Implementation of Brazil's energy policy through the national oil company: From institutional chaos to strategic order

Silvestre, Hugo Consciência; Gomes, Ricardo Corrêa; Lamba, Jorge Routte; Correia, Aldenísio Moraes

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.04.028

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“…As noted in a recent study that discusses organizational decision making in companies that operate in the same sector in Angola, which also has the same cultural (i.e., Portuguese) heritage as Mozambique, "the internal rivalry and strict hierarchical structures that mark these companies […] create variations among employees in terms of their ability to move up the corporate ladder" (De Clercq and Pereira, 2020: p. 6). Because organizations in this sector tend to be rigid and highly formalized, organizational politicization, as a tactic to circumvent red tape and speed up decision making, may be a likely phenomenon (Ishiyama et al, 2018;Pinkse and Gasbarro, 2019;Silvestre et al, 2018). 1 Our single industry focus also diminishes the difficulties that tend to arise in multi-industry studies, in which it is impossible to capture relevant industry factors, such as those that influence employees' ability to find alternative employment (Virga et al, 2017).…”

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Perceived organizational politics and quitting plans: an examination of the buffering roles of relational and organizational resources

Clercq

Pereira

2021

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PurposeThe goal of this research is to examine the link between employees' beliefs that organizational decision-making processes are guided by self-serving behaviors and their own turnover intentions, as well as how this link may be buffered by four distinct resources, two that speak to the nature of peer exchanges (knowledge sharing and relationship informality) and two that capture critical aspects of the organizational environment (change climate and forgiveness climate).Design/methodology/approachQuantitative survey data were collected among 208 employees who work in the oil and gas sector in Mozambique.FindingsThe results indicate that employees' beliefs about dysfunctional political games stimulate their plans to quit. Yet this translation is less likely to occur to the extent that their peer relationships are marked by frequent and informal exchanges and that organizational leaders embrace change and forgiveness.Practical implicationsFor organizations, these findings offer pertinent insights into different circumstances in which decision-related frustrations are less likely to escalate into quitting plans. In particular, such escalation can be avoided to the extent that employees feel supported by the frequency and informal nature of their communication with colleagues, as well as the extent to which organizational leaders encourage change and practice forgiveness.Originality/valueThis study adds to extant research by explicating four unexplored buffers that diminish the risk that frustrations with politicized decision-making translate into enhanced turnover intentions.

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Perceived organizational politics and quitting plans: an examination of the buffering roles of relational and organizational resources

Clercq

Pereira

2021

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“…The theory suggests that organisational structure and action are likely to influence both the company and the environment (Levy, 1994). Thus, there is a possibility to establish a pattern of factors leading to instability, but it is difficult to provide standardised answers since organisations and their human capacities vary (Silvestre et al, 2018). Complexity theory evolved from chaos theory (Pappas, 2019) and acknowledges that many things around us cannot be explained via cause and effect relationships, since specific effects may appear from random interactions, without having any deterministic cause (Kretzschmar 2015).…”

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Entrepreneurial decisions in tourism and hospitality during crisis

Παππάς

Brown

2020

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PurposeThe article examines the entrepreneurial decision-making in the Greek tourism and hospitality sector during a period of an economic crisis.Design/methodology/approachThe nationwide study includes the responses of 503 entrepreneurs engaged in the Greek travel, tourism and hospitality industry. The research employs fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), and examines trust, enterprising negotiation power, tourism decision-making considerations and crisis effects. It also includes the categorical data of operational mode and company type.FindingsThe analysis has generated three different pathways for entrepreneurial decision-making during crisis in the Greek tourism and hospitality sector. These pathways are (1) crisis conditions, (2) enterprising operations and focus and (3) enterprising capabilities.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the limited employment of fsQCA in the tourism sector, its full potential is still to be explored.Practical implicationsThe study provides three different pathways that Greek tourism entrepreneurs select for their decision-making according to the characteristics of their firms and their market orientation.Originality/valueTheoretically, the study contributes by enhancing understanding of entrepreneurial decision-making during periods of crisis. In the methodological domain, the research employs fsQCA, which has only recently started to be used in tourism and hospitality, and generally the service sector.

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“…In addition, the Mexican government provided open data about gasoline stealing crimes. However, these data sources have not been analyzed to discover topics related to social motives, key events, and spatial factors, nor using spatial data science approaches that are presented by Lan and Li (2018) [5], Ferraresi et al (2018) [6], and Silvestre et al (2018) [7] nor statistical analysis. Therefore, our assumption implies that collective thinking from social media and its combination with open data could provide valuable information to discover social patterns and insights that explain the geographical behavior of gasoline stealing in Mexico from a social regression perspective, in terms of actors, causes, effects, and spatio-temporal characterization.…”

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Analysis of Open-Social Data Behavior Concerning Gasoline Stealing: A Case Study of the Mexican Petroleum Crisis

Zagal-Flores,

Mata-Rivera,

Torres-Ruiz

et al. 2023

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At the beginning of 2019, the petroleum crisis impacted many economies dependent on this industry. The Mexican government started programs to identify points and government officials involved in the gasoline stealing from PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos), the country’s leading government petroleum company. The programs consisted of supervising and monitoring the Mexican country network of gasoline ducts to detect points where gasoline was being stolen. Consequently, large urban regions faced a lack and shortage of gasoline. This situation generated several reactions in social media and many open data in news media. Although the government provided open data about stealing gasoline locations related to crimes, it did not analyze the collected data to identify patterns, insights, and the spatio-temporal characterization of this phenomenon. This paper presents a study to deal with the regional semantics described in the social media locations of gasoline stealing. Thus, a framework to discover the trends that emerge from social media and how it is correlated with the government’s open data is also presented—the proposed methodology used machine learning techniques based on linguistic and semantic technologies. The analysis was applied to a dataset of 24,317 geo-referenced tweets. The obtained results reflected the Mexican thinking opinion regarding discovered social topics, polarization maps, and regional insights. According to discovered trends, there were long fuel lines between 1.5 and 5 kilometers (on average) at fuel stations in different Mexican states.

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Implementation of Brazil's energy policy through the national oil company: From institutional chaos to strategic order

Cited by 9 publications

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Perceived organizational politics and quitting plans: an examination of the buffering roles of relational and organizational resources

Perceived organizational politics and quitting plans: an examination of the buffering roles of relational and organizational resources

Entrepreneurial decisions in tourism and hospitality during crisis

Analysis of Open-Social Data Behavior Concerning Gasoline Stealing: A Case Study of the Mexican Petroleum Crisis

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