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A preocupação com a responsabilidade social está cada vez mais presente nas organizações e pode contemplar tanto questões internas como externas. A inclusão de pessoas com deficiência está relacionada com a política de responsabilidade social das empresas e se tornou além de uma questão social, consistindo em uma exigência legal. O presente estudo visa compreender e identificar a percepção dos colaboradores com deficiência em relação ao processo de inclusão em uma das maiores indústrias de cerâmica da América Latina. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como exploratória e adotou como método o estudo de caso. Os principais resultados revelaram que há uma boa percepção por parte dos colaboradores em relação ao processo de inclusão na empresa e foram destacados pontos favoráveis, tais como oportunidade e valorização. Por outro lado, ainda há algumas questões a serem melhoradas, principalmente em relação a infraestrutura e ao processo de inclusão. Contudo, mesmo sendo identificadas algumas dificuldades, os colaboradores se sentem satisfeitos em trabalhar na empresa.

The ReA/UFSM is gaining its place in academiaas an important vehicle for dissemination of publications in the business area. In this sense, this study aimed at analyzing the scientific publications of ReA/UFSM, in the period from 2008 to 2011. Thus, we analyzed all papers published in the periodic, in the last four years, representing 113 studies. Among the main results, it was found that the papers analyzed are mostly empirical, exploratory in nature, with qualitative approach predominantly. The analyzed data allow present an overview of the publications of ReA/UFSM, in the period from 2008 to 2011, enabling to defined new perspectives and challenges for the periodic.

This study was conducted to develop an understanding of how the adoption of sustainable management strategies influences the export performance of Brazilian industrial companies internationalized in the gems and jewelry industry. The sustainable strategies were evaluated based on the adaptation of Battelle American Institute's strategic model as presented by Placet et al. (2005, Research‐Technology Management, 48, 32–41), which notably considers innovation as a perspective as it addresses the interactions of the economic, social, and environmental aspects that are reflected in a company and in society. The surveyed companies’ export performances were analyzed based on an adaptation of a model by Papadopoulos and Martín (2010, International Business Review, 19, 388–406), which develops and tests a formative measure of export performance and identifies and quantifies the relative contribution of its consequences within the economic and strategic dimensions. The research consisted of a descriptive study, and it was also characterized as quantitative research through the application of a survey. Data were analyzed using univariate and bivariate analysis. It was possible to observe which dimensions of sustainable development influenced the export performance of the companies in the gems and jewelry industry and to establish significant correlations. The results may contribute to a better understanding of this industry, which has been contributing to Brazil's positive balance of the trade on a yearly basis. The companies surveyed are in the early stages of internationalization. The changes that accrue to industrial companies undergoing internationalization in this sector can be perceived, and they have an influence on the strategic management and growth of these companies.

The objective of this work is to analyze the production of publications on the theme of ethics and social responsibility from 2006 to 2016 based on the scientific citation indexing service, the Web of Science (WOS), through a descriptive, quantitative, and bibliometric study. This study, which considered 2,610 documents, sought to identify the authors, the types of documents (books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings), the titles of the sources, the research areas, the year published, institutions with which authors were affiliated, languages in which the documents were published, and the countries of these publications. The greatest number of documents was published in the United States, with the overwhelming majority 93.43% of publications written in the English language. The source of the greatest number of documents was the Journal of Business Ethics, and the main research area was business economics. Researchers also observed that, in the 71 publications with the greatest number of citations referenced in the researched topic, the top three authors were Guido Palazzo, with 1,730 citations, Andreas Georg Scherer, with 1,352 citations, and Jeremy Moon with a total of 1,132 citations.

The family farming segment plays an important socioeconomic role in the Brazilian economy. Its development is a precondition for a more economically efficient and just society. Family farming contributes to promoting rural development insofar as it constitutes an alternative to the major problems affecting the rural environment and its population. In this context, the present study sought to evaluate sustainable practices in family farming in the Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil) using a diffuse multicriteria decision model. By applying the fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method, the most sustainable family properties were classified, demonstrating that the criteria most prioritized by the specialists were the proper disposal of waste, hiring local and regional labor, and concern over work accidents. According to our findings, the family farm that was the most aligned with sustainable practices produces yogurt‐based cheese, with about 26 years of activity in the industry. In addition, the differential in the surveyed businesses demonstrates the relevance of being aligned with practices to mitigate problems related to the environment.