Propaganda impressa de serviços educacionais: uma investigação sobre o impacto da fotografia das instalações e do testemunhal nas atitudes dos consumidores

In the actual competitive scenario the higher education institutions have been forced to become more active in recruiting students due to the reduction in candidates for its courses. Print advertising are important components in the educational services communications campaigns and, thus, they are an important focus of research. The literature on services communication suggests that the use of cues, as the installations picture and testimonial, presents an observable way to tangibilize educational services offers. We relate the cue paradigm theory as evaluative indicators of a product, with two of the four advertising strategies, with the objective to investigate the impact of the cues in the printed educational services ad¿s in relation to the consumers attitudes. More specifically, to investigate the impact of the physical representation strategy (installations picture - an intrinsic cue), and the association strategy (testimonial - an extrinsic cue), in the consumers attitudes toward the advertisement, the brand and the purchase intention. With this purpose an experiment between subjects with 123 students was carried through, with four levels of manipulation. In relation to consumer attitudes, none of the analyzed strategies presented a significative superiority in relation one with another. However, the subjects with low involvement in the value/auto-image dimension had presented more favorable attitudes in relation to the purchase intention in the presence of the advertising using a testimonial (association strategy - an extrinsic cue).

Avaliação da empresa para o acionista: aplicação prática da abordagem teórica a uma empresa de bens de capital com embasamento na legislação comercial (Lei no. 6404/76) e fiscal (Decreto-Lei no. 1598/77)

Tem como objetivo demonstrar o valor da empresa para o acionista através do valor da ação num determinado momento. Vário trabalhos de pesquisa apoiados em extensa bibliografia tem sido elaborados analisando aspectos particulares de avaliação da empresa. A conjugação destes trabalhos de pesquisa tem resultado em métodos de avaliação elaborados e utilizados de acordo com a extensão e objetividade da avaliação proposta. Não é intenção desta dissertação inovar os métodos mas sim agrupá-los de forma sequencial iniciando com as abordagens do campo contábil delimitado pela estrutura da atual legislação brasileira até a metodologia financeira embasada pela ciência atuarial.