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“Membership Dynamics in an Insurance Group: Ingroup (local Agency) and Outgroup (Company)”
No full textResearch context regards branch agencies of the of an insurance company: the characteristics of such organizations are the dynamics of interdependence between agencies and head office. The study comprised all 19 insurance agencies of one company operating in the province of Verona, with 61 employees and 19 General Insurance Agents (80 interviewees). Individual determinants have been codified: job role characteristics, personal details and sense of power within the organization; and the following psychosocial determinants: cohesion, entitativity and confidence. Results show that Ingroup/Outgroup perceptions are affected by a combination of individual and psychosocial elements, but there are differences if the questions are related that to local agency group or to head office. With head office, the influence of the individuals aspects prevail, whereas correlations regarding psychosocial variables are much stronger in the agencies. We have verified hypotheses in which some psychosocial variables sensitively weigh upon dynamics of organizational membership, and therefore continuous monitoring of such psychosocial elements are strategically important in the "co-construction" of an organizational culture are verified, and appear as: - work satisfaction is bound to the affective elements of membership; - evaluation of the General Sales Agents reveals a pressure to conform: the more the employee aligns him/herself to the local agency culture, the more the manager (GSA) will evaluate positively his /her agency. - there is a relationship between the parameters of productivity of the agencies and the Intragroup cohesion indicators
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Learning Stories: How New Universitary Reform Influences Educational Processes (relazione)
No full textDare la parola ao mondo - Paulo Freire e Augusto Boal
No full textDepoimento da profa. Roberta Scatolini, educadora do Instituto Paulo Freire (IPF), sobre como Paulo Freire, com sua "Pedagogia do Oprimido", e Augusto Boal, com seu "Teatro do Oprimido", influenciam seu trabalho e prática educativa; sobre o sentido da palavra "opressão" e quais os mecanismos de opressão, hoje, no Brasil.
An interview with teacher Roberta Scatolini, from Instituto Paulo Freire (IPF - São Paulo/Brazil), about how Paulo Freire, with his "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", and Augusto Boal, with his "Theatre of the Oppressed", have influenced her work and educational practice. She said also about the meaning of the word "oppression", and what are the mechanisms of oppression today in Brazil
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Il Ponte delle Torri di Spoleto: Morfologia, caratteristiche costruttive e stato di danno
No full textAuthor, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
O Banco Central do Brasil e as concentrações bancárias: aspectos econômicos e concorrenciais
No full textAssunto pouco tratado por parte dos juristas brasileiros, a questão das concentrações bancárias é de extrema relevância para as Ciências Econômica e do Direito, haja vista o alcance e a influência dessas operações no Sistema Financeiro, na execução de políticas econômicas e monetárias pelo Estado, na administração da poupança popular e no funcionamento dos meios de pagamento do País. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi o de apresentar e, na medida do possível, esclarecer os principais aspectos econômicos e concorrenciais do mercado bancário, analisando a atuação do Banco Central do Brasil nas concentrações bancárias. Para tanto, tratamos da evolução econômica histórica, que explica a realidade atual; da análise da ordem econômica nacional e seus princípios; das funções dos bancos centrais; da maneira como o Banco Central do Brasil atua na execução da política monetária definida pelo Conselho Monetário Nacional; da forma como o Banco Central do Brasil avalia as concentrações no Sistema Financeiro; de como ocorre a análise das concentrações fora do Sistema Financeiro; e, por fim, das variadas posições acerca da competência do Banco Central do Brasil ou do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica para analisar atos de concentração bancária. Ao fim do trabalho, pretendemos ter demonstrado que a atuação do Banco Central do Brasil nos atos de concentração bancária é predominantemente caracterizada pela execução de políticas
econômicas e prevenção de riscos, principalmente sistêmicos, e que, apesar de teoricamente possuir competência exclusiva para análise de atos de concentração bancária, o Banco Central do Brasil não a exerce, o que justificaria a interferência do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica nesse assunto. A despeito disso, encontra-se consolidada, neste momento, a posição de que as análises de concentração
bancária são exclusivamente efetuadas pelo Banco Central do Brasil, cabendo ao Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica somente receber informações para avaliar os possíveis efeitos desses atos em outros setores da economia.Although not commonly discussed among Brazilian jurists, banking mergers and acquisitions are an extremely relevant issue in Economic and Legal Sciences, considering the importance and the influence of these events in the Financial System, in the execution of economic and monetary policies by the State, in management of public savings and in the functioning of the payment system. The purpose of this research was to present and, as much as possible, clarify the competition and the economical aspects of the Brazilian banking market, providing an analysis of the Brazilian Central Bank s performance in banking mergers and acquisitions. In
order to achieve it, it was necessary to discuss the evolution of economic history through time, which can explain actual aspects of market; the national economic regulation and its principles; the functions of central banks; the way Brazilian Central Bank performs monetary policy given by the National Monetary Council; the way Brazilian Central Bank analyzes mergers and acquisitions in the Financial System; the way mergers and acquisitions are analyzed outside the Financial System; and, at last, the varied doctrinaires opinions about the competence of Brazilian Central Bank and the competence of Council of Economic Administrative Defense to analyze banking mergers and acquisitions. In its last chapters, the work intend to demonstrate that the performance of Brazilian Central Bank in banking mergers and acquisitions is mostly marked by execution of economic policies and prevention of risks, specially systemic risks, and, although the Brazilian Central Bank could be legally considered exclusively competent to analyze banking mergers and acquisitions, it do not perform that competence, which could, therefore, justify the interference of the Council of Economic Administrative Defense in this events. Nevertheless, at this moment, legal statements provide Brazilian Central Bank exclusive competence for the analysis of banking mergers and acquisitions in Financial System and the Council of Economic Administrative Defense has only the responsibility of analysis of the information provided by the Brazilian Central Bank in order to evaluate probable consequences of these events in other markets
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