Purpose – This strategy-learning case traces the growth of AlphaTech, a publicly traded company in Brazil that is a … internationalization, given its high market share in Brazil, where further gains may be very expensive and difficult. The case is intended …

, Industry and Foreign Trade, and the Industrial Survey of Technological Innovation also sponsored by the IBGE. This procedure … found only in Brazil within the local subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. Originality/value – Various studies have …

the heart of the lean factory; more recent works have identified “innovation” as the major driver “of growth in free … the management of their introduction at the Curitiba plant of Volvo do Brazil. First, the development of team‐based forms … organisations attached to innovation – in the sense of a hybrid system of learning from the best practice of other organisations. In …

for analyzing a survey conducted with 114 companies in Brazil. Findings – Many companies have been developing RFID … level of RFID technology adoption in Brazil. Research limitations/implications – The paper is not exhaustive, since RFID … adoption in Brazil is at early stages during the survey timeline. Originality/value – The main contribution of the paper is …

most economically developed cities in Brazil were surveyed. The sample comprised 333 mobile banking users and 333 mobile …

innovation brought about by competitive strategies of companies.  …

products in technology-based incubators (TBIs) in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied two surveys, one for … the universe of TBIs’ managers in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the other to the incubated firms’ managers … Innovation and entrepreneurship are understood as sources of wealth creation and social development. Originality/value The …