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Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of p...
Sposito, Lincoln; Scafuto, Isabel Cristina; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Ferreira, Manuel PortugalPurpose The authors investigated how emotional intelligence (EI) affects the relationship between project managers' (PMgs) expertise and experience and project success for both the team and client. Design/methodology/approach This study collected 290 valid responses from IT project managers. The results were analyzed using an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, with Process v4.0 procedure and the Johnson-N...
Knowledge motives in the cross-border acquisitions: a case research of three Br...
Mazon, Gisele; Moreira-da-Silva, Fernando; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando RibeiroPurpose – This qualitative study, which is based on multiple cases, aims to analyze the pattern of acquisitions by Brazilian multinationals, such as Gerdau in the steel industry, Petrobrás in the oil and gas industry and Vale in the mining industry, to infer the likely knowledge motivations underlying the acquisitions of these firms. Design/methodology/approach – The analyses of the three cases, with secondary ...
The research productivity of new Brazilian PhDs in management: a few “star” per...
Falaster, Christian; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando RibeiroPurpose – Doctoral programs are primarily intended to train new professors and researchers to take positions requiring research competency. This paper aims to observe the scientific production of 734 Brazilian new PhDs in management and the possible link between the scientific output of the graduates and doctoral program rank. Design/methodology/approach – Methodologically, the authors built a database collecti...
CO-AUTHORING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN MANAGEMENT: INTERNATIONAL ACADEMICS’ POINTS O...
Ferreira, Manuel Aníbal Silva Portugal Vasconcelos; Serra, Fernando RibeiroResponding to institutional pressure to publish more papers, and in respected journals, management academics are seeking to increase their productivity by establishing co-authoring ties that speed up the process, from the initial stages of defining the research question to publication in a journal. Understanding the motives, benefits and hazards of co-authorship, especially using the experiences of highly reput...
Abordagem conceitual às estratégias de Internacionalização sob pressões institu...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando RibeiroInternacionalizar as operações requer que as empresas multinacionais (EMNs) desenvolvam estratégias capazes de lidar, simultaneamente, com as pressões institucionais externas, para a legitimidade, e as pressões institucionais internas, para a conformidade. Neste artigo conceitual e baseado na literatura de teoria institucional em negócios internacionais, desenvolve-se um conjunto de proposições teóricas sobre q...
Two decades of research on strategic alliances: analysis of citations, co-citat...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Storopoli, José Eduardo; Serra, Fernando RibeiroResearch on strategic alliances has a long tradition in management studies. Strategic alliances have been investigated using multiple theoretical lenses from RBV to agency and transaction cost, and diverse contexts, from the semiconductor to airline industries. In this study we scrutinize the extant strategic alliance research in thirty-one top-ranked business/management journals, over a twenty-year period, fro...
International Business Research: Understanding Past Paths to Design Future Rese...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno Rosa; Almeida, Martinho Isnard Ribeiro de; Serra, Fernando RibeiroIn this paper we examine the extant research in IB by conducting a bibliometric study of the articles published in three leading international business journals – International Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review, over their entire track record of publication available in the ISI – Institute for Scientific Information. In longitudinal analyses of citati...
A bibliometric study of the cultural models in international business research
Reis, Nuno; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Santos, João Carvalho; Serra, Fernando RibeiroCulture 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 cultural models and taxonomies have been put forward. In this paper we review the main cultural models in the extant IB res...
A bibliometric study on Buckley and Casson’s (1976) contribution to internation...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Ribeiro de Almeira, Martinho IsnardDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2012v14n33p9In this paper we examine the work by Peter Buckley and Mark Casson (1976), “The future of the multinational enterprise”, contribution to international business research. In this work, the Buckley and Casson conceitualized one of the foundational theories for International Business (IB) research in the past three decades: internalization theory. Our bibliometr...
Strategic management research in the initial years of the XXI century: a biblio...
Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Almeida, Martinho Isnard Ribeiro de; Vanz, Samile Andrea de SouzaIn this paper we examined the intellectual changes in strategic management using citation and co-citation analysis of the articles published in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) between 2001 and 2007. The intent was to assess whether the dominant authors in strategic management to check the dominant theories that supported the research in the beginning of the new century. In the work we confirm that the cu...