... are important sustainable development co-benefits of CDM projects and Brazil is the third largest CDM project developer in the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the HRM practices declared by Brazilian CDM projects and how these practices have been, in fact, implemented by the proponents...

...Alceu Gomes Alves Filho; Edemilson Nogueira; Paulo Eduardo Gomes Bento Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the operations strategies (OSs) adopted by six of the all seven automobile engine manufacturers in action in Brazil during the years of 2005 and 2006. Design...

... of their logistics function, as well as the impact on that choice of possible interactions between these two characteristics of the shippers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected in a comprehensive survey on the use of 3PL service providers in Brazil using a sample of 93 large Brazilian shippers...

... opportunities based on the competitive analysis of the improvement gap. Design/methodology/approach A case analyzing attributes of the service “rodizio de pizzas” a kind of pizzeria found in Brazil, was used to illustrate the proposed method. Resulting from a focus group, four attributes, one of them being...

... representing the declared importance to customers of each dimension (Parasuraman et al., 1988). Eliane Pereira Zamith Brito can be contacted at: elianebrito@mackenzie.com.br © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Brazil Maintenance Private cars SERVQUAL Operations management...

...” from consumption; and 4. perishability: “services cannot be inventoried” (Stevenson, 2005). Henrique Luiz Corrêa can be contacted at: HCorrea@rollins.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Operations and production management Value chain South America Brazil...

... institutional environments (e.g. developed economies). Moreover, the interplay between horizontal and vertical relationships must be studied further. Last but not least, causality must be better established. Practical implications Investments in manufacturing capabilities in Brazil have resulted...

... to offer to its customers through several similar postal offices all over Brazil. The units use several resources with different intensities, currently having their performance evaluated by a single economical factor: revenues over expenses. We propose a performance evaluation method based on data...

... and market intelligence” to add significant value to their operations. In this paper two of these “global practices” are analyzed in terms of the management of their introduction at the Curitiba plant of Volvo do Brazil. First, the development of team‐based forms of work organization is analyzed within...

... this approach not to analyse an individual firm but a cluster of firms, whose competitiveness depends not only on their individual resources and capabilities but also on those shared by the cluster as a whole. The analysis was developed for a wine cluster located in southern Brazil. The main objective...

...Afonso Fleury Economic activity is becoming increasingly globalised. Multinational enterprises, which are the main drivers of that process, are reconsidering the role of their subsidiaries. In countries where the industrialisation process was heavily dependent on multinationals, such as Brazil...

...Afonso Fleury States that operations and production management is deeply rooted in Brazilian education where the first course in production engineering dates from 1958. Considers the nature of publications in the field during the 1990s. Notes that the research focus in Brazil is currently on areas...

... the aforementioned need and proposes that the integration should be done under the domain of the production planning process. Partial results of a running field research on the theme among manufacturing companies in Brazil are presented and discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Brazil Manufacturing strategy...

... management practices in terms of their contribution to the competitiveness of the company. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Brazil Delivery date Delivery reliability Scheduling 1. Realistic scheduling: concurrence of different orders for the same scarce resources is the rule...

... model has been introduced as a new and revolutionary approach to outsourcing assembly in automotive manufacturing. In November 1996, VW and seven module suppliers inaugurated a new truck and bus plant in Resende, a greenfield site in Brazil, using a pioneering pure modular consortium. As a radical case...

..., because under uncertainty, long term forecasts are prone to errors and therefore the likelihood of incurring costs of wrong purchases is higher, as illustrated in Figure 2 . Brazil Competitiveness Cycle time Operations strategy South America Time Many authors in the literature suggest...

...Paulo J.L.C. Prochno; Henrique L. Corrêa Outlines the basic characteristics of a method for the development of manufacturing strategy which is being implemented in a medium‐sized manufacturing company in Brazil. The new method has been developed because the ones found in the current literature were...