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Purpose – To identify ways for business managers to reduce consumer complicity with counterfeit products by better aligning their actions with consumer beliefs of complicity. Design/methodology/approach – A mall intercept methodology was used to interview 54 US and 48 Brazilian business...
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Brazil. It focuses on both judicial structures and social service delivery to illustrate how they impact the shaping of … should be sought while designing public policies to address crime in Brazil. Moreover, further research is needed in order to … comprehend how organised crime operates in Brazil (and possibly in some Latin American countries).  …
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Russia, Brazil, and Poland over the decades of the 1980s through to 2015. The paper asserts that Russia and Brazil could … voids can be instructive for Russia and Brazil which have shown far less success, and correspondingly less sustained … Brazil to assess how those countries might be positively informed by Poland’s experience in building and strengthening …
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research focus in Brazil is currently on areas such as the new globalised economy and the environment.  …
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Brazil is much more resilient to international financial crises than in the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … current international financial crisis on Brazil has been much less severe than similar crisis episodes in the past. Research …
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Purpose – This introductory paper aims to outline the reasons for optimism as well as for skepticism in regard to Russia's position in the group of BRIC nations and in the global economy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a brief overview of developments in Russia. This...
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In this century there is likely to be more self‐examination by manufacturing industries. This is not a case of firms putting themselves in the psychiatrist’s chair; rather, companies will be looking more closely at the mechanics of how their organization works, to see where traditionally...
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and continued search for excellence in her institution, the IAM, and her country Brazil, as well as the way she has coped …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the iREX2007, the International Robot Exhibition 2007 held in Tokyo, Japan, with emphasis on new trends in the Japanese robot industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on in‐depth interviews with exhibitors and also major...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the weaknesses which result in the concept of process performance measurement being ineffectively translated into effective measurement and action regimes. Design/methodology/approach – In spite of the fact that process performance...
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