This paper proposes a current research agenda on crowdfunding from two different perspectives, mass media and geography. It is believed that these two elements must exert some kind of influence on the dynamics of the investments made in that market. Semantic analysis of mass news can be a useful...

Portuguese Abstract: Buscamos, neste estudo, avaliar o efeito do capital social do conselho de administração (board) no valor de mercado das empresas listadas na BM&F Bovespa. Para tanto, utilizamos como indicador do capital social, os recursos relacionais presentes nos laços diretos,...

With the objective of understanding the process of professionalization and governance structuring in family-owned companies, a qualitative research was conducted through the means of two case studies in long lasting, large Brazilian family-owned companies. The longitudinal study, conducted for...

We conduct an analysis of 1835 pledges to 10 music production projects hosted on the largest Brazilian crowdfunding platform, namely the Catarse Web site, and we assess the relation between the fundraising accumulation period, the donor-entrepreneur distance and the propensity of donors to back...

This article examines predictors of the financial well-being of female college students living in São Paulo or New York, focusing upon the relationship with their credit card use behaviour. The results of structural equation models, based on 784 participants, suggest that financial...

This study uses a unique dataset from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate how corporate and smaller occupiers differ in their willingness to pay for principal office rent determinants. We partition our sample of buildings based on the average size of lease-able units to test whether rent premiums...

The aim of this article is to show the existence of a relationship between voluntary disclosure via corporate websites and the ex-ante cost of capital of companies listed on the BM&FBovespa. Ordinary Least-Squares regression equations produced the following results: (a) on average, the companies...

Guanxi facilitates interaction between companies and people in Confucian societies. Does this type of social construct still play the key role, when the entrepreneurs live in Western societies? The objective of this article is to verify the impact of Guanxi on the capacity of small and...

The purpose of this study is to verify the existence of associations between characteristics of the firm and their voluntary readiness to disclose relevant corporate information using their corporate website. To this end, data from 314 non-financial companies listed on the São Paulo Stock...