A influência da exportação no desenvolvimento de arranjos produtivos locais de moda no estado do Rio de Janeiro

In recent years, clusters have become a central part in discussions about local and regional economic development, as well as in the elaboration of public policies for generating jobs and income. Concurrent with the discussions about clusters, the subject globalization has also received growing attention from the media in the academic and government fields. Different aspects are considered in the discussions regarding globalization and one of the subjects is the insertion of local economies into international commerce. One of these ways of insertion is by global value chains. This term began to be used at the end of 90s, and refers to the productive value chains dispersed throughout the world, but with integrated production and commercialization. The aim of this thesis is to understand how the exportation process influences the development of fashion clusters, this being done by the insertion of these clusters into the global value chains. Each year, the Brazilian fashion sector seeks to broaden their participation in the global economy by means of insertion into the global value chains. This insertion, however, has caused impacts in specialized clusters of garment manufacturers, such as beach fashion, jeans and women¿s clothing. As a way of identifying these impacts, three cluster manufacturers were studied in the state of Rio de Janeiro, namely Cabo Frio, São Gonçalo and Niterói. The impacts of internationalization on the companies integrated into these three clusters were explored by means of a six-month field study, including semistructured interviews. This internationalization occurs either by direct exportation or by means of inserting these companies into the global value chains. The results of the study points out the opportunities and threats to these companies, as well as shows the importance of more adequate public policies for the development of Brazilian fashion clusters. Among these threats, the possibility of inserting these cluster companies into the global value chains in a captive manner (Gereffi, Humphrey, Sturgeon, 2005) was singled out, placing them ¿under control¿ of the exporting companies. As for opportunities, the participation of government support agencies and improvements in fashion show good alternatives for inserting these companies into the global value chains, making possible autonomous and competitive performance.

Um Estudo sobre a avaliação da condução do processo de parcerias - o caso Telemar Corporate

The partnerships have become the subject of study as an innovative element in the production management and a strategic option in the entrepreneurial activities that characterize this momentum of great instability due to the globalization of the financial dimension and the opening of captive markets all over the world.The objective of this research was to investigate and evaluate the in-fluence and relevance of the factor process approach among the other critical factors identified for the strategic management of partnerships. In view of the service offer of Telecommunications, mainly in the Case Study of Telemar Corporate, that belongs to the Tele Norte Leste Group S.A. (Telemar) responsible for rendering services to the corporate market. A research was performed in the Diretoria de Produtos Empresariais - DPE, a unit of the Telemar Corporate, analyzing these critical factors in 3 clusters related to the constitution of part-nerships: the definition of the strategic objectives, the quality of the human re-sources applied and the management of the partnership processes. The Theoretical Reference contributed to the definition of contemporary concepts on the management and the classification of the partnerships as well as the identification of the critical factors. The research was methodological and exploratory, using in this Case Study the field search through the employment of interviews and questionnaires in a selected sample. It was possible to identify that among the more relevant critical factors the process approach, is the most influential and relevant for the management of the partnerships at Telemar Corporate. It is succeeded by other factors equally important, such as the definition of objectives and the strategic intention that confirms the initial hypothesis of this study.

Títulos de dívida corporativa de empresas brasileiras: investir em emissões do mercado interno ou externo?

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a diferença de rentabilidade entre emissões de títulos de dívida corporativa de empresas brasileiras nos mercados local e externo. Sob a ótica do investidor interessado em comprar esses títulos, busca-se responder se, protegendo-se contra oscilações de fatores como câmbio e juros e controlando pelo prazo de vencimento, seria mais rentável em média adquirir um título local (debênture) ou externo (bond) de um mesmo emissor. Para isso, analisamos 177 emissões de debêntures e 119 emissões de bonds de 31 companhias não financeiras brasileiras no período entre janeiro de 2004 e abril de 2013. Regressões em painel com efeitos fixos para controlar pelas características de cada emissor verificam que, em média, o título do mercado externo paga de 164 a 197 bps a mais que o do mercado local, e que tal diferença é estatisticamente significante. A diferença deve-se à maior oferta e variedade de títulos de dívida corporativa no mercado externo, à existência de uma demanda cativa de investidores institucionais por debêntures no mercado local e à falta de integração entre os mercados. A participação de pessoas físicas no mercado externo também é identificada como fator relevante, assim como o possível maior custo de estruturação de dívida cobrado por bancos de investimento no mercado doméstico. Dentre as hipóteses formuladas para o motivo dessa diferença de rentabilidade não ser arbitrada, destacam-se o desconhecimento dos investidores e obstáculos operacionais, como custos de transação, impossibilidade de operação no mercado internacional e de venda a descoberto no mercado local. Tal fato causa ainda uma supervalorização das debêntures pela atuação dos investidores mais otimistas. A alta sensibilidade dos investidores institucionais locais à volatilidade dos retornos, também aparece como fator relevante.