Portuguese Abstract: Neste trabalho é feita uma revisão da literatura econômica, visando, de um lado apresentar os antecedentes da teoria de insumo-produto de Leontief, situando-a dentro da teoria do pensamento econômico, e de outro lado apresentar os princípios e a evolução desta teoria,...

Portuguese Abstract: Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a estrutura produtiva do setor de flores e plantas ornamentais do Brasil e verificar as perspectivas de sua inserção no comércio internacional, pois nos últimos anos tem havido esforços na estruturação do mercado, ampliação do...

O conhecimento da infra-estrutura de transportes é essencial para definir estratégias de desenvolvimento, especialmente em países com dimensões continentais, como o Brasil. Nesse contexto, este estudo busca estimar o impacto do crescimento econômico esperado para os próximos anos sobre a...

This article examines the evolution of sectoral employment in Brazil between 1949 and 2010, using structural decomposition analysis of the input-output model. The data base was selected from the decennial matrices for the 1959/2000 period and from figures referring to 1949 and 2010; these were...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors that explain the market leadership of a Brazilian bus bodywork manufacturer (Marcopolo). From a methodological point of view, the paper is a case study based on a bibliographic review and in-depth interviews.The underlying hypothesis is that some...

The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...

This study is to assess the needs and possibilities of fostering the engineering design firms in Brazil, more specifically those targeting the naval industry projects, and also offer a diagnosis to guide the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy support to strengthen this segment...

The new strategies of internationalization of production lie in the fact many industries leave the condition of bounded entities nationally for the condition of fragmented business networks, in organizational terms, globally distributed, leading companies to engage in the production of a good or...

From the 1990s, it intensified in the global economy the implementation of strategies for companies of fragmenting their production processes and allocate their productive activities in various countries and regions, forming with this global value chains to recreate the international division of...