Desempenho das empresas brasileiras: efeitos ano, ramo de negócios e firma individual



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Luiz Artur Ledur Brito
Flávio Carvalho de Vasconcelos

Abstract

Performance varies. The simple statement hides many intricacies of strategic management. Because performance varies among individual firms, researchers can explore factors that differentiate these firms and explain why some firms are consistently outperforming others. Because performance varies among industries, researchers can explore structural characteristics of different branches accounting as a source of explanation. Because performance varies with time, researchers can explore environmental and internal dynamic elements that drive strategic decision-making. In reality, measuring and analyzing performance is a very complicated issue when performance varies simultaneously from firm to firm, from industry to industry and from year to year. The theoretical discussion behind this question is the relative importance of the industrial organization derived approach to strategy versus the resource-based view. This paper analyzes the composition of performance variance of a set of Brazilian firms during 1998 to 2001. Results demonstrate that firm effects are still dominant, with year and industry effects being smaller as previous studies with North American firms have indicated.

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Brito, L. A. L., & Vasconcelos, F. C. de. (1). Desempenho das empresas brasileiras: efeitos ano, ramo de negócios e firma individual. Journal of Contemporary Administration, 9(spe1), 65-85. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-65552005000500004
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Luiz Artur Ledur Brito, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Doutorando em administração de empresas pela EAESP-FGV, graduado em Engenharia Química pela UFGRS. Professor do departamento de Operações da EAESP-FGV. Suas áreas de interesse em pesquisa são estratégia e operações.

Flávio Carvalho de Vasconcelos, Ecole dês Hautes Etudes Commerciales

Doutor em administração de empresas pela HEC-Ecole dês Hautes Etudes Commerciales /Paris, mestrado e graduação pela EAESP-FGV. Professor do departamento de Administração Geral e Recursos Humanos da EAESP-FGV. Suas áreas de interesse em pesquisa são estratégia e teoria organizacional.