Buscar
Itens para a visualização no momento 1-10 of 13
Purpose-built accommodations: what attributes do students value more when choosing where to live?
(2018-01-10)
This research reveals what attributes and services student housings and purpose-built accommodations provide their target groups with. It analyzes not only the developing and growing student housing market in Brazil but ...
The organizational model of liberated companies: what they have in common?
(2017-12-06)
This study addresses the current debate about the existence of an organizational model in liberated companies, which impacts its generalization and its transmission over time. Our purpose is to determine whether there is ...
Self-initiated expatriates generation Y personality traits and challenges organizations face to recruit them
(2017)
The goal of this dissertation is to expand our understanding about generation Y, more specifically, self-initiated expatriated (SIE) - people who spontaneously decide to go abroad and look for new challenges. Those people ...
The WeTest model of citizens’ integration to water management: designing a pilot of collaborative water monitoring
(2016-12-01)
Water crisis is global and drives huge environmental, social and economic challenges. Human impact on water resources is established. Adaptive policies are attempts to renew water management practices in order to preserve ...
Female senior managers in the Brazilian finance industry: a journey towards success
(2016-03-03)
At the global level, the representation of female leaders in organisations is often still in single figures in percentage terms. Particularly in finance, these records are below industry average, and the strong competition ...
Overconfidence and confirmation bias: are future managers vulnerable?
(2015-02-19)
Decision makers often use ‘rules of thumb’, or heuristics, to help them handling decision situations (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979b). Those cognitive shortcuts are taken by the brain to cope with complexity and time limitation ...
Exploring different social media users from the millennials’ generation: a cross-cultural behavioral analysis of Brazilian users of Facebook and chinese users of RenRen
(2015-01-23)
With the increasing importance of digital communication and its distinct characteristics, marketing tools and strategies adopted by companies have changed dramatically. Among the many digital marketing tools and new media ...
Gender in international economic development projects: how is gender being institutionalized in the Inter-American Development Bank?
(2014-09-19)
O Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, o Banco Mundial, e outras organizações financiam iniciativas para acelerar o desenvolvimento da região da América Latina e Caribe. Antes do final da década de 80, vários projetos ...
Power relations perceptions in a Brazilian favela: a case study of Vila Nova Esperança inhabitants association directors
(2014-03-13)
Vila Nova Esperança é uma das 400 favelas do estado de São Paulo. Nos últimos anos, esta comunidade sobreviveu a um duro processo judiciário em contra de poderosos órgãos governamentais e ganhou a atenção de organizações ...
Cinema attendance during crises is there a relationship between cinema attendance and the state of the economy in France in the period 1992-2012?
(2013-12-11)
O presente estudo teve como objetivo testar se a situação econômica teve um impacto sobre os hábitos de consumo de cinema na França, no período contemporâneo (1992-2012). O estudo aborda a relação entre indicadores econômicos ...
