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Although several reforms have been implemented in recent years, the professionalization of university in Spain is often questioned in international expertise reports. However, in this same context, nursing training is characterized by a long tradition of cooperation with the professional world, practice-oriented curricula, and openness towards a form of Co-operative Education training. Basing our analysis of the principle of a distinction between an offer of training and its actual uses, we wondered about the effects of these methods on the professional development of student nurses. Based on a collaborative study conducted in Spain in a faculty of nursing sciences, we highlighted the professionalizing dynamics induced by a system. Beyond the influence of contextual variables, these conjectures shed light on perceptions about Co-operative Education programs.
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AbstractThe aim of this research was to analyse the impetus of entrepreneurial motivation, to identify the reasons for action taken by entrepreneurs and to assess any contextual factors. More specifically, the study answered the following question : do links exist between entrepreneurial motivation, the reasons for action taken by entrepreneurs and their perceptions in relation to their project goals ?Based on questionnaires completed by newly established business leaders, we evaluated the impetus of entrepreneurial motivation (including their needs and strengths), identified the reasons for action taken by entrepreneurs and assessed the contextual factors. This study builds on a theoretical framework derived from research into motivation and entrepreneurship. We particularly drew our inspiration from recent models that attempt to understand entrepreneurial motivation which we supplemented with a typology of reasons for action taken by entrepreneurs. A series of causal relationships were identified and tested. The analysis allowed us to draw conclusions with regard to entrepreneurial motivation.Research into motivation highlighted the reasons for action taken in relation to innovative projects. Initially, we identified development and commitment objectives among these reasons. In one case, the entrepreneur hoped his company would bring him tangible financial and material results. In another, the entrepreneur was aware that his project would require him to invest in routine management activities and difficult business practices. Research into the reasons for improvement action taken highlighted the requirements for risk management and control. The exploitation of an enabling environment satisfied the entrepreneur's requirement for control and was associated with a risk adverse entrepreneur. Projects described as adventurous, with the starting objective of tangible rewards, were likely to meet recognition requirements.
Keywords: Entrepreneuriat, Motivation, Logiques d'action, Innovation, Valorisation, Reconnaissance, Projets
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The purpose of this study is to examine the links between the level of investment of small and medium-sized firms and the degree of uncertainty of business environnement and the degree of risk aversion of business leaders.The analysis makes use of qualitative data collected by the Banque de France in a national survey conducted in 1996 on the strategic behavior of 1436 small and medium-sized French industrial firms.Four management styles associated with significant differences in business uncertainty, risk aversion and investment rates are distinguished. Then a multiple regression model confirms and completes the results.It is demonstrated that the combination of uncertainty of business environment and risk aversion is negatively correlated with investment rate. In order to spur small and medium-sized firms to increase their productive investments the findings suggest to encourage business leaders to collect as much strategic informations as possible and to raise their R&D spendings.
Keywords: Investissement, Irréversibilité, Dirigeant, Incertitude, Aversion au risque
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In the last decade, due to the lack of teachers in Quebec, the province has welcomed a significant number of foreign-trained teachers (MEES, 2018). Research on their learning assessment skills shows that, for those teachers who get used to the standards and values of the culture of assessment for sanction in their native countries, taking into account the professionnal conventions in their host environment is a major issue to their socio-professional integration (Morrissette & Demazière, 2018a). Drawing on the theoretical approach of the social justice of Rawls (1971), we conducted a collaborative research with a group of six teachers trained in foreign countries from “meritocratic” backgrounds, to shed light on their adaptation to the ethics of differentiation in assessment. The analyzes suggest a consentement that developped under the rhythm of negotiated identity conversion process through a socialization of resourcefulness in four phases: negation, discovery, learning, involvement.
Keywords: enseignants formés à l'étranger, éthique de la différenciation en évaluation, recherche collaborative, socialisation de la débrouille, théorie de la justice sociale, collaborative research, ethics of differentiation in assessment, foreign-trained teachers, social justice theory, socialization of resourcefulness, ética da diferenciação na avaliação, investigação colaborativa, professores formados no estrangeiro, socialização do desenrasque, teoria da justiça social
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Brigitte Haentjens, well before her current renown in Montreal, first developed her artistic practice in Ontario between 1977 and 1990. She is remembered for her anti-establishment stance yet, paradoxically, this seemingly anti-intellectual and anti-academic artist nonetheless showed exceptional ease with concepts and discourse which brought her to the very heart of the Franco-Ontarian establishment, becoming Artistic Director of the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario from 1982 to 1990 and the foundational president of the Association nationale des théâtres francophones hors-Québec from 1984 to 1990. In Ontario, she was a community-engaged artist who wasn't afraid of challenging that very community. Haentjens, a foreigner who became a most intimate member of her adopted Franco-Ontarian theatre community, insisted on the importance of proactive and well-articulated advocacy in the face of assimilation and social intimidation. This article offers a historiography and an overview of the evolving discourse of the director in her interviews, opinion pieces and articles during her pivotal and formative years in Ontario.
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This article analyzes the influence of coworking spaces on the entrepreneurial intention of employees who work there. A quantitative study was carried out in France among 126 workers who frequent a coworking space. We test a conceptual model explaining entrepreneurial intention according to the spaces' characteristics (contextual variables) and individual variables. Results show a significant effect of the presence of role models as well as the organization of workshops within coworking spaces, but also the importance of some individual variables on the entrepreneurial intention of employees.
Keywords: « espace de coworking », « intention d'entreprendre », « tiers-lieu », « nouvelles formes de travail », “coworking space”, “entrepreneurial intention”, “third place”, “new ways of working”, “espacio de cotrabajo”, “intención empresarial”, “tercer lugar”, “nuevas formas de trabajo”
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Using the culture and tradition theoretical framework, this paper examines the influence of traditional values on the relationship between service quality, perceived value and purchase intention in Senegal. Based on a sample of 303 African customers of an innovative shopping mall. Using structural equation models (PLS) the results show that service quality influences the perceived value of the innovative shopping mall which in turn affects the consumer's purchase intention. This work establishes a moderating role of traditional values on the relationships between specific dimensions of service quality and the perceived value of the innovative shopping mall.
Keywords: Centre commercial innovant, Intention d'achat, Qualité de service, Valeur perçue, Valeurs traditionnelles, Innovative shopping mall, Purchase intention, Service quality, Perceived value, Traditional values, Centro comercial innovador, intención de compra, calidad de servicio, valor percibido, valores tradicionales
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This essay examines the status of women artists directly or indirectly related to the Automatist Movement in Quebec during the 1940s. Some of these women were signatories of the group's notorious Refus global (1948) manifesto, which marked a turning point in radical modern thought in Quebec. The author first recontextualizes the contribution of women artists to the art vivant milieu during the inter-war years; she then discusses an important aspect of radical modernity (avant-garde) as represented by the Automatists (1942-54): the plurality of disciplines and the trans-disciplinary practice, characteristic of nearly all the women artists involved in this movement. In conclusion, she offers an analysis of the significance of the signing of the Refus global for women artists: had they not done so, most of them would not be recognized as part of the history of this artistic and literary avant-garde movement, let alone the history of art in general.This study reveals the extent to which avant-garde activity relies on theoretical thought and writing to become a part of history. That few women have made their mark in artistic avant-garde movements has been attributed, in part, to the fact that they have written little, if at all. The same would no doubt be true of the women artists discussed here had they not signed their name to the Refus global. A number of them would undoubtedly have been acclaimed even without this signatory consecration, but recognition would have come at a later date and in another context.
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While decades of scholarship point to the broad consensus that unions compress the distribution of wages and incomes, recent empirical contributions suggest that unions' within-country egalitarian effect is dwindling, as unions decline and membership composition changes. What is more, unions now operate in an increasingly difficult political economy transformed by, among other forces, globalization, financialization and fiscal austerity. At the same time, there is an increased demand for unions to play a broader role in a movement for distributive justice.Transposing these debates to the Canadian provincial context, this article asks whether unions still matter for reducing inequality. Considering the role of industrial relations more broadly by taking into account strike activity and collective labour statutes, the article explores the relationship between union power and market income inequality over a period ranging from 1984 to 2012. This empirical contribution is framed in theories from comparative capitalism, economics, and sociology.Descriptive longitudinal statistics support the well-documented union decline narrative. On average, union density and strike activity have declined in the provinces. As for the quality of collective labour rights, it is argued that the relative apparent stability of statutes conceals more substantive issues with Wagnerism as an organizing model. Linking unions to inequality, results from multivariate regressions using panel data suggest that union power still matters for limiting market income inequality. While estimates for strike action are not statistically significant, those for union density and the quality of collective labour statutes suggest that unions still exert an inequality-reducing effect. However, the rarity of significant estimates across models using different measures of inequality indicates that this effect is by no means comprehensive.
Keywords: union decline, strikes, industrial relations, inequality, syndicat, déclin, grève, relations de travail, inégalités salariales, revenus
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SummaryThis article is about the importance of environmental citizenship as a factor of socio-professional insertion for students who terminate their schooling without a secondary or professional training diploma, in order to prevent that their school exclusion leads to a social exclusion. Results of a research on a socio-professional insertion program for youth that integrates environmental and sustainable development issues and the Corporate Training and Recuperation Centres Network (CFER) are presented and discussed. Those results tend to demonstrate that the students' involvement in an environmental cause increases their empowerment towards complex social issues.
Keywords: éducation à l'environnement, insertion socioprofessionnelle, écocitoyenneté, difficultés d'apprentissage et d'adaptation, éducation au développement durable, environmental education, socio-professional insertion, environmental citizenship, learning and behaviour difficulties, education for sustainable development, educación al medio ambiente, inserción socioprofesional, eco-ciudadanía, dificultades de aprendizaje y de adaptación, educación al desarrollo duradero