How national culture on consumers' decision-making styles: a comparative study among Americans, Brazilians, Chinese, and japanese in the purchase of cell phones.

The influence of the national culture on consumer decision-making styles is investigated using a sample of Americans, Brazilians, Chinese, and Japanese consumers who have purchased a cell phone in the past three years. To make the research possible, a survey was used as a method of data collection. It relates Hofstede’s cultural classification typology with Sproles and Kendall’s consumer style inventory (CSI). The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) results indicate six decision-making styles together with other consumer behavioral characteristics that can be used to distinguish and profile consumers who purchase cell phones. Empirical findings reveal that among Americans, Brazilians, and Japanese; Americans are the most quality conscious, brand conscious, innovative, and hedonistic shoppers; Brazilians are the most loyal, and Japanese, the most confused by overchoice consumers. Conceptual contributions and managerial implications are discussed.

Estimando a aversão ao risco, a taxa de desconto intertemporal, e a substutibilidade intertemporal do consumo no Brasil usando três tipos de função utilidade

Nesse trabalho estima-se, usando o método generalizado dos momentos e dados brasileiros, os parâmetros estruturais do modelo CCAPM (consumption capital asset pricing model) a partir de três classes de funções utilidade distintas: função utilidade potência (CRRA), utilidade com hábito externo, e aversão ao desapontamento (Kreps-Porteus). Estes parâmetros estruturais estão associados à aversão ao risco, à elasticidade de substituição intertemporal no consumo e à taxa de desconto intertemporal da utilidade futura. Os resultados aqui obtidos são analisados e comparados com resultados anteriores para dados brasileiros e americanos. Adicionalmente, testa-se econometricamente todos os modelos estruturais estimados a partir do teste de restrições de sobre-identificação, para investigar, da forma mais abrangente possível, se há ou não equity premium puzzle para o Brasil. Os resultados surpreendem, dado que, em raríssimas ocasiões, se rejeita as restrições implícitas nesses modelos. Logo, conclui-se que não há equity premium puzzle para o Brasil.

Educação para a cidadania: a experiência da comissão 'A OAB/RJ vai à Escola'

O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar e analisar o Projeto 'A OAB/RJ vai à Escola', projeto social institucional desenvolvido pela Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil. A metodologia de pesquisa de campo, com aplicação de questionários e entrevistas, proporcionará uma melhor compreensão dos questionamentos que cercam o projeto desde a sua criação, com ênfase em sua avaliação, especialmente sobre sua validade e eficácia como instrumento para a retomada da função social do advogado, de uma imagem positiva da classe e do papel da OAB como instituição capaz de influir na vida da sociedade brasileira.

Compromisso do retorno - remessas de emigrantes brasileiros

O objetivo deste projeto é contribuir para viabilizar propostas que possam agilizar e diminuir os custos das remessas individuais, por um lado, e analisar o impacto das remessas nos locais de origem dos imigrantes, através da realização de uma pesquisa de campo a ser feita na cidade norte-americana de Boston (Massachusetts) e outra em Governador Valadares, cidade mineira que concentra o maior número de emigrantes brasileiros nos Estados Unidos (Martes, 2000).

Gestão do conhecimento: uma comparação entre empresas brasileiras e Norte-Americanas

Continuando a Pesquisa realizada em 1999, a presente pesquisa examinou os conceitos e tecnologias envolvidas na Gestão de Conhecimento no contexto nacional e comparou-os com os conceitos e tecnologias que tem norteado as empresas norte-americanas. Para tanto, utilizamos o Survey como metodologia de pesquisa.

Empresários brasileiros em Cambridge e East Boston

Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo as pequenas empresas criadas pelos brasileiros que emigraram para Boston a partir de meados da década de 80. Foi feito um levantamento e uma caracterização sócioeconomica tanto das firmas como de seus proprietários. A pesquisa incorporou ainda dois outros aspectos: a articulação local em torno da criação de uma Câmara de Comércio Exterior em Boston e as classificações sobre raça e etnicidade dos proprietários.

Empresários brasileiros em Boston

O trabalho teve como objeto de estudo as pequenas empresas criadas pelos brasileiros que emigraram para Boston a partir de meados da década de 80. Foi feito um levantamento e uma caracterização das firmas, assim como de seus proprietários. Entretanto, o foco da análise incorporou outras dimensões, e não apenas aquelas de caráter econômico/empresarial. Ou seja, também foi analisada a dimensão sócio-cultural do papel desempenhado por estas empresas e que, do ponto de vista conceitual, caracteriza a chamada "economia étnica" organizada pelos grupos imigrantes daquele país.

Linha é dentro?: uma discussão sobre valores, esportes e significados

O presente trabalho busca estudar o modo como brasileiros que moram no Rio de Janeiro valorizam produtos e atividades esportivas. A partir da tipologia proposta por Holbrook (1999), procuramos caracterizar comportamentos de consumo esportivo, produzindo, desta forma, observações que servissem como subsídios para estratégias de marketing. Os perfis de consumo apresentados poderão ser fontes de informações importantes não só para organizações do setor esportivo como também do setor de entretenimento. Os dados analisados neste estudo foram coletados em entrevistas em profundidade, de acordo com o método descrito por McCracken (1988). Nestas entrevistas, exploramos os aspectos experienciais do consumo esportivo e suas relações com comportamentos de compra dos entrevistados. Realizadas as entrevistas, recorremos ao modelo de tipologia de valores do consumidor proposto por Holbrook (1999) para categorizar os tipos de consumo esportivo. Concluiu-se que quatro dos valores propostos por Holbrook são recorrentes no discurso dos entrevistados.

Estudo de caso da evolução organizacional da Escola Técnica do Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro(ETAM) em relação à viabilidade do atingimento simultâneo de requisitos fomentados pelo Ministério da Educação e pelo Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro

The present study treats of an historical analysis of the organizational evolution of School Technique of Arsenal of Navy of Rio de Janeiro (ETAM) and your contribution to the establishment of the current managerial model. This school is the one of national institution of teaching, turned to the area of the industry naval, what else contributed in the country, in the century 20, to the formation qualified of hand of work, having activities since 1923. The Arsenal of Navy of Rio de Janeiro, counting with 239 years of experience, since your foundation, stimulates the professional qualification of Brazilians workers , on the area of the industry naval, since 1823.

As novas doutrinas de Administração Pública e os seus reflexos nos controles e na auditoria de desempenho dos programas governamentais

The developed democracies only have results or crystallise, when the exercise of the government policies has two dimensions: the first one, is the dimension of the government decisions making: in which, the governor accomplishes the priorities and orientations submitted to the population by electoral decisions. Then the second dimension, is the functionality of the State: capable to transform policies into convergent actions for accomplishment of the negotiated results. The consolidation of the democracy and the consequent increase of the social demand by decisions and public and government lawsuits, able to generate results that attend collectively the different levels of the society and able to aggregate and articulate additional values to their interests, imposes to the public sector administration, great challenges of public policies. Nowadays, the indispensable condition to guarantee a minimum governmental benchmark, it to overcome these challenges, in the plan of the public administration, demanded for the promotion of the economic development, in the democratic scope, to reach the politician-institutional values of the society. However, It is undeniable, the universality of the challenges of public administration that consequently, are the effects of modern administrative systems. To attempt the best result, the mast satisfy the attributes of speed, flexibility, integration and innovation, amongst others. The diffusion of guided doctrines of public management by results is reflecting in the institutionalization of new types of bureaucratic activities and amongst this context, it is distinguished as a basic importance of what we call Performance Audit. This work intends to describe how the control organs and especially the Accounts Court of the Union, the sensitive demands of the society, and attending to new constitutional order, they are structuring itself to face the new organizational and institutional challenges, in consequence of the gradual redefinition of your task, more and more liable uncertainties, current of the intimate nature of the performance audit, in development, face the traditional audit, which characterizes them in general. Therefore, the main goal of this these, is the analysis of the organizational challenges and consequently ,the lawsuits changes of the organizational structures faced in general by the Brazilian¿s Accounts Courts, which we believe, will help to elaborate paths of propulsive evaluating and restrictive elements to the innovations that are intended to introduce the systems of necessary control in the evaluation of government programs.

O modelo em rede aplicado à indústria de telecomunicações brasileira: o caso da TELEMAR

Virtual, cellular, modular, organic, holographic, networked enterprise. This is a new kind of organizational structure of growing importance inside of the enterprises that are looking for new models, attending to the requirements of flexibility, celerity and competitiveness. Requirements to the business of the future, for the new times of moving cycles, each time faster and faster. In that context, technological, cultural, strategic and human aspects are remodelled inside of the context of the called 'Information Era'. The objective of this work is to research how business, specially the Brazilians, are getting ready to be the 'organizations or enterprises' of the future. On the perspective of a virtual organization, throughout the flexibility, celerity and based on knowledge. Especially the Brazilian telecommunication industry, living the post privatization phase, which is in a process of organizational reestructuration, seeking to increase its competition in the globalized market. That is why, the analysis focus on Telemar, one of the largest in terms of geographic covering and investment power in the market and with essentially national shareholders.

Uma perspectiva chinesa sobre os fatores culturais a serem considerados pelo brasileiro no processo de negociação com o chinês

China emerges in the world as a potential economic leader and it is poised as the one of the strongest commercial partners of Brazil. China is already the third largest importer of Brazilian products and services and the prediction is to even increase that participation in the Brazilian export volume in the near future. As a consequence, there is a significant increase in commercial alliances between Brazilians and Chinese, which shows the need for the Brazilians to better understand the cultural differences when negotiating with the Chinese. The purpose of this research is to bring, from a Chinese point of view, the cultural difference in the negotiation process between Brazilians and Chinese. A better understanding of those differences will allow the Brazilians to adopt a better negotiation strategy with the Chinese in order to bring a better result. The research was developed by conducting 5 interviews with Chinese executives highly experienced in negotiation with the Brazilians. The results of this research show commons points indicated by the interviewers that have a direct impact on the negotiation process between Chinese and Brazilians.

A formação do campo da saúde suplementar no Brasil

The aim of the present study is to analyze the evolution of the historical and institutional elements that generate the current design of the private health market in Brazil. Its main theoretical basis is the Theory of the Symbolic Power, by Pierre Bourdieu, complemented, in the non-conflictive aspects of these two visions, by the Anthony Giddens¿ institutional vision on the field genesis motivational factors. The research¿ data were collected through documents and semi structured interviews during 2002 e 2003 period, involving the qualitative analyze due to understand the field¿s phenomena under an actors¿ perspective. The research identifies the several players that integrate the market, their evident strategic goals, and those that are not so, besides of the powers¿ resources used to reach them, by DiMaggio and Powell¿ vision. Thus, it tries to show, through a historic linear description, and emphasis in the determinant facts, the evolution of the market¿s constitution. The study demonstrates that the field had formed from several Estate¿ actions, basically after the past seventy¿ decade, as result of a alternative Government¿ strategy towards a Brazilian population¿s dissemination plan of health¿ services that enforced the institutionalization of isomorphic structures, with a strong internal interaction and a hierarchy between kinds of values, that had emphasized the health¿ symbol as a citizenship¿s value. In the end, the study estimates that the crescent longevity¿ Brazilian¿s population and the consequent work¿s dismiss may cause a private health¿ elitism conforming a future problem in this sensible segment of the social politics of the Brazilian government.

Imagem e país de origem e atitude em relação a filmes de origens diversas: a influência do afeto, cognição e comportamento

The study has the purpose to check the existence of correlation between country image and attitude towards films from different countries. The study also had the objective of verify the predominance of one of the three components of attitude: affect, cognition and behavior towards films from different countries. In order to accomplish the objective, 310 self-administered questionnaires, of five different kinds, each one relating to one of the five counties studied (China, France, Iran, India and United States) were applied. In all of them a session referring to Brazilian¿s films was introduced. From the data collected, it was possible to conclude that there is correlation among country image and attitude toward films from China, France, Iran, India and USA. It is also possible to conclude that in low involvement situation with films, there seems not to be any difference between the affective and cognitive means and the affective and behavioral means. Nevertheless, in high involvement situations with films, it was possible to verify a significant difference between cognitive and behavioral means, but not between cognitive and affective means. Based on the answers obtained from the sample studied, there is no significant difference between the means of the affective and the cognitive component and the affective and behavioral component of attitudes towards films, in situations of high involvement with the country of origin of the film. Finally, it was possible to conclude, from the sample studied that Brazilian¿s students seems to be more favorable to Brazilian films than to films from China, Iran, India and France and only north-american films seems to be seen by the students, as more favorable than Brazilian films.

Negociação Brasil e China: Seus Principais Aspectos Culturais

The dissertation aimed to analyze how is possible to minimize conflicts that arise during a negotiation between Chinese and Brazilians using the Jeswald Salacuse's model of cultural for as the mapping of potential outbreaks of conflict. It was considered necessary for this mapping to review the profile of the Chinese negotiator. This review took place through the completion of qualitative research to sixteen with Brazilian professionals from companies who trade with China. Through research could indicate which are the largest outbreaks of conflict in negotiating and pointing recommendations on how to avoid the appearance of these. At the end of this research were unable to verify that there were differences between the profile of Chinese negotiator pointed out in search of Salacuse and research conducted in this dissertation as well as make some recommendations for the Brazilian negotiators minimize the conflicts encountered when dealing with the new Chinese negotiator.