Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is seen as a significant driver of economic growth and a potential ally in the struggle against poverty and inequality, making emerging countries focus on attracting this type of investment. Thus, understanding factors that impact the concentration of regional FDI is essential to verifying which characteristics encourage or deter foreign investment. Likewise, the literature has explored institutional factors such as corruption as determining factors for the concentration of FDI. Within this framework, this study aims to empirically examine the sensitivity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to corruption. Few studies have been carried out on this subject, mainly in Latin American economies. We employ a unique Brazilian municipality-level FDI database to investigate whether corruption hinders (i.e., corruption acting as “sand”) or promotes the concentration of foreign investment (i.e., corruption acting like “grease”). Additionally, we believe that analyzing different economic sectors is essential to deepening the knowledge about the impacts of corruption on FDI. Our results show that corruption acts as “grease” for both overall FDI and at the level of individual sectors. Finally, when taking a non-linear approach, our findings show that corruption acts as grease for FDI only in regions with intermediate (medium–low) levels of corruption.
Este artigo é o resultado da análise de um estudo para implementação de práticas sustentáveis na condução dos Processos Públicos em Universidade Pública Brasileira. Objetivou-se analisar as dificuldades para implantação e continuidade da redução do uso de papel no setor público. Concluímos que o modelo organizacional afeta diretamente a manutenção de práticas, e a explanação das percepções individuais revela que é necessária uma comunicação dialógica. Como método, os autores realizaram a coleta de dados com os participantes e não participantes do processo, por meio de exame qualitativo. O resultado contribuiu para contextualizar os desafios da execução de práticas sustentáveis no setor público; e o trabalho serve de referência para outras universidades públicas brasileiras interessadas em adotar práticas sustentáveis em sua gestão
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