...Luan Vinicius Bernardelli; Wander Plassa; Pietro Andre Telatin Paschoalino Purpose This paper aims to examine the economic and social factors that influence individual savings in Brazil based on the life cycle hypothesis (LCH). Design/methodology/approach The authors use data sourced from 2017...

... the 2008, 2011 and 2014 Innovation Survey (Pintec) about the innovative efforts of LBPCs, as well as primary data from semi-structured interviews with six of them. Findings The most recent data on innovation in Brazil show changes in the innovative efforts of LBPCs, involving the raise in the interaction...

... applied in industrial agglomeration. This paper brings light to two untreated areas in the literature that are retail in fast-food chains in Brazil and the aspects that influence the agglomeration of these networks by techniques used in other research areas, such as industry. For the development...

... perspective. This paper aims at answering the following question: How do characteristics of the alliance networks of leading SC-companies contribute to their success by mitigating the structural threats the SC-industry in Brazil is facing? Design The case study method was adopted for analyzing two leading...

... of this study is the fact that firms in Brazil must be aware of the alternative redress channels that are available to consumers. The different procedural norms can cause a great deal of annoyance because firms have to be updated with all of them and eventually build specialized teams to address them...

... four groups: the number of published articles; number of articles published on Brazilian Qualis A2 journals; the number of articles published in international journals (published geographically outside of Brazil); and the number of articles published in Qualis A1 international journals...

... lies in indicating the growth potential for banking institution populations in Brazil, and may be used not only by potential newcomers eager to enter the sector, but also as a tool for assessing anti-trust policies. Originality/value – The development cycle of Brazilian financial institution...

... bureaucratic model in Brazil, although it contains some characteristics of rational-legal model, is not yet produced the expected disenchantment, at least in public administration. In addition, it was noted that the patrimonialism bases, in which society and the Brazilian State still rely, seems to prevent...

.... On the other hand, the use of these two approaches assured confidence in the validity of the findings. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Evaluation Brazil Enterprise resource planning ERP Criteria CVR Large companies Despite growth in the adoption of enterprise resource planning...

... from three Latin American countries – Brazil, Chile and Ecuador. Design/methodology/approach – This is a cross-sectional study based on a survey of almost 988 individuals. The authors first test the direct and indirect effects (via bi-directional positive spillover) of FSBB on performance...

... to the ongoing academic discussion regarding entry modes in different ways. First, this study contributes, given the novelty of its proposal: no quantitative studies were found to have analyzed establishment mode choice in Brazil. Another contribution is the finding related to the association between entry mode...

... moves as the phases and stage of maturity in any company starts over time (Gersick et al., 1997). Thus, ownership of a family business moves according to the stages of control. In Brazil, it is estimated that family businesses represent the kind of organization with the largest growth...

...Anselmo Ferreira Vasconcelos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the demographic diversity of the so‐called 100 best companies to work for in Brazil and probe whether they exhibit any age bias and discrimination and, if so, in what degree it occurs. Design/methodology/approach...

...‐interest, and vice‐versa. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ structural equation modeling based on survey data from 387 team‐leaders from both Brazil and the USA. Findings An asymmetric relation is found in the aforementioned theoretical “cross‐talk:” managers concerned with self...

... for excellence in her institution, the IAM, and her country Brazil, as well as the way she has coped with life's demands. Originality/value The interview in this special section, A Life in Research, brings out an individual scholar's experience and history, not only as recognition of scholarly impact...

... by studying whether marital status and number of children impacted values. Design/methodology/approach A convenience sample of 3,529 working adults in major cities in Argentina (n=1,198), Brazil (n=186), Colombia (n=989) and Mexico (n=1,156) were surveyed using...

... the stock market. Proof of this is the appearance of corporate sustainability (CS) indexes that evidence the concern with the topic shared by firms and markets (Strobel et al., 2004 ; Banerjee, 2002). Some examples of these indexes are the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, FTSE4Good and, in Brazil...

... Nations Culture Brazil Multiple national cultures CONCEPTUALIZING BRAZILIAN MULTIPLE AND FLUID CULTURAL PROFILES MIGUEL P. CALDAS ABSTRACT: This paper puts forth a conceptual framework of multiple and uid national culture focused on the contemporary Brazilian context. Drawing from recent criticism...