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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291698.v1
title: AN ENGAGED UNIVERSITY: RESCUING SMEs DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS

description: ABSTRACT The economic effects of isolation policies resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to look for alternatives to survive. Within this crisis scenario, an engaged university has an important role to play in a regional context in addressing not only health issues, but also any resultant social and economic problems. An engaged university needs to take actions that go beyond its traditional missions of education and research - it has to deliver knowledge to society. This paper analyzes a university-community project in Brazil to identify the necessary elements that help promote a regionally-engaged university: the SOS-PME Advisory Network project, which was originally designed to assist SMEs during the crisis. As a result, we identified elements necessary for promoting the university’s third mission - social engagement by way of a university-community project: an engaged team, multidisciplinarity, project management, agility, alliances, a communication strategy, institutional support, and reputation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291696.v1
title: THE BURNOUT EPIDEMIC DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE ROLE OF LMX IN ALLEVIATING PHYSICIANS’ BURNOUT

description: ABSTRACT During COVID-19 pandemic, physicians are being exposed to unprecedented adverse working conditions that lead to increased occurrence of burnout. While supportive leadership is considered effective in preventing burnout, little is known about the role of leadership in extreme situations. Drawing on leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, we hypothesize that high-LMX relationships lead to lower levels of burnout, as they shape physicians’ perceptions of psychosocial job demands and resources. We also contend that this effect will be stronger for frontline physicians, as they are more exposed to job stressors. In a field study with 2,708 Brazilian physicians, we found support to the alleviating role of LMX, but contrary to what we predicted, we found that this effect is weaker for frontline physicians. Overall, our findings reinforce the importance of establishing high-quality relationships between supervisors and medical staff to mitigate the experience of burnout, however, they also highlight that extreme conditions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, might constrain the beneficial effects of leadership behaviors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291692.v1
title: BUSINESS ACTION ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19

description: ABSTRACT Facing up to the COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the importance of taking a critical and systemic look at business action for sustainability. The aims of this article are: to discuss sustainability, through the theoretical lenses of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ sustainability and its relationship with economic paradigms; to present the theory of resilience as an alternative to the current challenges; and, based on the concepts presented, to analyze the indications of how organizations are reacting to the crisis. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with companies operating in Brazil. As a result it was found that signs of the realignment of the companies’ initial purpose of creating value for society coexist alongside signs of continued investment in market-based solutions and the search for infinite growth on a planet with limited resources.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291690.v1
title: EFFECTS OF INFORMATION ON JOB INSECURITY AND WORK ENGAGEMENT IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC

description: ABSTRACT Pandemics raise scenarios of uncertainty that afflict even people who are used to promoting information congruence, as in fintechs. Thus, the purpose is to investigate the effects of vertical information sharing on mitigating job insecurity and on work engagement, moderated by the credibility of the social media information about the pandemic. A survey was carried out with employees of the largest Brazilian financial startup and structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set QCA were applied to the data analysis. The results show that vertical information sharing mitigates job insecurity and exerts effects on work engagement. Vertical information sharing and absence of job insecurity are, respectively, almost always and always necessary, and sufficient for high work engagement. Furthermore, information credibility moderates the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement. These results provide contributions by revealing effects that are antecedents of job insecurity and work engagement in a unique period of pandemic.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291688.v1
title: WOMEN IN HOME OFFICE DURING THE COVID-A9 PANDEMIC AND THE WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT CONFIGURATIONS

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to understand the impacts that working from home during the COVID-19 quarantine period had on the work-family conflict for Brazilian female workers. To reach the objective, fourteen professionals with different family arrangements, were interviewed. All the interviewees reported work overload due to organizational requirements, and the demands placed on them by their children and the home. Despite this, it is worth noting that, according to the testimonies, this work overload did not intensify the work-family conflict for all of them, contrary to what is claimed in the literature. Some interviewees stated that working from home brought them closer to their children and husbands and provided more time for physical and leisure activities. This finding can contribute towards broadening the debate on work-family conflict, by postulating that it is not only time, pressure and behavior that are the sources of this conflict, but also the physical distance imposed by the hours spent working away from the home.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291682.v1
title: BAD (GOOD) NEWS AND DELAY (ANTICIPATION) OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS’ DISCLOSURE

description: ABSTRACT Managers have discretion over the timing of accounting information disclosure; existing literature has investigated the potential determinants regarding this choice. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate whether the type of accounting information is a factor that influences the anticipation of its disclosure to external users. The dataset comprises information provided by Brazilian companies listed on the Brasil Bolsa Balcão (B3) between 2010 and 2016. The research employed linear regression and the logistic regression model to evaluate whether type of news is a determinant for the timing of financial disclosures. Empirical evidence indicates that the nature of information (i.e., good or bad news) is related to the time taken (i.e., postponement or anticipation) in disclosing quarterly accounting figures of companies. Overall, our results contribute to the disclosure literature in Brazil and indicate that postponements are associated with the disclosure of negative news.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291680.v1
title: ALLIANCE PORTFOLIO AND INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN INDUSTRY

description: ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between Alliance Portfolio Diversity (APD) and the firm's innovative performance, especially when R&D capacity (RDCAP) and Specialized Complementary Assets (SCA) moderate this relationship at different points in the firm's value chain; the study also identifies the nature of the relationship between such moderators. It applies econometric methods to a database comprised of 13,020 companies from Brazilian industry. The results reveal an inverted U-shaped curvilinear relationship between APD and innovative performance, as well as the effective positive moderation of this relationship by the RDCAP and the SCA. This research contributes to the literature on firm knowledge, especially theories of open innovation and absorptive capacity (AC). The former is progressing to emerging economic contexts and the second, contributing a new way of understanding AC by investigating its spatial dimensions, in addition to the skills and competencies dimensions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291676.v1
title: SHAREHOLDER CONCENTRATION, BOARD STRUCTURE AND EXECUTIVE REMUNERATION

description: ABSTRACT Understanding the dynamics of agency conflicts in Brazilian firms requires investigating the influence of shareholder concentration and board structure in the remuneration level of executives. Based on a sample of 232 firms traded on B3 between 2014 and 2016, we found shareholder concentration to have a negative effect on executive remuneration, as predicted by the agency theory. The characteristics of the board structure also have repercussions on executive compensation. Some of these characteristics affect the sensitivity of compensation to shareholder concentration, which, contrary to the managerial power approach, highlights the predominance of the principal-principal conflict in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291668.v1
title: MANDATORY IFRS ADOPTION, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND FIRM VALUE

description: ABSTRACT We study whether financial and accounting disclosure affect firm value by focusing on the full adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Brazil in 2010. We compare firms with ex-ante lower accounting quality (firms in the Regular and Level 1 tiers of corporate governance) with otherwise similar firms that had already complied with higher-quality accounting standards (firms in the Level 2 and Novo Mercado tiers). IFRS adoption has a positive impact of approximately 30 percentage points on Tobin´s Q and 26 percentage points on market-to-book ratios for firms in the lower governance tiers, and substantially reduces the valuation gap between firms in the higher and lower tiers of corporate governance. This reduction in the valuation gap after IFRS adoption is explained by the relative increase in foreign ownership and stock liquidity of firms in the lower governance tiers.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291666.v1
title: COGNITIVE BIASES IN MERCHANDISING ACTIVATION AND EFFECT ON SUPERMARKET SALES

description: ABSTRACT Competition among different brands in supermarkets motivates consumer goods companies to develop and implement and activate merchandising materials at the point of sales (POS). These merchandising materials attempt to influence shoppers and promote sales. On the other hand, behavioral economics studies the decision-making of individuals based on their preferences and beliefs, influenced by cognitive bias. This study attempts to understand the effect of loss aversion and mental accounting biases in POS materials on supermarket sales. We conduct two experiments with a consumer brand in a supermarket chain. The results reveal a positive and significant effect on sales only for the cognitive bias of loss aversion, applied to the POS materials.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291664.v1
title: INNOVATION IN THE REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC WASTE: A STUDY ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

description: ABSTRACT In this study, the contribution of information systems and tracking technologies to the reverse logistics of electronic and electrical waste chains is analyzed. The research was based on a case study in the Brazilian context, incorporating the electronics supply chain. The results show that reverse logistics do not use the technologies and systems implemented in direct logistics. Although tracking technologies can make disassembly and recycling more efficient, the possibility of increased costs remains, and does not contribute to increased sales and profitability. Furthermore, resistance by representatives of the electronics sector to adhere to the sectoral agreement-established by the National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP) in 2010 but signed only at the end of 2019-contributed to companies postponing investments in information systems and technologies tracking in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291654.v1
title: INTEGRATED REPORTING ACCORDING TO IIRC FROM 2011 TO 2015

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to check if integrated reporting adheres properly to International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) requirements or only follows some guidelines, and whether these are prioritized depending on the effects of other variables. We studied a sample of all the voluntarily issued integrated reports available on the IIRC database at 1st April 2017, for the period 2011-2015, which total 174. The main conclusions are that compliance with IIRC guiding principles is low and heterogeneous, and that some principles are adhered to more than others. There are core principles of the integrated reporting that are determined by the date of publication of the IIRC framework, while the materiality used depends on the type of company.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291652.v1
title: WOMEN OF EASY LIVING? TIME, PLEASURE AND SUFFERING IN THE WORK OF PROSTITUTES

description: ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze how temporal perceptions influence pleasure and suffering in the work of prostitutes in Belo Horizonte (MG). A descriptive and qualitative case study was carried out. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 professionals from places known as "battle hotels" and analyzed using content analysis. The interviewed prostitutes associated time as a resource, and this was linked to experiences of pleasure and suffering, in the sense that the effective management of time generated money which was the main source of pleasure from their work. The working time of the prostitutes was also a source of suffering because they normalized or accepted discomfort from their work and the consequences that it entailed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291650.v1
title: ANALYZING MARKETING INNOVATION IN PERUVIAN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES OF LOWER TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY

description: ABSTRACT Non-technological innovation, including organizational and marketing innovation, has attracted substantial interest from researchers. The present study focuses on how external sources of knowledge relate to product, organizational, and marketing innovation, as well as analyzing how product and organizational innovation mediate the relationship between external sources of knowledge and marketing innovation. Current studies on marketing innovation do not present its real impact and importance for manufacturing companies. Using data from 557 Peruvian manufacturing companies that possess lower technological intensity, a model of partial structural equations was applied. The results show that external sources of market knowledge are related to product and organizational innovation. Managers should promote product innovations that favor the development of marketing innovations in the company.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291648.v1
title: ROLE OF EMPOWERMENT AND IDENTIFICATION WITH WORK TEAMS IN INNOVATION CLIMATE

description: ABSTRACT Several studies argue that an organizational climate oriented to promote innovation generates greater competitiveness in companies. However, very few researchers have explored the factors that lead to the formation of innovation climate and their effects on workers’ performance. Based on a sample of 201 workers from manufacturing and service companies, an analysis was carried out to examine the influence of variables like empowerment and Identification with work teams in innovation climate. Furthermore, the influence of innovation climate on job performance and work commitment was analyzed. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship among the variables of the hypotheses, empowerment and Identification with work teams influence in innovation climate, and the latter influences work performance and work commitment
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291642.v1
title: ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA: BACK TO THE ROUGH GROUND!

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to do a self-critical retrospection exercise about what Organizational Studies (OS) are within the Latin American context. Their development and incidence in the region have increased and consolidated --although not in all countries at the same level and extent --as a critical field of knowledge to study organizations. However, there are some unresolved matters that need to be addressed and discussed; that is why Wittgenstein's (1986) expression is retaken to formulate some fundamental questions regarding the OS identity and projection in the region, in search of a "friction" that gives continuity to that path of growth. In addition, some constitutive aspects of OS are discussed. Reflections will allow organization experts and researchers not only to delve into this field of knowledge, but also to build a stance of their own on OS in the region.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291636.v1
title: INTERTEXTUAL VIRALITY AND VERNACULAR REPERTOIRES: INTERNET MEMES AS OBJECTS CONNECTING DIFFERENT ONLINE WORLDS

description: ABSTRACT This work describes the trajectory of Internet memes, their main characteristics, and their relationship with the fields of virality literature and cultural production research. We explore the historical trajectory of internet memes and identify their constitutional features (vernacularism, virality, and intertextuality). We also propose that memes are objects that act as provocateurs; this is because they are carriers of meaning that reflect the repertoires of closed communities. However, they acquire new reflected repertoires in the process of being transmitted intertextually among consumers. As such, this work both clarifies the intertemporal and logical interdependencies between online cultural production and virality, as well as unveil the linking power of vernacular backgrounds and shared expressive practices (in our context, elaboration of common memes) for online consumer collectivities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291628.v1
title: LEGITIMACY AS A BARRIER: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN PREMIUM COCOA AND CHOCOLATE LEGITIMATION PROCESS

description: ABSTRACT How can a product be legitimated when the legitimation process includes another legitimate product as a barrier? To address this question, we conducted a process theorization through in-depth analysis of interviews and newspaper articles in the context of Brazilian premium cocoa and chocolate markets. We found that the legitimation process involving the interaction of different actors focused on building cultural-cognitive legitimacy was supported, in particular, by normative legitimacy. In this process, media appears as an important market ally in educating consumers. We used institutional theory to show that it is essential to address other legitimate products and the interaction of actors to understand the legitimation process.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291616.v1
title: GENDERING DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES IN MICRO FIRMS

description: ABSTRACT Gender issues are well-researched in the general management literature, particular in studies on new ventures. Unfortunately, gender issues have been largely ignored in the dynamic capabilities literature. We address this gap by analyzing the effects of gender diversity on dynamic capabilities among micro firms. We consider the gender of managers and personnel in 124 Ukrainian tourism micro firms. We examine how a manager's gender affects the firm's sensing capacities and investigate how it moderates team gender diversity's impact on sensing capacities. We also investigate how personnel composition impacts seizing and reconfiguration capacities. We find that female managers have several shortcomings concerning a firm's sensing capacity but that personnel gender diversity increases this capacity. Team gender diversity has positive effects on a firm's seizing and reconfiguration abilities. Our study advances research on gender diversity and its impact on firm capabilities and illustrates its relevance for staffing practices in micro firms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291612.v1
title: Commitment, resources, export enterprise and business results

description: ABSTRACT The current research has two aims. Firstly, starting from the premises of the Resource-Based View -(RBV) to know how specific internal factors (resources and export commitment) can influence an exporting firm's level of entrepreneurship in foreign markets. Secondly, to find out what the effect of export entrepreneurship is on business results. The relationships proposed are clearly reflected in a conceptual model which will be verified from a multisectorial sample of 212 Spanish exporting firms. The results reveal that: a) export entrepreneurship positively depends on export commitment and the resources associated with experience and structure; b) there is a positive effect of the level of export entrepreneurship on business results. It is recommended that export firms develop accelerated internationalization processes, be present in numerous countries simultaneously and have a high export intensity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291610.v1
title: THE USE OF IMPORTANCE-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TO MEASURE THE SATISFACTION OF TRAVEL AGENCY FRANCHISEES

description: ABSTRACT This study contributes to the limited literature on the satisfaction of travel agency franchisees. Specifically, it aims to identify strengths and weaknesses of the system from the perspective of the franchisee. This study would enable franchisors to identify areas in which franchisees are less satisfied. If franchisees are satisfied with numerous aspects that influence the franchisor-franchisee relationship, the latter may have a high degree of loyalty towards their franchisors and this would benefit the entire network. This article uses a variant of the classic importance-performance model from Martilla and James (1977) and others (Ábalo, Varela, & Rial, 2006; Picón, Varela, & Braña, 2011). The results show that the attributes travel agency franchisees feel more dissatisfied with are: chain advertising, ongoing support from franchisors, the initial franchisor support, delivery from the franchisors, and training provided by franchisors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14291608.v1
title: THE STATE OF RESEARCH ON CLEANER PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL

description: ABSTRACT The application of cleaner production (CP) practices in companies is not commonplace in Brazil. Moreover, there are significant difficulties in establishing partnerships among universities, companies, and the government. However, an increase in the number of companies concerned about the impacts of industrial activities on the environment has enabled the development of CP research. Hence, using a literature review and a bibliometric analysis to quantify the scientific production of CP, published in a congress promoted by the Journal of Cleaner Production in Brazil, and an analysis of social networks using UCINET-Draw, this study contributes to the current state of CP research in Brazil. Despite remarkable developments, shareholders and entrepreneurs still lack knowledge about the subsidies/funds to implement CP made available by the government, which would improve the implementation of CP practices. Moreover, university research programs may help companies to generate innovations in this field. This study is one of the first to review CP practices in Brazil, and proposes a framework to promote CP practices in Brazil.