cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075529.v1
title: Parliamentary Elections in Brazil: The Use of Twitter in the Search for Votes

description: Abstract Since the use of new technologies in the 2008 US elections, Twitter has become a platform for political activities, creating a channel for interaction between politicians and voters. Political communication with the use of social media is part of today’s congressional activities. In addition, Twitter has become an important means for gaining popularity for election purposes. This article’s research question is to verify how parliamentarians’ behaviors influence the use of Twitter in the search for votes in elections to the National Congress. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze Brazilian politicians’ different behaviors in this virtual environment before, during and after the parliamentary elections of 2014. Data was collected on the use of Twitter by the parliamentarians four times between December 2013 and April 2015. Politicians were compared according to their electoral aspirations and to the different appropriations of the social network. Data indicate that politicians in electoral campaigns make greater and more frequent use of the new technologies, in the sense of constructing political images within the electoral context. As a result, these politicians got more attention from Twitter users, which is directly related to a higher number of votes obtained in the election process. JEL Classification Codes: L82, L86, D72.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075682
title: Cross Channel Consumer Behavior: A Moderate-Mediation Model in Online/Offline Purchasing

description: Abstract Mobile technologies with internet access have led to the emergence of a new consumer buying process. This process influences online and offline (physical store) purchases, depending on the product to be purchased. Behavioral learning theories, such as the relationships between precurrent and current behaviors, can explain this new behavioral repertoire. The present study tested Cross Channel Behavior mediation (CCB) on the relationship between mobile device adoption with internet access and the frequency of purchase in online and offline channels, moderated by the types of goods (durable vs. non-durable). Through a quasi-experimental design, data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. The results demonstrate that the adoption of mobile technologies has encouraged the occurrence of CCB dimensions (simultaneous search for information, price and product comparisons, and interaction with retailers/producers), with greater strength for non-durable goods, and that each CCB dimension changes the frequency of online and offline purchases, but the specific effect depends on the type of good. The research analyzes the process of new technologies adoption that generate new behaviors and that these encourage purchase frequency. JEL Classification Codes: C91, D12, L86.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075682.v1
title: Cross Channel Consumer Behavior: A Moderate-Mediation Model in Online/Offline Purchasing

description: Abstract Mobile technologies with internet access have led to the emergence of a new consumer buying process. This process influences online and offline (physical store) purchases, depending on the product to be purchased. Behavioral learning theories, such as the relationships between precurrent and current behaviors, can explain this new behavioral repertoire. The present study tested Cross Channel Behavior mediation (CCB) on the relationship between mobile device adoption with internet access and the frequency of purchase in online and offline channels, moderated by the types of goods (durable vs. non-durable). Through a quasi-experimental design, data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. The results demonstrate that the adoption of mobile technologies has encouraged the occurrence of CCB dimensions (simultaneous search for information, price and product comparisons, and interaction with retailers/producers), with greater strength for non-durable goods, and that each CCB dimension changes the frequency of online and offline purchases, but the specific effect depends on the type of good. The research analyzes the process of new technologies adoption that generate new behaviors and that these encourage purchase frequency. JEL Classification Codes: C91, D12, L86.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075358
title: Reasons and Intentions for Expatriation of Volleyball Players

description: Abstract The objective of this work was to identify the factors that lead Volleyball players to change team and country to continue their career. There were 68 participants (48 current athletes and 20 former athletes), 43 men and 25 women, with a mean age of 27 years. Participants were divided into 2 research groups: G1 (International Athletes) and G2 (National Athletes). We used a questionnaire consisting of structured, open-ended and closed-ended questions. Analysis of the results was conducted through descriptive analysis and inferential analysis, both between groups and intragroup. The results showed that there was no difference between groups (p&gt; 0.05) and that the reason motivating athletes into the expatriation process, independent of the sample group, was the search for improved salary. It can be concluded that for the participants evaluated of this study that salary was the decisive factor in accepting expatriation and that expatriation is well received by the athletes. In addition, the results demonstrate that there is a need for strategies to prepare future athletes for the expatriation process, in order to better adapt it. JEL Classification Codes: O15, J11, L83.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075592
title: Strategic Information Systems Enabling Strategy-as-practice Under Uncertain Environments

description: Abstract Recent research in the new era of strategic planning (SP) shows its ambivalent capacity for prescriptive rationality as a way for managing the creation of emerging and flexible strategies to deal with environmental turbulence. However, there is limited research on how this capacity can be developed, and even less on strategic planning as enabled by strategic information systems (SIS). Contingency and Practice theory were used to investigate how SIS enables SP effectiveness in practice, under the influence of environmental uncertainty, by applying PLS-PM statistical techniques to a sample of 139 companies. The study confirmed that SIS enhances SP effectiveness under different contingency levels of dynamism, heterogeneity and hostility. Results from post-analysis study show: (a) SIS demonstrated greater predictive power in strategy formulation and control and less emphasis on executing it; (b) SIS presented greater influence on SP effectiveness in environments with high heterogeneity; (c) companies showed greater emphasis on controlling and formulating strategy than executing it. The study contributed to understanding how SIS creates value via strategy-as-practice under environmental turbulence. JEL Classification Codes: L86, D83, L2.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075592.v1
title: Strategic Information Systems Enabling Strategy-as-practice Under Uncertain Environments

description: Abstract Recent research in the new era of strategic planning (SP) shows its ambivalent capacity for prescriptive rationality as a way for managing the creation of emerging and flexible strategies to deal with environmental turbulence. However, there is limited research on how this capacity can be developed, and even less on strategic planning as enabled by strategic information systems (SIS). Contingency and Practice theory were used to investigate how SIS enables SP effectiveness in practice, under the influence of environmental uncertainty, by applying PLS-PM statistical techniques to a sample of 139 companies. The study confirmed that SIS enhances SP effectiveness under different contingency levels of dynamism, heterogeneity and hostility. Results from post-analysis study show: (a) SIS demonstrated greater predictive power in strategy formulation and control and less emphasis on executing it; (b) SIS presented greater influence on SP effectiveness in environments with high heterogeneity; (c) companies showed greater emphasis on controlling and formulating strategy than executing it. The study contributed to understanding how SIS creates value via strategy-as-practice under environmental turbulence. JEL Classification Codes: L86, D83, L2.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075553
title: Governance in Cooperatives: Application in an Agricultural Cooperative

description: Abstract This study sought to understand the available governance structures and to identify the best in light of the reality lived by the agricultural cooperative researched. Thus, the process was done through descriptive, bibliographic, documentary and case study research, observing the actual practices of cooperative governance versus what studies on the subject advocate. The results demonstrate that the cooperative has a minimal governance structure, as provided by law, moving towards the traditional extended model with the separation of ownership and control. It has values that guide its sustainable growth and seeks to act in accordance with the governance and cooperative principles to ensure legitimacy. From triangulation of the theoretical evidences on governance and empirical observation in the agricultural cooperative, we made suggestions for improvements in the governance structure: (a) maintain good relations for joint action between the existing administrative bodies; (b) have professional managers on the executive board; (c) adopt other mechanisms of internal governance controls in the form of certain committees and internal rules; (d) hiring experts for councils and committees, where appropriate; (e) investment in continuing education for board members and other administrative bodies; and, finally, (f) more rigorous compliance practices. In summary, our proposal contributes to the sustainable development and legitimacy of the cooperative with its stakeholders, as well as other agricultural cooperatives given the similarity of characteristics. JEL Classification Codes: O16, J54, N56.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7075553.v1
title: Governance in Cooperatives: Application in an Agricultural Cooperative

description: Abstract This study sought to understand the available governance structures and to identify the best in light of the reality lived by the agricultural cooperative researched. Thus, the process was done through descriptive, bibliographic, documentary and case study research, observing the actual practices of cooperative governance versus what studies on the subject advocate. The results demonstrate that the cooperative has a minimal governance structure, as provided by law, moving towards the traditional extended model with the separation of ownership and control. It has values that guide its sustainable growth and seeks to act in accordance with the governance and cooperative principles to ensure legitimacy. From triangulation of the theoretical evidences on governance and empirical observation in the agricultural cooperative, we made suggestions for improvements in the governance structure: (a) maintain good relations for joint action between the existing administrative bodies; (b) have professional managers on the executive board; (c) adopt other mechanisms of internal governance controls in the form of certain committees and internal rules; (d) hiring experts for councils and committees, where appropriate; (e) investment in continuing education for board members and other administrative bodies; and, finally, (f) more rigorous compliance practices. In summary, our proposal contributes to the sustainable development and legitimacy of the cooperative with its stakeholders, as well as other agricultural cooperatives given the similarity of characteristics. JEL Classification Codes: O16, J54, N56.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419053
title: Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity: How are These Concepts Related?

description: Abstract The ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities (DCs) literature have contributed to strategic management discussions that seek to explain how firms achieve and sustain competitive advantages. However, few papers are devoted to understanding how they interrelate at Teece’s (2007) micro-foundations of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring capabilities level. To fill these gaps, we investigate previous works on strategy and organization theories which discuss the ambidexterity-DCs relationship through a systematic literature review complemented by using a snowball technique and then propose a conceptual framework. Review of the literature that integrates the two approaches shows that authors usually understand ambidexterity as a DC. Also, our framework reveals convergent elements between the two kinds of literature, such as learning; sources of information; organizational design; management of scarce resources; increase of resources through outsourcing and alliances; the role of top managers and teams’ participation in decisions; and the relevance of asset specialization and organizational governance. This article aims to contribute to the literature by synthesizing early work relating ambidexterity and DCs; proposing a conceptual framework based on DCs’ micro-foundations; and identifying avenues for future research.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419053.v1
title: Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity: How are These Concepts Related?

description: Abstract The ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities (DCs) literature have contributed to strategic management discussions that seek to explain how firms achieve and sustain competitive advantages. However, few papers are devoted to understanding how they interrelate at Teece’s (2007) micro-foundations of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring capabilities level. To fill these gaps, we investigate previous works on strategy and organization theories which discuss the ambidexterity-DCs relationship through a systematic literature review complemented by using a snowball technique and then propose a conceptual framework. Review of the literature that integrates the two approaches shows that authors usually understand ambidexterity as a DC. Also, our framework reveals convergent elements between the two kinds of literature, such as learning; sources of information; organizational design; management of scarce resources; increase of resources through outsourcing and alliances; the role of top managers and teams’ participation in decisions; and the relevance of asset specialization and organizational governance. This article aims to contribute to the literature by synthesizing early work relating ambidexterity and DCs; proposing a conceptual framework based on DCs’ micro-foundations; and identifying avenues for future research.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419563
title: Market Logic as an Efficiency Measure of the Organization of Olinda’s Carnival

description: Abstract Olinda’s Carnival (Mardi Gras) has become a mega-event in the last decades, proving to be an increasingly complex organization in how market logic is inserted and intensified. This diffusion of market logic in several instances of public life is a phenomenon closely associated with the premises of neoliberalism. In this sense, an important contribution is the analysis of the governmental rationality undertaken by Michel Foucault, inasmuch as his work goes back to the emergence of liberal thought and the rationality underlying it. Present study investigates how market logic is adopted in Olinda’s Carnival, based on discourse analysis as systematized by Foucault. Therefore, we analyzed the journalistic coverage of the 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016 carnivals made by the two main Pernambuco newspapers. The 10-year gap between events was intended to enable the apprehension of substantial changes over the three decades. Our findings point to a quest for governmental efficiency on the part of the municipality, based on the homo economicus model and adopting political technologies aimed at mediating interests between market and society.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419563.v1
title: Market Logic as an Efficiency Measure of the Organization of Olinda’s Carnival

description: Abstract Olinda’s Carnival (Mardi Gras) has become a mega-event in the last decades, proving to be an increasingly complex organization in how market logic is inserted and intensified. This diffusion of market logic in several instances of public life is a phenomenon closely associated with the premises of neoliberalism. In this sense, an important contribution is the analysis of the governmental rationality undertaken by Michel Foucault, inasmuch as his work goes back to the emergence of liberal thought and the rationality underlying it. Present study investigates how market logic is adopted in Olinda’s Carnival, based on discourse analysis as systematized by Foucault. Therefore, we analyzed the journalistic coverage of the 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016 carnivals made by the two main Pernambuco newspapers. The 10-year gap between events was intended to enable the apprehension of substantial changes over the three decades. Our findings point to a quest for governmental efficiency on the part of the municipality, based on the homo economicus model and adopting political technologies aimed at mediating interests between market and society.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419620
title: Effectiveness of Crowdsourcing as a Support for Public Safety

description: Abstract Bearing in mind the dilemmas of public security in Brazil, this research aims to investigate the potential use of crowdsourcing in public security. The Delphi method (a structured use of expert knowledge) was employed in order to clarify issues related to its adoption, required resources, and impacts on investigative activity, among others, and, in this case, the research was conducted together with members of the judicial police who perform investigative work. Two rounds of consultation were conducted, with 29 respondents in the first round and 21 respondents in the second round. Results show wide acceptance with regard to information sharing among public security professionals and citizens; however, there is no consensus among experts about the effectiveness of actions involving direct participation of senior management, such as investments or planning of crowdsourcing strategic actions aimed at the general public. This indicates an absence of long-term strategic policies and the existence of institutional obstacles for the full exploitation of new technologies in the sphere of public security.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419620.v1
title: Effectiveness of Crowdsourcing as a Support for Public Safety

description: Abstract Bearing in mind the dilemmas of public security in Brazil, this research aims to investigate the potential use of crowdsourcing in public security. The Delphi method (a structured use of expert knowledge) was employed in order to clarify issues related to its adoption, required resources, and impacts on investigative activity, among others, and, in this case, the research was conducted together with members of the judicial police who perform investigative work. Two rounds of consultation were conducted, with 29 respondents in the first round and 21 respondents in the second round. Results show wide acceptance with regard to information sharing among public security professionals and citizens; however, there is no consensus among experts about the effectiveness of actions involving direct participation of senior management, such as investments or planning of crowdsourcing strategic actions aimed at the general public. This indicates an absence of long-term strategic policies and the existence of institutional obstacles for the full exploitation of new technologies in the sphere of public security.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20020230.v1
title: Development of an Innovation Adoption Framework in a Low-Income Market

description: Abstract Research on innovation and the low-income market has focused primarily on product development and marketing management, taking a top-down approach, from business to consumer. From the individual’s point of view, little attention has been paid to understanding the adoption of innovation by low-income consumers. This article aims to present the development of a framework for innovation adoption by low-income consumers assuming a bottom-up approach, focusing mainly on consumers and their structural and individual constraints found in the context of poverty. The theoretical assumptions underlying the framework are the constraints faced by market consumers at the base of the pyramid, which include low income, lack of information, knowledge and confidence. In order to find alternatives to minimize this effect, we searched in the literature for factors that could influence this effect. As a result, the paper presents a theoretical framework that seeks to show the relationship between the constraints in the low-income market and its influence on innovation adoption. Based on the supposition this is a negative relationship, the framework presents variables supported by literature on innovation and low-income markets, which can influence this main effect.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20020230
title: Development of an Innovation Adoption Framework in a Low-Income Market

description: Abstract Research on innovation and the low-income market has focused primarily on product development and marketing management, taking a top-down approach, from business to consumer. From the individual’s point of view, little attention has been paid to understanding the adoption of innovation by low-income consumers. This article aims to present the development of a framework for innovation adoption by low-income consumers assuming a bottom-up approach, focusing mainly on consumers and their structural and individual constraints found in the context of poverty. The theoretical assumptions underlying the framework are the constraints faced by market consumers at the base of the pyramid, which include low income, lack of information, knowledge and confidence. In order to find alternatives to minimize this effect, we searched in the literature for factors that could influence this effect. As a result, the paper presents a theoretical framework that seeks to show the relationship between the constraints in the low-income market and its influence on innovation adoption. Based on the supposition this is a negative relationship, the framework presents variables supported by literature on innovation and low-income markets, which can influence this main effect.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419680
title: Team Nogueira: Invasion of Mixed Martial Arts in the Fitness Universe

description: Abstract This case study describes the challenges faced by Sergio Lyra, CEO of Team Nogueira, a network of gymnasiums founded by the brothers Rodrigo and Rogério Nogueira, two of the greatest fighters in the history of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), who had transformed their training center into a gym, and later into a franchise network. In 2015, Team Nogueira had more than thirty academies throughout Brazil. However, the slowdown in the popularization of the sport, coupled with the economic crisis that plagued the country and the retirement of the brothers that gave its name to the network created a scenario of uncertainties and concerns. This case serves as a background for the discussion on the application of marketing in the sporting context, allowing discussion about the challenges related to the alignment between segmentation, target market selection and positioning. Therefore, the case is recommended for Fundamentals of Marketing or Sports Marketing classes in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, in sessions dedicated to the discussion of segmentation, competitive positioning or marketing strategy.