Este trabalho versa sobre a importância da adaptação da firma ao ambiente de negócios internacional (IBE). A adaptação é considerada como um processo dinâmico e direcionado internamente que leva à firma a co-evoluir com o ambiente externo. A habilidade de adaptar-se a diferentes...

A importância das técnicas de gerenciamento de projetos (PM) pode ser evidenciada pelo crescimento no número de certificações profissionais nesta área e pela inserção de disciplinas de PM em cursos de graduação e pela oferta de cursos de pós-graduação em PM. Entretanto, observa-se...

Este artigo buscou avaliar o relacionamento entre o tempo de mandato do Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ? normalmente adaptado para a língua portuguesa como Presidente ? e o desempenho de sua organização. Para tanto se construiu dois grupos de hipóteses testadas por meio de um estudo empírico...

Transaction cost theory (TCT) is widely used in several management disciplines. Its value for explaining organizational phenomena and managers? decisions is well accepted and has been recognized with two Nobel laureates (Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson). In this paper we examine the impact of...

A method for selecting personnel for China assignments and preparing and helping them in adapting to the culture is presented. The purpose is to avoid the cost of failures in assignments that can range from $ 300 thousand to $ 1 million (Black & Gregersen, 1999). The proposed selection process...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate why companies adopted the matrix, what problems they had, the solutions for these problems based on Galbraith (2009) and other authors like Davis & Lawrence (1977), and the state of the art of matrix structure design today like the P&G front-back hybrid...

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of...

The purpose of this paper is to describe China?s unique historical development that transformed the Celestial Empire into the largest economy in the world in the beginning of the nineteenth century, with a GDP that exceeded that of Western Europe, Japan, the US and Russia combined, and the...

Given the scale of the Chinese market, international luxury brand to continue or become successful must win in China to continue wining in the rest of the world. Chinese yuppies are driving the demand, buying everything from expensive watches to imported cars. Those that are able to gain and...