By adopting Lean Manufacturing firms wants to see the value created in its results at the bottom line. The agricultural machinery and implements sector in Brazil had experienced in Lean and saw its results affected by the program. Using an established analytical model, the paper tests three...

This work examines the amount of money that would be collected with the implementation of Tobin Tax-taxation on all the market operations at sight that involve transactions in different currencies. It also proposes to eliminate famine in Brazil, calculating how much additional income citizens...

In accordance to Resource Based View (RBV), the main cause of the variety of firm's performance in the market lies on the specific nature of their resources and accumulated competences. Nevertheless, the majority of explicative variables are qualitative what makes it hard to quantify and...

Based on the work of Chadwick and Cappelli (2002), this paper attempts to ascertain the impacts of the functional and numerical flexibilization of work systems on corporate financial performances. A Multiple Regression and Variance Analysis was carried out to validate four Hypotheses. Hypothesis...

The aim of the article is to study the relation between product innovation and its associated risk, particularly in the Brazilian manufacturing industry in the period of 1995-2005. A statistical model is developed based on the study realized by Bromiley (1991), seeking to identify whether...

The objective of this paper is to investigate herding behavior in the Brazilian stock mutual funds. Through the study of the 100 largest funds of the category, between September/2004 and July/2008, two herding indexes are analyzed: (i) the index, proposed by Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny...

This research aimed to study the relationship between innovation and variables that represent firm performance. Using a comprehensive database that cross references innovation information gathered by PINTEC (Technological Innovation Research) of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and...

The search for consistent methodologies in order to identify and measure intellectual capital is becoming increasingly important in every countries. For this reason we tested Pulic (2000) model, which has been successfully tested abroad and in Brazil. These results led us to replicate the VAIC...

We have created an index that measures eco-innovation in Brazil at firm level. It is a first experience for the country and for this reason we have organized the survey with a qualitative and quantitative approach. The index was structured based on the experiences of the Eco-Innovation Index...