When two or more markets, previously separated, start showing a price convergence, it is possible to say that they are integrated. Usually, the researchers have focused the integration study between external and internal market (spatial integration) or between the different links of a productive chain (vertical integration), but just of an unique product. After anRead more about Dissertation: Transmission of prices between the ethanol and gasoline markets since the launch of flex-fuel cars in the Brazilian market[…]

Cooperation agreements are a new type of industrial organization which have been largely used in the last decades. The cooperation agreements strategy can be explained through the Transaction Costs Theory. In the automotive industry the cooperation agreements strategy is considered the most suitable, due to the production chain characteristics that demands an efficient supply andRead more about Dissertation: Characteristics of the cooperation strategy in the supply chain of the automotive industry of Rio Grande do Sul[…]

Startups are created to commercially explore an ideia with innovative potential. To do so, they need a set of technical and business capabilities, efficiently allocating resources to obtain a product with market value. They need, in such an understanding, to become firms and execute a business model. While searching for such a business model, aRead more about Dissertation: Startup innovation capabilities: a study in Silicon Valley[…]

Finding the reasons that make firms successful in a competitive environment are among the most common motivations in the business research agenda. Capabilities and dynamic capabilities are often the terms used in the literature to describe respectively what firms can do and how they seek and implement change and innovation to create and sustain competitiveRead more about Dissertation: Routines, capabilities and innovation in the vitiviniculture industry in Rio Grande do Sul[…]

The investor’s growing interest in the stock market motivates the development of techniques and methods looking forward to maximizing profits and minimizing risk. Optimizing a portfólio means to find the ideal relation between return and risk trough the weighted distribution of the total investment amount among the different chosen stocks. This study aimed to testRead more about Final Paper: Selection of investment portfolios through multiple factors: Markowitz, Sharpe and Beta Neutral[…]

Innovative capability is not a recent issue but still there is no consensus among researchers as to its definition. Some studies, such as Rush, Bessant and Hobday (2007) and Cetindamar et al. (2009), have proposed models for evaluation of innovative capability as a result of the technological learning process. According to this approach, being innovativeRead more about Dissertation: The innovative capacity in the Brazilian cosmetic industry[…]

The microelectronics has a key role in modern life, because enabled a spectacular growth of processing power, storage and miniaturization of chips that are embedded in many products from several sectors and this enable the increment of new features, consequently more added value. It is important to highlight that for each type of chip forRead more about Final Paper: Capabilities of innovation of companies of the brazilian microelectronic segment[…]

The industrial economy showed that economic agents, companies, are different from one another. Based on that, differences among companies under real constraints came into the spotlight: why do some companies succeed while others fail? Any existing company is both a firm, i.e., the economic agent developing and transacting goods and services, and an organization, i.e.,Read more about Dissertation: The patterns of company: firm and organization[…]

From the economic perspective, it is understood that while the society creates institutions spontaneously, based on the behavior of individuals, institutions can also be imposed by society’s needs. Institutions play a key role in enabling the realization of the dynamic potential of national economies. However, that is the challenge behind the re-emerging structuring where policyRead more about Dissertation: The institutional intervention as determinant of innovation: the naval industry and Offshore in Brazil[…]

This study aims to investigate the influence of management capability on the innovative performance of the companies. To do so, it was used the database from the research project called “Paths of Innovation in the Brazilian Industry”, conducted by the Innovation Research Center (NITEC) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where 1331Read more about Final Paper: The influence of management capacity on the innovative performance of companies[…]