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The impact of government equity investment on internationalization: the case of Brazil
(EAESP - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, 2016)
We examine the impact of government equity ownership on the degree of internationalization of emerging market firms. Our analysis of 173 Brazilian publicly traded firms from 2002 to 2011 shows that the higher the equity ...
Some key success factors in web-based corporate training in Brazil: a multiple case study
(2008)
Brazilian companies are increasingly turning to Web-based corporate training by virtue of the fact that they need to train their employees within tight budget constraints in a country of continental dimensions. However, ...
The impacts of conditional cash transfers in four presidential elections (2002-2014)
(Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política, 2015-04-01)
This research note examines the electoral impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the 2014 presidential election, and compares these to results previously obtained for the preceding three elections (ZUCCO, 2013). ...
International trajectories of Brazilian companies: Empirical contribution to the debate on the importance of distance
(2010)
Purpose – It has been argued in the international business literature that companies begin their internationalization trajectories by entering countries that are geographically and psychically closest to the country in ...
A great leap forward for democracy and the rule of law? Brazil's mensalão trial
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2016-08)
The Mensalão trial was Brazil's most important political corruption trial ever and an emblematic ex post accountability success. More than 28 individuals were convicted in relation to a legislative vote-buying scheme, many ...
O Brasil, o Império Otomano e a Sociedade Internacional: contrastes e conexões (1850-1919)
(2012-08-20)
This study aims to analyze how Brazil and the Ottoman Empire sought to insert themselves into the European international society – along the lines as the English School of International Relations defines so – in the period ...
The non-ratification of bilateral investment treaties in Brazil: a story of conflict in a land of cooperationy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015-09-03)
This article examines Brazil's unique experience with bilateral investment treaties (BITs) - the country signed 14 of them in the 1990s, but none was ever ratified. The case is puzzling for a number of reasons. First, BITs ...
Keeping it legal: transboundary management challenges facing Brazil and the Guarani
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
This paper examines the legal and ecological problems facing the Guarani Aquifer System. Because the majority of the Guarani Aquifer System underlies Brazil, the Brazilian legal regime forms the paper's principal focus. ...
Filantropia, poder público e combate à lepra (1920-1945)
(Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2011-12-01)
The 1920s creation of Sociedades de Assistência aos Lázaros e Defesa Contra a Lepra under Brazil's First Republic (1889-1930) represented a milestone in relations between assistance organizations and the government. Although ...
Brazilian management gurus as reflexive soft-HRM practitioners: an empirical study
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013)
This article is an empirical study of Brazilian management gurus, that is, Portuguese-speaking gurus who practise almost wholly in Brazil. It is based on secondary, and primary elite interview data, and finds that Brazilian ...
Paradoxes perception and smartphone use by Brazilian executives: Is this genderless?
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)
This study aims to identify the influence of gender in the perception of paradoxes accrued from smartphone use by Brazilian executives. From the extant scientific literature, this work identified fourteen technological ...
Estado, polícias e segurança pública no Brasil
(Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Direito de São Paulo, 2016-04-01)
This paper seeks to associate the theoretical and academic debate to the public safety overview in Brazil, highlighting agenda items of the area that would be a priority for the public debate, especially in a moment when ...
Uma análise comparativa da regulação de gás natural entre os mercados do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos
(2014-11)
This work has the objective of presenting the main elements of the regulatory regime of natural gas in Brazil and in the United States. After describing both regimes, the work compares both regulatory systems, identifying ...
Governance in managing public health resources in brazilian municipalities
(Oxford Univ Press, 2014-09)
This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly ...
The dawn of solar power in Brazil: current state and future challenges
(2017-11-29)
As a sun-soaked South American giant with a population of more than 200 million, Brazil is considered to have some of the best conditions for solar power worldwide. Despite its tremendous potential, the countryhas so far ...
Divided Brazil awaits Rousseff after poll win
(2014-10-27)
In her victory speech, President Dilma Rousseff said she did not believe the nation’s closest election in a generation had divided Brazil. But she only needed to go online to see the civil war raging on social media to see ...
Building support for the Asad regime: the Syrian diaspora in Argentina and Brazil and the Syrian uprising
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)
Brazil and Argentina are hosts to two of the largest populations of Syrian descent in Latin America. While Syrian immigrants and their descendants have usually defined their identities based on broad Arab nationalistic ...
An evaluation of the Business Model Canvas by technology-oriented startups in Brazil : a qualitative study about the usage of the tool by Brazilian entrepreneurs
(2016-01-28)
The following paper was conducted with the support of several entrepreneurs and startups from Brazil. The aim of the research was to find out which impact the Business Model Canvas, further abbreviated as BMC, has on ...
An empirical model of the Brazilian country risk - An extension of the beta country risk model
(2006)
This paper develops a statistical model to study the Brazilian country risk using a country beta model in the spirit of Harvey and Zhou (1993), Erb et al. (1996a, b) and Gangemi et al . (2000). Specifically, the impact of ...
Consumers’ inflation expectations in Brazil
(2017)
This paper investigates what are the main components of consumer’s inflation expectations. We combine the FGV’s Consumer Survey with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indices on inflation (IPCA and ...
