The MainStreet.au.com project has provided its target community with a range of opportunities to access assistance, secure the tools and identify the process and practices to ensure the implementation of sustainable electronic commerce operations. The inclusion of a technical team was a...

The goal of higher education is to provide students an equal opportunity to access their education for success. With significant competition within the peer group, potential students look for quality, flexibility, and affordability in the educational environment. In addition, the relationship...

The article discusses current approaches to the process of assessing rural development governance, reveals its advantages and disadvantages. The article as well presents performance system indicators of governance process by means of two elements of dynamics assessment, rural development...

Abstract The paper deals with the concepts of socio-cultural factors and performance of multinational companies. Multinational companies operate in different host countries around the world and have to deal with wide variety of economic, political, legal, socio-cultural and technological...

Based on the need for balance between autonomy and accountability in the management model of public institutions, an active discussion is needed for improvement of the evaluation system. A comprehensive control structure for better performance needs a smart evaluation system. However, from the...

This paper proposes a new holding horizon (HH) measure of active management and examines the relation between horizon and manager skill. Our HH measure identifies, in the cross-section, funds with higher future long-term alphas, while reported turnover identifies, in the time-series, when a...

Evidence-based education policymaking has been prevalent in many countries today. Brazil is part of this picture. In countries that have followed this trajectory for a long time, recent discussions point to the need to recalibrate, in some dimensions, this way of making policies. Issues such as...

The paper conducts a detailed examination of the existing evaluative frameworks for microfinance institutions to gauge the differences and similarities. Efficiency evaluates how MFIs are meeting the performance standards considering time and budget constraints. Outreach evaluates the...

This article describes the use of the constructivist multicriteria decision aid (MCDA-C) model as an intervention instrument, using a case study of a fertilizer industry located at a Brazilian maritime port terminal, with the goal of developing a customized performance evaluation model to help...