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Unveiling Regional Disparities: Exploring Cybersecurity Capabilities and Performance Through Systems Theory Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between cybersecurity capabilities (CCs) and cybersecurity performance (CP) across diverse regional contexts, employing ordinary least squares (OLS) and random forest (RF) regression models. The research highlights how economic, political and cultural factors shape CCs and their impact on CP ...
Angélica Pigola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Further Considerations Needed to Assess Reshoring: Its Impact on Host Communities

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After several decades of offshoring, reshoring is becoming an emergent strategy in many countries and industries. Both governments compel firms to reshore their production to their home countries as firms find, in some cases, that it is more profitable for them to do so.
Fernando Merino
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Brazilian Intelligence in the Geopolitics of Grandeza (1964-2002)

open access: yesEstudios Políticos, 2019
Lejos de lo que la mayoría de los estudiosos han asumido, bajo el régimen autoritario (1964-1985) Brasil no se limitó a la importación de conceptos anticomunistas de Estados Unidos, sino que desarrolló una conceptualización propia que buscaba transformar
Gisela da Silva Guevara
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Xenocentric Mindset: Cultural and Personality Drivers Behind Consumer Preferences

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 906-922, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the psychological and cultural dimensions that influence consumer xenocentrism in Brazil and Iran, focusing on horizontal–vertical individualism–collectivism and the “Big Five” personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect/imagination.
José I. Rojas‐Méndez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From commercial marketing to electoral marketing: candidates’ attributes in the perception of Brazilian and American voters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study investigates attributes that influence the vote in different socioeconomic contexts (Brazil/USA). Our results show an asymmetric effect of candidates’ attributes on voters’ decision.
Mainardes, Emerson   +3 more
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Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 134-144, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's External Financing Commission (COFIEX), a centralized body that approves all public‐sector external borrowing and exemplifies efforts in middle‐income democracies to reconcile fiscal restraint with the demands of strategic public investment.
Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause
wiley   +1 more source

A representação imagética de Lula e Collor no jornal Voz da Unidade durante o segundo turno da eleição de 1989

open access: yesCaminhos da História
Neste artigo analisei cinco edições do periódico Voz da Unidade, do Partido Comunista Brasileiro, publicadas entre o primeiro e o segundo turno da eleição presidencial brasileira de 1989. Através desse corpus compreendi como o jornal construiu as imagens
Juliana Santos de Matos
doaj   +1 more source

Reformas Liberais e Descentralização no Brasil (1990-2002): a atuação do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES)

open access: yesAnos 90, 2012
Entre os anos de 1990 a 2002, sob os mandatos de Fernando Collor de Mello e Fernando Henrique Cardoso – resguardando o interregno do governo Itamar Franco – o Brasil deu início e aprofundou os processos de reformas liberais. Apesar de aderir tardiamente
Vico Melo
doaj   +1 more source

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