Taking place within a comprehensive and interdisciplinary (history, economics, political science, organization studies) approach, these case studies aim to give a synoptic view of the phenomenon, and to elaborate the elements of a theory of firms’ collective action devices. It shows that these devices are based on an original governance, mixing the principles of hierarchy and heterarchy; it analyses their dynamics (emergence, growth, dormancy, splits) from a cost model; it studies their modes of action, articulating knowledge and power and participating in the construction of a sector and its action, in relation to public authorities

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Zaragoza, Joseph. "The Impact of Individual Perceptions of the Fairness of Public Affirmative Action Policy Statements on Attitudes toward the Organization." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5588.

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The purpose of this research project was to explore differences in perceptions of organizational justice and related attitudes. Through the use of a 3 x 2 experimental design, participants were randomly assigned to groups in which they were exposed to a fictitious organization's mock recruitment document publicizing different types of affirmative action programs and varying levels of information regarding the mechanics of such programs. Results did not demonstrate statistically significant differences across groups. Project implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Dhuyvetter, William. "Dynamique du contrôle dans un projet de déploiement de pratiques : Un cas de pratiques environnementales et de maitrise des risques dans un réseau d'agences." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO22015.

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Le but de cette recherche est de décrire et de comprendre le contrôle du transfert de Bonnes Pratiques entre différentes agences réparties sur le territoire. Cette étude émerge de l’observation d’un problème terrain : à partir d’un jeu de pratiques environnementales et de maitrises des risques dites « idéales » et sélectionnées pour avoir déjà prouvées leur efficacité dans d’autres unités organisationnelles, les membres du Comité de Pilotage transforment ces pratiques, tout au long des réunions du projet, de façon à permettre leur implémentation. Mais ces pratiques dépassent la simple application de prescriptions règlementaires et sont souvent des innovations pour l’entreprise. Ces innovations engagent le Comité de pilotage dans un véritable processus de conception. La finalité du projet est d’autonomiser les opérateurs dans l’usage de ces pratiques qui doivent pouvoir appréhender le terrain, adapter leur réponse tout en se conformant à l’idéal porté par la pratique. Notre hypothèse de travail est que l’action du Comité est mue par une logique de contrôle. Dans ce travail, nous cherchons à caractériser la façon dont le Comité de pilotage de ce projet contrôle le déploiement de ces Bonnes Pratiques et à rendre compte de sa dynamique. Pour répondre à cette question, cette étude conduite au sein de la filiale régionale d’un groupe s’inscrit dans une approche qualitative. Notre méthode d’analyse s’appuie sur le recours à la théorie ancrée en se fondant sur les éléments empiriques du terrain. Pour caractériser le processus de contrôle, nous avons voulu échapper aux catégories usuelles des mécanismes de contrôle de la théorie (Ouchi, 1979 ; Simons, 2004) en expliquant comment l’acteur collectif Comité de pilotage, par des actions sur le processus de conception des pratiques, par des actions d’information et de formation des agents et par des actions sur la rédaction de fiches de procédures, cherchait à s’assurer que chaque membre du Comité de pilotage et les agents impliqués dans ce processus de conception se comportent dans le sens des objectifs fixés par la Direction générale. Ainsi, parmi nos contributions, le niveau de granularité plus fin dans l’analyse du contrôle nous a permis d’apporter une relecture des travaux traditionnels en contrôle. Pour rendre compte de la dynamique du contrôle, nous procédons également à une opérationnalisation du modèle de la réplication de Winter et Szulanski (2001). En complément, nos résultats illustrent la dynamique du contrôle fondée sur l’analyse de la convergence des projets par Midler (1993)
The purpose of this study is to describe and understand how the transfer of the Good Practices among the different agencies spread out in the territory is controlled. This research emerges from a problem observed in practice : based on a set of environmental and risk-management practices which were said to be « ideal » and which had proved to be efficient, the members of the Piloting Committee transform these practices throughout their project meetings so that they may be implemented. Those practices however, go beyond statutory requirements, and often turn out to be innovations for companies. Those innovations engage the Piloting Committee in a true conception process. The project aims at making the users/operators autonomous. They are to be able to apprehend the situation and adapt their response, all the while complying with the fundamental ideal of the Practice. Our working hypothesis is that the action of the Piloting Committee is driven by logic of control. In this work, we are seeking to characterize the way the Piloting Committee of this project controls the way in which the Good Practices are implemented and to report their dynamics. To investigate these research questions, a qualitative study was designed and conducted. We use grounded theory methodology. This intervention-research led in a subsidiary company. To characterize the control process, we chose to avoid the usual categories of mechanical control of the theory (Ouchi, 1979; Simons, 2004). Instead, we chose to explain how the collective actor Piloting Committee, by setting up information and training campaigns for all the Piloting Committee members and at the actors involved in the conception process, sought to ensure that each and every one was indeed acting consistently and in compliance with the targets set by the General Management. We are procceeding to the operationalization of the replication of Winter and Szulanski model (2001). Our results show Midler’s work (1993)

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Fitchett, Leah Lynn. "The Roles of Local Organizations in Collaborative Resource Governance: A Qualitative Case Study of Lake Associations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93405.

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Human communities across the globe are currently facing an epidemic of lake water quality degradation, primarily resulting from resource and land-use decisions that introduce excessive amounts of nutrients into the lake system. In many of these communities, local volunteer groups called lake associations work to protect these cherished lake resources. Lake associations and similar groups commonly respond to issues that are most prevalent in their respective watersheds including, but not limited to, algae blooms, declines in water transparency, and fish kills. Yet, there is little research on the role these groups actively or potentially play in lake governance and management. This study investigates the specific structures and strategies lake associations use to address lake water quality challenges using a comparative case analysis of two organizations: Lake Sunapee Protective Association (LSPA; Sunapee, NH) and Clean Lakes Alliance (CLA; Madison, WI). I performed a content analysis of self-published newsletters, annual reports, and news publications mentioning either lake association, and supplemented this data with semi-structured interviews of key individuals from each organization. I characterized and compared the missions, capacity, and activity of the two case studies by applying a conceptual framework as a lens through which to better understand the function these groups serve in their communities and what makes them effective. I found that, although the two groups structure themselves differently, take on distinct activity pathways, and orient themselves differently with respect to lake conservation, they have both been effective in achieving decision-making or management outcomes. This is a first step in identifying the diversity of ways community-based conservation organizations, such as lake associations, can meaningfully contribute to collaborative environmental governance processes on the local scale.
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Around the world, people who live on lakes are dealing with significant declines in lake water quality. These declines have been linked to various land management decisions, which can introduce excess nutrients to the lake system that promote excessive algal or bacterial growth, and to the ways people choose to use the lake resource, which can introduce non-native, or invasive, plant and animal species. In many lake communities, local volunteer groups called lake associations work to protect their local lake resources. Lake associations can respond to the specific problems facing their lake and act to manage the lake resource and the land around it. Yet, there is little research on the role these groups actively or potentially play in lake management and conservation. This study investigates the specific organizational structures and strategies lake associations and similar groups use to address water quality declines in lake communities. I collected historic documentation and completed oral interviews for two case study associations, Lake Sunapee Protective Association (LSPA; Sunapee, NH) and Clean Lakes Alliance (CLA; Madison, WI), to characterize and compare their missions, organizational capacities, and activities. This analysis allows me to better understand what makes these groups effective and the functions they serve in their communities. I found that, although the two groups are structured differently and implement different strategies to achieve outcomes, they both have been effective in achieving lake management and conservation outcomes in line with their respective missions. This is a first step in identifying the diversity of ways community-based conservation organizations, such as lake associations, can meaningfully contribute to local environmental management and conservation.

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Greig, Gail. "The role and importance of context in collective learning : multiple case studies in Scottish primary care." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/500.

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Feldman, Marcos. "The Role of Neighborhood Organizations in the Production of Gentrifiable Urban Space: The Case of Wynwood, Miami's Puerto Rican Barrio." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/540.

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Partnerships between government and community-based actors and organizations are considered the hallmark of contemporary governance arrangements for the revitalization and gentrification of economically distressed, inner city areas. This dissertation uses historical, narrative analysis and ethnographic methods to examine the formation, evolution and operation of community-based governance partnerships in the production of gentrifable urban space in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, FL between 1970 and 2010. This research is based on more than four years of participant observation, 60 in-depth interviews with respondents recruited through a purposive snowball sample, review of secondary and archival sources, and descriptive, statistical and GIS analysis. This study examines how different organizations formed in the neighborhood since the 1970s have facilitated the recent gentrification of Wynwood. It reveals specifically how partnerships between neighborhood-based government agencies, nonprofit organizations and real estate developers were constructed to be exclusionary and lead to inequitable economic development outcomes for Wynwood residents. The key factors conditioning these inequalities include both the rationalities of action of the organizations involved and the historical contexts in which their leaders’ thinking and actions were shaped. The historical contexts included the ethnic politics of organizational funding in the 1970s and the “entrepreneurial” turn of community-based economic development and Miami urban politics since the 1980s. Over time neighborhood organizations adopted highly pragmatic rationalities and repertoires of action. By the 2000s when Wynwood experienced unprecedented investment and redevelopment, the pragmatism of community-based organizations led them to become junior partners in governance arrangements and neighborhood activists were unable to directly challenge the inequitable processes and outcomes of gentrification.

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Ruhlman, Molly Anne. "Who Participates? International Organizations and Non-State Actors in Global Governance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/230094.

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Although all Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) interact with non-state actors (NSAs) in some capacity, the extent to which NSAs are granted participatory roles in the governance of IGOs varies substantially. Why do some intergovernmental organizations - intergovernmental clubs of sovereign states - extend access, participatory opportunity or even participatory rights, to non-state actors? The goal of this project is to address the question of variation. I investigate the interests of the actors with power to determine the rules regarding engagement with NSAs - member states and IGO secretariats - and identify specific incentives for each actor to establish rules or practice of engagement with NSAs in each type of engagement. I find that the member states and secretariats that determine these engagement practices benefit from the inclusion or participation of NSAs in specific and predictable ways. By identifying the interests and incentives of the relevant actors, it is possible to predict the creation of particular sorts of engagement and explain variation in those engagement mechanisms across different intergovernmental organizations. I test the proposed relationship between IGO interests and participatory rules through examination of the United Nations system and three UN organizations: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). I find that the historical evidence supports an interest-based theory for the granting of participation rights to NSAs within IGOS. Secretariats frequently support selective partnerships with NSAs for the purpose of advancing their mission, and assemblies generally prefer to establish informal consultation mechanisms rather than formal rights of participation for NSAs. Formal participation rights linked to the member-state venue of an IGO assembly are advanced only when in the shadow of strong support from states, or where the assembly recognizes that NSA participation provides benefits that cannot be gained through informal consultation alone.
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Anton, Egoitz G. "Impact of peace movements on a society immersed in conflict. An analysis of the framing processes of the Basque peace movement." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5374.

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The Basque conflict has waged since the 1950s in its current form. However, with the arrival of democracy 36 years ago, the Basque Country has been the scene of an intense peace mobilization, dominated by two peace organizations: Gesto por la Paz, a group of community organizations that mobilize to publicly reject political violence, and Lokarri/Elkarri, an organization that includes a conflict resolution proposal based on dialogue between conflicting parties. While there is some literature on these organizations, none has analysed their extraordinary impact on Basque society. This research explores how the Basque peace movement has impacted on the social and political culture of the Basque conflict. It seeks to understand the nature of this impact and to determine the channels and methods by which it was achieved, using frame analysis. Three interlinked questions serve to guide the research, asking first if there is a Basque Peace Frame and if it could be considered a master frame, how this Basque Peace Frame has evolved, and, finally, how the Basque Peace Frame has impacted on other Basque Civil Society Organizations related to the conflict. This qualitative research spans the period between the March 2006 declaration of ceasefire by ETA and the end of fieldwork for this research in September 2008. The research includes 18 in depth interviews, written media, and analysis of seven notable Basque social organizations related to the conflict, in addition to the two peace organizations mentioned above. The research found the impact of the Basque peace movement in the Basque Country is significant and rich. The Basque Peace Frame developed based on the rejection of the use of violence as a political tool and identifies that violence as the main barrier to achieving an inclusive conflict resolution. The Basque peace movement organizations developed a specific kind of mobilization to enforce the Basque Peace Frame based on silent and symbolic acts. The objective was to counter the former dynamics of mobilization that were contentious and directed to promote Basque national rights. The Basque Peace Frame proposed a change in the way the political collective identity was constructed in the Basque Country, showing that an association between nationalism and violence is not obligatory. The Basque Peace Frame has evolved and spread between social organizations in the Basque Country, using sympathetic identity networks as the main channel of frame diffusion. Even organizations that did not reject the use of contentious methods of protest are now questioning the use of violence, signifying exciting prospects for the future of non-violent political action in the Basque Country.
La Fundacion La Caixa. Consejeria de Educación Universidades e Investigación of the Basque Country Government.

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Anton, Egoitz Gago. "Impact of peace movements on a society immersed in conflict : an analysis of the framing processes of the Basque peace movement." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5374.

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The Basque conflict has waged since the 1950s in its current form. However, with the arrival of democracy 36 years ago, the Basque Country has been the scene of an intense peace mobilization, dominated by two peace organizations: Gesto por la Paz, a group of community organizations that mobilize to publicly reject political violence, and Lokarri/Elkarri, an organization that includes a conflict resolution proposal based on dialogue between conflicting parties. While there is some literature on these organizations, none has analysed their extraordinary impact on Basque society. This research explores how the Basque peace movement has impacted on the social and political culture of the Basque conflict. It seeks to understand the nature of this impact and to determine the channels and methods by which it was achieved, using frame analysis. Three interlinked questions serve to guide the research, asking first if there is a Basque Peace Frame and if it could be considered a master frame, how this Basque Peace Frame has evolved, and, finally, how the Basque Peace Frame has impacted on other Basque Civil Society Organizations related to the conflict. This qualitative research spans the period between the March 2006 declaration of ceasefire by ETA and the end of fieldwork for this research in September 2008. The research includes 18 in depth interviews, written media, and analysis of seven notable Basque social organizations related to the conflict, in addition to the two peace organizations mentioned above. The research found the impact of the Basque peace movement in the Basque Country is significant and rich. The Basque Peace Frame developed based on the rejection of the use of violence as a political tool and identifies that violence as the main barrier to achieving an inclusive conflict resolution. The Basque peace movement organizations developed a specific kind of mobilization to enforce the Basque Peace Frame based on silent and symbolic acts. The objective was to counter the former dynamics of mobilization that were contentious and directed to promote Basque national rights. The Basque Peace Frame proposed a change in the way the political collective identity was constructed in the Basque Country, showing that an association between nationalism and violence is not obligatory. The Basque Peace Frame has evolved and spread between social organizations in the Basque Country, using sympathetic identity networks as the main channel of frame diffusion. Even organizations that did not reject the use of contentious methods of protest are now questioning the use of violence, signifying exciting prospects for the future of non-violent political action in the Basque Country.

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Rios, Flavia Mateus. "Institucionalização do movimento negro no Brasil contemporâneo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-29102009-170307/.

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Nesta dissertação, investigo o processo de institucionalização do Movimento Negro no Brasil contemporâneo. Este fato social tem requerido uma progressiva profissionalização dos militantes, a formalização e burocratização das organizações, bem como novas estratégicas de mobilização de recursos e especialização do ativismo. Em grande medida, essa institucionalização está ligada ao modo pelo qual o movimento se apropriou das oportunidades políticas oferecidas pelo Estado e pelo ambiente civil a partir da redemocratização brasileira. A dinâmica das organizações e o estilo dos protestos negros, objetos empíricos deste trabalho, expressam o modo como a ação coletiva negra se insere no cenário político atual.
In this dissertation I analyse the institutionalization of black movement in Contemporary Brazil. This social fact have been imply progressive professionalization of militants, more formal and bureaucratic organizations, new strategies to resource mobilizations and specialization of activism. The institutionalization is related to the way through the movement used the political opportunities offered by state and environment civil since the emergency of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s. The dynamic of organizations and the style of black protest, empiric objects of this work, express how the collective actions inside nowdays political context.

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Costa, Lidiane Freitas. "A ação política em organizações negras da Bahia: velhos e novos dilemas da ação coletiva." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/12154.

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O principal objetivo deste trabalho é investigar quais são os limites e possibilidades dos agentes coletivos serem bem sucedidos em suas reivindicações políticas. Examinaremos como as organizações negras baianas constroem suas ações coletivas, bem como, buscaremos apreender a dinâmica interna das organizações, como os agentes constroem a ação organizada e quais são os principais problemas enfrentados por estes na construção da ação política. A pesquisa testou a hipótese de que as clivagens raciais, religiosas e político-partidárias constituem entraves para consolidação de alianças políticas entre as organizações dos movimentos negros estudadas. Para fundamentar os achados da pesquisa, nos apoiamos nas considerações de Olson (1965), notadamente sua análise sobre o comportamento dos indivíduos racionais nas modernas organizações, e Sartori (1987), a respeito das decisões políticas, de como elas são eleitas e impostas a todos independentemente de quem toma as decisões. As entrevistas semi-estruturadas, a análise documental e a observação participante forneceram o material de análise necessário para elaboração desta dissertação. Os resultados encontrados sugerem que o arranjo organizativo deficiente das organizações cria obstáculos para a construção da ação coletiva mesmo em grupos pequenos; a dificuldade de mobilização dos membros é um problema que atinge todas as entidades estudadas e cria um importante impasse para o sucesso da ação organizada; as convicções políticas, ideológicas e religiosas dos membros restringem as entidades a pequenos círculos de solidariedade. Por conseguinte, constituem entraves significativos para consolidação de alianças que aumentariam as possibilidades de obtenção de benefícios coletivos, razão de existência destas organizações. The main purpose of this work is to investigate what are the limits and possibilities of collective agents succeed in their political claims. We will examine how Bahia’s black organizations build their collective actions as well as we seek to learn the internal dynamics of the organizations, how the agents build the organized action and figure the main problems faced by them in the construction of political action. The research tested the hypotheses that racial, religious and electoral alliance cleavages constitute obstacles to the consolidation of political alliances among the organizations of the black movements that were studied. In order to substantiate the findings of the research, we rely on considerations of Olson (1965), especially his analysis about the behavior of rational individuals in modern organizations, and Sartori (1987), about political decisions, how they are chosen and imposed to everyone regardless of who makes the decisions. The semi –structured interviews, the documental analysis and the active observation provided the necessary analysis material to elaborate this Master’s thesis. The results obtained suggest that the deficient organizational arrangement of the organizations creates barriers to the building of the collective action even in small groups; the difficulty of mobilizing members is a problem that affects all the studied organizations and creates a significant obstacle for the success of the organized action; the political, ideological and religious convictions of the members restrain the entities to small groups of sympathy. Therefore, they constitute major problems to the consolidation of alliances that would increase the possibilities of obtaining collective benefits, reason of existence for these organizations.
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Rintala, Maja. "Digitala dilemman : Miljöorganisationers kommunikation för samhällsförändring." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172066.

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This thesis aims to illustrate how civil society organizations reflect on and communicate for societal change. The aim is also to broaden the understanding of how norms and logics on social media platforms characterize communication and the discourse about social engagement. With a basis in discourse theory, the particular focus of the study is on identifying discursive themes, and conflicts that exist within these themes. The analysis draws upon critical theories about the power position and technical affordance of social media platforms, as well as perspectives on the political subject - individually and collectively. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with representatives from six environmental organizations, two of which are newer network-based movements. The results show discursive nodal points such as autonomous, individual-based and political. These partly gain their meaning through social media and technical affordances, which enable lower engagement thresholds, which in turn challenge the organizations’ ideas about long-term engagement. Political engagement is largely associated with online engagement, via social media, at the same time an opposite relationship shows that screen time takes focus from deepened or physical engagement. The results also show that organizations are aware of the power of social media platforms, where hidden algorithms and commercial logic contrast with the organizations’ visions, while at the same time the platforms play an important role for the organizations’ communication.

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Jacob, Marie-Rachel. "Entre travail et organisation : les individus en action dans l’entreprise : une enquête sur la collaboration entre salariés et travailleurs extérieurs dans une grande entreprise." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100100/document.

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Au croisement des courants de recherche sur l’étude du travail et sur celle de l’organisation, la thèse analyse la transformation de la main d’œuvre dans l’entreprise via la généralisation du recours à des formes d’emploi qualifiées d’atypiques. La littérature fait état d’une tendance à la déconnexion entre, d'une part, des pratiques de travail dans l’entreprise mêlant des individus aux statuts juridiques différents et, d'autre part, des théories de l’organisation reposant sur une relation d’emploi uniforme entre l’entreprise et ses travailleurs. Sur le terrain, les travailleurs réalisent l’activité de l’entreprise qu’ils soient salariés ou extérieurs, tout en conservant la représentation d’une main d’œuvre constituée de salariés. L’observation directe de la collaboration entre des salariés et des travailleurs extérieurs sur le lieu de travail de l’entreprise permet de comprendre les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans la réalisation commune d’activités sur le lieu de travail de l’entreprise. Pour décrire cette catégorie d’action, qui se situe entre l’étude du travail et celle de l’organisation (au sens de structure formelle représentée par l’entreprise), on proposera la notion d' « équipe composite ». L’équipe composite s’envisage comme une entité modulaire dont les statuts juridiques des travailleurs constituent les interfaces. L’entreprise intègre l’équipe composite au sein de sa structure légitime par des mécanismes bureaucratiques atténués. Quant aux acteurs, ils composent leur rôle de travailleur sur le lieu de l’entreprise au-delà de leur statut juridique et en fonction d’un répertoire construit à partir de leur expérience professionnelle
Bridging work and organization studies, the dissertation analyzes changing workforce in the workplace due to the rising use of nonstandard arrangements. Previous research shows that the current organizational theory is based on inadequate conceptions of work inherited from industrial era. Today, the use of nonstandard work arrangements is very common. This leads to a blend of regular workers and nonstandard workers in the same work situation. As individuals don’t formulate the blending way of performing activities, we observe that a collective action remains possible even if the workers' legal statuses are different. As a consequence, a direct observation is needed to sort out the issue of the collaboration of regular workers and nonstandard workers in a firm’s workplace in order to understand how collective action happens. The “composite team” expression could describe this kind of collective action occurring in a specific organization involving people whose statuses differ. The firm does not disappear by integrating people from other organizations; it acts as an integrator of modular units composed by a composite team. The individuals play a role beyond their legal status in the workplace, depending on a repertoire built from professional experience

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Reyers, Anne. "Emotional regulation at Walt Disney World deep acting vs. surface acting." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5017.

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The objective of this study is to examine the emotional regulation strategies used by Walt Disney World on-stage employees as a way to fulfill requirements set forth by the company. Ten Disney on-stage employees were interviewed off-property in Orlando. The emotional regulation framework was divided into several categories: (1) a distinction between deep acting and surface acting, (2) emotional deviance, and (3) emotional exhaustion. "Surface acting" is a strategy by which employees display company-imposed emotions not genuinely felt, whereas "deep acting" occurs when employees do feel the emotions that they are required to express (Hochschild, 1983). Throughout the data reduction process, five key themes surfaced as the most relevant to the initial research questions: (1) Self-Motivated Deep Acting, (2) Organizational Expectations for Surface Acting, (3) "Back-Stage" vs. "Front-Stage" Dichotomy, (4) Benefits of Emotional Training, and (5) Negative Effects of Emotional Regulation. Overall, the researcher found that a key strategy of emotional regulation that Disney employees use frequently is surface acting, although deep acting was found to be more successful. In addition, while emotional exhaustion was a common problem among employees, very few of them will actually engage in emotional deviance in order to avoid the negative consequences of surface acting. Lastly, it was found that highly skilled Walt Disney World employees will have already internalized emotional regulation training and display rules that manage emotional behavior. Therefore, it becomes less essential for the Disney Company to formally monitor its employees' facial expressions and emotional behavior in the future.
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Cromlish, Suzanne McLeod. "EMPOWERING THE 99%...ONE ESOP AT A TIME!A MIXED METHODS NATIONAL STUDY OF ACQUISITIONS BY EMPLOYEE OWNED COMPANIES (ESOPs)." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1497011950499674.

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Mlot, Nathaniel J. "Fire ant self-assemblages." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50247.

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Fire ants link their legs and jaws together to form functional structures called self- assemblages. Examples include floating rafts, towers, bridges, and bivouacs. We investigate these self-assemblages of fire ants. Our studies are motivated in part by the vision of providing guidance for programmable robot swarms. The goal for such systems is to develop a simple programmable element from which complex patterns or behaviors emerge on the collective level. Intelligence is decentralized, as is the case with social insects such as fire ants. In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we investigate the construction of two fire ant self-assemblages that are critical to the colony’s survival: the raft and the tower. Using time-lapse photography, we record the construction processes of rafts and towers in the laboratory. We identify and characterize individual ant behaviors that we consistently observe during assembly, and incorporate these behaviors into mathematical models of the assembly process. Our models accurately predict both the assemblages’ shapes and growth patterns, thus providing evidence that we have identified and analyzed the key mechanisms for these fire ant self-assemblages. We also develop novel techniques using scanning electron microscopy and micro-computed tomography scans to visualize and quantify the internal structure and packing properties of live linked fire ants. We compare our findings to packings of dead ants and similarly shaped granular material packings to understand how active arranging affects ant spacing and orientation. We find that ants use their legs to increase neighbor spacing and hence reduce their packing density by one-third compared to packings of dead ants. Also, we find that live ants do not align themselves in parallel with nearest neighbors as much as dead ants passively do. Our main contribution is the development of parsimonious mathematical models of how the behaviors of individuals result in the collective construction of fire ant assemblages. The models posit only simple observed behaviors based on local information, yet their mathe- matical analysis yields accurate predictions of assemblage shapes and construction rates for a wide range of ant colony sizes.

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Moraux, Hélène. "Le déploiement d'une capacité d'Open Marketing dans une organisation marketing : analyse selon une approche par les ressources, les capacités et les compétences marketing." Thesis, Paris 9, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA090037/document.

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La littérature attribue au marketing un rôle d’interface et de connexion avec l’extérieur, renforçant le postulat d’un marketing naturellement « ouvert ». Toutefois, l’ouverture de l’organisation marketing spécifiquement n’est pas si évidente. Dans un article théorique, Day (2011) introduit le concept d’Open Marketing, défini comme la capacité de l’organisation de s’ouvrir à des réseaux de partenaires pour capter des insights et capacités marketing afin d’enrichir le marketing de l’entreprise. Le concept est intéressant, mais sa définition n’est pas formalisée et présente des lacunes. De plus, la question de l’apprentissage et du renforcement de l’organisation marketing grâce au réseau de prestataires est peu traitée dans la littérature. Aussi, dans une visée compréhensive, la thèse propose de répondre à la problématique suivante : « Quelle compréhension offrir du concept d’Open Marketing et de son intérêt pour renforcer les ressources, les capacités et les compétences marketing dans l’organisation ? ». Deux études empiriques qualitatives sont conduites. L’étude 1, de nature exploratoire, génère plusieurs résultats. (1) Une conceptualisation claire et validée empiriquement de l’Open Marketing est apportée. Le postulat normatif d’ouverture est d’ailleurs remis en cause : les organisations marketing ne s’appuient pas toutes sur leur réseau de prestataires pour développer les ressources et les compétences de leurs collaborateurs avec la même intensité, ni avec la même intention stratégique. (2) Les dimensions et formes du concept sont mises à jour : deux types d’Open Marketing (Organisé et Intuitif) et deux modes d’Open Marketing (Orchestration et Maîtrise) sont distingués. (3) Une analyse du contexte permettant à l’Open Marketing de se déployer est fournie. (4) Une décomposition du flux d’apports provenant du réseau de prestataires en ressources, capacités et compétences marketing est proposée, illustrant les actifs qui peuvent être captés par les collaborateurs marketing dans le cadre de l’Open Marketing. L’étude 2 se base sur l’étude d’un cas d’Open Marketing « Organisé » et d’un cas d’Open Marketing « Intuitif ». Elle montre que la structure relationnelle dans laquelle se déploie l’Open Marketing influence les apports captés et le processus de captation de ces apports. Au final, la thèse montre aux organisations marketing l’intérêt de s’ouvrir et de déployer une capacité d’Open Marketing pour développer les connaissances et compétences de leurs collaborateurs à budget constant, grâce au réseau de prestataires marketing extérieurs
Marketing has been given a strong interface and connection role within the literature, creating the assumption of a naturally “open” marketing. However, specifically, the opening of the marketing organization is not so obvious. In a theoretical paper, Day (2011) introduces the Open Marketing concept, defined as a capability to open the marketing organization to partners’ networks so as to gain marketing insights and capabilities in order to enrich the firm’s marketing. The concept is interesting, but its definition is not formalized and presents some drawbacks. Besides, the literature does not fully address the question of the marketing organization’s learning and enrichment thanks to marketing suppliers’ networks. Therefore, in a comprehensive intent, our work aims at answering the following question: “Which comprehension can be offered of the Open Marketing concept and of its interest to develop the organization’s marketing resources, capabilities and competences?” We conduct two empirical qualitative studies. Study 1 is exploratory and leads to several results. (1) A clear and empirically validated conceptualization of Open Marketing is brought to the literature. Besides, the normative “opening” assumption is reversed: marketing organizations do not rely on their suppliers’ network to develop their employees’ resources and competences with the same intensity and strategic intent. (2) The dimensions and forms of Open Marketing are revealed: two Open Marketing types (Organized and Intuitive) and modes (Orchestration and Mastery) are distinguished. (3) An analysis of the context allowing the Open Marketing deployment is offered. (4) The inputs flow coming from the suppliers’ network is disaggregated into marketing resources, capabilities and competences, thus illustrating the assets that can be captured by marketing employees in the Open Marketing process. Study 2 is a case study of an “Organized” Open Marketing organization and an “Intuitive” Open Marketing organization. It shows that the relational structure in which Open Marketing is deploying influences the inputs captured, as well as the process through which these inputs are gained. Finally, the thesis shows to marketing organizations that it can be interesting to engage in an opening process and to deploy an Open Marketing capability in order to develop marketing employees’ knowledge and competences, without supplementary expenses, thanks to the marketing suppliers’ network

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Duperré, Martine. "Constitution des acteurs collectifs et dynamique de développement régional : le cas d'une association régionale en santé et services sociaux /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Saint, Fleur William. "La mobilisation des ressources humaines dans un contexte post-changement : recherche-intervention dans une entreprise française, filiale d’un grand groupe pétrolier mondial." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3046.

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La mobilisation des ressources humaines figure parmi les principales préoccupations des entreprises françaises, quels que soient leur taille et leur secteur d’activité, révèle la Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement et la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE). Une préoccupation tout-à-fait légitime au regard du manque à gagner que représente la non-mobilisation des personnes au travail en matière de performance. Car, grâce aux efforts dépassant les attentes normales et conformes aux objectifs organisationnels qu’ils fournissent, les salariés mobilisés participent au renforcement de la performance globale de leur entreprise. De plus, puisqu’ils sont ouverts à l’amélioration continue, ils adhèrent au changement et sont force de proposition. Dans un contexte où les entreprises sont obligées de changer constamment pour faire face à la concurrence et assurer leur survie, l’appréhension et la facilitation de la mobilisation de leurs collaborateurs constituent un enjeu majeur pour elles. Comment appréhender la mobilisation des salariés ? Comment la favoriser suite à des transformations organisationnelles ? Cette thèse s’efforce de répondre à ces questions. Elle vise, non seulement, à comprendre et expliquer les comportements de mobilisation suite à des transformations organisationnelles, mais aussi, à aider les praticiens des ressources humaines et les managers à agir sur ce phénomène dans ce contexte et éventuellement, au-delà. Pour observer la mobilisation des personnes au travail dans un contexte post-changement, nous avons effectué une recherche-intervention dans une PME française, filiale d’un grand groupe pétrolier mondial. L’interprétation et l’analyse de l’observation de ce phénomène ont été guidées par la théorie de l’échange social et la norme de réciprocité couplées avec l’analyse socio-technique et la théorie de la structuration. Les résultats ont montré que la mobilisation des ressources humaines est un phénomène complexe aux sources multiples, compensatoires et multiplicatrices
According to the National Foundation for Business Education and Management (FNEGE), the mobilization of human resources is one of the main concerns of French companies, whatever their size and activity. This concern is absolutely legitimate in view of the shortfall that results from the non-mobilization of people at work in terms of performance. Because, thanks to their efforts which exceed the normal expectations and consistent with the organizational objectives, the mobilized employees contribute to enhance the overall performance of their company. Furthermore, they adhere to change and often make suggestions, since they are open to continuous improvement. In a context where companies are forced to change constantly in order to face the competition and ensure their survival, the apprehension and the facilitation of the mobilization of their employees constitute for them a major challenge. How to apprehend the mobilization of the employees? How to foster their mobilization following organizational transformations? This dissertation seeks to answer these questions. It aims not only to understand and explain mobilization behaviors following organizational change, but also to help human resources practitioners and managers to act on this phenomenon within this context and possibly, beyond. To observe the mobilization of people at work within a post-change context, we conducted an intervention research in a French SME, a subsidiary of a major world oil group. The interpretation and analysis of the observation of this phenomenon were guided by the social exchange theory and the norm of reciprocity coupled with socio-technical analysis and the theory of structuration. The results reveal that the mobilization of human resources is a complex phenomenon with multiple, compensatory and multiplying sources

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Thomas, Camille. "La fabrique de la prescription « au carré » : conception participative d’un dispositif de travail d’organisation transverse d’un processus de conception documentaire." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CNAM1219/document.

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Cette recherche-intervention porte sur l’organisation d’un processus de conception de documents utilisés pour l’exploitation nucléaire : la fabrique de la prescription. Elle s’inscrit dans une approche constructive de l’ergonomie.La construction d’un diagnostic organisationnel permet de caractériser le processus étudié, le travail collectif transverse qu’il implique et de concevoir des outils spécifiques pour l’intervention. Une démarche participative est ensuite mise en œuvre afin de concevoir un dispositif d’expérimentation permettant d’organiser un travail d’organisation transverse. L’expérimentation de ce dispositif renvoie « au carré » de la fabrique de la prescription. Elle aboutit à deux principaux résultats : le développement d’un travail collectif transverse et la mise en visibilité d’un manque de subsidiarité au sein de l’organisation étudiée.L’analyse de la conception et l’expérimentation de ce dispositif permettent de produire des connaissances sur les interventions ergonomiques capacitantes : sur la conception participative de tels dispositifs et méthodes et sur le rôle de la construction sociale de l’intervention
In our intervention research we investigate the making of prescription, that is, the organization of a design process of prescriptive documents used, in particular, for nuclear power plants. This project is part of a constructive approach to ergonomics.Building of an organizational diagnosis leads to characterize the studied process, transversal collective work it involves, and to develop specific tools for intervention. We implement a participatory design approach in order to design an experimental methodology which supports the organization of a transversal organizational. This experimentation refers to “the square” of the making of prescription. This leads to two main results: the development of a transversal collective work between participants involved, and the highlighting of a lack of subsidiarity within the studied organization.Design and experimentation of the methodology analysis contribute to produce knowledge about enabling ergonomics intervention: on the participatory design of the methodology itself, and on the enhancement of the role of social elaboration of an ergonomics intervention

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Pimentel, Thiago Duarte. "Espaço, identidade e poder: esboço de uma teoria morfogenética e morfostática para a sociologia das organizações." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1741.

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Esta tese se insere, ontológica e epistemologicamente, na perspectiva do realismo crítico. Nela propõe-se a reafirmação da dimensão ontológica da realidade (a qual Bhaskar chamou de intransitiva), bem como seus rebatimentos na dimensão epistemológica (ou transitiva da realidade) que trata da possibilidade do conhecimento e das condições para sua ocorrência. Este enquadramento fornece, no âmbito da teoria social, uma forma de tratar da ontologia social e a natureza das relações entre agência e estrutura, que situa a discussão sobre o processo de estruturação da ação coletiva e seu resultado, em termos de elaboração de uma “entidade” socialmente real. Partindo do estado da arte dos estudos sobre as organizações, bem como a teorização acerca da categoria “coletivos” dentro da literatura da teoria social realista, identificou-se uma dupla lacuna: (1) nos estudos sobre as organizações, verifica-se a ausência de coerência e cumulatividade dos conhecimentos do campo, que é marcado por uma profunda dispersão de teorias e correntes orientadas por distintas tradições de pesquisa, todas, porém, tendo em comum sua filiação ao paradigma filosófico científico do positivismo e (2) nem a teoria social em geral e nem a teoria social realista elaboraram um relato que fosse capaz de dar conta e integrar, coerente e adequadamente, a categoria organização à sua proposta de teorização da realidade, restando por se fazer um relato específico que buscasse atacar o problema da organização (grupos sociais estruturados), como sugere Elder-Vass (2010). Visando endereçar esforços para a melhor compreensão desta questão, o objetivo, então, desta tese foi identificar as estruturas gerativas e suas tendências (poderes causais), bem como as circunstâncias em que elas são ativadas (mecanismos causais), que permitem a existência e a emergência das organizações como entidades coletivas reais. Para a realização deste estudo, recorreu-se, metodologicamente, a uma pesquisa teórica (ECO, 2001, p.11), amparada por procedimentos analíticos de coleta e tratamento dos dados de caráter hermenêutico. Como resultados, identificou-se a existência de três estruturas gerativas – o espaço, a identidade e o poder –, envolvendo diferentes componentes que se manifestam sob diferentes modos de realidade (material, ideal e social, respectivamente), cujos processos de enquadramento e fixação, de identificação e diferenciação, e de delegação e representação (respectivamente) conduzem às interações entre os indivíduos e à aquisição de padrões específicos bem como à mudança estrutural, morfológica e causal, atribuindo diferentes poderes causais a cada um desses estágios: aproximação e agregação, no momento 1 (M1); criação de uma unidade (exterior e irredutível ao indivíduo) e coesão diferentes de outras entidades, no momento 2 (M2) e, por fim, a instauração de uma ordem e capacidade de intervenção deliberada na realidade social, em âmbito institucional, no momento 3 (M3). Os três momentos sintetizados estão relacionados por meio da proposição de um modelo teórico de análise morfogenética da estruturação da ação coletiva. Apesar de este modelo se aplicar especificamente à análise da ação coletiva e de não ter sido validado empiricamente, sua contribuição original reside no fato de fornecer a elaboração de um quadro teórico suficientemente amplo e, ao mesmo tempo, específico para a análise das organizações, em particular, e da ação coletiva, em geral, em especial quando acrescentamos sua interface com a orientação ontológica e epistemológica do realismo crítico. Empiricamente, esta proposta traz um relato preciso de integração dos níveis micro e macro da realidade, por meio da atuação específica das organizações e instituições no nível mesossocial, que poderá ser aplicado para intervenção na realidade.
This thesis falls, ontologically and epistemologically, in the perspective of critical realism. The later proposes the reclaiming of (the ontological dimension of) reality (which Bhaskar called intransitive one) and its repercussions on the epistemological dimension (or transitive one) of reality, which deals with the possibility of knowledge and the conditions for its occurrence. This framework provides, in social theory, one way to address the social ontology and the nature of the relationship between agency and structure, which places the discussion of the structuring process of collective action and its outcome in terms of developing an "entity" socially real. Based on the state of the art of studies on organizations as well as theories about the category "collectives" in the literature of social theory, and in particular in the realist social theory, we identified a double gap: (1) studies on organizations there is a lack of coherence and cumulative knowledge of the field, which is marked by a deep scattering theories and currents driven by distinct research traditions. Nevertheless, all these traditions have in common their affiliation to the philosophical paradigm of scientific positivism; (2) neither social theory in general nor realist social theory produced an integrative and coherent report to the organization category. Thus, it remains to be done a specific report that called for attacking the problem of organization (structured social groups), as suggested by Elder-Vass (2010). Aiming to address efforts to better understand this issue, then, the objective this thesis was to identify the generative structures and its trends (causal powers), as well as the circumstances under which they are activated (causal mechanisms) that enable the existence and emergence of organizations as real collective entities. Methodologically this study was conducted in a form of a theoretical research (ECO, 2001, p.11), which was supported by analytical procedures for the collection and processing of data hermeneutic character. As a result, we identified the existence of three generative structures: space, identity and power. These structures involves different components that are manifested in specific modes of reality (material, social and ideal, respectively), whose the process of framing and mounting, identification and differentiation, and delegation and representation (respectively) lead to interactions among individuals purchasing patterns and structural change, morphological and causal, assigning different causal powers of each of these stages: approximation and aggregation, which was called “moment 1” (M1); the creating an unit (exterior and irreducible to the individual) and cohesion of different entities, called “moment 2” (M2); and, finally, the establishment of a command and ability to deliberate intervention in social reality, at institutional, called “moment 3” (M3). The three summarized moments are related each one by proposing a theoretical framework of the structure of collective action in a morphogenetic way. Although this model applies specifically to the analysis of collective action and has not been empirically validated, its original contribution lies in the fact provide the development of a theoretical framework sufficiently broad and simultaneously specific for the analysis of organizations, in particular, and collective action, in general. This is true especially when we add its interface with the ontological and epistemological orientation of critical realism. Empirically, this proposal provides an accurate account of the integration of micro and macro levels of reality, through the realization of specific organizations and institutions in mesossocial level. The correct knowledge of this level can be applied to intervention in reality.

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Uhrig, Megan Nicole. "The Andean Exception: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Absence of Large-Scale Indigenous Social Mobilization in Peru." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365603733.

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Rodriguez, Blanco Maricel. "Du barrage au guichet. Naissance et transformation des mouvements de chômeurs en Argentine (1990 – 2015)." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH117.

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Cette thèse porte dans une perspective sociohistorique et ethnographique sur le mouvement piquetero en Argentine et ses transformations successives durant les années 2000 en un vaste réseau d’organisation prestataires de services. Ce mouvement est né des actions collectives des chômeurs et travailleurs précaires à la fin des années 1990 contre les effets des réformes « néolibérales » et tient son nom de l’un de ses modes de protestation privilégié, le barrage de route ou piquete. Dès ses débuts, les piqueteros ont fait l’objet d’un double traitement de la part de l’État, entre répression et récupération dans le cadre de la mise en place de programmes de transferts conditionnés des ressources (Conditional Cash Transfer Programs). Dans cette nouvelle configuration de l’action publique ciblée, il s’agit désormais pour l’État de déléguer la distribution des aides sociales aux organisations, au regard de leur proximité territoriale avec les populations précarisées. Or, cette thèse montre que ce rôle flou de guichet, qui tend à introduire d’une manière ou d’une autre de la concurrence entre les organisations, a ainsi rapidement contribué à fragmenter l’espace piquetero, et produit des effets ambivalents sur les pratiques et les trajectoires des participants. La thèse s’appuie sur des méthodes mixtes, qualitatives et quantitatives, à partir d’une enquête de terrain menée pendant 40 mois, entre 2000 et 2015, dans deux provinces argentines. D’une part, à travers une ethnographie et des entretiens biographiques approfondis auprès des leaders, des délégués et des militants de la base (N=104), nous avons observé les interactions entre ces différentes catégories. Une prosopographie des leaders (N=76) nous a, d’autre part, permis à partir des méthodes statistiques de l’analyse factorielle (ACM) et de la classification (CAH) de rendre compte de la structuration de cet espace des organisations. Dans une première partie, la thèse s’attache – à l’appui d’archives et d’entretiens – à mettre en lumière les conditions de possibilité de la cristallisation progressive d’un mouvement social en un espace d’organisations. Nous avons cherché ici à appréhender le contexte, les enjeux et les moyens d’action de ce mouvement contestataire, en rapportant son inscription à l’évolution depuis le début du XXè siècle des rapports entre État, partis politiques et syndicats. La deuxième partie de la thèse est, elle, consacrée à l’analyse des pratiques militantes et des formes d’encadrement au sein des organisations. L’ouverture de la boîte noire des organisations révèle ainsi à quel point leur fonctionnement interne résulte de la capacité d’un ensemble d’intermédiaires à mener un travail de représentation, de mobilisation et de gestion des ressources vis-à-vis de certaines fractions des classes populaires particulièrement disposées à s’engager dans la durée. L’examen statistique des trajectoires de leaders nous renseigne par ailleurs sur les ressources nécessaires à l’occupation d’un tel poste et aussi sur ce que l’engagement fait aux parcours individuels. Enfin, une troisième partie a servi à appréhender les pratiques associatives au sein des organisations. Restituer les logiques de recrutement et les profils des recrutés a donné à voir dans la durée aussi bien les conditions de l’engagement de ces chômeurs et travailleurs précaires que les effets sur leurs trajectoires. L’observation des pratiques notamment lors des assemblées permet de montrer les principes d’encadrement tendus entre militantisme et entreprenariat qui pèsent sur les participants. Si cette fraction de précaires témoigne au sein des classes populaires de formes de mobilisation et de résistance particulièrement exemplaires, ils tendent également à déployer des modalités d’accommodement aux organisations, différenciées suivant leur socialisation et le volume et la nature de leurs ressources
This thesis discusses the Piquetero movement in Argentina and its successive transformations during the 2000s into an extensive network of service provider organizations throughout the territory from a sociohistorical and ethnographic perspective. This movement was born out of the collective actions of the unemployed and precarious workers in the late 1990s against the effects of "neoliberal" reforms, and takes its name from one of their preferred modes of protest, the roadblock or picket. Since its beginnings, the Piquetero movement has been the subject of a double treatment by the State, between repression and recovery in the context of the establishment of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs. In this new configuration of targeted public action, it is now up to the State to delegate the distribution of social assistance to a network of organizations, given their territorial proximity to the underprivileged populations. However, this thesis shows that this fuzzy wicket role, which tends to introduce in one way or another the competition amid the organizations, has thus quickly contributed to fragment the piquetero space, and produces ambivalent effects on the practices and the trajectories of the participants. The thesis is based on mixed methods, qualitative and quantitative, from a large 40-month field survey conducted between 2000 and 2015 in two Argentinian provinces. On the one hand, through an ethnography and in-depth biographical interviews with leaders, delegates and grassroots activists (N=104), we observed the interactions between these different categories. A prosopography of the leaders (N=76) allowed us, on the other hand, from the statistical methods of factor analysis (ACM) and hierarchical classification (CAH), to report on the structuring of this space of organizations. In the first part, the thesis focuses – with the support of archives and interviews – on the conditions of the gradual crystallization of a social movement into a space of organizations. We sought here to understand the context, the stakes and the means of action of this protest movement, relating its inscription to the evolution since the beginning of the XXth century of the relations between State, political parties and unions. The second part of our thesis is devoted to the analysis of activist practices and forms of supervision within organizations. The opening of the black box of the organizations thus reveals to what extent their internal functioning results from the capacity of a set of intermediaries to carry out a work of representation, mobilization and management of resources among working classes particularly willing to engage in the long term. The statistical examination of the trajectories of leaders also informed us about the resources that were necessary to occupy such a position and also about the effects of their engagement to their individual trajectories. Finally, a third part serves to apprehend associative practices within organizations. Restoring the recruiting logics and the profiles of the recruits has shown in the long term both the conditions of the commitment of these unemployed and precarious workers and the effects on their trajectories. The observation of practices, especially during assemblies, shows the principles of supervision stretched between activism and entrepreneurship which weighed on the participants. If this fraction of precarious people testifies within the working classes of forms of mobilization and resistance particularly exemplary, they also tend to deploy modes of accommodation to organizations, differentiated according to their socialization, and the volume and nature of their resources

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Morgan, Beatriz Fátima. "Tecnologias contábeis, decisões coletivas e gestão de risco nas relações de suprimento de gás liquefeito de petróleo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12136/tde-18072012-170633/.

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Esta pesquisa discute como as tecnologias contábeis contribuem para construir decisões coletivas para gerenciamento de risco operacional ao longo das relações de suprimento. A construção das decisões é vista como um processo, e o coletivo formado por humanos e não-humanos. As tecnologias contábeis são abordadas como inscrições e objetos delimitantes. As inscrições mediam as ações à distância e simplificam objetos complexos tornando-os entidades separadas que atuam como objetos delimitantes (LATOUR, 1987; LAW, 1986; STAR; GRIESEMER, 1989). O conceito de risco na literatura apresenta ambiguidades. A forma de gerenciá-lo é problematizada na literatura contábil em relações inter-organizacionais. O estudo de campo foi conduzido nas relações de suprimento de gás liquefeito de petróleo que incluem a companhia petrolífera, os fornecedores de transporte e a companhia distribuidora. As informações foram obtidas sob a perspectiva deste último, por meio de etnografia que incluiu entrevistas, observações e shadowing de objetos e pessoas, e submetidos à análise narrativa permeada pela análise desconstrutiva. Inicialmente foram identificadas as ameaças que podem ocasionar falta de produto em unidades de produção da distribuidora. Nem todas as ameaças observadas são passíveis de se tornar objeto de gerenciamento de risco. Para isso, elas precisam estar inscritas e acumuladas na área responsável pelo suprimento que atua como um centro de cálculo. Porém, muitas estão interligadas com outros fatores e apresentam efeitos inesperados nas dimensões de espaço e tempo. As tecnologias de contabilidade padronizadas, tais como, planejamentos de longo prazo e orçamentos, quando usadas isoladamente não tem força suficiente para mobilizar ações que levem à redução do risco. Por outro lado, os conflitos gerados quando ambas são combinadas impelem para a busca de outras informações que resultem em um número mais preciso. Nas relações estudadas, os riscos acentuam-se no curto prazo em contraste com o longo prazo conforme preconizado pela literatura. As tecnologias construídas na prática exercem força para mobilizar decisões imediatas. Apesar de, contratualmente, a parceria para o fornecimento de gás ser firmada por duas companhias, em que de um lado está o fornecedor e do outro a distribuidora, o que se tem no dia-a-dia são múltiplas relações construídas entre as unidades de produção, refinarias e a área de suprimentos. Desta forma, inscrições, como a ordem de compra, são capazes de redefinir as fronteiras. Transladam para agir como instrumentos de gerenciamento de risco operacional. A confiança manifesta-se como um quase-objeto (MOURITSEN; THRANE, 2006) que ganha existência na circulação de informações entre as partes. Com isso, o risco de falta de produto se apresenta como um ,,fantasma\" que poderá ser materializado dependendo do fluxo de informações. Este estudo contribui empiricamente por mostrar os riscos envolvidos nas relações de suprimento de gás liquefeito de petróleo ao longo do território brasileiro, e como a contabilidade contribui para gerenciá-los. Além disso, estende o conhecimento relativo à forma como ocorre o fluxo de informações no cenário inter-organizacional, bem como a adoção de práticas híbridas para o alcance de ações coletivas que gerenciam os riscos de suprimentos e constroem relações. Teoricamente, o estudo contribui na discussão de conceito de risco e como a contabilidade está associada com este conceito.
This research discusses how accounting technologies contribute to construct collective decisions for operational risk management across the supply relationships. Decision construction is seen as a process and the collective is formed by humans and nonhumans. The accounting technologies are approached as inscriptions and boundary objects. The inscriptions mediate the action at a distance and simplify complex objects making them separate entities that act as boundary objects (LATOUR, 1987; LAW, 1986; STAR; GRIESEMER, 1989). The concept of risk in the literature presents ambiguities. The way to manage it is problematized in the accounting literature on inter-organizational relationships. The field study was conducted in liquefied petroleum gas supply relations which involve the oil company, the transport suppliers and the distribution company. The information was obtained from the perspective of the latter, through ethnography which included interviews, observations and shadowing of objects and people, and narrative analysis permeated by deconstructive analysis was employed. Initially we identified the threats that can cause shortage of the product in production unit in the distribution company. Not all threats found are possible to transform into an object to risk management. To do this they must be inscribed and accumulated in the management of suppliers that acts as a center of calculation. However, many are intertwined with other factors and have unexpected effects on the dimensions of space and time. The accounting standard technologies, such as long-term planning and budgeting, when used alone they do not have enough force to mobilize interventions to reduce risk. On the other hand, the conflicts generated when both are combined to propel the search for other information that results in a more precise figure. In the relations studied, the risks increase in short term in contrast to long term as seen in the literature. Thus, the technologies built in practice, exert force to mobilize immediate decisions. Although contractually the partnership for gas supply to be signed by two companies, which on one side is the supplier and the distributor on the other, in day-to-day activities multiple relations are built among production units, refineries and supply area. In this way, inscriptions such as purchase orders are able to redefine the boundaries. They translate to act as instruments of operational risk management. Trust manifests itself as a quasi-object (MOURITSEN; THRANE, 2006) which comes into existence when information is circulating between the parties. Thus, the risk of shortage of the product presents itself as a ,,ghost\" that can be materialized depending on information flows. This study contributes empirically by showing the risks involved in the supply relations of petroleum liquefied gas throughout the Brazilian territory, and how accounting helps to manage them. Furthermore, it extends the knowledge on how the information flows occur in an inter-organizational setting, as well as the adoption of hybrid practices to achieve collective actions to manage supply risks and build relations. Theoretically, the study contributes to the discussion of the risk concept and how the accounting is associated with this concept.

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