FGV EAESP - MPGI: Dissertações, Mestrado Profissional em Gestão Internacional

Impacts of shared mobility services on urban mobility: a comparative approach between Lisbon and São Paulo

Santana, Gabriel Oliveira Rosas de
2019-12-17

The emergence of shared mobility services in cities around the globe, such as shared bicycles, cars, scooters, and ridesharing, caused impacts on urban mobility, requiring actions from local authorities, altering people’s ...

Mining companies and sustainability: role of CSR in Canadian mining companies in Brazil

Kazantseva, Mariia
2020-01

Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility and tighter scrutiny in environmental regulation compliance, mineral extraction companies have encountered more challenges in their internationalization process. ...

A debt crisis rooted in colonialism: a historical analysis of how the U.S.- Puerto Rico relationship contributed to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis

Perryman, Maricela
2019-12-10

This research will explore how the colonial administration built by the United States in Puerto Rico contributed to the root causes of the debt which, I argue are a colonial- capitalist economy that developed under U.S. ...

Digital platforms and sustainable business models: a study about food waste recovery

Bruno, Lucrezia
2019-12-05

The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted each year (FAO, 2017). In that respect, increasing attention has been paid to the ...

Franchising as a catalyst for conscious capitalism in retail: an exploratory study on the benefits in franchising chains

Lopes, Laís Ceni
2020-01-17

Franchising is an internationally implemented business model characterized by a great partnership and responsibility between the parties, being compared in some studies to a marriage relationship, due to the high degree ...

Legal outsourcing in the shipping industry

Santos, Kayel Clark Ribeiro dos
2019-12-16

The issue that this thesis addresses is the rationale behind the outsourcing decision of legal activities. To address this problem, the purpose of this study has explored what strategy Multinational Enterprises from the ...

Is money buying better results at PISA and INVALSI tests? The Italian case

Savino, Gaetano
2019-12-04

“More effort of the South is needed. You need to work hard. This is needed.” So spoke the Italian Minister of Education in the province of Naples. He did so when asked whether Southern Italy would receive more funds to ...

Using deep learning in stock price forecasting

Dietsche, Lucian Andreas Felix
2019-11-18

The following paper investigates the possibility of using artificial intelligence, in particular a long short-term memory Network (LSTM), to forecast stock prices. As input data 59 different variables are chosen based on ...

Are African low-cost operators on the trail of Ryanair? How is their business model structured with regards to costs, connectivity, and fleet structure?

Nowak, Christopher Robert
2019-11-22

This paper examines the business models of Sub-Saharan African low cost carriers with regards to costs, connectivity and fleet structure in an effort to find out to what extent they exhibit the peculiarities of a classic-case ...

The clean meat narrative: a case study

Stettler, Oliver
2019-12

Histórias sempre foram a linguagem da experiência humana, mas adquiriram importância sem precedentes na atualidade, dessa vez na forma de narrativas. À medida que o mundo se torna cada vez mais tecnológico, digital e ...

The impact of private equity and venture capital investments on industry performance: evidence from Latin America

Cebulla, Johannes
2019-11-19

The growth of the private equity industry over the last decades has risen the importance of understanding how private equity investments impact the overall economy. While the existing research has mainly focused on the ...

Compensation effects in a Socially Responsible Investment context

Woegerbauer, Barbara
2019-11-22

A central idea of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is that investors accept a loss in financial returns if they are compensated by non-financial utility that they derive from their sustainable investment. This study ...

Implications of digital transformation related industry evolution on the strategy of Walmart, as an example of a U.S. grocery retailer

Sabisch, Sebastian Franz
2019-09-30

The thesis studies the evolution of the grocery retail industry in the United States and its impact on the strategy of established firms in that industry. It builds upon a set of strategic concepts and frameworks, most ...

The influence of information technology on sustainable supply chain management: a multicase approach

Mantovani, Pedro Henrique Matos
2019-09-20

Sustainability became a trend topic for business strategy, and companies are considering it as a central concern, enforcing activities that affect positively the environment and the society besides economic performance. ...

M&A announcements on stock returns: evidence from private takeovers in Latin America

Morales, Lucas Vilela
2019-09-18

This master thesis aims to analyze the impact of private takeovers announcements on acquires’ stock prices in Latin American countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Peru. I gathered data from 161 ...

Artificial intelligence in the cybersecurity of German Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Dörpinghaus, Simon
2019-09-12

With the recent boom in big data and the continuous need for innovation, artificial intelligence is carving out a bigger place in our society. Through its cognitive capabilities, it brings new possibilities to tackle many ...

How does corporate venture capital spur innovation? A cross-country analysis between the brazilian and australian markets

Ballestreri, Gustavo da Paz
2019-09-20

Corporate venture capital consiste em uma poderosa ferramenta para empresas gerarem inovação. Esse estudo teve como objetivo identificar quais são os mecanismos e condições que melhor exploram todo seu potencial de inovação ...