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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...
Government attenuation of institutional inefficiencies in capital markets: infl...
Silva, Fernando Moreira da; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Pinto, Cláudia FriasWe analyze how the government, as a shareholder or as a financier, may mitigate or aggravate institutional inefficiencies in local markets for financial capital that influence the financial performance of electricity distribution companies. On a sample of Brazilian electricity distribution firms, we assess how inefficiencies might hamper firms' performance and propose that governments may provide a market subst...
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 ...
A bibliometric study of the Resource-Based View (RBV) in International Business...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Costa, Benny Kramer; Almeida, MartinhoIn this study we examine how the RBV has been included in IB research over the past twenty years using Barney’s (1991) article as a key marker. Bibliometric techniques analyzing citations, co-citations and research themes delved into, were applied to the articles published between 1991 and 2010 in five leading IB journals. Data was collected from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Institute for Sci...
The 'CEO' effect on the performance of Brazilian companies: an empirical study ...
Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Três, Guilherme; Ferreira, Manuel PortugalThe experience and competence of CEOs may have a positive influence on the performance of firms. Using secondary data on the performance of 73 Brazilian listed companies and primary data collected through a survey of the social and demographic characteristics of CEOs we tested a set of hypotheses concerning the influence of CEOs on the performance of the firms they headed between 1997 and 2012. Specifically, we...
O efeito moderador da corrupção do país de origem sobre a capacidade do país re...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Carreira, Helder Costa; Li, Dan; Serra, Fernando RibeiroPesquisa anterior tem identificado um impacto negativo da corrupção sobre a capacidade dos países de atrair Investimento Estrangeiro Direto (IED), todavia tem sido escassa em avaliar os efeitos do país de origem dos investidores. Estendemos a pesquisa prévia distinguindo a corrupção generalizada e arbitrária do país receptor e seus efeitos sobre os influxos de IED. Também testamos se a corrupção no país de orig...
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...
The scholarly impact of the most cited and award winner articles in Internation...
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Ribeiro, Martinho Almeida; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Armagan, SunguThe knowledge and evolution of a discipline are supported on multiple contributions of scholars through their research, but some works have a larger impact on the field. In this paper we examine the most cited articles in international business (IB) research. Methodologically, we identify the six most cited articles published on the top journal for IB studies - Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) -...
Estratégia de inovação no modelo de negócios: o caso HSM Educação
Pinto, Cláudia Frias; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; Ferreira, Manuel PortugalPara enfrentar e diferenciar da concorrência, criar valor e captar uma vantagem competitiva, muitas empresas começaram a buscar inovar no modelo de negócio. Neste artigo, será analisada a estratégia de inovação no modelo de negócio da HSM Educação, uma empresa brasileira de educação executiva. Metodologicamente, conduziu-se um estudo de caso sustentado em dados secundários e dados coletados por entrevista. A an...