In this paper we examine the work by Peter Buckley and Mark Casson (1976), “The future of the multinational enterprise”, contribution to international business research. In this work, the Buckley and Casson conceptualized one of the foundational theories for International Business (IB)...

This paper discusses how career counseling, management coaching, and mentoring can assist in reducing today’s lack of ethics in business by orienting future corporate leaders not only to identifying their skills, making better career choices, and becoming more productive and satisfied in their...

O objectivo deste trabalho é contrastar o modelo CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) para o mercado bolsista português, aplicando-o à análise do individual das carteiras relativas a cada um dos sectores das empresas cotados na Bolsa, e também ao estudo do mercado português no seu todo.

O trabalho analisar a influência da adopção dos Princípios de Equador na estratégia e procedimentos dos dois bancos portugueses: o Banco Espírito Santo e o Millennium BCP. A partir de uma análise documental a estas duas instituições financeiras, conclui-se que a adesão aos Princípios...

The Portuguese Pension System is submitted to two risks. Over the period 2005-2050, a decrease of the workforce and an increase of old-age persons are eminent, which provide a doubling of the dependency rate. So, the system is not financially sustainable in the medium and long terms and it is...

Culture has been a widely researched topic in the International Business (IB) literature over the last decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implication in firms? IB operations, several cultural models and taxonomies have been put forward. In this paper we seek to...

This aim of this paper is to describe possible ways of investing in equity; choosing the right stocks(among small-cap, large-cap, value, growth, and foreign) using fundamental analysis, defining their appropriate mix in the portfolios according to the desired return-risk profiles based on...

As motivações para a internacionalização das empresas devem influenciar a selecção dos modos de entrada nos mercados externos. Neste artigo usamos a classificação de John Dunning (1993) que distingue quatro motivos - procura de mercado, de recursos, de eficiência e de recursos...

This paper presents a brief review of the present knowledge on student learning assessment in traditional face-to-face courses that use brain-based learning principles and adopt the guided-experience approach. The understanding of these principles and approach is then applied to the design of an...

This paper describes the changes in governance, the market for corporate control, and the mechanism for hostile takeovers that have occurred in the last decade in Continental Europe, using the hostile takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel to illustrate these changes.