... was conducted. The guidelines of ISO 20400 were used as a base to structure a questionnaire used in a survey with professionals working in procurement sphere of manufacturing companies in Brazil. The data were analysed via frequency and CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) method...

... of the nature of the ultimate firm owner on the quality of corporate governance in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach Econometric models are estimated to assess whether the nature of the ultimate controlling shareholder affects the quality of the corporate governance system. Models are estimated using...

... 01 2018 03 04 2018 12 06 2018 02 08 2018 06 08 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Brazil Shareholder activism Efficiency Corporate governance Data envelopment analysis Shareholders have many...

... reputations are increasingly analysed as rationales for a firm to engage in practices leading to sustainable development. Brazil Case study Employees Corporate sustainability Corporate sustainability (CS) is nowadays among concepts most widely used to refer to relationships between business...

...Gilbert Lenssen; André Nijhof; Ludwig Roger; Henk Kievit; Lucas Amaral Lauriano; Heiko Spitzeck; João Henrique Dutra Bueno Purpose – This paper aims to present the state of corporate citizenship in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – The results of a survey of Brazilian companies is used...

... Europe and South Africa and best corporate governance practices developed for Brazil, the authors developed a list of aspects associated to practices related to SMEs. This list was submitted to 15 specialists, and the resulting compilation produced a list of 49 items that were submitted to a sample of 78...

... The authors analyze a single case study of a collaboration between BASF, André Maggi Group and Fundação Espaço Eco in Brazil. The objective is to evaluate whether the applied strategy can be considered as a case of shared value creation. Findings The case study on the collaboration between BASF...

... contexts, namely France and Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a literature review as well as on interviews with representatives from companies and other stakeholder groups in France and Brazil. Findings The paper highlights the impact of national traditions...

...Alexandre Di Miceli da Silveira; Ricardo Pereira Câmara Leal; André Luiz Carvalhal‐da‐Silva; Lucas Ayres B. de C. Barros Purpose This paper aims to investigate the determinants and the evolution of voluntarily adopted firm‐level corporate governance practices in Brazil from 1998 to 2004 using...

... context means not taking those questions literally, as they appear in the MDGs (see below). This is because some aspects gain greater relevance in Brazil at this point: for example, the quality of primary education – given that the goal of universal access to primary education (MDG 2) has been relatively...

...Ricardo P.C. Leal; Claudia L.T. De Oliveira We survey board practices in Brazil. Brazilian companies are commonly controlled by family groups or through shareholders agreements. Controlling shareholders hold a very large portion of voting shares, much more than the minimum necessary to retain...