Competition and the quest for competitive advantages on the market are prompting companies to reshape the profiles of their relationships with their customers and suppliers. They are opting for approaches based more on cooperation, trust, loyalty and quality, instead of bargaining power or clout...

The purpose of this Paper is to study: 1) Employee incentive programs, more specifically Gainsharing schemes in the Brazilian chemical industry; 2) Factors with positive effects upgrading the operating performance of the organizations that adopt them. The operating performance includes the...

This study makes usage of CIV (Calculated Intangible Value) and ICE (Intellectual Capital Efficiency) to measure IC stock and flows respectively. It applies static panel data models, to study the influence of IC on companies ROE (Return-on-Equity), ROA (Return-on-Assets) and ROS...

Based on the work of Chadwick and Cappelli (2002), this paper attempts to ascertain the impacts of the functional and numerical flexibilization of work systems on corporate financial performances. A Multiple Regression and Variance Analysis was carried out to validate four Hypotheses. Hypothesis...