Emerging economies are drawing increasing attention from investors and foreign businesses. However, doing business within emerging countries can be frustrating. As a case in point, in the largest South American economy ...

The theme of competitiveness has been subject of research in different academic realms, such as economy, strategy, operations management and organization studies. As expected, each of these disciplines deal with competitiveness ...

Fusões e aquisições estão entre as mais relevantes e dramáticas formas de mudança organizacional. Entretanto, os mecanismos estratégicos e organizacionais que contribuem para o sucesso de um processo de integração pós-fusão ...

A importação e o uso indiscriminado de tecnologia gerencial vinda de países desenvolvidos podem provocar efeitos colaterais indesejáveis, como a perda da visão estratégica ou a incontinência verbal. A solução é retomar os ...

The concept of organizational identity became a subject of interest within the academic milieu in the mid- 1980s. In this paper, we propose the construct of legacy identities, those persistent identities that, first, endure ...

Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil since January 1, 1995. He was reelected in 1998 in the first elections round, with 53% of the vote. Prior to becoming a public figure, ...

In this paper, the authors contrast complex thinking and reductionism in organizational transformation processes, focusing on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. ERP has been promoted as a management panacea, and ...

To understand leader influence behavior in organizations, it is essential to understand how subordinates interpret the different influence strategies used by their superiors. In this study, we examine the effect of influence ...