The present article analyzes the role of government actors, i.e., high-ranking officials, government leaders and bureaucracy, in implementing direct procurement from family agriculture for school meals in the municipality ...

While there is not much research on membership management – how associations recruit, engage and maintain members – the subject is very relevant to association managers. The goal of this research is to understand how ...

Introduction of the special issue on Supply chain and operations strategies for problem-solving in Latin American countries: An introduction.

Social issues are under-represented in sustainability, considering historical predominance of economic and environmental issues. This also applies to Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Even with its definition clarified ...

This study aims to examine the effect of managers’ uncertainty on cooperative behavior in interorganizational relationships, and how this affects operational performance.  We conducted a survey with 225 Brazilian managers, ...

O presente artigo tem por finalidade estudar os direcionamentos oferecidos pelo SEBRAE quanto ao desenvolvimento de políticas e práticas de Gestão de Recursos Humano (GRH) em Micro e Pequenas Empresas. O foco principal ...

Bulow and Rogoff (Am Econ Rev 79(1):43-50, 1989) show that lending to small countries cannot be supported merely on the country's 'reputation for repayment' if exclusion from future credit markets is the only consequence ...

Dupire's functional Ito calculus provides an alternative approach to the classical Malliavin calculus for the computation of sensitivities, also called Greeks, of path-dependent derivatives prices. In this paper, we introduce ...