A great amount of research has been done about executives functions since 1938 and since then the functions of the executives were duly demystified, but, despite that, the organizational world, specially transmitted in ...

The tributary changes enacted by the Brazilian government in the lat decade aimed mainly at the fiscal adjustment through an increase in the aggregated tax revenue that jumped up from 27% of GDP in 1994 to about 36% of GDP ...

This research investigated the observed variability in growth rate of firms, associating this variability to groups of factors, such as: industry; time period; country and individual firm. The proposal was inspired in the ...

This report presents the first results of research conducted as member of a group of political scientists focusing on monetary policy and democracy in Brazil (A construção de autoridade monetária e democracia: A experiência ...

This research is an extension of the doctoral thesis named 'Studying Configurational Technology Implementation: A Mediation Process', which focus of analysis was the mediation process in ERP implementations. Mediation ...

In the last few years, the Brazilian Academy in the filed of management and business administration has entered a introspective phase, engaging in a critical introspective analysis of its output aimed at finding out whether ...

This research project intended to bring light to the way organizations use the Internet and other information technologies in order to add value and/or reduce costs to their customers. Special focus is given to the ...

In the last decades it could be seen in Brazil a considerable decrease in the labor force in manufacturing and an increase in the service sector. This research attempts to understand that process in a dynamic model where ...

Despite ubiquitous in strategy and related fields, the concept of competitive advantage continues to be under debate in the academy still lacking a precise and widely accepted definition. A manifestation of this situation ...

We examine the impact globalization and democratization have on social spending in Latin America. To measure globalization we construct a new indicator of financial liberalization for the Latin American cases based on ...