A perspectiva do consumidor frente ao comportamento ético empresarial - 2ª parte

Há uma tendência de mercados mais concorridos, devido à globalização, menores taxas de crescimento econômico e outras causas. Diante desse cenário, o papel desempenhado pelos consumidores influenciando o comportamento das empresas pode elevar-se. Mas várias questões a esse respeito despontam no Brasil. Quais são as principais práticas empresariais éticas e antiéticas para os consumidores? Quais são as empresas mais éticas e antiéticas para os consumidores? A ética empresarial é importante para os consumidores? A ética empresarial é recompensada pelos consumidores? Acerca desta última e crucial questão, tendo-se por base uma série de artigos jornalísticos, a resposta parece ser sim. Todavia, nenhum resultado empírico acadêmico produzido no Brasil foi encontrado contemplando por completo essas questões. Este relatório envolve uma pesquisa empírica sobre tais questões. Antes, no plano teórico, são examinados dois temas: a) a crescente relevância da ética nos negócios; b) o marketing e o papel da ética do consumidor, no exterior e no Brasil. Na parte empírica, dois são os propósitos. O primeiro envolve uma sondagem aberta, sob a ótica do consumidor, das melhores e piores práticas empresariais em termos de ética, assim como das empresas mais éticas e mais antiéticas. O segundo propósito abrange a mensuração dos construtos Importância Atribuída pelo Consumidor ao Comportamento Ético Empresarial e Propensão do Consumidor a Recompensar o Comportamento Ético Empresarial, bem como o teste da existência de uma relação entre eles. Dados foram obtidos de uma amostra de assinantes de telefonia fixa das cidades de Campo Grande (MS), Curitiba (PR) e Salvador (BA). Ao final, as principais limitações e conclusões da pesquisa são expostas e discutidas.

A perspectiva do consumidor frente ao comportamento ético empresarial (parte final)

Há uma tendência de mercados mais concorridos, devido à globalização, menores taxas de crescimento econômico e outras causas. Diante desse cenário, o papel desempenhado pelos consumidores influenciando o comportamento das empresas pode elevar-se. Mas várias questões a esse respeito despontam no Brasil. Quais são as principais práticas empresariais éticas e antiéticas para os consumidores? Quais são as empresas mais éticas e antiéticas para os consumidores? A ética empresarial é importante para os consumidores? A ética empresarial é recompensada pelos consumidores? Acerca desta última e crucial questão, tendo-se por base uma série de artigos jornalísticos, a resposta parece ser sim. Todavia, nenhum resultado empírico acadêmico produzido no Brasil foi encontrado contemplando por completo essas questões. Este relatório envolve uma pesquisa empírica sobre tais questões. Antes, no plano teórico, são examinados os temas da crescente relevância da ética nos negócios, do marketing e o papel da ética do consumidor, no exterior e no Brasil. Na parte empírica, dois são os propósitos. O primeiro envolve uma sondagem aberta, sob a ótica do consumidor, das melhores e piores práticas empresariais em termos de ética, assim como das empresas mais éticas e mais antiéticas. O segundo propósito abrange a mensuração dos construtos Importância Atribuída pelo Consumidor ao Comportamento Ético Empresarial (IMPETIC) e Propensão do Consumidor a Recompensar o Comportamento Ético Empresarial (RECETIC), bem como o teste da existência de uma relação entre eles. Dados foram obtidos de uma amostra de assinantes de telefonia fixa das cidades de Campo Grande, Curitiba, Salvador, Manaus e Vitória. Dos resultados, sobressai uma relação significante entre IMPETIC e RECETIC. Ao final, as principais limitações e conclusões da pesquisa são expostas e discutidas.

Uma Análise dos impactos da privatização da Light sob o enfoque da agência reguladora e do consumidor

The objective of this work is identify the impacts of the Light privatization under the consumer point of view, with special focus to the service's quality, verifying the channels introduced by Light to measure the consumer satifaction and evaluate how the consumers interests have influence on the company's decisions. This study also objective to identify the main challenges faced by the Regulatory Agency and the Brazilian State on the new relationship model implementation STATE - CONSUMER - CONCESSIONARY, propoused to the energy sector after the privatization. A descriptive methodology is used to identify the most significant changes on the Light's trasition process to the private administration, followed by an explicative investigation to find how the consumer has passed throught this change, based on bibliographical research and interviews. The obtained conclusions shows that the impacts of the Light privatization under the consumer point of view are positive and highlights that the Regulatory Agency has to have the power and autonomy to control and advice the conncessionaries, building consulte and evaluation mechanisms to activate the consumer participation.

Teoria e prática na proteção aos acionistas minoritários: um olhar sobre o direito de retirada nas reorganizações societárias

This paper analyzes the evolution of the protection to the minority stockholders of the stock market, through their right to withdrawal when the society is reorganized. Thus, a triple study was done: In the first place, it analyzes the evolution of legal protection for the minority stockholders with relation to possible abuses that can be committed by the majority stockholders of public traded corporations when there is a Public Offering for Stocks Acquisition (POSAs). In the second place, it studies opinions about this legal protection of portfolio managers and lawyers who deal with corporate law. Finally, it verified the POSAs which occurred in recent periods, comparing the values used by the majority stockholders to reimburse the stocks from minority shareholders in those POSAs. Comparing the results of these three above studies, we conclude that: A) The current legislation does not protect adequately the minority stockholders; B) There is a great dispersion of opinions among the two categories of professionals, concerning their approval or not of important details of the current legislation, and also of the old legislation; C) A great dispersion also exists about the suggestions concerning what should be modified in the legislation to improve it; D) The Brazilian Securities Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários ¿ CVM) did not prevent the distortions observed in the POSAs studied; E) The legislation is not always well known by these professionals, and this suggests that the knowledge of small investors must be precarious. This insecurity and ignorance of the legal protection become obstacles for nonspecialized persons to invest in stocks, resulting in an important limitation for the development and popularization of the Brazilian stock market.

Investimento na Preservação do Meio Ambiente no Setor de Cosméticos: Relevância Atribuída pelos clientes de o Boticário e sua percepção quanto à conduta da Empresa

In spite of the environmental consumerism in Brazil not to meet in levels as advanced as in Europe and in the United States, some sectors are emerging as precursors of environmental relationships with their markets. Cosmetic's sector is one of them. This study discusses the subject of the ethical consumerism, especially the environmental one. It is focused in the consumer-citizen's context, more specifically in the consumer of a company of cosmetic's sector in Rio de Janeiro. To carry out this study, we chose a company that clearly assumed its commitment with the investment in the preservation of the environment: O Boticário. Initially, we investigated the relevance attributed by the customers of O Boticário to the investment accomplished in the search by the preservation of the environment by companies of this sector, comparing these results with the importance that has been imputed by the customers to traditional attributes of the Marketing. Later, we have analyzed these customers' perception in respect of the investment accomplished by the company in the search for the preservation of the environment. In the preliminary phase of the research, fourteen customers of O Boticário were interviewed. A structured questionnaire was applied to 90 respondents that have declared themselves customers of the mentioned company. The information were treated with descriptive statistics. The software employed has been the SPSS 10.0. Although the field research has indicated the characteristics of the product as priority for the consumer, the relevance attributed to the investment of the company in the search for the preservation of the environment was considered significant, with more prominence than some attributes traditionally judged as attributes-key of the Marketing. However, this apparent sensibility for the environmental subject doesn't seem to influence in search of information on environmental conduct of cosmetics' companies. In fact, a great deal of customers of O Boticário has declared that they have been unknowing about the conduct in favor of the environment on the part of the company, and a number, even larger, was not aware of the existence of the Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza.

Um desafio para a regulação do mercado de assistência à saúde no Brasil: a escolha do consumidor de planos de saúde

The objective of this dissertation is to discover and to analyze the way how the consumer uses his/her perception to decide contracting a health plan, to supply elements that can serve to subsidize the State, the market and the consumers, in relation to the knowledge on the process of choice of the consumer and the decisions of purchase and contracting services of private health. The estimated one is to evidence that the brand of health plan is an important variable and decisive to the consumer contracting the service of a company that operates in these sector, because mean for the consumer security about the product, through the symbolism that the same one represents, despite the consumer not knowing to the certainty what is contracting in quality and amount. The theoretical construction is carried through using literature of anthropology of the consumption, theory of modernity, theory of the regulation, economic utilitarism, and marketing. Moreover, referential specific theoretician on the regulation of the market of health plans in Brazil. The health plan market in Brazil is anti-symmetrical and the consumer doesn¿t have knowledge technician who makes possible it to form judgment and to carry through rationality choices. Than the consumer uses to his/her decision symbolic elements that are available to his/her and supply to his/her the security that is look likes in the consumption of this kind of good. These symbolic elements related the confidence and security and are into the strong brands of the companies and are transmitted to the consumer through the mass media. In this dissertation are used as sources of data some information of the regulatory agency of the sector ¿ ANS -, a research of public opinion with health plans users and the results of the application of proper questionnaires for this research.

Relações entre Satisfação do Consumidor, seus Antecedentes e Lealdade ao Fabricante: Um Estudo na Indústria Automobilística.

O objetivo principal desta dissertação é verificar a relação entre satisfação e lealdade do consumidor, bem como a relação entre a satisfação e seus antecedentes no mercado automobilístico brasileiro. Para isto, foram avaliados 160 questionários respondidos por proprietários de automóveis novos e usados. Nove hipóteses foram testadas por meio de um modelo proposto, usando-se o método de equações estruturais. No que diz respeito à validação, o modelo final demonstrou uma boa confiabilidade, comparando-se aos modelos apresentados na literatura. Implicações gerenciais incluem ações das montadoras no campo da satisfação do cliente.

A falsa ilusão de ter: investigando os tipos de valores para o consumidor de falsificações

To better understand the way counterfeit consumers value their consumptions the present work will take the Typology of Consumer Value proposed by Holbrook (1994, 1996, 1999 and 2006) as the chosen approach, given its ability to capture the nature of consumption experiences e, therefore, to identify the types of value in the consumer experience. The analysis presented on this work was based on in-deep interviews with Brazilian counterfeit consumers and the most frequent aspects presented during the interviews were the consumer value as play, followed by esteem and status, and while the values excellence, efficiency, ethics and spirituality were observed with a lower frequency, the value aesthetics was not observed during the interviews. These results suggest the possibility of further studies on the subject.

Um osso para rex: as relações entre consumidor e animais de estimação e as suas influências no ato de presentear

The objective of the present work is to investigate gift-giving behavior between humans and their pets, and whether the relationship between human and pet affects the choice and purchase of these gifts. Theoretical support comes from works by Wolfinbarger (1990) who categorized the motivations underlying gift-giving, Belk & Coon (1993) who observed gift-giving as an economic exchange, Belk (1993) who approached gift-giving as an act of agapic love, and finally Hirschman (1994) who described many forms of relationship between consumers and their pets. The present study is of exploratory character. In-depth interviews were conducted so then the feelings and emotions of the informants, necessary to the analysis, could emerge. It was assumed that agapic, unconditional love, guided the gifts choice and purchase. Nevertheless, interpretation of the records shows that motivations which led the humans to give gifts to their pets were many. The work shows these motivations in a matrix. Records also indicate that it is difficult to establish the threshold between on motivation and the other.

A influência da personalização dos serviços na satisfação do consumidor de remédios de uso contínuo nas farmácias do município de Vila Velha - ES

Este estudo procura identificar como o marketing de personalização pode ser desenvolvido, quais suas vantagens e quais os cuidados a serem tomados antes de seu uso. Analisa até que ponto a personalização gera satisfação a consumidores de medicamentos de uso contínuo em farmácias do município de Vila Velha, ES. Para a obtenção dos dados, faz uso de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e, em seguida, de uma pesquisa de campo, que envolve uma amostra de 90 sujeitos, selecionados intencionalmente por meio de abordagem técnica nãoprobabilística. Coleta os dados sobre esses sujeitos por meio de uma entrevista. Mostra os resultados de maneira descritiva, analisando-os à luz do estudo teórico feito. Conclui que a personalização de atendimento, neste caso, geraria satisfação e/ou o aumento considerável do grau de satisfação já existente.

A regulação no mercado de planos de saúde: a ação do consumidor e a estratégia da Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar - ANS

The scope of this dissertation is to assess the attitudes of subscribers to private health insurance schemes and the regulatory strategy of the Ancillary National Health Agency -- ANS in relation to their demands. The ancillary health market features various players, each with their own specific interests and priorities. Consequently, the ANS should strive to maintain the balance between the consumers, the economic intermediaries and the State, ensuring that the Agency's powers to establish norms, as well as to regulate and to supervise each be exercised independently. Many people contend that there are elements not currently incorporated into the current services of the ANS which could contribute to its regulatory strategy. This study was conducted from the standpoint of theories applied to State administration for structural analysis of the ANS and its strategies, in addition to a symbolic and rational approach for a better understanding of the consumers involved. A survey was conducted of existing records of the ANS, as well as data collected from direct observation. Analysis of the data obtained led to the conclusion that the consumer can become a close ally in the regulatory activity of the ANS, to the extent that the latter may acquire more in-depth knowledge of aspects contained in the demands of the former.

A Teoria de segmentação face à satisfação do consumidor de serviços bancários: um estudo de caso em um banco de varejo

There is a intensity change within financial services industry: deregulation, technology, joint ventures and, in Brazil, privatization, increase of foreign competitors and fall of industry participating from 31 per cent to 5,4 per cent in Brazilian GDP.In this context financial institutions are working very hard to improve their market share, besides promoting customer retention and creating customer loyalty.In this paper we are presenting the scenario of industry in the 90's, opportunity to use segmentation and relationship strategies used by banks through distribution channels.The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between customer satisfaction and segmentation. To ascertain whether such a link exists, a primary study of 3.378 individuals was conducted in two branches at Rio de Janeiro in March 2001. The results suggest that there is little relationship between customer satisfaction and segmentation, besides other qualitative findings.