This research aims to study private equity impact investments based on a comparative analysis of different private equity funds practices. In particular, it examines how the requirements of impact investing are encompassed ...

The purpose of this work is to explore the way the Rouanet Law has been applied in Brazil by addressing participants’ meanings on it and its use to explain why some manage and others fail, as well as their fundraising ...

The automotive industry always has been crisis prone and with the most recent Volkswagen emission incident, this dissertation aims at understanding the effects of a crisis on the brand reputation of the affected firm, ...

The internationalization of the higher education systems is key in the new globalized world, in order to form managers and citizens that are better able to work with different cultures and that can contribute to social ...

With the increasing concerns of beef production being the first cause of Amazonian deforestation, the Brazilian beef industry has taken major steps in recent years towards a more sustainable production. In this very ...

Brazil partially shifted from state-led development to market economy following its switch to democracy. This affected the economy in two ways: first the state initiated a wave of privatization in the wake of the fiscal ...

Ever since microfinance gained popularity in the United States in the early 1990s, American microfinance institutions (MFI) have been trying to figure out how microfinance fits in the American financial system. Initially, ...

This paper investigates the performance of private equity funds in emerging markets based on data of individual fund level returns from 1995 to 2013 obtained from Preqin. The research focus of this thesis lies on performance ...

The purpose of this study is to apply value-based business concepts to a product in order to gain insight into the competitive environment within its related industry. This case study is based upon qualitative information ...

The goal of this dissertation is to expand our understanding about generation Y, more specifically, self-initiated expatriated (SIE) - people who spontaneously decide to go abroad and look for new challenges. Those people ...