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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Research Summary Using detailed plant‐ and individual‐level data from a major Japanese cotton spinning company in the early 20th century, we examine the within‐firm allocation of skilled human capital in conjunction with investment in physical capital, accompanying the firm's evolving strategic priorities.
Shotaro Yamaguchi +3 more
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The Prosopography of the Brazilian Empire
Latin American Research Review, 1978 An increasing amount of research has been undertaken in the last decade on the power structure of the Empire of Brazil (1822–89). In common with similar work on the rest of Latin America, many of the studies on Brazil have adopted the concept of the elite for their theoretical framework.
Roderick Barman, Jean Barman
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Amnis, 2012 Within the framework of the « Atlantic history », this paper aims at studying the migrations and movements between the new Empire of Brazil, funded in 1822, and France during the Bourbon Restoration.
Delphine Diaz
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E-learning success determinants: Brazilian empirical study [PDF]
Computers & Education, 2018 Abstract E-learning is a web-based learning ecosystem for the dissemination of information, communication, and knowledge for education and training. Understanding the impact of e-learning on society, as well as its benefits, is important to link e-learning systems to their success drivers.
Wilmar Audye Cidral +3 more
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Survival of New Firms in the Brazilian Franchising Segment: An Empirical Study [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper investigates the survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms for the period 1994–1999. First, we considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. Survival functions were obtained by means of the Kaplan–Meier estimator for the selected sectors and they indicated sharp declines in the survival ...
Luis Otávio Facanha +3 more
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Um mar de heranças: a importância do Atlântico na configuração do Império do Brasil [PDF]
Navigator, 2012 This paper aims to understand the relationship between the Portuguese empire and the pathways of the sea, pointing out the advantages and challenges of the management of a maritime monopoly.
Luana de Amorim Donin
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Brazil and the Afro-Asian World: a Decolonial Approach
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2022 The Brazilian path to political emancipation that culminated two centuries ago was a rather peculiar one. After becoming the head of the Portuguese empire in 1808, Brazil became an independent country under the rule of the same royal family that governed
Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2009 The Empire of Brazil has a significant place in Juan Bautista Alberdi’s published and unpublished works. This paper studies the mode of inscription of Brazilian presence in Alberdi’s writings about the Paraguayan War, specifically in the letters sent to
Lucila Pagliai
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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2017 Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, by David Sartorius. Duke University Press, 2013. Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, by Peter M. Beattie.
Evan C. Rothera
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