While the tobacco industry ranks among the most substantial and successful of economic enterprises, tobacco consumption is associated with more deaths than any other product. Economic analysis of the markets for tobacco products, particularly cigarettes, has contributed considerable insight to...

In organizations, the people are the key resource, the vital energy of today and tomorrow, ensuring the survival, development and competitive success. All the organizations and the links established between them are forming the modern society we currently live in. The Public Administration in...

This article addresses governance in the age of globalization, the confusion over the meanings of governance, and the flaws of ‘good governance,’ while offering a novel theory of ‘sound governance’ with many elements or dimensions. It also discusses the implications, challenges, and...

Article on the use of the media of religious propaganda as newsworthy to attract the attention of readers. The author analyzes the goals, objectives and directions of state regulation of the media for the socialization of religious propaganda. Religion is considered in the article as an...

El ensayo realiza el escrutinio de las críticas contra la burocracia, la cual es apreciada, como una administración que entorpece la labor organizacional, por mecánica, innecesaria y despersonalizada, pero también, por impositiva contra la gestión, la libertad y desempeño laboral. Sin...

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...