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    • Brazil: keeping it in the family 

      Coutinho, Luciano; Rabelo, Flávio Marcílio
      2003
      Although recent changes in the legal and institutional framework governing relations between controlling and minority shareholders may help local capital markets develop, major problems persist and serious obstacles to ...
    • Business ethics and corporate governance in Latin America 

      Bedicks, Heloisa Belotti; Arruda, Maria Cecilia Coutinho de
      2005
      This article determines what the role of business ethics is within the Latin American corporate governance context. We analyzed five sources of information that provide vital information on the state of corporate governance ...
    • Efeitos da vinculação de conselheiros ao acordo de acionistas no valor da firma 

      Gelman, Marina Oehling; Castro, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de; Seidler, Valentin
      2015
      This study analyzes the effect of shareholders' agreement binding provisions on firm value. Using a database of 181 publicly listed firms from the special segments of the BM&FBovespa, between 2008 and 2012, we analyze the ...
    • Financial dimension of internationalization: serving two masters 

      Lana, Jeferson; Marcon, Rosilene; Bandeira-de-Mello, Rodrigo; Xavier, Wlamir Gonçalves
      2017
      Purpose: Drawing on the agency and institutional theory, this paper aims to explore how financial internationalization shapes firm performance through the influence of foreign actors. Design/methodology/approach: By using ...
    • Firm age, value, performance and corporate governance in Brazil 

      Leite, Rodrigo de Oliveira; Silva, André Luiz Carvalhal da
      2016
      Several articles analyze the life cycle of firms and identify throughout time that their performance has an inverted U shape. Firms achieve an optimal level and, thereafter, decline due to lack of flexibility and difficulties ...
    • Governança corporativa: custos de agência e estrutura de propriedade 

      Saito, Richard; Silveira, Alexandre Di Miceli da
      2008
      Este ensaio é estruturado da seguinte forma: a seção 2 apresenta os pontos centrais da teoria de Jensen e Meckling (1976); a seção 3 descreve a verifi cação empírica empreendida por Morck, Shleifer e Vishny (1988); e a ...
    • Identifying essential organizational characteristics for smart urban governance 

      Przeybilovicz, Erico; Cunha, Maria Alexandra; Tomor, Zsuzsanna
      2017
      In this paper, we identify the essential organizational characteristics of local government that are crucial for smart urban governance. To do, we conducted a systematic review of 96 articles on this theme. Through a ...
    • The Influence of E-disclosure on the Ex-Ante Cost of Capital of Listed Companies in Brazil 

      Silva, Wesley Mendes da; Onusic, Luciana Massaro; Bergmann, Daniel Reed
      2014
      The aim of this article is to show the existence of a relationship between voluntary disclosure via corporate websites and the ex-ante cost of capital of companies listed on the BM&FBovespa. Ordinary least-squares regression ...
    • Knowledge inputs, legal institutions and firm structure: Towards a knowledge-based theory of the firm 

      Gorga, Érica; Halberstam, Michael
      2007
      Corporate scholars rely on traditional theories of the firm to analyze corporate organization and corporate contracting. Traditional theories of the firm, however, have long neglected the role of knowledge in shaping the ...
    • Principal versus principal conflicts in the brazilian context 

      Branco, Luiza; Balassiano, Marcel
      2013
      The purpose of the study is to estimate the magnitude of the votes and the excess of votes of the majority shareholders in Brazilian companies grounded by the agency theory. The ownership structure of Brazilian organizations ...
    • Private equity and corporate governance: managing brazilian SMEs 

      Latini, Estêvão Teixeira; Fontes Filho, Joaquim Rubens; Chambers, Eric L.
      2014
      This paper aims to identify the effectiveness of private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funds in promoting best practices of corporate governance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) committed to PE/VC partnerships, ...
    • The problem of incentives in building corporate governance models 

      Fontes Filho, Joaquim Rubens; Balassiano, Moisés
      2008
      The attempt to align interests of executives with those of shareholders has been addressed in the corporate governance context from a predominantly economic outlook based on the agency theory. The models that combine ...
    • The role of the board in voluntary disclosure 

      Bueno, Giovana; Marcon, Rosilene; Silva, André Leonardo Pruner da; Ribeirete, Fabio
      2018
      Purpose: Since 2012, the Brazilian Stock Exchange has recommended that listed companies inform them if they have conducted voluntary disclosure. The purpose of this study is to describe the voluntary disclosure by companies ...