Unijuí - Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul.

Complex thinking and organizing principles of knowledge. Paradigms and the production of research and knowledge. Types of knowledge. Introduction to research: philosophical and theoretical positions, and research methods. Types of research. Formalization of scientific research: project and report. Design structures and research report. Scientific article. Technical standards for the preparation and presentation of research: projects, articles, theses.

Planning and thesis project. Definition of the study topic. Elaboration of the objectives and justification of the research. Construction of the theoretical framework of reference. Description of methodological procedures. Schedule of execution of activities. Defense of the thesis project. Structuring the thesis. Preparation of thesis defense.

The pillars of administrative thinking - management schools. Images of the organization. Rationalities, models of analysis and management processes. Organizational development. Evolution of concepts related to man, organization, and environment. The concept of sustainability in organizations. Culture and organizational learning.

Origins and context of the development debate. Economic fundamentals of development theory: the liberal system; capitalist dynamics and socialism; effective demand, role of the State and investments; ethics, innovation, and entrepreneurship; dependence and structural heterogeneity; new institutional economics. Contemporary approaches: development in the Brazilian context and globalization, regional, endogenous, human and sustainable development. Emerging approaches: solidarity economy, social capital, socio-territorial pact, innovative means.

Perspectives in public management: liberal, republican and deliberative. Bureaucratic, managerial and societal public administration. Planning and development: their history in Brazil. Planning and coordination of public policies (plans, programs, and projects). The relationship between State, civil society and the market as contexts of regional development.

Development as an open and evolutionary process. Ontological complexity of real processes: stratification of reality, emergence, historicity, direct observations, evidence, coherence. Methodological principles for the analysis of development situations: progressive steps; search for the best explanation; directed samplings; social reproduction capacity. Procedures for the analysis of development situations: the process of historical formation of the region; the process of social differentiation and production systems; technical and economic evaluation of the different production systems; identification of development strategies.

Relationship between development and environment. Sustainability. Biophysical conditioning factors of development. Global and regional environment problems. Economy of the environment. Brazilian environment policy and its instruments. Instruments of environment planning and management.

The major trends in contemporary society and the study of strategy. Theoretical perspectives on organizations and the multiparadigmatic approach to the field of strategy discipline. The schools of thought regarding strategy formation. Development management and the field of competitiveness: approaches to competition and cooperation. Change and strategic adaptation in the organizational context. Research in the analysis of strategies and processes of strategic change and adaptation in organizations.

The genesis of marketing and its trajectory. Marketing as a propeller of ethical exchange relationships and the consumerism movement. The market and its agents integrating values for satisfactory exchanges. The science of consumption in the context of development.

Conceptual references and practices that define and characterize social management processes. Historical elements that promoted the emergence of the meaning of social management. Theoretical fundamentals of social management. Social control. Deliberative citizenship. State, civil society, and the market as operational environments of practices in social management. Elements of social management practice and actions: institutional arrangements, participatory planning, interinstitutional coordination. Action research as a study method in social management.

Society of learning and knowledge. National, regional and local innovation and development systems. Technological innovation in economic thinking. The challenges of innovation in a competitive economy: technological diffusion; sources of innovation; sectors of activity, size and geographic location of companies. Innovation management in developing countries: technological capacity building; organizational innovations; networks of firms and production chains.

Projects and development. Elaboration of development projects. Management of development projects. Financial analysis of projects. Economic evaluation of development projects: method of reference prices and method of direct, indirect, induced effects. Social evaluation of development projects.

The corporate social responsibility concept having as reference the construction and application of the concept in the business sector in a new perception of civil society. History of the constitution of fundamental rights and their impact on the performance parameters of organizations and society. Business ethics and reputation management. Institutional theory and the process of institutionalization of strategic social actions. Analysis models of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Trajectory and characterization of socioeconomic and environment indicators. Conceptual and practical approaches. Conceptualization, types of indicators and indexes. Basic requirements of the indicators. Functions of indicators, indices, and diagnostics. Classification, construction, measurement, and meanings of simple indicators and indicator systems. Producers of data and sources of information. Choice and evaluation of indicators and indexes. Usage of indexes and indicators in the evaluation of public policies. Indices, indicators and processes of territorial development.

Since the discussions on regional development are essentially multifaceted and multidisciplinary, they are also the object of study of the social sciences, particularly the sociology. This area of knowledge also approaches the theme from different theoretical and empirical angles. In this sense the following themes are here highlighted: Regional Cultures and Development Inequalities; capacities approach and the role of Women's Agency; inter- and intra-regional migratory movements; multiple forms of inequality and their entanglements. Additionally it aim to analyze "successful" spatial arrangements, particularly the Scandinavian social welfare model and some of the obstacles to full Brazilian development.

The challenge of entrepreneurship. The importance of entrepreneurship in the national economy. Fundamentals, genres, and forms of entrepreneurship. Creativity as a condition of entrepreneurial survival. Creation of companies and Business Plan. Entrepreneurship and Ethics.

The challenge of entrepreneurship. The importance of entrepreneurship in the national economy. Fundamentals, genres, and forms of entrepreneurship. Creativity as a condition of entrepreneurial survival. Creation of companies and Business Plan. Entrepreneurship and Ethics.

Fundamentals of Corporate Governance. Governance and Governability. Agency Theory. Structure and Models of Governance. Governance in public, non-governmental, and publicly-owned family organizations. Capital Markets and Corporate Governance. Concept, function, and purpose of finances. Risk, return and performance indicators. Performance Indicators and Corporate Governance.

Market structures and efficiency in resource allocation. The free market and state regulation. The evolution of the notion of production chains. Production chains and the challenges facing a globalized economy. The market and production chains in the context of regional development. Local participation in an interdependent and globalized economic world.

Development of teaching activities in undergraduate courses. This is compulsory for all graduates of the Capes and Unijuí Scholars Program.

Analyzing the nature of the development process and its specific dynamics, dimensions, and spatial scales. The internationalization of relations, economic, financia,l and technological aspects of capital, the weakening of national decision-making, and the imposition of globalized models of development. The efforts of revaluation of local specificities that interfere in the dynamics of development in different territories. Reflecting on the spatiality of the development problems, and the construction of solutions that consider their specific scale. Reflecting on the necessary articulation between the multiple dimensions and geographic scales in the research and development of policies, strategies, and intervention. Development of teaching activities in the Degree in Law and related areas. It is a compulsory course for all Master's degree students who hold a CAPES scholarship.

This course addresses the conceptual evolution of planning and the concept of the region and its application in planning. It deals with the theoretical aspects of planning, development, and territory, and the methods and techniques of regional and territorial planning. It studies the foundations of situational and democratic strategic planning and the scales, the technical dimension, and the political dimension of planning, decision levels, and types of planning. It also discusses the historical trajectory and recent experiences of regional planning in Brazil, the interinstitutional relations in the planning processes, the reemergence of regional studies in Brazil, and the challenges of implementing the national policy of regional and territorial development in Brazil, and state policies of regional development.

It addresses the challenges and dilemmas of representative democracy and the potentialities and limits of participatory democracy in the world and in Brazil. It develops debates around concepts, the cycle and the process of public policies, aiming to construct an analytical frame of reference for the study of public policies, discussing issues related to the constitution of the agenda, to the decision-making process, to the formulation and implementation of policies, and to the evaluation process. Public policy theories are presented, highlighting paradigm shifts and the debate between different theoretical approaches. It deals with the relationship between institutions and political actors, and the effects of the institutional structure on policy formation. It discusses theoretical concepts on governance arrangements, networks of public policies, and social participation in the process of territorial development. The objective is to discuss contemporary conceptions of democracy, considering its limits and possibilities, and the relations between capitalist society and the modern state. It approaches the field of studies of public policies and Public Administration, it compares different institutional arrangements in terms of representativeness, governance and democratic accountability, it addresses the analysis of social policies focusing on the reasons and forms of the execution of social programs through the governments and the State. Thus it deals with the public policy process with emphasis on issues such as federalism, new institutional arrangements, vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations, and articulation, decentralization, and recentralization, regulation, and coordination, the role of political agents, intersectoriality and alliances, and partnerships with society civil. With regard to arrangements and institutions of control over policies and public administration, it addresses their importance for the strengthening of democracy, and it discusses the limits and potentialities of deliberative democracy.

It covers studies of technologies and mechanisms that allow organizational and territorial competitiveness, focusing on strategies based on the creation of innovative businesses and enterprises that potentiate advances in terms of improving organizational performance and local development, here understood as space over which the socioeconomic relations of the productive enterprises are established. It includes the study of theories, models, and approaches that describe and explain the strategic management of organizations and their relationships with their environments and stakeholders in the dynamic developments of the regions. It addresses models of innovation strategies for the development of entrepreneurial skills and the maintenance of competitive advantages; processes of innovation and technological diffusion, their conditioning factors and effective mechanisms of implementation; the entrepreneurial culture, its promotion through education; market factors and environment that influence the nature of the entrepreneurial response.

It addresses the various objectives, interests, and models of organizational and business management in the context of the possibilities of governance in order to qualify the territory in question. It discusses the role, space and responsibility of governments, society, companies, universities, and other public, private or third sector institutions, as well as the use of human, social, economic, and natural resources in regional development processes. It seeks to develop debates and propose models for territorial governance as a management policy and strategy for the optimization of interactions between stakeholders that support both the role and value of organizations, and the meaning and importance of territories in the context of globalization. It deals with aspects related to the structuring and operationalization of governance systems in the territory in the context of social and organizational interests. Its objective is to approach, discuss and deepen the understanding of several aspects related to territorial governance involving the most diverse actors, objectives, and interests given in the same arena and in the construction of a regional agenda. It seeks to understand ways of developing and implementing methodologies and structures of organizational management and territorial governance as a vector for the development of society, organizations, and the region.

Study of the theoretical and methodological perspectives of interpretation and explanation of regional development. Definition of regional analysis and the importance of its instruments. Study of the phenomena of development inequality in space and regional disparities based on regional analysis and approaches and experiences in regional and local development. The relations of regional and local development with the evolution of the international economy. Changes in socioeconomic structures on the evolution of territorial spaces. The regional collective action, stimuli and innovative analysis in the face of local and regional development problems.

Study of production systems, local productive arrangements, production chains and their relations with development. The strategies of specialization of the regional productive base and its impacts on the development. Articulation of economic agents in vertical chains or sector integration in the context of the market in which they operate. Feasibility, sustainability and competitiveness of local productive arrangements. Development constraints, environmental problems, socioeconomic obstacles, public policies and sectoral planning instruments.

Perspectives in public management: liberal, republican and deliberative. Bureaucratic, managerial and societal public administration. Planning and development: their history in Brazil. Planning and coordination of public policies (plans, programs, and projects). The relationship between State, civil society and the market as contexts of regional development.

Development as an open and evolutionary process. The ontological complexity of real processes: stratification of reality, emergence, historicity, direct observations, evidence, coherence. Methodological principles for the analysis of developmental situations: progressive steps; search for the best explanation; directed samplings; social reproduction capacity. Procedures for the analysis of development situations: the process of historical formation of the region; the process of social differentiation and production systems; technical and economic evaluation of the different production systems; identification of development strategies.

Relationship of development with the environment. Sustainability. Biophysical conditioning factors of development. Global and regional environmental problems. The economy of the environment. Brazilian environmental policy and its instruments. Instruments of environmental planning and management.

Development of teaching activities in the Degree in Law and related areas. It is a compulsory course for all Master's students who hold a CAPES scholarship.

Development of teaching activities in undergraduate courses. It is compulsory for all post-graduates of the Capes and Unijuí Scholars Program.

The major trends in contemporary society and the study of strategy. Theoretical perspectives on organizations and the multiparadigmatic approach to the field of strategy discipline. The schools of thought about strategy formation. Development management and the field of competitiveness: approaches to competition and cooperation. Change and strategic adaptation in the organizational context. Research in the analysis of strategies and processes of strategic change and adaptation in organizations.

The genesis of marketing and its trajectory. Marketing as a propeller of ethical exchange relationships and the consumerism movement. The market and its agents integrating values for satisfactory exchanges. The science of consumption in the context of development. Development of teaching activities in undergraduate courses. It is compulsory for all post-graduates of the Capes and Unijuí Scholars Program.

Conceptual references and practices that define and characterize social management processes. Historical elements that promoted the emergence of the meaning of social management. Theoretical fundamentals of social management. Social control. Deliberative citizenship. State, civil society and the market as operational environments of practices in social management. Elements of social management practice and actions: institutional arrangements, participatory planning, interinstitutional coordination. Action research as a method of study in social management.

Society of learning and knowledge. National, regional and local innovation and development systems. Technological innovation in economic thinking. The challenges of innovation in a competitive economy: technological diffusion; Sources of innovation; sectors of activity, size and location geography of companies. Innovation management in developing countries: technological capacity building; organizational innovations; Networks of firms and productive chains

Market structures and efficiency in resource allocation. The free market and state regulation. The evolution of the notion of productive chains. Production chains and the challenges facing a globalized economy. The market and productive chains in the context of regional development. Local participation in an interdependent and globalized economic world.

Complex thinking and organizing principles of knowledge. Paradigm (s) and the production of research and knowledge. Types of knowledge. Introduction to research: philosophical, theoretical positions and research methods. Types of research. Formalization of scientific research: project and report. Design structures and research report. Scientific article. Technical standards for the preparation and presentation of research: projects, articles, thesis.

Projects and development. Elaboration of development projects. Management of development projects. Financial analysis of projects. Economic evaluation of development projects: method of reference prices and method of direct, indirect, induced effects. Social evaluation of development projects.

The concept of corporate social responsibility with reference to the construction and application of the concept in the business sector from a new role of civil society. History of the constitution of fundamental rights and their impact on the performance parameters of organizations and society. Business ethics and reputation management. Institutional Theory and the process of institutionalization of strategic social actions. Models of analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility.

The pillars of administrative thinking - the schools of management. Images of the organization. Rationalities, models of analysis and management processes. Organizational development. Evolution of concepts related to man, organization, and environment. The concept of sustainability in organizations. Culture and organizational learning.

Origins and context of the development debate. Economic fundamentals of development theory: the liberal system; Capitalist dynamics and socialism; The effective demand, the role of the State and the investments; Ethics, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Dependence and structural heterogeneity; The new institutional economics. Contemporary approaches: development in the Brazilian context and globalization, regional, endogenous, human and sustainable development. Emerging approaches: solidarity economy, social capital, socio-territorial pact, innovative means.

Trajectory and characterization of socioeconomic and environmental indicators. Conceptual and practical approaches. Conceptualization, types of indicators and indexes. Basic requirements of the indicators. Functions of indicators and indices and diagnostics. Classification, construction, measurement and meanings of simple indicators and indicator systems. Producers of data and sources of information. Choice and evaluation of indicators and indexes. Use of indexes and indicators in the evaluation of public policies. Indices, indicators and processes of territorial development.

The challenge of entrepreneurship. The importance of entrepreneurship in the national economy. Fundamentals, genres and forms of entrepreneurship. Creativity as a condition of entrepreneurial survival. Creation of companies and Business Plan. Entrepreneurship and Ethics.

Fundamentals of Corporate Governance. Governance and Governability. Agency Theory. Structure and Models of Governance. Governance in public, non-governmental and publicly-owned family organizations. Capital Markets and Corporate Governance. Concept, function, and purpose of finances. Risk, return and performance indicators. Performance Indicators and Corporate Governance.