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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226704
title: Influence of Strategic Knowledge Management on Firm Innovativeness and Performance

description: ABSTRACT This paper identifies the type and intensity of relationships that exist between strategic knowledge management (SKM) practices, innovation performance and organizational Performance. By doing so, it covers theoretical gaps about the analysis of these relationships in emerging countries. Data was collected from a sample composed by 127 Southern Brazilian firms and PLS-SEM was used for testing the hypotheses. The relevance of SKM practices for innovation and organizational performance is supported. The research has also shown the level of efficiency and use of each SKM practice. The findings allow Brazilian practitioners to identify those actions which stronger influence on innovativeness and performance. The results also have shown that Brazilian firms are focused on management of explicit knowledge, and there are some opportunities for improving performance if they focus more on tacit knowledge. The suggestions about priority practices and managing of tacit knowledge are relevant contributions to support managerial decisions for resource allocation oriented to improve innovation and performance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226842
title: Entrepreneurial Competencies and Strategic Behavior: a Study of Micro Entrepreneurs in an Emerging Country

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the entrepreneurial competencies and the strategic behavior patterns of entrepreneurs in response to the social and economic environment in which they operate, taking into consideration limitations that are common to emerging countries. The study takes a quantitative approach with a survey of 211 Individual Micro Entrepreneurs (IME) operating in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The results demonstrated that there were differences between mean scores for the entrepreneurial competencies when compared across the entrepreneurs' strategic behavior types. Moreover, entrepreneurs who were Reactors possessed a mean of 6 out of the ten entrepreneurial competencies, Defenders had 7.97, Analyzers had 8.38, and Prospectors had 8.56. The paper reveals which competencies are most likely to be associated with each strategic behavior type. The findings also indicate that entrepreneurial competencies can impact the adoption of more consistent business strategies, contributing to actions that respond to unstable social and economic scenarios.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226842.v1
title: Entrepreneurial Competencies and Strategic Behavior: a Study of Micro Entrepreneurs in an Emerging Country

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the entrepreneurial competencies and the strategic behavior patterns of entrepreneurs in response to the social and economic environment in which they operate, taking into consideration limitations that are common to emerging countries. The study takes a quantitative approach with a survey of 211 Individual Micro Entrepreneurs (IME) operating in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The results demonstrated that there were differences between mean scores for the entrepreneurial competencies when compared across the entrepreneurs' strategic behavior types. Moreover, entrepreneurs who were Reactors possessed a mean of 6 out of the ten entrepreneurial competencies, Defenders had 7.97, Analyzers had 8.38, and Prospectors had 8.56. The paper reveals which competencies are most likely to be associated with each strategic behavior type. The findings also indicate that entrepreneurial competencies can impact the adoption of more consistent business strategies, contributing to actions that respond to unstable social and economic scenarios.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226968
title: Earnings Management and Quarterly Discretionary Accruals Level in the Brazilian Stock Market

description: ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the behavior of the quarterly earnings management level of Brazilian public companies. For this purpose, a sample of 107 companies listed on the B3 Brasil Bolsa Balcão S.A. was selected and the quarterly discretionary accruals among 2012 and 2017 were estimated using Paulo’s (2007) model as a proxy for earnings management. Next, a second regression with the quarterly discretionary accruals and dummy variables representative of each quarter was used. The results indicate that the magnitude average of discretionary accruals are higher in the fourth and last quarter, and discretionary accruals for the first quarter were significantly different from the second and third quarter. These findings suggest that managers adjust the firm’s performance report more strongly at the end of the year as it becomes the last opportunity to use discretion over accounting numbers with the intent to achieve annual goals.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8226968.v1
title: Earnings Management and Quarterly Discretionary Accruals Level in the Brazilian Stock Market

description: ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the behavior of the quarterly earnings management level of Brazilian public companies. For this purpose, a sample of 107 companies listed on the B3 Brasil Bolsa Balcão S.A. was selected and the quarterly discretionary accruals among 2012 and 2017 were estimated using Paulo’s (2007) model as a proxy for earnings management. Next, a second regression with the quarterly discretionary accruals and dummy variables representative of each quarter was used. The results indicate that the magnitude average of discretionary accruals are higher in the fourth and last quarter, and discretionary accruals for the first quarter were significantly different from the second and third quarter. These findings suggest that managers adjust the firm’s performance report more strongly at the end of the year as it becomes the last opportunity to use discretion over accounting numbers with the intent to achieve annual goals.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9696869
title: Ebaco-R: Refinement of organizational commitment bases scale

description: ABSTRACT Despite being extensively studied, the organizational commitment still remains in the research agenda due to a lack of consensus on conceptual and structural issues. Therefore, this research proposed to refine the Organizational Commitment Bases Scale (EBACO) in search for an instrument with better psychometric properties and a better theoretical adjustment. The research was divided into two phases, the first one was eminently exploratory, carried out with 149 observations, and evaluated the EBACO’s psychometric fitting with the reduction of two bases. The second phase, confirmatory, occurred in 45 organizations - 27 public and 18 private, with 812 observations. The confirmatory factor analysis was adopted to evaluate the psychometric properties and the theoretical adequacy of the refined model. The results indicated that with five dimensions the EBACO model presented higher levels of KMO, Cronbach’s Alpha, and explained variance. It was also verified that the model discussed obtained adequate values of the goodness of fit indexes χ2/df, RMSEA, CFI, TLI and RMR. Finally, it was verified that the refined model, EBACO-R, presented a convergent validity, ensuring a greater suitability of the scale to the theory. Furthermore, the model refinement, excluding the bases, contributes to the discussion by Osigweh (1989) about the 'concept stretching' commitment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9696869.v1
title: Ebaco-R: Refinement of organizational commitment bases scale

description: ABSTRACT Despite being extensively studied, the organizational commitment still remains in the research agenda due to a lack of consensus on conceptual and structural issues. Therefore, this research proposed to refine the Organizational Commitment Bases Scale (EBACO) in search for an instrument with better psychometric properties and a better theoretical adjustment. The research was divided into two phases, the first one was eminently exploratory, carried out with 149 observations, and evaluated the EBACO’s psychometric fitting with the reduction of two bases. The second phase, confirmatory, occurred in 45 organizations - 27 public and 18 private, with 812 observations. The confirmatory factor analysis was adopted to evaluate the psychometric properties and the theoretical adequacy of the refined model. The results indicated that with five dimensions the EBACO model presented higher levels of KMO, Cronbach’s Alpha, and explained variance. It was also verified that the model discussed obtained adequate values of the goodness of fit indexes χ2/df, RMSEA, CFI, TLI and RMR. Finally, it was verified that the refined model, EBACO-R, presented a convergent validity, ensuring a greater suitability of the scale to the theory. Furthermore, the model refinement, excluding the bases, contributes to the discussion by Osigweh (1989) about the 'concept stretching' commitment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9696560
title: How can Customer Analytics Capabilities Influence Organizational Performance? A moderated mediation analysis

description: ABSTRACT A theoretical model is proposed to test the relationship between Customer Analytics Capabilities and Market Orientation with Organizational Performance, encompassing Marketing Capabilities as a mediator mechanism moderated by Environmental Dynamism. Its contribution lies in the test of this mediation in different types of industries in Brazil, by using SmartPLS software for structural equation modeling (SEM) and IBM SPSS with PROCESS macro for more in-depth insights. The results confirm the moderated mediation but show different behaviors about the direct effect for Customer Analytics Capabilities and Market Orientation, which suggest future studies. The study supports a better understanding of some of the diverse capabilities types and proposes an adaptive new one, Customer Analytics Capabilities, which is the final insertion of the Analytics concept in Marketing and Strategy disciplines.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9697076
title: Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America

description: ABSTRACT This paper investigates the moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between the concentration of control and market value of firms. For this purpose, we built an unbalanced panel dataset composed of 341 Latin American companies from six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The results of the dynamic models, estimated using the systemic generalized method of moments, indicate, in general, that concentration of control only reduces the market value of firms in environments with high economic instability. Thus, this study provides empirical evidence that times of economic instability encourage controlling shareholders to act even more strongly in their own interests, which may result in the expropriation of the wealth of smaller shareholders.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9697076.v1
title: Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America

description: ABSTRACT This paper investigates the moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between the concentration of control and market value of firms. For this purpose, we built an unbalanced panel dataset composed of 341 Latin American companies from six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The results of the dynamic models, estimated using the systemic generalized method of moments, indicate, in general, that concentration of control only reduces the market value of firms in environments with high economic instability. Thus, this study provides empirical evidence that times of economic instability encourage controlling shareholders to act even more strongly in their own interests, which may result in the expropriation of the wealth of smaller shareholders.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9696560.v1
title: How can Customer Analytics Capabilities Influence Organizational Performance? A moderated mediation analysis

description: ABSTRACT A theoretical model is proposed to test the relationship between Customer Analytics Capabilities and Market Orientation with Organizational Performance, encompassing Marketing Capabilities as a mediator mechanism moderated by Environmental Dynamism. Its contribution lies in the test of this mediation in different types of industries in Brazil, by using SmartPLS software for structural equation modeling (SEM) and IBM SPSS with PROCESS macro for more in-depth insights. The results confirm the moderated mediation but show different behaviors about the direct effect for Customer Analytics Capabilities and Market Orientation, which suggest future studies. The study supports a better understanding of some of the diverse capabilities types and proposes an adaptive new one, Customer Analytics Capabilities, which is the final insertion of the Analytics concept in Marketing and Strategy disciplines.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804766
title: The Effect of Co-authorship Network Density on the Performance of Postgraduate Programs

description: ABSTRACT By focusing on the performance of research teams in the management area, this study analyzes the effect of the co-authorship of scientific publications on the performance of postgraduate programs (PPGs) in management. The data was collected from management researchers in Brazil. Along with this, scientific publications from 2013 to 2016 were collected to comprise the social network of each PPG. The evaluation of the PPG was used as the dependent variable. The effects of the density of the co-authorship networks on the programs’ performance was verified. The results show that the density of the links between researchers follows a curvilinear trend of effect on organizational performance; that is, both highly dense and highly dispersed networks positively influence team performance. This study contributes to the literature on networks and team performance by providing evidence that the density of a network is not linearly related to performance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804766.v1
title: The Effect of Co-authorship Network Density on the Performance of Postgraduate Programs

description: ABSTRACT By focusing on the performance of research teams in the management area, this study analyzes the effect of the co-authorship of scientific publications on the performance of postgraduate programs (PPGs) in management. The data was collected from management researchers in Brazil. Along with this, scientific publications from 2013 to 2016 were collected to comprise the social network of each PPG. The evaluation of the PPG was used as the dependent variable. The effects of the density of the co-authorship networks on the programs’ performance was verified. The results show that the density of the links between researchers follows a curvilinear trend of effect on organizational performance; that is, both highly dense and highly dispersed networks positively influence team performance. This study contributes to the literature on networks and team performance by providing evidence that the density of a network is not linearly related to performance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804580
title: What is the Meaning of an Automobile for the Consumer? How Brazilians and Americans Evaluate Cars, a Comparative Model

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to identify the relation between Human Values and behavior in order to judge automobile purchases in Brazil and the United States of America. North Americans (N=461) and Brazilians (N=570) filled out the Portrait Values Questionnaire in its refined version, PVQ-R (Schwartz et al., 2012), the List of Values (Kahle & Kennedy, 1988) and the Judgment and Meaning Scale (Allen, 2000). Using stepwise regressions to determine which Human Value relates better with each type of judgment and attribution of meaning, two structural models were built comparing the influence of each value in each type of judgment both in the United States of America and Brazil. The results showed that in both countries the Human Values have a higher correlation with judgment than the List of Values and can predict the types of judgment and attribution of meaning the subjects use to evaluate automobile purchase, however, the structures are similar but not equal, indicating that cultural influences can alter how the evaluation is processed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804580.v1
title: What is the Meaning of an Automobile for the Consumer? How Brazilians and Americans Evaluate Cars, a Comparative Model

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to identify the relation between Human Values and behavior in order to judge automobile purchases in Brazil and the United States of America. North Americans (N=461) and Brazilians (N=570) filled out the Portrait Values Questionnaire in its refined version, PVQ-R (Schwartz et al., 2012), the List of Values (Kahle & Kennedy, 1988) and the Judgment and Meaning Scale (Allen, 2000). Using stepwise regressions to determine which Human Value relates better with each type of judgment and attribution of meaning, two structural models were built comparing the influence of each value in each type of judgment both in the United States of America and Brazil. The results showed that in both countries the Human Values have a higher correlation with judgment than the List of Values and can predict the types of judgment and attribution of meaning the subjects use to evaluate automobile purchase, however, the structures are similar but not equal, indicating that cultural influences can alter how the evaluation is processed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11839851
title: Market Reaction to the Issuance of Capital Instruments by Brazilian Banks

description: ABSTRACT Banks are allowed to employ debt instruments in order to meet the minimum requirements of capital, as long as they comply with the subordination agreements as determined by the Basel Accords. This paper takes account of the effective powers of these instruments, viewed from the standpoint of the investors, and seeks to assess their impact on the return on investments in the shares of the issuing banks within Brazil’s capital markets. The article is, to a large extent, based on the research findings of Ammann et al (2017). The results of the empirical tests - which were conducted by means of event studies that involved issuing 30 instruments during the period 12/2008 - 09/2017 - suggest that the issuances or announcements of these instruments had an adverse effect on the stock market value of the issuing banks. In addition, evidence was obtained that the market is unable to forecast the effects of these instruments before they take place. This paper seeks to contribute to the current literature on prudential regulations for banking and it hopes to assist banks in making decisions about capitalization.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11839851.v1
title: Market Reaction to the Issuance of Capital Instruments by Brazilian Banks

description: ABSTRACT Banks are allowed to employ debt instruments in order to meet the minimum requirements of capital, as long as they comply with the subordination agreements as determined by the Basel Accords. This paper takes account of the effective powers of these instruments, viewed from the standpoint of the investors, and seeks to assess their impact on the return on investments in the shares of the issuing banks within Brazil’s capital markets. The article is, to a large extent, based on the research findings of Ammann et al (2017). The results of the empirical tests - which were conducted by means of event studies that involved issuing 30 instruments during the period 12/2008 - 09/2017 - suggest that the issuances or announcements of these instruments had an adverse effect on the stock market value of the issuing banks. In addition, evidence was obtained that the market is unable to forecast the effects of these instruments before they take place. This paper seeks to contribute to the current literature on prudential regulations for banking and it hopes to assist banks in making decisions about capitalization.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804910
title: Comparison of VaR Models to the Brazilian Stock Market Under the Hypothesis of Serial Independence in Higher Orders: Are Garch Models Really Indispensable?

description: ABSTRACT Our objective in this article was to verify which models for the Value at Risk (VaR), among those that do not consider conditional volatility (Extreme Values Theory and the traditional Historical Simulation), and those that do consider it (GARCH and IGARCH), are adequate for the main index of the Brazilian stock market, the IBOVESPA. For this purpose, backtesting of adherence and the independence of first and higher orders were implemented for the four models mentioned, over forecast horizons of 1 and 10 days. The contribution is based on a the more rigorous criteria than those used in the literature for validating VaR models, as we performed backtesting for violation independence of higher orders on forecast horizons of 10 days. The results show that only GARCH family models were adequate. Thus, it is recommended to entities of the National Financial System that keep relevant positions in the Brazilian stock market, the utilization of internal risk models based on conditional volatility, in order to minimize the occurrence of violation clusters.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11804910.v1
title: Comparison of VaR Models to the Brazilian Stock Market Under the Hypothesis of Serial Independence in Higher Orders: Are Garch Models Really Indispensable?

description: ABSTRACT Our objective in this article was to verify which models for the Value at Risk (VaR), among those that do not consider conditional volatility (Extreme Values Theory and the traditional Historical Simulation), and those that do consider it (GARCH and IGARCH), are adequate for the main index of the Brazilian stock market, the IBOVESPA. For this purpose, backtesting of adherence and the independence of first and higher orders were implemented for the four models mentioned, over forecast horizons of 1 and 10 days. The contribution is based on a the more rigorous criteria than those used in the literature for validating VaR models, as we performed backtesting for violation independence of higher orders on forecast horizons of 10 days. The results show that only GARCH family models were adequate. Thus, it is recommended to entities of the National Financial System that keep relevant positions in the Brazilian stock market, the utilization of internal risk models based on conditional volatility, in order to minimize the occurrence of violation clusters.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11839509
title: Outsourcing of IT and Absorptive Capacity: A Multiple Case Study in the Brazilian Insurance Sector

description: ABSTRACT Sources of external knowledge are critical to the implementation of strategies to achieve innovation, especially in the case of information technology. The concept of absorptive capacity reflects the ability of firms to obtain, assimilate, combine, and extract advantages from external knowledge to generate innovations. The objective of this multiple case study was to investigate how outsourcing of IT can influence the absorptive and innovative capacity of organizations, focused on the insurance sector. The results of comparing four insurers with different degrees of innovation and adoption of IT outsourcing indicate that the connections between the strategy of relationship with suppliers and the stance of the IT area of the client company, and its previous activity and level of knowledge, are essential to determine the absorptive and innovative capacity. Besides this, companies that neglect outsourcing of IT to leverage their absorptive and innovative capacity can suffer significant harm regarding the use of resources, agility, and competitiveness.