Firm Resources And Sustained Competitive Advantage

Orientadora: Denise Lima FLECK. Rio de Janeiro : UFRJ/COPPEAD, 2006. Dissertação (Mestrado em Administração). This dissertation involves a 10 decades study about São Paulo Alpargatas history, the most traditional company in the Brazilian textile and shoes industry. Founded in 1907 as a subsidiary of Fábrica Argentina de Alpargatas, the company had the majority of its voting shares bought by Brazilians investors in 1948. Nowadays, being controlled by Camargo Corrêa Group, São Paulo Alpargatas is

to evaluate success and compare organizations. In fact, how bigger is an organization, the greater are the possibilities to benefit from the available opportunities in the environment and the greater are chances to neutralize impending threats. However, size also provokes side effects. Inspired in the framework proposed by Fleck (2007), which relates organizational institutionalization and long term success, this study intends, analogically, to connect organizational size and success. It aims to

Urikagina. 29 ADAMS, Charles. For good and evil: the impact of taxes on the course of civilization. 2nd ed. United States: Madison Books, 2001. p. 1-2. Revela o autor: “Taxes are the fuel that makes civilization run. There is no known civilizations that did not tax. The first civilization we know anything about began six thousand years ago in Sumer, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq. The dawn of history, and tax history, is recorded on clay…

histórico próprio, bem como das pressões dos interesses imperialistas. Palavras-chave: China; Civilização; Natureza e Sociedade. The natural and social basis of Chinese civilization. Abstract:The Chinese civilization considering its own geographical and historical panorama as well as the pressure of imperialist interests. Keywords: China; civilization; nature and society. I – Introdução ao enigma chinês 1. Os contatos entre Ocidente e Oriente datam da Antigüidade. Heródoto, pai…