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Biodioesel in Brazil: market structure determined by auction policy
Leonardi, Alex; Scarton, Luciana Maria; Padula, Antônio Domingos; Coronel, Daniel ArrudaThis paper used the indexes of Gini, Theil and Partial Concentration in order to analyze the market concentration of firms that participated in sixteen auctions of the National Petroleum Agency. The empirical analysis of the results indicated that the biodiesel market in Brazil was initially more concentrated, both by the smaller quantities of companies qualified as by their ability to compete in an initial per...
ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE SUPPLY, MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES AND THE...
Borella, Margareth Rodrigues de Carvalho; Padula, Antônio DomingosThe study aims to identify the degree of alignment between the supply, manufacturing and distribution practices on the one hand and the generic business strategies suggested by Porter (1996): differentiation, low cost, focus on differentiation and focus on low cost on the other and to obtain some insights into how these relationships influence business performance. The gestalt and profile deviation (Venkatraman...