to examine the effects of globalization on markets, strategies, and performance of business-to-consumer firms in Brazil … that globalization and especially the entry of Chinese firms significantly changed market contexts in Brazil. Brazilian … contexts in Brazil by developing a new form of competition in which firms from emerging economies are now competing against …

, South America had a high annual growth rate in the production of industrial roundwood, with Brazil and Chile being the most … important countries. In the same period, Asia had the only negative regional production growth rate in the world, and China … Cone countries of Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and is increasing in other countries in Latin America. There will …

generates competitiveness. The dissertation employs a qualitative method of comparative analysis between Australia, Brazil and …The dissertation involves an investigation into the circumstances of international competitiveness and how it is … pursued by firms from different sugar producing and marketing nations. Understanding of competitiveness has primarily been …

competitiveness in the exports of each segment of the soybean agro-industry. For this, the Constant-Market-Share (CMS) model was used …, soybean meal and oil, disaggregating them in these components: market size, market distribution and competitiveness. The …-industry. The competitiveness, for its time, was only positive for the soy exports in grain. However, it stands out that the …

country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia … entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …

electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …

in the context of the forest products industry in China, this study attempts to fill in the blank by investigating the …