This report presents an overview of Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE and VC) investments in portfolio companies between 1982 and 2014. It was prepared by the Strategic Research Center of Insper Institute of Education and Research and Spectra Investments. It is based on the Spectra-Insper database, a comprehensive set of information about private equity organizations, funds, deal...

nowadays, agricultural r&d provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. during recent years, improving agricultural productivity is affected by not only domestic r&d investments but also foreign countries r&d investments. nowadays, according to new growth models, r&d is the base of productivity. recent economic theories consider agricu...

Complementary investment in information technology (IT) and organizational work practices enable a firm to respond strategically to competitive challenges. Specific combinations of these investments, as called for in organizational programs, are implemented in a coordinated manner to bring about a change more consistent with the external environment, resulting in improved firm performance. Whil...

Understanding the return on investments in information technology is the focus of a large and growing body of research. In this paper, we develop an overall framework for understanding the research on the relation between information technology investments and accounting or market measures of firm performance. Bruce Dehning Assistant Professor, The Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chap...

Business Process Management (BPM) has been an important research field for decades. Latest technological advances have increased the transparency that can be created over processes. Although associated to various advantages, organizations struggle to identify processes for which investments in visibility-creating technologies are profitable. Existing research has largely investigated the outcom...

Analyzing the beneficial effects of investments in information technology (IT) is an area of research that interests investors and academics. A number of studies have examined whether investments in IT have a positive effect on some measure of earnings or other form of financial return. Results from these studies have been mixed. This paper extends the literature by adopting an investor’s persp...

Information-communication technology (ICT) investments analysis using real options (ROs) has been a subject of active research during the last decade. It is a flexible method to value investment opportunities and to derive optimal timing of investments deployment taking into account uncertainties in future benefits and costs. We develop a framework for classifying the research on real ICT proje...

Value derived from IT in terms of its impact on performance is contingent on the presence of many other synergistic factors. This paper provides a comprehensive analytical survey of research literature about different complementary organizational assets that when coupled with IT can lead to higher firm performance. It attempts to provide a useful list of organizational variables that should be ...

Government growth has been a long-standing research issue among public economists as well as an important concern of the general public. This paper investigates the impact of government IT investments on government growth. Drawing on the literature on public economics, political sciences, and IT value, I offer theoretical discussions and four mechanisms as to the relationship between IT investm...