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Sociedade civil, democracia e neoliberalismo: uma entrevista com Nádia Urbinati
No full textTrata-se de entrevista feita com a professora Nadia Urbinati, em outubro de 2017, na Universidade de Columbia, Nova York. São abordadas questões sobre a origem, conceituação e fundamentos da Sociedade Civil, bem como seu desenvolvimento em meio a consolidação dos estados democráticos no Ocidente ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX. No cenário atual, discute-se como a ascensão do neoliberalismo como ideário hegemônico de gestão macroeconômica e organização do Estado e, consequentemente, a queda do Estado de Bem-estar social, são determinantes para as crises democráticas e de representação experienciadas nas duas primeiras décadas do século XXI. As reflexões de Nadia Urbinati remetem a imaginação para novas formas de organização da sociedade civil que contemplem o cidadão e a cidadania de modo institucionalizado no Estado, nas políticas públicas e nos próprios partidos, de modo que a representação e a participação dos interesses sociais se façam presentes
Me the people: how populism transforms democracy/ Nadia Urbinati.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.In this study of populist politics, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism is best understood as a new form of representative government, based on an unmediated relationship between a leader and those in society whom the leader defines as the "true" people. Leaders of oppositional populist movements gain popularity by taking advantage of a discontent with rule by political elites. Party elites are cast as a homogenous political class who favor their own interests at the expense of ordinary people. Populist leaders who attain office thus face the following puzzle: they must exercise political power without themselves appearing to become part of the political elite. To solve this puzzle, Urbinati argues, populist rulers claim to represent the people by a process of embodiment or incarnation. This form of "direct representation" allows the populist leader both to bypass intermediary bodies, such as political parties, and to avoid any claims of accountability or responsibility. The populist dependence on the will of the leader, along with its willingness to exclude minorities from consideration, renders populist forms of democracy inherently unstable and opens a path to authoritarianism.--Introduction: A new form of representative government -- From antiestablishment to antipolitics -- The true people and its majority -- The leader beyond parties -- Direct representation -- Epilogue: A dead end?.1 online resource
Managing resource loops in circular supply chains: A taxonomy of multi-sided platforms in the B2B setting
No full textMulti-sided platforms have been increasingly recognized as enablers for circular supply chains. This notwithstanding, scholars are still struggling with a lack of deep understanding of the different roles that multi-sided platforms may play to enable inter-organizational collaborations among supply chain actors to foster the creation of circular supply chains, especially in the business-to-business setting. To address this research gap, the paper develops a taxonomy of multi-sided platforms enabling circular supply chains in the business-to-business setting, by leveraging existing literature as well as an empirical analysis that included 26 multi-sided platforms. Such platforms have been identified through the involvement of a panel of experts into this research area and analysed through a Delphi method. The proposed taxonomy is characterized by two dimensions: (i) the circular supply chain strategy that can be fulfilled through multi-sided platforms, i.e., closing, slowing, or narrowing of resource loops; and ii) the supply chain(s) involved by the resource loops to fulfil such strategies, i.e., either the supply chain in which a resource was originally addressed to or different supply chains. The taxonomy includes six clusters of multi-sided platforms enabling circular supply chains in the business-to-business setting. The study represents the first attempt to provide an overarching conceptualization of the different roles of multi-sided platforms enabling circular supply chains in the business-to-business setting. Furthermore, it informs managers on how multi-sided platforms can be exploited by companies to foster the creation of circular supply chains in this setting
A convexity result for the range of vector measures with applications to large economies
No full textOn a Boolean algebra we consider the topology induced by a finitely additive measure with values in a locally convex space and formulate a condition on that is sufficient to guarantee the convexity and weak compactness of the range of . This result à la Lyapunov extends those obtained in (Khan, Sagara 2013) to the finitely additive setting through a more direct and less involved proof.
We will then give an economical interpretation of the topology in the framework of coalitional large economies to tackle the problem of measuring the bargaining power of coalitions when the commodity space is infinite dimensional and locally convex. We will show that our condition on plays the role of the "many more agents than commodities" condition introduced by Rustichini and Yannelis in (1991). As a consequence of the convexity theorem, we will obtain two straight generalizations of Schmeidler's and Vind's Theorems on the veto power of coalitions of arbitrary economic weight
The Walrasian objection mechanism and Mas-Colell's bargaining set in economies with many commodities
No full textWe study the Walrasian objection mechanism in the framework of economies with a measure space of agents and a separable Banach space of commodities whose positive cone has a non-empty interior. We provide several characterizations of Walrasian objections and use them to study the bargaining set of the economy, as defined in MasColell (J Math Econ 18(2):129-139, 1989). Our main result shows that whenever the measure space of agents is saturated, every non-competitive allocation can be blocked with a Walrasian objection. This implies that the bargaining set, the core and the set of competitive allocations are equivalent solution concepts
A note on the range of vector measures
No full textWe give another proof for Kluvanek and Knowles' \cite[Theorem V.1.1]{KK} characterization of Liapounoff measures, and of the fact that the range of an exhaustive measure with values in a complete locally convex space is relatively weakly compact
Implementing open innovation through virtual brand communities: A case study analysis in the semiconductor industry
No full textThe paper focuses on virtual brand community (VBC) as new management tool for open innovation. Existing research on the intersection between brand communities and innovation management shows how the knowledge of the brand communities’ members and their engagement in product-related discussions represent a relevant source of innovation for the companies. However, how do companies implement open innovation through the VBC and how do they implement purposeful practices represent an unexplored research area. By adopting a value-oriented perspective of open innovation, this study interprets the VBC as a co-creation space where undertaking opportunity identification and resource mobilization for value creation and value capture. The paper presents a single case study of a multinational company operating in the semiconductor industry that has recently implemented a VBC as a tool for peer-to-peer support and knowledge sharing. Results show the features of this VBC and the set of practices designed to realize the open innovation strategies. By adopting an open innovation perspective, the article presents a model of VBC as a collaborative space for innovation. For practitioners, the article provides evidences and insights about the use of VBC to support the implementation of open innovation strategies
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