Sponsoring, brand value and social media

The increasing involvement of individuals in social media over the past decade has enabled firms to pursue new avenues in communication and sponsoring activities. Besides general research on either social media or sponsoring, questions regarding the consequences of a joint activity (sponsoring activities in social media) remain unexplored. Hence, the present study analyses whether the perceived image of the brand and the celebrity endorser credibility of a top sports team influence the perceived brand value of the sponsoring firm in a social media setting. Moreover, these effects are compared between existing customers and non-customers of the sponsoring firm. Interestingly, perceived celebrity endorser credibility plays no role in forming brand value perceptions in the case of the existing customers. Implications for marketing theory and practice are derived.

Em busca de uma racionalidade convergente ao ecodesenvolvimento: um estudo exploratório de projetos de turismo sustentável e de responsabilidade social empresarial

Caminha-se para a superação de um modelo de desenvolvimento que pode ser representado pela máxima: privatizam-se os lucros de curto e de médio prazos e socializam-se os prejuízos de longo prazo. Esse tipo de desenvolvimento tem sido apontado como economicamente insustentável a longo prazo até para a minoria da população mundial que dele se beneficia. Este artigo analisa processos de tomada de decisão organizacional que tentam superar o modelo de racionalidade utilitarista econômica e incorporar outros modos de racionalidade, buscando promover o ecodesenvolvimento. Fez-se um estudo exploratório de experiências que desenvolveram projetos que dizem promover o turismo sustentável e a responsabilidade social empresarial. As experiências analisadas, mesmo se ainda houve dúvidas da existência de mais equívocos do que êxitos, possuem elementos que incorporam os conceitos de turismo sustentável e de responsabilidade social empresarial. Mesmo porque, em um período de mudanças paradigmáticas como o atual, se a análise de novas experiências for muito criteriosa, corre-se o risco de inibir elementos de onde possam emergir novos conceitos que ainda estão em construção.

NEWSPAPERS FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO E CORREIO BRAZILIENSE: WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE PROGRAM MORE DOCTORS?

Analyzes publications related More Medical Program from July to September of 2013 and its impact on Correio Braziliense and Folha de São Paulo. This is a descriptive study using a qualitative-quantitative methodology. The analyzed and related data represent what the program takes in print. 363 publications were found, 262 in Folha de São Paulo and 101 in Correio. The word "Doctor" appeared in more titles, and Folha de São Paulo were 110 negative titles; to Correio neutral character was in 50 publications. In the character of news, 178 of these are pessimistic. The "neutral" and 101 representing "optimistic" 83. Was found that the media is critical to the impact of the program, but the truth is not apparent, but the opinion of journalists who wrote the stories related to the theme.

Globalization and democracy

ABSTRACTThe gathering momentum of globalization in the world economy has coincided with the spread of political democracy across countries. Economies have become global. But politics remains national. This essay explores the relationship between globalization and democracy, which is neither linear nor characterized by structural rigidities. It seeks to analyze how globalization might constrain degrees of freedom for nation states and space for democratic politics, and how political democracy within countries might exercise some checks and balances on markets and globalization. The essential argument is that the relationship between globalization and democracy is dialectical and does not conform to ideological caricatures.