The Firm

Corporate Finance and the Financial Environment In a beauty contest for companies, the winner is . . . General Electric. 11 Or at least General Electric is the most admired company in America, according to Fortune magazine’s annual survey. The other top ten finalists are Cisco Systems, WalMart Stores, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Home Depot, Berkshire Hathaway, Charles Schwab, Intel, and Dell Computer. What do these companies have that separates them from the rest of the pack?…

Chain Management M. Eric Johnson David F. Pyke The Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 603 (646) 2136 July 27, 1999 1 Introduction Supply chain management (SCM) is the term used to describe the management of the flow of materials, information, and funds across the entire supply chain, from suppliers to component producers to final assemblers to distribution (warehouses and retailers), and ultimately to the consumer.1 In fact, it often includes…

escolhida para arranjar, dispor ou classificar dados, informações, documentos, estruturas ou entidades. Tipos de sistemas nas organizações (empresas) INFORMAÇÃO Dados – Data - Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use. Data Element - A field. Informação - Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to…

A PROJECT-BASED VIEW OF THE LINK BETWEEN STRATEGY, STRUCTURE AND LEAN CONSTRUCTION Antonio N. de Miranda Filho1, Luiz F. M. Heineck2 and Jorge Moreira da Costa3 ABSTRACT Currently, there is a good understanding that companies do not obtain satisfactory results when lean practices are implemented alone. The benefits can only be realized by making a substantial number of organizational changes, which in turn need to be coherent with the business strategy. However, contextual factors drive…

Read the text below and do the following tasks: a) Find 3 (three) examples of verbs in the Simple Past in which there is a definite time expression related to the past b) Find 3 (three) examples of Simple Present referring to factual information c) Find 2 two examples of modal verbs II. Read the text below and answer: a) What is your opinion about the Chinese government´s censorship concerning people´s access to social networking ? b) What kind of censorship is there in China concerning the uses

explicitly communicating what makes your firm unique, you can dramatically improve employee engagement and performance. www.hbrreprints.org What It Means to Work Here by Tamara J. Erickson and Lynda Gratton Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 What It…

competitive advantage, many firms encounter difficulties when they attempt to identify and assess those competencies. Specific competencies are often ambiguous to managers, and individual perceptions of a firm’s competencies may vary significantly. This lack of specificity may mask significant misunderstanding and confusion about competencies. When this misunderstanding or confusion occurs among middle managers who are responsible for the day-to-day management of these competencies, the…

exploração dos referênciais teóricas citadas e validação do framework em pesquisa de campo. Referências ALBAHARI, Alberto; CATALANO, Giuseppe; LANDONI, Paolo. Evaluation of national science park systems: a theoretical framework and its application to the Italian and Spanish systems. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. vol. 25. No. 5. p. 599–614, 2013. ANPROTEC, Associação Nacional de Entidades Promotoras de Empreendimentos Inovadores. Portfolio dos Parques Tecnológicos…

During the past years, the competitive and organizational behavior of small and medium-sized companies have changed dramatically. International New Ventures, firms that, from the inception, try to take competitive advantage from the use of resources and the sale of outputs in multiple countries, are now very relevant in international business. Implicit is that size is not relevant, only the age of the firm. Using a conceptual framework strongly influenced by theories based on…

Based on the theoretical background generated by the Nordic School of International Business, research on the process of internationalization of the Brazilian firms has been developed, looking for points of convergence between the Swedish and the Brazilian modes of expansion of the firms beyond the borders. The present paper analyses the main ideas of that school, as well as to present empirical evidences extracted from research on the internationalization process of the Brazilian firm,…