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This article analyzes images of Greta Thunberg, a teenager and environmental activist, in her mediatic presencWe on the social network Instagram. The theoretical framework deals with the issue of adolescence from a sociocultural perspective; discusses the meanings of activist practice in the globalized context of communication; and reflects on the culture of inspiration in that context. The methodology of analysis is based on Landowski's proposal, on the imagery expression of identity and difference; and in Charaudeau's communication contracts. Among the study's conclusions, we highlight the contradictions of Greta's adolescent condition, of her political role and of the global projection of her image as an inspiring leader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes Brazilian banks from the perspectives of narrative defenders from the current model and of those who defend deep and structural changes, based on the premise of the article by Wanderbroock (2018) who studied the Statements of Added Value - DVA, with the finality of making public the social responsibility of organizations, which was made into a mandatory Law 11,638/2007 where companies are accountable to society. This study analyzed the convergences and divergences in the distribution of value in the 500 largest companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA, separating them into two groups, production companies, and banks. The comparison showed that there are significant convergences between companies of the same groups/sectors and significant divergences between the productive sectors and the banks, where it was found that companies in the financial sector are the ones that most concentrate wealth, that is, they distribute more wealth to shareholders than companies in the productive sector. This article is a descriptive-qualitative research with discourse analysis, presenting the different views about Brazilian banks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming to stimulate the debate and the critical thinking of the students in management and business, this teaching case aims to present a real situation in which inadequate, immoral and criminal conducts are shown, committed by a pharmaceutical company. Therefore, it differs from others whose interest is to identify best practices and decision making for a certain situation. The case is about the episode "Drug Short" from the series "Dirty Money", that presents the many illegal and immoral practices committed by the pharmaceutical company Valeant, in an attempt to obtain greater profits for its shareholders. The case focuses on corporate practices that are harmful to society and gives an opportunity for a debate about the consequences of these actions and how they can be avoided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to present and discuss the role of activist mothers in the Baixada Fluminense region. Knowing the Fluminense territorial context of the rise of lethal violence that elects, mainly, black subjects as victims and also the recurrence of the State's ineffectiveness to solve these cases (Atlas of violence, 2019); (Iser, 2018), mothers' social movements play a central role in the struggle for justice and denunciation of the ongoing black genocide. Bringing to the discussion the concepts of Margin (DAS; POOLE, 2008) and the contributions on periphery presented by (ROLNIK, 2010) seek to trace a relationship between the movement carried out by these mothers, as coming from a reaction/action of the margins, the periphery that they are inserted and the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the phenomenon of minority participation by the State in business societies. It addresses: (i) the main characteristics of State-owned companies and what differentiates them from controlled companies; (ii) the way in which the State can assume the condition of controlling shareholder without a majority of the share capital and the implications of this control in the legal regime of these companies; (iii) the legal regime of companies with minority State participation under private control and the main causes that justify State participation without control power. It is concluded that the company controlled by the State suffers a partial influx from the publicist regime, since the State cannot detach itself, as a controlling shareholder, from the principles that govern its intervention in the economic domain. On the other hand, minority State participation does not exempt the State from adopting governance and control practices proportional to the relevance, materiality and risks of the business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]