Although Virtual Reality (VR) is considered to be one of the new technologies with the highest potentiality, especially in the retail field, research into customers’ acceptance and intentions to use this technology is ...

This research paper aims at bringing a comprehension on the potential of replication of initiatives based on the Short Food Supply Chain in Brazil. The reduction of the distance between the producer and the end consumer ...

The concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) recently emerged with the rise of new mobility solutions and the increasing need for multimodality in cities. The existing literature on MaaS schemes focuses on cities in developed ...

Esta tese analisa o desempenho de fundos mútuos de ações de mercados emergentes durante o período de janeiro de 2005 a dezembro de 2017. O objetivo é preencher a lacuna metodológica da literatura de mercado desenvolvida ...

This present study analyses, under the resource-based view (RBV) and the transaction cost theory (TCT) approach, small and medium import companies operating in the non-durable consumer goods sector in Brazil. The RBV theory ...

A context of increased demand for wellness tourism is attracting new players in the tourism industry. The concept of wellness tourism has emerged but hasn’t broken through yet: it is already defined and presented in the ...

The tourism industry has been booming worldwide over the last decades, and South America has not been an exception. According to the data provided by the UNWTO, the continent had one of the highest growth in terms of ...

Investment in distressed assets, while relatively mature in developed markets, has become more and more common in Brazil in a context of a lingering economic downturn, offering interesting but risky opportunities to domestic ...

This study examines music collecting behavior and experience in the streaming era. Twelve in-depth, qualitative interviews were carried out to explore the nature of analog music collecting in Brazil and to understand the ...

This thesis compares the stand-alone safeguard policies for indigenous peoples provided by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, in order to propose an indigenous peoples policy ...