As condições que promovem a competitividade nacional têm sido objecto de política governamental e debatidas no meio académico e empresarial. Neste artigo discutimos as condições de competitividade nacional em termos de sistemas de inovação, investimento do e no estrangeiro, capacidades...

As incubadoras de empresas têm sido apontadas como atores importantes para o desenvolvimento de empresas e até de regiões. As incubadoras são criadas para facilitar o empreendedorismo, provendo condições mais favoráveis às empresas nascentes, até que possam graduar-se. Um dos...

The Japanese are the world?s largest individual consumers of luxury brands and form the second largest market for luxury goods after the US. The Japanese were the driving force behind the exponential growth of the European luxury industry and the resulting ?democratization of luxury?. This...

Contact centers are increasingly assuming a role in the relationship among organizations and customers. This is a sector that has a considerable growth around the world pushed by the telecommunication deregulation and by the need to improve interaction with customers. This phenomenon is...

This paper explains the valuing of distressed privately held companies in Brazil based on the acquisition process of a furniture manufacturing company that exports 90 percent of its furniture to Europe and the US. The three valuation approaches--discounted cash-flow valuation, relative valuation...

The success of the US motor vehicle companies up to 1955 and their subsequent decline is directly related to the management-labor negotiations in the 1930s and the acceptance by both management and the mass union movement of the inherent nature of work in an assembly-line factory. Because the...

The current research explores the impact of power on temporal commitment preference (an individual?s preference for shorter or longer time durations for agreements in decision making situations) across three countries: Portugal, Turkey, and the United States. A pilot study (N = 356) established...

In this paper, we use the transaction cost theory (TCT) and the resource-based view (RBV) to discuss three propositions on the models of client-supplier relationships in mature industries. The two theories seem to advance different organizational forms of the client-supplier relationships, and...

This paper examines the financial crisis in 2007-9 that was more severe than previous crashes, including the dot-com crash of 2001 and the market crash of 1987 (with the exception of the Great Depression of 1929). This severity was due to excessively risky speculative bets taken by the...

The ?stunning comeback? of China after almost two centuries is one of the most significant trends affecting Western economies, particularly the United States (US). None of the key drives that have promoted China?s growth are really at risk if the Chinese government does not deviate from its...