International business (IB) research has evolved substantially over the past four decades incorporating new concerns and theoretical contributions. During the past two decades, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has gained the preference of many IB scholars and has gradually become one of the...

This work aims mainly to present a project of research about the identification of the determinants that affect the mobility of labor. The empirical part of the work will be performed for the NUTS II and NUTS III of Portugal, from 1996 to 2002 and for 1991 and 2001, respectively (given the...

This paper identifies the ways in which the ideas of Fordism and Taylorism have been responsible for the success of the U.S. motor vehicle companies until 1955, and for their subsequent decline. On three occasions, the motor vehicle industry has changed the fundamental ideas on the process of...

O objectivo deste trabalho é contrastar o modelo CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) para o mercado bolsista português, aplicando-o à análise do individual das carteiras relativas a cada um dos sectores das empresas cotados na Bolsa, e também ao estudo do mercado português no seu todo.

O trabalho analisar a influência da adopção dos Princípios de Equador na estratégia e procedimentos dos dois bancos portugueses: o Banco Espírito Santo e o Millennium BCP. A partir de uma análise documental a estas duas instituições financeiras, conclui-se que a adesão aos Princípios...

The Portuguese Pension System is submitted to two risks. Over the period 2005-2050, a decrease of the workforce and an increase of old-age persons are eminent, which provide a doubling of the dependency rate. So, the system is not financially sustainable in the medium and long terms and it is...

This aim of this paper is to describe possible ways of investing in equity; choosing the right stocks(among small-cap, large-cap, value, growth, and foreign) using fundamental analysis, defining their appropriate mix in the portfolios according to the desired return-risk profiles based on...

Este estudo pretende apresentar um novo modelo de GC estratégico em Instituições de Ensino Superior - IES, partindo da premissa da ausência de interação entre o pensamento estratégico nessas instituições e a GC de seus colaboradores. O modelo pode ajudar na resolução de problema...