Search Results - Brazil International
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South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regi...
Published 2016Subjects: “…Higher education; international relations; regionalisms; Latin America; space; international education; comparative education; Brazil; Venezuela; educational justice; equity; education reform; south-south cooperation; international cooperation; development cooperation; decentralisation; deprivatisation; education governance…”
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Trade Facilitation in Brazil: Bureaucracy and Compliance in the Port of Santos
Published 2015“…The topic of trade facilitation incorporates tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade; generally, bureaucracy is associated to red tape and treated as non-barriers to trade, particularly since most tariff barriers have been reduced as an effort of the international community to improve global trade. The focus of this study is to understand the impact of bureaucracy in the main Brazilian Port – the Port of Santos – through the eyes of firms and agents operating in Brazil and suggest ways to improve the governmental procedures. …”
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Planning a Sustainable City: The Making of Curitiba, Brazil
Published 2013“…Curitiba, Brazil, is recognized as a model of urban planning. …”
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Brazil: "Que país é esse"? : music and power in Legião Urbana
Published 2011“…The focus will be, eventually, directed to one of the most celebrated Brazilian rock phenomena, the band Legião Urbana, the impact of which still resonates across the artistic, cultural and political scene in Brazil and beyond. In order to establish the context in which such a claim can be viable, the thesis explores the ideological and historical background to the emergence, on a national, and international, stage of something beyond the artistic and cultural ‘dependence’ seing before that period within Brazilian music.…”
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinationals in Developing Countries: A Study in Brazil
Published 2006“…The results reveal that multinationals generally present lower levels of CSR adoption in Brazil than large national companies. Through the analysis of the several national and international influences which shape the nature of CSR in this particular country, this study also suggests possible reasons for different levels of CSR adoption between national companies and multinationals. …”
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Choice Of National Strategy And Industrial Organization Comparing Airframe Production Between Brazil And Japan
Published 2006“…This paper examines two reasons why the development of airframes as a national aircraft industry1 have been met with more success in Brazil than in Japan: First, Brazil's aircraft industry was nurtured by a unified government administrative structure while in Japan the same industry instead became a victim of inter-ministerial battles. …”
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An Institutional Approach to Ethical Human Resource Management Practice: Comparing Brazil, Colombia and the UK
Published 2019“…Therefore, drawing on 59 in-depth interviews with HR practitioners in Brazil, Colombia and the UK, this paper theorizes how they perceive the ethical dimensions of their roles within their respective national contexts and how the way they act in relation to them is informed, shaped and directed by the institutional context. …”
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International higher education and soft power in Newly Industrialised Countries 2008-2018
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Isotope and elemental geochemistry of black shale-hosted fossiliferous concretions from the Cretaceous Santana Formation fossil Lagerstätte (Brazil)
Published 2017“…Sedimentology © 2016 International Association of SedimentologistsCarbonate concretions hosted within organic carbon-rich shale sequences represent unique archives of often exceptionally preserved fossil biota. …”
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Equity of access to higher education in the context of South–South cooperation in Latin America: a pluri-scalar analysis
Published 2016Subjects: “…Brazil; Higher education; Education governance; Equity; International cooperation; MERCOSUR; Social justice; South–South cooperation; Venezuela…”
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Que Nordeste é Este? Manguebeat, Intellectuals and Popular Music in the Making of the Brazilian Nordeste
Published 2019“…Since emerging as a geographic term at the beginning of the 20th Century, Brazil's "north-east" has grown to become a socioeconomic, political and cultural term tied to the region's subaltern position in a Brazilian hegemonic power structure defined by the south-east of the country. …”
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SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic crustal granitoids (Southern Brazil): A case for discrimination of emplacement and inherited ages
Published 2005“…SHRIMP U–Pb zircon studies on two post-collisional granitic plutons and reassessment of the data previously reported for two anatectic gneissic granites are used to assess the late Neoproterozoic history of the Florianόpolis Batholith, southern Brazil. The results, supported by SEM backscattered and cathodoluminescence imagery, identify inherited zircon populations and confirm the long-lived, crustal recycling processes responsible for the accretion of the batholith. …”
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE BRAZILIAN ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR: INSTITUTIONAL, SECTORAL AND FIRM FACTORS
Published 2012“…The 14 respondent firms represent the variety of activities in which electricity companies operate in Brazil (i.e. generation, transmission, distribution, and research & development). …”
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Comparative strategic management: An emergent field in international management
Published 2011“…In this article we present an important yet understudied field in international management-comparative strategic management across nations. …”
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International Portfolio Diversification in Emerging Markets: 'A UK Perspective'
Published 2008“…The study explores key issues of international portfolio diversification by UK investors, particularly in emerging markets of India, China, Korea and Brazil. …”
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