Despite ubiquitous in strategy and related fields, the concept of competitive advantage continues to be under debate in the academy still lacking a precise and widely accepted definition. A manifestation of this situation ...

Research on the context of human resource management in Brazil indicate an important transition phase which the HR departments face nowadays, from operational models of management to more strategic ones. In this transition, ...

The main idea of this working is to understand the ideological influence of both Executive (GOVI) and Legislative (LEGI) branches of government on the subnational government expenditures (states) in Brazil between 1987 and ...

This research aims a) to understand the new role of the state government in the process of globalization, fragmentation weakening of Nation-state and the strengthening of the supranational level of power; 2) to fulfill the ...

The purpose of this study is to determine operational definitions of dependence, transaction specific investments and offsetting investments on exchanges between food retailers and their suppliers in Brazil.

Besides reviewing the international literature on economic reforms and fiscal adjustment, this research project also intends to analyze the main fiscal changes occurred in the last two decades in Brasil in the context of ...

The purpose of this study was to search for the possible articulations of undergraduate students from Business Administration school, between the ideals of the future of the professional-to be, the dynamics of the classroom ...

The research intends to investigate the Celso Furtado s proposals to the modernization of the brazilian north-east from the analysis of his project to the SUDENE and the way that his development concept s are expressed in ...

Internet banking has had a fast evolution pace in the last years. In 1996 only a few pioneers took the risk to launch services through the Web, but nowadays millions of users all over the world push Internet banking to be ...

The performance of the firms, contrarily to the neoclassical economic model predictions, presents great heterogeneity. The field of business strategy made a central issue understanding this heterogeneity, explaining and ...