The aim of this research is to determine if and how the communication of a company’s CSR initiative influences private consumer behavior. Hereby it is also considered whether the consumers’ support of the issue at hand ...

This study aims to analyse the impact of ten dimensions of the education service process in the municipalities of São Paulo, Brazil, on students’ performance (the education service outcome) – assessed by the IDEB scores. ...

The emergence of shared mobility services in cities around the globe, such as shared bicycles, cars, scooters, and ridesharing, caused impacts on urban mobility, requiring actions from local authorities, altering people’s ...

The issue that this thesis addresses is the rationale behind the outsourcing decision of legal activities. To address this problem, the purpose of this study has explored what strategy Multinational Enterprises from the ...

This paper aims at demonstrating the importance of the adoption of risk management strategies by companies operating in the agribusiness sector. The future evolution of the sector requires the change of operations and the ...

Vertical farming, the practice of growing produce either vertically or in vertically stacked layers, has received growing attention from investors, media, and scholars – specially in most recent decades. Until recently, ...

This research will explore how the colonial administration built by the United States in Puerto Rico contributed to the root causes of the debt which, I argue are a colonial- capitalist economy that developed under U.S. ...

Competitiveness is one of the most important advantage when a country wants to persevere in the global economy. Latin-America has been relegated from the economic growth in the last decades. There are several reasons why ...

This thesis analyses the effect of US steel tariffs on the volume of vehicles imported from the European Union from April 2002 to August 2005. The intent is to fill part of the gap left by the literature on the effect of ...

This research examines the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) in Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets in the context of Frugal Innovation as well as the characteristics of innovative consumers in low-income markets. It is divided ...