Business goals and social commitment. Shaping organisational capabilities. — Colombia’s Fundación Social, 1984-2011

Business goals and social commitment. Shaping organisational capabilities. — Colombia’s Fundación Social, 1984-2011

Author: Dávila Ladrón de Guevara, José Camilo

Publisher: Ediciones Uniandes-Universidad de los Andes

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9586959317

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Corporations, business groups and other business organizations are increasingly concerned about social challenges that directly impact the future of capitalism. Colombia s Fundación Social (FS) a century-old Latin American business group has from its start operated under two different but closely intertwined rationales: as a market, profit-seeking player; and as a civil society organization practicing solidarity. Social aims are at the core of FS mission, and business firms are instrumental. Remarkably, despite decades of growth as a ranking business group, FS underlying objective remained grounded in concern for the poor: To fight the structural causes of poverty.


The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage

The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage

Author: Gabriela García

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1000401308

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The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Ríos de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM3OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.


Obstinate Star

Obstinate Star

Author: Rafael Bernabe

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-09-23

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 900470793X

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Obstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico’s independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement’s currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning with the radical democratic fight against Spanish control, it moves on to the early reactions to U.S. rule, the role of Nationalism, Communism and New Deal currents during the Great Depression and the Second World War, the rise of new forces in the wake of the Cuban revolution and recent struggles in the epoch of capitalist globalisation.


Endogenous Development

Endogenous Development

Author: Chiku Malunga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1317385705

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Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. The resulting development interventions are too rarely locally rooted, locally driven, or resonant with local context. At the same time, theories and practices from developing countries rarely travel to the Western agencies dominating development, undermining the possibility of a beneficial synergy that could be obtained from the best of both worlds. There are many reasons why the experiences of locally driven development are not communicated back to global development actors, including, but not limited to, the marginal role of Southern voices in global forums. This volume gives a platform to authentic African voices and non-African collaborators, to explore what endogenous development means, how it can be implemented, and how an endogenous development approach can shape local, national and global policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.


Elecciones en Puerto Rico -- Tomo II (1952-1964)

Elecciones en Puerto Rico -- Tomo II (1952-1964)

Author: Juan Jose Nolla-Acosta, JD

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-01-27

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1300680679

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Este libro cubre las elecciones de 1952 al 1964, desde el dominio maximo del PPD, en 1952, hasta el primer relevo de gobernadores, aunque del mismo partido, en 1964. Cubre el ascenso del movimiento Estadista y la caida del movimiento Independentista. This book covers the elections held in Puerto Rico between 1952 and 1964. That period saw the highest point in the dominance by the Popular Party; and it also saw the fall and rebirth of the pro-Statehood movement (from 12.87%% in '52 to 34.8%% in '64), coupled with the rise and fall of the pro-Independence movement (from 18.98%% in '52 to 2.81%% in '64).


Antiguo Oriente - Volume 15 (2017)

Antiguo Oriente - Volume 15 (2017)

Author: Juan Manuel Tebes

Publisher: CEHAO

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Antiguo Oriente (abbreviated as AntOr) is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO), Catholic University of Argentina.