[PDF] Top 20 BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev. vol.6 número4

... In the third text, Sales Managers’ Performance and Social Capital: the Impact of an Advice Network, Danny Pimentel Claro and Sílvio Abrahão Laban Neto show us another interesting study [r] ... See full document

... We found that the field of the institutional perspective in organizational studies in Brazil, in terms of collaboration for scientific production, configures a network fragmented around[r] ... See full document

... The four network measures are based on a combination of two types of network (i.e. advice and friendship) and two centrality measures (i.e. degree and betweenness). To identify an employee’s advice network, the following ... See full document

... each measurement model of the construct inserted into a larger structural model (nomological network) with other constructs to which it is expected to be related (besides th[r] ... See full document

... At the end of the chain of improvements, the organization is very likely to achieve higher returns on investments and, consequently, shareholder satisfaction (Kaplan &[r] ... See full document

... In recent years, a new trading paradigm such as Fair Trade [FT] has transformed the traditional modus operandi of international food chains by providing an alternative market for [r] ... See full document

... In a study about the Brazilian auto parts industry, Rocha and Arkader (2002, p. 166) noted that the cases they studied “indicate that, in practice, the strategic movements und[r] ... See full document

... When analyzing the accuracy of the survey-based predictions, we can affirm that for all time horizons the market predicts correctly the direction of changes of Selic, but these forecasts are accurate only in short time ... See full document

... As shown in Table 1, there seems to be a consensus that the key drivers of the outsourcing of logistics activities by shippers are cost reduction and service improveme[r] ... See full document

... We can outline three conclusions from these results: (a) discretionary donation seems to be a strategy for managing stakeholder claims; (b) firms’ characteristics are [r] ... See full document

... Although this definition embraces the calculative, affective-based and belief mechanisms of trust discussed previously, for business relationships three other mechanisms requ[r] ... See full document

... Through the comparison of four cases, this paper examines the human resource management strategy of Brazilian multinational companies in the Information Technology sector based on tw[r] ... See full document

... As our main contribution, we highlight the critical discussion of the model proposed by Karthik (2002) as it is applied in horizontal networks: contradicting the author’s suggestion, th[r] ... See full document

... as BAR becomes more appealing to contributors all around the ...with BAR as editorial board members and as associate ...of BAR editorial policy, is expected to attract more researchers and reviewers ... See full document

... Barney (1997) states that the RBV is apply to determine how organizational resources can affect a firm’s performance and, therefore contribute to gain a sustained competitive advan[r] ... See full document

... Finally, the location of the furniture industry in the city of Votuporanga results in a specific effect on the interaction between industry and city, and it is possible that this eff[r] ... See full document

... Finally, the corporate view and the organizational structure allow the implementation of a set of Organizational Mechanisms that will legitimize and consolidate integration of sustaina[r] ... See full document

... Therefore, analyzing Boulding’s (1956) typology, which classifies systems according to their levels of complexity, this research proposes that the higher the complexity of a system on Boulding’s classification scale, the ... See full document

... The greater the financial leverage of the focal firm, the higher the probability of choosing less integrative strategies, i.e., arm’s-length alliances instead of joint ventures; joint [r] ... See full document

... From the construction and affirmation of the republican state, tailored to serve the political and economic oligarchies during the so called Old Republic and the germination of the inte[r] ... See full document