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Board of directors and top management team: a study on CEO relative power and financial return
(2012-07-02)
Best corporate governance practices published in the primers of Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission and the Brazilian Corporate Governance Institute promote board independence as much as possible, as a way to ...
How does foreign capital participation affect Brazilian companies' performance?: investigation of foreign direct investment's impact on host country
(2012-05-13)
In this dissertation, we investigate the effect of foreign capital participations in Brazilians companies’ performance. To carry out this analysis, we constructed two sets of model based on EBITDA margin and return on ...
EDF and the Brazilian power sector
(2012-05-09)
Electricité de France (EDF) is a leading player in the European energy market by being both the first electricity producer in Europe and the world’s leading nuclear plant operator. EDF is also the first electricity producer ...
The market strategies alternatives of an e-business start-up in Brazil
(2012-04-24)
The e-business market is one of the fastest growing markets in Brazil, with e-business sales accounting for BRL 14.8 billion in 2010 and a growth of 40% per year (+1000% over the past 7 years). Sales-event clubs and ...
Voice over IP 2.0: an analysis of limits and potential of IP2IP telecommunication
(2012-04-23)
Internet Telephony (VoIP) is changing the telecommunication industry. Oftentimes free, VoIP is becoming more and more popular amongst users. Large software companies have entered the market and heavily invest into it. In ...
A deeper look at ethics within banking corporations: the approach of one of the biggest bank in the world
(2012-03-21)
There is a noticeable growing society’s preoccupation with ethics, coming partly from the numerous scandals that came to light in the corporate world lately, especially in the financial sector in which the repercussions ...
The family role on the internationalization process of family businesses: a two-case study
(2012-02-07)
This dissertation aims to identify the family role in the internationalization process of two family businesses: JBS, the world’s largest protein producer and Cutrale one of the world’s leader in the orange juice market. ...
Company size, organisational culture and human resource management in small to medium sized professional services firms: a case study
(2012-01-23)
Cultura organizacional e gestão de recursos humanos (GRH) são componentes fundamentais para a estratégia corporativa raramente estudada no contexto das pequenas e médias empresas (PME) no setor de serviços profissionais, ...
Os barões do café: um estudo exploratório sobre o comportamento de consumo masculino em relação a bens de luxo na cidade de São Paulo
(2012-01-19)
O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar o comportamento de consumo de consumidores masculinos na área urbana de São Paulo em relação a bens cosméticos de luxo e contribuir com informação para as empresas que visam se ...
Tayloring Brazil: a system dynamics model for monetary policy feedback
(2011-12-20)
The thesis introduces a system dynamics Taylor rule model of new Keynesian nature for monetary policy feedback in Brazil. The nonlinear Taylor rule for interest rate changes con-siders gaps and dynamics of GDP growth and ...
