Purpose: Based on the data obtained from a questionnaire of 595 people, the authors explore the relative importance of consumers, checking whether socioeconomic variables influence their centrality, detecting the communities within the network to which they belong, identifying consumption...

In this work we analyze the evolving dynamics of different strategies of collaborative networks that emerge from the creation and diffusion of knowledge. An evolutionary economic approach is adopted by introducing decision rules that are applied routinely and an agent-based model is developed....

Purpose: Cement is a priority consumer good in all modern societies. Considerable portions of the countries' income are invested in construction and reconstruction of houses, shopping centers, schools, universities, research centers, pavements, bridges, dams, among other infrastructures. In view...

This paper aims at develop an evaluation of the functional polycentrism of Portuguese municipalities. For that purpose, we develop a critical assessment of the concept of polycentrism and functional polycentrism whose assumptions guide most of the policies of regional planning, and present the...

National Statistics Offices, Central Banks, and any other organisms and agencies producing statistical information, disseminate data so that the individual information is sufficiently protected. At the same time, those entities aim at providing society with as much information as possible under...

Este artigo tem como objectivo a avaliação do policentrismo funcional dos municípios do continente Português. Para a concretização deste propósito, desenvolveu-se uma análise crítica dos conceitos de policentrismo e de policentrismo funcional cujos pressupostos orientam grande parte das...