This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

Cross-holding (vertical quasi-integration) is often characterized as a major organizational failure in the Brazilian petrochemical industry. This paper aims to identify if there is governance misalignment in three periods: the end of the 1980's and 1990's, and after the founding of Braskem, in...

Cross-holding (vertical quasi-integration) is often characterized as a major organizational failure in the Brazilian petrochemical industry. This paper aims to identify if there is governance misalignment in three periods: the end of the 1980’s and 1990’s, and after the founding of Braskem,...

Portuguese Abstract: 1. Introdução. 2. Mercosul: antecedentes históricos e a falta de legitimidade democrática em relação às políticas adotadas pelos Estados. 3. Parlamento do Mercosul e o viés democrático da integração. 3.1. A experiência europeia. 3.2. Rumos e desafios do...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo tem por objetivo examinar o sistema das Opiniões Consultivas do MERCOSUL e a sua regulamentação pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, de forma a identificar a viabilidade da construção de um direito da integração no bloco, vez que uma das grandes...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo relata um caso de sucesso de empresarial no sector dos transportes na Colômbia. Comefeito, conta a história de Luis Gabriel Pinto, uma pessoa que toma a iniciativa de desenvolver o seu próprio projecto empresarial na prestação de serviços de logística para...

In this paper I analyze the interaction between firms’ earnings management behavior and conservatism. I predict that firms having conservatism-related bad news in the period have more pervasive earnings management than firms having good news. Departing from Burgstahler and Dichev (1997)...