Estratégia em produtos culturais: estudo de caso de empresa ex-estatal do setor de telecomunicações

In the 1990, and after the process of privatizations of governmental companies in Brazil, cultural products had gained strategical importance for different types of organizations, specially for nationalized companies of the telecommunications sector. Based on the concept of market orientation, and specifically on the concept of cultural marketing, it is possible to understand the approximation between companies and cultural products restrictedly in the level of products and services. However, there has been little questioning about the concept of market orientation and the marginalization of plural and critical approaches which leaves gaps in the understanding of this approximation. Based in other areas of knowledge which understand this approximation between companies and cultural products and based in studies that present critics about the market forces it is possible to recognize the strategical corporative level of cultural products. Based in specific approaches in strategy, and defending pluralism and interdisciplinary research, it is possible to fill this gaps in the marketing literature. Specifically, in this study, are presented approaches that recognize the dimensions of power, politics and symbolism that influence strategies and are responsible for the approximation between these strategies and cultural products. Especially in Brazil, these debates are central, since in a context composed by nationalized companies many ambiguities are common. With this objective, a case study about a telecommunications sector company that has importance in the investment in cultural products is presented. From this case study, based on primary and secondary data, it is possible to comprehend the strategy in cultural products.

A influência dos ativos intangíveis na análise de risco de crédito de empresas de base tecnológica

Evolution is present in world dynamics. And it is just in such transformational environment where companies have been encapsulated. In an economy of knowledge, physical assets alone are unable to provide profits to meet shareholders' demands. Now there comes an invisible component with the purpose of defining strategies and impelling results: Intangible Assets. Banking financing systems, however, have not kept pace with this knowledge revolution and its resulting new income generation techniques. Credit analysis methods for most financing agents would not employ any intangible parameters in their methodology of study as yet. This paper seeks to discuss the importance of intangible assets by focusing their role of influencial factor in decisions to finance technology-based companies. By studying the credit risk classification system employed by FINEP, Brazil's Federal Agency for innovation development, we wished to suggest indicators for intangibles which might be put to use in the Financiadora.

A narrativa do mito: observando o consumo do luxo como espiritualidade

O consumo como espiritualidade de acordo com Holbrook (1999) e o consumo do luxo de acordo com Alléres (2000) foram os temas iniciais usados neste trabalho como forma de buscar conhecer o que o consumidor tem a dizer a respeito de suas experiências de compras especiais e marcantes. A partir da Taxonomia do Valor de Consumo de Holbrook (1999), este trabalho procurou responder à seguinte pergunta: como a narrativa do mito descreve o consumo enquanto eSpiritualidade? Nas entrevistas realizadas foi usada uma abordagem interpretativa onde os informantes pudessem fazer emergir livremente suas considerações sobre o assunto. Pelos dados levantados, a narrativa do mito parece ser usada como metáfora para descrever o consumo como espiritual idade. As categorias êmicas encontradas sugerem um direcionamento para os esforços de marketing de quem pretende proporcionar uma experiência relevante ao consumidor, principalmente a partir de uma perspectiva metafórica.

Hábitos de leitura dos gestores brasileiros

O objetivo deste estudo é identificar alguns dos motivos pelos quais os gestores brasileiros não utilizam a produção científica originada nas escolas de Administração brasileiras. Parte do pressuposto que esta utilização não acontece de fato. Para isso, percorre por bibliografia que trata das definições de Ciência, da possível existência de uma dicotomia entre rigor da produção acadêmica e sua relevância para a sociedade e da literatura popular de gestão – a chamada literatura Pop Management – e suas contribuições para esta situação. Demonstra, através dos resultados obtidos com a análise de entrevistas feitas com 15 gestores brasileiros, que o pressuposto se confirmou. Por fim, consolida e propõe algumas ações para fomentar o uso em maior escala dessa produção científica pelos gestores. Entre elas, que os gestores passem a serem vistos pelos acadêmicos da área como um público-alvo a ser atingido por seus trabalhos.

Government policy and private investment in Brazil (1955/82)

The questlon of the crowding-out of private !nvestment by public expenditure, public investment in particular , ln the Brazilian economy has been discussed more in ideological terrns than on empirical grounds. The present paper tries to avoid the limitation of previous studies by estlmatlng an equation for private investment whlch makes it possible to evaluate the effect of economic policies on prlvate investment. The private lnvestment equation was deduced modifylng the optimal flexible accelerator medel (OFAM) incorporating some channels through which public expendlture influences privateinvestment. The OFAM consists in adding adjustment costs to the neoclassical theory of investrnent. The investment fuction deduced is quite general and has the following explanatory variables: relative prices (user cost of capitaljimput prices ratios), real interest rates, real product, public expenditures and lagged private stock of capital. The model was estimated for private manufacturing industry data. The procedure adopted in estimating the model was to begin with a model as general as possible and apply restrictions to the model ' s parameters and test their statistical significance. A complete diagnostic testing was also made in order to test the stability of estirnated equations. This procedure avoids ' the shortcomings of estimating a model with a apriori restrictions on its parameters , which may lead to model misspecification. The main findings of the present study were: the increase in public expenditure, at least in the long run, has in general a positive expectation effect on private investment greater than its crowding-out effect on priva te investment owing to the simultaneous rise in interst rates; a change in economlc policy, such as that one of Geisel administration, may have an important effect on private lnvestment; and reI ative prices are relevant in determining the leveI of desired stock of capital and private investrnent.