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Wealth of Merger and Acquisition on Acquiring Firms in Brazil

Ma, Jianyu; Geng, Mingzhai; Chu, Yun; Chen, Jason C. H. - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Social … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 70-84

In this article, the authors examine the distribution of the stock returns for the acquiring firm and the corresponding market index. They find that significant non-normal distributions exist in a large number of acquiring firms. The authors use two robust regressions to examine the reliability...

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Knowledge Cooperation Opportunities between Saudi Arabia and the BRICS

Bakry, Saad Haj; Alfantookh, Abdulkader - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 31-46

(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). It has been found that KSA enjoys high level of knowledge society enablement …

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Corporate Political Strategies and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs): An Alliance to Conquer International Markets

Meyer, Bernardo; Meyer Jr., Victor - In: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-15

Management literature is replete with cases of companies that use competitive strategies in the markets in which they operate. However, organizational success often depends on other variables, such as political action, which has been neglected in more detailed studies in strategy literature in...

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Infrastructure Profiles and Knowledge Sharing

Oliveira, Mírian; Maçada, Antonio Carlos Gastaud; … - In: International Journal of Technology and Human … 13 (2017) 3, pp. 1-12

involving 231 respondents working in information technology teams in Brazil. The analysis identified four profiles, namely …

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CIO Competencies From the IT Professional Perspective: Insights From Brazil

Joia, Luiz Antonio; Correia, José Carlos P. - In: Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) 26 (2018) 2, pp. 74-103

compare them with the Brazilian CIO perceptions about his/her own competencies. The work concludes that in Brazil there is …

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Long-Run Inflation and Exchange Rates Hedge of Stocks in Brazil and Mexico

Ortiz, Edgar; Cabello, Alejandra; de Jesús, Raúl - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 3

, Mexico and Brazil. Extending the Fisher model, the aim is to determine whether or not these markets have failed to keep pace …

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Priests, Conflicts and Property Rights: the Impacts on Tenancy and Land Use in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: Man and the Economy 5 (2018) 1

Abstract Compared to the rest of the world, farmers in Brazil rely relatively little on tenant contracts. In … underutilized land negotiate land rental contracts with the landless.? In Brazil, this avenue for advancement has been hurt by a … reluctance of owners to rent in areas experiencing land conflict. The lack of rentals is an important issue because Brazil is …

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1-31

A number of recent empirical studies have found no evidence that the minimum wage adversely affects employment. Explanations for such non-negative estimates include new theoretical approaches, empirical identification and data issues. In this paper we examine the robustness of such estimates to...

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The Implementation of a Cash-Flow-Based Mathematical R&D Project Selection Model

Lienland, Bernhard - In: International Journal of Information Technology Project … 7 (2016) 3, pp. 15-36

Customer project selection is a challenge for many industrial companies. An inappropriate project selection approach can lead to constraint violations, high fixed costs, and suboptimal portfolios. To overcome these problems a cash-flow-based linear optimization model was developed in partnership...

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A double clustering algorithm for financial time series based on extreme events

De Luca, Giovanni; Zuccolotto, Paola - In: Statistics & Risk Modeling 34 (2017) 1-2, pp. 1-12

Abstract This paper is concerned with a procedure for financial time series clustering, aimed at creating groups of time series characterized by similar behavior with regard to extreme events. The core of our proposal is a double clustering procedure: the former is based on the lower tail...

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