Chief Editor
Tomás de Aquino Guimarães (CMA/UnB)

Executive Editor
Andréa Paula Segatto-Mendes (CEPPAD/UFPR)

Editorial Advisory Board
Adalberto Fischmann (FEA/USP)
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva (CEPPAD/UFPR)
Fernando Bins Luce (PPGA/UFRGS)
Fernando Meirelles (EAESP/FGV)
Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer (PPGA/UFRGS)
José Antonio Gomes de Pinho (NPGA/UFBA)
Nicolau Reinhard (FEA/USP)
Paulo Tromboni...

Performance varies. This simple statement conceals many intricacies of strategic management. Because performance varies among individual firms, researchers can explore factors that differentiate these firms and explain why some firms are consistently outperforming others. Because performance varies among industries, researchers can explore structural characteristics of different branches of accounting as a source of explanation. Because performance varies with time, researchers can explore...

This paper presents an analysis of the technological efforts made by Transnational Corporations⁽¹⁾ (TNCs) affiliates in Brazil. Many studies have indicated that most TNCs concentrate their main technological activities in their home, developed countries. However, empirical investigation has shown TNC affiliates in Brazil...

This article presents empirical evidence of stakeholding in the local government context. It is the result of a survey carried out with English Local Authorities in 2001. It outlines the arena in which local government make decisions by pinpointing the relevant stakeholders in the process as well as the amount of power they are perceived to represent by chief executives. The investigation has its theoretical basis in resource dependence and institutional theories, which are commonly used...

Learning curves have been studied for a long time. These studies provided strong support to the hypothesis that, as organizations produce more of a product, unit costs of production decrease at a decreasing rate (see Argote, 1999 for a comprehensive review of learning curve studies). But the organizational mechanisms that lead to these results are still underexplored. We know some drivers of learning curves (ADLER; CLARK, 1991; LAPRE et al., 2000), but we still lack a more detailed view of...

A common feature of the literature on post-acquisition changes is its dyadic feature, i.e. the emphasis is placed on the actors directly involved in the acquisition, often represented by the acquiree and the acquirer. Accordingly, actors outside the dyad, such as suppliers and buyers, are usually disregarded. There is, however, a relevant exception in this literature. Recently, some Nordic authors have claimed that if actors other than the acquiree and the acquirer are not taken into...