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Record W2937213290 · doi:10.3917/rfhe.003.0146

The globalization wave rolls towards Canada, with Vale’s acquisition of Inco

2015· article· fr· W2937213290 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Hildete de Moraes Vodopives

Bibliographic record

VenueRevue française d histoire économique · 2015
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicInnovation and Knowledge Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceHumanitiesArt

Abstract

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Au début des années 2000, la multinationale brésilienne Vale, leader en ce qui concerne la production mondiale de minerai de fer, occupait la 5 e place dans le ranking du marché minier. Elle venait de subir une privatisation tout en étant en plein processus de restructuration. Dans les années qui ont suivi, l’entreprise mit en place un plan pour devenir une entreprise globale. Le plan fut audacieux. Motivée par la priorité de maximiser sa valeur au profit de ses actionnaires, l’entreprise chercha à produire à grande échelle et réduire ses coûts. Dans cette optique, Vale établit des objectifs pour diversifier des activités d’extraction minière parmi un programme d’acquisitions international. Ce présent travail cherche à comprendre ce qui allait constituer le point d’orgue de l’histoire de l’internationalisation de Vale : l’acquisition d’Inco, en 2006. L’achat du deuxième plus grand producteur de nickel fut perçut comme un risque par les analystes. L’adaptation post acquisition fut difficile. La normalisation des structures, y compris des processus de gestion et des ressources humaines, ont été des challenges énormes. L’internationalisation des entreprises venues des pays émergentes s’inscrit dans un sujet de mondialisation contemporaine. Dans le cas présent, nous poursuivons une recherche transdisciplinaire, impliquant l’histoire des entreprises, la géopolitique et l’économie. Les sources primaires incluent les rapports des conseils d’administration, des interviews, les analyses financiers internationaux et les documents publics au Canada et au Brésil.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.093
Threshold uncertainty score0.678

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0120.005
Scholarly communication0.0100.002
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.182
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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