O impacto da estrutura de propriedade na internacionalização de empresas brasileiras

Resumo

Internationalization is a strategic topic that is gaining in importance on the corporate agendas. The existing theory shows that there is a potential agency problem in the decision of internationalization. While executives, wanting to maximize their utility, tend to seek a high degree of internationalization, shareholders, on the other hand, tend to be more selective and conservative in this type of strategic decision. In this scenario the bargaining power of each party and the freedom of the directors to pursue their interests will be given as the function of the ownership concentration. Notwithstanding, institutional factors of an emerging market may also affect corporate characteristics, and the ownership structure of firms is an aspect that is impacted by such factors. Thus not only the ownership concentration, but also, the classification of the ownership structure can influence the degree of internationalization of firms. Therefore this study aims to examine the influence of ownership structure on the degree of internationalization of Brazilian companies. By the analysis of 184 Brazilian public firms between 2002 and 2011, we concluded that the agency problem involving managers and shareholders was not so relevant. Furthermore, we show that family businesses and firms with strong government involvement by means of pension funds had, on average, a higher degree of internationalization, which suggests the important role of the government with respect to stimulating the internationalization of private groups.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2013

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/11380

Temas

Governança

Palavras-chave

InternationalizationOwnership structureCorporate governanceAgency theoryEmerging marketsInternacionalizaçãoEstrutura de propriedadeTeoria da agênciaMercados emergentesAdministração de empresasEmpresas multinacionais - BrasilGlobalizaçãoGovernança corporativa