This document reports the results of research performed with Volkswagen Brazil, particularly the Resende bus and trucks plant which adopts the so called modular consortium model. The objective of the research is to identify ...

In the last ten years increased specialized literature called attention towards new roles of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations in the United States. Similar trend may be identified in France towards the économie ...

The question of women and work has been analysed from different theoretical approaches, which on their turn have been criticised for simplifying this complex issue. This work proposes to analyse the question of women and ...

This work analyses how the internationalization process reinforces the polarization existing in the scientific field of economics in Brazil and generates differentiation in terms of professional strategies on the part of ...

The Dependency Theory emerges in the sixties to reevaluate Ecla's model and to offer an alternative to the interpretation of Latin America's social dynamics. Since it carries a more sophisticated analytical method, it has ...

This research aimed to trace the profile of Human Resource Management in the Great São Paulo area, interviewing 100 HR executives of medium and big companies, randomly selected. The following characteristics were observed: ...

The purpose of this research is to enlarge the knowledge concerning the independent or individual inventor as innovator or entrepreneur, mainly the inventor coming from public and private R&D labs, and to examine the ...

This research has aimed to study the ethical patterns that guide the managers or owners of advertising agencies in Brazil and in other forty-two countries. Their knowledge or affinity to the concepts of ethics may indicate ...

This research examines the not so clear an explicit relations between competitiveness and technologic innovation, starting from the conceptual framework. Four case studies, focusing three Brazilian companies and one ...

The Brazilian privatization program of the 90's is becoming one of the largest ones in the world and marks the end of the developmentist State in the country. Which have been the main characteristics of this process and ...