“…The competitiveness of the business marketplace in Brazil nonetheless is generally considered to have steadily improved in recent decades, as a result of liberalization in trade and macroeconomic policies, partial privatization of SOEs, increased investments in Brazil by inbound MNCs, and the emergence of entrepreneurs. The scale and complexity of the market in Brazil has enabled managers to evolve from earlier characterizations—such as hierarchical and reactive—toward an intriguing set of management skills that now include significant experience with people, processes, and structures in a competitive market enduring cyclical swings (Fleury & Fleury, ; Font, ; Parente, Cyrino, Spohr, & de Vasconcelos, ).…”