Nelson Furquim

This study aimed at searching the Brazilian beef production chain actors perception about SISBOV and the consequences that traceability system has brought to the Brazilian beef producers exporting to the EU. For that purpose it was used the Collective Subject Discourse qualiquantitative methodology, tool that allows making it known the collective opinion about a specific subject. The survey was based upon a sample of thirty-four persons, both genders, most of them with a high level of education, belonging to five different categories of actors related to the cattle production in Brazil: farmers, slaughterhouses, certifying companies, class associations and governmental regulatory organizations. Results have shown that SISBOV is perceived as a feasible traceability system for wealthier farmers dealing with exports, considering the critical costs for certifying the farms without revenue guarantee, due to the slaughterhouses monopoly power. As an advantage, SISBOV is perceived as a bet...

Beef is an important segment in the Brazilian agribusiness, with high share in the country exports value. This article aims at a discussion about the consistency of the Brazilian legislation that supports the Cattle and Buffalo Identification and Certification System (SISBOV), compared to the legislation of some pioneering countries that have been using identification and traceability systems in food production

The purpose of this study was to discuss how the innovation and internationalization strategies adopted by a multinational group have impacted its corporate growth process. The historical and geographical contexts were also considered and influenced that process. The strategies used for the introduction of the firm in the Brazilian market were also approached. . For carrying out the study, the starting point was a theoretical review of the growth, innovation and internationalization of firms. As far as the study empirical approach was concerned, it was considered the Geberit Group acting on the sanitary technology market, with the objective of analyzing the impact of the various strategies adopted by the firm in its expansion process. From the analysis of the firm evolution process, it was observed that the group growth happened through diversification strategies (CHANDLER, 1990), applying the use of offensive innovation strategies (FREEMAN e SOETE, 1999). As far as growth through i...

O Grupo Votorantim tem a sua evolucao ao longo do seculo XX e inicio do seculo XXI marcada por fases bastante definidas de constituicao, expansao, consolidacao e internacionalizacao dos negocios. O presente trabalho objetiva fazer uma analise das diferentes fases do processo evolutivo do Grupo e a sua relacao com abordagens feitas por estudiosos de Teorias da Firma e Modelos de Negocios, alem de analisar o seu processo de internacionalizacao. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo do historico do Grupo e das suas diferentes fases de evolucao, desde a sua constituicao, ate os dias atuais. A analise do historico mostra que o processo evolutivo do Grupo Votorantim e caracterizado por estrategias de crescimento e diversificacao, inovacao e uso de tecnologias, conforme abordagens apresentadas por Chandler e Penrose. O processo de internacionalizacao do Grupo Votorantim segue os preceitos pontuados por Hagedoorn e Dunning, envolvendo estrategias de expansao, diversificacao e crescimento de m...

Este libro se deriva de el trabajo de doctorado del Prof. Dr. Nelson R. Furquim, bajo la direccion de la Profa. Dra. Denise C. Cyrillo, defendido en la Universidad de Sao Paulo (USP), Brasil. Es un libro contemporaneo, con contribuciones cientificas actuales de gran valor para estudiantes y tecnicos interesados ​​en estas areas de conocimiento. Siendo Brasil uno de los mayores productores y exportadores mundiales de carne bovina, el tema "trazabilidad" en la cadena productiva de ese alimento surge como importante objeto de discusion. Cabe senalar que el alcance del estudio es amplio: para los academicos, ya sean profesores, investigadores o estudiantes; ejecutivos de empresas de agronegocios y de los diversos niveles de gobierno; consultores y partes interesadas generales en economia y administracion de agronegocios, tecnologia de carne y productos carnicos, ingenieria, medicina veterinaria, nutricion, agronomia y otras areas relacionadas de conocimiento. El libro tambien ...

In the process of searching for problems solutions through sustainable and collective postures, innovation with an economic and social approach may arise. The purpose of this study was to investigate the population perception about bicycle lanes as an alternative to public transportation in São Paulo city. The study involved the qualitative and quantitative methodology of the Discourse of the Collective Subject (DCS), allowing the identification of common sense opinions about a certain subject or a phenomenon, obtained from the answers or comments of a group of individuals. Analysis of the comments involved selecting their key expressions (KE), identifying the central ideas (CI) of each key expression, and building up the DCS. The author conducted the survey with a convenience, nonprobabilistic sample of 73 economical actors (youngsters older than eighteen years old, adults and elderly people, both genders) around Avenida Paulista, during October and November 2015, using a structure...