... Interorganizational cooperation Process innovation National partners Foreign partners Brazil PINTEC Panel data Innovation is not restricted to the product level. Aside from research and development (R&D) for new products, services and markets, innovation also consists of implementing new production...

... to improve the TT process in the textile industry are discussed in the final part of this study. Originality/value – The TT process in the Brazilian textile industry is not a widely investigated phenomenon; however, this process has been critical to enhancing Brazil's competitiveness. Thus, providing...

... can be contacted at: roberto.piedade@fe.up.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Brazil Partnership Performance management Forecasting Strategic alignment Collaborative networks Performance prediction Alignment measurement Alignment prediction Nowadays, business...

.... Design/methodology/approach On the basis of this review, the stages of development of companies incubated in the Incubating Center for Technological Companies São Paulo, Brazil, were analyzed and through the integration of three different statistical techniques (factorial analysis, cluster analysis...

... creation of companies in the agricultural machinery and implements sector in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on data collected in a survey conducted across 37 firms in the agricultural machinery and implements industry in Brazil. The data were used within a model for assessing...

... Manufacturing systems Telecommunications Brazil Once upon a time, there was a self‐sufficient and self‐contained successful manufacturer. In the 1910s and 1920s, the Ford Motor Company dominated the automobile industry's entire spectrum of activities, from rubber plantations in the Amazon region...

... occurred after the critical success factor method was adopted in both IT and new product development processes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Product development Information Communication technologies Competitive strategy Brazil There is a general belief that emphasis...

...Kleber Figueiredo; Rebecca Arkader; Cesar Lavalle; Maria Fernanda Hijjar This article deals with the evolution of customer service practices in grocery products distribution in Brazil (1994‐2001), based on a longitudinal survey of grocery retailers. Data were collected on retailers’ expectations...

... debates on “operational flexibility”. The cases of seven international automotive assemblers with operations in Brazil are then considered in the light of Ferdows’ framework and the external factors bearing on the country and the sector within it. It is evident that, among the global assemblers...

... for strategy formulation. A survey about the recent evolution of industry in Brazil was prepared. The outcomes reveal the relative position of the Brazilian firms in international networks, what leads to an overall picture of the competitiveness of local industry. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Core...

... industry Brazil Production engineering Manufacturing strategy Management The electronics contract manufacturing (CM) industry is important not only because of its market size (US$100 billion dollars in 2001) and its impressive annual growth rates (27 percent)[1] but also because it brings...

... in Brazil, such as the successive economic plans designed to fight inflation and changing business regulations. During the first half of the 1990s the Brazilian economy was under severe stress due to the coexistence of extremely high inflation with the opening of the economy to foreign competition...

... for the competitiveness of the Brazilian automotive industry. Some causes of the negligence with the theme are discussed and some simple corrective measures are proposed, based on some more contemporary contributions found in the recent literature and in some practices identified in Brazil outside the automotive industry...

...Henrique Luiz Corrêa Reports some of the findings of two years′ research work carried out within a number of manufacturing engineering companies both in the United Kingdom and Brazil. All the companies belong to the automotive industry. The objective of the overall research was to analyse...