The research aimed to test whether Brazilian stock market volatility is more related to trading rather than calendar time. Parametric and non-parametric tests were applied to daily returns series of the IBOVESPA Index and ...

The purpose of the survey was to provide a general view of the utilization of ABC systems in Brazil. Several surveys were carried out and published in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada about the utilization of ...

Under many points of view, Paulista avenue has a central importance in the city of São Paulo, such as the concentration of the seats of economic power - particularly of financial capital - political demonstrations, ...

One of the main features of Brazilian civil society in the nineties is the widespread presence of nongovernamental organizations, religious and secular associations, and the emergence of private foundations as a social ...

This project intends to analyse quality management in Brazilian processing segment. The study was undertaken through the mailing of an extensive questionnaire to a convenience sample of large-, mid- and small-sized companies. ...

Electronic Mail can revolutionize the way work groups interact to create value. However, to make this revolution E-Mail needs to be used correctly. Therefore this paper's goal is to observe Virtual Teams working in a real ...

The aim of this research is to discuss the idea of microfoundation of macroeconomics. Through this discussion we will show that this a false problem regarding the Keynesian analysis, which assumes that the coordination of ...

This case research and analysis aimed to identify (i) the main issues related to Brazilian corporations ('sociedades por ações') challenged in Courts during 1986 to 1997; (ii) Courts rationale about such issues and (iii) ...

This work seeks for relationship between information flows and market volatility in the Brazilian Stock Market. The Brazilian economy, with several informational shocks in the last five years, is an interesting field for ...

The text relates an empirical investigation on Brazilian information systems and services outsourcing context, revealing some important characteristics about formerly unclear matter. The research analyses the reasoning for ...