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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286687
title: EVALUATION OF THE CONSUMER STYLE INVENTORY (CSI) SCALE IN THE BRAZILIAN CONTEXT

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this study is the evaluation, in the Brazilian context, of the Consumer Style Inventory (CSI), developed by Sproles e Kendall (1986), which investigates the consumers’ decision-making styles. The present research focuses on young people, since few studies investigated the decision-making process of this population, despite the impact of the experiences lived in the adolescence on the individuals’ adult behavior and the fact that the adolescents are more responsible for their consumption decisions and have more influence on the familiar decisions than ever before. By a survey with 464 adolescents, the scale was evaluated, refined and validated. First of all, we assess the content validity. Then, the sample was divided randomly in two: the first part served to purify the measures and the second one, to validate the measurement model. Overall, the results indicate a factorial structure similar to the initial study and the reliability and validity of the CSI scale on the Brazilian context, with some changes - one item of each of the following styles: guided by the fashion, by the brand, and hedonism; and two items of the impulsive style had weak differentiation among the factors, weak identification with their respective styles or, still, indicated significant improvement in the goodness-of-fit indices of the measurement model by being removed, justifying their exclusion.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286686
title: THE DETERMINANTS OF INTANGIBILITY

description: ABSTRACT The study of intangible assets has attracted increasing interest in the recent years. By force of this trend, the study of companies that intensely use this type of asset is also relevant. The intangible assets are responsible for great changes in the financial and operational characteristics of the companies. Following this assumption, an important question to be analyzed is whether significant differences between tangible-intensive and intangible-intensive companies exist. Thus, the objective of this paper is to analyze the possible financial-economic determinants of the intangibility of the Brazilian companies. The results show that two variables related to the debt level and to the size of companies are important in the differentiation between the intangible-intensive and tangible-intensive firms in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286683
title: THE MEASUREMENT OF THE SERVICE ATTRIBUTES IMPORTANCE: A SCALE COMPARISON

description: ABSTRACT This article discusses specifically the methodological aspects of measurement of attributes in services for a context of quantitative research. In this case a self-applied questionnaire approach was used. The article begins describing some aspects of marketing decisions and the relationship with the information. Some measurement methodological aspects, mainly scales, in quantitative research was analyzed and discussed. The study proposes the decreasing points approach for the measurement of the attributes importance. An exploratory study was made to compare the scale utilization results of semantic differential, the scale of Carvalho and Leite (1999) and two approach formats of decreasing points to evaluate the main attributes that would influence consumers in the choice of a beauty parlor. Results pointed that Carvalho and Leite approach was the more realistic and discriminatory comparing with the three analyzed scales.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286681
title: FAMILY FIRMS: ECONOMICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND MANAGERIAL REPERCUSSIONS IDENTIFIED FROM THE PATH OF SUCCESSORS

description: ABSTRACT This paper deals with the succession process at the familiar firm and its influences on the economic and technological results to the enterprise. In order to attain this goal, this study presents the case of group Ypióca, a brazilian firm which is in the 4 th family generation going to the 5 th one. Over more than one century and a half, the corporation consolidated seven modern medium enterprises all of them engaged at the manufacturing of an high quality product that is included in the international an national markets: the aguardente from sugar cane. The data collection was made by means of documents and interviews from the person related to the succession process (the present successor-directrice that is the 4 th generation succeed). The economic and technological succession influences on the enterprise performance results are presented in this study as well the analysis of succession procedures by means of the succession process itself.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286680
title: THE SIX SIGMA PROGRAM INSTITUTIONALIZATION PROCESS IN AN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY

description: ABSTRACT The present article intends to analyze the institutionalization process on the six sigma program in the automobile company, located in ABC region at São Paulo state. Being about dissertation project, the article presents the results gotten in the validation of research instrument through answers by specialists in the six sigma program implementation. By applying questionnaires and interviews it was possible to identify the periods of institutionalization steps and to validate a research instrument to be used in future research.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286678
title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, PERFORMANCE AND TURNOVER OF EXECUTIVES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN FAMILY AND NON-FAMILY BRAZILIAN BUSINESSES

description: ABSTRACT In recent years, an increasing share of researches on Finance have placed attention to the study of corporate governance, highlighting its implications to the global performance of companies. One of the ways to assess the structures and practices of the corporate governance is to verify the sensibility of executives’ turnover to the company performance. In this article we aim at checking if the determinants of executives’ turnover in Brazilian companies may be different between family and non-family businesses from the governance viewpoint. The analysis is conducted having as reference a set of 176 industrial businesses listed at Bovespa, segmented by type (family or non-family), between 1997 and 2001. The contribution of this study is in the peculiarities involving the family businesses and which have not been considered in Brazilian researches, and by offering elements to reflect theoretically about the performance of family businesses and their governance structures. The results reveal the existence of significant differences in performance, value and structures of corporate governance between family and non-family businesses. It has also been observed that the companies which obtained better profitability tended to implement a smaller turnover.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286677
title: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES: THE “XSA” CASE

description: ABSTRACT The relation individual/organization has been source of several studies on management. Those studies seek to promote and to stimulate the individuals’ involvement to the company, reducing conflicts and increasing the productivity. One approach of such studies focuses on the organizational commitment as one of the ways of understanding the ties between the individual and the organization. This paper aims to present the relation between the human resources practices used by the companies, including the knowledge management, and the employees’ commitment. To analyze the commitment we used the model of Meyer e Allen, focusing on three components: affective, normative and instrumental. The empirical research was undertaken in a logistic company of the State of Minas Gerais, from now on designated as XSA. The data was obtained from a questionnaire applied to a selected and representative sample of 93 employees. The results showed that human resources practices have influenced the affective and normative dimensions of the commitment. The higher rates were observed in the practices of knowledge and relationship management. So, we can conclude that those practices are essential to keep the employees ties with the company.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286675
title: PERFORMANCE OF INVESTMENT FUNDS OF THE TYPE THE PRIVATE PROVIDENCE AND ITS SENSITIVITY TO THE VARIATION OF THE TAX OF INTERESTS

description: ABSTRACT This work searchs to explore the field of financial investment fund, that even so is very boarded for literature, has explored basically in deep of market and free wallet. However this work searched to explore in providence investment fund ones, that has received little attention in terms from empirical studies in Brazil. The general objective was to verify the performance of the deep ones, with equity upper the R$ 100 millions, in the understood period it enters the years of 2003 and 2004. The performance heading, was made a survey of the monthly returns of each deep and calculated its shunting line-standard, as defining of the risk of the returns. Also the calculation of the correlation was used, comparing the returns of the deep ones with one benchmark, assigned for the CDI of the respective period. Soon after that the Index of Sharpe was calculated as performance parameter. When analyzing the results, evidenced that the deep ones, in its great majority, keep a positive correlation with benchmark (more not all) and that the performance through the returns is not total compatible with the index of Sharpe. Also it was found that the returns in the two analyzed years, not to obtain to surpass the CDI, characterizing of this form inefficiency in the management of the deep ones.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286672
title: EXPLORING BRAND EXTENSION

description: ABSTRACT The main purpose of this paper is to study the brand extension strategy and his hole in competitive as well as customer perception related to this strategy. Including the studies that explore the conceptions of brand extension strategy, the identification of the differences related to brand extension and product line extension strategy, and finally the customer perception related this strategy. This paper still included an analysis about which are the benefits and risks that brand extension strategy brings to companies and consumer. The theme of this paper is relevant to the academic and professional sphere, as the brand extension strategy have become usual inside companies. As this paper is a theoretical research it will be used books, texts and papers of the main authors of brand extension strategy of Brazil and the world. The corporate investment growth in brand extension and products portfolio justifies the concerning with this theme, now we are in brand extension era, and not of new brands creation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286671
title: TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY AND CORPORATE STRATEGY: FIRM-LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM THE PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONY INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL

description: ABSTRACT Studies on corporate strategy, more specifically those developed from thw 1990s, emphasize the importance of technological capability and innovation aspects as competitive advantage sources. Empirical studies on this issue are still scarce in the literature, especially in late-industrializing countries. Drawing on available frameworks in the international literature the aim of this paper is to present empirical evidence of corporate strategies based on the development of technological capability. To elaborate the current work, a fieldwork was carried out in Telemar Norte Leste, a big telecommunications operator in Brazil. The study covers 1998-2005 just after the privatization of telecommunications services in Brazil. Telemar put a lot of effort on the accumulation of technological capability. The evidence suggests that this had positives implications for its competitive performance. The study suggest that a corporate strategy supported by a technological capability building a approach certainly contributes to improving corporate performance corporate performance indicators.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286668
title: ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE ON BRAZILIAN BANK SECTOR: A DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS APPLICATION

description: ABSTRACT The organizational performance analysis is always something a matter of a lot of discussions. Questions on which indicators to use and how to consolidate them in way to establish a fair criteria of performance evaluation is present in several studies and in the companies’ daily routine. In this way that this work is proposed with a modeling proposal of this problem through the use of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A relative performance index that is capable to conjugate financial indicators of liquidity, cost, risk and profitability in the analysis of organizational performance is searched. In other words, the index of each company is an integrated combination of several performance vectors and it is function not only of its performance, but also of the performance of the other analyzed companies. The research sample were composed of banks of four segments: 20 retail banks, 34 wholesale banks, 21 middle market banking and 26 financing banks, that were in operation in Brazil in 2003, listed in the ranking of the Gazeta Mercantil - Balanço Financeiro Magazine about the performance of the best banks and other financial institutions. The results show that as much the giants as the small and middle institutions have total survival and competition conditions, because it is not the size that produces the competitiveness in the sector, but the superior performance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286666
title: BURNOUT SYNDROME: RELATIONSHIP WITH AFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONGST MANAGERS ON STATE-OWNED ORGANIZATION

description: ABSTRACT This research encompasses two main concepts and aimed to analyse them both theoretical and empirically: burnout syndrome and affective organisational commitment. 249 five-point standardised Likert-scale questionnaires were filled out and 16 interviews, supported by semi-structured schedules were undertaken with Eletronorte managers. The research hypothesis was that these managers would have typical burnout behaviour and a positive relationship between this syndrome and attitudinal commitment would be find. Inferential analyses were done and medium level of burnout syndrome on the emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and low personal accomplishment were identified. 27,7% of the managers presented medium or high levels on the three syndrome factors, stressing the low personal accomplishment factor; 61,8% and 36,14% of the research participants showed high and medium levels, respectively, of attitudinal commitment. The hypothesis was accepted upon the burnout syndrome, but rejected on the positive relationship between that syndrome and commitment. The results can be useful to understand factors less explored on the organisational behaviour field, especially amongst managers that work on organisations which are on changing process.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286663
title: THE TAYLORISM UNDER CONTROL: THE PLACE OF THE NEW AND OLD TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INDUSTRIAL ORDER

description: ABSTRACT This paper critically debates the accepted historical exhaustion of the taylorism. The main purpose is to argue that, after more than a century from its introduction, the control methods of the scientific administration were improved, modernized and transformed in a way, that it seems historically abandoned. Contrarily, the rapid diffusion of electronic security systems in the corporative world represents a concrete evidence of the persistence of taylorist forms of control that, transmuted, assume a new shape on this new technical and productive paradigm.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286662
title: STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING PRIVATE LABELS BY SUPERMARKETS IN BRAZIL

description: ABSTRACT Retail companies in Brazil, specially the supermarkets, are adopting practices in order to increase the number of consumers and keeping them loyal. At the same time they are trying to be different from the competitors. The competition incited between the supermarkets forces them to look for alternatives capable to strength their position compared to the competitors and also compared to the traditional producers with well known brand products. Among the actions developed to this purpose, some supermarkets invest in development of products with their own brands, the products with supermarkets private label. This study analyzes the process of development, from strategy motivations to results obtained in managing private labels. Five supermarkets were listened through a study of multiples cases and the use of multiples sources of evidence. The results show that the supermarkets develop products with private label mainly to keep the consumers fidelity, increase the profit and raise the bargain power next to the traditional suppliers. Beyond these motivator factors, a social motivator appeal was also identified in the process of these products development.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286659
title: ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION AND CHANGE: A CASE STUDY IN A COMPANY FROM THE BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUSTER IN MINAS GERAIS

description: ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze the process of a planned organizational change within a family-owned company from the technological sector. More specifically, it looks at the internal and external issues intervening in this process. Furthermore, this article intends to understand how this organization change process shifted four critical organization dimensions: (1) people; (2) the organization structure; (3) the management processes, and; (4) the company’s strategy. In addition to endogenous factors, exogenous factors seemed to have influenced the process of change occurred within the company. Taking into account that these process are normally triggered by crisis, our research suggests the emergence of a more pro-active attitude of the company, which anticipated a deeper crisis and introduced changes that effectively contributed to propel its business.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286657
title: INTEGRATING ACTIVITY BASED COSTING TO THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

description: ABSTRACT With this study, the authors deal with a measurement and information model integrating elements of activity-based costing and theory of constraints to support the decision making process. Firstly they restore, under a historical perspective, when, how and why the ABC and TOC were created; after that, differences and similarities are shown. On this purpose, they follow a numerical example and bibliographical research methodology. As a result, it is demonstrated that the authors conclude by demonstrating that ABC and TOC are complementary concepts, not conflicting, as state Goldratt and other researchers. The result is an important scientific contribution for Business Administration Academia and practitioners insofar destroy de myth of incompatibility of those managerial tools2.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286654
title: INNER COMMUNICATION PROCESSES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION

description: ABSTRACT The inner communication is a wide area of studies discussed both in the academic and organizational environment since it refers to a potential factor responsible for the optimization of the various organizational processes. The development of new products can be pointed out as an example of these processes. Either directly or indirectly, the inner communication realized among the sectors involved in developing new products may impact the outcomes organization. Thus, this work aims at analyzing, through theoretical research and case studies carried out in a national furnishing company, the cross-functional processes of marketing and production in the development of new products and their results for the company. The found results ratify the importance of inner communication and emphasize that different way of communication bring different consequences for the company.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286651
title: ANALYSIS OF THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE COMPANYAND ITS EXTERNAL MARKETS BASED ON BELA BALASSA INDEX

description: ABSTRACT Small medium companies represent an important share in the total of the Brazilian companies but have small weight in the external trade balance although at present are being stimulated trough appropriate official politics to increase its participation in the foreign trade. Not always the exporting producers associate the attractiveness of a market with the compatibility towards its company. Then, in view to the increasing necessity of tools that can assist the decision making process, related to the election of external markets we suggest in this article a methodology that aims to select a market, according to its compatibility with the exporting company, measured by the exporting tradition of Brazil in that industry, and the comparative advantages of that product.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286650
title: TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE FORMATION OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING HABITS AND ROUTINES: A CASE STUDY

description: ABSTRACT Considering that management accounting routines tend towards stability and that it is difficult to introduce new conceptual approaches into practice, this study aimed to identify the basic characteristics of management accounting habits and routines. We attempted to study not only existing habits and routines, but also new ones that emerged from the installation of a change process in the cost and pricing systems of a medium-sized family company. In view of the need to understand the company’s situation before and during the change process as well as after its implantation, the action research methodology was used. The institutional and contingency theories were used as a theoretical reference framework. The following factors stood out in the case study results: 1. the impact analysis of environmental problems that turn the existing management accounting habits and routines inefficient; 2. the difficulty to change old habits and institutionalized routines, which are used unconsciously; 3. the use of different strategies to institutionalize new management concepts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14286648
title: MULTICRITERIA APPROACH TO PROSPECT THEORY: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATION

description: ABSTRACT This paper compares the use of two multicriteria decision analytical methods used for military material selection. In the decision analysis the Analytic Hierarchy Process - AHP was initially used first in order to rank the alternatives in the presence of multiple criteria. This study was conducted in the Army Evaluation Center, a unit of the Brazilian Army. The other decision analysis method employed was TODIM, which is based on Prospect Theory, thus allowing to take risks into account in the modeling stage. Although the two multi-criteria methods rely on different decision paradigms, this application study showed that results were quite similar to justify the use of either method in the practice of similar military decisionmaking processes.