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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290973.v1
title: Public governance in three dimensions: conceptual, measurement and democratic

description: Abstract This paper sought to identify and evaluate initiatives to define and measure public governance. Therefore, a meta-analysis of articles aimed at the construction or critique of public governance indices was performed. The contents of the articles was analyzed by categorical analysis, based on three dimensions of governance: conceptual, measurement and democratic. The results indicate a great diversity of concepts, of instruments used to measure public governance, and of institutional actors that carry it out. Dissonance was also observed between the indicators and the concepts of public governance. Lastly, a definition was proposed for public governance based on the identification and analysis of the concepts presented in the articles.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290971.v1
title: Bricolage in the creation and trajectory of a contemporary circus

description: Abstract Bricolage considers that business creation results from a combination of resources for new purposes from available elements that are scarce (Fisher, 2012). The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the emergence of a circus by using the bricolage approach to develop explanations in a specific context. The type of research is a qualitative and exploratory study, a case study. Interviews and secondary data were used. Data were analyzed and the coding process was performed using the software Nvivo9 and resulted in five categories: the birth of the circus: making do; limitations imposed by the environment; the network bricolage; improvisation and mobilization; reputation. The main theoretical contribution was to demonstrate how the bricolage approach can be used to explain the emergence of organizations such as the circus, focus on the process, actors, actions and perceptions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290968.v1
title: Training actions in a public university, professional development and organizational citizenship: Is there a relationship between these constructs?

description: Abstract This study evaluated the relationship between perceptions of training results, professional development and organizational citizenship’s behaviours, based on a study at a public university. The research is descriptive and employed quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data were collected in three successive stages: documentary analysis, a survey with alumni (n = 231) and a focal group composed of managers (n = 11). Descriptive statistics, structural equations modelling and content analysis were used for the data analysis. The results showed convergences between the opinions of alumni and managers regards on the impact of training. Tests indicated that the impact of training explains 12% of professional development. For the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior’s, the impact of training was also statistically significant: creative suggestions (22%), dissemination of the organizational image (10%) and cooperation with colleagues (3%). These findings bring theoretical contributions and practical implications for the training of employees in public organizations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290965.v1
title: Sustainable development and precarious work in Natura’s integrated report: thinking of a counter-accounting

description: Abstract The concept of sustainability in business discourses has been characterized as an ideological movement aimed at legitimizing the power of large corporations. In 2010, the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) was launched with the aim of creating a globally accepted framework for accounting for sustainability. As legitimacy theories point that communication plays a central role in legitimation processes, in this article we compare the representation of the workforce of cosmetics sellers in 2015 corporate reports from Natura Cosméticos S/A, one of the Brazilian corporations most engaged in IIRC’s initiatives, to the results of independent academic studies. With this, we propose a counter-accounting, i.e. a discourse about organizational performance produced by actors who are independent from the organization’s management. Corroborating the understanding of the IIRC as an inter-organizational enterprise to legitimize a business-friendly definition of sustainability, we argue that in its integrated report Natura celebrates the exploitation of precarious work as a contribution to sustainable development.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290962.v1
title: Concepts of Work and Professional Competence Development: a Phenomenographic Study with SEBRAE's Local Innovation Agents

description: Abstract Phenomenography is still little used in Brazil despite its great potential for competence studies. Research in this field has show that the individuals’ conceptions of work direct their learning so that they perform it well, since it is these conceptions forge, constitute, and organize attributes (knowledge, skills, and others) used to accomplish it. In order to develop professional competence, researchers suggest that individuals should move from less superficial work conceptions to more comprehensive ones. However, there is a lack of studies that empirically identify the triggers of this change. This article is intended to fill such gap. Its objective was to analyze the process of change in working conceptions of a group of Local Innovation Agents. Data were collected through interviews and analyzed by means of phenomenographic protocols. The “pursuit of goals” and the “desire to carry out quality work” were identified as triggers of changes in conceptions’ changes and the development of new competencies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290961.v1
title: Influence of the formal performance evaluation and its mechanisms on the interpersonal trust between managers: perceived procedural justice and feedback quality

description: Abstract This study uncovered the influence of the individual formal performance evaluation on trust between evaluators-evaluated managers of different hierarchical levels of a company and to what extent this trust is affected by two mechanisms used in evaluation, procedural fairness and feedback. Replicating the study by Hartmann and Slapnicar (2009) the data collection was performed through a questionnaire, translated from that study. Response was obtained from 262 managers of two hierarchical levels of a Brazilian transnational company, which has a consolidated formal performance evaluation system. The hypotheses elaborated were analyzed using descriptive statistics and modeling of structural equations. The results indicate that the individual formal performance evaluation of doesn't present a direct positive influence on the trust between evaluators-evaluated managers of different hierarchical levels, however, this trust is influenced by mechanisms such as feedback quality and perceived procedural fairness. While the results of Hartmann and Slapnicar (2009) indicated that trust between evaluators-evaluated managers of different hierarchical levels depends on the formality of the performance evaluation procedure, in this study dissonances that instigate further research were evidenced.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290960.v1
title: Internal Accountability in Police Forces: Exploring the Factors Associated with the Performance in a Military Police Internal Affairs

description: Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify the factors associated with the performance of police internal affairs divisions. Little is known about the performance determinants of organizations crafted to prevent deviant behavior of civil servants. To reach our goal, we analyzed 797 administrative proceedings against 1.195 military police of a given Brazilian state between 2005 and 2012. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that cases involving more experienced police officers and crimes with increased complexity are less likely to be concluded. Our results also suggest that social norms and internal codes inherent to police forces affects the extent of punishment to implicated officers: some crimes seem to be tolerated while others are abhorred by the police force. Surprisingly, an increased centralization in the investigative activity is not associated with increased efficiency of the investigation process. Actually, investigation commissions formed by police officers specialized in investigating their own peers are less likely to have their cases concluded or to condemn police officers. Our results contribute to theoretical debates on the design of watchdog organizations and the literature on organizational performance of accountability bodies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290956.v1
title: Are Intra-organizational Networks Inclusive? Utopia and Tests

description: Based on the Theory of the Convention (Boltaski and Thevenot, 1991), I present the "project order" developed by Boltanski and Chiapello and use it as a parameter to assess the primary studies of intra-organizational social networks. I recover from the book "The New Spirit of Capitalism," the Order of Projects' main features. I show how the theoretical construction of the project order is based on a normative appropriation of social network analysis classic studies, especially those of Burt and Granovetter. I argue that the empirical work of intra-organizational networks analysis can be read as "testing" the idea of "connectionism." First, it functions as a way of empirically confirming whether contemporary capitalism is becoming increasingly connected. Second, it provides inputs to managers and policy-makers to adapt the design of organizations in order to favor more open networks. Third, it allows examining how the Order of Projects relates to other orders. These relationships can be conceptual and logical, as well as empirically negotiated. I conclude this article with implications for studies of intra-organizational networks as well as for working with Boltanski and Chiapello's model.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290952.v1
title: The contribution of sociology of knowledge for the studies of institutionalization and legitimation of the knowledge scientific field

description: Abstract The dissemination of new knowledge to society, is subject to specific processes of recognition and incorporation. For these phenomena occur the new knowledge needs to be institutionalized and legitimized. In this sense, this theoretical review of research has as aimed at identifying in the sociology of knowledge, proposed by Berger and Luckmann (2008) the elements that enable their use in studies of institutionalization and legitimization of knowledge of the scientific field. The outcome of the study points out that the argument of the processes of institutionalization and legitimization of knowledge proposed by Berger and Luckmann (2008) is presented as a theoretical framework capable of use in the analysis of scientific fields.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290951.v1
title: The visually impaired and the school: an ethnographic study based on transformative consumer research

description: Abstract The purpose of this piece of research was to analyze the consumption of educational services during elementary education by visually impaired people. Based on Transformative Consumer Research, the ethnographic research was developed in a NGO which is engaged in the education of students with visual impairment. The data were collected via 16 narrative interviews with elementary school students, six in-depth interviews with managers and teachers of the Lar NGO, five interviews with relatives of these students, and seven months of participant observation. The results indicate that the schoolmates, teachers, school managers and NGOs that work with visually impaired people interfere directly in the consumption behavior of the subjects, being able to contribute or inhibit the subjective well-being of the students. In addition, the powerlessness before unfair taxes and the lack of adequate teaching materials are characteristics of the investigated context that accentuate the vulnerability state.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290950.v1
title: Work-home boundary limits: a study of evangelical pastors’ daily lives

description: Abstract The aim of this research is to analyse the mutual influence in the process of negotiating work-home boundaries and personal and social identity or, in other words, to study the method of adapting and managing domestic and professional conflicts which interfere with the harmony of evangelical pastors’ work and personal lives. We conducted a qualitative study in order to achieve the proposed aims, involving an interpretative approach with the pastors of a specific ecclesiastical institution: The Assemblies of God in Brazil. A total of 20 interviews were held, and, following coding procedures, boundary-work tactics, whose taxonomy falls within physical, behavioural, temporal and communicative dimensions, were found. The results revealed that the sharp distinction seen was that the subjects were more likely to mingle interactions in work-home boundaries. The boundary-negotiation tactics were shown to be multi-functional, as they have dual function techniques, used both to segment and integrate the work-home boundary.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290947.v1
title: Solidarity Economy - In search of essential elements of sustainability and solidarity

description: This article discusses the topics sustainability and solidarity in the form of a bibliography research of the Brazilian literature on the field Solidarity Economy, trying to extract from it the requirements to denote solidarity economic enterprises such as constructs. It was found that 16 groups of analysis may be adequate to encompass the elements and traits advocated by the researchers included in the ES literature review performed. These groups are divided by the dimensions of sociopolitical, economic and environmental. Additionally, having found the existence of relevant factors that cut across the three dimensions, they were grouped under the name transversal, constituting a fourth sphere of observation. It was noted be viable to transform the results of research into an input for future investigations that led to the creation of methods for evaluation the stage of sustainability and solidarity of organizations in the other economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290944.v1
title: Spirituality in organizations?

description: Abstract This article aims to describe how organizational spirituality has been dealt with in national and international research. Thus, a review of literature was carried out, based on a systematic search on literature on the Scopus and SciELO databases. The survey revealed 551 articles, but only 118 were available as full-documents. After reading the articles, 72 were selected for analysis. From the selected articles, seven major themes were identified and are covered in this article: factors that encourage spirituality to develop in organizations; the differences between spirituality and religion; the definition/concept of organizational spirituality; the benefits of spirituality for organizations; the dimensions of spirituality in organizations; the values of spirituality in organizations, and ways of identifying/measuring spirituality in organizations. In general, it was found that the theme of organizational spirituality is gaining momentum among academics and managers and can no longer be ignored. Although research performed until now has provided encouraging results, more research is required, including empirical research, in order to elucidate and consolidate an understanding of the theme, as well as its importance for people and organizations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290941.v1
title: Quality of working life and music in the manufacturing workplace

description: Abstract This study aimed to understand how the insertion of music in the work environment contributes to achieving Quality of Working Life (QWL), from the perspective of biopsychosocial and organisational well-being. The context where the study was conducted was the manufacturing area of a major textile company located in Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The use of a case study was the research strategy adopted, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. The primary data was collected through the focus group technique and semi-structured interviews were used as an additional tool. Respecting the theoretical saturation criterion, four focus groups were formed, each comprising eight randomly selected participants from the seventy-six co-workers in the sector. The data was analysed qualitatively, using the content analysis technique. Twenty-eight QWL attributes were identified. It was concluded that musical insertion provides biological, social and, above all, psychological and organisational well-being to the co-workers, contributing to achieving QWL in the work environment researched.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290938.v1
title: Political articulation for evaluating the financial inclusion promoted by the Central Bank of Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between (i) political articulation activities created to obtain data and information necessary to evaluate a public policy and (ii) the availability (or unavailability) of such data and information. We studied the financial inclusion policy conducted by the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) from 2009 to 2012 as a case study. The main financial inclusion initiatives related to this policy and promoted by BC in the period are described, as well as the political articulation needed, directly or indirectly, to obtain such data and information. The article concludes that political articulation activities contribute significantly to obtain data and information to evaluate a public policy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290936.v1
title: Development and dependency in Brazil in the contradictions of the Growth Acceleration Program

description: This essay seeks to reveal the contradictory character of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC, in its acronym in Portuguese), the main instrument of the Brazilian development model of the last decade, which attempts to combine an apparent national autonomy for strategic settings, with adjustments of integration to the global economic system. However, the resumption of the initiative of economic planning and public investment by the State lead to a development model based on appropriation of nature, and generate a sparsely diverse productive network, dependent of international insertion that considers Brazil as a supplier of raw materials, leading to the new progressive extractivism as advanced by Gudynas (2009). To understand the integration of the market logic to the interests of the State and the role of management in this construction, the text drawn from the Marxist Theory of Dependence, especially as in Marini (2005) and Osorio’s (2012a, 2012b) discussions about the subordinated position of peripheral economies, combined with the mechanisms of capital accumulation and labor exploitation. Furthermore, it is discussed the epistemic coloniality for development management, taken as the solution for the modernization and development, to the extent that it produces a subordinated integration with the global economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290935.v1
title: Disciplines and Bibliography for the Teaching of Marketing in PhD Programs in Administration in Brazil

description: This article seeks to present a panoramic view of the subjects covered by marketing courses in Brazilian programs for doctorate degree in Administration, at the aggregate national level, and of the bibliography recommended in the syllabi for these subjects. A descriptive-quantitative approach was applied to data extracted from documents published by Capes in an array of 53 marketing subjects given in 13 programs in a total of 1,425 bibliographical references. From the results, it was found that the number of marketing subjects varies considerably from program to program (from 1 to 11 subjects). Regarding the bibliographical references per subject, the average found was 26.9 quotations covering 277 different sources, noteworthy for including material in foreign languages (67.5%), among it being books, scientific journals, annals of congresses, dissertations, theses and professional magazines. The proportion of didactic books found in the syllabi was 55% and the Journal of Marketing occupied the first place among the most frequently quoted publications. The congress most frequently referred to was EnANPAD and the professional magazine, the Harvard Business Review. Finally the implications of these results for marketing doctorate teaching in the country were discussed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290919.v1
title: The plasma Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) does not have any correlation with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)

description: We performed this study to measure the Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α) plasma level and to survey its correlation with disease activity in the newly diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients and those who were under treatment with the combination of Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) plus Prednisolone (PSL).We enrolled 30 newly diagnosed RA patients who received no treatment regarding their disease, 30 patients under treatment with the combination of Methotrexate (MTX) + Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) + PSL and 30 healthy subjects in this case-control study from September 2017 to December 2017. The level of plasma TNF-α was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in each group. For assessment of disease severity, we used Disease Activity Score-28 (DAS-28) formula, and regarding DAS-28, we divided patients into four groups, including remission, low, moderate and high disease activity. There were no significant differences in the plasma level of TNF-α between the newly diagnosed RA patients and subjects who received MTX + HCQ + PSL, as well as healthy controls (p&gt;0.05). There was a significant correlation between plasma levels of TNF-α and DAS-28 in the newly diagnosed patients with RA (r = 0.594, P = 0.001). Targeting TNF-α at the early stage of RA could have more beneficial effects on the amelioration of disease activity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14290914.v1
title: Ethnopharmacological activity of Hedera nepalensis K. Koch extracts and lupeol against alloxan-induced type I diabetes

description: In this study, we investigated the protective effects of Hedera nepalensis crude extract, its fractions and lupeol in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Lupeol and n-hexane (HNN) fraction significantly reduced the blood glucose level by increasing insulin level in time dependent manner, and also significantly increased amylase and lipase activity in diabetic rats. Elevated levels of alanine transaminases (ALT), aspartate transaminases (AST), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), nitrite, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total bilirubin and total protein in blood serum were efficiently restored to normal levels. Suppressed enzymatic activity of catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), reduced glutathione (GSH) and peroxidase (POD) were also restored to their normal levels. Kidney functions were also restored to normal level after treatment with HNN and lupeol. HNN fraction and lupeol of H. nepalensis prevented oxidative stress in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. This study signifies the importance of H. nepalensis and lupeol in ameliorating diabetes by inducing insulin secretion in diabetic model rats.