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e à Profa. Dra. Sylmara Gonçalves-Dias pelas válidas contribuições em minha banca de qualificação. Ao Prof. Dr. Roberto Sbragia pela indicação e confiança ao me recomendar para participar do programa de doutorado sanduíche na Suécia. Às multinacionais brasileiras que puderam participar da pesquisa que permitiu a realização deste estudo. Ao grupo de pesquisa liderado pela Profa.

In current research evaluation models, monitoring and impact evaluation are extended beyond peer-reviewed articles to include Public Communication of Science and Technology activities. Through an online survey, we analyzed the perceptions of relevance and degree of application of the altmetric indicators for the PCST of 51 sampled Brazilian federal universities. Perceptions of relevance and application of altmetrics proved to be an outlier in 26 indicators. 66.7% of respondents said they did not know the relevance of altmetrics for the PCST or considered it not applicable to the field. Regarding the perception of relevance, the indicator “Mentions tracked by altmetrics” received high relevance scores (7 and 9) from 21.5% of respondents. The indicator was also the least applied, with only one university (1.9%) using it. In addition, 45% of respondents reported having no intention of applying it, 41.1% intend to apply it in the long term, and 11.7% in the short term.

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In this dissertation the relationship between subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations in Brazil and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is analyzed. Herein the emergence of multinational corporations is characterized, as well as the actual concern about social and environmental issues. The study is basically based on the literatures about multinational corporations, headquarters, subsidiaries, social and environmental management and CSR. Firstly, the identification of CSR in subsidiaries is showed; and, secondly, its relation to organizational aspects such as autonomy, integration between headquarters and their subsidiaries and subsidiary strategic relevance. Besides these analyses, the possible relationship between CSR and the development of the headquarters' country of origin is also investigated. To accomplish this study, an electronic survey was sent to presidents and VPs of the 1200 largest subsidiaries in Brazil in terms of revenue; 172 answers were received. One may conclude, due to a multivariate analysis, that CSR is positively related to the headquarters-subsidiary integration and to subsidiary strategic relevance. It indicates, therefore, that the better integrated the subsidiary is to its headquarters and the more relevant the subsidiary becomes, then the more CSR the subsidiary develops. On the other hand, CSR is negatively related to subsidiary autonomy and to the development of the headquarters' country of origin, which leads to the final statements: (i) the more autonomous it becomes, the less the subsidiary develops CSR; (ii) the development of the headquarters' country of origin does not influence the emergence of CSR in the subsidiary.