The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of a Brazil cost reduction on exchange rate desequilibrium. Brazil cost here is intended to be any kind of productive inefficiency. Our main finding is that in general ...

The introduction of new managerial technology is a theme of great interest for academics and practitioners. This research intends to analyze the subject of fads and fashions in management by means of an investigation about ...

The research aimed to examine the impacts of recent transformations in the occupational composition of Brazilian workers, in what concerns to differences according to gender. These changes are a result, in one hand, of the ...

This study aims at disclosing the roots of contemporary consumer culture. By emphasizing the relationship between consumption and cultural and political dimensions of social life, this analysis focuses on some processes ...

This work is focused on understanding the most important issues originated from the current Brazilian productive restructuring and its impacts on the formation of a new unionism style, especially the pattern followed by ...

The objective of this exploratory study is to analyze organizational strategy articles that adopt alternative strategy perspectives to the positioning theory. At the beginning of this study, almost 5500 articles represented ...

Knowing the past helps us understant the present and prepare for the future. We normally consider that the area of knowledge which later would become known as 'production and operations management' started by the beginning ...

The study aims to examine the theoretical and empirical aspects related to the productive restructuring dynamics of the economies and the implications on the tertiarization process presently verified in advanced and less ...

Artificial Intelligence techniques can be applied to library circulation transactions to generate suggestions of items relevant to patrons and researchers. The Recommendation System presented in this report is based on ...

This is the initial part of our second research project named 'The Transformation of the Strategic Management in Football Teams'. We developed field research in a exploratory way, about the transformation of strategic ...