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The influence of a company's communicated CSR initiative on private consumer behavior
(2019-12-19)
The aim of this research is to determine if and how the communication of a company’s CSR initiative influences private consumer behavior. Hereby it is also considered whether the consumers’ support of the issue at hand ...
Service process and outcome quality: a study on Brazilian municipalities' education service
(2019-12-19)
This study aims to analyse the impact of ten dimensions of the education service process in the municipalities of São Paulo, Brazil, on students’ performance (the education service outcome) – assessed by the IDEB scores. ...
Impacts of shared mobility services on urban mobility: a comparative approach between Lisbon and São Paulo
(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 ...
Legal outsourcing in the shipping industry
(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 ...
Toward agriculture 4.0: opportunities and threats of the agribusiness sector: an analysis of the risk management strategies developed by Brazilian SMEs to cope with commodity price risk
(2019-12-13)
This paper aims at demonstrating the importance of the adoption of risk management strategies by companies operating in the agribusiness sector. The future evolution of the sector requires the change of operations and the ...
Economic sustainability of indoor vertical farming in São Paulo
(2019-12-12)
Vertical farming, the practice of growing produce either vertically or in vertically stacked layers, has received growing attention from investors, media, and scholars – specially in most recent decades. Until recently, ...
A debt crisis rooted in colonialism: a historical analysis of how the U.S.- Puerto Rico relationship contributed to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis
(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. ...
Consequences of steel tariffs on imported vehicles: the case of US
(2019-12-10)
This thesis analyses the effect of US steel tariffs on the volume of vehicles imported from the European Union from April 2002 to August 2005. The intent is to fill part of the gap left by the literature on the effect of ...
Impact of the transportation infrastructure on the competitiveness level of Ecuadorian companies in the global market
(2019-12-10)
Competitiveness is one of the most important advantage when a country wants to persevere in the global economy. Latin-America has been relegated from the economic growth in the last decades. There are several reasons why ...
Diffusion of frugal innovation and innovativeness in low-income contexts
(2019-12-09)
This research examines the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) in Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets in the context of Frugal Innovation as well as the characteristics of innovative consumers in low-income markets. It is divided ...