Business In Brazil Research Articles

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Brazil's Distinct Subcultures: Do They Matter to Business Performance?

The article discusses a study which focuses on the impact of Brazil's distinct subcultures on business performance. This study demonstrates the difficulty of companies in evaluating the impact of a country's culture when distinct subcultures exist. Research conducted by Tomasz Lenartowicz of the University of Texas at Austin and Kendall Roth of the University of South Carolina examined the connection between subcultures and organizational performance by looking at the population of small, independently owned retail businesses in Brazil. Kiosk owners comprised the majority of the survey respondents, with questions designed to gauge the cultural value dimensions of enjoyment, achievement, security, autonomy, and conformity. Business turnover was also a focus of the study.

Marketing Modernity: The J. Walter Thompson Company and North American Advertising in Brazil, 1929–1939

Marketing Modernity: The J. Walter Thompson Company and North American Advertising in Brazil, 1929–1939

A Controversa Figura de Mauá

RESUMO Ao estudar Mauá, procura-se compreender melhor a economia brasileira no século XIX, nossas raízes empresariais, e a organização social da época. O texto suscita questões relevantes a respeito da cultura empresarial do país, apontando o crescimento e a queda de Mauá. Mais importante do que a própria figura de Mauá e as suas vicissitudes é que o leitor procure posicionar-se sobre o que o levou a crescer e a ruir desse modo - pois podem eventualmente persistir na sociedade os elementos que se fizeram presentes nesses acontecimentos, e importa conhecê-los. Enfim, o texto visa a fornecer elementos para contribuir à compreensão do fenômeno empresarial, do papel do empresário na sociedade, e das complexas relações entre o Governo e a iniciativa privada - temas úteis e atuais na época em que nosso país inicia suas agências de controle sobre setores críticos da atividade econômica.

Civil Society Collaboration with Business: Bringing Empowerment Back in

Strategic partnerships between civil society organizations (CSOs) and businesses are widely promoted as important new strategies to encourage corporate citizenship in the global South. This study tested these claims by examining 10 cases of collaboration between CSOs and businesses in Brazil, India, and South Africa. Findings suggest a sobering view of the benefits that civil society organizations and their constituencies can expect from collaboration. Development impacts may be more likely in sectors clearly linked to business interests, such as education and employment generation. Goals of organizational capacity building are more likely to be satisfied than those of citizen empowerment. CSOs and businesses reap mutual benefits from collaboration, but CSOs tend to shoulder more of the costs. Businesses can dominate collaborative decision-making, with negative results for sustainability. The paper offers a number of propositions to guide further research and inform collaborative practice. Empowered civil society collaboration with business is suggested as a more appropriate model than strategic partnership for CSOs pursuing sustainable development.

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb028505. When citing the article, please cite: Warren Turner, Brian H. Kleiner, (1996), “What Managers Must Know to Conduct Business in Brazil”, Management Research News, Vol. 19 Iss: 11, pp. 58 - 63.

British business in Brazil: maturity and demise (1850-1950)

This paper analyses the long-term trends of ''British business'' in Brazil since 1850. It covers investment and other manifestations of the British presence such as those related to trade as well as financial intermediation. Primary interest is in British involvement in Brazilian private sector activities, whether by direct investment or by the flotation of sterling securities for firms operating in Brazil. The article also considers the role of London as a financial market where Brazilian public loans were floated, the relevance of Britain as a market for Brazilian commodities and as a supplier to Brazil, and British intermediation in Brazilian trade with third countries. It is divided in chronological sections: imperial years (1850-1889); stagnation and boom (1889-1914); first signs of decline (1914-1930), and the divestment period (1930 to the mid-1950's). The final section presents the conclusions and mentions post-1950 trends.

Cows, pigs and dirty hands – the story of cysticercosis

The story of ‘mad-cow’ disease has been closely followed by the media in Brazil with a nagging concern that it could happen here. Beef is big business in Brazil, there are 169 million head of cattle, a high beef consumption (35 kg per person per year) and a thriving export trade; indeed Brazil is one of the main providers of corned beef to the UK. If BSE were to be found in Brazilian cattle it would be a massive problem. However, before the investigative journalists had a chance to dirty their boots on the nearest cattle ranch, a respected authority was quoted as saying that there had been no reported cases of BSE in Brazil and since cattle were not fed protein that came from other animals, the risk of it developing was extremely low.

What Managers Must Know to Conduct Business in Brazil

Before conducting business in Brazil, a business person should become familiar with its commercial and economic environment as much as possible. This entails attaining a general knowledge of its culture, its laws, level of development, and how these factors affect one's ability to transact business there. Brazil is the largest and most developed country in Latin America. Its uniqueness demands respect for its complexity. No‐one should take it for granted by assuming that it is nothing more than another third world country of overcrowded slums.

La burguesía desarticulada de Brasil

Business in Brazil appears to have strong business associations, but in fact many formally imposing organizations do not represent business effectively in large part because of corporatist framework imposed on them in the 1940s. In the 1980s several groups of industrialists recognized these deficiencies and formed new associations. These have enhanced the representation of some segments of business but overall further disarticulated business in Brazil. State intervention in both the economy and in corporatist organizations is the primary cause of this enduring disarticulation, which inhibits concertation and negotiation that enhanced stabilizations and redistribution in Mexico and Chile respectively

German-Speaking Entrepreneurs: Builders of Business in Brazil.

German-speaking immigrants who left Europe between 1890 and 1975 for Brazil's southern states - Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana - contributed far out of proportion to their percentage in the population to development and modernization of Brazil's agriculture, business and small-scale industry. They functioned as agents of change, as entrepreneurs willing to assume great risks, thus becoming a decisive factor in Brazil's industrial development.

German-Speaking Entrepreneurs: Builders of Business in Brazil.

German-Speaking Entrepreneurs: Builders of Business in Brazil.

German-speaking Entrepreneurs: Builders of Business in Brazil

German-speaking Entrepreneurs: Builders of Business in Brazil

Doing Business in Brazil

Doing Business in Brazil

Class Sector Unity in an Export Economy: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

R ECENT studies of twentieth-century Latin American society have found a surprising convergence in political attitudes between big businessmen and landowners. This is especially true for Brazil. Brazil's business elite has never challenged the political power of the traditional landowning elite or the patriarchal framework in which politics traditionally has been practiced.There has been no conflict between the two elites, such as characterized the development of industrial capitalism in Europe during the middle of the last century.2 Various reasons have been advanced for this convergence in political outlook; however, it should be noted that the phenomenon is not new. It dates back at least to the nineteenth century, when Brazil fully entered world trade patterns as an exporter of tropical products. Nineteenth-century Brazilian largescale businessmen and landholders evidence, if anything, stronger feelings of political solidarity and economic identity than do their modern counterparts. Big businessmen not only supported the interests of landholders, they even took the initiative in defending them. This tradition of solidarity between business and landholding elites

International Enterprise in a Developing Economy. A Study of U. S. Business in Brazil.

International Enterprise in a Developing Economy. A Study of U. S. Business in Brazil.

International Enterprise in a Developing Economy, a Study of U.S. Business in Brazil. Claude McMillan, Jr. , Richard F. Gonzales , Leo G. Erickson

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsInternational Enterprise in a Developing Economy, a Study of U.S. Business in Brazil. Claude McMillan, Jr. , Richard F. Gonzales , Leo G. Erickson Benjamin HigginsBenjamin Higgins Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 14, Number 3Apr., 1966 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450176 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1966 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Prospects of Business in Brazil

Y E economic development of Brazil is important in itself as well as because of its impact on the actual and potential relationships of American business. The fate of forty-five million people who live on a territory in excess of that of the United States may profoundly affect the politics and economics of the Western Hemisphere. Beyond this, the United States has a profound interest in the welfare of a country with which it was united in the recent war and which participated in it to the extent of sending an expeditionary force to Europe. There exists in Brazil a very pronounced feeling of friendship for the United States. Brazilians admire the political and economic institutions of North America. With the elimination of Germany from the international economic scene and the decline of European purchasing power and producing capacity during the more immediate postwar period, the stage is set for an expansion and intensification of mutually profitable business relationships between Brazil and the United States. American businessmen are interested in Brazil in their respective roles as suppliers, customers, investors, and creditors. It can be expected that in their dealings they will be inspired by a feeling of responsibility that will respect the special needs and requirements of an industrially not fully developed country. Such consideration is especially called for in the light of the international situation, which in various respects attaches a strategic importance to Brazil's position. Exploitation of the present bargaining position of American business, which has greatly improved compared with pre-war times, must not alienate Brazil, lest the government, in the interest of its foreign policy, assume the functions of the trader or impose controls which are burdensome on legitimate trade. Foreign trade and investments loom large in the economy of Brazil. There is only little domestic mass purchasing power. The lack of it has equipped the demand of the foreign markets with a special force: it is foreign demand that in the past has exercised an extremely powerful influence on the way in which domestic resources were utilized. As incomes are low, capital accumulation, at such rate as it occurred, was stimulated by large foreign investments and loans. Since private domestic capital is generally not available for larger projects, there has been, in the place of as well as in competition with foreign investment, some amount of domestic public investment. As will be seen later, this need not unduly concern actual and prospective foreign investors. In the heavy industry, for example, the existing foreign establishments can well hold their own in the face of new, semipublic organizations which operate under considerably inferior cost conditions. In this and in other respects it is important also to consider recent political changes in Brazil. The growth of public x The author is associate professor of economics at the Catholic University of America. His research work in Brazil took place under the auspices of the Guggenheim Foundation.