Denna studie har undersökt skillnader mellan Ryssland och Sverige i relation till kvaliteten avhållbarhetsrapporter inom energibranschen. Studien bygger på en komparativ tvärkulturelldesign där flera fall med ett antal observationer jämförs mellan varandra och använder sig aven flermetodsforskning. Bland teorier har intressentteorin, legitimitetsteorin samt tidigareforskning används som hjälp för att analysera studiens empiri. Utifrån det empiriska materialetframkommer att de svenska bolagen har högre kvalitet när det gäller beskrivningar av produktensamt frågor som berör miljön och energi. Däremot har de ryska företagen högre kvalitet inomde sociala aspekterna av hållbarhetsredovisning. Inom resterande kategorier har både svenskaoch ryska företag presterat på samma nivå. / This study has examined differences between Russia and Sweden in relation to the quality ofsustainability reports in the energy industry. The study is based on a comparative cross-culturaldesign where several cases with a number of observations are compared with each other anduse a multi-method research. Among theories, the stakeholder theory, the legitimacy theory andprevious research have been used to help analyze the empirical data of the study. Based on theempirical material, it appears that the Swedish companies have a higher quality when it comesto descriptions of the product and issues concerning the environment and energy. On the otherhand, the Russian companies have higher quality in the social aspects of sustainabilityreporting. In the remaining categories, both Swedish and Russian companies have performedat the same level.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo estudar o tratamento dado à arbitragem comercial institucional internacional pelas leis de Brasil, Rússia, Índia e China. A aproximação entre estes países, deflagrada principalmente após a criação do grupo BRIC, culminou num aumento considerável das suas relações comerciais. O aumento das relações pressupõe, também, um aumento na possibilidade da ocorrência de conflitos. Pela arbitragem ser, reconhecidamente, o meio de solução de controvérsias mais adequado e mais utilizado em litígios internacionais, a informação sobre como este instituto é regulado pelos sistemas jurídicos dos BRICs pode ser útil àqueles que tenham interesse em atuar nos mercados destes países. Utilizando-se dos postulados do Direito Comparado, o presente trabalho compara o padrão internacional de regulação da arbitragem comercial, consubstanciado nos textos da Lei Modelo da UNCITRAL e na Convenção de Nova Iorque de 1958, com as leis de arbitragem instituídas em cada um dos BRICs, para verificar eventuais similaridades e diferenças relevantes. A metodologia é a pesquisa comparada, em que se comparam as leis, dotrinas e decisões judiciais relevantes sobre o tema, em cada um dos sistemas jurídicos estudados. Os resultados apontam para o fato de que o padrão internacional é, em linhas gerais, seguido por todos os BRICs, embora os sistemas chinês e russo sejam menos liberais, no que diz respeito à influência estatal na efetividade da arbitragem comercial internacional. Por fim, sugere-se uma maior aproximação entre os sistemas jurídicos destes quatro países, mas que os próprios também fomentem, nos foros multilaterais, que a comunidade internacional discuta mais o tema e promova, se necessário, eventuais reformas ao padrão adotado atualmente, para que sua aceitação e implementação sejam amplas entre as nações. / This work studies the treatment given by Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese laws to international commercial arbitration. Mainly triggered after the creation of the BRICs, these countries proximity ended up by significantly increasing their commercial relations. This increase in commercial relations also implies an increase in the possibility of conflicts. Because arbitration is recognized as the most suitable and used means of conflict resolution in international litigations, the information on how it is regulated by the BRICs legal systems may be useful to those interested in operating in these countries markets. By using the fundamental principles of comparative jurisprudence, this work compares the international standard of regulation of commercial arbitration, set forth in UNICITRAL Model Law and in the 1958 New York Convention, to arbitration laws established in each country composing the BRICs, aiming at identifying any relevant similarities and differences. The methodology used is compared research, in which laws, relevant precedents and jurisprudence are compared within the legal systems studied in this work. The results show that the international standard is, at least in general, followed by all BRICs, although Chinese and Russian systems are less liberal, concerning public influence on the effectiveness of international commercial arbitration. Finally, it is presented a suggestion to enclose the regulation of international commercial arbitration among those four countries, but also indicating that this movement shall be made within the multilateral system, promoting the discussion with tha international community, in order to review, if necessary, the legal standard in force, aiming it´s major acceptance and implementation by other nations worldwide.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2019-03-19T12:32:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 William Daldegan de Freitas.pdf: 6718593 bytes, checksum: b93fabf100ab52efc7d87eda42bf41c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-19T12:32:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 William Daldegan de Freitas.pdf: 6718593 bytes, checksum: b93fabf100ab52efc7d87eda42bf41c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-02-25 / The hypothesis defended here is that BRICS is a processual and dynamic phenomenon, adequate to the contemporary international order. As a processual phenomenon, it is understood that there is not a specific definition, much less the intention, regarding the format or the institutionalization to be achieved. It is a dynamic group, due to the perception of its members, which does not mean that there are limitations to their international strategies and initiatives. For this, the annual declarations of the BRICS summits, between 2009 and 2018, were analysed, through the historical methodology used in the analysis of documents and bibliography. The usage of software – AntConc e VOSviwer –, to count words and word association, enabled the construction of a textual analysis model and yielded results that prove the proposed hypothesis: the absence of formalization of the BRICS derives from the interest of its members, by preserving their independence and autonomy in the establishment of projects and policies, without harming their coordination as group. Moreover, the absence of formalization, above all, allows the creation of a bank and a reserve fund and fills the empty spaces, in a stimulus of the enlargement of the international order, without defying it / A tese aqui defendida é de que o BRICS é um fenômeno processual e dinâmico, adequado à natureza da ordem internacional contemporânea. Enquanto processual, entende-se que não há definição, tampouco intenção, quanto ao formato ou institucionalização a serem alcançados. Trata-se de um grupo dinâmico, devido às percepções dos seus membros, sem que isso signifique limitações em suas estratégias e iniciativas internacionais. Para tanto, foram analisadas as declarações anuais de cúpula do BRICS, entre 2009 e 2018, por meio da metodologia histórica no emprego da análise documental e bibliográfica. A utilização dos softwares – AntConc e VOSviwer - para a contagem e associação de palavras permitiu a construção de um modelo para análise textual e gerou resultados que comprovam a tese proposta: a não formalização do BRICS deriva do interesse de seus membros, ao preservar a independência e autonomia na condução de projetos e políticas individuais, sem que isso acarrete prejuízo para sua articulação enquanto grupo. Além disso, e sobretudo, permite a criação de um banco e de um fundo de reservas e a ocupação de espaços vazios, num estímulo ao alargamento da ordem internacional, sem contestá-la

The objective of the diploma thesis is to analyze potential of the Brazilian market for Czech companies. The thesis focuses on defining the most promising areas for the Czech export and also addresses the barriers to entry that can prevent Czech entrepreneurs from successful entry into Brazil.

The main goal of this thesis is to identify position of the group BRIICS on the international arena and to determine whether the economic and political rise of concerned economies is potentially hidden in a closer multilateral cooperation or in the separate influences on the world. Moreover, this work aims to answer the question if the BRIICS countries have the potential to dictate their conditions to the international organizations and world public. It also describes the developing countries, their basic categorization and after all the fastest growing economies (emerging markets) are singled out. This paper also examines the impact of the internal social, demographic and political problems on the existence of the organization.

<p>Undersökningen har karaktären av en framtidsstudie med syftet att undersöka konkurrenssituationen mellan hightechföretag från Indien och Kina med hightechföretag från Västvärlden. Detta för att göra prognoser kring framtiden. Även de faktorer som är viktiga för hightechföretags framgång i framtiden har undersökts. Undersökningsobjekten är HCL Technologies från Indien, ZTE från Kina, Ericsson från Sverige och Hewlett-Packard från USA.</p><p>Författarna har använt sig av en variant på Delphi-metoden, en enkätundersökning samt två intervjuer för att göra prognoserna. Författarna har även gjort ekonomiska jämförelser för att bedöma undersökningsobjektens ekonomiska tillstånd och förutsättningar för framtiden. Slutsatser är bland annat att faktorer viktiga för hightechföretags framgång i framtiden är tekniska funktioner, kostnadseffektivitet, kompetent personal och FoU samt FDI och IPR för asiatiska hightechföretag. Författarna drar även slutsatserna att hightechföretag från Indien och Kina kommer att kunna utgöra reella hot mot västerländska hightechföretag i framtiden och ha möjligheter att bli världsledande.</p> / <p>This paper has the character of a futurology study designed to examine the competitive situation between high-tech companies from India and China with high-tech companies from West to make predictions about the future. The factors that are important for high-tech companies' success in the future have been studied. The survey objects are HCL Technologies from India, ZTE from China, Ericsson from Sweden and Hewlett-Packard from the United States of America.</p><p>The authors have used a variant of the Delphi method, a survey and two interviews to make forecasts about the future. The authors have also made economical evaluations of the companies to compare their financial situation and conditions for the future. The conclusions include that factors that are important for high-tech companies' success in the future is, the technical features, cost efficiency, competent personnel and R&D. Also FDI and IPR for Asian high-tech companies. The authors also draws the conclusion that high-tech companies from India and China will pose a real threat to Western high-tech companies in the future and have the potential to become world leaders.</p>

Undersökningen har karaktären av en framtidsstudie med syftet att undersöka konkurrenssituationen mellan hightechföretag från Indien och Kina med hightechföretag från Västvärlden. Detta för att göra prognoser kring framtiden. Även de faktorer som är viktiga för hightechföretags framgång i framtiden har undersökts. Undersökningsobjekten är HCL Technologies från Indien, ZTE från Kina, Ericsson från Sverige och Hewlett-Packard från USA. Författarna har använt sig av en variant på Delphi-metoden, en enkätundersökning samt två intervjuer för att göra prognoserna. Författarna har även gjort ekonomiska jämförelser för att bedöma undersökningsobjektens ekonomiska tillstånd och förutsättningar för framtiden. Slutsatser är bland annat att faktorer viktiga för hightechföretags framgång i framtiden är tekniska funktioner, kostnadseffektivitet, kompetent personal och FoU samt FDI och IPR för asiatiska hightechföretag. Författarna drar även slutsatserna att hightechföretag från Indien och Kina kommer att kunna utgöra reella hot mot västerländska hightechföretag i framtiden och ha möjligheter att bli världsledande. / This paper has the character of a futurology study designed to examine the competitive situation between high-tech companies from India and China with high-tech companies from West to make predictions about the future. The factors that are important for high-tech companies' success in the future have been studied. The survey objects are HCL Technologies from India, ZTE from China, Ericsson from Sweden and Hewlett-Packard from the United States of America. The authors have used a variant of the Delphi method, a survey and two interviews to make forecasts about the future. The authors have also made economical evaluations of the companies to compare their financial situation and conditions for the future. The conclusions include that factors that are important for high-tech companies' success in the future is, the technical features, cost efficiency, competent personnel and R&amp;D. Also FDI and IPR for Asian high-tech companies. The authors also draws the conclusion that high-tech companies from India and China will pose a real threat to Western high-tech companies in the future and have the potential to become world leaders.

The purpose of this study is to examine a completely new phenomenon called the MIST, by two portfolios: the Goldman Sachs Next 11 equity fund, and the Goldman Sachs BRIC fund, in order to establish whether or not the MIST countries are a better investment decision in terms of risk, return and growth. Furthermore, the study examines in which form these emerging markets lies in terms of market efficiency, and if the random walk theory is present. The opportunities and challenges for Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey are also brought upon to determine whether these countries have the potential to exhibit the same success as the BRIC countries did for a decade. Since the growth of the BRIC countries are slowing down, Jim O’Neill, the same founder of the term BRIC, coined the nations MIST. The BRIC countries are facing several difficulties and have led investors to draw out from these countries stocks. Investors that were pouring in money to the BRIC countries during the period 2001-2009, have from 2011, withdrawn 15 billion dollars from the BRIC stocks. Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. Derived from the next eleven countries, these countries have a major effect on the global economy due to their economical and political circumstances. For many investors, the MIST countries that are growing faster than the BRIC are regarded to be the new biggest emerging markets. Investing in BRIC funds are stated to be a disaster today, while on the other hand, the MIST countries are growing and outpacing the BRIC fund. The methodology used was to compare two different portfolios, Goldman Sachs N-11 equity fund in the period 2011-2013 against the Goldman Sachs BRIC fund in two different periods, 2011-2013 and 2006-2008 with S&amp;P 500 as the market index. In addition, a hypothesis test was carried out for this period to observe whether or not to reject the null hypothesis. The results of this study shows that the null hypothesis was rejected and that the N-11 equity fund is a better investment decision, in terms of risk, return and growth today. These emerging markets are under the weak form market efficiency and the random walk theory is present in the N-11 equity fund. This makes the authors’ results more of a speculation than a definite conclusion about the future, as one cannot "beat the market".

This thesis investigated money supply behaviors in the ‘BRICS’ group from 1982 to 2012. It empirically analyzed causality relationships between related monetary indicators by using quarterly data and time series econometric methods. In four countries: Brazil, China, Russia (the period of 2004-2012) and South Africa (1982-1993), this study found money supply endogeneity evidence (bank loans cause the money supply, or there is bidirectional between these two). Other countries, India and the 1982-2003 period of Russia, money supply was found to be exogenous, i.e. money supply cause bank loans. Nonetheless, traditional Monetarian view still holds across the five economies in the short run. The findings reflected discretionary monetary policies targeting monetary aggregates in the short term, despite a neutral role of most central banks in the long run.

Στην παρούσα μελέτη αξιολογήθηκε η προσπάθεια των αναπτυσσόμενων χωρών του συνόλου BRIC, στην πορεία μετάβασής τους προς τις «Οικονομίες της Γνώσης». Πρόκειται για τέσσερις από τις μεγαλύτερες οικονομίες του πλανήτη, που στο μέλλον αναμένεται να διαδραματίσουν κρίσιμο ρόλο στις παγκόσμια οικονομική σκηνή. Οι αγορές όλων τους είναι υπερμεγέθεις, με την μεγαλύτερη από αυτές την Κίνα, να απαριθμεί 1,3 δισεκατομμύρια ανθρώπους και να έχει γεωγραφικά διαμερίσματα με πληθυσμό μεγαλύτερο ακόμα και από τις μεγαλύτερες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες. Η αξιολόγηση των χωρών έγινε στην βάση των τεσσάρων πυλώνων των «Οικονομιών της Γνώσης»: i) Πληθυσμός με υψηλό μορφωτικό επίπεδο και ικανότητες, που θα αξιοποιήσει παραγωγικά και θα εξελίξει τη Γνώση, ii) αποτελεσματικό σύστημα καινοτομιών, που θα αποτελέσει την υποδομή για τον σχηματισμό ενός δικτύου φορέων Ε&Α, iii) υποδομή δυναμικής πληροφόρησης, που θα διευκολύνει αποτελεσματικά την ενημέρωση και διάδοση της Γνώσης και iv) οικονομικό και οργανωσιακό καθεστώς, που θα παρέχει τα απαραίτητα κίνητρα για τη δημιουργία, ανάπτυξη και αποτελεσματική χρήση της Γνώσης. Μέσα από την μεταξύ τους σύγκριση συναντήσαμε σημαντικές διαφορές σε πολλά από τα στοιχεία που απαρτίζουν τον κάθε πυλώνα. Κάθε μία, όμως, από τις χώρες BRIC κατόρθωσε να παρουσιάσει σημεία σημαντικής προόδου. Αποδείχτηκε, πως μολονότι αξιοποιούνται διαφορετικά μέσα και δοκιμάζονται εναλλακτικές προσεγγίσεις, ο δρόμος για την ανάπτυξη των αναδυόμενων οικονομιών BRIC είναι κοινός. Αυτός της Οικονομίας της Γνώσης. Ολοκληρώνοντας την ανάλυση, διαπιστώνεται ότι πολλά από τα συμπεράσματα της μελέτης θα μπορούσαν να έχουν γενικότερη εφαρμογή, πλαισιώνοντας έναν μεγαλύτερο αριθμό αναπτυσσόμενων ή ακόμα και ανεπτυγμένων χωρών. Με την κατάλληλη προσαρμογή στις κοινωνικές, θεσμικές και οικονομικές συνθήκες της κάθε χώρας, τα συμπεράσματα αυτά θα μπορούσαν να αποτελέσουν τον δεκάλογο της επιτυχούς μετάβασης μιας χώρας σε μία Οικονομία που βασίζεται στη Γνώση / This study evaluated the efforts of the "BRIC" developing economies, in their transition towards a "knowledge-based economy". The evaluation was based on the four pillars of the "knowledge-based economy»: i) Population with higher education and skills for the creation and development of knowledge, ii) an effective innovation system and an efficient R&D network, iii) a dynamic information infrastructure that will facilitate information and knowledge dissemination effectively and iv) an economic and organizational regime, which will provide the necessary incentives for the creation, development and effective use of knowledge. Through the comparison between them, significant differences emerge in many of the elements that comprise each pillar. However, each one of the BRIC countries has shown signs of significant progress. Despite all differences in their approaches, we have seen that the road to development runs through a knowledge-based economy. Many of the conclusions of this study could have broader applications to a larger number of developing or even developed countries. With the proper adaptation to social, institutional and economic conditions of each country, these findings could form the decalogue of a country's successful transition to knowledge-based economy.