Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city. In this context, we propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the kidnapping of an arts organization, the April Exhibition (Salão de Abril), which is the most important art exhibition in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. To this purpose, we used a mobile ethnography approach to single out some of the spatial...

We investigate the influence of bankruptcy reorganization plans on the recovery of distressed firms. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), specifically, we perform an in-depth investigation of a set of reorganization plans submitted by publicly traded companies in Brazil. We find that the improvement in firm performance is positively related to a good diagnosis of the factors causing the crisis, a clear definition of the firm’s resources, and a clear identification of the firm’s...

The evolution of Web 2.0 technologies and social media has changed the way online business is conducted. With increasingly popular social networks, the connections among Internet users emerge as an important source of information, allowing consumers to share their ideas, opinions, or even content on the web, in order to find better and cheaper products, originating a new type of electronic commerce, known as social commerce (s-commerce). In this context, price and trust stand out as two...

Sociability is quintessential to some types of organizations, such as cafes, clubs, sports associations, gyms, bars, nightclubs, and festivals. If sociability is broadly theorized and discussed in the Social Sciences, it is indirectly, fragmentally, and diffusely considered in Organization Studies. Our study aims to theorize on the centrality of sociability within organizations by developing the concept of sociability-intensive organization and by discussing its effects in terms of...

As per the author’s request, we inform that in document “Thresholds are everywhere: A systems approach to public policy”, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-7692bar2019180106, published in BAR - Brazilian Administration Review, 16(3), e180106, the correct affiliation of author Giuliana Isabella is Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa.

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Giuliana Isabella^1
1Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP,...

Editorial policy committee
Jay Barney (University of Utah, USA)
Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini (UFPB, Brazil)
Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneiro (FGV/SP, Brazil)
S. Tamer Cavusgil (Georgia State University, USA)
Pervez Ghauri (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sérgio Giovanetti Lazzarini (Insper, Brazil)
Bryan Husted (York University, Canada, and ITESM, Mexico)
Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada (UFRGS, Brazil)
Maria José Tonelli (FGV/SP, Brazil)
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