"This book discusses how productivity growth in manufacturing has been faster due to the deployment of ICT enabled productivity tools and how the service sector has been forced to absorb greater proportion of total employment to keep its manufacturing consistent. It discuss this domain using...

Preface -- Introduction: globalization and the social relevance of small business in Brazil -- Small business in emergent countries : challenges and policies -- Micro and small business in Brazil : recent evolution -- Small business sustainability in Brazil -- Finance and small business in...