This research investigates managerial risk perception regarding internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Brazilian context. We examine how managers' perception of risk influences firms' degrees of internationalization. Likewise, we assessed how risk perception is influenced by managers' cognitive traits, such as tolerance for ambiguity and cognitive style. We provided empirical evidence for the relationships we proposed through a partial least squares structural equation model with data gathered from a survey of 149 SMEs from the State of Paraná, Brazil. Our results suggest that managers' tolerance for ambiguity is only significant for explaining risk perception for the managers with a preference for a deliberative style. Still, the research suggests that the Brazilian SMEs in our sample presented a higher degree of internationalization even when their managers perceived higher levels of risk.
The formation of networks comprising firms and stakeholders from the communication industry with the environments of interest for this economic activity is noticed as a topic of interest in the area. Thus, this article proposes to map and analyse the social interactions in the Brazilian cinematographic production and distribution, presenting network relations as a way of management of the economic actors operating in the Brazilian cinema industry. Data were gathered through information available in the Brazilian Observatory for Cinema and Audio-visual about Brazilian movies released between 1995 and 2015. As results, it was verified that in this period were released 1,251 movies, being identified 613 producers and 218 distributors. Only 53 producers were involved in co-productions and only 137 movies were co-distributed. Through the analysis of the social network structural measures, it was possible to verify that the Brazilian cinematographic market is concentrated and has few relations of cooperation.
This article aims to construct and validate an instrument for measuring the factors of organizational culture that influence cooperation in technological innovation between research institutes and firms, nominated "Evaluation of Organizational Culture for Cooperation in Technological Innovation (EOC-CTI)", applied to the reality of Brazilian organizations. The sample was composed of 324 respondents from 58 large and medium firms and 41 public and private research institutes, from various locations in Brazil. The method adopted was the Exploratory Factor Analysis. Among the main contributions, an instrument that expands the discussions about the values and management practices for cooperation in technological innovation based on organizational culture is proposed. For firms and research institutes, there is the proposition of values and systematic management practices that contribute to the achievement of results through cooperation in technological innovation.
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