Diante da emergência em pensar no uso racional dos recursos naturais que são finitos, preservá-los tornou-se uma obrigação de todos sem exceção. Diante disso tenta-se nesse estudo conhecer se os meios de hospedagem são motivados a usar a certificação para evitar sérios impactos...

A busca constante pela conquista e retenção do cliente originou um mercado literário de curandeiros e gurus da gestão, ganhando generosos espaços nas estantes das livrarias, vendendo fórmulas mágicas em uma tentativa de transformar a gestão de negócios em ciência exata. Este estudo...

The challenges related to the recent economic changes increased the importance of learning and innovation to both industrial performance and economic development. Indeed, in different contexts policies have become more and more concerned with learning and innovation, seen as collective and...

This article is about “local agro-food systems†(LAS), clusters of activities of food production where primary production, processing outlets and marketing units are observed. Representing an extension to rural questions of the approaches which relate the possibilities of local and...

The failure of key EU Member States to respect the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) a few years after its inception triggered a heated debate on how to reform the framework of fiscal policy coordination in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This paper systematically...

<strong>The Rise of Regional Powers and Shifting Global Relations:Comparing China, India, Brazil and South Africa</strong>A number of regional powers are becoming important international actors and are changing the coordinates of world politics and the global economy. The political and economic shift in favor of...

Die Weltwirtschaft hat sich im dritten Quartal auf dem niedrigen Niveau des Vorquartals stabilisiert. Es wird nicht damit gerechnet, daß sich die Wirtschaftslage in den nächsten sechs bis zwölf Monaten spürbar verbessert. Die jährlich im Herbst gestellte Sonderfrage nach dem für die...

Der "Tequila-Effekt" traf die beiden lateinamerikanischen Länder sehr ungleich. Während Argentinien bis heute unter den Folgen der Mexikokrise leidet, wurde die realwirtschaftliche Situation Brasiliens kaum tangiert. Als Ursache der unterschiedlichen Auswirkung des massiven Kapitalabzugs...