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Since 1894, the Olympic Games have growth increasingly, until becoming, nowadays, the biggest mega-events on the world. They were even the most watched event during the opening ceremony of Beijing 2012, exceeding the first man stepped on the Moon. Cities from all around the world compete to stage this prestige event on their territory, as well as all the athletes who try to participate to it. The purpose of this thesis is to understand the different reasons and the issues, which compel a city to stage the Olympics. This study follows a qualitative and systematic research approach: wandering all the steps of staging until the long-run spinoffs, allowing to understand the organization in its entirety, highlight the different problems and identify strong points during the different steps of enactment. The findings of our enquiry lead us on a controversial talk, bringing to the fore, the Olympics effects on a twofold aim: the economic benefits and the social impact, which are not necessary going together, most of all in the developing countries, such as Brazil. This lead us to ask ourselves the question, do the Olympics Games really incur such massive investment to be stage? And what about the threats and opportunities for the developing countries?
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Depuis 2015, une crise des réfugiés affecte l'Union Européenne. Le présent mémoire cherche à observer les modèles de coopératives sociales italiennes qui visent à intégrer socio-professionnellement les réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile.
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Ethnographie du projet d'Auroville, dans le sud de l'Inde. Auroville est un projet particulier et singulier désirant expérimenter l'unité humaine. Ce travail étudie le fonctionnement du projet au regard du concept de "transition".
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This thesis aims to contribute to the existing literature around conservation philanthropy through the comparison of two conservation projects. It addresses the subject of private conservation and its major ethical challenges. First, the literature review analyzes the relations between philanthropy, capitalism and public authorities, as well as the matter of philanthrocapitalism and neoliberal conservation. It goes on about the new ways of protecting the environment and preserving nature that link profit seeking with environmental goals. This theoretical part emphasizes the ethical issues that are the object of concern in the academic literature on the matter. Secondly, the analysis was conducted to evaluate the ethical challenges for both projects: the Pumalín project in Chile and the Nassonia project in Belgium. The methodology employed to carry it out was qualitative and based on a comparative evaluation grid. The results of each ethical challenge are discussed and compared for both projects in regards to the theoretical part. The conclusion of this thesis brings to light that all neoliberal projects do not face the same ethical challenges. It also highlights the fact that neoliberal conservation does not have to include market mechanisms to be efficient.
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The way Westerners consume doesn’t match with sustainability. Alternative initiatives such as second-hand goods, access-based services or collaborative platforms have been taken, which challenges traditional business models. While 62% of cars are bought secondhand, only 9% of a wardrobe of a French person is set of second-hand clothes. In a first time, this work attempts to clarify the barriers to second-hand clothing consumption based on an extended literature review. In a second time, the quantitative analysis enables us to classify those barriers and provide some practical recommandations to marketing managers in order to encourage this alternative mode of consumption.
Freins --- achat --- Vêtements --- seconde main --- occasion --- secondhand --- barrier --- alternative consumption --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Marketing
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Fast changing and continually evolving digital technologies are not only revolutionising everybody’s life, but also the day-to-day work of companies and organisations. The rise of social media has brought a lot of opportunities for profit and non-profit organisations for doing business and reaching out to stakeholders. In fact, non-profit organisations are using more and more social media tools in their communication. Research has shown that they do not only use them for giving information but also for creating valuable relationship with stakeholders. The aim of this study is to find out in which way social media tools are used by Walloon non-profit organisations. It is not only about discovering what they do on social media. It is also about getting to know the underlying reasons and advantages that encourage organisations to use more and more social media tools. In addition, this study aims at finding out barriers and difficulties while using social media. For this means, 9 depth-interviews with people in charge of communication of non-profits were made.
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Over the past few years, scandals involving unethical business behaviors have raised awareness about environmental and social issues. Society has therefore high expectations in terms of social, economic and environmental performances of businesses. In response to this pressure, business leaders have realized the importance of being responsible. This has led to the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Some authors argue that companies adopt CSR practices in order to improve their reputation. This demonstrates that companies respond to outside pressures and events. Therefore, it seems relevant to analyse if a disruption in the external context has an impact on the way CSR is implemented in companies. In this master thesis, we will analyse the impact of the financial crisis of 2008 and the Luxleaks’ scandal on CSR practices in the Luxembourg financial sector. After introducing concepts of CSR and reputation, this master thesis analyses the impact of an external disruption on the businesses CSR practices. The aim is firstly to review the theoretical framework defining the relations between CSR practices (with a focus on the firms’ reputation) and the external environment and secondly to perform an empirical study covering if and how the financial crisis and the Luxleaks scandal have influenced the way some key financial actors have implemented or further developed their CSR practices in Luxembourg.
Corporate Social Responsibility --- CSR --- Reputation --- Financial Sector --- Luxembourg --- Financial crisis --- Luxleaks --- Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises --- RSE --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Multidisciplinaire, généralités & autres
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Nowadays, many companies carry out social actions in order to have positive impact on society and the environment. These social enterprises have the difficulty to achieve a double performance: the financial rendement without hitting the social aim. The ICT, more and more present in the organizations, put the new ways of working, including teleworking, in the enterprises. The teleworking presents benefits and disadvantages for the employees and for the employers, then for the entire organization. CSD – Résau solidaris of Liège is a non-profit organization that makes home-based services, in particular for the seniors. This social enterprise wants a big change and decided to implement the teleworking for a small group of employees during a test phase. The teleworking represents a significant change for the structure. That’s why, an evaluation, with a quantitative and qualitative survey, had taken place in this non-profit organization to highlight the good situations and to compensate the difficulties. The CSD – Réseau Solidaris, in a process of change, has to take care of its social mission.
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This work mapped the current situation of the social and solidarity economy and the societal impact of companies in Luxembourg. Based on the secondary research, the historical devel-opment of the sector got described and the principal components of this economy is ex-plained. Adding theoretical approaches from the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) helped to see the sectors from another point of view and identify opportunities to implement in the Luxembourgish law. Furthermore, an attempt to map the Luxemburgish social businesses on the triangle of the international typology gives space to see them in another angle and understand their motivations. All these informations gathered together to identify various opportunities and limitations of the sector, such as completing the law of the 12th December 2016, promoting academic research and communicating as a group. These suggestions aim to promote the SSE with coherent strategy in order to reach its critical mass. Following, this research thesis might yield into research on the key performance indicators of the societal impact companies, comparative transborder research (cluster of the greater region) and the societal impact companies as they exist in Luxembourg.
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Depuis plusieurs décennies, de nombreuses organisations non conventionnelles, c’est-à-dire ni publiques, ni typiquement capitalistes, sont nées à l’échelle internationale avec des objectifs sociaux spécifiques et répondant à des besoins non satisfaits par l’Etat ou par des entreprises traditionnelles à but lucratif. Ces nouvelles manières d’entreprendre visent notamment à se différencier de l’économie de marché dominante. On parle alors d’économie alternative, d’économie sociale, d’économie solidaire, ou encore d’économie sociale et solidaire. L’objectif de ce travail de recherche est d’identifier les contextes dans lesquels ces types d’économies alternatives et les initiatives qui en font partie se développent en Amérique latine, et plus particulièrement en Bolivie et au Chili. Pour ce faire, ce travail de recherche repose sur les données récoltées par les chercheurs partenaires du projet ICSEM, « the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models Project ». Pour répondre à notre objectif de recherche, nous définissons dans un premier temps les contextes sociopolitiques et socioéconomiques de la Bolivie et du Chili. Ces derniers nous permettrons de cerner les évolutions historiques propres aux deux pays ainsi que de comprendre l’impact que celles-ci ont sur l’économie sociale, l’économie solidaire et les entreprises sociales boliviennes et chiliennes. Par la suite, un cadre théorique est posé au sujet de l’économie sociale en tant que troisième secteur, de l’économie solidaire et de l’entreprise sociale comme idéal type. Une recherche est ensuite effectuée sur la perception de ces concepts en Bolivie et au Chili afin de réaliser par la suite une analyse des réalités de terrains face nos cadres théoriques posés. Celle-ci nous permettra de réaliser une comparaison entre les deux pays au sujet des concepts d’économie sociale, d’économie solidaire et d’entreprise sociale et de finalement en tirer des conclusions.
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