Accounting Sciences theses: an analysis of their dissemination by Jacqueline Veneroso Alves da Cunha, Edgard Bruno Cornachione Jr., Gilberto de Andrade Martins

“…The purpose of this study was to find evidences to allow assessing the degree of dissemination of doctoral theses in Accounting (defended in Brazil up to 12/31/2006), in the production of new knowledge. …”
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Reverse transfer of corporate social responsibility practices from brazilian subsidiaries of multinationals by Felipe Mendes Borini, Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Júnior, Gabriel Vouga Chueke

“…The data were obtained by a survey of the main foreign subsidiaries in Brazil. All told, we analyzed 150 Brazilian subsidiaries of multinationals, by applying multiple linear regression. …”
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Capital Structure, Internationalization and Countries of Destination of Brazilian Companies: An Analysis of the Upstream-Downstream Hypothesis by Rafael Borges Ribeiro, Vinícius Silva Pereira, Karem Cristina de Sousa Ribeiro

“…The results show that Brazilian companies when defining the destination countries of internationalization, regardless of these countries presenting higher or lower stability in relation to Brazil, increase their indebtedness. The results showed that among the characteristics present in countries considered as more stable, only the Corruption Perception Index was positively associated with the level of indebtedness of multinationals.…”
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A censura ao direito de sonhar em Quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…Our goal is to highlight the author‟s skill to create resourceful representations of her miserable daily routine and through this oppose to the usual perception of her text as a bare documentary on Brazil‟s starvation in the 1950s. We tried to point out that there was some implicit censorship among cultural m ediators to prevent a subaltern woman from being seen as a writer, so that she would only find a place in the mere protest scene. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…This essay was born of the intention to compare the data collections on the empirical-traditional medicine in Portugal and Brazil, on the initiative of Michel Giacometti, naturalized Portuguese, whose work, recently discovered , was collected in the volume Artes de Cura e Espanta-Males (2009), and the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, author of Namoros com a Medicina (1937). …”
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Effects of Diversification on Profitability and Operating Risk for Brazilian Publicly Traded Companies by Camila Adam, Tatiane Meurer, Moacir Manoel Rodrigues

“…This study is relevant to the investigation of the relationship of industrial and international diversification in companies' operating results, as it indicates that, in the context of Brazil, industrial diversification tends to improve operating results, with an increase in profitability and a reduction in operating risk.…”
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The migrant and refugee entrepreneur (of the self): vernacular modes of immaterial labor as (re)invention of the self in the destination country by Laura Alves Scherer1, Carmem Ligia Iochins Grisci

“…The cartographic method was used to collect data from interviews and participant observation in Porto Alegre (Brazil), exploring events-activities, key informants, and economic migrants and refugees from the global south who work with music, dance, food, fashion, language, and political-cultural representation. …”
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Divide In Marketing Between Academics And Practitioners by Fernanda Capanema Repsold, Marcus Wilcox Hemais

“…However, there are few empirical studies in Brazil that help clarify the phenomenon. In light of this context, the present research seeks to understand how academics and practitioners perceive the divide between the academy and businesses and how this affects the applicability of theories, concepts and models in marketing. …”
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Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Disease by Jack C. Comstock, Robert A. Gilbert

“…Later it was reportedly associated with yield losses of 25% or more in the cultivar SP 71-6163 in Brazil. Subsequently the virus sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (SCYLV) was discovered to be associated with the disease. …”
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O setor elétrico entre a questão histórica e os problemas sociológicos by Alessandro André Leme

“…The end of the 20 th century was characterized by a complex process and great transfor- mations in the global sphere, where globalization, neo-liberalism and market-oriented reforms acquire theoretical relevance among researchers, scientists and intellectuals of various fields of knowledge and practical relevance in the macro-economic and political-institutional direction adopted, either integrally or in part, by several countries in the world, especially by developing countries, including Brazil. Out of this process we highlight the changes in the electric sector, which is understood as a strategic one. …”
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A estética dos becos em Cora Coralina ou “Um modo diferente de contar velhas estórias” by Clovis Carvalho Britto

“…In this interpretive key, she observed social relations within Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a point of view that rehabilitates the margins. …”
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South American Cucurbit Fruit Fly, Anastrepha grandis (Macquart) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“…It has been intercepted in the United States in pumpkin from Argentina and Brazil, and one adult was found in banana debris from Panama. …”
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Effects of the physical form of starter feed on the intake, performance, and health of female Holstein calves by Í.R.R. Castro, G.B.C. Leite, I.F. Carrari, L.N.C. Silva, J.C.C. Chagas, D.D. More, M.I. Marcondes

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Cluster analysis applied to fuel price data in Campina Grande by Richard Silva, Thaisa Azevedo, Hiago Martins, Lucas Cardoso Pereira

“… This work uses cluster analysis to analyze similarities in the prices of regular gasoline and ethanol in Campina Grande-PB, Brazil. This multivariate statistical technique groups similar elements into distinct clusters using the non-hierarchical method (k-means). …”
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Reorientando a identidade nacional em Native speaker, de Chang-rae Lee, e O sol se põe em São Paulo, de Bernardo Carvalho by Rex P. Nielson

“…However, despite the similar anxieties over assimilation present in both novels, they both reveal significant differences regarding the ways in which the United States and Brazil have responded to cultural difference even as they challenge national myths of inclusi on and belonging.…”
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Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond by D. Forster

“…In the United States of America, Brazil, and South Africa, it took the form of problematic political theologies. …”
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Are Individual Microentrepreneurs who Intend to Grow Alert to Opportunities? by Jaci José Cenci, Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado, Carlos Eduardo Carvalho

“…This research presents an original contribution to studies on the growth of microenterprises, a growing entrepreneurial category in Brazil. In addition, the present study presents a theoretical contribution to studies on the growth of small-sized businesses, as well as on entrepreneurial opportunities, emphasizing the existing relationship between growth intention and one dimension of entrepreneurial alertness.…”
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O discurso do movimento #OcupeOCocó e sua luta pela significação nas redes sociais by Luciana Correia Barbosa, Sérgio Carvalho Benício de Mello, Henrique Muzzio

“…The purpose of this article is to analyze the speech #OcupeOCocó, a popular movement in defense of Coco Park, in Fortaleza (Brazil), which emerged on social networks in July 2013, and its struggle for meaning in social networks from posts and users’ comments on the official website of the movement on Facebook and its Twitter profile. …”
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Collective Competencies and their Constitutive Elements: a case study in a Brazilian Fashion Group by Luiz Henrique da Silva, Tatiana Ghedine

“…This article aims to identify the constitutive elements and main collective competencies (CC) in the Lunelli Group Creation Center's work teams, a business group focused on the fashion industry from the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Through exploratory and qualitative research, applying the case study strategy, conducted semi-structured interviews (with 36 employees from 6 work teams of the Lunelli Group's brands), and realizing a participant observation. …”
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Elites científicas junto às políticas locais de C&T: o caso da Secretaria Municipal de São Carlos-SP by Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade, Karina de Camargo

“…This article deals with the presence of scientific and technological elites in the implementation of local Science and Technology (S & T) policies in Brazil. In the last decades there has been an increasing growth of municipalities formulating their own policies in the field of science and technology, in order to articulate scientific knowledge and local development programs. …”
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