A profissão de Professor no ensino superior tem três grandes componentes: ensino, pesquisa e extensão. Foco aqui especialmente a pesquisa, não menosprezando a importância que o ensino tem na qualificação das gerações de jovens e menos jovens por intermédio dos quais o país se...

Summary Repeated partnerships in international strategic alliances (ISAs) should mitigate the effects of an under-established institutional framework, lower transaction costs, and create the conditions for the exploitation of firm-specific capabilities by multinational corporations (MNCs)....

Jay Barney?s contribution to the current status of the Resource-Based View (RBV) is well accepted, in particular his 1991 article on ?Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage? has been acknowledged as one of the most significant contributions to developing the RBV. The RBV has since...

Culture has been a widely researched topic in the International Business (IB) literature over the last decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implication in firms? IB operations, several cultural models and taxonomies have been put forward. In this paper we seek to...

As motivações para a internacionalização das empresas devem influenciar a selecção dos modos de entrada nos mercados externos. Neste artigo usamos a classificação de John Dunning (1993) que distingue quatro motivos - procura de mercado, de recursos, de eficiência e de recursos...

Neste artigo avaliamos quais e como as características culturais nacionais que influenciam as percepções de liderança ética. Metodologicamente, realizamos um estudo empírico relacionando as nove dimensões culturais do projeto GLOBE – Distância ao poder, Aversão à incerteza,...

Culture and the influence of national cultures and cultural differences have been widely studied in International Business (IB) research especially over the past three decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implications on firms’ international operations, several...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms carry out their domestic and international strategies. This bibliometric review examines the extant published research on M&As in top sixteen leading business journals notable for publishing strategic management and...

Well known and reputable corporations, not only the small entrepreneurial firms, also face organizational decline and failure. Albeit organizational decline is a reality, there is a notable scarcity of research on the topic. Organizational decline is more often studied in small companies and...

This article focuses on the organizational decline and, more specifically, the evolution of a selected group of Brazilian companies that were included in the Largest and Best ranking of Exame magazine in the period between 1974 and 2006. Our descriptive analysis shows two main effects: firstly a...