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• The Social Representation of IT Governance: The Standpoint of IT Professionals.
• Socioemotional Wealth and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Different Family Businesses' Generational Stages.
• Entrepreneurial Intention of Brazilian Immigrants in Canada.
• Influences of Foreign and Domestic Venture Capitalists on Internationalisation of Small Firms.
• An Aggregate Taxonomy for Crowdsourcing Platforms, their Characteristics, and Intents.
• Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Bottom of the Pyramid: Creating Sustainable Values and Opportunities.
• Is IPSAS Implementation Related to Fiscal Transparency and Accountability?
• Queen Bee Phenomenon Scale: Psychometric Evidence in the Brazilian Context.
• Blockchain technology in renewable energy certificates in Brazil

  Several renewable energy certificate (RECs) applications point out that the blockchain technology can be useful in ensuring the traceability and transparency of transactions, despite some barriers to its implementation, such as the legal and market development. However, it is not clear how the organizational positioning, in relation to its given market, influences the artifact developed. In this study, through design science research (DSR) and case study methodology, we structure the problem space of two different positioned organizations in the sustainability field, with blockchain-based applications to produce and trade RECs. We find out that: (a) the position of the organization in relation to other stakeholders changes the behavior of the technology adoption; (b) the technological solution preceded the perception of the problem; (c) organizations create different representations of the artifact for each stakeholder. We suggest other studies to deepen these findings in order to better develop theories that explain how organizations see their problem when developing technological solutions while using DSR

• Editorial. Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and distributed organizations

  One panel in the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), held in December 2016 in Dublin, attracted attention that surpassed the hundreds of seats of the auditorium and forced the security to close the doors when the stairs became completely occupied. The audience, eager to join the debate on the research perspectives on the topic of blockchain in the information systems (IS) field, represented one of the first academic manifestations of the great expectations placed on this emergent topic in this research community. One year later, the organizers of this panel (Avital, Beck, King, Rossi, & Teigland, 2016) were the editors of what was probably the first special issue on blockchain in a relevant IS journal (Beck, Avital, Rossi, & Thatcher, 2017). Although these events indicate milestones for the IS field, the blockchain started to shake the world almost a decade before

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• Blockchain: Effects in Transactions Costs from Information Governance.
• Monitoring and managerial discretion effects on agency costs: Evidence from an emerging economy

  We analyzed the effect of managerial ownership, leverage, and managerial discretion on the agency costs of 14,719 Chilean companies. The results of the instrumental variables (IV) regressions indicate that managerial ownership and capital structure have a negative and nonlinear effect on agency...

• Does Ecological Sustainability Really Matter? Evaluation of Its Mediating Role in the Relationship between Innovation and Competitiveness.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace? An Essay on Whistleblowing and its Interfaces with the Brazilian Culture

  Since the last decade corporate scandals have drawn public attention to the importance of whistleblowers, resulting in the creation of policies and statutes which rely heavily on whistleblowing, especially in the United States. A common assumption behind these efforts is that whistleblowing...

• Speak now or forever hold your peace? An essay on whistleblowing and its interfaces with the Brazilian culture.
• Strategic management in hospitals: Tensions between the managerial and institutional lens.
• Service providers' willingness to change as innovation inductor in services: Validating a scale.
• Inhospitable Accessibility and Blurred Liability: Institutional Voids in an Emerging Economy Preventing Supply Network Transparency.
• Do University Ecosystems Impact Student's Entrepreneurial Behavior?
• Sponsor Bias in Pension Fund Administrative Expenses: The Brazilian Experience.