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The understanding of conflicts represents an important topic in organization studies. One might argue that, although different perspectives have been assumed, most of them end by attempting to ‘dom...

The study seeks to analyze how the self-employed are inserted in the context of financialization and how this insertion enables financial capital accumulation. We initially adopted the concept of n...

Mise au Jeu is a Quebec-based organization of social intervention which has been doing forum theatre, in the Augusto Boal’s tradition of Theatre of the Oppressed for over 20 years. In this article,...

Empirical research on street-level bureaucracy has been exploring different ways by which public policies have been implemented in areas like health care, education and security, where the role played by discritionarity in the implementation process is often emphasized. In this study, we call for the value of complementing street-level bureaucracy discritionarity with the concept of proximity, brought from microfinance literature, in order to increase our understanding of the SLB/beneficiaries interaction process and its potential positive effects over public policy. To explore this question, we conceived a theoretical lens based on a frame analysis that explores SLB/beneficiaries relational mechanisms (Lotta, 2014; Goffman, 1974) and a methodological design based on a qualitative case study strategy (Stake, 1998). The results allowed us to show how proximity act on relational mechanisms, confirming the relational mechanisms found previously in the literature and pointing to new mechanisms, providing occa...

In this paper, we argue that temporality is a key factor in students’ learning process in management-oriented service-learning programs. We propose a process-based service learning model that sugge...

Empirical research has been suggesting that financial inclusion initiatives alone – such as facilitating access to financial resources or providing microcredit – are not enough to decrease socioeconomic disparities and promote entrepreneurship. In this paper, we adopt a critical perspective to propose a financial education framework tailored to low-income microentrepreneurs that take benefit from new technologies and seek to improve financial inclusion and social emancipation. We present the results of an empirical study conducted in a Brazilian Amazon municipality, which investigated the relationship between financial education and technological mediation processes used by microentrepreneurs in financial services through branchless banking systems.