• 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 ...
    • Competências para internacionalização em empresas agroindustriais: estudos de caso em frigoríficos brasileiros 

      Santos, Alexandre Borges (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção - PPGEP, Câmpus São Carlos, 23/07/2018)
      The literature on corporate internationalization has a solid theoretical background, the result of long years of intense debate based on studies mostly carried out with multinational enterprises from developed countries. ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...