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The recent economic, technological, and social shocks have led to a period of high economic uncertainty. The term "economic resilience" has been used to describe how regional clusters deal with and adapt to various shocks. This paper aims to analyze the elements that influence the resilience trajectory of a cluster. We conduct qualitative and exploratory research on the centennial Wine Cluster in Serra Gaúcha, Brazil, using data sources, interviews, and documents. To this end, we first identify seven elements that influence cluster resilience from the literature review. Subsequently, through an empirical case study, we verify whether these elements could represent the resilience of clusters. The results show that these seven elements are integrable and represent dimensions that explain the resilience of the cluster analyzed. Moreover, the findings highlight that resilience and resistance to crises are the historical results of improvements and the development of new routines for clustered companies. This study contributes to the cluster resilience literature and presents elements explaining how regions can adapt to and deal with shocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is based on understanding how sustainability-oriented transition occurs in clusters. This study focuses on both drivers and actors of that transition. Empirical results based on induction, using mixed-methods on the Serra Gaucha wine cluster in the South of Brazil, suggest that, at the micro-level, the mobility and adoption of knowledge about sustainability and individual awareness will support sustainability-oriented strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. Then, at the meso-level, collective actors' efforts towards sustainability in the cluster legitimize, disseminate and facilitate the adoption of new sustainable-oriented practices, creating a new cluster sub-identity (sustainability) compatible with the existing one. These actors utilize leading local firms in order to disseminate new practices and signal change in the territory. Lastly, macro-level governmental regulations, market pressures, and other environmental changes facilitate that clusters develop a collective-minded strategy towards sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of this article is to identify internationalization patterns and analyze their effects on company performance. This is a quantitative study with a sample of 343 Brazilian companies that have had export operations for more than three years. Results indicate that companies choose between two distinct paths to internationalization. In the first group are firms that seek to enter the global market proactively. They are present in more countries, have an in-house department of internationalization and a better economic-financial performance. The second group consists of companies that approach internation-alization reactively. They outsource part of the process, succeed only in entering markets that are less demanding and do not perform as well as the first group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the internationalization process and its impact in the company's resources. A case study was developed for this purpose in a winery, the Casa Valduga, located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The main proposition of this research is that the internationalization process, besides influencing the development of new strategic resources, required for competing in the international market, also influences the company's domestic strategy. The results of the study confirmed this proposition and indicated that the resources developed for the internationalization strategy positively influenced its competitiveness in the domestic market. The main impact of the internationalization efforts was on the human and organizational resources of the company. This study, besides expanding the still incipient empirical base of the internationalization process of Brazilian firms, contributes to broaden the analytical perspective on internationalization strategy by including the impact of the company's internationalization resource base on the capacity to create competitive advantage in the local market as well. These results have important practical implication for managers in strategic decision making concerning the internationalization process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The entrepreneur has played an important role in the economic development of countries. However since its origin in the XVI century the term entrepreneur had different definitions. The objective of this paper is to identify contributions for the formation and the modifi cation in this term throughout three technological paradigms: industrial revolution, mass production and technology of information. The central argument of this paper is that "entrepreneur" refers to a term dynamic and multifaceted, influenced by technological and social revolutions. These paradigms lead to four types of entrepreneurs: individual, intra-entrepreneur, collective and social entrepreneur. Each entrepreneur has different characteristics and motivation, but the main objective is the same: to start a new enterprise. The implications of these different characteristics should be investigated in new studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]