983 resultados para Vetor Autorregressivo Aumentado por Fatores Dinâmicos (FAVAR)
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The export of information technology software services, also known as ¿offshore outsourcing¿, has raised debates in the media as well as in the academy. A lot has been written about the success of India, Ireland and Israel, the ¿3Is¿, but empirical data about Brazil is still hard to find. This dissertation proposes to identify success factors for Brazil to be chosen as a preferred location for offshore outsourcing based on a case study of an American multinational corporation, with branches in Brazil, that is systematically choosing Brazil as a preferred location for its offshore outsourcing operations. Concepts of economic globalization, internationalization of services and success factors for offshore outsourcing will be presented in the literature review and based on available literature focused on Brazil, a model of eight success factors is proposed. The empirical research was grounded on multiple data sources but the analysis was focused on a database of 219 deals that were conducted from September 2005 to May 2006, out of which Brazil was selected 57 times. The results confirm the proposed model of eight success factors. The final conclusions suggest that the process of identifying a country to perform the offshore activities is complex and that not all factors will be present at the same time, and more than that, in some cases intangible factors, such as relationship networks and emotional links with the country, have a higher weight in the decision. The results can be used in the future for in depth researches that differentiate Brazil from other countries in the offshore outsourcing market.
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This work analyzes how the cluster of organic production is developed in Petrópolis city, in the Rio de Janeiro state. It describes how agriculture is organized, innovation processes and commercial activities are developed. Cooperation, collective actions, dissemination of knowledge and information are also treated in this work as well as the fundamental actors in production and development as a whole. This study tries to enumerate some policies and strategies that can foment and give more efficiency to the existing processes. For this research i used the case estudy methodology. We observed that organic agriculture can help a better development to the farmers and also a better local development. The low level of education of farmers and the underdevelopment of all variables in social capital are limitant factors. Another aspect raised during the research was the dificulty and the lack of commitment in getting financial support from managers of public banks turning the improvements in organic agriculture limited and underdeveloped. The technical knowlegde production isn¿t the basic problem and, at the moment, the management ability is really the main limitation.
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This work is about the organizations guided to attend the clients/customers in all aspects focusing their characteristics, needs and expectations and that do their best to produce goods or do services which can permanently increase their clients' satisfactions. To reach this aim has been the challenge of their managers and administrators who work to make them be considered as state-of-the-art by other organizations and their clients or customers. Many different strategies have been taken to achieve it; since having the focus on the process , then on the products, and more recently on the clients/customers, meaning that their satisfaction has turned to be their new target; as their are the ones who will rate or evaluate their quality. This work is more especifically about the organizations in the make-up and beauty products retail market which carry out researches with the customers of stores, managers and members of their demonstration and sales teams. This research identifies the attributes the customers/clients appreciate most in the stores and how hard their managers and business owners work to satisfy their needs and expectations, showing how far they follow the principles of the organizations guided to clients/customers. Key words: Attributes, attributes evaluation, beauty products, beauty products retail shops; clietns/customs oriented organizations; process oriented organizations; product oriented organizations.
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O ambiente de uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal (UTIN) é, na maioria das vezes, estressante, tanto para os recém-nascidos (RN) internados, quanto para a equipe multidisciplinar. Conforme a gravidade destes bebês, maiores serão os riscos e seqüelas que poderão sofrer. Dessa forma, este trabalho constitui-se em uma apreciação ergonômica, a qual estudou os fatores físicos e ambientais de uma unidade intensiva e suas eventuais repercussões na saúde do recém-nascido. A metodologia utilizada caracterizou-se por uma abordagem ergonômica, sendo os instrumentos de coleta de dados por meio de observações sistemáticas (onde foram identificadas e analisadas as normas e as rotinas da UTIN, o perfil dos profissionais que constituiem a equipe multidisciplinar, além dos fatores físicos e ambientais). O local de estudo foi a UTIN do Hospital Municipal de Novo Hamburgo, e os resultados indicaram um ambiente muito iluminado, ruidoso e agitado. Além disso, os RN lá internados são bastante manuseados, sendo que a equipe se mostrou não orientada quanto aos riscos destes problemas. Como conclusão é importante reorganizar as formas de manuseio, treinar e orientar todos os profissionais da equipe multidisciplinar e readequar os fatores físicos e ambientais.
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Esta dissertação procura descobrir fatores que sejam relevantes para a construção de treinamentos corporativos a distância via web, e como estes fatores influenciam no sucesso destes processos. Para a realização desta pesquisa, foram analisados dois casos reais. Para este trabalho, utilizou-se a metodologia de estudo de casos múltiplos. Analisou-se separadamente cada um dos dois casos e comparou-se os resultados obtidos em cada análise. Desta forma, esta pesquisa procurou analisar as razões que levaram estes casos a obterem resultados distintos e antagônicos, apesar dos potenciais benefícios existentes em cada um deles. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que alguns fatores influenciam de forma relevante o sucesso de processos de treinamento corporativos a distância via web. Cada um destes fatores, conforme averiguado pelos resultados, trazem um conjunto de considerações que devem ser observadas pelas empresas nas estratégias de implantação deste tipo de treinamento.
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A Física e a Administração concentram suas pesquisas sobre fenômenos que, de certa forma, se assemelham, fazendo com que nos questionemos a respeito da grande integral do universo a que estamos submetidos. Em uma exploração por analogias, aproxima-se aqui o mundo organizacional ao dos sistemas UnIVerSaIS, instáveis e não-integráveis, onde a flecha do tempo é quem determina a evolução dos mesmos. Mostra-se que na Administração, como na Física, tudo parece convergir na direção de um inesgotável repertório de bifurcações e possibilidades para o destino mercadológico de produtos, serviços e marcas ao longo de um continuum. Para amenizar os efeitos dessas incertezas, é buscada uma simplificação desses complexos sistemas sociais através de uma proposta de modelo baseado em fatores consagrados pela literatura da gestão empresarial como norteadores das escolhas dos consumidores; um processo gaussiano da 'percepção do valor', que pode servir de ferramenta nas decisões estratégicas e gerenciais dentro das empresas.
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Over the last 40 years there has been a profusion of studies about the ccumulation of technological capacities in firms from developing economies. However, there remain few studies that examine, on a combined basis, the relationship among: the trajectories of technological capacities accumulation; the underlying learning mechanisms; and, the implications of organizational factors for these two variables. Still scarcer are the studies that examine the relationship among these variables along time and based on a comparative case study. This dissertation examines the relationship among the trajectory of accumulation of innovative capacities in complex project management, the learning mechanisms underlying these technological capacities and the intra-organizational factors that influence these learning echanisms. That set of relationships is examined through a comparative and a long-term (1988-2008) case study in a capital goods firm (for the pulp and paper industry) and a pulp mill in Brazil. Based on first-hand quantitative and qualitative empiric evidence, gathered through extensive field research, this dissertation found: 1. Both firms accumulated innovative capacity in project management at the international frontier level (Level 6). However, there was variability between the firms in terms of the nature and speed of accumulation of those capacities. It was also observed that, at this level of innovation, the innovative capacities of both firms are not confined to their organizational boundaries, but they are distributed beyond their boundaries. 2. So that these companies could accumulate those levels of innovative capacities it was necessary to manage several learning mechanisms: leveraging of external knowledge and its internalization in terms of internal apacities of the firm. In other words, as the companies accumulated more innovative levels of capacities for project management, it was necessary to manage different cycles of technological learning. 3. Further, the relationship between the ccumulation of technological capacities and learning was affected positively by intra-organizational factors, such as 'authority disposition', 'mutability of work roles' and 'intensity of internal crises', and negatively by the factor 'singularity of goals'. This dissertation revealed divergent results between firms in two of the four factors studied. These results contribute to advance our understanding of the complexity and variability involved in the process of accumulation of innovative capacities in firms from developing economies. This highlights the growing importance of the organizational and the human resource dimensions of innovation and technological capacity as the company approaches the international frontier. The results suggest to managers that: (i) the good performance in project management in the two firms studied did not occur simply as a result of the pulp and paper Brazilian industry growth, rather as a result of the deliberate construction and accumulation of the capacities through an intensive and coordinated cyclical process of technological learning, (ii) to develop innovative capabilities in project management, besides looking for learning mechanisms they should also look at the organizational factors that influence the learning mechanisms directly, (iii) performance of pulp mill¿s projects is better when projects are implemented together with technology suppliers than when performed only by the mill. This dissertation concludes that capital goods firms have been having a fundamental role for the innovative capabilities accumulation in project management of pulp mills in Brazil (and vice-versa) for a long time. This contradicts some authors' propositions that affirm that: a) equipment suppliers for the pulp and paper industry have been creating little, if any, development of processes or engineering projects in Brazil; b) firms in the pulp and paper industry have little capacity for machinery and equipments projects only taking place in few technological activities, being internal or external to the firm. Finally, some studies are proposed for future research.
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O mundo está passando por grandes mudanças que vêm afetando as esferas sociais, tecnológicas, empresariais e mentais. As empresas têm sido ameaçadas por diversos fatores como rapidez no lançamento de novos produtos, interferência dos governos, clientes cada vez mais conscientes e exigentes, aumento da concorrência, globalização e o surgimento constante de novas tecnologias. Essas mudanças exigem das empresas uma estrutura mais flexível capaz de absorver as rápidas necessidades do ambiente, e o formato atual não tem se mostrado adequado para vencer estes desafios. Nesse contexto, a gestão baseada em processos tem se mostrado promissora ao ser incorporada nas principais tecnologias de gestão como BSC, NBR ISO 9000, gestão de custos com ABC, entre outras. Como toda nova abordagem, as tecnologias (ou modelos) baseadas em processos sofrem de vários problemas, sendo alguns já conhecidos, como resistência às mudanças, falta de preparo e apoio insuficiente da alta direção. Os estudos desses fatores são incipientes e em sua maioria não tratam de seus impactos em empresas públicas. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo justamente identificar esses fatores na literatura (teoria e casos de estudo) e confrontá-los com aqueles encontrados em uma empresa pública (estudo de caso), analisando sua pertinência. Os resultados encontrados, além de confirmarem os fatores, sugerem que a sua utilização, na forma de um checklist, podem beneficiar as empresas na prevenção, redução ou eliminação de problemas que impactam ou inviabilizam um projeto.
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The goal of this dissertation is to identify some of the relevant elements that are related to corporate in-house training programs via the worldwide web. An analysis of the way these factors act upon the success of these processes was conducted. To complete this assignment, one real case was studied using the methodology proposed and which in itself was actually used by an insurance company. The results obtained suggest that some components influence the accomplishment of this procedure. According to the results verified, they do bring a set of observations that must be considered by companies in their implementation strategies of this kind of training program.
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Este trabalho procura compreender quais são os fatores criticos de sucesso na gestão das AABBs - Associações Atleticas Banco do Brasil Com 1.267 unidades espalhadas por todo o território nacionaL as AABBs constituem uma das maiores redes de clubes ligados a uma única empresa - no caso. o Banco do Brasii - de todo o mundo Para realizar a taret~l foi util izado o referencial teórico da perspectiva teórico-critica da Escola de Frankfun. mais especificamente as contribuiçôl's de jllrgen Haberma". da segunda geração frankfuniana Foram le\'adas em conta as cmicas de Habermas à racio/lalidade "'.\lrll/l1<:lIlal e o conceiro dele de raâol1ul/(lade COl1llllÚCalll'U, em conexão com as noções de açào gerel/nul nlOnoláglclI e a~ilo gerencial dialriglca desell\ol\'idas por Fernando Tenório As opiniões de três segmentos principais embasam o presente estudo: associados das AABH.\, admilli,\/rl1dorcs do !JUIlCO do !Jrasti e dirigentes das A.A!J!Js A panir desses pontos de vista procurou-se detinir o que caracteriza sucesso na gestão dos clubes: quais são os tipos de racionalidade. de ação gerencial e de práticas administrativas que predominam nas AAB85: como é vista e utilizada a infra-estrutura das associações: como o relacionamento dos dirigentes dos clubes com os administradores do Banco do Brasil e com a Federação Nacional das AABBs - Fenabb impacta a "ida das associações. e de que forma se dá o processo de comunicação das AABBs com os seus associados Os resultados do estudo podem contribuir para a melhoria dos processos de gestão das AABBs. além de subsidiar as pesquisas sobre a atuação de outras entidades de natureza semelhante.
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This work is based on the analysis of three Brazilian cases of condemnation by accounting fraud and financial reports manipulation of data, where we tried to identify if there is condemnation by accounting fraud in Brazil and the main factors considered by the judge to convince them about the accounting fraud. The theoretical reference quoted involves the theory of fraud, the psychology of fraud, examples of financial fraud in foreign companies and Brazilians banks and the law in Brazil regarding fraud and money laundering. The methodology consisted in studies of Brazilian cases with the data collection criteria from three law suits. The methodology used was the Contents Analysis The samples were chosen according to the impact those cases had in Brazil and the facility to access their law suits. Therefore, we chose Gallus Agropecuária S/A, Encol S/A and Banco Santos S/A for a matter of convenience. The evidence indicated that in those three cases, the court was convinced by the accounting fraud due to omission of relevant financial information in the balance sheet, by information provided to the market that didn¿t reflect the healthy of the company (assets written up without the property). It was identified as well that, in those three cases, there was condemnation not only for the accounting fraud per si, but also by the combination of other crimes as money laundering, fraud gang, material and ideological false fraud, and bankruptcy.
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Um total de 237 fetos bovinos abortados foram enviados ao Setor de Patologia Veterinária da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul entre junho de 1999 e maio de 2004. Tecidos destes fetos foram analisados através da histologia e imunoistoquímica (IHQ) anti-Neospora caninum. Destes, 72 apresentaram lesões histológicas sugestivas de infecção por protozoário, caraterizadas pela presença de miosite não-supurativa, miocardite não-supurativa, pneumonia intersticial mononuclear associada a focos de necrose e encefalite necrosante não-supurativa multifocal. O cérebro apresentava consistência líquida ou semi-líquida em 61,1% dos fetos, dificultando a obtenção de tecido para a análise histológica e IHQ. A IHQ revelou a presença de taquizoítos e raros cistos de N. caninum no cérebro de 33/47 (70,2%) dos fetos que apresentam lesões histológicas sugestivas de infecção por protozoário. No modelo final da análise multivariada, três variáveis estiveram associadas significativamente com resultado positivo na IHQ nos fetos abortados: consistência do cérebro (P=0,031), lesão no cérebro (P=0,028) e idade (P=0,189). As chances de um resultado positivo na IHQ de N. caninum foram 4,35 vezes maiores (OR=4,35; 95% CI:1,1320-2,8116) quando o feto apresentava cérebro com consistência considerada normal e 4,94 vezes maiores (OR=4,94; 95%CI: 0,1646-3,0313) na presença de lesão sugestiva de infecção por protozoário caracterizada por encefalite de intensidade variada. A probabilidade de resultado positivo na IHQ foi inversamente proporcional à idade fetal, cada mês adicional de gestação diminuíram as chances de um feto apresentar resultado positivo na imunoistoquímica por 0,41 (OR=0,41, 95%CI: 1,5982- 0,1436).
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This work intends to study the relationship between Brazilian Internal Public Debt mix and Mutual Funds. In the theoretical framework, the discussion about liquidity preference theories implies considering risk averse investors. Portfolio selection is also discussed, particularly Markowitz efficient frontier. Historical data from November of 1999 to December of 2004 of Brazilian Internal Public Debt mix and Mutual Funds portfolio are analyzed. Official goals concerning Public Debt's mix and its actual composition are presented, as well as Mutual Fund preferences as buyers of public debt securities. Time series of three securities (LFT, LTN and NTN-C) in Public Debt mix and Mutual Funds portfolio are compared and a similar behavior is identified. Relevant facts of the macroeconomic context which may have affected Public Debt or Mutual Funds are discussed. Some indications of a possible influence of Mutual Funds upon Public Debt Mix are obtained and hypothesis to be tested in future studies are proposed.