• [Centro Studi per l'America Latina - csal] O Centro edita a revista semestral Visioni LatinoAmericane. revista italia americalatina
• [Investigating Stakeholder Theory and Social Capital: CSR in Large Firms and SMEs] The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been widely investigated, but a generally accepted theoretical framework does not yet exist. This paper argues that the idiosyncrasies of large firms and SMEs explains the different approaches to CSR, and that the notion of social capital is a more useful way of understanding the CSR approach of SMEs, whereas stakeholder theory more closely addresses the CSR approach of large firms. A twofold consideration emerges. First, the CSR–SME relationship could be better explained if the notion of social capital is taken into account, but this should also be accompanied by a stakeholder view of the SME; second, social capital and stakeholder theory should be taken as alternative ways of explaining CSR in both large firms and SMEs. artigos social_capital capital_social socialcapital stakeholder orgtheory organization organizational_theory
• [Robert B. Brandom - Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas - Reviewed by Mark Okrent, Bates College - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame] Brandom é um filósofo americano de destaque, um dos preferidos do filósofo Richard Rorty. filosofia razão
• [Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Performance of Religious Congregations as Predicted by Rational Choice Theory. John A. Pearce II. 2009; Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice - Wiley InterScience] Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that businesses that act with an entrepreneurial orientation enjoy superior performance. Our research investigates whether nonprofit, religious congregations can benefit from similar initiatives. We based our hypotheses on the Rational Choice Theory of Religion, which was developed by social scientists to bring economic analysis to the understanding of the effects of competition among nonprofit organizations. Using a sample of 250 religious congregations in five different geographical markets, an entrepreneurial orientation is found to be positively associated with organizational performance. A hypothesized interaction effect between environmental munificence and entrepreneurial orientation is assessed. religiao religion economia-religiao entrepreneurship igreja-empresa
• [The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts, Research and Practice. Archie B. Carroll. 2010; International Journal of Management Reviews - Wiley InterScience] Artigo de Archie B. Carroll. In this review, the primary subject is the 'business case' for corporate social responsibility (CSR). The business case refers to the underlying arguments or rationales supporting or documenting why the business community should accept and advance the CSR 'cause'. The business case is concerned with the primary question: What do the business community and organizations get out of CSR? That is, how do they benefit tangibly from engaging in CSR policies, activities and practices? The business case refers to the bottom-line financial and other reasons for businesses pursuing CSR strategies and policies. In developing this business case, the paper first provides some historical background and perspective. The goal is to describe and summarize what the business case means and to review some of the concepts, research and practice that have come to characterize this developing idea. artigos orgtheory organization organizational_theory estudos_organizacionais respsocial_microcredito
• [Measuring Corporate Social Performance: A Review. Donna J. Wood. 2010; International Journal of Management Reviews - Wiley InterScience] Artigo de Donna J. Wood. This paper reviews the literature on corporate social performance (CSP) measurement and sets that literature into a theoretical context. Following a review of CSP theory development and the literature on relationships between CSP and corporate financial performance, Wood's CSP model (Wood, D.J. (1991). Corporate social performance revisited. Academy of Management Review, 16, pp. 691–718) is used as an organizing device to present and discuss studies that use particular measures of CSP. Conclusions emphasize the need for CSP scholars to refocus on stakeholders and society, and to incorporate relevant literatures from other scholarly domains. artigos orgtheory organization organizational_theory estudos_organizacionais respsocial_microcredito
• [Stakeholder Engagement, Discourse Ethics and Strategic Management. James Noland. 2010; International Journal of Management Reviews - Wiley InterScience] The aim of this paper is to identify, review and assess two prominent recent trends in the literature on stakeholder engagement. artigos orgtheory organization organizational_theory
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• [Revista Novos Estudos: Raízes sociais e ideológicas do Lulismo] Autor: André Singer. O artigo sugere hipóteses para compreender o realinhamento eleitoral que teria ocorrido em 2006. O subproletariado, que sempre se manteve distante de Lula, aderiu em bloco à sua candidatura depois do primeiro mandato, ao mesmo tempo em que a classe média se afastou dela. A explicação estaria em uma nova configuração ideológica, que mistura elementos de esquerda e de direita. O discurso e a prática, que unem manutenção da estabilidade e ação distributiva do Estado, encontram‑se na raiz da formação do lulismo. politica politics governo
• [adam smith: the first economist of religion « orgtheory.net] Adam Smith como o primeiro economista de religião. economia economics economia-religiao ecn_civil orgtheory organizational_theory
• [does the economics of religion just miss the point? « orgtheory.net] artigo sobre o papel da religião na cultura e na economia. economia economics economia-religiao orgtheory organizational_theory
• [Pesquisar por: SEÇÃO » Vídeos: VEJA entrevista Fernando Barreto, fundador da Webcitizen e do site Vote na Web] Com o intuito de usar a tecnologia para desenvolver ferramentas que promovecem o engajamento cívivo, Fernando Barreto fundou há um ano a Webcitizen. Em 14 de novembro, saiu do papel o primeiro projeto da empresa: o Vote na Web. No site, qualquer cidadão pode opinar sobre os projetos de lei que tramitam nas duas casas do legislativo e acompanhar como votaram os parlamentares. Outra proposta é traduzir os projetos para uma linguagem compreensível, tornando-os mais transparentes. Em dois meses de existência, o Vote na Web computou mais de 8 mil votos. Entre os 110 projetos cadastrados, alguns são considerados utópicos pelos internautas, como por exemplo o que defende a implantação da Banda Larga em todo o território nacional. Outros, entre eles o que pretende estampar a bandeira do Brasil nos uniformes escolares, são vistos como bizarros. gov2.0 government governo government2.0 cibercultura icolabora ecn_civil
• [Classic Cat - the free classical music mp3 and video directory] Indexa performances de música clássica disponíveis gratuitamente. musica music free
• [The Doctrines of One Obscure and Heterodox Scholastic - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Institute] economia economics economia-religiao
• [Civic Culture, Institutions and the Performance of Governments, por Peter Kotzian] Civic culture is seen as important for the stability of democracy, but also for the political and economic performance of countries. Just as the economy requires certain individual level attitudes, labeled social capital, for its smooth operating, successful democratic governance requires a certain level of political capital, understood as properties and attitudes of citizens which are conducive for democratic proceedings. Despite strong theoretical arguments, there are few tests of these arguments. In particular, there is a lack of studies comparing the effect of civic culture with the effect of institutions. This paper undertakes an analysis of the relationship between political and social capital on the one side, and the performance of democratic governments on the other side. Using a sample of 48 countries, our finding indicates that there are positive effects of political capital on the level and the development of governmental performance. socialcapital social_capital capital_social governo governanca ecn_civil
• [The Challenge of Poverty and the Poverty of Islamic Economics, por Mohammad Farooq] In the past half century Islamic economics was eclipsed by Islamic finance movement. Gradually Islamic economics has taken a back seat without any economy to back it up empirically. Although Islamic finance emerged as an offshoot of Islamic economics and with the blessing and advocacy from Islamic economists, prevailing patterns of Islamic finance are markedly delinked from any broader developmental goals. Can Islamic economics step up to the challenge of poverty, or is Islamic economics itself suffering from poverty of substance? Those are the questions dealt with in this exploratory paper. economia economia-religiao desenvolvimento_ecn
• [Livro Organization Theory, de Oliver E. Williamson] This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chester I. Barnard's remarkable and still influential book, The Functions of the Executive , was celebrated with a seminar series at the University of California, Berkeley in the Spring of 1988. Eight of those lectures are published here. The contributors include organization specialists and sociologists (Barbara Levitt and James March; W. Richard Scott; Glenn Carroll; Jeffrey Pfeffer), an anthropologist, a political scientist, and two economists (Mary Douglas; Terry Moe; Oliver Hart; Oliver Williamson). An important contribution to organization theory, this volume reports on recent progress in this field, and projects a productive research future. livros_editoras estudos_organizacionais orgtheory organization organizational_theory
• [Oxford University Press: Making the Social World: John Searle] There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality–a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties.
  The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality , Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. livros_editoras filosofia razão instituicao

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Fiquei surpreso de gostar dessa música :-) Mas ela é muito boa.

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A luta continua para: pagar as contas em dia, pagar os impostos, ter uma vida decente, ser mais generoso, não me aborrecer tanto com coisas sem muita importância, escutar mais, dar mais atenção aos que me procuram, procurar mais as pessoas para oferecer ajuda, sorrir mais, ser mais otimista, e comer menos :-)

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Faz algum tempo que trabalho com a hipótese de que muitos conceitos usados na Administração são conceitos teológicos/religiosos secularizados. Por exemplo, a idéia de eficácia organizacional tem sua origem na ética protestante, como nos ensina Max Weber. Essa hipótese era muito particular, fruto de minha experiência no campo com organizações religiosas.

Para a minha surpresa (nem tanto, porque brincamos na academia que quando achamos que uma idéia é original é porque não fizemos uma pesquisa bibliográfica decente) recebi a chamada de trabalhos para um workshop intitulado “Teologia e Organizações” (veja logo abaixo), da Critical Management Studies, divisão da Academy of Management, a principal associação acadêmica em Administração do mundo.

No texto chamam a atenção para o tema do encontro da Academy of Management de 2010, ‘Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research’, que possui um forte cunho teológico.

Enquanto isso, no Brasil, religião e administração juntos podemparecer tão exóticos quanto um koala.

Call for abstracts (deadline January 15) CMS Division Academy of Management, Montreal:

THEOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION

Conveners:
Bent M. Sørensen (bem.lpf@cbs.dk)
Sverre Spoelstra (sverre.spoelstra@fek.lu.se)

The CMS Division of the AOM will conduct a research workshop immediately prior to the 2010 Academy of Management meetings in Montreal in August 2010. The workshop will begin mid-morning of Wednesday Aug 4 and run till the evening of Thursday Aug 5.  We are coordinating a stream called Theology and Organization in this workshop, and seek submissions from interested researchers.

‘All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state’, Carl Schmitt once wrote, ‘are secularized theological concepts’. The same might also be said about concepts of the modern theory of management and organization. Leadership theory, for example, revolves around theological concepts such as charisma, spirit, inspiration, sacrifice, and humility.

A less obvious example concerns our concept of work. Theologically understood, work was, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the burden imposed upon man after he had been expelled from Paradise: playfulness now became strictly separated from what was done under the sweat of his brow. One of today’s organizational utopias is an attempt to put work and play together again.

The theological roots of other organizational concepts – such as hierarchy, authority, corporation, community, representation, and vision – appear even less self-evident, which only shows how naturalized theological concepts have become in organization studies and, indeed, in common parlance. The European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) colloquium choose for the 2009 conference an overtly theological theme, ‘Passion for creativity and innovation’, without feeling obliged to acknowledge that both passion and creativity are in fact theological concepts. The AOM theme for 2010, ‘Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research’, goes one step further with this explicit theological footnote to its (theological) theme:

‘Compassion means caring for others as much as caring for oneself, as in the golden rule of “do unto others as you would have done unto yourself” or “love your neighbor as yourself.” All major religions consider compassion to be among the greatest of all virtues.’

This workshop stream encourages thinking through organizations by means of theological concepts (could be ‘compassion’, as in this year’s AOM theme). That is to say, we invite contributions that draw upon theological concepts in making sense of organizational issues, beyond the level of metaphorical analogy or sociological description.
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Nos dias 14 e 16 aconteceu no Hotel Pestana em Salvador-BA, o XI Colóquio Internacional sobre Poder Local, promovido pelo Centro Interdisciplinar de Desenvolvimento e Gestão Social – CIAGS e pela Escola de Administração da UFBA.

Apresentei meu artigo Movimento dos Focolares e a Economia de Comunhão: Expressão de Economia Plural Originada da Religião (acesse aqui) na sessão Economia Plural e Solidária. Fiquei positivamente surpreso com o debate que se deu em torno do meu trabalho. Muitos ficaram curiosos, tanto que o coordenador da sessão me disse, num tom muito amigável e cordial, que a reação da platéia lhe lembrou de suas apresentações de alguns anos atrás quando estava pesquisando o Banco Palmas, na época um tema pouco conhecido. Brincou ao comparar minha apresentação do Movimentos dos Focolares e da Economia de Comunhão com um urso koala, para reforçar a impressão de ser um tema exótico aos olhos da platéia. Concordei com ele e completei dizendo que a religião é um realmente um koala na área de Administração. O que é uma pena, porque a religião é parte importante da cultura brasileira e sem ela não conseguimos explicar completamente muitos fenômenos sociais e econômicos.

A minha impressão foi que o Colóquio, por ser mais focado, teve uma qualidade melhor de debates e palestrantes do que o Enanpad. Apenas para se ter uma idéia, participou do evento Jean-Louis Laville, economista e sociólogo francês e autor fundamental na Economia Plural e Solidária, e Jean-François Chanlat, cientista social francês muito conhecido na área de estudos organizacionais pela obra O Indivíduo nas Organizações.

Voltei do evento com a esperança de que os encontros acadêmicos podem ser empolgantes. Basta centrarmos no que realmente é relevante.

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Hum… bom exemplo de como se morre pela boca. Definitivamente lógica e boca não combinam.

Fonte: Níquel Náusea na Folha de S.Paulo.

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Mar de Trieste, Itália. Enviada por Licia Paglione.

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