Statistics characterize the phenomenon studied depending on their time, place and forms of economic-social organization of collectivities they belong to. In this paper, we assume to emphasize some peculiar aspects that a regional level analyses puts forward.

With this article the intention is to add to the Transaction Cost Analysis empirical discussions. It introduces a model that aims tographically represent transaction arrangements. The proposed model was empirically tested in the Brazilian fruit export sector. Sixdifferent fruit were used as the...

By manipulating the scale in graphs, this study demonstrated a new evaluation bias caused by attribute salience in graphical representations. That is, (de)compressing the graph axis scale changed the relative distance with respect to the options of a given attribute and thus changed the salience...

On the website of their recent book Pour une Revolution Fiscale, Landais, Piketty and Saez (2011) have provided the public with free access to all their quantitative data, inviting the readership to critically appraise and publicly discuss their work. Unfortunately, the book's graphical...

Stakeholder literature has acknowledged the need to complement the extant theory on stakeholder management by more dynamic perspectives. This article makes use of the recent terminology of stakewatcher and stakeseeker to illustrate the dynamic aspect of stakeholder theory transposed in the...

In this case study we compare three process modelling techniques in order to find common concepts and to identify significant differences. We base this comparison around three general questions: - What are the objectives of the organisation? - Who is doing what with which resources? - How does...

This article classifies petrol retail companies in Spain based on their financial ratios using the compositional data analysis (CoDA) methodology. This methodology solves the most common distributional problems encountered in the statistical analysis of financial ratios. The main purpose of this...