Suchergebnisse

Resumen
Al inicio del siglo XXI, las relaciones sino-brasileñas se han vuelto cada vez más estrechas. Este estudio consiste en una comparación entre el desarrollo de la cooperación sino-brasileña durante el mandato de Lula y el de Bolsonaro con el fin de evaluar las influencias de las diferentes orientaciones de políticas del gobierno brasileño sobre los intercambios mencionados. Evaluando factores domésticos de Brasil e internacionales como variables, este estudio se enfoca en las dinámicas que impulsan la cooperación entre China y Brasil en los dos periodos mencionados y revela que las relaciones económicas entre los dos países emergentes muestra cierta resiliencia a pesar de la existencia de una serie de desafíos.

AbstractResearch Question/IssueDo institutions reinforce each other when it comes to shaping the economic and organizational environment? We investigate national institutional complementarities by examining how different types of institutions jointly influence the occurrence of hostile takeover attempts, a practice in corporate governance whose frequency differs across countries. We distinguish among regulative, normative, and cultural‐cognitive institutions and examine how they interact to influence the occurrence of hostile takeover attempts worldwide.Research Findings/InsightsUsing panel data on hostile takeover activity of 45 countries between 1988 and 2016, we find evidence supporting the impact of institutions individually and of institutional complementarities.Theoretical/Academic ImplicationsThis study shows that important corporate governance practices such as hostile takeover attempts are indeed influenced by different aspects of institutional environment. It thus helps us better understand the effectiveness of corporate governance practice across different countries.Practitioner/Policy ImplicationsThis study sheds new light on policies facilitating certain corporate governance practice such as hostile takeovers. It also provides managers with a tool to analyze the prevalence of hostile takeovers in a country.

We investigated the prevalence of Chinese children's imaginary companions (ICs) and the internal variables of IC types (personified object or invisible friend) and child–IC relationship qualities (egalitarian or hierarchical child–IC relationship). Participants were 266
children aged 4 to 6 years. Only in the 5-year-old group was the proportion of children with ICs significantly higher among girls than among boys, implying that the relationship between gender and IC was not consistent across age groups. Children from families in the highest annual income
group engaged in more IC play than did children from families in the lowest annual income group, indicating a relationship between family socioeconomic environment and children's imaginary play. IC types were not associated with child–IC relationship qualities in any of the age groups,
implying that these qualities may represent different dimensions of IC play as early as 4 years old.