This study aims to show that during the cycle of credit expansion occurred in the Brazilian economy between 2003 and 2010, public banks had acted with a degree of liquidity preference higher than that of private banks until the international financial crisis. The need to achieve economic and...

O artigo identifica as actividades empreendedoras e os municípios empreendedores em Portugal. Cerca de metade dos municípios portugueses respondentes possuem e/ou têm em curso actividades e iniciativas empreendedoras. A vasta maioria afirma ter obtido e/ou se candidatado a fundos de...

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...

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

This paper discusses the roles of the entrepreneur in the economic theory. Taking the elaboration of Schumpeter as a reference, the paper analyses the forerunner contributions of Cantillon and Bentham, as well as the different approaches of Marx, Veblen and Sombart. The changing role of the...

Spanish Abstract: El fenómeno de la globalización sigue siendo factor determinante para el diseño de estrategias empresariales, sobre todo aquellas que conducen a la inserción en los mercados globales, es decir la internacionalización de empresas.Desde el diseño de estrategias...

Spanish Abstract: Las organizaciones empresariales de hoy enfrentan retos endógenos y exógenos sumamente divergentes a los esbozados hace tan solo 10 años en el contexto empresarial. Se ha pasado de la preocupación por la calidad, las eficiencias operativas y la optimización de recursos, a...