One of the main features of Brazilian civil society in the nineties is the widespread presence of nongovernamental organizations, religious and secular associations, and the emergence of private foundations as a social ...

Electronic Mail can revolutionize the way work groups interact to create value. However, to make this revolution E-Mail needs to be used correctly. Therefore this paper's goal is to observe Virtual Teams working in a real ...

This case research and analysis aimed to identify (i) the main issues related to Brazilian corporations ('sociedades por ações') challenged in Courts during 1986 to 1997; (ii) Courts rationale about such issues and (iii) ...

This work seeks for relationship between information flows and market volatility in the Brazilian Stock Market. The Brazilian economy, with several informational shocks in the last five years, is an interesting field for ...

The text relates an empirical investigation on Brazilian information systems and services outsourcing context, revealing some important characteristics about formerly unclear matter. The research analyses the reasoning for ...

This paper argues that orthodox models of high inflation for developing countries, based on seminal Cagan's model of hyperinflation, present some weak points by ignoring the complexity brought to the economy by high ...

Quality of life has been studied through many related concepts, as so conditions of living, standard of living, life style, social welfare and others. In recent years we have seen many efforts going on to more specific ...

This report refers to a research with the general objective of analyzing the Intention to Behave Unethically of sales executives and some of its possible determinants, addressing relevant knowledge gaps in the Brazilian ...

This report reviews the business policy theory focusing on competitive advantage. Four models are reviewed: (1) Industry analysis, (2) Market processes, (3) Resource-Based View and (4) Dynamic Competencies. Competitive ...

The main objective of this research is to build the social history of a Brazilian family business, founded in the state of São Paulo in the thirties. The investigation will follow the firm's organizational development until ...