Brazilian Administration Review - BAR

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Latest documents

• Editorial.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018
• The Relationship between Sentiment and Risk in Financial Markets.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018
• Sponsor Bias in Pension Fund Administrative Expenses: The Brazilian Experience.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018
• Cultural Meanings and Consumers' Discourses about Their Brand Abandonment.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018
• Responsible Leadership Research: A Bibliometric Review.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018
• Editorial.
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 1, January - October 2017
• Analysts' Consensus and Target Price Accuracy: A Study in Latin America.
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 1, January - October 2017
• Analysts' Consensus and Target Price Accuracy: A Study in Latin America
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 4, October 2017

  Market analysts, by means of issuance of their opinions (earnings per share, target prices, and recommendations), have been the object of several earlier studies. Previous literature identifies analysts as information intermediaries between companies and investors, and identifies their role in reducing the information asymmetry. This study investigates whether the estimated standard deviations of price-target shares issued by capital market analysts are informative, and ascertains whether it is possible to identify smaller errors in analysts’ forecasts from the verification of the consensus among them. The study is carried out in Latin American countries, and relies on a database of 23,367 estimates of target-price shares during the period from October 2010 to January 2017. It also take...

• Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects.
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 1, January - October 2017
• Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 4, October 2017

  The literature about collaboration for innovation has reported fundamental activities performed by intermediaries. In this paper, universities’ technology transfer offices (TTOs) are placed as intermediaries between academic research and the industry. Our study focuses on collaborative research and development (R&D) projects between universities and industry in order to understand the roles of TTOs throughout the whole duration of the project. The main aim of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the United Kingdom. Through qualitative case studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil, the analyses show that both TTOs performed critical activities for collaborative R&D projects...

Featured documents

• Rhetorical Strategies of Consumer Activists: Reframing Market Offers to Promote Change
  • Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, October - October 2013

  Consumer researchers have most frequently looked at the influence the marketplace has on consumers’ identity projects, while the reverse process - how consumers’ identity projects influence the marketplace and general culture - is an important issue that has received less attention. Aiming to...

• Transformational Leaders and Work Performance: The Mediating Roles of Identification and Self-efficacy
  • Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, October - October 2013

  In this study we investigate the connections between transformational leadership and subordinate formal and contextual performance among Brazilian employees. We also proposed and tested two mediating processes through which transformational leaders would enhance the performance of their staff:...

• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace? An Essay on Whistleblowing and its Interfaces with the Brazilian Culture
  • Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, October - October 2013

  Since the last decade corporate scandals have drawn public attention to the importance of whistleblowers, resulting in the creation of policies and statutes which rely heavily on whistleblowing, especially in the United States. A common assumption behind these efforts is that whistleblowing...

• Relationships and partnerships in small companies: strengthening the business through external agents.
  • Vol. 13 Nbr. 1, January 2016
• Analysts' Consensus and Target Price Accuracy: A Study in Latin America
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 4, October 2017

  Market analysts, by means of issuance of their opinions (earnings per share, target prices, and recommendations), have been the object of several earlier studies. Previous literature identifies analysts as information intermediaries between companies and investors, and identifies their role in...

• Economic incentives or communication: how different are their effects on trust.
  • Vol. 13 Nbr. 3, July - July 2016
• Organizational decline research review: Challenges and issues for a future research agenda.
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, April 2017
• Drawing the Triangle: How Coaches Manage Ambiguities Inherited in Executive Coaching.
  • Vol. 14 Nbr. 1, January - October 2017
• Gender and work: representations of femininities and masculinities in the view of women Brazilian executives.
  • Vol. 10 Nbr. 3, July - July 2013
• The Relationship between Sentiment and Risk in Financial Markets.
  • Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, January 2018