Neusa Maria Bastos F. Santos

Exploring career‐life success and family social support of successful women in Canada, Argentina and Mexico

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine career‐life issues of successful women in the Americas.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 30 interviews were conducted with successful women in Canada, Argentina and Mexico. Themes were pulled from the interview transcripts for each country, analyzed and then compared across countries, looking at universalities and differences of experiences.Findings – The women in all three countries conveyed more subjective measures of career success, such as contributing to society and learning in their work, with Canada and Mexico particularly emphasizing receiving recognition as a hallmark of career success.Practical implications – This research provides insight into the experiences of successful women in the Americas, which can inform the career development of women in business.Originality/value – This research contributes to the literature on womens careers, highlighting successful womens experiences across cultures and in an under‐researched area: Latin Ame...

Career success and satisfaction: a comparative study in nine countries

Purpose – This project aims to examine levels of career and life satisfaction among successful women in nine countries in the Americas.Design/methodology/approach – A structured survey and in‐depth interviews were used, and a variety of occupations, demographics, and personality characteristics assessed – 1,146 successful women from nine countries in the USA responded the survey: 105 from Argentina, 210 from Brazil, 199 from Canada, 84 from Chile, 232 from Mexico, 126 from the USA, and 190 from three countries in the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, SVG).Findings – Results show no differences in satisfaction based on occupation or country and most demographic variables investigated did not have a significant relationship with satisfaction. Age had a small, significant, relationship, with satisfaction increasing with age; married women were significantly more satisfied than single women. Higher scores on self efficacy and need for achievement, and a greater internal locus of control were all related to high...

Successful women of the Americas: the same or different?

Purpose – The intent of this cross‐national research is to study the personal and cultural characteristics of successful professional women. High‐achieving women may share certain personal characteristics, beliefs, and experiences, regardless of the countries in which they live. However, every individual is socialized within a particular national culture, and may be expected to share certain values and expectations with other members of that culture.Design/methodology/approach – Over 1,100 professionally “successful women” (including high‐level managers, entrepreneurs, academics, government personnel, and professionals) and 531 undergraduate business students in nine countries – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the USA and the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines) completed surveys containing two sets of variables: national/cultural (collectivism/individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance) and personal (self‐efficacy, locus of control, need for achievement).Fi...

Attitudes towards Women and Values in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report results from an exploratory, empirical research study that describes personal values and attitudes toward women, two themes that strongly impact employment relations and a wide variety of management issues.Design/methodology/approach – Well‐established measures for the major themes for this paper were used in constructing a questionnaire. Data collection instruments were vetted for content, translated and back‐translated, and applied by native researchers, who also contributed local expertise to the paper.Findings – Female respondents across all four countries were more egalitarian in their attitudes towards women in the workforce than were men. Additionally, Colombian respondents had more egalitarian attitudes towards women scores, followed by Brazilians and Argentineans; Mexicans exhibited the least egalitarian attitudes toward women.Originality/value – This is the first empirical study that links two well‐validated constructs (personal values and attitud...

Mentoring experiences of successful women across the Americas

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare womens mentoring experience in nine countries within the Americas, and to explore linkages between personal characteristics, mentoring practices, mentoring functions, and consequences of being mentee.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 1,146 successful women are questioned about their mentoring experiences as a mentee: 105 from Argentina, 210 from Brazil, 199 from Canada, 84 from Chile, 232 from Mexico, 126 from the USA, and 190 from three countries in the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, and St Vincent).Findings – Most of the women have more than one mentor. Across all countries mentoring practices are more strongly linked to career mentoring function while the age and gender of the mentor are more strongly linked to psychosocial mentoring. Mentoring from the perspective of mentee has the same directional relationship with situational and individual variables, but the significance of those relationships vary by country. A possible cultural difference...

Rodízio de firmas de auditoria: a experiência brasileira e as conclusões do mercado

The rotation of audit firms was introduced in Brazil as a result of the corporate scandals involving financial institutions in the issue of their financial statements, and adopted by the CVM - Brazilian Securities Commission for publicly traded companies in Brazil. Aiming to preserve the independence of the auditor and to reduce frauds and accounting errors and misstatements of financial statements, audit firm rotation affects the commercial and professional relationship of the auditors with their clients, as well as the whole structure of the audit firm market. The article was prepared on the basis of the historical concept of audit firm rotation, the evaluation of the surveys carried out on the subject in other countries, and the philosophical structures that determine the ethical principles associated to audits. Furthermore, a field survey was carried out on aspects related to audit firm rotation. This survey collected the opinions of 127 financial market professionals, 84 of whom were executives from companies that work on or influence the preparation of financial statements, and 43 independent auditors who work directly in the accounting record auditing process. The main conclusion was the confirmation that audit firm rotation cannot ensure the independence of the auditor in his work, nor does it diminish the risks of accounting errors or frauds in the financial statement preparation.

Work, Family and Values in Four Latin-American Countries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore work‐family conflict antecedents in four Latin American countries by studying whether marital status and number of children impacted values.Design/methodology/approach – A convenience sample of 3,529 working adults in major cities in Argentina (n=1,198), Brazil (n=186), Colombia (n=989) and Mexico (n=1,156) were surveyed using the Rokeach Value Survey.Findings – There were statistically significant differences in values depending on marital status for the terminal values an exciting life, national security, and pleasure, and also differences between respondents depending on having or not, and number of children for the terminal values pleasure, national security, and for the instrumental values logical, and polite.Originality/value – This study fills a research gap, as no previously published studies have explored whether marital status or number of children impact values.

Professionally Successful Women: Some Evidence from the English-Speaking Caribbean

Abstract This article reports on a study of professionally successful women in three countries in the English-speaking Caribbean—Barbados, Jamaica, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. The study is part of a larger study that includes countries throughout the Americas. The overall objective of the study was to identify personal and social characteristics of professionally successful women, and to consider these across nations, by incorporating cultural measures. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative measures. Results suggested that, as hypothesized, professionally successful women scored higher on need for achievement, internal locus of control, and self-efficacy than did a comparative student group. Contrary to expectations, mentoring was not identified as especially important in achieving success, but family support was identified as important. On the cultural variables, successful women and the comparative student group scored similarly—moderate on collectivism/individualism, low on power distance, and high on uncertainty avoidance. The similarities and differences across the three countries included in the study are discussed.

USA, Europe and Pharmerging Countries: A Panorama of Pharmaceutical Innovation

China and Brazil appear as major emerging pharmaceutical markets and the literature suggests that the sustainable development of the pharma industry will depend on the pharmerging countries. The mapping of this sector in the technological and industrial scope was the objective of this work, considering international database patent analysis (World Intellectual Property Organization and Derwent) and the implementation in MATLAB® of an algorithm for scenario prediction. It was found that most pharmaceutical patents in the world are filed in the USA (23%) and Europe (29%), notably the innovation indices of Roche (1032 patents) and Novartis (671 patents). However, it was observed an estimated increase of more than 25% in the number of Brazilian and Chinese pharmaceutical patents, suggesting the dissemination of technological and scientific knowledge and an increase in competitiveness in this strategic segment.

NOVAS FORMAS DE PARTICIPAÇÃO NA GESTÃO PÚBLICA: UM SISTEMA ALTERNATIVO PARA GARANTIR A PARTICIPAÇÃO EFETIVA DA COMUNIDADE LOCAL

A partir da Constituicao Federal de 1988, com o advento da descentralizacao do poder, dando aos municipios autonomia para planejamento e execucao das politicas urbanas de desenvolvimento, a sociedade passou a ter um papel de poder local que pode ser fundamental para a melhoria da qualidade de vida, desde que tenha uma participacao efetiva e continua na gestao publica. Este estudo tem como objetivo discutir as principais formas de participacao da sociedade na gestao publica e propor um sistema alternativo de participacao direta da comunidade local. A partir do levantamento bibliografico foram identificados os estudos sobre experiencias de participacao na gestao publica de municipios brasileiros. As discussoes sobre as experiencias propiciaram destacar os principais aspectos e limitacoes das formas de participacao, indicando como mais adequado que o cidadao participe desde o inicio do processo, ou seja, a partir de planejamento participativo, com a proposicao de um sistema de participacao direta da comunidade local .