Environmental development in Brazilian companies: The role of human resource management

Specialized literature states that proper environmental management at companies requires support from human resource management. This occurs because the more efficient and effective human resource management is, the more it tends to contribute towards the organization's objectives. Considering that environmental management is an emerging organizational objective, human resource practices, when efficient and effective, tend to incorporate environmental goal and to become greener. In order to contribute to this emerging field of research, this paper reports on an empirical study about the relationship between human resources and environmental management at 75 Brazilian companies. The data collected were analyzed statistically using Structural Equation Modeling. The main results indicated that human resource management practices tend to statistically significant relate to environmental management at analyzed companies, through validation of H 1, but his relationship can be considered weak. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Export processing in the Caribbean: lessons from four case studies

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Using the Analytic Network Process to evaluate the relation between Reverse Logistics and corporate performance in Brazilian companies

Reverse Logistics activities are practiced by most Brazilian companies. However, a relevant problem is to identify how different Reverse Logistics programs can affect corporate performance indicators. Analytic Network Process is one of the analytical tools, which can be used to handle a multi-criteria decision-making problem and it is the only one that can capture the interdependencies between the criteria under consideration. This method was adopted here to study the influence of Reverse Logistics practices in corporate performance. Preliminary results indicated that the method can be used, reaching a result compatible to the reality of the Brazilian companies.

Fomento de las exportaciones en el Japón y la aplicación de esa experiencia en América Latina = Export promotion in Japan and its application to Latin America

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Incentivos fiscales a la exportación = Fiscal incentives for export

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La transferencia de tecnología y su relación con la política comercial y el fomento de las exportaciones de América Latina = The transfer of technology and its relation to trade policy and export promotion in Latin America

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Export promotion and import substitution in Central American industry

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The technological potential of the primary export sector

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International industrial linkages and export development: the case of Chile

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Export processing in the Caribbean: the Jamaican experience

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The impact of exchange-rate and trade policy on export performance in the 1980s

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The State, business and the restoration of the neoclassical paradigm

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Foreign trade and the environment: experiences in three Chilean export sectors

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