Este artigo apresenta o resultado da pesquisa sobre ?O Futuro da Moda em Santa Catarina?. Os resultados apresentados correspondem a uma pesquisa DELPHI realizada com especialistas do setor, compostos por empresários e acadêmicos. O objetivo fundamental foi o de identificar o cenário...

O declínio organizacional é um tema importante e pouco estudado. No limite o declínio leva à falência das empresas. Seu estudo é importante para a melhor compreensão por parte dos executivos dos fatores que podem colocar suas organizações em risco. O estudo do declínio, entretanto, é...

Jay Barney?s contribution to the current status of the Resource-Based View (RBV) is well accepted, in particular his 1991 article on ?Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage? has been acknowledged as one of the most significant contributions to developing the RBV. The RBV has since...

This paper advances on the importance of the adaptation of the firm to the International Business Environment (IBE). The IBE is a distinguishing factor in international business studies and the firm?s adaptation to the environment has been presented as a basic survival strategy. We argue that...

We have witnessed a fast growth in academic interest on entrepreneurship over the past two to three decades, although at disparate paces in different countries. A wealth of papers presented and published, books, dedicated journals, websites, professional and research groups have emerged...

As motivações para a internacionalização das empresas devem influenciar a selecção dos modos de entrada nos mercados externos. Neste artigo usamos a classificação de John Dunning (1993) que distingue quatro motivos - procura de mercado, de recursos, de eficiência e de recursos...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms undertake their domestic and international strategies. This bibliometric review examines the extant research on M&As in the top five strategic management journals during a ten years period ? from 2000 to 2009. The 90...

Well known and reputable corporations, not only the small entrepreneurial firms, also face organizational decline and failure. Albeit organizational decline is a reality, there is a notable scarcity of research on the topic. Organizational decline is more often studied in small companies and...

This article focuses on the organizational decline and, more specifically, the evolution of a selected group of Brazilian companies that were included in the Largest and Best ranking of Exame magazine in the period between 1974 and 2006. Our descriptive analysis shows two main effects: firstly a...