The present work is an inquiry into the dimensioning of human resources in hospitals. An extensive study was made of trends (ratios and indexes) and of guidelines (yardsticks and parameters) reported in the technical ...

Electronic commerce use is spreading out and is related to the fast growing use of the Internet and the Web. Although it is mainly directed to the private sector, electronic commerce needs government support to keep a ...

This paper discusses the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) rage. ERP represents immense investments for companies around the globe and has been promoted as a management panacea. Not surprisingly, many implementations fail ...

This paper is the first part of a study supported by Núcleo de Pesquisas e Publicações da Fundação Getulio Vargas, with the objective of analyzing the structural transformation in the Brazilian Football. So far we concentrated ...

The work examines the main reasons against a program minimun income(costs and inducement to stop working). It also examines expenditures programs for the poor in the developed nations and comments on issues that deserve ...

The existence of an ideal of a Renaissance man and his ethical universe, his values and moral expectations are investigated. The advent of new kinds of social types since the beginning of the 15th. century is also taken ...

Junguian analysis contributes in a significant way to the study of gender and sexuality in organizations. The concept of individuation process and the notion of archetipes, specially of SELF, and ANIMA and ANIMUS are of ...

This report concerns a research about the Impact of Market Orientation on Financial Performance. It was undertaken a theoretical review and then a conceptual model was deigned. The model was empirically tested with data ...

This paper analyzes the managerial flexibility embedded in oil reserves (such as techniques of gas and water injection). We have concluded that these techniques can increase the oir reserves value by up to 25% according ...

This survey intends to discuss the relationship between Ethics in economy and administration. The focus assumed by the author is to demonstrate that the classic economy ethics as expressed by Adam Smith is completely ...