The geographic concentration of firms has been successful recently in many ways: international competitiveness of these firms, regional income growth, etc. The Italian industrial districts are the case of highest relevance in international literature. In Joinville, there is a significant...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...

The main objective of this paper is to provide for more and better evidence allowing the examination of Brazil's position within Global Value Chain on leather & footwear Industry. To do so, we analyzed the pattern of international integration in Taiwan and Mexico as remarkable experiences for...

People's lawyers constitute an organized segment of the Brazilian bar that provides legal assistance to social movements and, as it is said in the very way this population designates itself, advocates for the causes of the people. This article discusses whether the Brazilian justice system is...

"People's lawyers" constitute an organized segment of the Brazilian bar that provides legal assistance to social movements and, as it is said in the very way this population designates itself, advocates for the causes "of the people". This article discusses whether the Brazilian justice system...

Do Inquérito ao Empreendedorismo do Banco Mundial (WBGES 2008) resultou uma extensa base de dados de cerca de uma centena de países, baseada em dados dos registos notariais. Com base nesta fonte de informação, exploram-se as trajectórias de evolução da criação de empresas entre 2000 e...