The objective of this paper is to define social capital as like as social infrastructure and to try to include this variable in an economic growth model. Considering social capital in such a way, It could have impact on ...

The objective of this research project is to investigate the relationship between foreign direct investment and competition policy in emerging economies. The study contains three parts. The first one reviews the recent ...

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 ...

Neste artigo, nosso objetivo é analisar o resultado econômico de diferentes estratégias utilizadas por empresas concorrentes e verificar, ao final, se elas criaram ou destruíram valor. A performance econômico-financeira ...

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 essay will compare three alternative models in economics. The first is that of a positive science, following the (neo)classical macroeconomic model. The second is that of a political or moral science, as exemplified ...

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 ...