Coleção Insper Business and Economics Working Papers
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Working Paper Objective and subjective indicators of happiness in Brazil: The mediating role of social class(2008) Islam, Gazi; Herrera, Eduardo Wills; Hamilton, MarilynThe following research note tests the proposition that monetary household income affects Subjective Well Being (Deiner et al, 1999) through the mediating mechanisms of objective and subjective social class. A representative sample is drawn from a Brazilian urban center, in a door-to-door survey format. A back-translated version of Diener et al’s (1985) Satisfaction with Life Scale showed a significant relationship with income. However, this effect was mediated by both objectively measured and subjectively measured social class. These effects reinforce, extend, and internationally generalize the person x situation perspective elaborated by Diener et al.Working Paper Animating Leadership: Crisis and Renewal of Governance in 4 Mythic Narratives(2008) Islam, GaziThis paper analyzes four animated films in order to explore themes of leadership crises and leadership emergence. Drawing on psychoanalysis and structuralist film studies, this paper explores leadership emergence as a mythic structure within the four films, arguing that these myths are structured around a struggle of a young novice against an evil power figure, and the overcoming of this figure through a process of self-discovery and maturation. Central themes include the relations between self-realization of leaders and the social harmony, the battle with evil leaders as an ego-struggle, and exile and journey as a precursor to mature leadership competence. The paper attempts to show how, following Miendl et al (1985) leadership myths often conflate individual psychological well-being with social well-being, and adds to this perspective that such a conflation may be key to understanding leadership myths as projections of internal psychological dynamics. More generally, it is argued that treating popular culture such as animated allegories as contemporary myth offers scholars a view into popular conceptions of leadership, possible illuminating the relationships between leadership and social organization.Working Paper Rituals in Organizations: A Review and Expansion of Current Theory(2008) Islam, Gazi; Zyphur, Michael J.Working Paper Bridging Two Worlds: Identity Transition in a University Consulting Community of Practice(2008) Islam, GaziThis chapter attempts to use the concept of communities of practice to describe the process of professional learning in a student-run consulting group. The central thesis put forward is that communities of practice within educational settings can act as intermediary zones between university and professional settings, providing students with opportunities to learn social and professional norms that would be difficult to acquire in traditional classroom settings. Drawing on theories of theories of ritual and identity in organizations (e.g. Trice and Beyer, 1993; Pratt, 2000), the chapter examines a studentrun consulting practice that draws on university support and professorial expertise, but whose managerial processes are centered around a self-selected group of students that is best described as a community of practice. It is argued that this student group, through various means of socialization and competency development, constructs a space in between institutionalized fields that eases the transition between educational and work settings.Working Paper Working Paper Working Paper Self-interest and organizational performance: an empirical examination with U.S. and Brazilian managers(2008) SERGIO GIOVANETTI LAZZARINI; Islam, Gazi; Mesquita, Luiz Ferraz de