Alvaro Bruno Cyrino

International trajectories of Brazilian companies

Purpose – It has been argued in the international business literature that companies begin their internationalization trajectories by entering countries that are geographically and psychically closest to the country in which their home market is located before entering more distant ones. This paper aims to verify whether this assertion is correct for Brazilian companies. If it is correct, the companies would be expected to begin their international expansion in countries within the Latin America region. Not only is this region closest in geographical distance, but also it is most similar to Brazil in many other important dimensions.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is an exploratory and quantitative research undertaken with a sample of 109 national capital companies selected from the 1,000 largest Brazilian companies in 2001 net revenues.Findings – Empirical findings indicate that countries in Latin America have been most frequently chosen by Brazilian companies for their first expansions into inte...

Resiliência organizacional e inovação sustentável: um estudo sobre o modelo de gestão de pessoas de uma empresa brasileira de energia

This article aims to relate the concept of sustainable innovative organization to the concept of organizational resilience. To do this, a study was carried out at the human resources department of EBE S.A., a Brazilian energy company. This paper conducts a theoretical review of the concepts of resource-based vision, core competencies, dynamic capabilities, strategic human resources management, learning organization, organizational resilience, sustainable innovative organization, and, finally, it identifies which are the human resources management practices of EBE S.A. that contribute to make the company a Resilient Sustainable Innovative Organization.

¿COMPENSA LA INTERNACIONALIZACIÓN? UN ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS VENTAJAS PERCIBIDAS Y EL RENDIMIENTO FINANCIERO DE OPERACIONES INTERNACIONALES DE EMPRESAS BRASILEÑAS .

En este documento se analiza la relacion entre el rendimiento financiero de las operaciones de una empresa internacional y el grado de su internacionalizacion en una muestra de 73 empresas brasilenas. Por un lado, los resultados revelan que las empresas con mejor rendimiento en sus operaciones internacionales con respecto a sus operaciones interiores estan menos internacionalizadas en cuanto a beneficios, activos, empleados, dispersion geografica de los mercados y actividades de la cadena de valor que sus equivalentes mas internacionalizadas. Por otro lado, los analisis han mostrado que las empresas mas internacionalizadas tienen una mayor percepcion de los beneficios que se suceden tras la internacionalizacion: “capacidad para responder rapida y adecuadamente a los clientes internacionales”, “afianzar su posicion competitiva”, “diversificacion geografica y menor dependencia del mercado interior”, “efecto de demostracion en el pais de origen” y “mayor estabilidad en los resultados economicos y financieros”.

Higher Education in Management: The Case of Brazil

Brazil has 7.83 million students at undergraduate level, management being the biggest program with enrollments reaching 17%. Recent government financing policy for low-income students has accelerated the pace of growth at the same time that it has promoted the entry of international for-profit institutions in the local market. Hence, business schools are predominantly private-supported and regulated by the government. Of the approximately 90% of total students enrolled in private institutions around one-third are backed by government financing. MBAs are an important source of revenue to business schools, but the typical Brazilian program is non-degree. On the other hand, master’s and PhD courses are mainly offered by public universities. Most of the schools are investing heavily in on-line technology for applying their content in order to keep their costs at a competitive level and to expand their market frontiers due to the geographical extension of Brazil. Finally, while the Brazilian regulation has progressed a lot in the last decades, there is still a lot to be done to improve the bottom line in terms of teaching and research, to improve the quality of the programs offered by profit institutions and for the development of educational technology to provide expansion all over the country.

Post-bureaucratic organizations and organizational resilience: institutionalization of more substantive forms of communication in working relations

This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces successfully situations of rupture and risk, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces situations of rupture and risk successfully, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution”. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.

Organizaciones postburocráticas y resiliencia organizacional: la institucionalización de formas de comunicación más sustantivas en las relaciones de trabajo

This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces successfully situations of rupture and risk, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces situations of rupture and risk successfully, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution”. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.

Organizações pós-burocráticas e resiliência organizacional: a institucionalização de formas de comunicação mais substantivas nas relações de trabalho

This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces successfully situations of rupture and risk, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.This article presents a debate regarding the concept of organizational resilience, a subject to which Cadernos EBAPE.BR dedicated a special issue. If the organization is resilient, it faces situations of rupture and risk successfully, innovating and learning during the process, as well as achieving superior levels of equilibrium and complexity, in a dynamic of continuous evolution”. The more resilient the organization is, the more innovative its activity, grounded in a more substantive communication – inspired by Habermas’ theories – which seeks understanding and factual knowledge. The model of post-bureaucratic organizations debates these and others issues presented in this article.