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This article examines the geopolitical relations in the context of the Brazil-Chile Bi-Oceanic Corridor, with a focus on the importance of Brazil and its implications for the countries involved and the region. The objective is to investigate the geopolitical implications of the project and the challenges and opportunities related to its implementation. The methodology adopted consisted of a three-stage literature research: literature review, analysis of collected data, and synthesis of results. The research results highlight Brazil's central position in the project as one of the main regional powers and its history of cooperation with neighboring countries. The Brazil-Chile Bi-Oceanic Corridor is considered a strategic project for commercial and logistical integration in South America, while also strengthening the bilateral relations between Brazil and Chile. The study also emphasizes Brazil's geopolitical significance in the context of the corridor, promoting regional integration and driving cooperation between Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance. The research concludes that the project's implementation depends on the continuity of international relations, overcoming geopolitical challenges, and implementing favorable public policies. To achieve this, Brazil needs to strengthen its relations with the countries involved and international organizations, seeking funding and support for project completion. The success of the Brazil-Chile Bi-Oceanic Corridor will bring benefits such as increased regional integration, economic development, and political stability. Brazil plays a central role in this project, strengthening its position as a regional leader, expanding its trade relations, and consolidating its influence in Latin American foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text proposes to reflect, based on a bibliographical review, on the federative model adopted in Brazil, based on some historical points, its traits of permanence, changes and the impact of this arrangement with social policies, specifically, together with Social assistance policy. We are entitled to debate the relationship of cooperation between federated entities provided for in the Federative Pact, in order to identify and understand their (in)existence in the management and execution of social policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is based on the idea of the subversive power of subaltern multiculturalism to analyze, based on the experience of its author and the selected documents, the challenges that UNILAB faces in order to constitute itself as a true university of international integration and solidary cooperation between Brazil and Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Coopetition is a relationship strategy between firms or institutions that compete and cooperate simultaneously in different areas. Coopetition occurs in several inter-organizational arrangements. This article establishes theoretical propositions about coopetition strategies based on the Consortium of Community Universities in the South of Brazil (Consórcio das Universidades Comunitárias Gaúchas - Comung), which is formed of 15 higher education institutions (HEIs) located in the South of Brazil. This article investigates a single case with multiple analysis units conducted through in loco interviews with the President of the Comung and the managers of the HEIs, along with secondary data. The results indicate that coopetition has been used as a mechanism for market protection and to gain access to unavailable resources individually from the dynamic interactions between the Comung HEIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we present the main results of a research that investigated the explanatory constructs of cooperation among the firms belonging to the Local Production Arrangement (LPA) located in Santa Rita do Sapucaí City, Minas Gerais State. Firstly, some aspects about the genesis, development and contemporary configuration of that arrangement are pointed out. Subsequently, we propose a theoretical and methodological framework that worked as a reference to provide the explanations of the relationships between the constructs of cooperation, trust and benefits, among others. Two multivariate techniques were applied to test and validate this proposal: the factor analysis and the polynomial regression. The research results showed correlations that suggest the positive perceptions of managers regarding the governance of the production arrangement, as well as the benefits from cooperation. In the managers' perception, the benefits generate individual and collective advantages for the firms surveyed. Finally, the results contradict some formulations of the theoretical-methodological framework used to explain the relationships of trust built up among the firms operating in the same territory. The results also suggest that the LPA in Santa Rita could be a good example of the relevance of two institutional elements: governance (in this case, the Union of the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Industry of Vale da Eletrônica -- SINDIVEL -- and the local government), and the mediation of educational entities which provide the qualification of the labor force and play the role of business incubators as well. It seems appropriate to attribute the LPA setting up and even its development to the role played by these entities, combined with the actions of the visionary people who were in charge of their management. Like any other research, this study has its limitations. Among others, is the cross-section of the data setting. While the study admits the relevance of taking into account the historical dynamic, it presents a punctual analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we seek to clarify how intermunicipal consortia distribute benefits and costs among their members, a relevant point to structure the willingness to cooperation between partners. Under the case study in three government areas, we identify two patterns of the systems for sharing costs and benefits. In the first, the division agreement is restricted to routine expenses of the consortium, while additional agreements with each member ensure contributions, ex post, according to the proportion of benefits enjoyed. In the second, the division agreement itself includes criteria that allow equalizing, ex ante, such contributions and benefits. In the end, we consider restrictions on functions performed by consortia in public policies, due to the reasoning by which each member pays for what it consumes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of strategic alliances through a sociological perspective as a counterpoint to prevailing economic view, which privileges a conception of rational actor in a utilitarian and contractual basis. The case study investigates the process of constitution of a strategic alliance in the hotel industry in Brazil. Interviews and documentary data were analyzed qualitatively through traditional content analysis and oral history technique. The results revealed relevant emergent sociological aspects concerning strategic alliances which formed the basis for the establishment of four analytical propositions: 1. the process of constituting strategic alliances is influenced by the activity of different interested actors distributed in the political arena, whose actions are guided not only by utilitarian expectations, but also symbolic; 2. the effort of incumbent actors to justify and legitimize a project of interorganizational cooperation and to mobilize other actors in favor of ideas and interests that are consistent with this project influences the process of constituting strategic alliances; 3. principles, categories and shared understandings of interorganizational cooperation, built on the interaction of the constituent actors with external agents, determine the formal and relational arrangements in the process of constituting strategic alliances; 4. the constitution of strategic alliances depends on how organizational actors interpret their membership as desirable or obligatory in a given social context. We conclude in favor to a complementary approach between economic perspective and sociological view in strategic alliance studies, which recognize the social embeddedness of the economic actors as well as the relevance of the institutional dimension of organizational environment. In doing so, we believe the economic approach will benefit from a more complex and comprehensive understanding of strategic alliances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The alignment of the concepts of cooperation in business associations that seek, through common goals and collective strategies, sustainable competitive advantages in the long term, based on the benefits and outcomes of the network, is the central theme of this research. To support the theoretical framework above, we sought to literature based on the following authors: Human and Provan (1997), Ebers and Jarillo (1998), Balestrin and Verschoore (2008), Powell (1998), Jarillo (1998), Castells (2012), Provan, Fish and Sydow (2007), among others. The object of study is the case of the cooperation network Redemac Building Materials. Was used for both, qualitative research techniques with in-depth interviews with three executives who participated or participate in the process of institutionalization of Redemac. The aim was to examine the formation, development, benefits and results of association of companies, which became a success in forming a cooperative network. Finally, we tried to add the vision of a shopkeeper who joined the network, observing the results from the purposes of cooperation. The results indicate that Redemac is an association of companies that achieved great success in the scenario gaucho following the collaborative paradigm in order to maximize benefits from information exchange, gains in scale, cost savings, sharing marketing, increasing the bargaining power with suppliers and thereby creating barriers to entry for new competitors, in order to make it more competitive to face the major players in the industry. Ratified, so the idea that the use of collective strategies in the sector can bring competitive advantages in the long term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dynamic capacity to innovate and cooperate and manage their attributes and dispersion interactions are essential to survival and success for start-ups originating from developing countries such as Brazil. Given this context, one has to evaluate the extent to which technological governance affects the dynamic capability of innovation and cooperation (cooperabilidade) in Brazilian multinationals (MNB). To achieve this goal, field research was conducted in two stages, the first qualitative and quantitative second. From the results of the qualitative variables were reviewed research model and refined their hypotheses, whose testing occurred in the quantitative stage. In the qualitative method used was a multiple case study, since there were three in-depth studies: Oxiteno, Braskem and Petrobras. In the quantitative stage was conducted a survey of the universe MNB, with a final sample of 60 companies responded to a structured questionnaire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of geographical concentration of companies with forest-based activities in Três Lagoas-MS and region, taking into account the main characteristics of the configuration of a cluster and its importance to the local and regional economic development. The research was conducted through a single case study, integrated with multiple units of analysis, in a qualitative and exploratory approach. Were analyzed secondary data, supplementing it with technical visits and observations in the agroindustrial complex forest industries. The research results show that there are indications of the presence of a cluster in the embryonic stage, which can be nominated as the cluster of pulp and paper-based resources and cluster type of transnational corporations. The scenario is promising to open new enterprises and diversification of production forest based, drawing on the support and encouragement of public policy development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past ten years, Brazil's foreign policy elites have made economic, political, and military cooperation with Africa one of the country's top priorities, as part of Brazil's emphasis on expanding relations within the Global South. While growing research literature has sought to analyze the norms and practices this cooperation entails, little of the current scholarship has examined its relevance to African politics. In this article, we consider the implications of Brazilian cooperation for democracy and human rights in Africa along three lines: the scope and content of Brazil's democracy promotion programs; the implications of its cooperation (official and non-official) for democracy and human rights; and its responses to political crises in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the role of collaboration networks in the production of knowledge is important and has attracted the attention of a substantial number of researchers and policy makers around the world. This paper aims to analyze the structural properties of relationship networks among Finance researchers in Brazil. By applying Social Network Analysis to data from 532 articles produced by 806 researchers between 2003 and 2012, this article's results suggest that: (a) the Brazilian environment has structural features that indicate the existence of Small Worlds; (b) a small fraction (∼3%) of researchers has regular production; (c) the higher the centrality of researchers in the network, the greater the number of articles published by them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Successive delays in launching satellites CBERS-3 and CBERS-4, together with the lack of an agreement for the continuation of China-Brazil cooperation, generate uncertainty about the future of the China Brazil Earth Resources Satellites Program (CBERS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study, holding as background the conflicts that involve the environment, analyzes the fraternity principle, from the perspective of the theory proposed by Baggio, concluding that the official pattern of environmental litigations composition that exist in Brazil --solidified by the obsolete monopoly of Judiciary-- consolidated on a Law's positivism and on a competitive point of view of the society, does not contemplates the fraternity as a legal value. In other hands, the paper starts to focus the mediation, making clear that this alternative way of contest's solution not only disposes with justness to the environmental conflicted issue but --remarkably by its communicative characteristic acting and shared true-- deeply excited by the fraternity idea. The subject has been researched in the specialized literature, making sure about the precarious systematization of the mediation as management way of environmental conflicts, as well as a lack on the approach of the fraternity as juridical category of potential incidence at the environmental field. In the end, the analysis concludes that the eco mediation may appease the insertion of the fraternity component on arguing related to environmental estates, generally ruled by the radicalization and a vision of world's representationalism, contributing perhaps to the co-operation construction of a new paradigmatical systemic epistemology for conflicts solutions, that insures the emphasized roll to fraternal as imperative of conduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to provide more evidence on the characteristics of the field of studies of inter-organizational cooperation networks in the Brazilian context. The field research was carried out through a bibliometric study of 116 academic articles published in the major scientific journals in the field of organizational studies between 2000 and 2006. The methodological procedures followed the guidelines of the study of Oliver and Ebers (1998). The main results obtained from the bibliometric study were: (1) four theories - strategy, resource dependence, network and institutional - consolidate a predominant conceptual base in the orientation of the studies; (2) the research was mainly carried out by qualitative and cross sectional methods; (3) horizontal networks, material and immaterial antecedent resources, as well as the learning and innovation outcomes, were the main focus of the studies in the Brazilian context; (4) the theories of strategy, resource dependence, transaction, social network and institutional costs are considerably over-represented with regard to their Bonacich centrality; (5) the network theory had a strong level of betweenness centrality among the many theories considered in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evidence of the growth of cooperation between researchers and graduate programs has increased our understanding of the construction of scientific knowledge as embedded in social networks. This article analyzes the structures of cooperation among Brazilian business graduate programs in four areas: science and technology, strategy, public administration and organization studies. It departs from the assumption that different relational arrangements indicate various forms of organization, with consequences to the way knowledge is produced. Based on the analysis of 2874 articles published between 2000 and 2006, we investigate hypotheses concerning small worlds, preferential attachment, core-periphery and program centrality. The results point out the stratification of programs in terms of both the number of authors and published articles. Furthermore, they evidence that the most productive programs are those with more relationships, and that cooperation between programs is strongly correlated with productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cooperation among firms in a network form has been stressed as an alternative organizational configuration in response to recent economic transformation. The increased number of initiatives and the empirical research scarcity on the network formation in Brazil motivated the present study. The main objective of this paper is to comprehend the factors which effect the establishment of network cooperation in the Southern Brazilian context. In order to achieve this objective a quantitative research was carried out with 443 enterprise representatives, associated to 120 cooperation networks. The empirical data were collected by the researchers in 2005 and statistically processed through a conjoint analysis. The results confirmed the theoretical propositions built by the researchers, appointing the relevance of factors, such as learning and innovation, increased scale and market power, and access to solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the relations among Brazil, India and South Africa, that, despite historical internal differences, are regarded as regional powers, with relevant impact on the international conjuncture, specially when functioning as interlocutors for great and small States. With a special emphasis on Brazilian foreign politics, it discloses similar patterns comparing foreign politics in Brazil in the past two governments (FHC and Lula), regarding stability strategies in the diplomatic agenda and the traditional position assumed when dealing with multilateral mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the strategical cooperation between Brazil and China in the framework of Brazilian foreign policy, emphasizing bilateral aspects and the relations with the World Order after the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]