This report on the Brazilian presidency uses classic studies of the American presidency to organize inquiry into the history, organization, and administration of the Brazilian presidency. This report reviews the international ...

This text deals with cultural policy, arts and heritage management and funding. It focuses the Brazilian experience, comparing it with the First World one's, so far it's possible based upon the available bibliography. ...

This study aims to investigate how do expatriate managers and theirs families live in Brasil. It presents: a) a theoretical window on Intercultural Management, maily the european studies; b) empirical research with french ...

Survey of São Paulo State hospitals during the second semester 1999, looking for quality initiatives. Hospitals were divided into 4 cathegories: public, philantropic, non philantropic and university. From the 97 hospitals ...

The organizations have used the Information Technology in a stronger and deeper way, considering it as a powerful tool which need huge investments and success guaranties. This environment requires knowledge about Information ...

Tax incentives to fuel corporate sponsorship for the arts have been introduced in many countries, during the 80's and 90's. Brazil is one of them. To better understand symbolic, political and economic interests involved ...

There are some vital differences between leaders and managers. It becomes crucial to distinguish those two different behaviors. In accordance to some authors like Bennis, Gardner, Hickman and Kotter for example it is ...

This paper reports on the first phase of a larger study focused on the occurrence of emergent (unplanned) strategies in business organizations and ways to take advantage of them. A critical review of the most pertinent ...

The purpose of this essay is to present the key characteristics of Electronic Commerce from the viewpoint of the literature about Distribution Channels and Marketing. An exploratory study conducted among local companies ...

The goal of this work is twofold: (i) to review numerical methods to price derivatives; (ii) to compare numerical methods assuming that market prices are reflected in the Black and Scholes formula. We apply these models ...