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The knowledge-building process of public administration research: a comparative perspective between Brazil and North American contexts
2017-03Assessments of public administration research in the Global South are relatively scarce, although they are relevant in moving beyond a North-South dichotomy in understanding the knowledge-building process of public ... -
A gestão por resultados na educação em quatro estados brasileiros
2017-03Este artigo discute as reformas recentes na política de educação em quatro estados brasileiros. A adoção das reformas resultou do baixo desempenho dos alunos nas avaliações, e sua disseminação foi influenciada por diversos ... -
International environmental NGOs and the politics of genetically modified organisms: Rethinking resistance in international business
2017Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to problematize the resistance role played by international environmental non-governmental organizations (IENGOs) in the governance debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ... -
Power, governance, and value in collaboration: differences between buyer and supplier perspectives
2017-04Early research on buyer-supplier relationships was based on two cornerstones: relational governance mechanisms and superior value creation for the whole supply chain. Relational governance mechanisms, based on trust and ... -
The online unmanaged organization: control and resistance in a space with blurred boundaries
2017-04The unmanaged organization (Gabriel in Organ Stud 16: 477-501, 1995) is moving from coffee corners to social networks. This means not only a change of media, but also a transformation in how organizations exert control ... -
Information needs of system administrators in information technology service factories
2011In this paper we describe the results of an empirical study about the information needs of system administrators. This study is based on an electronic survey with more than 200 systems administrators, or sysadmins, working ... -
Comparing resistance to open data performance measurement: public education in Brazil and the UK
2017-03Much is known about governmental resistance to disclosure laws, less so about multi-stakeholder resistance to open data. This study compares open data initiatives within the primary and secondary school systems of Brazil ... -
Resisting and surviving the mainstream scientific model: findings on social relevance and social impact in the tropics
2017-02The question of the social relevance and social impact of knowledge has gained prominence. However, the debate appears to have been restricted to academia in North America and the United Kingdom, which possess their ... -
Toward a global sociology of knowledge: Post-colonial realities and intellectual practices
2017-01This article discusses changing social perspectives on knowledge, from the old sociology of knowledge to current post-colonial debates. The authors propose an approach that sees knowledge not as an abstract social construction ... -
Applying a third party access model for China's gas pipeline network: an independent pipeline operator and congestion rent transfer
2017-02This paper investigates third party access regulatory issues in China's natural gas industry. We study the development of China's gas market-oriented reform and how third party access becomes a pressing issue in that ... -
Social learning and network externalities in decision making
2017Purpose - This paper aims to identify the effects of social learning and network externalities by conditioning on product quality and early sales momentum. This approach is demonstrated using film sales data. Design/meth ... -
Patterns and predictors of health service use among people with mental disorders in São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil
2017-02Aims. Important transformations in psychiatric healthcare (HC) delivery have been implemented in Latin America during the beginning of 21st century. However, information on current service uses patterns is scant, obstructing ... -
O impacto da remuneração variável no desempenho do servidor público
2017-03O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar o efeito da remuneração variável sobre o desempenho do servidor público. Notou-se que a literatura é divergente quanto à associação entre os incentivos e a melhoria do desempenho ... -
Faces da desigualdade: os efeitos da circulação de retratos de crianças desaparecidas no Brasil
2017Em 1996 foi criado, no Rio de Janeiro, um serviço público especializado no desaparecimento de crianças e adolescentes: o SOS Crianças Desaparecidas. A criação do SOS atendeu a determinações da lei federal brasileira conhecida ... -
From formal to informal: executives who migrated to flexible work
2017-03Purpose - Given the changes occurred in the organization and work, flexible employment contracts are generally associated with a search for more productive employees. The purpose of this research is to understand the ... -
The long-run performance of brazilian stocks traded below book value
2017-04The price-to-book ratio (stock prices divided by book value per share) is a commonly used a valuation metric to screen for under-or overvalued stocks. Empirical evidence suggests that low price-to-book stocks (i.e., value ... -
Interest rates in trade credit markets
2017-02All things equal, interest rates should increase with the borrower's risk. And yet, Klapper, Laeven, and Rajan (2012) cannot find such a positive relation in a broad sample of trade credit contracts. We shed some light on ... -
State capacity, bureaucratic politicization, and corruption in the Brazilian State
2017-01Responding to recent articles in Governance highlighting the need for improved measurement of bureaucratic characteristics, this article describes efforts to map Brazil's federal agencies on three dimensions-capacity, ...
