Browsing by Author "Di Serio, Luiz Carlos"
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Operational practices and financial performance: an empirical analysis of Brazilian manufacturing companies
2011-12-01In the operations management field, operational practices like total quality management or just in time have been seen as a way to improve operational performance and ultimately financial performance. Empirical support for ... -
Organizational risk management: a case study in companies that have won the Brazilian quatity award prize
2011Supply chain optimization, company interdependency and the establishment of global operating networks have all made companies more susceptible to uncertainty and risk. Literature on the subject lacks analysis of how companies ... -
Planning technological businesses: a study of market positioning and the value chain
2017-06-01Purpose: To evaluate the applicability, contributions, and adaptations required for a decision support model in the context of a business model's definition. The business model refers to 10 technological projects. ... -
The relationship between national culture dimensions and degree of innovation
2017The objective of this research is to analyse the relationship between cultural dimensions and the degree of innovation at the national level. For such, secondary data were collected relating to Hofstede's cultural dimensions ... -
Relationships and partnerships in small companies: strengthening the business through external agents
2016-03-01This article aims to understand the relationships between small companies and external innovation agents and how they can help strengthening these organisations. A multiple case research method was adopted by the researchers ... -
Relationships and partnerships in small companies: strengthening the business through external agents
2016This article aims to understand the relationships between small companies and external innovation agents and how they can help strengthening these organisations. A multiple case research method was adopted by the researchers ... -
Risk management in the supply chain of the Brazilian automotive industry
2015-06-22With a growth scenario found in few places in the world, the Brazilian automotive market has become attractive, jumping from investments of about 1 billion dollar in 2005 to more than 5 billion dollars in 2012. This article ... -
Strategic alignment in the Brazilian automotive chain
2012-06-18The research objective is verifying the strategic alignment of supply practices between automakers and suppliers in the Brazilian automotive supply chains. It makes an exploratory-descriptive study of objectives, using ... -
Strategic outsourcing? The Philips case in the LCD TV market
2011This work seeks to assess the outsourcing process adopted by Philips for producing LCD televisions. The authors used the Resource-based Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory for analyzing the case. Based on industry data ... -
Supply networks and value creation in high innovation and strong network externalities industry
2013The rapid developing product and service markets and developments in information technologies have accelerated growth in outsourcing of peripheral activities and critical business as well, enhancing the importance of network ... -
Tecnologia e competitividade no Brasil: exploração integrada visando reconhecer os efeitos da introdução de novas tecnologias sobre a competitividade das empresas no contexto brasileiro
2005-11-24This research examines the not so clear an explicit relations between competitiveness and technologic innovation, starting from the conceptual framework. Four case studies, focusing three Brazilian companies and one ...
