The Theory of Constraints appeared at the beginning of the eighties revolutionizing the manufacturing theory. The theory of constraints has experienced a big development in different countries like USA, UK, Holland and ...

The research aims to examine the consequences of the dynamics of the Brazilian regional economic development, on the degree of regional disparities. The work intends to appraise if the different intensities and velocities ...

This work was done in a 52-student classroom, in a Psychology class, in a Business Administration course. The analysis was centered on text elaboration by the students, in small groups, and the relations to the everyday ...

This paper is part of a larger World Bank project on banking supervision in some Latin American countries. Taking into account the framework applied to the larger project, the paper describes the present situation of banking ...

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

In the present paper, we prove that any social choice function satisfies Arrow s principle of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) if individual behavior is menu-dependent. Therefore, Arrow s General Possibility ...

This research intends to investigate the criteria used to evaluate scientific contributions in periodicals and conferences in the field of Business Administration in Brazil. The first part consists of an exploratory study ...

Employing the two sector model of capital accumulation in an open economy, the impact on the path of the following variables: exchange rate, wages, investment, saving, and consequently external debt and capital stock after ...

The privatization of state companies is one of the basic points of the economic program of the government. This study aims at analising the competition aspects of the privatization program in two dimensions: the degree ...

The resarch tests whether what Keynes coined as normal backwardation is a feature of the Brazilian futures market. Four futures contracts which trade at BM&F Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros have been studied, namely, Ibovespa ...