Jogo de empresas via internet

Jogos de Empresas constituem-se em uma ferramenta de real importância para o treinamento de executivos e estudantes, uma vez que simulam a realidade de um mercado. A proposta deste trabalho é desenvolver um jogo de empresas baseado na Internet, permitindo que diversas universidades participem simultaneamente. O jogo tem como ponto central a simulação da administração de uma empresa, envolvendo conceitos chaves de finanças, marketing, informática e planejamento estratégico. O desenvolvimento de um produto deste caráter mostra-se fundamental em um mundo globalizado, aonde a educação a distância e uma formação global são altamente valorizados.

Market entry of an innovative technology : the example of a new app on the Brazilian tourism market

The Brazilian start-up Local Wander plans to enter the tourism sector with a mobile application aiming to enable a new form of travel research. A web-based survey has been sent out to the start-up’s target audience (n: 236) in order to gain further relevant information for the designing of Local Wander’s market entry strategy. By applying the diffusion of innovation theory, this thesis could detect five different adopter categories, originally described by Rogers (1962), among Local Wander’s target audience based on their adoption intention. The Early Market was observed to be significantly bigger than the theory predicted. Research revealed four characteristics to be of significant impact on the adoption intention: Relative Perceived Product Advantage, Perceived Product Complexity, Compatibility with digital travel research sources, and the adopter’s Innovativeness towards mobile applications. Specific characteristics in order to identify Local Wander’s early users, the so called Innovators, were detected giving indications for further necessary company market research. Findings showed that the diffusion of innovation framework is a helpful tool for start-ups’ prospective decision making and market entry strategy planning.