[PDF] Top 20 The Country-of-origin effect as a constraint to internationalization: The case of Portugal's furniture industry

... studies of the COO date back to the 1960s, where Schooler’s (1965) research concluded that products originated from less-developed countries were not evaluated in the same way as ... See full document

... needs to be established priorities on which characteristics Portuguese firms should focus ...be to focus on, the size of the board and the employee’s performance, as mentioned ... See full document

... contributes to the failure of Portugal abroad is the fact that the country lacks global brands or the fact that few Portuguese brands are known ...abroad. ... See full document

... out of a couple of entrepreneurs’ initiative that started with only two little ...began to sell small-sized furniture, with a few models of bedroom and living room products, since there ... See full document

... With the case of the electromechanical industry (EFACEC), it can also demonstrate how any negative COO was overcome, but this time due to the actions of a single ... See full document

... with the score of 107 on the Uncertainty Avoidance cultural ...(Greece, Portugal, Japan and Uruguay) need as much clarification on everything as ...lot of stress and constantly worry if ... See full document

... According to Tantong et al. (2010), the globalization creates both opportunities and difficulties for international ...conditions of intensifying competition, development of technology and ... See full document

... make the crucial decision to enter foreign markets? How do some of them grow into global Giants? Different factors make companies expand out of their domestic countries in order to ... See full document

... from the international market for its products. This team is able to interpret customer needs and offer them suitable products and ...as the professional profile of those involved. At ... See full document

... if the enhanced visibility of immigration in the political and public agendas in that period was fully justified by both the significant growth and diversification of incoming flows (in ... See full document

... due to its impact on the mediation of citizens’ daily lives; it should be me- diatic, due to the current relevance of the media; it is digital, given the importance ... See full document

... set of attitudes and values that represent these cultures. The same authors distinguish the concept of knowledge from the concept of ...approach to a culture that can be ... See full document

... depth, to identify critical FMs and obtain their distribution function parameters and associated preventive and corrective costs achieving the respective optimal ...need to be supported and ... See full document

... sample of 400 undergraduate students (217 women and 129 men, with average age of 25 years) of Uninove University was used to test the hypothesis ...total of 420 survey ... See full document

... are the institutional, administrative and political reforms which go hand in hand with economic reforms and economic ...development. The most important reforms are those which help to fight ... See full document

... em Portugal, tendo em conta um conjunto de variáveis socioeconômicas e demográficas entre os anos 2007 e 2014, de modo a obter uma visão geral desse flagelo em ...Óbi- to (SICO), foi analisado o suicídio ... See full document

... following the Linder hypothesis, consider that “a significant element in explaining vertical product differentiation will be unequal ...all the available ...increases the share of VIIT since ... See full document

... goods. The Linder theory of overlapping demands suggests that goods must first be produced for home markets and then exported to similar coun
...According to Linder's (1961) hypothesis, a ... See full document

... analysis of the results obtained in 2012 and 2014 shows that there has been a favourable evolution in the proportion of companies, in the population, that claim to have an ... See full document

... expansion of international operations to new ...Poland, the Check Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and ...associated to local firms with a certain dimension, due to ... See full document