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    • Americanizing Brazilian management 

      Silveira, Rafael Alcadipani; Caldas, Miguel Pinto
      2012
      Purpose: This paper aims to discuss, from a post-colonial perspective, the context and process of the Americanization of Brazilian management. Design/methodology/approach: The paper first briefly discusses post-colonialism ...
    • Empresas brasileiras e o desafio da competitividade 

      Wood Junior, Thomaz; Caldas, Miguel Pinto
      2007
      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 ...
    • Legacy identities: a tale of repression and redemption 

      Wood Junior, Thomaz; Caldas, Miguel Pinto
      2009
      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 ...
    • President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on a decade of social and economic change in Brazil 

      Caldas, Miguel Pinto; Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
      2002
      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, ...
    • Reductionism and complex thinking during ERP implementations 

      Wood Junior, Thomaz; Caldas, Miguel Pinto
      2001
      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 ...