A qualificadora “no melhor conhecimento” em contratos de compra e venda de participação societária

As operações de compra e venda de participação societária seguem no Brasil um modelo importado do direito estrangeiro. Dentre diversos institutos importados, existem as cláusulas de declarações e garantias e suas qualificadoras. O objetivo do presente trabalho é examinar a validade da qualificadora “no melhor conhecimento” no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro e sua eficácia dentro dos limites impostos por esse ordenamento. Busca-se, para tanto, analisar o conceito da qualificadora em seu sistema originário, a Common Law, e posteriormente trazer a discussão para o ambiente jurídico do ordenamento brasileiro, propiciando a conclusão que a validade da inserção da cláusula decorre do princípio da autonomia privada, mas está limitada pelos valores trazidos pelo princípio da boa-fé objetiva e seus deveres relacionados. Uma vez verificada a validade do instituto jurídico no ordenamento brasileiro, sua eficácia está relacionada à alocação de responsabilidade entre partes sobre o conhecimento e as consequências dessa alocação.

On paternalistic leadership fit: exploring cross-cultural endorsement, leader-follower fit, and the boundary role of organizational culture

Although cross-cultural leadership research has thrived in international business literature, little attention has been devoted to understanding the effectiveness of non-western theories beyond their original contexts. The purpose of this study is to examine the cross-cultural endorsement of paternalistic leadership, an emerging non-western leadership theory, using data from GLOBE project. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses we found measurement equivalence of a scale derived from GLOBE’s data, which enabled us to compare the endorsement of paternalistic leadership dimensions across 10 cultural clusters and 55 societies. Our study revealed that there are significant differences in the importance societies give to each dimension, suggesting that paternalism as leadership style is not universally nor homogeneously endorsed. Furthermore, results suggest that different patterns of endorsement of each of these dimensions give rise to idiosyncratic shades of paternalistic leadership across societies. Implications for theory and future research on international business are discussed.

The price of threat: the role of identity-safe marketplaces in predicting intergroup price sensitivity

In field experiments with subjects living either inside or outside Brazilian slums (n=955), we show that consumers living in slums are less price sensitive, in opposition with recent price sensitivity research. Comparing slum and non-slum dwellers, we found that negatively stereotyped consumers (e.g. slum dwellers) were more likely to pay higher amounts for friendlier customer service when facing social identity threats (SITs) in marketplaces such as banks. The mechanism which makes them less price sensitive is related to the perception of how other people evaluate their social groups, and we argue that they pay more because they are seeking identity-safe commercial relationships. This work, besides extending the literature in SITs, presents a perspective for the exchange between economics and psychology on price sensitivity, showing that consumers living in slums are willing to pay more to avoid possibly social identity threating experiences.