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Lost in participation: how local knowledge was overlooked in land use planning and risk governance in Tōhoku, Japan
2016This article aims to identify gaps in public participation in land use planning to improve risk governance, using the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) in 2011. Overreliance on technical information and on the ... -
Store patronage and retail competition in emerging markets
2016Large and local retailers' competition for customer patronage in emerging markets has received limited attention. One main discussion when analysing emerging markets is the role of large retailers and local companies. In ... -
A note on the continuity of the optimal auction
2015In the independent private values auction model I study the continuity properties of the optimal auction revenue as a function of the valuations or types distribution. I show that the optimal revenue is lowersemicontinuous ... -
From global 'North-South' to local 'Urban-Rural': a shifting paradigm in climate governance?
2015As the world takes an unprecedented rural-urban population tilt, the 21st century poses a challenge in further tinkering the internationally evident disparities in access and allocation of carbon. Traditionally, inequalities ... -
Successful business leaders’ focus on gender and poverty alleviation: the Lojas Renner Case of job and income generation for brazilian women
2015Successful entrepreneurs of a large retail chain for clothing—the Lojas Renner, decided to address gender, as well as job and income generation issues, in a challenging experience that involved several stakeholders in the ... -
Sustainable production and consumption of palm oil in Indonesia: what can stakeholder perceptions offer to the debate?
2015Meeting the global demand for palm oil poses great sustainability challenges. Indonesia is experiencing one of the largest oil palm expansions worldwide. Important socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the palm oil ... -
ℓ1-regularization of high-dimensional time-series models with non-Gaussian and heteroskedastic errors
2016We study the asymptotic properties of the Adaptive LASSO (adaLASSO) in sparse, high-dimensional, linear time-series models. The adaLASSO is a one-step implementation of the family of folded concave penalized least-squares. ... -
Institutions and export dynamics
2016We study how contract enforcement and export experience shape firm export dynamics in an environment with incomplete information. We show that exporters start with higher volumes and sell for longer periods in countries ... -
Dynamic capabilities, political external relationship, educational technology capability and firm performance
2016This study brings the argument that dynamic capabilities through the influences of external political relationship is able to create educational technology capability and it results in better performance. The reconfiguration ... -
Information quality and crises in regime-change games
2015When crises potentially originate from coordination failures, does a deterioration in the quality of the information available to market participants contribute towards instability? We address this question in a general ... -
Public administration for development: trends and the way forward
2015For more than six decades, Public Administration and Development has witnessed the way practitioners' and scholars' understanding of public administration for development has evolved. This issue has the objective of reviewing ... -
Transnational anticorruption law in action: cases from Argentina and Brazil
2015Debates over whether transnational and international legal institutions are fair, effective, or legitimate responses to corruption of local public officials have an important empirical dimension. We use case studies to ... -
The internationalization of spanish- and portuguese-speaking banks
2015This article investigates which variables affect the location choice of banks from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in their process of internationalization. The article compares the differences in these variables ... -
Analysing ICT and development from the perspective of the capabilities approach: a study in South Brazil
2015Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allows development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is acknowledgement of ... -
Does the competitive orientation really lead to emphasis on different internal capabilities?
2015Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the organization competitive orientation can really make firms emphasize different internal capability. This paper aims to revisit and extend the study proposed by ... -
Effects of credit card usage on young Brazilians’ compulsive buying
2014Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the moderating and mediating roles of credit card usage in the relationship between money attitudes (i.e. power-prestige, retention-time, distrust and anxiety) and compulsive ... -
Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil
2016This paper investigates the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with geo-referenced crime information from the city of São ... -
Teaching principles and fundamentals of business excellence to undergraduate students through a game
2016This article describes a business game used as a method to teach Business Excellence and Total Quality Management in an undergraduate course. The Business Excellence Model, disseminated by the Brazilian Quality Foundation, ... -
Hedging against embarrassment
2015This paper assesses the extent to which the expected disclosure to peers of an individual investor's financial performance influences his/her stock-trading decisions. In a lab experiment, participants trade in incentivized ... -
Evaluatng banking agents: a case of Brazilian banking correspondents
2015Financial institutions play an important role in the development of any country’s economy, but there is still an enormous gap between supply and demand of financial services that meet the needs of the poor. Hence, it is ...
