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de Almeida RA Veiga MM de Castro Moura Duarte FJ Meirelles LA Veiga LB 《Work (Reading, Mass.)》2012,41(Z1):4979-4982
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is considered the last preferred solution to an Occupational Safety Health (OSH) system. Brazilian OSH legislation assumes and requires PPE usage to neutralize the possibility of pesticide contamination. This study examines the inadequacy of the PPE used in a tomato crop, particularly from the standpoint of thermal comfort. This study made observations regarding heart rate and body temperature in a controlled environment using a treadmill (with and without PPE) of 12 volunteers; and during the process of rural labor (at rest and in normal work routine) of 2 actual rural workers. Comparing the results of the treadmill test (with and without PPE) which tried to reproduce the same level of effort and environmental conditions of the actual rural work, this study demonstrated that PPE makes thermoregulation harder and tympanic temperature reaches higher values with the same level of effort. Moreover, body temperature increases quickly: with PPE it took 15 minutes to raise 1°C in body temperature, compared to 40 minutes without PPE. The results of this study indicated that the use inadequate PPE might pose thermoregulation risk to rural workers. 相似文献
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Ronaldo Parente Byeongyong Paul Choi Arjen H.L. Slangen Sonia Ketkar 《Journal of International Management》2010,16(3):275-287
Service firms play an increasingly important role in the global economy. However, the internationalization strategies of such firms, and especially their distribution system choices, have been underexplored in the international management literature. One specific service industry that has internationalized rapidly in recent years is the insurance industry. This paper examines the determinants and performance implications of the choice by international insurance firms between two rival distribution systems: direct writing and independent sales agents. Drawing on the transaction cost theory-based literature on resource commitment, control, and risk, we develop hypotheses on the determinants of the choice between these two distribution systems and on the performance implications of this choice for insurance firms. Analyzing a sample of 168 distribution entries into the United States by insurance firms from six foreign countries over the 1992–2000 period, we find that cultural distance has a U-shaped effect on the probability of direct writing, and that an insurer's intangible assets have a positive effect on this probability. We also find that the direct writing system performs better in terms of profitability, but that the independent agency system performs better in terms of market share growth. 相似文献
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Ronaldo C. Parente Daniel W. Baack Eugene D. Hahn 《Journal of International Management》2011,(4):278-290
Little research has examined how international firms' operations strategies affect dynamic capability creation or how cultural distance affects operations management. This study addresses these gaps by bridging the work on dynamic capabilities, two operations management techniques (product modularization and supplier integration) and cultural distance. Using a sample of 111 Brazilian automobile suppliers, the study finds that new product development is marginally increased by product modularization but decreased by supplier integration. Cultural distance negatively moderated these relationships. This research extends the dynamic capabilities literature and indicates that operations management strategy is an important part of the dynamic capability formation process. 相似文献
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It is now widely accepted that another world is possible,as the negative 1990s came to an end and with them the notionthat there is no alternative. But there has been little attemptto date to flesh out what that alternative might be, to concretisethe vision to put it that way. This book is both 相似文献
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This paper presents a case study of the application of user centered design methodologies in the product development for a line of ergonomic office furniture. The study aimed to analyze the experience of using a workstation from the perspective of two groups of users, installers and end users. The observation of users in their natural context of use not only allowed the development team to identify key needs and strategies of the users, transforming them into design solutions, but mainly it warned them of the importance and impact of user involvement in the product development cycle. 相似文献
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Spritzer DT Rohde LA Benzano DB Laranjeira RR Pinsky I Zaleski M Caetano R Tavares H 《Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming》2011,27(4):649-661
The objectives of the study are: (a) to provide the first prevalence estimates of pathological gambling among Brazilian adolescents
using an age-specific instrument in a nationally representative sample; (b) to investigate the extent to which adolescents
participate in gambling activities in a developing country; and (c) to correlate different levels of gambling behavior with
demographic variables. Multistage cluster sampling selected 3,007 individuals over 14 years of age from Brazilian household
population. A total of 661 participants were between 14 and 17 years old. The Lie/Bet Questionnaire and the DSM-IV-MR-J were
used for assessing problem and pathological gambling. 2.8% scored positive on the screening questionnaire, while 1.6% were
classified as problem and pathological gamblers. Factors associated with problem and pathological gambling were male sex,
not currently studying and considering religion as not important. Less than 4 months elapsed between the age of regular gambling
involvement and the first gambling problem. Prevalence rates were quite similar from recent studies which used nationally
representative samples. The association of problem and pathological gambling with male sex, school drop-out and low religiosity
supports the Problem Behavior Theory. The fast progression to problem gambling adds evidence that adolescents may be more
vulnerable to the effects of gambling. 相似文献
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Ronaldo C. Parente José-Mauricio G. Geleilate Ke Rong 《Journal of International Management》2018,24(1):52-64
Sharing economy firms have been able to achieve global levels of success at an unprecedented pace. In this study, we focus specifically on internet-based firms that allow rent appropriation from temporary utilization of underutilized assets. By looking at these firms' main characteristics and the current dynamics revolving around their internationalization process, we develop a framework to guide future research drawing from a business ecosystems perspective. The business ecosystem approach is a promising theoretical lens to assess this phenomenon due to its more holistic view of multisided network effects and multiple stakeholders' participation that can vary across nations. We note that the sharing economy phenomenon has spurred worldwide adoption of platform businesses which, in turn, creates a great opportunity for future research to extend current theories by exploring why, when, and how these firms expand into new countries. We argue that further research on sharing economy firms and its interactions with different national ecosystem configurations can provide important insights to theory as well as relevant information to managers and policymakers. 相似文献
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Munck Ronaldo 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2002,13(4):349-361
Is the concept of “global civil society” a Sorelian-type myth that captures intuitively an emergent political project? Or is it, rather, a discursive political terrain open to many interpretations, not all of which might be progressive? A radical democratic content would be one way of filling out the “empty signifier,” which “global civil society” is, but not the only one.
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