Coleção de Artigos Acadêmicos
URI permanente para esta coleçãohttps://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/3227
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Artigo Científico Social Networks and Sales Performance(2011) DANNY PIMENTEL CLARO; Laban Neto, Silvio AbrahaoEste artigo trata do impacto das redes informais na melhoria no desempenho de vendedores. Redes informais criam uma estrutura que supera a hierarquia formal de uma organização. O foco deste artigo está na rede de aconselhamento e em duas estruturas de rede que têm impacto no desempenho. A pesquisa observou vendedores que desenvolvem uma estrutura coesa, de acordo com a visão de James Coleman, ou uma estrutura que contém buracos estruturais, segundo Ronaldo Burt. Foi incluído também no modelo de análise a questão da força dos laços, de acordo com o trabalho seminal de Mark Granovetter de 1973. Dados censitários de uma organização foram coletados de cerca de 500 funcionários de uma empresa fornecedora de material para a produção agropecuária que conta com 23 filiais. A estimação de uma amostra de 101 vendedores desta empresa mostrou a importância de estruturas coesas, mediante a métrica de centralidade de grau, para as três medidas de desempenho dos vendedores. Laços fortes têm também impacto positivo no desempenho, o que sugere a importância da construção destes laços com membros da rede. Idade, tempo de casa e nível educacional também são suscetíveis de causar impacto no desempenho. Estes resultados implicam que a empresa deve estimular contatos entre colaboradores, para permitir a melhor difusão de informações técnicas e comerciais.Artigo Científico Consumer Complaints and Company Market Value(2014) DANNY PIMENTEL CLARO; Fragoso, Antonio Fabio Guena Reali; Laban Neto, Silvio Abrahao; PRISCILA BORIN DE OLIVEIRA CLAROConsumer complaints affect company market value and common sense suggests that a negative impact is expected. However, do complaints always negatively impact company market value? We hypothesize in this study that complaints may have a non-linear effect on market value. Positive (e.g. avoiding high costs to solve complaints) and negative (e.g. speedy and intense diffusion) tradeoffs may occur given the level of complaints. To test our non-linear hypothesis, a panel data was collected from cell phone service providers from 2005 to 2013. The results supported our tradeoff rationale. Low levels of complaints allow for companies to increase market value, while high levels of complaints cause increasing harm to market value. The sample, model and period considered in this study, indicates a level of 0.49 complaints per thousand consumers as the threshold for a shift in tradeoffs. The effects on market value become increasingly negative when trying to make reductions to move below this level, due to negative tradeoffs.Artigo Científico The Enhancing Impact of Friendship Networks on Sales Managers’ Performance(2013) DANNY PIMENTEL CLARO; Laban Neto, Silvio Abrahao; PRISCILA BORIN DE OLIVEIRA CLAROThis paper examines how relationships with friends moderate the impact of professional networks on sales performance. Based on a sample of 204 sales managers in a professional service company, this study presents evidence that friendship networks amplify the effect of sales forces’ professional networks on new product sales as well as on prospecting and converting new deals. Our results offer important insights into the socio-cognitive perspective of sales management literature and suggest that firms should encourage managers to improve their friendships in order to access valuable information that will enhance customer knowledge and support their sales efforts.Artigo Científico Sustainability drivers in food retail(2013) DANNY PIMENTEL CLARO; Laban Neto, Silvio Abrahao; PRISCILA BORIN DE OLIVEIRA CLAROSustainability has become a relevant issue for retailers. We develop an integrated model with three drivers of retailer's investments in sustainability. First, the more their processes, human resources and customer driven capabilities are developed, the more investments in sustainability tend to occur. Second, retailers leverage their relationships with suppliers to invest in sustainability. Third, competition and economic instability may also lead to long run investments in social and environmental. We tested three hypotheses by surveying 101 retailers operating supermarkets, hypermarkets and neighborhood stores that focus mainly on food with a limited offering of general merchandise and apparel. Our results show the importance of customer driven capabilities for investments in sustainability. Communication with the supplier also has an impact on investments, while the process and policies of the supplier relationship do not. Retailers invest in sustainability to coordinate this relationship. Our study sheds light on the drivers for sustainability and offers an understanding of how a retailer may invest further in sustainability.