Jersone Tasso Moreira Silva

Empirical studies regarding the determinants of productivity in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on the industrial capacity. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization since 1996, in and of itself, is not capable of recovering the investment rates. W...

Empirical studies regarding the determinants of productivity in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on the industrial capacity. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization since 1996, in and of itself, is not capable of recovering the investment rates. W...

This research aims to compare the cultural dimensions of the automotive industry in three countries, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and discuss Hofstede model. Were using two techniques of analysis, the first being described in the model of Hofstede and Minkov (2013) and the second using the statistical technique indicated by critics of the model (McSwe...

Buscou-se analisar a influência da síndrome de burnout no comprometimento organizacional em profissionais de saúde. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, com uso da modelagem de equações estruturais. Foram escolhidos hospitais, clínicas de tratamento e casas de apoio localizadas na cidade de Montes Claros-MG, sendo investigados todos os funcionários...

The main objective of this study is to analyze the influences of dynamism and rivalry on the competitive position of US firms in the periods pre-and post-economic crisis of 2008, considering the role of firm size as a moderator. For this, data from firms operating in the manufacturing industry from 2001 to 2015 were used as a sample, analyzing the...

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a influência da utilização das melhores práticas de governança corporativa e da estrutura de capital sobre o desempenho e o risco de firmas brasileiras de capital aberto. O uso dos modelos de regressão com o endividamento total em suas formas simples e quadrática permite a identificação dos efeitos exercidos...

O presente estudo tem como objetivo aferir o nível de maturidade da gestão do conhecimento em relação à percepção de docentes e técnicos administrativos em uma Instituição Pública de Ensino Superior. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa descritiva, de campo e comparativa, de natureza quantitativa, por meio da aplicação de um questionário on-line....

We developed a model that examines the effects of competitive environment, investment decisions, and competitive position on firm performance before and after the 2008 global financial crisis. As a result, we identified that, in the period before the crisis, firm performance was determined by both the competitive environment and as also by firm’s c...

Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar cinco métodos de previsão para demanda intermitente usando uma série histórica de consumo de peças sobressalentes da aeronave 737 Next Generation, fabricado pela Boeing, da maior frota aérea brasileira gerenciada pela VRG Airline Company S/A. Os métodos de Winter, Croston, Single Exponential Smoothing, Weight M...

The International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) first issue was published in 1961. This year commemorates the journal’s 55th year anniversary. In celebration of its anniversary, this article aims to comprehensively review the journals overall existence (1961–2017), per decade, by a longitudinal analysis of the literature through a main path...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the relationship between the organizational commitment, the knowledge transfer and the knowledge management maturity at a Brazilian public university. As indicated in the literature, the organizational commitment and the influence on knowledge management in the public sector, especially in developing countries, c...

Esta pesquisa objetivou analisar o Potencial Motivador do Trabalho percebido na Prefeitura Municipal de Mário Campos, Minas Gerais, Brasil. A metodologia pode ser classificada como pesquisa descritiva, de campo com abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa. A amostra foi composta por 143 servidores da prefeitura do município. A partir do modelo de Hackm...

Purpose of the study: The objective of this work was to identify the perceived quality attributes of car owners and how these attributes affect satisfaction, regret, trust, pride and, word of mouth communication. Methodology / approach: There were two phases (qualitative and quantitative) in this study. In the qualitative phase, we conducted 20 in-...

This article aims to focus mainly on the relationships between the actual and the desired culture in the Brazilian health organizations' culture. The Competing Values Framework and its matched scale OCAI was used to analyze the Brazilian health organizational culture. Ten health clinics were delimited as the object of this research: the examined po...

Economic blocs such as BRICS and MIST are facing decreases in GDP, high interest rates, and a drastic reduction of the productivity of companies. Innovative strategies and new business models have to be considered as a way to improve productivity and reduce operational limitations. Digitalization technologies are altering the structure of competiti...

A busca pela melhoria contínua na condução de atividades tem feito com que as organizações adotem cada vez mais modelos de gestão por processos e, consequentemente, modelos para avaliar a maturidade organizacional. Em hospitais, a busca pela melhoria em seus processos não é diferente. O objetivo principal da pesquisa foi analisar a validade de uma...

O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever a relação entre o estresse e a maturidade em gestão do conhecimento de uma organização pública de ensino superior de Minas Gerais. A pesquisa de natureza descritiva e quantitativa, adotou um questionário composto pela escala de Avaliação da Gestão do Conhecimento na Administração Pública (IAGCAP), desenvolvido...

In 2008 the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s (Bonelli and Fontes 2013). The contagion, which began in 2007 when sky-high home prices in the USA finally turned decisively downward, spread quickly, first to the entire US financial sector and then to financial markets overseas. The casualties in the...

In a market that offers ever more choices and a multiplicity of sale channels, the undesirable effects with the consumers can be observed. The consumers' confusion is one of the undesirable effects and its study is relevant for it will allow to a better development of a scenario's format including the offers of products and services shown by the su...

The Competing Values Framework (CVF) has been used in many organizations around the world in order to understand innovation management culture. A study was made by the Fundacao Dom Cabral's innovation managament center (FDC) with the objective of validating the CVF methodology in the Brazilian energy sector. We used qualitatitive analysis to examin...

This article aimed to show the preferences of accounting experts as to the choice of the corporate valuation method in accounting expertise, as well as the main criteria, quantified on the basis of a multi-criterion method, called Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In the theoretical framework, the relationship between forensic accounting and compan...

Health organizations seek to achieve their goals by creating protocols and applying standardization processes in order to minimize mistakes. For that, we need to plan the actions with the creation of manuals whose rules define the forms of action on organization internal processes, such as the disposal of solid waste generated in the health service...

Este artigo teve, como objetivo, identificar os fatores de contribuição de acidentes rodoviários, no período de 2008 a 2012, em segmentos críticos da rodovia BR-381 com o uso da descoberta de conhecimento em banco de dados e mineração de dados por meio de regras de associação geradas pelo software livre Weka e sua implementação do algoritmo Apriori...

Empirical studies regarding the elements of private investments in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on investments, with great impacts on the innovation policies. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization, in and of itself, is not capable of recover...

Background: In a country like Brazil, where the education level is unequal, the Distance Education (DE) proves to be a valuable way of reducing the geographical distances and propitiating social and economic transformations due to the increase of the population's educational level. Objective: This paper aims to analyze the implementation process of...

Various studies on innovation practices worldwide have provided evidence of the increased investments in research and development (R&D), of partnerships between universities and companies. Nevertheless, it can be perceived that in spite of the increase of investments in innovation in Brazil being similar to that in the rest of the world, the develo...

The objective of this article is to measure the customers' behavioural intentions with respect to the logistics services' quality of a beverage distributer company located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Specifically, we intend to analyse the clients satisfaction level of logistics service quality, analyse the satisfaction level of the differ...

Empirical studies regarding the private investment in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the high inflation's rates negative impact on investment. However, the recent Brazilian's experience clearly shows that stabilization is not capable of recovering investment's rates. Therefore, the objectives of this studyare:a) to analys...

Resumo Este estudo explora o processo decisório e avalia o fenômeno da confusão do consumidor produzido por ambiguidade, excesso e/ou similaridade das informações apresentadas. Realizou-se um survey via internet com 458 respondentes. O estudo indicou que o nível de confusão tem como antecedentes o grau de maximização do indivíduo e o seu nível de e...

Background: Due to its heterogeneous resources, the peculiarity of a certain Region or Country provides specific attributes to a product (quality), possibly generating competitive advantages. Consequently, the definition of these attributes supposes the existence of coordination between a large number of agents in which the negotiation of rules and...

This article examines the determinants of private investment in Brazil from sectorial industry data for the period of 1996 to 2010. The series of gross fixed capital formation, commonly used in empirical studies of aggregate investment, eliminates irregular adjustments of individual production units due to the aggregation process. Using the industr...

Several studies have demonstrated the necessity of indicators for innovation management, so as to control investments in R&D with greater efficiency. Nevertheless, the review of the literature suggests that the debate on the theme is still very incipient. In this sense, this study has for its object the answer to the following questions: (i) what d...

The objective of this study is to propose a framework for a better comprehension of the agribusiness stakeholders' participation in the bioenergy versus food production dilemma in the context of climate change. To understand this theme, the theory of convention, network and the conflict of bioenergy and food production was used. The object of the s...

The objective of this study was to analyse the criteria of priority used to adopt the marketing strategies of quality, price, convenience, brand and relationship, and its adequacy towards the values that are perceived by the customers' segments of a retailer, using the customer equity model. The methodological procedures consisted of a survey that...

This article examines the determinants of Brazilian private investment for sector 23 (coke production, oil refining, nuclear fuel preparation and alcohol production) from 1996 to 2010. All the signs of the analyzed variables are consistent with theory, with the exception of real interest rates, where the coefficient is positive and insignificant in...

Los estudios empíricos dedicados a los determinantes de la inversión privada en los países en vías de desarrollo, incluido Brasil, han demostrado que la inflación elevada produce un efecto negativo en la inversión. Sin embargo, la experiencia reciente de Brasil muestra claramente que la estabilización no puede recuperar las tasas de inversión. Por...

Empirical studies regarding the determinants of private and R&D investments in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on innovation. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization, in and of itself, is not capable of recovering the investment rates. With this...

Empirical studies regarding the determinants of private and R&D investments in developing countries, including Brazil, have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on innovation. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization, in and of itself, is not capable of recovering the investment rates. With this...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the infrastructure segment, investments relative to GDP and major competitiveness indicators, based on published data on the 2001-2010 period. Lastly, analyses of segments showing higher potential for investments and returns in the 2011-2017 period are carried out. Initially, it was made a survey on the sp...

The objective of this study is to analyze the managers' preferences concerning the employee that has intrapreneurship characteristics, as well as to identify incentives and innovation barriers that were present in the surveyed organizations. For this purpose, a qualitative research approach was used, based on a semi-structured interview questionnai...

The article aims in analyzing the maturity level of the organizational process in a centennial company of the welding sector in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Theoretical Framework emphasizes the concepts of Organizational Processes and Maturity Process. The model developed by Michel Hammer-Process Enterprise Maturity Model (PEMM)-was the b...

The objective of this study was to analyze the priority criteria for adopting marketing strategies of quality, price, convenience, brand and relationship, and its adequacy to the perceived values by the customers' segments of a retailer, using the Customer Equity Model. The methodological procedures consisted of a survey directed to the consumers a...

O presente trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de identificar os valores que o cliente busca ao escolher um tratamento estético, especificamente na fisioterapia dermatofuncional. Optou-se, como base para este estudo, pelas tipologias que enfocam o valor para os consumidores, nos processos de aquisição de bens e serviços, apoiando-se com mais ê...

This article examines the determinants of private investment in Brazil from sectorial industry data of 1996 to 2010. The series of gross fixed capital ormation, commonly used in empirical studies of aggregate investment eliminates irregular adjustments of individual production units due to the aggregation process. Using the industry's sectorial dat...

The objective of this study is to characterize and analyze the farmers and commercial personnel's actions with relation to the social responsibility of pesticides' commercialization in the South Region of Brazil, specifically in the region of Caxias do Sul. Companies whose principles are based on the social responsibility and social environmental c...

The airport infrastructure is a polemic and controversial theme with innumerous opportunities to be explored. The study between the GDP, demands growth and costs is a Brazilian national interest. Studies about the airport infrastructure have been conducted worldly, as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. After a literature review it is pos...

Empirical studies regarding the determinants of private investments in developing countries including Brazil have demonstrated the negative impact of high inflation rates on investments. However, the recent Brazilian experience clearly shows that stabilization in and of itself is not capable of recovering the investment rates. With this in mind, th...

The Brazilian Healthcare System (SUS) is the responsible for the Healthcare Waste (HcW) management in the perspective of the reverse logistics chain. So then, the objective of this study is to examine the HcW management practices in the Brazilian public hospitals according to the reverse logistics concept. The HcW management in those hospitals has...

RESUMO O presente trabalho teve por objetivo evidenciar e mensurar financeiramente as opções gerenciais de uma empresa do segmento de Autopeças, situada na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte/MG. Para tanto utilizou-se de uma pesquisa descritivo e exploratória. O trabalho baseou-se na pesquisa e coleta de dados de uma indústria de Autopeças em u...

The objective of this article is the logistic study about the Brazilian Airport Model, justifying its importance and the impediments to the segment's development, especially with regards to the cargo movement. As development, it is possible to evaluate the differences between the concepts of an industrial airport and the airport-cities, as compleme...

The Brazilian Health-care System is responsible for the proper management of Health-care Waste (HcW) Reverse Logistics chain. Starting from this perspective, the objective of this paper was to examine the HcW management practices in public hospitals of Minas Gerais state, according to the reverse logistics and ONA accreditation methodology. The HcW...

Recebido em 02/setembro/2009 Aprovado em 27/junho/2011 RESUMO O trabalho objetiva identificar as competências – conhecimentos, habilidades e atitudes – que os gerentes prisionais demonstram diante da nova ordem estabelecida pela administração pública mineira. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo no sistema prisional gerenciado pela Secretaria de Estad...

Resumo A emergência por um novo paradigma envolvendo o setor aero-portuário envolve questões complexas e direcionadas à infraestru-tura nacional. O estudo do setor e seus processos críticos tornam-se vitais para o Brasil, ainda mais nas vésperas da realização de impor-tantes eventos esportivos, nos próximos três anos. Portanto, realizar correlações...

O presente estudo tem por objetivo geral analisar o comportamento de compra de Papéis na Bovespa pelo investidor belo horizontino, a partir das mudanças no valor de sua riqueza financeira. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como exploratória, sendo que no aspecto da abordagem do problema, o trabalho foi desenvolvido em duas fases: uma qualitativa exploratór...

RESUMO O trabalho descreve as percepções do executivo brasileiro expatriado e a influência da distância psíquica, identificando os fatores facilitadores e dificultadores do processo de adaptação e, principalmente, a sua percepção em relação à função desempenhada. Foram entrevistados executivos que vivenciaram e vivenciam o processo de expatriação....

Analisa-se, no presente estudo, a importância do papel do professor para o curso de Turismo, sua interferência, contribuição e participação na formação do bacharel, além da percepção do aluno com relação a esse profissional. Por isso, o objetivo foi investigar a interferência desse professor no processo de formação profissional, além de avaliar a p...

The structures deteriorate under the action of environmental hazards and other factors and require interventions which can vary from a simple superficial repair to a more complex reinforcement. The safety analysis in existing buildings differs in several aspects of that estab- lished in the project, mainly because the parameters generically adopted...