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Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)
In light of the Theory of Ecological Modernisation, this is the first work to explore the organisational barriers affecting one of the most significant sustainable public procurement initiatives in Latin America: the ...
Information, market incentives, and student performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Brazil
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
We use a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rule for the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance in public and private schools. We find ...
Public transport and school location impacts on educational inequalities: Insights from São Paulo
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
In many large Latin American urban areas such as the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), growing social and economic inequalities are embedded through high spatial inequality in the provision of state schools and affordable ...
Brazilian oil sector reforms: The role of technical know-how and corporate ethos in Petrobras's dominance
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
The literature shows that Petrobras's specialized knowledge in deep-water exploration helped it maintain its dominance of the oil sector in Brazil. This article contributes to the literature by throwing light on how this ...
Licenciaturas no Brasil: cursos e formandos
(Arizona State University, 2018)
The present article deals with the initial formation of teachers in Brazil from 2000 to 2015. Using data from the census of Higher Education for these 15 years, we analyzed the supply of courses and the volume of enrollments ...
Counterfeiting: addressing mitigation and resilience in supply chains
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how companies develop mitigation capabilities in their supply chains in order to reduce the negative impacts of counterfeiting. Design/methodology/approach: Five cases with ...
Brazil in the global anticorruption regime
(INSTBRASILEIRORELACOESINT, 2018)
Brazilian anticorruption law and institutions were significantly transformed in recent decades. This article traces those transformations and explains how the international anticorruption and money laundering regimes ...
Green label signals in an emerging real estate market. A case study of Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
This article investigates how real estate stakeholders price information conveyed by voluntary environmental certification schemes in Sao Paulo, the largest metropolitan area of Latin America. In addition to low incidence ...
Performance of fixed income funds in brazil: market timing and style analysis
(Editora Univ Estado Bahia, 2017-12)
This study investigates whether managers of Fixed Income Brazilian funds exhibit market-timing abilities and what are the main components driving a fund's return. Measuring timing ability of Fixed Income funds' managers ...
The foundation of the academic field in Business and Administration in Brazil: the case of RAUSP
(Departamento de Administração da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo, 2017-12-01)
The foundation of the academic field in Business and Administration in Brazil: The case of RAUSP: This work proposes an interpretation, based on a Social Constructionism approach, of the genesis of the Business Administration ...
