• Eficiência dos municípios brasileiros: uma aplicação da Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA) 

      Zinidarsis, Izabel Cristina (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 20/12/2017)
      Entrepreneurship has been pointed out in literature as an important inducer of economic and social development, by creating products and services that generate wealth for a nation. However, for a locality to have entrepreneurial ...
    • Determinantes socioeconômicas da distribuição espacial de painéis fotovoltáicos residenciais no Brasil 

      Sabadini, Felipe (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 11/09/2019)
      The environmental situation demands new forms of energy generation; the current energy matrix is dependent on fossil fuels that besides its harmful potential is also a non-renewable natural resource. Sensitive to this ...
    • Blocos de construção da capacidade de absorção de países 

      Silveira, Naijela Janaina Costa (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 12/12/2019)
      In organizations, knowledge is already assumed as a strategic asset, as well as an explanatory variable for their performance and growth. Thus, it is considered that the diffusion and acquisition of knowledge determine the ...
    • Foreign direct investment, home country institutions, and local human development in Brazil 

      Silva, Eduardo Polloni (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 14/02/2020)
      Multinational companies (MNCs) are influenced by their home country institutions. But how does the interaction between home country and host region institutions affect human development in countries with significant regional ...
    • Variedade relacionada regional e a produtividade das empresas no Brasil 

      Comparini, Anaisa (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 09/10/2019)
      There is a discussion in the literature about the benefits that the regional diversity can result in the companies' productivity due to knowledge recombination, which allows greater opportunities to imitate, share and ...
    • The impact of foreign direct investment on regional economy: a Brazilian investigation 

      Gandra de Carvalho, Ana Catarina (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 15/02/2023)
      Regional Economic research shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) directly impacts the host region's economy. This debate is even more critical in emerging economies, where FDI has significant potential to increase and ...
    • Análise de eficiência de programas de pós-graduação em Engenharias III 

      Costa, Naijela Janaina da (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 09/01/2017)
      The effectiveness of Brazil's postgraduate programs is directly linked to the country's capacity for innovation, which entails the need to diagnose the causes of low academic achievement, as well as the development of ...
    • Two essays on foreign direct investment and financial market development 

      Scarpa de Mello, Diego (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 23/11/2021)
      Current literature states that Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is able to induce regional entrepreneurship in the host country. However, few studies have evaluated the interplay among FDI and Financial Market Development ...
    • Investimento estrangeiro direto, inovação regional e capacidade de absorção no Brasil 

      Cassânego, Vitor Melão (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 28/02/2023)
      Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been seen by the literature as an influential factor in the technological evolution of host-countries innovation ecosystems, with several developing nations such as Brazil aiming to ...
    • Essays on foreign direct investment, regional development and location choice 

      Silva, Eduardo Polloni (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 22/11/2023)
      Brazil is a large emerging economy that attracts numerous foreign investments, although there is no consensus on the effects of these investments or the factors influencing their location choice process. Accordingly, this ...