📈 economics

Territorial heterogeneity and educational efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon: a regional dynamic and spatial analysis

This study analyzes municipal educational efficiency in the Brazilian Amazon's Pará state from 2012 to 2020, revealing significant territorial heterogeneity in static efficiency and productivity dynamics while finding no systematic spatial clustering, thereby demonstrating that administrative proximity does not guarantee uniform educational performance and underscoring the need for differentiated regional analysis.

Chiara Fernanda Gomes Santana, Claudio Alberto Castelo Branco Puty, Thiago Poleto, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos Santos (…)2026-09-25
📈 economics

Strategic and Operational Technology Absorption: Comparative Evidence from Large Brazilian Firms

This study utilizes a comparative case analysis of two large Brazilian firms to propose the Dual-Mode Technology Absorption Framework (DTAM), demonstrating that organizations with similar scales can develop fundamentally distinct strategic or operational configurations for technology absorption based on their unique governance, culture, and R&D orientations.

Antonio Carlos de Oliveira Cruz Junior, Rogério Augusto Profeta, Valquíria Miwa Hanai-Yoshida2026-09-25
📈 economics

Strategic Interactions Between Manufacturers’ Blockchain Traceability Services and Platforms’ Demand Information Sharing

This paper employs a multi-stage dynamic game model to analyze how e-commerce platforms' demand information sharing strategies interact with manufacturers' blockchain traceability adoption under resale and agency models, revealing that manufacturers are inherently incentivized to adopt blockchain while platforms should conceal information under resale but share it under agency to achieve Pareto-optimal outcomes.

Yan Zeng2026-09-25