Ricardo Pereira, Ingrid Weingärtner Reis, Vânia Ulbricht and Neri dos Santos
The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between academic writing and generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between academic writing and generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative approach. Two approaches were used: the first, a narrative review of the literature with a systematic search from which a data collection stage was carried out using asynchronous interviews by means of an online questionnaire.
Findings
The results indicate that generative AI should be seen as a complementary tool for creative and critical academic writing. The data collected also highlighted issues related to academic dishonesty and the new type of plagiarism – plagiarism made possible by technologies – as well as issues of authorship and legitimacy of work carried out with AI and the loss of reflective and critical thinking and creativity.
Research limitations/implications
The considerable increase in resources using AI in all dimensions of human life.
Practical implications
The impact that the use of generative AIs can have on the creation of knowledge and the dissemination of scientific research.
Social implications
The impact that the use of generative AIs can have on the creation of knowledge and on the dissemination of scientific research.
Originality/value
The need for academia to anticipate the use of AI in academic writing and to incorporate its benefits into this process, especially considering researchers in training.
Objetivo
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la relación entre la escritura académica y la inteligencia artificial generativa.
Proyecto/metodología/enfoque
Este artículo se caracteriza por ser exploratorio y descriptivo, con un enfoque cualitativo. Se utilizaron dos enfoques: el primero, una revisión narrativa de la literatura con una búsqueda sistemática, a partir de la cual se llevó a cabo una etapa de recogida de datos mediante entrevistas asincrónicas a través de un cuestionario online.
Resultados
Los resultados indican que la IA generativa debe considerarse una herramienta complementaria para la escritura académica creativa y crítica. Los datos recogidos también pusieron de manifiesto cuestiones relacionadas con la deshonestidad académica y el nuevo tipo de plagio, el plagio posibilitado por las tecnologías, así como cuestiones de autoría y legitimidad del trabajo realizado con Inteligencia Artificial, la pérdida de pensamiento reflexivo y crítico y la creatividad.
Originalidade
La necesidad de que el mundo académico se anticipe al uso de la IA en la escritura académica e incorpore sus ventajas a este proceso, considerando principalmente a los investigadores en formación.
Limitaciones/implicaciones de la investigación
El considerable aumento de los recursos que utilizan la IA en todas las dimensiones de la vida humana.
Implicaciones prácticas
El impacto que puede tener el uso de las IA generativas en la creación de conocimiento y la difusión de la investigación científica.
Implicaciones sociales
El impacto que puede tener el uso de las IA generativas en la creación de conocimiento y la difusión de la investigación científica.
Objetivo
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a relação entre a redação acadêmica e a inteligência artificial generativa.
Projeto/metodologia/abordagem
Este artigo é caracterizado como exploratório e descritivo, com uma abordagem qualitativa. Foram usadas duas abordagens: a primeira, uma revisão narrativa da literatura com uma busca sistemática, a partir da qual foi realizada uma etapa de coleta de dados usando entrevistas assíncronas por meio de um questionário on-line.
Resultados
Os resultados indicam que a IA generativa deve ser vista como uma ferramenta complementar para a redação acadêmica criativa e crítica. Os dados coletados também destacaram questões relacionadas à desonestidade acadêmica e ao novo tipo de plágio - o plágio possibilitado pelas tecnologias, bem como questões de autoria e legitimidade do trabalho realizado com a Inteligência Artificial, a perda do pensamento reflexivo e crítico e da criatividade.
Originalidade
A necessidade de a academia antecipar o uso da IA na redação acadêmica e incorporar seus benefícios nesse processo, considerando principalmente pesquisadores em formação.
Limitações/implicações da pesquisa
O aumento considerável de recursos usando IA em todas as dimensões da vida humana.
Implicações práticas
O impacto que o uso de IAs generativas pode ter sobre a criação de conhecimento e a disseminação de pesquisas científicas.
Implicações sociais
O impacto que o uso de IAs geradoras pode ter na criação de conhecimento e na disseminação de pesquisas científicas.
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Mariana Voros Fregolente, Achiles Camilo Soares Neto, Daniel Ricardo Pereira Ribeiro, Mario Sergio Salerno, Davi Noboru Nakano and Marly Monteiro de Carvalho
The growing presence of projectification is affecting more than its cradle, the industry, characterizing it as a broader phenomenon than initially envisioned. This study aims to…
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Purpose
The growing presence of projectification is affecting more than its cradle, the industry, characterizing it as a broader phenomenon than initially envisioned. This study aims to provide a literature review on the concept.
Design/methodology/approach
The sampling process includes articles from two databases, Web of Science and Scopus, and a backward snowballing sampling through the references, entailing the analysis of 103 documents. The publications were analyzed applying bibliometric, content and semantic analyses both manually and with the assistance of VOSViewer, Bibliometrix, NVivo11 and Tropes v.8.
Findings
The results identified 55 definitions of projectification. The study synthesizes them in five levels of analysis to capture their main distinctive aspects, as follows: (1) Private Organizations; (2) Public Sector; (3) Academy; (4) Individuals (work and private life); and (5) Society. The paper concludes by depicting factors as general effects, negative effects, tensions, funding and knowledge, embedded within each level of analysis.
Originality/value
This work sheds light on the evolution of projectification concept, presents a multilevel analysis of its consequences and brings forward the related topics, which still require further investigation.
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Luis Hernan Contreras Pinochet, Guilherme Tongnole Diogo, Evandro Luiz Lopes, Eliane Herrero and Ricardo Luiz Pereira Bueno
Given the large global investments made in FinTechs and the context of Brazilian credit (which has been suffering from the effects of the crisis in the last decade), the purpose…
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Purpose
Given the large global investments made in FinTechs and the context of Brazilian credit (which has been suffering from the effects of the crisis in the last decade), the purpose of this paper is to study the propensity of consumption of credit services offered by FinTechs of loans. In order to discover the factors that influenced the propensity to apply for FinTech loans, a theoretical model was designed, which was tested by means of a survey given to individuals who might contract loans.
Design/methodology/approach
The final sample consisted of 507 individuals whose data were analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM), with estimation of partial least squares.
Findings
From the results of the research, it was possible to draw a profile of the FinTechs of Brazilian loans and also to estimate the antecedents of the propensity to utilize this type of service.
Research limitations/implications
The model proposed in this work was developed to measure the propensity to consume in relation to the credit services offered by lending FinTechs.
Practical implications
The consumer should intensify the use of these channels to shape financial products and services to their needs, thereby democratizing access to credit, which is often restricted in quantity and quality by policies of institutions that dominate the Brazilian lending market.
Originality/value
Aspects such as trust, personal innovation, perceived utility, ease of use and social influence, as well as the constructs that precede them like privacy, stigma and transactional distance, explain 41.5 percent of the propensity to use services from lending FinTechs in Brazil.
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Ricardo Luiz Pereira Bueno, Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra and Isabel Cristina Scafuto
This article aims to examine the related effects between out-of-class activities, mediated by in-class activities, on the perception of course and teacher performance in a flipped…
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Purpose
This article aims to examine the related effects between out-of-class activities, mediated by in-class activities, on the perception of course and teacher performance in a flipped classroom institutionalized setting.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors argue that institutionalized out-of-class (content) and in-class (learning) activities positively impact course and teaching quality perception. This study used a sample of 978 responses from MBA students to conduct a path model analysis to test four hypotheses developed from literature from flipped classroom proposing the positive relationship of out-of-class activities in in-class activities and its influence on the course and teaching performance.
Findings
The findings reported that out-class and in-class activities and educator performance influenced course performance perception. In-class activities mediated the out-of-class activities’ impact and directly impacted educator’s and course performance. Educator performance is positively correlated with course performance. Overall, executives have a positive perception on institutionalized flipped classroom for MBA courses as an effective provision form. The flipped classroom is able to mobilize their experiences and enrich learners’ educational experience.
Research limitations/implications
Only one unit of the higher education organization was studied, and the authors do not consider indirect effects of the environment on variable’s relationships nor the indirect effects whose would be a suggested for future studies.
Originality/value
The present study provides new insights on flipped classroom. This study evidenced that flipped classroom planned and standardized in an institutional level positively impacts the outcome within the context of executive education.
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Kanak Patel and Ricardo Pereira
This chapter analyses the ability of some structural models to predict corporate bankruptcy. The study extends the existing empirical work on default risk in two ways. First, it…
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This chapter analyses the ability of some structural models to predict corporate bankruptcy. The study extends the existing empirical work on default risk in two ways. First, it estimates the expected default probabilities (EDPs) for a sample of bankrupt companies in the USA as a function of volatility, debt ratio, and other company variables. Second, it computes default correlations using a copula function and extracts common or latent factors that drive companies’ default correlations using a factor-analytical technique. Idiosyncratic risk is observed to change significantly prior to bankruptcy and its impact on EDPs is found to be more important than that of total volatility. Information-related tests corroborate the results of prediction-orientated tests reported by other studies in the literature; however, only a weak explanatory power is found in the widely used market-to-book assets and book-to-market equity ratio. The results indicate that common factors, which capture the overall state of the economy, explain default correlations quite well.
Dimas Hartz Pinto, Celso Funcia Lemme and Ricardo Pereira Câmara Leal
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the risk-adjusted performance of Brazilian SRI stock funds.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the risk-adjusted performance of Brazilian SRI stock funds.
Design/methodology/approach
Risk-adjusted performance of 11 Brazilian socially responsible investment (SRI) funds relative to local index funds and matched pairs of funds.
Findings
SRI funds performed as well as portfolios representing the broad market on a risk-adjusted basis, both before and during the global financial crisis. Independent investment houses are not interested in SRI funds. Large financial conglomerates may see these funds as part of their corporate social responsibility image strategy.
Research limitations/implications
Brazilian SRI funds are a very small niche in the stock mutual fund universe of the country, thus, the small sample (universe) of SRI funds, as far as the author's knew. One cannot say that independent asset managers do not include SRI screening in their stock selection criteria. The use of SRI screening by the most prominent independent asset managers is a potential topic for future research.
Practical implications
Brazilian SRI funds did not represent an extra screening filter cost to their investors. The majority of asset managers do not consider this strategy important enough to deserve an exclusive vehicle.
Social implications
As SRI funds did not posit an extra screening cost, they may deserve a greater share of the mutual fund market, stimulating more SRI.
Originality/value
The performance of Brazilian SRI stock funds had not been examined in the international literature. Brazil has vast natural resources, a very large economy and the fourth largest mutual fund industry in the world, but was overlooked.
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Alexandre Di Miceli da Silveira, Ricardo Pereira Câmara Leal, André Luiz Carvalhal‐da‐Silva and Lucas Ayres B. de C. Barros
This paper aims to investigate the determinants and the evolution of voluntarily adopted firm‐level corporate governance practices in Brazil from 1998 to 2004 using broad…
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Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the determinants and the evolution of voluntarily adopted firm‐level corporate governance practices in Brazil from 1998 to 2004 using broad corporate governance scores.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors employ a robust panel‐data procedure that accounts for the main sources of endogeneity to a very representative panel of Brazilian firms over a six‐year period. They address the endogeneity that arises from the simultaneous determination of the quality of corporate governance practices, the dependent variable, and possibly several firm attributes that are commonly employed as the determinants of such practices and are supposedly independent. Specifically, theoretical arguments and empirical evidence strongly suggest that the quality of corporate governance practices may influence some of the variables commonly used as its determinants just as much as they may be influenced by them.
Findings
The paper finds that firm‐level corporate governance practices are steadily improving but there is much room for improvement. Heterogeneity has increased. Voluntarily adhering to new stricter listing requirements is associated positively with improvements in firm‐level corporate governance practices. Reducing or not using non‐voting shares improves corporate governance practices.
Research limitation/implications
The authors found no clear evidence of the influence of other potential determinants of the quality of corporate governance, such as growth prospects, firm size, firm value, and ownership structure. Thus, they doubt previous findings that suggest a causal relationship from value and ownership to corporate governance practices because value and ownership seem to be determined endogenously.
Practical implications
Policies directed to reduce the use of non‐voting shares should be implemented. Creating strict listing requirements that may be adopted voluntarily by firms could be a feasible solution to improve the quality of corporate governance practices in emerging market countries. Firms in an emerging market that find that issuance in the USA became too expensive or demanding may offer a substitute listing environment with credible requirements to foreign investors. Premium listings may partially compensate emerging market exchanges for their loss of trading to major markets.
Originality/value
The paper examines the evolution of the voluntary adoption of corporate governance practices in Brazil from 1998 through 2004 while most studies use cross‐section samples over one or a few years. Further, this is one of a few papers to analyze the impact of ownership structure on the quality of corporate governance practices by segregating control and cash flow rights.
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Beatriz Vaz de Melo Mendes and Ricardo Pereira Câmara Leal
Proposes a new covariance matrix robust estimator able to capture the correct orientation of the data and the large unconditional variance caused by occasional high volatility…
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Purpose
Proposes a new covariance matrix robust estimator able to capture the correct orientation of the data and the large unconditional variance caused by occasional high volatility periods.
Design/methodology/approach
Derives easy‐to‐compute estimates for the center and covariance matrix of a data set. The method finds the correct orientation of the data through a robust estimator and the variances through the classical sample covariance matrix.
Findings
Simulation experiments confirm the good performance of the proposed estimator under ε‐contaminated normal models and multivariate t‐distributions.
Practical implications
Provides illustrations of the usefulness of this practical tool for the finance industry, in particular when constructing efficient frontiers. Shows that robust portfolios yield higher cumulative returns and possess more stable weights compositions.
Originality/value
It provides an alternative estimator for the covariance matrix able to find a good fit for the bulk of the data as well as for the extreme observations, which could be plugged in widely used financial tools.
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Jean-Pierre Fouque, Thomas B. Fomby and Knut Solna
The main theme of this volume is credit risk and credit derivatives. Recent developments in financial markets show that appropriate modeling and quantification of credit risk is…
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The main theme of this volume is credit risk and credit derivatives. Recent developments in financial markets show that appropriate modeling and quantification of credit risk is fundamental in the context of modern complex structured financial products. Moreover, there is a need for further developments in our understanding of this important area. In particular modeling defaults and their correlation has been a real challenge in recent years, and still is. This problem is even more relevant after the so-called subprime crisis that hit in the summer of 2007. This makes the volume very timely and hopefully useful for researchers in the area of credit risk and credit derivatives.